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Negotiating with the Cuban Sugar Industry (A): No Way Out?
Burger, Christoph; Clawson, James G.Case DARDEN-OB-1019-ELeadership and People ManagementSuitable for MBA, EMBA, GEMBA, and executive education program in coursed on negotiation and intercultural management. This case is based on actual negotiations and data. The scenario has been adjusted and simplified for teaching purposes. The case describes the situation of Philip Fisch, a sales representative of a German midsize engineering company, in his negotiation efforts to close his second deal with Juan Antonio Fajardo Duque, vice minist...Starting at €8.20
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Landau Media
Clawson, James G.; Burger, ChristophCase DARDEN-OB-1048-ELeadership and People ManagementLandau Media provides media monitoring on a subscription basis to measure the impact of corporate communication. CEO and Founder Lothar Landau wonders whether his creation is prepared for the future. On the firm's 15th anniversary, Landau asks himself: Had he built the right organizational architecture? Had he been able to create the most effective organizational culture? What did the future of the media monitoring industry look like? What kind o...Starting at €8.20
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Negotiating with the Cuban Sugar Industry (A), (B), and (C) - Teaching Note
Clawson, James G.; Burger, ChristophTeaching Note DARDEN-OB-1019TN-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching note for product OB-1019Starting at €0.00
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Landau Media - Teaching Note
Clawson, James G.; Burger, ChristophTeaching Note DARDEN-OB-1048TN-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching note for product OB-1048Starting at €0.00
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Segmentation at Sticks Kebob Shop
Venkatesan, Rajkumar; Gibbs, SheaCase DARDEN-M-0866-EMarketingThis case is used in the Marketing Analytics elective at Darden. A Sticks executive team is interested in opening a second quick-service restaurant in Richmond, Virginia. But before doing so, the team wanted to gain a better sense of who were Sticks' customers, which location would attract the best customers, and how to best connect with customers. An opportunity to gather survey data presented itself. Would the demographic and psychographic assu...Starting at €8.20
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Have Text, Will Travel: Can Airbnb Use Review Text Data to Optimize Profits?
Gibbs, Shea; Venkatesan, RajkumarCase DARDEN-M-0897-EMarketingHundreds of thousands of would-be hoteliers have been popping up all around the world, hoping to rent their own homes and apartments to complete strangers through a service called Airbnb. The goal of Airbnb's aspiring hosts was to use the company's website to attract guests who were willing to pay the highest rates to stay in their homes for a short time. For Airbnb, the goal was to improve customer review performance so it could, in turn, increa...Starting at €8.20
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Dunia Finance LLC (A), (B), and (C) - Teaching Note
Venkatesan, Rajkumar; Bodily, Samuel E.; Yemen, Gerry; Gibbs, SheaTeaching Note DARDEN-M-0842TN-EMarketingTeaching note for product M-0842Starting at €0.00
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Leading Change: How Alaska Airlines Took Over an Industry Darling
West, June A.; Gibbs, SheaCase DARDEN-BC-0268-EKnowledge and CommunicationAlaska Airlines (Alaska) acquired the small but sleek and much beloved Virgin America (Virgin) at the end of 2016. Alaska’s executives had to set a strategy to take all the good in Virgin, integrate it into the larger company, and present the unified commercial carrier in a digestible way to its customers and affected employees. But taking over Virgin’s fleet and operations without keeping its brand meant Alaska was going to feel blowback from th...Starting at €8.20
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The Dime that Started a Movement: The History and Development of Credit Unions
Fairchild, Gregory B.; Smith, Robert N.Technical Note DARDEN-ENT-0103-EEntrepreneurshipThis note provides students a rich background on the history, evolution, and current challenges in the credit union industry, with a particular focus on community-development credit unions. The case mentions key exemplar community-development credit unions and makes limited predictions about the industry's future direction. The case can be used a companion to "Credit Where Credit is Due: The Latino Community Credit Union" (UVA-ENT-0104).Starting at €8.20
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Credit Where Credit is Due: The Latino Community Credit Union
Fairchild, Gregory B.; Smith, Robert N.; Zienta, EllenCase DARDEN-ENT-0104-EEntrepreneurshipFive years after its launch, the Latino Community Credit Union had made remarkable progress, garnering 40,000 members and $22 million in assets. More extraordinary was the LCCU’s customer base: Hispanic immigrants, many of them undocumented. The credit union’s next bold step was to consider introducing credit cards for their customers. The question was how to make it work.Starting at €8.20