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Timeshare Exchange Fair (A)
Ovchinnikov, Anton S.; Sampson, Scott E.; Krass, DmitryCase DARDEN-QA-0709-EDecision AnalysisThis award-winning case series examines how optimization-based decision-making leads to a new business design for a timeshare exchange: an exchange fair. Students model a complex managerial problem as a linear program, identify the types of data needed, and use models to provide decision support. The series covers linear and integer programming, multiple-criteria decision-making, network flow problems, local search heuristics, and Pareto-optimali...Starting at €8.20
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C-Energy's Red Hill Plant: Meeting the SO2 Challenge
Ovchinnikov, Anton S.Case DARDEN-QA-0726-EDecision AnalysisThis case is suitable for graduate-level quantitative analysis, business and government, environment and sustainability, and global economics courses. Students must consider the tradeoffs between continuing to run an old coal-burning plant and purchasing emissions allowances (EAs) versus upgrading to emissions-reducing wet or dry scrubbers. Reducing emissions creates the possibility of selling the plant’s surplus EAs (which are likely to increase...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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FLORA (B): National
Bodily, Samuel E.; Ovchinnikov, Anton S.Case DARDEN-QA-0755-EDecision AnalysisIn this, the second of a two-case decision analysis series, an entrepreneur must decide whether there are additional benefits from operating in more than one U.S. city. He explores the business model of operating local production facilities in major cities, metro areas with a population of over one million. Going national in year three would allow for a year four launch. Again, the entrepreneur must choose between a discounted and a premium strat...Starting at €5.74
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Wells Fargo: Solar Energy for Los Angeles Branches (A)
Ovchinnikov, Anton S.; Hvaleva, AnastasiyaCase DARDEN-QA-0800-EDecision AnalysisIn the first case of a two-part series, a strategic finance manager at Wells Fargo with experience installing solar panel systems on bank branches crunches the numbers for a similar project in the Los Angeles area given the uncertain future of a government rebate.Starting at €8.20
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Global Warming Revisited (A)
Ovchinnikov, Anton S.Case DARDEN-QA-0808-EDecision AnalysisIs there statistical evidence of global warming? This case presents two sets of real global temperature data, one from the Met Office and another one from NASA, and asks students to assess if the data indeed support the belief that temperatures have been rising over the last 150+ years. The case is open-ended-it provides the data and references to some popular press articles on the subject. Also available is a B case that presents three sets of a...Starting at €8.20
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Outsourcing, Near-sourcing, and Supply Chain Flexibility in the Apparel Industry (A)
Ovchinnikov, Anton S.; Pyshkov, AlexanderCase DARDEN-QA-0854-EDecision AnalysisTimm Veizenburg is an entrepreneur who is reviving his family’s tradition of dress-shirt making. He realizes that an issue that initially looked like a markdown management problem may, in fact, be rooted in procurement. Operating in the modern data-rich environment, Timm asks an associate to prepare data about one product line, and together they examine the company’s current procurement practice, where the production is outsourced to supply chain...Starting at €8.20
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Inventory-Based Lending Industry Note
Foley, C. Fritz; Raman, Ananth; Craig, Nathan C.Case HBS-612057-EService and Operations ManagementInventory-based lending is a form of asset-based lending used by retailers and wholesalers. This note describes the development and the current state of the inventory-based lending industry.Starting at €8.20
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GM's Capital Allocation Framework
Foley, C. Fritz; Boland, F. Katelynn; Lemm, MichaelCase HBS-218026-EFinanceIn March of 2015, General Motors announced the details of a newly-established capital allocation framework. This framework provided a target for return on invested capital, guidelines for capital structure choices, and policies related to payouts. Senior managers face questions about how these policies should be implemented and what impact they might have.Starting at €8.20
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Project Moab at Hulu
Foley, C. Fritz; Weber, JamesCase HBS-218050-EFinanceIn 2015, Elaine Paul, CFO of Hulu, and the rest of the senior leadership team, must decide if they should offer a new, advertisement-free subscription service. At the time Hulu distributed a wide variety of content including in season current programming and earned significant revenues from advertising revenues. This choice had strategic implications and required formulating a view on how the video on demand industry would evolve. It also had val...Starting at €8.20