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Supplier Diversity in the City of Portland
Supplier Diversity in the City of Portland
Collection: Darden School of BusinessPriya Shah, a new consultant, had just begun a project with Biko Taylor, chief procurement officer for the City of Portland, Oregon. A few weeks before, on April 20, 2022, the Portland City Council had passed ordinance 276, authorizing Taylor to pilot inclusive contracting policies designed to attract small diverse businesses (SDBs). Taylor hoped this pilot would help foster wealth creation for ma
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DonorsChoose: Enhancing America's Classrooms with Small Dive...
DonorsChoose: Enhancing America's Classrooms with Small Diverse Businesses
Collection: Darden School of BusinessAmy Soler, senior director of direct fulfillment at DonorsChoose, the leading nonprofit crowdfunding platform for public school teachers in the United States, was preparing for the last board meeting of the 2022–23 school year. Soler led the DonorsChoose direct fulfillment team, which had been piloted two years earlier to enable DonorsChoose to integrate more small diverse businesses in its supply
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JWSM Construction: Building More Than a Rail Line
JWSM Construction: Building More Than a Rail Line
Collection: Darden School of BusinessMarvin has just been tapped to assume control of a team of over 50 individuals tasked with completing a $40 million construction project over the next two years. His work package is part of a larger project to expand the footprint of a major city’s metropolitan railway network via construction of 10 miles of high-voltage rail and six large train stations. Although Marvin has worked at JWSM Constru
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GE Appliances: Reshoring Manufacturing
GE Appliances: Reshoring Manufacturing
Collection: Darden School of BusinessThe General Electric Company's (GE's) iconic Appliances division enjoyed a significant role at the company throughout the 20th century, representing one of the most recognized engines of the GE brand. By the 21st century, GE had changed its focus to technology and infrastructure businesses, and GE Appliances' contribution represented less than 5% of GE's revenue and profit. This case examines G
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Philly Cleans (B)
Philly Cleans (B)
Collection: Darden School of BusinessThis case provides a minimum threshold and a range of value for a contract for janitorial services in an office building. A variety of facts are presented that negotiators can choose to pay more or less attention to when planning and conducting their negotiation. Mitchell, a shift supervisor, has been temporarily empowered to conduct the negotiation on behalf of his supervisor, Robert Eckhart, who
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Philly Cleans (A)
Philly Cleans (A)
Collection: Darden School of BusinessThis case provides a minimum threshold and a range of value for a contract for janitorial services in an office building. A variety of facts are presented that negotiators can choose to pay more or less attention to when planning and conducting their negotiation. Mitchell, a shift supervisor, has been temporarily empowered to conduct the negotiation on behalf of his supervisor, Robert Eckhart, who
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LeMar Outdoor Play Products, Ltd.: An Outsourcing Decision t...
LeMar Outdoor Play Products, Ltd.: An Outsourcing Decision to India
Collection: Darden School of BusinessThis case, based on general business experience, casts students in the role of analyzing the financial effects of a possible outsourcing decision. Lee and Marcia Mills, owners of LeMar Outdoor Play Products, Ltd. (LOPP), a Canadian company that designs, manufactures, and installs outdoor play equipment, are faced with a decision pertaining to whether LOPP should outsource the company's back-office
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Kitchenware.com
Kitchenware.com
Collection: Darden School of BusinessThe president and founder of Kitchenware.com, reflects on her recent efforts to drive profitability with a more in-depth cost-to-serve analysis of her company. The need for continued sales growth, coupled with the necessity of keeping costs down, put pressure on her to make sure that the company's capacity constrained fulfillment center carried products that offered not only the potential for the
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Outsourcing, Near-sourcing, and Supply Chain Flexibility in ...
Outsourcing, Near-sourcing, and Supply Chain Flexibility in the Apparel Industry (A)
Collection: Darden School of BusinessTimm 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,
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Outsourcing, Near-sourcing, and Supply Chain Flexibility in ...
Outsourcing, Near-sourcing, and Supply Chain Flexibility in the Apparel Industry (B)
Collection: Darden School of BusinessTimm 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,
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Evaluating Financial and Operational Performance in the Reta...
Evaluating Financial and Operational Performance in the Retail Apparel Industry, 2016
Collection: Darden School of BusinessThis case is suitable for management students who have already been exposed to the basics of accounting and operations-management decision making. It builds business intuition that integrates concepts from the courses of operations, accounting, and finance. As such, it is appropriate in an operations course, or in an introductory finance/accounting course. Students examine the financial statements
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CityBook Services, Ltd.
CityBook Services, Ltd.
Collection: Darden School of BusinessOne of Israel's most important assets was its relatively highly educated population, which included many native English speakers. The founders of CityBook Services, Ltd., determined that one of the greatest untapped sources of potential workers was the female population of the ultra-Orthodox Haredi community, most of whom did not hold jobs outside the home. By structuring a work environment that m
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