Clarence Hall University and the Donation
E-0382 | Published September 24, 2012 | 9 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Annalisa McGann, chair of London's prestigious Clarence Hall University, together with the university's board, must make a decision about whether to return a large monetary donation from the Natour Ch... Read More
The Little Hedge Fund that Could? Activist Investing at ExxonMobil
S-0422 | Published October 18, 2023 | 20 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case revolves around the proxy battle launched by a little-known activist hedge fund, Engine No. 1, against oil and gas behemoth ExxonMobil in late 2020. The case describes the history and corpor... Read More
Roger Weeks's Big Test (A)
OB-1477 | Published January 15, 2025 | 3 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This disguised case puts students in the shoes of Roger Weeks, the leader of Family Food Restaurant’s (FFR’s) South Division, which is headquartered in San Antonio, Texas. RestaurantCo (RC), the corpo... Read More
Roger Weeks's Big Test (B)
OB-1478 | Published January 15, 2025 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This disguised case, the follow-up to “Roger Weeks’s Big Test (A)” (UVA-OB-1477), reveals the reason for the managers’ unusual reaction at Roger Weeks’s product kickoff meeting. It asks students to co... Read More
Zauner Ornaments
C-2181 | Published August 12, 2003 | 9 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The primary purpose of this case is to provide students with an opportunity to practice the implementation of a simple activity-based costing (ABC) system. In doing so, students are asked to review se... Read More
High Point Aviation: Operating Breakevens
C-2329 | Published October 10, 2011 Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
A couple wants to start a small flight charter company to serve the mining, oil, scientific, and wilderness adventure clients of northern Canada but worry that their thin financial base necessitates a... Read More
Adam Burke and PBM Plastics: Message in a Bottle
OM-1491 | Published February 14, 2013 | 13 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is used in Darden's EMBA and Global EMBA programs. It works well in courses dealing with turnaround specialists or change management. With a cross-disciplinary perspective, this field-based... Read More
Exercise: A Tale of Two Stories
OB-1109 | Published March 30, 2010 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. This case is a fou... Read More
Defining Moments: Managing Your Mentor
OB-1278 | Published April 15, 2019 | 1 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
A young, female investment banker has just been unexpectedly promoted to managing director of her group—but she'll be taking her mentor's job while he is pushed out over a 10-month stint as a "senior ... Read More
Defining Moments: Taken Advantage Of
OB-1299 | Published October 30, 2019 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Karen Miner is a partner at a management consulting firm, and she is becoming increasingly resentful of another partner who consistently prioritizes their family life, while letting others pick up the... Read More
Nike, Inc.: Cost of Capital
F-1353 | Published October 10, 2001 | 8 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
On July 5, 2001, Kimi Ford, a portfolio manager at NorthPoint Group, a mutual-fund management firm, pored over analyst write-ups of Nike, Inc., the athletic-shoe manufacturer. Nike's share price had d... Read More
Defining Moments: Pay Scales
OB-1215 | Published June 22, 2018 | 1 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The only female senior partner at a boutique management consulting firm has found out that she is paid less than half of what male partners were making who were younger, less experienced, and contribu... Read More
Progressive Insurance: Making Pay As You Drive a Snap for Consumers
M-0873 | Published | 21 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Heather Day, a marketing director and brand manager, must evaluate her options for Progressive Insurance’s next Snapshot product advertising campaign. Working on a limited budget, Day must select betw... Read More
The Craddock Cup
C-2182 | Published August 12, 2003 | 6 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case has three main purposes: (1) to illustrate the importance of understanding cost behaviors in calculating the contribution of the Craddock Cup youth soccer tournament to decide whether to con... Read More
Defining Moments: MBA Hackers
OB-1275 | Published December 18, 2018 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The dean of a prominent business school has learned that the system that his—and many other—business schools use to help select and notify MBA students has been hacked. The hacker posted instructions ... Read More
Giving Voice to Values: A New Approach to Values-Driven Leadership
OB-1122 | Published March 01, 2010 | 4 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. This brief survey ... Read More
Automated Hiring at Amazon
E-0470 | Published February 02, 2021 | 6 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In this fictionalized case, the protagonist is the director of talent and recruitment at Amazon and had been in charge of developing an artificial intelligence (AI) hiring tool that could shape the fu... Read More
Personal-Professional Profile
OB-1118 | Published February 28, 2010 | 7 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. This student surv... Read More
The Financial Detective, 2016
F-1763 | Published October 12, 2016 | 4 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This is an updated version of "The Financial Detective, 2005" (UVA-F-1486). The case presents the student with financial ratios for eight pairs of unidentified companies and asks them to mate the desc... Read More
Yearbook Inc. (A): The Start-up Years
S-0369 | Published March 22, 2022 | 10 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This field-based case follows the start-up dreams of Melanie Perkins, a young Australian woman who came up with a big idea: What if she could create a simple, collaborative, online tool that anyone co... Read More
Diamond Chemicals PLC (A): The Merseyside Project
F-1351 | Published October 10, 2001 | 7 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
These two cases consider the capital investment decisions to be made by executives of this large chemicals firm in January 2001. This A case presents a go/no-go project evaluation regarding improvemen... Read More
Reasons and Rationalizations: An Exercise
OB-1119 | Published February 28, 2010 | 3 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. Giving Voice to V... Read More
Is This My Place? Speaking Up (A)
OB-1111 | Published February 28, 2010 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
An employee of a thinly staffed organization recognizes that there is no formal system for monitoring the value of donated supplies for tax purposes, but didn’t want to do anything that would discoura... Read More
DuPont Corporation: Sale of Performance Coatings
F-1709 | Published February 07, 2014 | 20 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In January 2012, Ellen Kullman, CEO and chairman of DuPont, must decide whether to retain or sell the company’s Performance Coatings (DPC) division. This is an introductory case on valuing a leveraged... Read More
An Action Framework for Giving Voice to Values: The To-Do List
OB-1110 | Published February 28, 2010 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. Giving Voice to Va... Read More
California Pizza Kitchen
F-1553 | Published September 02, 2008 | 16 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case examines the question of financial leverage at California Pizza Kitchen (CPK) in July 2007. With a highly profitable business and an aversion to debt, CPK management is considering a debt-fi... Read More
Move Fast, but without Bias: Ethical AI Development in a Start-up Culture (B)
OB-1412 | Published August 11, 2022 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case set is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. Taylor is a sen... Read More
"This Whole System Seems Wrong": Felipe Montez and Concerns about the Global Supply Chain
OB-1128 | Published February 28, 2010 | 3 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. A young purchasin... Read More
Chipotle: Capital Structure Decision
F-1964 | Published September 17, 2020 | 23 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In early 2019, the executive leadership of Chipotle Mexican Grill, Inc. (Chipotle), gathered to discuss the company’s 2018 performance and align the company's capital structure policy and its growth a... Read More
Warren E. Buffett, 2015
F-1769 | Published February 01, 2017 | 20 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case was designed as an introduction to a finance course or a module on capital markets. Alternatively, it could be used as a basic introduction to methods of valuing a firm. A detailed teaching ... Read More
YouTube Advertising with Roger Federer: Switzerland’s Tourism 2024 Campaign
M-1057 | Published August 29, 2024 | 23 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Set in December 2023, this case explores Switzerland Tourism’s (ST’s) multi-year advertising campaign with tennis star Roger Federer. ST and Federer initially collaborated in 2021 with a YouTube video... Read More
Ways of Thinking About Our Values in the Workplace
OB-1126 | Published March 01, 2010 | 24 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. This case is about... Read More
Paying Bribes: Do Small Suppliers Have a Choice?
OB-1164 | Published February 28, 2010 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. Giving Voice to V... Read More
Flinder Valves and Controls Inc.
F-1573 | Published November 17, 2008 | 14 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Set in May 2008, this case reflects the separate perspectives of chief executive officers Tom Eliot and Bill Flinder as they approach the negotiations of RSE International Corporation to acquire Flind... Read More
NFL International: Tackling the Globe
OB-1450 | Published May 20, 2024 | 8 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Roger Goodell, commissioner of the National Football League (NFL), needs to determine how the league should proceed in pursuing an international growth strategy. Traditionally, American football has t... Read More
Cutting through the Fog: Finding a Future with Fintech
F-1767 | Published December 12, 2016 | 25 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The case examines the scope, history, and scale of the fintech industry, while also defining what fintech may be?and what it is not. The protagonist, management consultant Carolina Costa, is tasked t... Read More
Horniman Horticulture
F-1512 | Published August 18, 2006 | 4 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case captures the cash-flow and working-capital management problems typical of small, growing businesses. At the end of 2015, Bob and Maggie Brown have completed their third year of operating Hor... Read More
Euroland Foods 2024
F-2016 | Published May 18, 2022 | 12 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Facing strong pressure from investors to improve financial performance and preserve capital, senior management at Euroland Foods must select which projects to fund across a slate of major investment p... Read More
NoBull Burger
OM-1479 | Published September 20, 2012 | 6 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
NoBull, a new, Charlottesville-based vegetarian burger producer, was at a critical junction in its development. While the business had grown substantially over the past year, it faced a number of chal... Read More
Segmentation at Sticks Kebob Shop
M-0866 | Published March 07, 2014 | 10 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is used in the Marketing Analytics elective at Darden. A Sticks executive team is interested in opening a second quick-service restaurant in Richmond, Virginia. But before doing so, the team... Read More
Jeff Salett: From the Top, Sort Of (A)
OB-1113 | Published February 28, 2010 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. Jeff Salett, poise... Read More
Move Fast, but without Bias: Ethical AI Development in a Start-up Culture (A)
OB-1411 | Published August 11, 2022 | 5 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case set is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. Taylor is a sen... Read More
United Technologies Corporation: Supplier Development Initiative
M-0646 | Published July 19, 2000 | 14 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In mid-2000, United Technologies Corporation (UTC) was two years into a supplier development integration program. The major focus of this initiative was to strengthen relationships with "key" supplier... Read More
Zappos Customer Loyalty Team
OM-1452 | Published October 13, 2011 | 15 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Zappos' senior leadership must decide whether to continue to schedule the call center shifts based on seniority or to consider a new plan that makes use of Uber-style surge pricing to pay workers high... Read More
Naivete or Boldness? (A)
OB-1116 | Published March 01, 2010 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. Denise Foley, sen... Read More
VIZIO: Decision Brief (B)
S-0467 | Published January 21, 2025 | 6 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This B case follows an A case set in 2002, in which students considered how to design a value chain for VIZIO HOLDING CORP. (VIZIO) to capitalize on the opportunities afforded by new flat-screen techn... Read More
The University of Virginia Health System: The Next Generation of Quality Care and Patient Safety (A)
OM-1608 | Published | 23 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case examines the transformation of the University of Virginia Health System (UVAHS) into a leader of operational excellence focused on both patient outcomes and health care team members' well-be... Read More
Giving Voice to Values: Brief Introduction
OB-1203 | Published February 28, 2010 | 5 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This material is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. This material ... Read More
Wachovia Bank & Trust Company, N.A. (B): Supplement
QA-0342 | Published April 05, 1989 | 4 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This material is an explanation of a LOTUS worksheet built to implement exponential smoothing for the data in "Wachovia Bank and Trust Company N.A. (B)" (OM-0664).... Read More
Upstart’s Upshot: Is Fintech Lending Fair?
F-2060 | Published October 04, 2023 | 16 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Alliant Credit Union (Alliant) had to decide whether to partner with Upstart Holdings, Inc. (Upstart), a financial technology (fintech) company that offered a platform to connect borrowers and lenders... Read More
Strictly Business: Janice Greer’s Leadership Challenge in Japan
S-0385 | Published | 4 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Janice Greer works for NVX Pharmaceuticals, a US firm with increasing global operations. Not long after Greer’s promotion to country head for Japan, their boss suggests that widespread layoffs will be... Read More
Have Text, Will Travel: Can Airbnb Use Review Text Data to Optimize Profits?
M-0897 | Published November 13, 2015 | 6 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Hundreds of thousands of would-be hoteliers have been popping up all around the world, hoping to rent their own homes and apartments to complete strangers through a service called Airbnb. The goal of ... Read More
The Third Battle of Bull Run: The Disney's America Theme Park (A)
BC-0177 | Published January 29, 2001 | 19 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In the A case, Disney CEO Michael Eisner pondered whether to go forward with his plans for a U.S. history theme park called Disney's America, located in Prince William County, Virginia. The case depic... Read More
Ethical Programming of Algorithms: How to Deal with Ethical Risks of AI Tools for Hiring Decisions? (A)
OB-1401 | Published August 08, 2022 | 3 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case set is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. Simon is a data... Read More
"Not an Option to Even Consider:" Contending with the Pressures to Compromise (A)
OB-1160 | Published February 28, 2010 | 6 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. Focuses on a coun... Read More
Worldwide Paper Company
F-1372 | Published January 31, 2002 | 3 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is based on an actual investment decision made by a major paper-products company, and is primarily designed to be a straightforward exercise in assessing cash flows, cost of capital, and net... Read More
Whole Foods: Digesting Amazon’s Offer
F-1923 | Published October 29, 2019 | 27 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
As the cofounder and CEO of Whole Foods, John Mackey had spent the better portion of his life rapidly growing the company from a niche natural grocery store in Austin, Texas, into the premier natural-... Read More
Scripts and Skills: Readings
OB-1120 | Published March 01, 2010 | 13 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. The approach to va... Read More
Absolut Vodka: The Spirit of a Brand
M-0832 | Published June 27, 2012 | 15 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is used in Darden's core Marketing course and in the Pricing elective. It would work well in course modules covering the topics of branding or product line management. A teaching note is ava... Read More
Goodio Supply Chain: A Chocolatey Future?
OM-1613 | Published January 17, 2019 | 12 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case uses the experiences of a Finnish craft chocolate company to analyze the impact of supply chain transparency on suppliers and consumers. The case discusses the rationale behind entrepreneur ... Read More
The End of Credit Suisse
F-2064 | Published December 20, 2023 | 36 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The case describes the demise of Credit Suisse Group AG (Credit Suisse), along with Credit Suisse's history and its significance for global markets and Switzerland. The case examines key episodes duri... Read More
Starbucks Corporation (A)
S-0175 | Published October 13, 2010 | 19 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The issue in this case is whether it is realistic for Starbucks to continue to be a high-growth company. Questions raised are whether all growth is good; whether bigger is always better; whether busin... Read More
McDonald's: The Hamburger Price Wars
M-0687 | Published February 11, 2004 Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
McDonald's executives announce plans to launch a dollar menu in the fall of 2002. Students must evaluate the potential impact of this menu on restaurant revenues, and the sales of McDonald's Value Mea... Read More
The Voice Improvement Team at InnovaCo
OB-1415 | Published December 19, 2022 | 6 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Tim Lincoln, Director of Organizational Leadership and Learning at InnovaCo, a mature, high-tech multinational company, had been excited to be appointed the lead of a task force called the Voice Impro... Read More
The Client Who Fell through the Cracks (A)
OB-1130 | Published February 28, 2010 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. Giving Voice to V... Read More
VIZIO: Decision Brief (A)
S-0466 | Published January 21, 2025 | 5 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
By the fourth quarter of 2010, VIZIO HOLDING CORP. (VIZIO) would become the largest flat-panel liquid-crystal display (LCD) TV manufacturer in the United States. But in 2002, when William Wang founded... Read More
Managing Brand Crisis: Bud Light Cracks Open a Can of Controversy
M-1043 | Published | 18 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case provides a chronological view of Bud Light’s sponsorship of Dylan Mulvaney, a transgender influencer, and the resulting impact. It helps students and executives consider both the decision-ma... Read More
Taking a Mexican Company Global—The CEMEX Way
S-0194 | Published December 05, 2011 | 27 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Suitable for MBA, Executive MBA, GEMBA, and executive education programs, this case uses CEMEX, a global cement producer based in Mexico, to set the stage for unfolding an analysis of a growth through... Read More
Pitching J.Crew Maternity Apparel To Mickey Drexler
M-0854 | Published October 18, 2013 | 19 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
By mid-2012, Lindsay Murphy, a sales associate from an East Coast store, had repeatedly heard women wishing that J.Crew offered maternity wear. She thought it was an interesting possibility. After all... Read More
Carter International
F-1771 | Published December 21, 2016 | 11 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case considers the 2016 acquisition of U.S. gambling concern Hope Enterprises by a major hotel company, Carter International (Carter). It is a relatively straightforward exercise in valuing a pot... Read More
How Adobe Innovated Its Business Model and Blazed the Trail for the Digital Experience Platform
S-0453 | Published July 02, 2024 | 18 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In 2012, Adobe Systems Incorporated (Adobe) announced that moving forward, its product releases would be available only through the cloud and a subscription model. In 2024, many software companies are... Read More
The New Associate
OB-1158 | Published February 28, 2010 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. A senior-level ac... Read More
Defining Moments: Is It Worth It?
