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Kola Real: La expansión internacional
Ferré, Miguel; Natividad, GabrielCase PAD-DG-C-406EntrepreneurshipDescribe el caso de la internacionalización de una empresa peruana en varios países de la región, partiendo de unos modestos inicios en Ayacucho (1988). Se puede discutir la similitud o diferencias en la forma de nacer según el contexto de cada país.Starting at €8.20
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Investure, LLC, and Smith College
Chaplinsky, Susan; Harris, Robert S.; Kelly, Dorothy C.Case DARDEN-F-1537-EFinanceAlice Handy, an investment professional with 30 years' experience as head of the University of Virginia Investment Management Company, has opened a new asset management firm targeted at midsize endowments and nonprofit institutions in January 2004. Her business, Investure, LLC, offered outsourced investment services to institutions with $150 million to $1 billion in assets and access to top-performing managers at lower cost than a fund of funds (...Starting at €8.20
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TRX, Inc.: Initial Public Offering
Chaplinsky, Susan; Morita, Kensei; Zeng, XingCase DARDEN-F-1568-EFinanceThis case provides comprehensive coverage of a firm’s decision to undertake an IPO and the process of going public. The case follows the sequence of events from the company’s incorporation in 1999 through the completion of an IPO in September 2005. In addition to raising capital, the TRX IPO case also includes consideration of another motivation for going public. At the time of its incorporation in November 1999, TRX attempted to go public but in...Starting at €8.20
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Tata Motors Limited: Ratan's Next Step
Biladeau, Andrew; Yemen, Gerry; Lenox, Michael; Harris, Jared D.Case DARDEN-S-0184-EStrategySuitable for MBA, EMBA, and executive education programs, this case uses Tata Motors' move to acquire Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) from Ford to analyze a growth-through-acquisition strategy. It offers a discussion about the firm’s overall strategy to acquire instead of growing organically. The case begins when Ratan Tata, chairman of Tata Motors, unveils the world’s cheapest car—the Nano. He had challenged the people around him to design and produce...Starting at €8.20
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Crawford Development Co. and Southeast Bank of Texas
Ovchinnikov, Anton S.; Loutskina, ElenaCase DARDEN-QA-0727-EDecision AnalysisIn the early months of the 2007–08 financial crises, a loan manager faces a real estate financing decision. Should he approve a bullet structure three-year loan to a longstanding client, a legendary Texan developer? The developer, who near retirement downsized his business, is seeking financing for his only project: residential or commercial development on an attractive piece of land in suburban Houston. The loan manager considers the decision in...Starting at €8.20
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Caprica Energy and Its Choices
Harris, Jared D.; Bodily, Samuel E.; Mead, Jenny; Adolphson, Donald; Carmack, Brad; Rogers, JamesCase DARDEN-QA-0765-EDecision AnalysisJane Barrow, CEO of Caprica Energy, must recommend to the board which of three potential "unconventional" natural-gas development sites in different parts of the United States the company should pursue. The case takes place in January 2011, when the "low-hanging fruit" of natural-gas production in the United States had essentially been picked. All three of the potential sites (shale, coalbed methane, and tight sands) would require hydraulic fract...Starting at €8.20
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Fair Play at Chisholm University
Grushka-Cockayne, Yael; Harris, Jared D.; Mead, Jenny; Adams, John; Shankar, MeeraCase DARDEN-QA-0789-EDecision AnalysisChisholm University’s new athletics director must reallocate the athletics budget in its entirety, balancing legal obligations with broader educational and financial goals. A committee appointed to work on this issue had failed to reach consensus due to disagreements about how to comply with Title IX, the law mandating gender parity in all educational offerings, including athletics. The athletics director has the facts organized into an optimizat...Starting at €8.20
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GE Healthcare in India: An (Ultra)Sound Strategy?
Harris, Jared D.; Mead, Jenny; Jain, MayankCase DARDEN-E-0337-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityThis case outlines the dilemma of a president and CEO of GE Healthcare India. Its ultrasound machines were implicated in many cases of prenatal sex determination in a society that favored males, so too few girls were being born with potentially catastrophic results for future Indian society. The CEO knows GE Healthcare´s ultrasound machines were providing excellent medical care for Indians, particularly in rural communities, and that the company ...Starting at €8.20
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Moral Theory and Frameworks
Wicks, Andrew C.; Harris, Jared D.; Parmar, Bidhan L.Technical Note DARDEN-E-0339-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityThis technical note outlines background theories of ethics that are relevant to managerial decision making and develops a framework that managers can use to enhance their ability to make good choices.Starting at €8.20
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Evergreen Enhancement
Harris, Jared D.; Mead, JennyCase DARDEN-E-0381-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityRichard Alpert, senior partner at Evergreen Investments, must decide which of his two best employees to promote to the position of managing VP. He had initially preferred Charlie Pace over Daniel Faraday, but that decision had become less clear-cut when Alpert inadvertently overheard an office conversation and learned that Pace was taking Adderall, a stimulant primarily prescribed for people suffering from attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder...Starting at €8.20