Chris Johnson, the recently appointed CEO of a large company consisting of several divisions, including Retail, Business Applications, and Systems Development, must work with senior leadership to set an agenda for the coming year. The past year had been full of challenges, including revelations of gender pay disparity, inappropriate relationships, low morale, a serious data breach, and malfunction
In this set of five vignettes, students must consider the role of fiduciary duty in a range of situations.
Instructor: Dr. Aigbe Akhigbe
Course Pack for Organizational Behavior
This public-sourced case uses the fitness company Zwift and one of its competitors, Peloton, to explore cost allocation and bundling services. The material includes a task to provide a back-of-the-envelope pitch about Zwift's potential to disrupt Peloton's growth. Although Zwift's foundation was on the software side, would an entry into the hardware side of the fitness space present a viable oppor
Use of Case studies to understand this industry
This case is a follow-up to "NASCAR and the Confederate Flag (A)" (UVA-E-0441).
In May 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and the protests that followed the death of George Floyd while in Minneapolis police custody, leadership at the National Association for Stock Car Automobile Racing (NASCAR), the American auto-racing company best known for stock-car racing, had to decide whether to b
In May 2020, in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic and the protests that followed the death of George Floyd while in Minneapolis police custody, leadership at the National Association for Stock Car Automobile Racing (NASCAR), the American auto-racing company best known for stock-car racing, had to decide whether to ban the Confederate flag at its events. To many, the flag was emblematic of racism
This note discusses the sources of competitive advantage for firms, including scale economies, network economies, counter positioning, switching costs, branding, cornered resources, and process power. It also introduces the features of sustainable competitive advantage, offers examples, and includes a framework for assessing the sustainability of each source of competitive advantage.
This note i
Sandra Martinez, a junior partner in a new biotech venture capital fund, is working on a due diligence report on a new genetic testing firm that plans to launch a direct-to-consumer (DTC) platform for assessing cancer risk. She is mildly concerned about some bad publicity around a faulty chip used in DTC genetic testing, then becomes more worried as she looks deeper into genetic testing itself. Sh
Cases for DS 235 Intro to Decision Science Spring 2022 semester
In June 2021, Waymo, a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc., the holding company and parent to Google, is a market leader in developing and deploying autonomous vehicles (AV). New co-CEO Tekedra Mawakana has been tasked with guiding Waymo's continued development and scaling of its AV offerings. Waymo had debuted several notable AV innovations, including fully autonomous driving software; a commercial ride-
Charu Thomas, cofounder and CEO of Ox, a software platform provider that helped retailers improve online order fulfillment, was proud of how her business had grown and earned positive feedback from investors, beta customers, and the press. Now, in the summer of 2021, revenue was on track to meet projections, and she began a comprehensive analysis of her costs, especially cloud hosting and computin
Business Analytics for Data Scientists
Testing for CPXML FTPS
Set of cases required for students in FIN 4145 Advanced Financial Management in Spring 2022
Professor Carol Hee's ENEC 490 Special Topics Course - Spring 2021
UTSA FIN 4893 Cases and Problems in Finance Spring 2022
This is a course in Financial Management for MBA students. The cases depict situations that require analysis and decision making.
Wealth Management, Financial Planning, and Personal Hedging
Valuation course cases
You will wear the shoes of the CEOs or high-level leadership, decision makers of different real life companies as we discuss the cases, and using all your previous learnings from other classes, strategize about these real situations. This capstone experience stresses formulation of business strategies to achieve organizational objectives using strategic analysis and models based upon internal and
Required cases for MBA 516.
BUAD 417 SP 22
GSMPR 626 Finance and Economics for Managers
GSM 5112 Economics and Finance II Spring 2022
This is the course pack for BA 800 at Penn State University
Business and Professional Ethics
This technical note provides a compiled 2020 annual report for the United States of America, consolidated for the public and private sectors. It includes financial statements, accompanying notes, discussion and analysis, and a summary of risk factors. An introductory section specifies the report’s overarching purpose, as well as describing the role of accounting more generally for any defined enti
This case introduces students to an interesting and fun example of a proxy statement issued by World Wrestling Entertainment, Inc. (WWE). WWE is effectively run by the McMahon family, which provides opportunities for students to recognize conflicts of interest in related party transactions between WWE and family members, as well as how the dual class share structure can facilitate these transactio
This case provides students with the statement of cash flows from three diverse companies: Etsy, Inc., Akorn, Inc., and Brookfield Asset Management Inc. (named in case as Alpha Inc., Beta Corporation, and Gamma Enterprises, respectively). Each company represents a different industry and stage in the life cycle and provides unique learning opportunities. The lack of any background (or identifying)
This case provides a three-pronged opportunity to explore a process for establishing an initial talent development plan for a growing and successful company desirous of investing in its existing managers and other potential management personnel. Students are presented with a generalized talent development framework, along with some company-specific facts and then are asked to flesh out pertinent p
This case follows fictional Baby Girl Jones, born with a life-threatening condition: cyanotic heart disease (not enough oxygen in the blood). Her initial evaluation revealed transposition of the great arteries, a condition in which the two main arteries carrying blood away from the heart are reversed. The doctors also realized that the baby’s heart had a hole between the pumping chambers. The baby
Case Studies
Op-Ex
Yost's FINC 5670/6670 Spring 2022 Cases
Critical Thinking and Ethics
Beyond providing increased opportunities to underrepresented businesses for participating in the procurement process, supplier-diversity initiatives offer substantive financial benefits to the buyer organization. However, significant challenges may be associated with designing, implementing, and evaluating the socioeconomic impact of supplier-diversity initiatives. This technical note is designed
Cases in Financial Management
This short fictional case describes two very different patients, each waiting to see a new doctor. It includes questions about patient needs in terms of health care, technology, virtual checkups, and electronic medical records.
Peloton, a manufacturer of exercise equipment and a platform for interactive fitness, combined elegant hardware, top-notch fitness classes led by world-class athletes, the largest network of subscribers in the industry, and user-to-user social connectivity that provided a more engaging experience than the usual at-home workout. But it operated in an increasingly competitive industry: boutique fitn
In late October 2020, hedge fund analyst Maya Botti was evaluating the decision to vote for the proposed merger of Forum Merger IIa special purpose acquisition company (SPAC), with Ittella International, a plant-based food company; if the SPAC shareholders voted in favor of the merger, Botti also had to recommend that the hedge fund’s leadership redeem the hedge fund’s shares in Forum II, sell the
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Between 2013 and 2019, Natura undertook a set of initiatives to begin its digital transformation and accelerate the global expansion that resulted in it becoming the world's fourth-largest beauty group. Along with its traditional door-to-door operation, Natura opened new channels including e-commerce, mobile apps, and physical stores, while it accelerated its international expansion with the acqui
In 2021, the world’s fourth-largest beauty group, Natura &Co, was in the middle of a digital transformation process. Originally a direct-selling company, Natura transitioned to a multichannel business through online and offline channels, while acquiring strong brands such as Aesop, The Body Shop, and Avon. In the A case, the challenge for Natura CEO João Paulo Ferreira’s challenge was to find the
This course pack contains the case studies for the MBA 638-Operations Management course.