OB-1276 | Published March 01, 2019 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
After finishing a PhD in immunology and working for a few years for a large pharmaceutical company, Eric Lafferty entered an executive MBA program intending to reorient his career toward more meaningf... Read More
Marlow Construction (A): Dan Marlow, Founder and President
OB-1282 | Published June 06, 2019 | 1 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case represents an amalgam of commonly reported experiences people have when interacting with others from different social class backgrounds and positions of power. The A case takes the perspecti... Read More
Dr. Bronner's: Do Psychedelics Fit with Its Cosmic Principles?
S-0405 | Published August 01, 2023 | 22 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This field-based case describes the situation facing David Bronner, cosmic engagement officer (CEO) of Dr. Bronner’s Magic Soaps (Dr. Bronner’s), the top-selling brand of natural soaps in North Americ... Read More
Wal-Mart China: Tian Tian Pingjia
OM-1472 | Published April 25, 2012 | 18 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Having taken stock of where the division was, Scott Price, Wal-Mart China's interim CEO, wanted to lay the groundwork to be able to hand over the reins to the new CEO with an idea of where it was head... Read More
Heinz Ketchup: Pricing the Product Line
M-0777 | Published July 06, 2009 | 10 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
An iconic American brand must determine how to maximize net profit by increasing the sales of its highest-margin items in the face of constant retailer pushback including reduced shelf space and promo... Read More
Pricing the EpiPen: This is Going to Sting
M-0915 | Published September 02, 2016 | 8 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case examines the public controversy that erupted over the increasingly high price of EpiPens. Mylan Inc. (Mylan), a generic drug maker, bought the EpiPen product line from Merck in 2007. Since t... Read More
China's Stock Market: Understanding Its Boom-and-Bust Cycles
F-1985 | Published July 29, 2021 | 40 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Using the context of a private-bank chief economist preparing for a client call just as the Shanghai Stock Exchange Composite Index (SCI) reached a 29-month high on July 7, 2020, this case places stud... Read More
Apple Inc.: The Second Green Bond
F-2022 | Published January 06, 2023 | 15 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Lisa Jackson, vice president of Environment, Policy and Social Initiatives at Apple Inc. (Apple) and, previously, the first African American administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, was p... Read More
Profit Maximization and Layoffs
OB-1167 | Published February 28, 2010 | 1 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. Dennis is a member... Read More
Lisa Baxter: Developing a Voice
OB-1114 | Published February 28, 2010 | 4 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. This multi-part c... Read More
Fidelity Incorporated: Pricing the Fidelity Blue Chip Growth Fund
M-0674 | Published May 20, 2003 | 5 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case presents an application of conjoint analysis in a financial services setting. It is best used in a course on marketing research. The decision in the case centers on a fund manager's need to ... Read More
Invesco Ltd.: Asset Management in Transition
F-1856 | Published November 07, 2018 | 38 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is used in Darden's second-year "Financial Institutions and Capital Markets," elective. Using Invesco Ltd. (Invesco) as an example, the case examines the strategic challenges facing the asse... Read More
Shri Mahila Griha Udyog Lijjat Papad: It's A Women-Only Business
OB-1091 | Published December 07, 2015 | 11 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The story of Lijjat offers an opportunity to challenge students to think about what a business is for. It can be used to explore students' cultural intelligence starting point and discover what they n... Read More
Keisha Y. Taylor
OB-1372 | Published May 03, 2021 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This fictional case introduces Keisha Y. Taylor, an associate at Century Consulting Corporation (CCC) focused on proving her credibility and advancing through the firm. The case describes her work eth... Read More
MetLife Meets Insurtech App to App
F-1947 | Published April 21, 2020 | 22 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case examines the key issues facing MetLife, a major company in life and annuity (L&A) and—to a lesser extent—property and casualty (P&C) insurance. The case provides an opportunity to analyze th... Read More
Comerica Incorporated: The Valuation Dilemma
F-1581 | Published March 10, 2009 | 16 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In early September 2008, in the midst of the subprime crisis, a manager with the student-run Darden Capital Management fund, wants to evaluate whether Comerica Incorporated, a regional bank based in D... Read More
A Supreme Case of Coolness?
M-1006 | Published August 26, 2020 | 13 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case uses Supreme, a skater-clothing brand from New York City, and a framework for understanding the concept of "coolness" (see "A General Theory of Coolness," UVA-M-0953), which is the cornersto... Read More
Philips: Developing a Marketing Strategy for LED Bulbs
M-1033 | Published March 14, 2023 | 8 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Philips, the Dutch multinational conglomerate, is assessing whether to enter the business-to-consumer (B2C) LED lightbulb market in the United States. Philips has already been serving the business-to-... Read More
Social Security and the Threat to US Safety Nets
GEM-0234 | Published December 18, 2024 | 11 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
During a discussion in October 2024, Javin Dana and Elias Patrick began contemplating the potential collapse of the US social safety net. They knew that the projections for Social Security, Medicare, ... Read More
Crypto Winter Buries Celsius Network and Batters DeFi
F-2027 | Published February 14, 2023 | 20 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In July 2022, Celsius Network (Celsius), a cryptocurrency (crypto) network, filed for bankruptcy. Celsius was a “crypto bank”: it took deposits in cryptos such as Bitcoin and Ether, promising a sizabl... Read More
Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund: Push and Pull Over GP/LP Compensation
F-1628 | Published August 08, 2011 | 18 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The case is designed to explore the structure and rationale behind the standard compensation arrangements in the private equity (PE) industry. It effectively introduces students to commonly used terms... Read More
Grand Metropolitan PLC
F-1019 | Published December 14, 1992 | 23 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In April 1992, this multinational consumer foods and beverages company is the focus of takeover rumors, which have prompted an assessment of the firm's returns. The student must choose among the princ... Read More
Perils of Collaboration (A)
OB-1165 | Published February 28, 2010 | 4 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. A doctoral studen... Read More
Western Asset Arbitrage
F-1577 | Published April 23, 2009 | 18 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The case introduces students to the nature of collateralized debt obligations (CDO) and the CDO origination process, with emphasis on the corporate structure of the special purpose vehicles, cash flow... Read More
Which Kaptein to Choose? The Havoysund Fleet Question
E-0419 | Published | 9 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Olaf Tryggvason, owner of a fleet of fishing ships in a small northern Norwegian town, has been offered and has accepted a reality television deal about the fleet to create a show along the lines of "... Read More
The Financial Cockpit: Three Levers and One Flight Plan
C-2313 | Published July 29, 2010 | 5 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case focuses on the use and interpretation of the DuPont model financial ratios, in particular the following four: return on sales, asset turnover, financial leverage, and return on equity. Stude... Read More
Dollar Tree Logistics
OM-1180 | Published July 01, 2005 | 17 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case explores the decision of a fast-growing company to expand its distribution network. Financial information is provided in it so students can understand the basic distribution network design c... Read More
Sullair: Redefining Its Channel of Distribution
M-0772 | Published April 21, 2009 | 16 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case examines the interplay between Sullair, an air compressor manufacturer, and its channel of distribution. Unlike the two market leaders, Sullair has chosen not to compete with its distributor... Read More
The Global Software Team: Jugaad Needed
OB-1054 | Published June 23, 2014 | 3 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The Global Networks Company (GNC), headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, made its global footprint in India in 1994 by establishing a presence in Bangalore. Although mainly a sales support office, G... Read More
The Walt Disney Company: Mickey Mouse Visits Shanghai
OM-1545 | Published February 10, 2016 | 11 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The strategic and tactical problems of managing the operations function in a service environment can be examined through the context of the Walt Disney Company (DIS) opening Shanghai Disneyland. The c... Read More
Larry Puglia and the T. Rowe Price Blue Chip Growth Fund
F-1772 | Published June 12, 2017 | 20 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Set in late 2016, this case recounts the remarkable performance record of Blue Chip Growth Fund (BCGF), a mutual fund managed by Larry Puglia at T. Rowe Price, Inc. The case describes the investment s... Read More
BW Manufacturing Company
C-2294 | Published July 08, 2009 | 5 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
A small manufacturer of gas grills is making final changes to its 2009 operating budget and considering several changes in pricing, advertising, and product availability. This short case addresses the... Read More
Target Corporation
F-1563 | Published | 19 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Students are in the role of Target Corporation's CFO considering the pros and cons of a variety of capital-investment proposals. The CFO is preparing his thoughts prior to a meeting of the Capital Exp... Read More
Cougars Cub Club: Burger Bell
QA-0662 | Published July 22, 2005 | 7 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Burger Bell is in the midst of discussions regarding the sponsorship by Burger Bell of the Cougars Cub Club. Negotiations are nearly complete, but eight issues remain before the contract can be signed... Read More
Rebalancing the Russell Indices: Beta and Volatility
F-1938 | Published July 27, 2021 | 8 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case examines the role of beta and volatility in assessing the risk of a portfolio. Students assume the role of a fund manager who is adjusting their portfolio in response to the 2014 reconstitut... Read More
The Weekend that Changed Wall Street
F-1587 | Published July 14, 2009 Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case examines the causes and consequences of the Lehman Brothers bankruptcy during one of the most fascinating weekends in financial history. It's about the commercial paper market, a major fundi... Read More
The Sudden Implosion of Silicon Valley Bank
F-2061 | Published October 31, 2023 | 32 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
On March 10, 2023, Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) went into receivership. At the time, it was the second-largest US bank failure in history. What happened? The case briefly describes the story of SVB, from... Read More
Bellaire Clinical Labs, Inc. (A)
C-2178 | Published July 23, 2004 | 6 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case exposes students to the process of creating an operating plan. In addition, it introduces the concept of flexible expense budgeting. It may be used as a stand-alone case on budgeting, or it ... Read More
Regina Broadband's Earnings Conference Call (A)
C-2367 | Published March 17, 2014 | 8 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Rhonda Magee, a new employee at Regina Broadband, was tasked to prepare slides for the company's next earnings conference call. The company had seen good growth through acquisitions, but now was pursu... Read More
Cougars Cub Club: Charlotte Cougars
QA-0661 | Published July 22, 2005 | 7 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The Charlotte Cougars are in the midst of discussions regarding the sponsorship by Burger Bell of the Cougars Cub Club. Negotiations are nearly complete, but eight issues remain before the contract ca... Read More
Ben & Jerry's Homemade
F-1364 | Published September 13, 2001 | 14 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case examines issues of asset control for Ben & Jerry's Homemade, Inc., in light of the outstanding takeover offers by Chartwell Investments, Dreyer's Grand, Unilever, and Meadowbrook Lane Capita... Read More
International Speedway Corporation
C-2222 | Published January 03, 2004 | 17 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
International Speedway Corporation was diversified across the racing industry. The company owned and operated (1) Motor Racing Network, Inc. (MRN Radio) the nation's largest independent sports radio n... Read More
Airinit: Clearing the Accounting Air
C-2442 | Published January 26, 2024 | 9 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The fictional company Airinit, now a division of the conglomerate ArgentAxis Holdings (AAH) after a recent merger, manufactures air fresheners, and at the start of the year it planned to generate a he... Read More
Giving Voice to Values: Annotated Table of Contents
OB-1127 | Published February 28, 2010 | 38 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. GVV is an innovati... Read More
Rhonda Delgado and the Compromised CEO (A)
OB-1168 | Published February 28, 2010 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. In this case, the ... Read More
Danaher—The Making of a Conglomerate
BP-0549 | Published March 31, 2010 | 26 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Prudential Equity Group had downgraded Danaher to underweight status, citing concerns over its inadequate organic growth. By March 2009, its CEO wondered how to keep growing a company that faced chang... Read More
North Mountain Nursery, Inc.: Statement of Cash Flow
C-2259 | Published June 12, 2007 | 3 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
After interviewing for the position of chief financial officer at a small business, North Mountain Nursery, John Powers decides to look at its financial statements for 2006. Discovering that there is ... Read More
Defining Moments: Whom Should We Promote?
OB-1301 | Published December 12, 2019 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
A senior manager of marketing and sales at a large medical devices firm has convened his team to help him choose a new manager that will be capable of attracting new business and promoting overall rev... Read More
California's Affordable Housing Crisis
GEM-0194 | Published August 30, 2021 | 27 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This public-sourced case uses the California housing crisis to analyze economic policy in an environment featuring a rising cost of living and shrinking affordable housing options. The case discusses ... Read More
Dare to Experiment: The Scientific Approach to Consumer Behavior
M-0951 | Published August 02, 2017 | 4 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This is a collection of four caselets that aim to provide a rich discussion around why experimentation in business is important and how it can be properly designed to improve short-term tactical and l... Read More
Tesla, Inc.: Supercharging Auto Sales
QA-0915 | Published June 10, 2020 | 14 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case describes the situation of Tesla, Inc. (Tesla), in mid-2019. Tesla had just successfully launched the more affordable Model 3, but sales of the most expensive and profitable Models X and S w... Read More
SmartOps Corporation: Forging Smart Alliances?
