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Accounting for Income Taxes at Apple Inc. - Teaching Note
Hopkins, Justin J.Teaching Note DARDEN-C-2389TN-EAccounting and ControlTeaching note for product C-2389Starting at €0.00
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Target Data Breach: Accounting for Contingent Liabilities - Teaching Note
Hopkins, Justin J.Teaching Note DARDEN-C-2390TN-EAccounting and ControlTeaching note for product C-2390Starting at €0.00
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HP and Autonomy: Who's Accountable? - Teaching Note
Hopkins, Justin J.; Yemen, GerryTeaching Note DARDEN-C-2408TN-EAccounting and ControlTeaching note for product C-2408Starting at €0.00
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Correcting Sight and Accounting at LCA-Vision Inc. - Teaching Note
Hopkins, Justin J.Teaching Note DARDEN-C-2413TN-EAccounting and ControlTeaching note for product C-2413Starting at €0.00
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HP and Autonomy: Who's Accountable?
Hopkins, Justin J.; Yemen, GerryCase DARDEN-C-2408-EAccounting and ControlWritten using public sources, this case uses Hewlett-Packard’s (HP) purchase of Autonomy Corporation (Autonomy) to analyze the accounting treatment for the acquisition and subsequent goodwill impairment. While the case focuses on the accounting for mergers and acquisitions, it also provides for a variety of other discussion topics such as the effect of managerial incentives and CEO succession on accounting outcomes, managerial “spin” on disclosur...Starting at €8.20
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Wausau Equipment Company: A Lean Journey (C)
Landel, Robert D.; Gruia, SorinCase DARDEN-OM-1383-EService and Operations ManagementThis file contains slides that show the elements chosen by the senior management and consultants to reengage and relaunch the lean journey at Wausau Equipment Company, following its original failed implementation and necessitated by implementation and acceptance problems at the management level. A teaching note (OM-1354TN) is available.Starting at €5.74
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Taking the Plunge: New Luxury Ventures
Sarasvathy, Saras D.; Ali, N.Case DARDEN-ENT-0070-EEntrepreneurshipStudents at all levels explore the psychology of entrepreneurship and new product branding and marketing as a young IBM executive decides whether to become an entrepreneur. He must evaluate his business plan; seek advisors; and decide how much money it will take to get started. His product idea? On-the-go water for dogs. With market research complete and a team of advisors assembled, he must decide whether to take the plunge.Starting at €8.20
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The Affordable Loss Principle
Sarasvathy, Saras D.Technical Note DARDEN-ENT-0075-EEntrepreneurshipIdeal for a study of entrepreneurship as a phenomenon, this note explores the difference between causal models and effectuation. Whereas causal models focus on maximizing returns by selecting optimal strategies, effectuation begins with a determination of how much one is willing to lose and leveraging limited means in creative ways to generate new ends as well as new means. The effectuator then uses the very process of building the venture to bri...Starting at €8.20
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The Bird-in-Hand Principle: Who I Am, What I Know, and Whom I Know
Sarasvathy, Saras D.Technical Note DARDEN-ENT-0090-EEntrepreneurshipThis technical note explores a framework by which entrepreneurs can evaluate their ideas before going forward based on who they are, what they know, and whom they know. Drawing on frameworks presented in textbooks, trade books, journal articles, periodicals, and on Web sites that claim to predict the feasibility and value of new venture ideas. Figure 1 depicts a simple and useful summary of four key concepts at the heart of many of these framewor...Starting at €8.20
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Cold Opportunity (B): The ICEHOTEL Story
Sarasvathy, Saras D.; Read, Stuart; Aronsson, MagnusCase DARDEN-ENT-0120-EEntrepreneurshipSuitable for MBA and executive learners, this case series presents an engaging narrative that prompts students to discuss entrepreneurial thinking. An entrepreneur who loves his native Swedish Lapland uses his natural gift for effectuation to ask What? What next? And What now? As his ventures evolve, students will ask themselves how they would master similar challenges to their own entrepreneurial plans and expectations. The case can be taught in...Starting at €5.74