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Johansen's: The New Scorecard System
Lynch, Luann J.; Forman, Jennifer; Gillam, GrahamCase DARDEN-C-2371-EAccounting and ControlJohansen's has just completed its first year under a new scorecard system for evaluation of manager performance. The manager of Store 51 has traditionally been one of the company's top-performing managers from a financial standpoint, but his overall performance rating has declined due to performance along nonfinancial dimensions. The managers at the performance summit must discuss his performance in the context of a new performance evaluation sys...Starting at €8.20
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Working Capital: A Summary of Ratios by Industry - Teaching Note
Lynch, Luann J.; Gillam, Graham; Forman, JenniferTeaching Note DARDEN-C-2348TN-EAccounting and ControlTeaching note for product C-2348Starting at €0.00
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Workaround: Which Integration Ideas to Explore?
Parmar, Bidhan L.; Mead, Jenny; Leiner, Benjamin; Vambre, DavidCase DARDEN-E-0476-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityAnna Bender, VP of product at Workaround, a large human resources (HR) software firm, had just been presented with a number of different recommendations from her employees on how to integrate the functionality and data from a recently acquired software company that had a leading chat app into Workaround’s offerings. Although she was impressed by many of the suggestions, Bender was also ethically conflicted about some of them. The business opportu...Starting at €8.20
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Ethical Product Design Framework
Leiner, Benjamin; Parmar, Bidhan L.Technical Note DARDEN-E-0502Business Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityTechnologists, particularly product managers, do not make design choices in a vacuum. Often, they have quantitative objectives they hope to achieve as part of their quarterly goals. But purely pursuing those objectives without considering risks to various stakeholders—for example, erosion of users' attention or users becoming politically radicalized—may result in considerable harm for not only the product's users but also for the organization. Th...Starting at €8.20
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Fake News and the News Feed
Parmar, Bidhan L.; Leiner, Benjamin; Mead, JennyCase DARDEN-E-0429Business Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityTessa Lyons was a rising star at Facebook. She had been the project manager in charge of news feed integrity for a little over a year, stationed at the front lines in the battle against misinformation and “fake news.” However, in early 2019, she faced an ethical dilemma that could define her tenure at the company and perhaps her career: whether to ban Alex Jones and the content from his platform, Infowars, from the Facebook news feed.Starting at €8.20
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Workaround: Which Integration Ideas to Explore?
Parmar, Bidhan L.; Mead, Jenny; Leiner, Benjamin; Vambre, DavidCase DARDEN-E-0476Business Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityAnna Bender, VP of product at Workaround, a large human resources (HR) software firm, had just been presented with a number of different recommendations from her employees on how to integrate the functionality and data from a recently acquired software company that had a leading chat app into Workaround’s offerings. Although she was impressed by many of the suggestions, Bender was also ethically conflicted about some of them. The business opportu...Starting at €8.20
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Johansen's: The New Scorecard System - Teaching Note
Lynch, Luann J.; Forman, Jennifer; Gillam, GrahamTeaching Note DARDEN-C-2371TN-EAccounting and ControlTeaching note for product C-2371Starting at €0.00
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Working Capital: A Summary of Ratios by Industry
Lynch, Luann J.; Gillam, Graham; Forman, JenniferCase DARDEN-C-2348-EAccounting and ControlThe case graphically presents various working capital ratios (days inventory outstanding, days sales outstanding, days payables outstanding, cash conversion cycle, and operating cycle) over the 2009-through-2012 period by industry and for specific well-known companies. Students are given the opportunity to craft an intuitive story around the ratios they are given in the case. The case works well as a supplement for classes on working capital mana...Starting at €8.20
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Johansen's New Scorecard System: The Summit
Lynch, Luann J.; Forman, Jennifer; Gillam, GrahamCase DARDEN-C-2349-EAccounting and ControlJohansen's, a large high-end department store, has just completed its first year under a new scorecard system for evaluation of manager performance. The manager of Store 51 has traditionally been one of the company's top-performing managers from a financial standpoint, but his overall performance rating has declined due to performance along nonfinancial dimensions. Using a role-playing exercise, the managers at the performance summit must discus...Starting at €8.20
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Johansen's New Scorecard System: The Summit - Teaching Note
Lynch, Luann J.; Forman, Jennifer; Gillam, GrahamTeaching Note DARDEN-C-2349TN-EAccounting and ControlTeaching note for product C-2349Starting at €0.00