M-0797 | Published March 18, 2011 | 11 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
After creating a market for his "new to the world" product and a significant partnership with the German-based SAP, Sridhar Tayur had an opportunity to take the partnership with SAP to another level b... Read More
LVMH: The Tiffany Acquisition
F-2013 | Published April 22, 2022 | 27 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case set considers the acquisition of American jewelry icon Tiffany & Co. (Tiffany) by French luxury goods manufacturer LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton (LVMH). While this case can effectively be... Read More
The Garden Place
C-2150 | Published April 12, 2000 | 3 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Revised version of UVA-C-0736. This case uses projected transactions for the first day and first year of a start-up business as a basis for preparing journal entries, T-accounts, and projected financ... Read More
The Financial Detective, 2005
F-1486 | Published November 17, 2005 | 4 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The case presents the student with financial ratios for eight pairs of unidentified companies and asks them to mate the description of the company with the financial profile derived from the ratios. T... Read More
Great Lakes: Great Decisions (A)
E-0325 | Published August 18, 2008 | 10 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
One of the few remaining producers of lead additives must decide whether to continue producing them for use abroad. Banned in the United States, lead additives were still legal in developing nations. ... Read More
Orion Controls (A)
QA-0602 | Published November 01, 2002 Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Avion is interested in a new valve to manage the highly volatile phenol in its production process. Avion and Orion strike a deal for Orion to try to produce these valves. There are time, engineering, ... Read More
Apple Inc.: An Application of Financial Analysis, 2003–2018
C-2420 | Published December 21, 2018 | 11 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Since its launch out of a garage in 1976, Apple Inc. had transformed from a computer-manufacturing company to the undisputed leader in diversified consumer electronics and media. Unparalleled financia... Read More
OptiGuard, Inc.: Series A–Round Term Sheet
F-1798 | Published July 21, 2017 | 17 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
"OptiGuard. Inc.: Series A–Round Term Sheet" focuses on an entrepreneur in the cybersecurity industry who is attempting raise a first round of venture financing in November 2015. To date, the firm has... Read More
The Body Shop International PLC 2001: An Introduction to Financial Modeling
F-1349 | Published October 08, 2001 | 17 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In this case the student is cast into the role of adviser to Anita Roddick, the managing director of The Body Shop. The student must prepare a three-year forecast of the firm’s income statement and ba... Read More
Buckeye Power & Light Company Supplement (Excel Solver)
QA-0490 | Published July 18, 1996 | 11 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Buckeye Power & Light Company (BP&L) has recently retained the services of a consulting firm to analyze aspects of its operations. This supplement contains the consultant's report, which includes an o... Read More
Sprigg Lane (A)
QA-0372 | Published April 05, 1988 | 12 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The president of a natural-resource exploration company has to decide whether to invest in a new drilling opportunity. He already has a spreadsheet that projects the most likely scenario for the well ... Read More
Zoom's Moment of Truth: Scaling Under Radical Uncertainty
GEM-0236 | Published March 25, 2025 | 6 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
It is March 2020, and Zoom Video Communications, Inc. (Zoom), is experiencing a staggering increase in users of its software due to the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. This case begins as Eric Yuan, f... Read More
Lisa Walker in Saudi Arabia
E-0435 | Published April 13, 2020 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Lisa Walker, a Wharton MBA graduate, was assigned to work in Saudi Arabia as part of her position at JPMorgan Chase. Walker has some trepidation, given Saudi Arabia's posture toward women. Initially, ... Read More
Global Asset Allocation: Whither the U.S. Dollar?
F-1591 | Published June 16, 2009 | 28 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Fully updated through end-2016, this case is an in-depth study of long-run issues facing the U.S. dollar. Couched in terms of a pension fund manager having to make an international asset allocation de... Read More
Bidding For Hertz: Leveraged Buyout
F-1560 | Published February 17, 2008 | 19 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case and its companion, UVA-F-1561, were awarded the 2012 Wachovia Award for Excellence in Teaching Materials - Innovative Case. In August 2005, The Carlyle Group and its partners (Clayton, Dubil... Read More
Starting Assumptions for Giving Voice to Values
OB-1108 | Published February 28, 2010 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. In this case, the... Read More
A Pig in a Poke? Shuanghui’s Acquisition of Smithfield
S-0330 | Published July 22, 2020 | 10 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case stars Long Wan, chairman and CEO of Shuanghui International (Shuanghui), as he works through the postmerger integration of the newly acquired US-based Smithfield Foods (Smithfield). Wan must... Read More
Choosing the Right Metrics for Listerine Brand Management in Brazil
M-0902 | Published April 21, 2016 | 11 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Ronaldo Art, brand manager for J&J's Listerine, reflected on the progress he had made in market penetration for the oral hygiene product from the time he started in the position in 2010 to late 2014. ... Read More
Ferrari: The 2015 Initial Public Offering
F-1775 | Published January 11, 2017 | 20 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case examines the October 2015 initial public offering pricing decision for legendary Italian sports car company Ferrari by Fiat Chrysler management. Students are invited to model the value of F... Read More
Alliance Concrete
F-1527 | Published May 02, 2007 | 7 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
While preparing a financial forecast, the newly promoted CFO of a small and profitable but financially constrained ready-mix concrete company must choose between renegotiating debt obligations, postpo... Read More
Ben & Jerry's and Unilever: The Bohemian and the Behemoth
BP-0471 | Published January 30, 2004 | 11 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Ben & Jerry/Unilever raises the issues of (1) how to bring a nonbusiness culture (B&J) into a corporate culture (Unilever) while preserving the value acquired; (2) how to manage a recently acquired su... Read More
Panera Bread Company
F-1575 | Published December 31, 2008 | 7 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
As 2007 drew to a close, Panera Bread Company faced a new challenge. To date, it had relied on retained earnings and minor equity infusions to finance operations. But a decline in margins would limit ... Read More
Iskall Arno, Inc. (Abridged)
F-0814 | Published March 28, 1991 | 37 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case condenses "Iskall Arno (A) and (B)" (F-0780 and F-0781) for teaching in one class period. The senior managers of this company are reviewing 12 capital-expenditure proposals and because of a ... Read More
The Business Valuation (A)
OB-1407 | Published | 3 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case set is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. Isabel is a you... Read More
Netflix Moves into Ad-Supported Streaming: Cause for Concern or a Normal Transition?
S-0408 | Published August 31, 2023 | 13 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
As of 2023, Netflix is the largest streaming-video provider. However, it faces increased competition, as well as slower growth in subscriptions, which have caused it to reconsider its past practices. ... Read More
Roku, Inc.: Initial Public Offering
F-1855 | Published August 07, 2019 | 19 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In September 2017, a senior portfolio manager at Portland Capital Management had all her attention focused on the upcoming initial public offering (IPO) of Roku, Inc. The company had just updated its ... Read More
The Oxcel Endowment and Socially Responsible Investing
F-1659 | Published September 06, 2011 | 6 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
College trustees are considering investing a portion of the endowment in a socially responsible investment fund. Recent market events and the poor performance of the endowment have caused the trustees... Read More
Correcting Sight and Accounting at LCA-Vision Inc.
C-2413 | Published July 16, 2018 | 11 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case provides students with an opportunity to decide how to respond to an SEC inquiry and how to communicate adverse news. It does so in the context of accounting for separately priced extended w... Read More
Brown-Forman Distillers Corporation
F-0541 | Published March 28, 1983 | 16 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Brown-Forman Distillers Corporation (BFD) president faces important acquisition decision as Southern Comfort Corporation approaches him to buy their company. BFD's president must evaluate the feasibil... Read More
Japan's Economics: Abenomics from the Front and Rearview Mirrors
GEM-0150 | Published | 15 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
When Kazuo Ueda took the reins as governor of the Bank of Japan (BOJ) in April 2023, he signaled that he would continue the ultra-loose monetary policy that had characterized Japan’s central bank for ... Read More
Sparking Ideas for Crafting a "Culture of Care"
G-0651 | Published May 20, 2021 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Many, if not most, organizational leaders want to be viewed as concerned for and thoughtful toward their people. Not all, however, manifest that desire in observable or meaningful ways. This case pres... Read More
Rockwood Specialties: High-Yield Debt Issue
F-1447 | Published July 07, 2004 | 23 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In November 2000, Kohlberg, Kravis, and Roberts (KKR) purchased Rockwood Specialties, Inc., a specialty chemicals company, in a $1.2 billion buyout. Spurred by the favorable market conditions in the f... Read More
Bob's Baloney
F-1942 | Published March 18, 2020 | 6 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case examines the financial performance of Bob’s Baloney, a leader in the ultrapremium bologna market. While the business appears to be doing well with respect to most of its stakeholders, its la... Read More
The Roommates' Decision
QA-0846 | Published April 21, 2016 | 3 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is designed for use in undergraduate courses that cover negotiation skills and organizational behavior. Its relatable context and integrated lessons fits well within modules on multiperson s... Read More
Building a Giving Voice to Values Toolkit: Enablers for Voicing Values—an Ongoing Exercise
OB-1186 | Published February 28, 2010 | 4 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. This exercise p... Read More
Private Debt and a University's Endowment Portfolio Decision
F-2108 | Published May 27, 2025 | 12 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This fictional case is written from the perspective of Benjamin Owens, an investment director at Blue Ridge Mountain University (BRMU). Owens is a member of the investment team that manages the school... Read More
The Walt Disney Company: 100-Year Bonds—Sleeping Beauties?
F-1063 | Published January 03, 1994 | 15 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Disney has issued a 100-year bond, and an investment analyst is trying to value it. Duration, credit risk, and term structure are all important concepts that are used in the analysis of the case.... Read More
PepsiCo: The Challenge of Growth Through Innovation
S-0133 | Published March 18, 2002 | 22 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This corporate strategy case shows how PepsiCo stopped worrying about competing with Coca-Cola, figured out what its real business was, and decided how to build its future. Redefining itself as a beve... Read More
Ratios Tell a Story—2023
C-2480 | Published May 01, 2024 | 5 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This short, engaging case challenges students to review a series of corporate financial metrics and match them to one of 13 listed industries. As such, students are to use their intuition and common s... Read More
Flipkart: Reimagining the Digital Customer Experience
M-1047 | Published March 13, 2024 | 23 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This field-based case recounts the story of two executives facing a critical decision at Walmart-backed, India-based Flipkart Online Services Private Limited (Flipkart), an expanding e-commerce compan... Read More
Portland Trail Blazers
M-0773 | Published April 03, 2009 | 10 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Designed to teach conjoint analysis, this case challenges students to make tactical decisions based on marketing research. It should be paired with the technical note "A Practical Guide to Conjoint An... Read More
WeWork: But Does the Corporate Governance Work?
S-0350 | Published April 30, 2021 | 14 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This public-sourced case describes the lapses in board oversight that led to the dramatic rise and fall of collaborative office space company WeWork and its charismatic leader, Adam Neumann. The case ... Read More
OYO Hotels USA: Coming to America
OM-1641 | Published | 18 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case studies the growth of OYO Hotels (OYO) to illustrate the operational processes necessary to succeed in the service sector. The case allows for a discussion of employee- and customer-manageme... Read More
Guidelines for Peer Coaching
OB-1188 | Published February 28, 2010 | 3 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. This set of quest... Read More
Warren E. Buffett, 1995
F-1160 | Published October 11, 1996 | 17 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Set in August 1995, this case enables students to assess Berkshire Hathaway's bid for the 49.6% of GEICO Corporation that it does not already own. Students perform a simple valuation of GEICO shares, ... Read More
Agency Theory and Corporate Governance
OB-1133 | Published February 28, 2010 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. Giving Voice to... Read More
Wachovia Bank & Trust Company, N.A. (B): Piedmont Operations Center Scheduling
OM-0664 | Published April 10, 1989 | 4 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The manager of the bank's proof department has to decide how many part-time hours to schedule for the upcoming week. To do this, he must develop a forecast of the number of checks to be processed base... Read More
Deutsche Bank Restart: Goodbye Goldman Sachs of Europe?
F-1934 | Published February 26, 2020 | 28 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This public-sourced case describes the latest restructuring efforts by Deutsche Bank (DB) and gives a short history of prior restructuring efforts from the decade before. In July 2019, Christian Sewin... Read More
Team Conflict: The "Chatty" Accusation at the Customer Support Call Center
OB-1046 | Published January 28, 2013 | 4 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is used in Darden's core "Leading Organizations" course and is appropriate for MBA, Executive MBA, GEMBA, and executive education programs. The manager of a baby product company's global c... Read More
UCB Gets a New Office: Leading Change through a Pandemic
OB-1397 | Published | 28 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In this field-based case, Nate Bennett, the global head of biostatistics and programming, rare disease, at UCB, Inc. (UCB), chairs the Raleigh site leadership team, which helps manage all 250 UCB empl... Read More
Robinhood: Welcome to the New Wall Street?
F-2062 | Published March 07, 2024 | 20 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Serena Khan, a fictional analyst at an investment management firm, was tasked with evaluating a potential investment in Robinhood Markets, Inc. in March 2023. Known for its sleek interface and zero-co... Read More
How Business Schools and Faculty Can Use the Giving Voice to Values Curriculum
OB-1189 | Published February 28, 2010 | 5 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This note is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. This note explain... Read More
The Wells Fargo Commercial Banking Scandal
C-2394 | Published April 25, 2017 | 12 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
On October 25, 2016, Timothy J. Sloan, the new CEO of Wells Fargo bank, apologized to 1,200 of his employees in Charlotte, North Carolina. Sloan had been named to the company's top position two weeks ... Read More
Mauboussin Japan: A French Gem in Asia
M-0853 | Published August 13, 2013 | 18 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
As marketers love to teach students, differentiation must be the focal point of marketing strategy. But what happens when a firm's competitive set is shared by similar customers, perceived differentia... Read More
Policy Responses to Modern Economic Crises
GEM-0182 | Published September 23, 2020 | 17 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In March 2020, Jay Powell, Federal Reserve (Fed) chairperson, faced a daunting prospect that only a few months prior seemed like a remote possibility: massive expansion of the Fed’s balance sheet. Ove... Read More
James Bowman and Coopertree Capital in China
E-0370 | Published January 17, 2012 | 4 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
James Bowman, a founding partner of a New York private equity fund manager has traveled to China to meet with a China Power Investment Corporation manager in the hope of cultivating a business relatio... Read More
Warren E. Buffett, 2005
F-1483 | Published November 17, 2005 | 20 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In May 2005, Warren Buffett, the chair and chief executive officer of Berkshire Hathaway Inc., announced that MidAmerican Energy Holdings Company, a subsidiary of Berkshire Hathaway, would acquire the... Read More
Theranos: “Fake It till You Make It”?
F-2099 | Published January 29, 2025 | 13 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is about the rise and fall of Theranos Inc. (Theranos), a private company founded by Elizabeth Holmes to revolutionize the blood-testing industry. Holmes dreamed of a world where blood tests... Read More
Christie's: The Art of Lending
F-2065 | Published January 22, 2024 | 21 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case study focuses on the emergence of art finance, a way to provide liquidity to art collectors by structuring loans using works of art as collateral. Sayuri Ganepola, global managing director o... Read More
Lac Leman Festival de la Musique (A)
QA-0707 | Published September 11, 2007 | 4 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The organizers of a music festival may use video from the Friday concert to create a DVD to sell to those who come to the Saturday concert. Attendance on Saturday is uncertain, as is the percentage of... Read More
A Personal Struggle with the Definition of Success
OB-1103 | Published February 28, 2010 | 4 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. The author discus... Read More
Ratios Tell a Story—2021
C-2456 | Published June 16, 2022 | 5 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This short, engaging case challenges students to review a series of corporate financial metrics and match them to one of 13 listed industries. As such, students are to use their intuition and common s... Read More
James R. Steiner
M-0419 | Published October 13, 1993 Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
A medical supplies sales representative discusses how to identify potential managers and what he considers to be an organization's responsibility for developing its people. This interview offers stude... Read More
Chestnut Foods (A)
F-1736 | Published August 06, 2015 | 9 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
After a period of poor stock-market performance, conglomerate Chestnut Foods (Chestnut) faces the acquisition of its stock by an activist investor. The new investor demands the sale of Chestnut’s high... Read More
Citrix Systems, Inc.: A Fight Worth Fighting?
F-2049 | Published July 18, 2023 | 24 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In December 2021, Valiant Capital Partners (VCP) is in the middle of bidding for Citrix Systems, Inc. (Citrix), to take the company private via a leveraged buyout (LBO). The auction of the renowned de... Read More
Johnson Beverage, Inc.
C-2292 | Published March 02, 2009 Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Jack Johnson, owner of Johnson Beverage, has just received notice that one of his largest and most loyal customers may want to negotiate a lower price for its product purchases. Information compiled b... Read More
American Greetings
F-1693 | Published March 28, 2013 | 14 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is used in Darden's FY Finance course, but it would be appropriate in any course introducing firm valuation. The case examines the 2012 decision by American Greetings (AG) to repurchase shar... Read More
Roche Holding AG: Funding the Genentech Acquisition
F-1645 | Published March 22, 2011 | 16 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case examines the decision by the Swiss pharmaceutical Roche Holding AG (Roche) to offer a record $42 billion bond in February 2009. In light of a pending acquisition of US biotechnology leader G... Read More
Genzyme and Relational Investors: Science and Business Collide?
