Darden University of Virginia (USA)
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Boris's Brexit Dilemma (C)
Zorc, Sasa; Gregorio, Alexander;Case DARDEN-QA-0958-EDecision AnalysisIn 2019, several years after a referendum in which British voters chose “Brexit,” meaning the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union (EU), the transitional agreement between the United Kingdom and the EU is due to expire. Prime Minister Boris Johnson must prepare for two facets of Brexit, each of which involves a decision: (1) whether to invest in mitigation funding in case of a hard Brexit (meaning one without a trade deal in place); and ...Starting at €5.74
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Introduction to Dynamic Programming
Baucells, Manel; Zorc, SasaTechnical Note DARDEN-QA-0955Decision AnalysisThis technical note introduces dynamic programming (DP), a powerful tool for finding optimal solutions to complex problems that involve a concatenation of multiple decisions. This note assumes some familiarity with decision trees. Compared to decision trees, DP simplifies the problem representation by pooling together similar decision situations, allowing us to apply backward induction in batches by means of the Bellman equation. The note stresse...Starting at €8.20
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Boris's Brexit Dilemma (A)
Zorc, Sasa; Gregorio, Alexander;Case DARDEN-QA-0956-EDecision AnalysisIn 2019, several years after a referendum in which British voters chose “Brexit,” meaning the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union (EU), the transitional agreement between the United Kingdom and the EU is due to expire. Prime Minister Boris Johnson must prepare for two facets of Brexit, each of which involves a decision: (1) whether to invest in mitigation funding in case of a hard Brexit (meaning one without a trade deal in place); and ...Starting at €8.20
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Boris's Brexit Dilemma (B)
Zorc, Sasa; Gregorio, Alexander;Case DARDEN-QA-0957-EDecision AnalysisIn 2019, several years after a referendum in which British voters chose “Brexit,” meaning the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union (EU), the transitional agreement between the United Kingdom and the EU is due to expire. Prime Minister Boris Johnson must prepare for two facets of Brexit, each of which involves a decision: (1) whether to invest in mitigation funding in case of a hard Brexit (meaning one without a trade deal in place); and ...Starting at €5.74
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DeSouza Family Holdings
Andrasko, Joe; Zorc, SasaCase DARDEN-QA-0949-EDecision AnalysisAs CIO of DeSouza Family Holdings, Caroline Erickson managed the family’s investment portfolio—a collection of real estate properties, hotels, several small grocery stores, stocks/bonds, and alternative assets. Erickson facilitated quarterly meetings to brief family members on the portfolio. She also reserved time during these meetings for family members to present new investment opportunities. During the July 2020 family meeting, two siblings sh...Starting at €8.20
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An Introduction to Supplier Diversity
Roy, DwaiTechnical Note DARDEN-OM-1760-EService and Operations ManagementBeyond providing increased opportunities to underrepresented businesses for participating in the procurement process, supplier-diversity initiatives offer substantive financial benefits to the buyer organization. However, significant challenges may be associated with designing, implementing, and evaluating the socioeconomic impact of supplier-diversity initiatives. This technical note is designed to introduce the concept of supplier diversity in ...Starting at €8.20
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Scheduling a Conference
Baucells, Manel; Zorc, SasaCase DARDEN-QA-0925Decision AnalysisThis case uses a mathematician’s experience as a first-time organizer for a prestigious conference in Barcelona, Spain, to set the stage for applying optimization methods to scheduling problems. In particular, the case addresses linear optimization with binary variables to map out a speaker schedule. The protagonist, Juana Torres, is given a list of submitted talks, a matrix of restrictions about which talk fits which topics, as well as a number ...Starting at €8.20
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Odyssey: The Life and Career of a Senior Consultant
Clawson, James G.; Bevan, GregCase DARDEN-OB-0788Leadership and People ManagementWhoosh, is that all there is? On the eve of becoming a partner at a well-known consulting firm ("the stuff MBA dreams are made of"), a senior executive starts to question what he is doing with his life. Walt Shill graduated from the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia and worked his way up at McKinsey Consulting to become the first American partner in the Japanese office. Shill and his family move back ...Starting at €8.20
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Grappling with Uncertainty: Fintop Technology Advisors
Andrasko, Joe; Zorc, Sasa; Bodily, Samuel E.Case DARDEN-QA-0948-EDecision AnalysisAdewale Ogunleye is the founder and CEO of Fintop Technology Advisors, a technology development firm that specializes in providing outsourced software development services to financial technology (fintech) start-ups. Ogunleye has recently met with Leya Ahmed, the founder of Periscope Labs, a new fintech whose promising digital payment technology seeks to revolutionize the e-commerce checkout experience. Ogunleye proposed to Ahmed that Fintop woul...Starting at €8.20
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Children’s HeartLink: Reducing Health Care Disparities
Roy, Dwai; Yemen, GerryCase DARDEN-OM-1770-EService and Operations ManagementAs the country director for Children’s HeartLink (CHL), an international medical nongovernmental organization, Adriana Dobrzycka was reviewing the draft of the 2021 annual report—and dreaming big. CHL existed for the sole purpose of providing high-quality surgical care to children in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) who suffered from a common, and often deadly, birth defect called congenital heart disease (CHD). CHL successfully paired sp...Starting at €8.20