F-1660 | Published February 12, 2011 | 25 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The chairman and CEO of the Genzyme Corporation, one of the country's top five biotechnology firms, has received a phone call requesting a meeting with the cofounder and principal of a large activist ... Read More
Scandia Steel AB: Kaj Johansson
QA-0361 | Published April 05, 1987 | 4 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case provides the background for one participant in a contract negotiation regarding price, duration, and exclusivity.... Read More
Bizzy Coffee
F-2047 | Published August 15, 2023 | 14 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case explores the common cash-flow challenges that start-up businesses face as they straddle the conflicting objectives of business growth and cash preservation. In August 2022, Alex French, the ... Read More
The Investment Detective
F-0813 | Published March 28, 1988 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Students must evaluate eight projects' cash flows and rank the projects in terms of their economic attractiveness. Students can use all possible criteria [net present value (NPV), internal rate of ret... Read More
FinePrint Company (Abridged)
C-2298 | Published September 20, 2009 | 3 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
John Johnson, owner of FinePrint Company, is presented with two opportunities to consider: (1) whether to accept a one-time special printing order, and (2) whether to outsource some of his printing to... Read More
TV Advertising Pricing at Regional Broadcast Network (A)
QA-0966 | Published January 04, 2024 | 9 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Eric Hughes, advertising sales manager at Regional Broadcast Network (RBN), needs to avoid a takeover by increasing revenue from ad sales. Currently, ad plans are created for advertisers by combining ... Read More
Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc.
F-1479 | Published November 14, 2005 | 16 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case considers the sudden and very large drop in the market value of equity for Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, Inc., associated with a series of announcements in 2004. These announcements caused investo... Read More
Saks Fifth Avenue: Project Evolution
S-0244 | Published October 21, 2014 | 21 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is used in Darden's first-year strategy course and is appropriate for MBA, Executive MBA, GEMBA, and executive education programs. The head of strategy for a well-known fashion retailer, Sak... Read More
Akron Crane Works: The Insourcing Proposal
F-1839 | Published April 23, 2018 | 6 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The Tower and Lattice division of Akron Crane Works is considering investing in a small machine shop in order to insource production of a wide range of small parts. The purpose is to lower costs and a... Read More
Baker Adhesives
F-1516 | Published January 25, 2007 | 5 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
A small adhesives company faces exchange rate risks as it makes its first foray into international sales. The receipt of payment from an unhedged foreign-currency-denominated past sale illustrates pot... Read More
A Billing Bind (A)
OB-1140 | Published February 28, 2010 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. This case introduc... Read More
Genzyme/Geltex Pharmaceuticals Joint Venture
F-1254 | Published April 20, 1999 | 12 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In March 1997, an executive vice president of Genzyme Corporation must develop the terms by which the $518 billion (revenue) firm will form a joint venture with a small biotechnology firm to make and ... Read More
Blue Ridge Bike and Hike
F-1749 | Published February 08, 2016 | 5 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
A small chain of retail stores selling outdoors equipment, Blue Ridge Bike and Hike (Blue Ridge) was expanding rapidly. The finance manager had to develop a financial plan for accommodating this growt... Read More
Bill Miller and Value Trust
F-1481 | Published November 14, 2005 | 17 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Set in the autumn of 2005, this case recounts the remarkable performance record of Value Trust, a mutual fund managed by William H. "Bill" Miller III at Legg Mason, Inc. The case describes the investm... Read More
Rockboro Machine Tools Corporation
F-1765 | Published December 14, 2016 | 15 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In mid-September 2015, Sara Larson, the chief financial officer of this large CAD/CAM (computer-aided design and manufacturing) equipment manufacturer must decide whether to pay out dividends to the f... Read More
Discussions about Ethics in the Accounting Classroom: Student Assumptions and Faculty Paradigms
OB-1187 | Published February 28, 2010 | 20 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. This reading explo... Read More
Compressor Corporation, Inc.: Pat Divso
QA-0360 | Published April 05, 1987 | 4 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
You are Pat Divso, a senior purchasing agent of Compressor Corporation, Inc. (CCI). You have been given a major purchasing assignment to find a solution to the deadlocked price negotiations with Scand... Read More
H. J. Heinz: Estimating the Cost of Capital in Uncertain Times
F-1634 | Published August 11, 2010 | 8 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Given recent changes in market conditions and ongoing market uncertainty, an internal financial analyst at Heinz must estimate the company's weighted average cost of capital (WACC). Data for both Hein... Read More
Whole Foods Market: The Deutsche Bank Report
F-1776 | Published January 27, 2017 | 13 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case follows the financial-statement forecasting decisions of a Deutsche Bank research analyst for the natural and organic retailer Whole Foods Market in May 2014. Students evaluate the associate... Read More
PepsiCo, Inc.: Cost of Capital
F-0981 | Published September 04, 1991 | 12 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
A Wall Street Journal article states, "At PepsiCo, Inc., cola was king, but it is quietly being dethroned." PepsiCo is composed of three lines of business: soft drinks, restaurants, and snack foods. U... Read More
Island Learning Systems Ben Garrison: CEO
OB-0707 | Published August 18, 2000 | 5 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The key figure in the case has been CEO for several years. The organization has improved over that time. The CEO has received very negative feedback from an employee attitude survey. What does he do w... Read More
Impact Makers (A): The Newman's Own of Management Consulting
F-1797 | Published June 30, 2017 | 25 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case requires students to evaluate alternative dual-share-class corporate structures that allow companies and entrepreneurs to pursue profit with purpose. The case explores Impact Makers, an IT c... Read More
Dozier Industries (A)
F-0745 | Published March 28, 1986 | 8 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case deals with the origins of exchange rate risk and offers an introduction to hedging techniques. The case emphasizes the relationship between interest rates and exchange rates. Students are in... Read More
CSR Passion and Beliefs (A)
OB-1145 | Published February 28, 2015 | 4 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. Giving Voice to V... Read More
Southwest Airlines: Cutting through the Storm (A)
OB-1452 | Published March 06, 2024 | 10 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Winter Storm Elliott was a major storm system that grounded air travel across the United States in the days before and after Christmas of 2022. While other major airlines recovered quickly and got pas... Read More
The Missing Money (A)
OB-1115 | Published February 28, 2010 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. Giving Voice to Va... Read More
Teletech Corporation, 2005
F-1485 | Published November 17, 2005 | 15 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case serves as part of an introduction to estimating investors’ required rates of return. It should follow one or two class sessions covering the techniques for estimating WACC. The numerical cal... Read More
You Can't Tell Anyone (A)
OB-1405 | Published | 5 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case set is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. Tom Patton is... Read More
Leading Change at PPF Corporation (A)
BP-0498 | Published September 12, 2008 | 6 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The A case begins with the arrival of a new leader at a troubled firm. Faced with a myriad of issues about both the leadership and the strategy of the organization, Stephen Oswald must prioritize what... Read More
Research Affiliates
F-1662 | Published January 20, 2012 | 22 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Towers Watson (TW) has always conducted its own research into alternative approaches to market cap investing. A senior investment consultant with TW, impressed by a recent presentation by the CIO of R... Read More
Tyson Recalls 30,000 Pounds of Frozen Chicken Nuggets (B)
BC-0309 | Published September 23, 2024 | 3 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case, a follow-up to “Tyson Recalls 30,000 Pounds of Frozen Chicken Nuggets (A)” (UVA-BC-0308), follows up on Tyson Foods, Inc., after its frozen chicken nugget recall. The authors recommend dist... Read More
Fidelity Magellan Fund, 1995
F-1126 | Published October 30, 1995 | 16 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case reviews the financial performance of the Fidelity Magellan Fund up to mid-1995. In essence, the Magellan Fund has managed to "beat the market" over time under three different fund managers d... Read More
Framing a Life Story: An Exercise
OB-1105 | Published February 15, 2010 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. Sometimes the hard... Read More
Leading Change at PPF Corporation (B)
BP-0499 | Published September 12, 2008 | 5 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The B case continues the story of Stephen Oswald's leadership by examining the actions he took during his first three years at the corporation. See also the A case (UVA-BP-0498).... Read More
Polaroid Corporation, 1996
F-1181 | Published April 04, 1997 | 20 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case puts the student in the shoes of the recently appointed treasurer of Polaroid Corporation, who must consider several matters concerning the firm's debt policy. An immediate concern is the co... Read More
Godrej Properties Limited Leading Strategic Transformation in Indian Real Estate Markets
IIMA-BP0443 | Published June 12, 2020 | 25 pages Case
Collection: Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
The case documents the strategic transformation of Godrej Properties Limited and highlights tensions within the organization... Read More
AutoZone, Inc.
F-1672 | Published July 27, 2012 | 16 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The case can be taught in an introductory corporate finance course or to more experienced students or executives to spur a discussion about share repurchases and corporate financial strategies in gene... Read More
Coke versus Pepsi, 2001
F-1340 | Published September 21, 2001 | 16 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Set in December 2000, immediately following the merger announcement between PepsiCo Inc. and the Quaker Oats Company, this case asks students to examine the implications of the merger for the rivalry ... Read More
The Leverage of L’Oréal
F-2109 | Published | 20 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case examines the question of financial leverage for French beauty and personal care company L’Oréal S.A. (L’Oréal) in October 2021. With an historical aversion to debt and a highly profitable b... Read More
Fonderia del Piemonte S.p.A.
F-1764 | Published October 21, 2016 | 3 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The managing director of this specialty foundry must decide whether to approve a major investment to automate part of her plant's production process. The case presents information sufficient to build ... Read More
The Restructuring of Danfurn LLC
F-1688 | Published January 22, 2013 | 10 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
"This case is taught at the University of Virginia McIntire School of Commerce in the fourth year course, ""Corporate Restructuring."" The case is suitable for advanced undergraduates or MBS students ... Read More
Lac Leman Festival de la Musique (B)
QA-0708 | Published September 11, 2007 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The organizers of a music festival may use video from the Friday concert to create a DVD to sell to those who come to the Saturday concert. Attendance on Saturday is uncertain, as is the percentage of... Read More
Kota Fibres, Ltd.
F-1359 | Published January 31, 2001 | 16 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In January 2001, the chief executive of this small yarn-production company in India must resolve a surprising cash shortage. The task for the student is to evaluate the causes of this shortage (using ... Read More
Dominion Resources: Cove Point
F-1740 | Published September 16, 2015 | 15 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The treasurer for Dominion Resources Inc. (Dominion), a major U.S. diversified producer and distributor of energy, was heading to meet with the company’s investment bankers to discuss the impact of a ... Read More
Private Debt and a University's Endowment Portfolio Decision-NP Test
NA-1234 | Published June 17, 2025 | 2 Pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This fictional case is written from the perspective of Benjamin Owens, an investment director at Blue Ridge Mountain University (BRMU).... Read More
Saving Griffin
OM-1717 | Published March 15, 2021 | 14 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is designed to introduce general management students to applied digital transformation at the program level. The Griffin Program is a midsized but high-stakes program in the US Special Opera... Read More
Nestlé and Infant Formula: Revisiting a Dilemma
E-0524 | Published June 17, 2025 | 14 Pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In this case, the protagonist, one of the top marketing managers at Nestlé S.A. (Nestlé) responsible for marketing the company’s infant formula globally, must work with the marketing team to address c... Read More
Shamrock Capital: Pricing the Masters of Taylor Swift
F-2050 | Published July 28, 2023 | 21 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case examines a 2020 pricing decision for the master recordings of Taylor Swift’s first six albums in consideration of a sale of the recordings by music executive Scooter Braun to Shamrock Capita... Read More
Trader Joe's: Navigating the Changing Seas of an Evolving Industry
S-0412 | Published December 07, 2023 | 16 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Trader Joe’s, a specialized grocery retailer, occupies a successful niche market segment of selling highly valued, unique, and often quirky private-label-branded goods. Store locations, size, and in-s... Read More
Ethical Programming of Algorithms: How to Deal with Ethical Risks of AI Tools for Hiring Decisions? (B)
OB-1402 | Published August 08, 2022 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case set is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. Simon is a data... Read More
Fiscal Policy’s (In)direct Effects: Lobbying Priorities at Northrop Grumman
GEM-0232 | Published May 27, 2025 | 23 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In the lead-up to the 2024 US elections, Northrop Grumman CEO Keri Waller convenes her executive team to reassess the company’s lobbying priorities amid a shifting fiscal and political environment. Wi... Read More
The University of Virginia Health System (A): Creating a High-Reliability Organization
OM-1833 | Published May 19, 2025 | 22 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Tracey Hoke, MD, chief of quality and performance improvement for the University of Virginia Health System (UVAHS), is deciding how to better achieve organizational goals in safety and quality. UVAHS ... Read More
“Doing Bad to Do Good” (A)
OB-1146 | Published February 28, 2010 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. A consultant was a... Read More
Threshold Sports, LLC
F-1347 | Published September 21, 2001 | 27 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In June 2001, the owners of this small rapidly growing sports promotion firm are assessing the financing implications of their growth plans. Threshold Sports organizes professional cycling races, and ... Read More
What’s in a Name? Classifying Securities at Silicon Valley Bank
C-2470 | Published December 18, 2023 | 10 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
On March 17, 2023, Silicon Valley Bank Financial Group (SVBFG) declared bankruptcy. It had reported net income in 2022 of $1.6 billion, and KPMG had just signed the audit report for SVBFG on February ... Read More
Ballis's Benchmark (A)
F-1621 | Published February 04, 2011 | 9 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In this case series, Margaret Ballis, a soon-to-be Darden School of Business graduate, is about to begin her dream job at a leading investment management firm. On her way to becoming a fund manager, s... Read More
Helios Solar
F-2097 | Published January 15, 2025 | 19 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The case presents a procurement manager at a solar panel distributor and installer company, Helios Solar, with a dilemma on what supplier to use. Two different supply channels are characterized by dif... Read More
The Battle for Value, 2016: FedEx Corp. versus United Parcel Service, Inc.
F-1773 | Published February 13, 2017 | 17 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case invites students to assess the financial performance of FedEx Corp. and United Parcel Service, Inc., two firms that have long competed for dominance in the overnight delivery industry. The c... Read More
The Volkswagen Emissions Scandal
S-0267 | Published July 21, 2016 | 17 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In September 2015, VW had admitted to United States regulators that it had deliberately installed "defeat devices" in many of its diesel cars, which enabled the cars to cheat on federal and state emis... Read More
Snack Time with Generation Z
M-1032 | Published October 18, 2022 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case set draws on a summer internship in brand management to outline potential steps in bringing a new food product to life. While there are general guidelines to the new product (brand, grocery ... Read More
Flipkart: Leveraging Customer Analytics
M-1046 | Published | 5 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Flipkart is a large online retail platform operating in India. It seeks to use its promotional dollars more effectively by leveraging information generated by the data it collects on consumer purchase... Read More
Compass Records
F-1488 | Published September 12, 2005 | 12 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The cofounder of Compass Records, a small, independent music-recording company, must decide whether to "produce and own" the next album of an up-and-coming folk musician or simply "license" her finish... Read More
Ben & Jerry's Homemade, Inc. (A): Acquisition Suitors at the Door
E-0225 | Published March 13, 2001 | 21 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield were best friends and socially conscious entrepreneurs when they founded Ben & Jerry's Homemade in the 1970s in Burlington, Vermont. The company was well-known for being... Read More
Digital Dining Dilemma: EU Expansion
QA-0984 | Published May 20, 2025 | 6 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The case invites students to step into the role of Phoebe Gabris, a newly hired MBA graduate and senior analyst at Platr Inc., a US-based cloud point-of-sale (POS) provider for the restaurant industry... Read More
The Diversity Consultant (A)
OB-1124 | Published February 28, 2010 | 1 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. Giving Voice to V... Read More
The Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company: Capital Structure, Valuation, and Cost of Capital
F-1482 | Published November 15, 2005 | 11 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In June 2002, a managing director of an "active investor" hedge fund is considering the possible gains from increasing the debt capitalization of The Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company. Wrigley has been conserva... Read More
Gold as a Portfolio Diversifier: The World Gold Council and Investing in Gold
F-1675 | Published August 29, 2012 | 14 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is taught in Darden's Investments elective but could be used in introductory Finance classes to explore the concept of diversification of investments or in a portfolio management course as a... Read More
LVMH: The Scope of Luxury
S-0423 | Published | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Suitable for MBA-level classes, this is one of several short strategy-focused "live" cases that require students to collect data and information from public sources in order to do an analysis around d... Read More
Using AI to Assess Creative Concepts
M-1055 | Published August 07, 2024 | 11 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In this case, students use generative AI in a hands-on scenario to analyze its role in making creative decisions. Students assume the part of Julie Daum, the chief marketing and communications officer... Read More
Blue Apron: Has the Supply Chain Disrupter Been Disrupted?
OM-1769 | Published March 14, 2022 | 15 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This public-sourced case set in early 2022 explores the meal-kit-delivery service Blue Apron, a pioneer in the rapidly growing market of alternatives to shopping for food, meal planning, and cooking. ... Read More
Deutsche Bank and the Road to Basel III
F-1695 | Published April 02, 2013 | 19 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This public-sourced case was named the best finance case of 2013 in the 24th annual awards and competition sponsored by The Case Centre. It was designed for and works well in the latter portion of a G... Read More
Royal Mail plc: Cost of Capital
F-1774 | Published January 27, 2017 | 12 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case examines the cost of capital estimation for British postal service company Royal Mail plc in 2015—a time when company managers and government regulators were adjusting to private ownership a... Read More
Risk Exposure and Hedging
QA-0595 | Published September 10, 2002 | 11 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The concept of exposure, or uncertainty that matters, is developed as the target of hedging. Then, how to hedge that exposure--in particular, how to use regression analysis to obtain a hedging ratio--... Read More
Growth and Investments in Emerging Markets
GEM-0231 | Published December 16, 2024 | 33 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Investing in emerging markets (EMs) has been a cornerstone of globalization since the term was coined in the early 1980s. Capital flows to these fast-growing economies—through foreign direct investmen... Read More
Bitcoin 2023: Keep "Hodling"?
F-2048 | Published August 09, 2023 | 16 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case examines a fictional hedge fund manager's decision about whether to maintain his fund’s position in bitcoin. It provides an opportunity for students to develop an investment thesis for or ag... Read More
Tyson Recalls 30,000 Pounds of Frozen Chicken Nuggets (A)
BC-0308 | Published September 23, 2024 | 5 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case opens on November 4, 2023, with Yasmin Bello, head of media relations for Tyson Foods, Inc. (Tyson). Earlier that day, Tyson had issued a voluntary recall for its Fun Nuggets, breaded and fu... Read More
The Procter & Gamble Company: Investment in Crest Whitestrips Advanced Seal
F-1670 | Published July 27, 2012 | 12 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
A financial analyst for Procter & Gamble must report on the prospects and implications of a new teeth-whitening product. Beyond a realistic profit-and-loss forecast and baseline net present value, he ... Read More
Cutting-Edge Marketing Analytics: Cases and Technical Notes Bundle
M-0981 | Published October 08, 2019 | 220 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Cutting-Edge Marketing Analytics: Cases and Technical Notes Bundle is a collection of the original cases and technical notes that inspired the successful first-edition book. Covering an array of pract... Read More
Student Privileges with Strings Attached
OB-1174 | Published February 28, 2010 | 1 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. In this case, an u... Read More
FundingPartner: Navigating the Nordic Crowdlending Market
F-2087 | Published August 14, 2024 | 22 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In December 2023, Geir Atle Bore, the CEO of the Norwegian crowdlending platform FundingPartner, is evaluating the company’s growth strategies. Founded in 2018, FundingPartner provides loans to small ... Read More
ZS Associates: Refilling the Pipeline
OM-1775 | Published September 01, 2022 | 16 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
ZS Associates, a global consultancy, has been hired by the head of marketing at the global pharmaceutical firm Rensselaer to identify a promising strategy to protect and grow Rensselaer’s oncology bus... Read More
Hershey Foods Corporation: Bitter Times in a Sweet Place
F-1409 | Published June 10, 2004 | 20 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The proposed sale of Hershey Foods during the summer of 2002 captured headlines and imaginations. Six months after making its decision to explore a potential sale, the board of the Hershey Trust Compa... Read More
Monsanto Company
F-1597 | Published August 20, 2009 | 9 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Monsanto is facing an uncertain near-term financial outlook, and this case challenges students to generate an operating forecast (income statement and balance sheet operating accounts). The case natur... Read More
"This Whole System Seems Wrong": Felipe Montez and Concerns about the Global Supply Chain (SPANISH)
OB-1421 | Published August 28, 2022 | 3 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This is the Spanish translation of the September 20, 2016 version of UVA-OB-1128. This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please ... Read More
Boston Market
OM-0907 | Published April 26, 2000 Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Boston Market had risen through a spectacular period of growth from 32 stores to 1,200 restaurants by 1997. The growth strategies (financial, organizational, marketing, and operational) are described.... Read More
Rose Buys a House
F-1872 | Published June 26, 2019 | 20 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Rose is a single, 35-year-old social worker from Virginia who has decided to foster two small boys, with the goal of eventually adopting them. She lives in a two-bedroom apartment, which she knows doe... Read More
Bayern Brauerei
F-1027 | Published February 19, 1993 | 13 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
A new director of this small brewery must prepare to vote on three issues coming before the board of directors the next day: (1) approval of the financial plan for 1993, (2) quarterly dividend declara... Read More
Tostadas, Tortilla Chips, and Bank Loans: Wells Fargo and Salinas Y Salinas
S-0104 | Published September 16, 2003 | 22 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is designed to illustrate the methods that small-business lenders use to evaluate the creditworthiness of potential commercial borrowers. It is set in South Central Los Angeles, the commerci... Read More
GROUNDING OF THE BOEING 737 MAX 8 (A): WHAT WENT WRONG?
ISB283 | Published October 25, 2021 | 25 pages Case
Collection: Indian School of Business
In the short time between October 2018 and March 2019, two new Boeing 737 MAX 8 airplanes in different parts of the world were involved in deadly crashes.... Read More
Introduction to the Cost of Equity
F-0911 | Published March 29, 1990 | 8 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This note introduces the principal alternative methods for estimating the cost of equity, including the dividend growth model, the earnings capitalization model, and the CAPM.... Read More
JW Sports Supplies (A)
C-2402 | Published November 28, 2017 | 3 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
James Jones and William West started a company to make what they considered the ideal gym bag, one that would incorporate the features they both desired and that would be of a sufficient quality to wi... Read More
Ubiquitous Surveillance (A)
OB-1403 | Published July 08, 2022 | 4 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case set is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. In this A case,... Read More
The Financial Crisis of 2007–2009: The Road to Systemic Risk
F-1590 | Published July 07, 2009 | 16 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case invites students to evaluate, based on given materials, the causes, consequences, and potential resolutions of the financial crisis of 2007-2009. The premise of a business professor preparin... Read More
Ubiquitous Surveillance (B)
OB-1404 | Published July 08, 2022 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case set is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. In the A case, ... Read More
California Closets: Rethink, Rebuild (A)
OM-1810 | Published | 13 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In July 2021, Peer Nielsen, partner at the Business Improvement Group, was deciding how to improve manufacturing at California Closets. Although sales were expected to exceed current production by the... Read More
Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, 1995 (B)
F-1146 | Published July 09, 1996 | 18 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The B case (see also the A case, F-1145) describes the plan of the Equitable Companies to sell a 20 percent interest in Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette (DLJ) via an equity carve-out in an initial public ... Read More
DSC Communications Corporation
F-1071 | Published October 19, 1995 | 22 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case concerns a difficult credit decision for a company in a dynamic high-tech industry. It can be taught in an advanced MBA banking class or to executives as a comprehensive credit analysis. A B... Read More
Online Identities (A)
OB-1161 | Published February 28, 2010 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. Undergraduate publi... Read More
Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company
F-1607 | Published March 24, 2010 | 23 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Recommended for MBAs, this case is one of a pair of cases used in a merger negotiation exercise. It is designed to be used with "Mars, Incorporated" (UVA-F-1612), but it can also be used on its own. H... Read More
An Arbitrage Opportunity in the Futures Market: The ECB’s Quantitative Easing Program
F-2080 | Published August 28, 2024 | 14 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In early 2016, Tommaso de Marchi identified a potential arbitrage opportunity in the futures market due to the European Central Bank’s (ECB’s) quantitative easing (QE) program. The ECB’s bond purchase... Read More
Community Building: Advocacy and the Making of a Trauma Center at the University of Chicago
S-0465 | Published December 18, 2024 | 13 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case provides an overview of how community activists persuaded the University of Chicago Medical Center (UCMC) to open a Level 1 trauma center on its Hyde Park campus. Previously, the South Side ... Read More
GTSI Corporation: Mission Impossible? (B)
OB-0967 | Published May 04, 2009 | 18 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This undisguised case is appropriate for graduate-level organizational behavior, strategy, and leadership courses. Readers will be put in the shoes of a seasoned change agent hired to transform a publ... Read More
Swatch Group and Francogeddon
GEM-0167 | Published October 29, 2018 | 13 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case illustrates how exchange rate shocks affect international businesses. The focus is on one recent stark example: the effect on Swatch Group of the Swiss National Bank's January 2015 decision ... Read More
Ben & Jerry's Homemade, Inc. (B): Scooped Up! What Lies Ahead?
E-0226 | Published December 28, 2001 | 5 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Case B describes the aftermath of Ben & Jerry's being acquired by Unilever. While there was public sadness and dismay over the socially responsible company appearing to "sell out," Ben Cohen and Jerry... Read More
Calabash Community Hospital
F-1946 | Published April 15, 2020 | 6 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case considers a $10 million investment in an outpatient surgery center by a not-for-profit community hospital in rural South Carolina. A member of the purchasing department, R. D. Scott, is inv... Read More
Re:Build Manufacturing: 2023
OM-1800 | Published September 10, 2024 | 10 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In early 2023, Miles Arnone, cofounder and CEO of Re:Build Manufacturing (Re:Build), a reimagined conglomerate model, was facing pressing organizational challenges. Re:Build, a collection of companies... Read More
A Neutral Line to the State Electricity Board (A)
OB-1157 | Published February 28, 2010 | 5 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. A construction busi... Read More
Brian Gursky: Using Social Media to Build an Athlete Brand in the Name, Image, Likeness (NIL) Era
M-1039 | Published July 17, 2023 | 10 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This field-based case introduces students to the challenges of building a professional brand through the lens of a college athlete. Since the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s (NCAA’s) landma... Read More
Better Wrong than Right? Delivering the “Bad” Market Research News (A)
OB-1139 | Published February 28, 2010 | 3 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. Giving Voice to Va... Read More
Looking for a Sustainable Model at Brazilian Edtech Start-up Resilia
M-1030 | Published August 04, 2022 | 12 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The fast-growing educational technology start-up Resilia had successfully initiated its operations in Brazil. It trained full stack developers and connected them with entry-level jobs at unicorn start... Read More
Airbnb: Almost Out of Air?
F-2085 | Published August 14, 2024 | 16 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In late March 2020, Marc Grayson, VP of finance at Airbnb, Inc. (Airbnb), recognized that the COVID-19 pandemic would pose a significant threat to Airbnb’s business. The travel industry had been sever... Read More
Horizon Lines, Inc.
F-1668 | Published June 20, 2012 | 13 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
It is recommended that this case be taught either just before or just after another Chapter 11 case. Students must to decide whether Horizon Lines should seek Chapter 11 protection or attempt a volunt... Read More
Kibet Capital: Representation in Advertising
QA-0932 | Published August 14, 2024 | 4 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case describes a Richmond, Virginia, asset-management firm assessing an advertising platform’s content (Scout Guide city guides) to inform its marketing strategy. The firm, Kibet Capital, could m... Read More
GTSI Corporation: Mission Impossible? (A)
OB-0966 | Published May 04, 2009 | 12 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This undisguised case is appropriate for graduate-level organizational behavior, strategy, and leadership courses. Readers will be put in the shoes of a seasoned change agent hired to transform a publ... Read More
Roark Capital: Buyout of Buffalo Wild Wings
F-1984 | Published August 18, 2021 | 23 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In late November 2017, Roark Capital Group (Roark) must decide on a last, best offer to purchase Buffalo Wild Wings (BWW) in a leveraged buyout (LBO) for $157 per share. That bid had followed a series... Read More
Gainesboro Machine Tools Corporation
F-1489 | Published December 06, 2005 | 16 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In mid-September 2005, Ashley Swenson, the chief financial officer of this large CAD/CAM (computer aided design and manufacturing) equipment manufacturer must decide whether to pay out dividends to th... Read More
The Battle for Value, 2004: FedEx Corp. vs. United Parcel Service, Inc.
F-1484 | Published November 17, 2005 | 22 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Set in June 2004, this case invites the student to assess the financial performance of FedEx Corp. and United Parcel Service, Inc. (UPS). The two firms have competed intensely for dominance of the ove... Read More
General Mills' Acquisition of Pillsbury from Diageo PLC
F-1326 | Published February 27, 2001 | 13 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In December 2000, the shareholders of General Mills were presented with a merger prospectus and proxy statement that outlined the terms by which General Mills would acquire Pillsbury from Diageo plc. ... Read More
Eastboro Machine Tools Corporation
F-1360 | Published March 22, 2001 | 16 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In mid-September 2001, Jennifer Campbell, the chief financial officer of this large CAD/CAM (computer-aided design and manufacturing) equipment manufacturer must decide whether to pay out dividends to... Read More
Ben & Jerry's Homemade: The Unilever Scoop
F-1656 | Published August 18, 2011 | 6 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
A follow up for Ben & Jerry's Homemade (UVA-F-1364), this case is suitable for MBA, EMBA, and GEMBA programs, and could work as a stand-alone undergraduate introduction to corporate finance and M&A or... Read More
The World’s Next Reserve Currency
GEM-0211 | Published November 11, 2024 | 28 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In February 2025, Rashonda Williams, responsible for global asset allocation at a large pension fund, was pondering the US dollar's long-term prospects. Since at least 1956, the dollar had been the ki... Read More
Paying to Pray: The Ethics of Money in Religion
E-0526 | Published May 20, 2025 | 4 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This is a collection of disguised vignettes, based on real events, about the use of money in religious settings and the ethical questions that arise in these situations. Each vignette presents a diffe... Read More
Matteo Hill at Drawn, Inc. (A)
OB-1293 | Published July 12, 2019 | 8 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case uses the context of a recently acquired computer animation start-up, Drawn, Inc., to surface the tension around the differences between team members’ backgrounds and their experiences within... Read More
Mickey Mouse Takes a Stand: Does Sociopolitical Activism Change the Disney Story?
M-1031 | Published June 23, 2022 | 18 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case presents the Walt Disney Company’s (Disney’s) involvement in Florida House Bill 1557, the Parental Rights in Education Act, known by opponents as the “Don’t Say Gay” bill. It can be used to ... Read More
Strategic Planning at the New York Botanical Garden
BP-0566 | Published August 22, 2023 | 16 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This richly detailed case traces the formulation and implementation of strategic plans for the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG), and profiles the highly inclusive and original planning process NYBGs l... Read More
Tractor Supply: Steering ESG Strategy as Consumer Beliefs Shift
M-1063 | Published March 11, 2025 | 17 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In 2021, Tractor Supply Company introduced new initiatives to expand its environmental, social, and governance (ESG) and diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) efforts, including reducing carbon emiss... Read More
Fonderia di Torino S.p.A.
F-1350 | Published October 08, 2001 | 4 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The managing director of this specialty foundry must decide whether to approve a major investment to automate part of her plant's production process. The case presents information sufficient to build ... Read More
Sun Microsystems
F-1630 | Published December 06, 2010 | 22 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is designed for use in Corporate Finance courses at the MBA level or in an advanced undergraduate Valuation class. The primary objective of this exercise is to introduce or reinforce valuati... Read More
Mary Gentile: Transforming the Conversation Around Values-Driven Behavior
OB-1155 | Published February 28, 2010 | 9 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. The founder and... Read More
Yahoo's Acquisition of Tumblr
QA-0818 | Published September 17, 2014 | 9 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case works well to provide experience with developing a revenue growth forecast using time series analysis. Students are asked to run several exponential smoothing models to predict the growth in... Read More
JUST Capital
F-1844 | Published February 04, 2019 | 31 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The case examines the development and launch of an exchange-traded fund (ETF) based on JUST Capital's socially responsible corporate ranking methodologies. The case provides a market overview of Envir... Read More
Teva Pharmaceuticals: Pricing the 2016 Bond Offering
F-2028 | Published | 18 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case examines the July 2016 decision by Israeli pharmaceutical Teva Pharmaceuticals Industries Limited (Teva) to raise USD19.5 billion in cash through a multicurrency bond offering to finance an ... Read More
The Signals of Big Oil: ExxonMobil Stumbles
BC-0281 | Published May 19, 2022 | 12 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In the summer of 2021, an Exxon Mobil Corporation (ExxonMobil) executive was secretly recorded dismissing climate science that his company had publicly supported. ExxonMobil is a vertically integrated... Read More
Carded Graphics, LLC: Sheeter Replacement Decision
F-1606 | Published | 14 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
A growing folding carton company is contemplating the replacement of an old machine with a new one. The case challenge is to develop a cash flow forecast and determine the proper discount rate for the... Read More
Star River Electronics Ltd.
F-1361 | Published March 22, 2001 | 9 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In July 2015, a new CEO joins this small manufacturer of CD-ROMs and DVDs to discover that the firm is in the midst of a financial crisis, induced by rapid growth. The CEO asks an analyst for help wit... Read More
Tiffany & Co.: The LVMH Proposal
F-2012 | Published April 22, 2022 | 26 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case set considers the acquisition of American jewelry icon Tiffany & Co. (Tiffany) by French luxury goods manufacturer LVMH Moët Hennessy Louis Vuitton (LVMH). While this case can effectively be... Read More
Traverse Bank
F-1929 | Published December 04, 2019 | 7 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case follows a senior loan officer who is reviewing requests from two customers of the bank to raise their credit limits. The two businesses are alike in many ways, but the loan officer believes ... Read More
CalPERS Absolute Return Strategies: Hedge Fund Risk and Return
F-1735 | Published June 29, 2015 | 19 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is suitable for students in both undergraduate and MBA-level investments courses. With an estimated $3 trillion in assets under management, hedge funds have become an important component of ... Read More
Marissa Mayer at Google
OB-1028 | Published August 02, 2012 | 13 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Marissa Mayer has been asked to think about factors that were impacting Google's ability to innovate and adjust its strategy so that the organization could remain one of the world's foremost leaders i... Read More
One-Off Decisions
OB-1117 | Published February 28, 2010 | 1 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. In this case, a ... Read More
Tesla versus BYD: China's Electric Vehicle Contest
S-0414 | Published July 10, 2024 | 12 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
By 2023, the global electric vehicle (EV) market wasn’t the future, it was the present—and competition among automakers was accelerating. In China, the battle for primacy was shaping up between the lo... Read More
When the Boss is the Barrier (A)
OB-1183 | Published February 28, 2010 | 4 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. A plant manager di... Read More
Milagrol Ltda.
F-1578 | Published | 9 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
A privately held U.S. plumbing parts manufacturer is negotiating the purchase of a Brazilian plumbing manufacturer specializing in water conservation. The case provides sufficient information to value... Read More
ZIPS: Growth Through Industry Decline
OM-1821 | Published April 24, 2025 | 17 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In 2013, JPB Partners purchased ZIPS Cleaners, a low-cost dry-cleaning brand. Ten years later, facing the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as rising labor rates and increased regulation, JPB m... Read More
Fixed- or Floating-Rate Debt? Let Me Google That for You.
F-2073 | Published August 13, 2024 | 19 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In the summer of 2023, Google (a subsidiary of Alphabet Inc.) was planning to issue a $50 billion bond to fund R&D. Bruno Santos, a recent MBA graduate and new senior analyst in Google’s treasury divi... Read More
JW Sports Supplies (C)
C-2404 | Published November 28, 2017 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In this case, the owners of JW Sports Supplies consider the possibility of dropping the custom gym bag product line. Students must consider which costs are avoidable and which are not avoidable if the... Read More
Common Wealth Crush: Financing a Vision
F-2090 | Published October 21, 2024 | 11 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case examines the financing decisions and valuation of a start-up venture, Common Wealth Crush Co. (CWC), that seeks to support wine production in central Virginia by centralizing processing faci... Read More
Re:Build Manufacturing—Reimagining the Conglomerate
OM-1757 | Published December 08, 2021 | 16 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In October 2021, Miles Arnone, CEO of Re:Build Manufacturing (Re:Build), was thinking about Re:Build’s next acquisition. Arnone contemplated the pros and cons of each of three candidate companies as h... Read More
Crocs, Inc.
F-1589 | Published August 20, 2009 | 14 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case forces students to examine the drivers of value, particularly growth and margins. It is also effective at drawing attention to the relationship between terminal value assumptions and value c... Read More
The House on Ramsay Street
F-2072 | Published | 7 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case considers a simple buy-versus-rent decision in the context of an individual family home. In mid-2022, the rise in real estate prices in the Washington, DC, metro area has resulted in a drama... Read More
First Mates' Wholesale Boating Supply Company: Do or Don't?
C-2312 | Published May 14, 2010 Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case presents a series of decision points along with a simple process for ascertaining underlying source(s) of disagreement, which represents an important managerial tool. The president of First ... Read More
Mars, Incorporated
F-1612 | Published March 24, 2010 | 22 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Recommended for MBAs, this case is one of a pair of cases used in a merger negotiation exercise. It is designed to be used with "Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company" (UVA-F-1607), but it can also be used on its o... Read More
REI: Sustainability Strategy and Innovation in the Outdoor Gear and Apparel Industry
ENT-0162 | Published June 29, 2011 | 22 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Many companies view financial variables independently from ecological and social variables. Is it possible to hold one's organization equally accountable for financial performance and social responsib... Read More
Managing Change at Siemens Advanta
S-0462 | Published December 04, 2024 | 8 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case asks students to step into the shoes of Rani Russell Shea, the newly appointed CEO of Siemens Advanta North America (SANA), as she seeks to lead change within the organization. SANA had cons... Read More
Darden Survivor: Who Will Outwit, Outlast, and Outplay? (A)
OB-1486 | Published April 03, 2025 | 14 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In this field-based case, two Darden School of Business students and superfans of the show Survivor create their own extracurricular version of the game, retaining key elements such as alliances, blin... Read More
Artificial Intelligence at the US Department of Health and Human Services: The AI Impact Sprint
OM-1803 | Published October 03, 2024 | 11 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Claudette Servant, chief information officer (CIO) at the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has assembled a task force made up of stakeholders from across the agency, including people ... Read More
Innovating amid Regulatory Uncertainty
E-0505 | Published October 16, 2024 | 11 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This disguised case outlines the dilemma facing Avery Owens, the head of product for SoMeCo, a social media company, as she seeks to create a framework to innovate responsibly – balancing the emerging... Read More
Tesla's Convertible
F-2069 | Published August 08, 2024 | 17 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
On May 2, 2019, Dan Cohen, a financial analyst at Tesla, Inc., was tasked by the CFO team with proposing a thesis for issuing a convertible bond. Tesla needed to raise $2 billion for capital expenditu... Read More
Japanese Whisky: Over a Barrel?
S-0415 | Published October 30, 2024 | 9 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In January 2016, Suntory Holding Ltd. (Suntory) CEO, Takeshi Niinami acknowledged that it would take 10 years for the company to replenish the stock of its Suntory brand Japanese age-statement whiskie... Read More
JW Sports Supplies (B)
C-2403 | Published November 28, 2017 | 5 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In this case, James Jones and William West's company, JW Sports Supplies, has begun to offer a second product line—a customized gym bag. The owners consider the topic of overhead allocation in determi... Read More
Be Careful What You Wish For: From the Middle
OB-1104 | Published February 28, 2010 | 1 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. The recently prom... Read More
Ways of Thinking About Our Values in the Workplace (ARABIC)
OB-1386 | Published January 31, 2022 | 24 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This is an Arabic translation of the September 15, 2016 version of UVA-OB-1126. This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please v... Read More
Shiftsmart: Redefining Job Access and Labor Management
OM-1762 | Published October 03, 2022 | 9 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In January 2022, Shiftsmart cofounder and CEO Aakash Kumar wanted to capitalize on the company’s momentum. Shiftsmart connected workers on a shift-by-shift basis to some of the world’s largest corpora... Read More
Southwest Airlines: The Next Frontier
OM-1816 | Published February 13, 2025 | 9 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In June 2024, Elliott Investment Management L.P. (EIM) purchased a $1.9 billion stake in Southwest Airlines Co. (LUV), representing approximately 11.3% of LUV’s market capitalization, making EIM and V... Read More
Guna Fibres, Ltd.
F-1687 | Published February 04, 2013 | 11 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The chief executive of a small yarn-production company in India must resolve an unexpected cash shortage. The task for the student is to evaluate the causes of this shortage (using a completed “base-c... Read More
Founder Mode Versus Manager Mode: The Airbnb Growth Challenge
ENT-0241 | Published April 25, 2025 | 8 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In September 2024, Airbnb, Inc. (Airbnb), CEO Brian Chesky unintentionally ignited a fierce debate in management circles when he explained how he had shifted his leadership approach to what he called ... Read More
All’s Well that Ends Well (A)
OB-1134 | Published February 28, 2010 | 4 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. Giving Voice to V... Read More
Under Armour's Willful Digital Moves
M-0910 | Published May 18, 2016 | 5 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In 2013, Under Armour had $2.3 billion in sales yet only $500 million came from its women's apparel, and the company was ready to expand into the female market segment. The "I Will What I Want" global... Read More
Divestment as an ESG Tool: CalPERS and Tobacco Stocks (A)
F-1948 | Published June 04, 2020 | 22 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case uses the California Public Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) to set the stage for unfolding an analysis of economics and values in the decision to divest tobacco stocks and bonds from t... Read More
AAIB Addresses Social and Environmental Risks in Loan Assessment (A)
OB-1132 | Published March 01, 2015 | 3 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. Giving Voice to V... Read More
Dozier Industries (B)
F-0746 | Published March 28, 1991 | 5 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Students are introduced to currency options as another hedging tool (see UVA-F-0745) to manage exchange rate risk.... Read More
Zara: Greenwashing Accusations in the Fast Fashion Industry
C-2483 | Published July 30, 2024 | 7 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Zara, an iconic fast fashion brand owned by Industria de Diseño Textil (Inditex), had experienced strong sales and increased profits during the first half of 2023. But it was facing increasing hostili... Read More
Tastech by Sigma: Strategic Growth Through Innovation and M&A
ENT-0240 | Published March 20, 2025 | 12 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case uses Sigma Alimentos, S.A. de C.V. (Sigma), the Mexican food multinational corporation, as a compelling example of large food companies’ development of in-house venture capital (VC) investme... Read More
Snow Brand Milk Products (C): 2009—Remaining Challenges
E-0349 | Published February 26, 2010 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The turnaround at Snow Brand Milk Products was a real learning experience for all involved. The lessons were many, and while prioritizing them was difficult, it seemed clear that the most significant ... Read More
Enron Corporation's Weather Derivatives (B)
F-1300 | Published September 01, 2000 | 4 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
New options on weather from Enron are described, in particular floors, swaps, and caps on heating degree days. An electric utility is considering whether to purchase a weather derivative to offset the... Read More
Eli Lilly and Company
F-0794 | Published March 28, 1988 | 17 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This negotiation case is meant to be used in conjunction with "Hybritech, Incorporated (A)" (UVA-F-0792); half the class works from one case and half from the other. Lilly is considering acquiring Hyb... Read More
Carvana: IsBadBuy?
QA-0886 | Published November 21, 2019 | 6 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case, which has been taught successfully in a Darden online class, allows for an introductory application of the Tableau analytics platform. In 2012, Carvana Co., an e-commerce platform for buyin... Read More
Corporate Social Responsibility Internship in India (A)
OB-1144 | Published February 28, 2010 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. In this case, an u... Read More
Every Client Must Be Treated Equally? (A)
OB-1148 | Published February 28, 2010 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. A young financial ... Read More
The Boeing 7E7
F-1449 | Published July 29, 2004 | 23 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In 2003, The Boeing Company announced plans to build a new "super-efficient" commercial jet called the "7E7" or "Dreamliner." This was a "bet the farm" gamble by Boeing, similar in magnitude to its ea... Read More
I.M.A.G.E. International
M-0417 | Published October 12, 1993 | 4 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case furthers student understanding of and familiarity with nonfinancial incentives. It describes major elements that go into making a high-performance salesforce; the practices, policies, and ph... Read More
Almost Heaven? West Virginia State Pension Funds and Investing in Equity
F-2092 | Published April 17, 2025 | 10 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case explores asset allocation of a portfolio and the associated diversification using the West Virginia’s state pension funds’ possible move into equity investments after previously holding only... Read More
J. C. Penney Company
F-1720 | Published December 01, 2014 | 14 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The case examines the liquidity issues that J. C. Penney (JCP) experienced in 2012 and 2013 following a decline in sales and profits over several years. Although JCP had been a highly profitable and g... Read More
Carrefour S.A.
F-1470 | Published June 08, 2005 | 12 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In August 2002, the French retail giant Carrefour S.A. was considering alternative currencies for raising (euro) EUR750 million in the Eurobond market. Carrefour’s investment bankers believed that the... Read More
The Sanofi-Aventis Acquisition of Genzyme: Contingent Value Rights
F-1715 | Published October 22, 2014 | 16 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is designed for MBA students in M&A or derivatives courses. In January 2011, Sanofi-Aventis was finalizing its offer terms for acquiring Genzyme. The M&A valuation disputes were about the ma... Read More
Artificial Intelligence for Improving the Procurement Experience of Non-Stock Items at Indian Railways
ISB365 | Published March 27, 2023 | 6 pages Case
Collection: Indian School of Business
During the summer of 2021, Sumana G., Chief Technology Officer of South Central Railway, was reviewing the annual productivity reports of field employees.... Read More
The Home Depot, Inc.
S-0144 | Published September 20, 2007 | 14 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The Home Depot case is a great story. It's about entrepreneurship, growth, CEO leadership, and the dramatic impact, good and bad, a CEO can have on a company's growth culture, strategy, and performanc... Read More
Breeden Security, Inc. (A)
C-2307 | Published October 27, 2009 | 3 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Breeden Electronics USA is a start-up division of a German company. It plans to produce two products, both electronic signaling devices. Herman Klein, the division president, has asked his controller,... Read More
Deluxe Corporation
F-1492 | Published December 08, 2005 | 20 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In July 2002, an investment banker advising Deluxe Corporation must prepare recommendations to the company's board of directors regarding the firm's financial policy. Special considerations are the mi... Read More
Squeezed: Citron Capital Shorts GameStop
F-1983 | Published June 25, 2021 | 15 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The case examines the short selling of GameStop by hedge fund Citron Capital. The valuation case for short selling GameStop is explored, along with the actual market mechanics of short selling a stoc... Read More
Northboro Machine Tools Corporation
F-1208 | Published December 17, 1997 | 16 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In mid-1992, Christine Olsen, the chief financial officer (CFO) of this large CAD/CAM equipment manufacturer, must decide on the magnitude of the firm's dividend payout. A subsidiary question is wheth... Read More
Snow Brand Milk Products (B): Reform and Revitalization Efforts
E-0348 | Published February 26, 2010 | 7 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case outlines the turnaround efforts Snow Brand undertook to address its grave missteps: shifting to a consumer-oriented, integrity-focused management style; providing greater transparency and co... Read More
Target Corporation Rewards Program, June 2010
F-1632 | Published November 15, 2011 | 14 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
It was May 2010, and the results were in. For Doug Scovanner, CFO of Target Corporation, there was good news, and there was bad news. The recent trials of a new REDcard Rewards Program in Kansas City,... Read More
Managing Virtual Teams (B)
BC-0211 | Published October 14, 2007 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In the follow-up to the A case (UVA-BC-0210), Karl Henderson has convened the first meeting of the virtual team at Metrionic Systems. Because of the time-zone differences, some members are meeting fro... Read More
Leading Innovation at Kelvingrove (A)
S-0162 | Published September 26, 2009 | 15 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case series explores the leadership story of director Mark O'Neill as he oversees a major innovation initiative at Kelvingrove, Scotland's most visited museum. The A case describes his background... Read More
Bright Books, Inc.
C-2498 | Published March 05, 2025 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In this fictionalized case, Steve Becker has just finished his first year running Bright Books, Inc. (Bright Books), a bookseller specializing in the education sector. He started Bright Books after se... Read More
Breeden Security, Inc. (B)
C-2308 | Published October 27, 2009 | 12 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Marlene Baer, the controller of Breeden Security USA, recognizes that grouping all manufacturing overhead costs together and allocating them to Breeden's two products is not very accurate. She groups ... Read More
To Say or Not To Say (A)
OB-1181 | Published February 28, 2010 | 4 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. This case deals w... Read More
Chesapeake and Shorewood Hostile Bids: A Tale of Two Boards (B)
OM-0935 | Published January 17, 2001 | 3 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The purpose of this case is to present a series of strategic issues faced by a $1/B company. The situation called for a major restructuring immediately followed by a hostile takeover bid. The company ... Read More
Bellaire Clinical Labs, Inc.
C-2145 | Published October 02, 2000 | 5 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is designed for an introductory MBA management accounting course or an MBA course in management planning and control systems. It provides exposure to (1) the basic assumptions in the creatio... Read More
Wendy's Chili: A Costing Conundrum
C-2206 | Published July 27, 2005 | 11 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case poses the seemingly simple and straightforward question, "How much does it cost Wendy's to make a bowl of chili?" Because most of the meat used in making chili comes from overcooked hamburge... Read More
Fintech, Payments Innovation, and the Acquisition of Worldpay
F-1829 | Published May 31, 2018 | 34 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case uses the Vantiv, a US credit-card-processing company, acquisition of Worldpay, Britain's largest payments processor, to discuss broader themes in the payment space. Payments are a crucial fu... Read More
The Case-Centric Classroom: Good Career Preparation?
S-0381 | Published June 10, 2022 | 3 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case follows Andy, a second-year MBA student who has just received a job offer and is looking for guidance on how to leverage his remaining schooling to become a successful manager upon graduatio... Read More
IndiGrid: Transitioning into India’s First Independent Power Transmission InvIT (B)
IIMA-FA0552(B) | Published June 01, 2020 | 14 pages Case
Collection: Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
This case is a sequel to the “IndiGrid: Creating India’s First Power Transmission InvIT (A)” case. It describes the deal that would replace the trust’... Read More
Investure, LLC: Investing in Alternative Assets
F-1971 | Published February 02, 2021 | 24 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In July 2019, Bruce Miller, CEO of Investure, LLC (Investure), an outsourced chief investment office (OCIO), is preparing a proposal for Franklin and Marshall (F&M), a small liberal arts college locat... Read More
Pricing the EpiPen: This is Going to Sting (JAPANESE)
M-0968 | Published December 21, 2018 | 10 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This is a Japanese translation of the December 6, 2017, version of UVA-M-0915. This case examines the public controversy that erupted over the increasingly high price of EpiPens. Mylan Inc. (Mylan), ... Read More
Johansen's: The New Scorecard System
C-2371 | Published March 17, 2016 | 15 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Johansen's has just completed its first year under a new scorecard system for evaluation of manager performance. The manager of Store 51 has traditionally been one of the company's top-performing mana... Read More
The Package War: FedEx vs. UPS
G-0485 | Published February 15, 1996 | 33 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case allows students to observe two competing businesses transform themselves over time. By following the competitive actions and reactions over more than 10 years, students gain an appreciation ... Read More
Walt Disney Co.: Mickey Mouse or Media Mammoth?
S-0178 | Published January 12, 2011 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Suitable for MBA-level classes, this is one of several short strategy-focused "live" cases that require students to collect data and information from public sources in order to do an analysis around d... Read More
Chesapeake and Shorewood Hostile Bids: A Tale of Two Boards (A)
OM-0934 | Published January 17, 2001 | 33 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The purpose of this case is to present a series of strategic issues faced by a $1/B company. The situation called for a major restructuring immediately followed by a hostile takeover bid. The company ... Read More
Contract worker unrest at Wistron Infocomm Manufacturing (India) Pvt Ltd
IIMA-HRM0251 | Published January 26, 2022 | 23 pages Case
Collection: Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
The premises of Wistron Infocomm Manufacturing (India) Private Limited (WIMPL) a 100% subsidiary of Wistron Corporation (WC), Taiwan, was vandalized by a group of agitated contract workers on Decembe... Read More
Is This My Place? Speaking Up (A) (SPANISH)
OB-1418 | Published August 28, 2022 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This is a Spanish translation of the August 30, 2016 version of UVA-OB-1111. An employee of a thinly staffed organization recognizes that there is no formal system for monitoring the value of donated ... Read More
Market Research Deception
OB-1154 | Published February 28, 2010 | 1 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. This case is about... Read More
Choosing Cloud for a Growing and Dynamic Organization: A Case of Fortis Healthcare
IIMA-IS0137 | Published March 26, 2019 | 15 pages Case
Collection: Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
The case deals with a chain of hospitals, that has grown vary fast in last few years as a result of various acquisitions and new developments. The hospital chain is lagging behind in use of technolog... Read More
Education Entrepreneurship: Not So Easy (A)
OB-1147 | Published February 28, 2010 | 4 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. An entrepreneur d... Read More
Brooke Correll and Clos Du Val: Adventures in Napa Valley (A) and (B) (Condensed)
M-0788 | Published February 02, 2011 | 18 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
An established winery's first marketing director is charged with reviving the once-hot brand. Cofoun... Read More
Progressive Insurance: Not Your Standard Insurance Story
M-0758 | Published April 14, 2008 | 10 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Progressive Insurance, a leader in the automotive insurance market, has succeeded through innovation. This case describes the company's strategies for differentiating its service through programs such... Read More
The New War of the Currents: The Race to Win the Electric Vehicle Market
OM-1709 | Published December 18, 2020 | 13 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The automobile industry is going through a dramatic change as electric vehicles (EVs) rapidly gain in popularity. Two companies in particular have dominated the EV market over the last decade: Tesla a... Read More
Abbott and the AIDS Crisis (B)
E-0312 | Published February 29, 2008 | 9 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In 1999 and 2000, Abbott Laboratories' senior management considered a number of philanthropic options that could make a difference and define the focus for Abbott and the Abbott Fund's charitable prog... Read More
Finance Caselets: An Ethical Perspective
E-0472 | Published February 16, 2021 | 11 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
These fictional caselets, some of which are based on lived experience, present dilemmas and ethical issues in the financial field. The situations include an investment-banking firm executive deciding ... Read More
Felipe Vergara and Lumni: Launching an Innovation in a Developing Economy
ENT-0083 | Published September 07, 2006 | 14 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The case chronicles the development of Lumni, Inc., an international start-up offering innovative mechanisms for financing higher education. It focuses on: the details of decision making required to t... Read More
Ways of Thinking About Our Values in the Workplace (SPANISH)
OB-1420 | Published August 28, 2022 | 4 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This is an abridged Spanish translation of the September 15, 2016 version of UVA-OB-1126. This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum,... Read More
Facebook, Inc.: A Look at Corporate Governance
C-2411 | Published June 18, 2018 | 22 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case examines Facebook's corporate governance by reviewing information in the company's proxy statement. Students become familiar with the nature and type of information in proxy statements. They... Read More
Building the New Bosco-Zeta Pharma (B)
BP-0536 | Published November 13, 2008 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The Bosco chairman realizes that Bosco and Zeta have different work cultures and to make the integration a success, it was imperative to create a new unique identity for the new company Bosco-Zeta Pha... Read More
Mauboussin Japan: A French Gem in Asia (French Translation)
M-0872 | Published | 18 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This is a French translation of the February 17, 2014, version of UVA-M-0853. As marketers love to teach students, differentiation must be the focal point of marketing strategy. But what happens when ... Read More
GE Healthcare in India: An (Ultra)Sound Strategy?
E-0337 | Published October 14, 2008 | 21 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This 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 to... Read More
Building the New Bosco-Zeta Pharma (A)
BP-0525 | Published | 21 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
After Bosco Pharmaceutical's acquisition of Zeta AG, the Bosco chairman is unsure whether to merge the two firms using only internal resources or accept the help of Deloitte Consulting. Deloitte advoc... Read More
Working Capital: A Summary of Ratios by Industry
C-2348 | Published May 19, 2014 | 7 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The case graphically presents various working capital ratios (days inventory outstanding, days sales outstanding, days payables outstanding, cash conversion cycle, and operating cycle) over the 2009-t... Read More
Starlink: Revolutionizing Internet Connectivity
S-0468 | Published April 29, 2025 | 23 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In 2022, despite urban access to high-speed internet connectivity, rural and remote areas lacked the infrastructure for even internet access, let alone high-speed connectivity. Establishing this infra... Read More
Stress in the Workplace: Mental Health Conversations—The Employee
OB-1441 | Published August 07, 2023 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Most managers will one day be in a situation where they must help another employee with a mental health issue. How should they prepare for these conversations? What resources are available? This role... Read More
Stress in the Workplace: Mental Health Conversations—The Boss
OB-1440 | Published August 07, 2023 | 1 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Most managers will one day be in a situation where they must help another employee with a mental health issue. How should they prepare for these conversations? What resources are available? This role... Read More
USEC Inc.
F-1546 | Published November 05, 2007 | 11 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is designed to present students with the challenges of formulating a discounted-cash-flow (DCF) analysis for a strategically important capital-investment decision. Analytically, the problem ... Read More
Uber: The Turbulent Rise of “Everyone’s Private Driver”
S-0354 | Published October 04, 2022 | 27 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The meteoric rise of ride-sharing firm Uber illustrates how gig-economy firms can grow to prominence and disrupt older, mature industries. Yet Uber's trajectory has also been rife with nontrivial tens... Read More
Medfield Pharmaceuticals
F-1636 | Published | 13 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Susan Johnson, founder and CEO of Medfield Pharmaceuticals, is faced with conflicting recommendations for extending the patent life of the company’s flagship product, Fleximat, scheduled to go off pat... Read More
Flying Around Real Estate Development: Persuading with Data Visualizations
BC-0285 | Published August 23, 2022 | 3 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case and dataset can be used in a course on storytelling with data to explore how various types of maps in combination with other types of charts drive decision-making. It is designed for working... Read More
Changing Light Bulbs (B): Philips Earth Light
M-0822 | Published September 09, 2011 | 3 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This is the second of a four-part case charting the influence of technological shifts on decision making in the light bulb industry. As Philips begins to challenge GE's dominance in the lighting marke... Read More
Digital Transformation at The Washington Post: Innovating for the Next Generation
S-0368 | Published November 18, 2021 | 22 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The Washington Post (The Post) is one of the world’s most respected news-media organizations. After joining The Post as CEO and publisher in 2014, Fred Ryan worked with owner Jeff Bezos and The Post's... Read More
Innovation Strategy at Microsoft: Clouds on the Horizon
OM-1387 | Published June 16, 2011 | 17 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Microsoft employs 90,000 people and its products affect millions of users around the world every day. Developing the next version of Windows or Office is easy for Microsoft, but the company has strugg... Read More
Chrysler's Warrants: September 1983
F-0682 | Published March 28, 1986 | 15 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is a vehicle for discussing the theory and practice of option pricing. The three opportunities for option-pricing analysis are (1) valuation of the warrants proposed as an equity kicker to t... Read More
Darden Business Publishing Gets Lean (A)
OM-1497 | Published May 20, 2013 | 12 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Darden Business Publishing provides its own field case as a consultant is enlisted to help it streamline production using Lean principles. The case provides an overview of continuous improvement conce... Read More
Rosetta Stone: Pricing the 2009 IPO
F-1613 | Published December 21, 2009 | 21 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case examines the April 2009 decision of Rosetta Stone management to price the initial public offering of Rosetta Stone stock during one of the most difficult periods in capital-raising history. ... Read More
Alliance Concrete: Just One More Thing
F-1535 | Published July 09, 2007 | 5 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
After having negotiated major financial and operating decisions with its parent company, the CFO of this small ready-mix concrete subsidiary is asked to provide a valuation of the subsidiary. A one-ye... Read More
Penicillin: The Miracle Drug
ENT-0234 | Published December 21, 2022 | 20 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is a study of the initial discovery of penicillin and how it came to be a mass-market product. The discovery of penicillin is fascinating first and foremost because of its direct, life-savin... Read More
War of the Handbags: The Takeover Battle for Gucci Group N.V.
F-1473 | Published August 11, 2005 | 53 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
At three o'clock in the morning on September 10, 2001, Thierry Hautillac, a risk arbitrageur, learns of the final agreement between Pinault-Printemps-Redoute SA ("PPR") and LVMH Mo?t Hennessy Louis Vu... Read More
New River Apparel: Trot or Gallop?
ENT-0194 | Published April 05, 2012 | 6 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Marjorie Burnett, who runs a clothing outlet with lagging revenues in Tennessee, is considering taking a gamble on starting a new business. She has to decide whether expansion—offering even more produ... Read More
How Normal is Normal? The Mitsubishi Motors Sexual Harassment Case
BC-0128 | Published January 27, 1998 | 14 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case illustrates Mitsubishi Motors Manufacturing of America's (MMMA) responses to allegations of sexual harassment in 1996 at its Normal, Illinois, facility. The majority of the case focuses on m... Read More
Monticello Motor Club: Straights and Corners
OM-1511 | Published December 03, 2014 | 13 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case has been taught successfully in a second-year MBA elective, "Management of Service Operations," in a module on service system design. The material works well to unfold with Frances Frei's se... Read More
Harley-Davidson, Inc.: The Reverse Yankee Bond Issue
F-2046 | Published | 14 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Harley-Davidson Inc. (Harley-Davidson), the storied maker of iconic American motorcycles, was on the cusp of issuing its first bond not denominated in US or Canadian dollars—a so-called Reverse Yankee... Read More
Johnson Lumber: Bet on the Upside or Avoid the Downside?
ENT-0196 | Published March 04, 2013 | 5 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
James Baker is general manager of a large lumber mill in rural Virginia, Johnson Lumber. While on a business trip with the owner (the founder's grandson) and the owner's son, he receives the news that... Read More
Pitching a Relaunch of “Little House on the Prairie”: Accounting for Audience Nostalgia
C-2504 | Published March 25, 2025 | 10 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
A television producer, Greta Gordon, is considering relaunching the "Little House on the Prairie" television series. She has several critical issues to address, including the role of nostalgia, what a... Read More
Good Health or Wealth: Can They Coexist? (A)
OB-1149 | Published February 28, 2015 | 4 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. Intense competitio... Read More
Crisis Leadership
OB-0800 | Published March 05, 2004 | 8 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This technical note examines types of organizational crisis and five phases through which nearly all crises pass. Students are encouraged to move from a mindset that manages crisis to one that generat... Read More
Steve Maiden (A): A Hedge Fund Manager's Fall from Grace
OB-1437 | Published August 30, 2023 | 13 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In mid-2008 hedge fund manager Steve Maiden was riding high. The self-assured Maiden had launched his own fund in late 2006 and it was substantially outperforming the market. Investors wanted in and M... Read More
Supplier Diversity in the City of Portland
OM-1793 | Published March 09, 2023 | 8 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Priya 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 ha... Read More
Three Notch’d: Economies of Scale in Brewing
OM-1750 | Published October 29, 2021 | 13 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In August 2021, George Kastendike, CEO of Three Notch’d Brewery (Three Notch’d) in Charlottesville, Virginia, laid down the phone as he finished a conference call with two of his early investors. In t... Read More
Transforming Conflict: UCLA’s Chancellor Gene Block and the Palestine Solidarity Encampment
BC-0317 | Published April 09, 2025 | 16 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
On April 30, 2024, Gene D. Block, chancellor of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), posted a message to the UCLA Bruin community. It began: “This past Thursday, a group of demonstrators—... Read More
David Smith: Garden Birch Children’s Hospital Center (A)
OB-1414 | Published December 21, 2022 | 15 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case uses the context of a teaching hospital, Garden Birch Children’s Hospital Center, to surface the tension that results when a leader exhibits excellent task performance and problematic people... Read More
BBB National Programs' National Advertising Division: T-Mobile Versus Comcast in the Battle over 10G
S-0469 | Published March 26, 2025 | 15 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In October 2023, Laura Brett, vice president of the Council of Better Business Bureau National Programs’ National Advertising Division (NAD), was considering Case No. 7212—T-Mobile US, Inc. (T-Mobile)... Read More
Planning for the Future: Savings and Retirement
F-1869 | Published August 09, 2019 | 13 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Marcy and Dan were high school sweethearts who married young and built a life together. Between Marcy's work as a waitress and Dan's as an electrician, they have raised their now-teenage children with... Read More
The University of Virginia Health System: The Next Generation of Quality Care and Patient Safety (B)
OM-1610 | Published May 15, 2019 | 21 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case, a follow-up to "The University of Virginia Health System: The Next Generation of Quality Care and Patient Safety (A)" (UVA-OM-1608) continues to follow the University of Virginia Health Sys... Read More
Team Dynamics at Initech
OB-0876 | Published September 18, 2006 Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Someone wise once said, "A job worth doing is worth doing together." Yet why is it so difficult to work together as a team? This case presents the story of a team whose relationships are strained and ... Read More
Plains Ventures: Investing in the Heartland
OM-1838 | Published | 16 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Justin Wilson, president and managing director of venture capital firm Plains Ventures, faces a critical decision: how to allocate a fund’s capital between two portfolio companies, Lecoeur Labs and Ev... Read More
Philip Morris U.S.A. and Marlboro Friday (A) (Condensed)
M-0657 | Published September 28, 2001 | 4 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is a condensed version of "Philip Morris U.S.A. and Marlboro Friday (A)" (UVA-M-0468). In July 1993, Philip Morris executives met to consider second-quarter data on U.S. tobacco sales. Three... Read More
Wheaties: Reinvigorating an Iconic Brand (A)
M-0828 | Published September 11, 2012 | 7 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case series is taught in Darden's course elective, Managing Consumer Brands. In the spring of 2008, the marketing editor for Wheaties was getting ready for a meeting to discuss ideas about how to... Read More
The Information Dilemma (B)
OB-1347 | Published February 10, 2021 | 1 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. Maria Pérez has be... Read More
From Lab to Market: Navigating Uncertainty
GEM-0235 | Published March 26, 2025 | 6 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case explores how different players in the biotech-pharmaceutical ecosystem manage uncertainty through distinct approaches determined by their resources, capabilities, and strategic positioning. ... Read More
Carly's Car Clinic
F-2007 | Published February 03, 2022 | 3 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This short fictional case considers an investment decision in a new business concept, Carly’s Car Clinic. The investment choice entails two similar stores with correlated outcomes and an option to seq... Read More
The Information Dilemma (A)
OB-1346 | Published February 10, 2021 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. Maria Pérez has b... Read More
And Now The Hard Part: Role-Plays
OB-0965 | Published October 14, 2008 | 13 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
"The diversity lady has a label on her forehead and talks about the standard message," one senior executive at a large corporation said. "It's the same message we got 20 years ago. We do it annually b... Read More
Bed Bath & Beyond: Extracting Cash from the "Meme Stock" Craze
F-2100 | Published | 14 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case introduces Bed Bath & Beyond interim CFO Holly Etlin as she seeks to avoid a bankruptcy move for the retailer in early 2023. The company had just endured a difficult holiday shopping period ... Read More
AMC: A Short Story
F-2067 | Published July 31, 2024 | 23 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
On March 15, 2021, a senior hedge fund analyst was tasked with formulating an investment thesis for AMC Entertainment (AMC). The stock had been highly volatile as the US economy emerged from the COVID... Read More
AMF (A)
OM-0637 | Published April 10, 1988 | 15 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This background case traces the origin and growth of this leisure conglomerate through the point when it was the victim of a hostile takeover by Irwin Jacobs. The case covers the mechanics and termino... Read More
Snow Brand Milk Products (A): Assessing the Possibility for Revitalization
E-0347 | Published February 26, 2010 | 11 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This three-case series, set in Japan, explores corporate responsibility and brand rebuilding in the face of a serious crisis. Suitable for MBA, executive education, and undergraduate students, it depi... Read More
China’s 40 Years of Economic Reforms and Growth
GEM-0227 | Published November 14, 2024 | 37 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
China’s growth from 1978 to 2018 shifted China’s population from extreme poverty to the engine driving the world’s second-largest economy and largest exporter. Could economic theories help explain Chi... Read More
WillowTree: Product Driven with a Project Mindset (B)
S-0446 | Published January 18, 2024 | 9 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case, a follow-up to "WillowTree: Project Driven with a Product Mindset (A)" (UVA-S-0338), examines WillowTree, a digital products company that is navigating the implications of employees returni... Read More
Fostering Employee Engagement at Google Post-Pandemic: To AI or Not to AI?
OB-1413 | Published July 27, 2022 | 10 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case follows Patrice Ju, the new head of business operations for Google's People Development team, as she considers the best way to both attract the best new talent to Google and retain the talen... Read More
AMF (B): The Purchasing of AMF Bowling
OM-0638 | Published April 10, 1989 | 19 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This companion case to "AMF (A)" (OM-0637) covers the leveraged buyout of AMF Bowling by Commonwealth Venture Partners in late 1986. It contains a description of the bowling industry and related trend... Read More
American Home Products: Signal Detection (A)
OB-1377 | Published February 26, 2025 | 5 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case set examines the challenges that leaders at American Home Products Corporation (AHP) face after evidence surfaces regarding potentially fatal side effects of two of its drugs: Pondimin (fenf... Read More
UVA Hospital: Predicting Patient Discharge
QA-0975 | Published | 9 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This field-based case was developed through interviews with individuals at the University of Virginia (UVA) Health System. It follows John Ainsworth, administrator of analytics, as he and his team tac... Read More
Returning to Redmond? Exploring Equity in Hybrid Work Environments at Microsoft
E-0497 | Published | 7 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This public-sourced case is based on a series of decisions Microsoft and other US-based technology companies made between 2021 and 2022 related to hybrid and return-to-office work policies coming out ... Read More
Century National Bank, N.A.
OM-0761 | Published March 08, 2001 | 3 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Concerned with rising labor costs, Century National Bank, N.A., hires a management consulting firm to implement the profit-improvement program (PIP). After one year, potential savings in its three lar... Read More
MBA Recruiting Dynamics
S-0394 | Published | 7 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
These caselets feature fictionalized protagonists compiled from interviews with numerous Darden first- and second-year students. They were written to surface real tensions in the MBA recruiting proces... Read More
Chrysler Group Supplier Cost Reduction Program (A)
OM-1064 | Published March 24, 2003 | 20 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Chrysler's innovative supplier cost reduction (SCORE) program had made over $7 billion in savings for Chrysler during the 1990s, but issues of program management are raised after the 1998 merger with ... Read More
American Home Products: Signal Detection (B)
OB-1378 | Published February 26, 2025 | 4 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case set examines the challenges that leaders at American Home Products Corporation (AHP) face after evidence surfaces regarding potentially fatal side effects of two of its drugs: Pondimin (fenf... Read More
Uber: #WhatDoYouDo?
OB-1218 | Published June 26, 2018 | 9 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This public-sourced case is based on a 2017 blog post by a former Uber employee, Susan Fowler, in which she was brutally honest about the sexual harassment, the sexism, the bro culture, and the failur... Read More
Pajama Challenges in a Medical Practice: Is AI the Answer? (Abridged)
OM-1836 | Published March 27, 2025 | 5 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Denise Roebell, director of the Garfield Community Physicians Group (GCPG), had just finished the notes from her Friday morning clinic and, at 8 p.m., turned to what felt like a never-ending stream of... Read More
Backcountry.com and Leveraging Data Analytics
OM-1771 | Published October 05, 2022 | 15 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This field-based case follows Chris Purkey, the senior vice president of sales and customer service at Backcountry.com, in his journey to use data analytics to improve customer engagement in the outdo... Read More
The EU’s Banking Union: Is it Doomed?
GEM-0226 | Published September 24, 2024 | 27 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Since 2014, the European Union (EU) had been trying to establish a single banking union based on three pillars—supervision, resolution, and depositor insurance. While EU member states had quickly agre... Read More
You Can't Tell Anyone (B)
OB-1406 | Published July 15, 2022 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case set is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. Tom Patton is... Read More
Beau Ties Ltd. of Vermont
OM-0836 | Published December 04, 1996 | 11 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Bill Kenerson, the owner-operator of a retail bow-tie business faces two decisions. The first is whether to bring production of bow ties in-house. The second concerns his telephone-order- entry system... Read More
The Good Feet Store: Sponsoring College Athletes in the Name, Image, and Likeness (NIL) Era
M-1050 | Published May 20, 2024 | 18 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case introduces the challenges and decision criteria for businesses seeking to sponsor student athletes in the advent of the National Collegiate Athletic Association's (NCAA's) landmark decision ... Read More
DuckDuckGo: Who's Flocking to This Search Engine?
M-1052 | Published May 30, 2024 | 16 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
A marketing strategy lead at the search engine DuckDuckGo (DDG) is confronted with two separate instances of potentially damaging publicity: first, a news article alleging that compared to Google, DDG... Read More
nPlan: Breaking Biases in Project Planning
QA-0969 | Published February 23, 2024 | 16 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Richard Palczynski, leader of the Transpennine Route Upgrade (TRU) project, had devoted the better half of the past five years to co-championing this project with senior leadership at Network Rail, th... Read More
The Room Where It Happened: The Unlikely Origin of the Modern Impact Investing Movement
F-2094 | Published February 21, 2025 | 25 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In October 2007, Antony Bugg-Levine, managing director at the Rockefeller Foundation, brought together an international group of investors to discuss an ambitious proposal: using global capital market... Read More
Harry and Learning Team 28
OB-0804 | Published March 15, 2004 | 6 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
With so many team-driven activities for students in the fast-paced, high-pressure environment of a business school, students need to have an opportunity to discuss the issues and dilemmas that may ari... Read More
Streaming the Future: Netflix's Global Expansion
S-0345 | Published | 18 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is set in the rapidly changing and technologically emerging industry of on-demand streaming video, which offers Netflix a number of strategic choices. For instance, strategies can involve ch... Read More
Apple Inc.: The Future of the Mac
S-0340 | Published October 08, 2020 | 15 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case uses Apple Inc. (Apple) and its Mac line of personal computers (PCs) to allow for an analysis of competitive positioning and the building of sustainable competitive advantage. In spring 2020... Read More
Williams Controls (A)
S-0190 | Published July 11, 2011 | 10 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Williams Controls CEO, John Easton, has outlined the new strategic plan he wants to put in place to improve the company's market opportunities and accelerate its growth. The plan involves embarking on... Read More
Wahoo Fitness: Segmentation and Data Insights
M-1025 | Published | 16 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This field-based case describes Wahoo Fitness’s (Wahoo’s) data-collection process, focusing especially on the customer survey it used to gain insights into its current and potential customers. One mon... Read More
AB InBev’s Dividend Decision
F-1907 | Published August 26, 2019 | 24 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In 2018, AB InBev faced a difficult decision: whether to keep its $8 billion dividend program or cut dividends either partially or in full. This case facilitates a theoretical discussion and practical... Read More
The Summer Program at Portsmouth Abbey
C-2358 | Published June 08, 2015 | 8 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In February 2014, Tim Seeley reflected on his recent conversation with the headmaster of Portsmouth Abbey School. Seeley had been running the school's summer program since 2012. The summer program had... Read More
Navigating a Sea of Golf Sponsorships
BC-0310 | Published September 20, 2024 | 11 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In this professional golf case study, the protagonist is considering sponsorship opportunities from companies interested in supporting her Ladies' Professional Golf Association (LPGA) career. It inclu... Read More
Astral Records Ltd., North America: Some Financial Concerns
F-1065 | Published August 22, 1994 | 9 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
A new CEO from outside the firm takes over following the sudden death of the former CEO. Included in the new CEO's inbox are pressing decisions concerning (1) the firm's financing needs, (2) capital e... Read More
Town Center at King of Prussia
F-2011 | Published August 08, 2024 | 15 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Basha Augustyn, a financial analyst at Retail Development Co. (RDC), has been tasked with evaluating a potential partnership with Lifetime Insurance for developing the King of Prussia Town Center. RDC... Read More
From Stuffing to Streamlining: Pharmaceutical Distribution
F-1859 | Published April 22, 2019 | 17 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case uses the streamlining of pharmaceutical distribution to explore supply-chain coordination. For years, supply-chain inventory information had been opaque. Then in the early 2000s, pharmaceuti... Read More
British Petroleum, Ltd.
F-1263 | Published March 21, 2000 | 26 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is one of a pair of cases used in a merger negotiation. It is designed to be used with "Amoco Corporation" (UVA-F-1262). One-half of the class prepares only the Amoco case, and one-half uses... Read More
This Bud's for Who? The Battle for Anheuser-Busch
F-1717 | Published September 04, 2014 | 13 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The Anheuser-Busch InBev case represents a major cross-border M&A transaction. Because the material covers a large, well-known transaction involving food and beverage companies, students can focus on ... Read More
Tiffany & Co.: The LVMH Proposal and LVMH: The Tiffany Acquisition -- Merger Negotiation Application (SIMULATION)
F-2015 | Published April 22, 2022 | 1 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The cases “Tiffany & Co.: The LVMH Proposal” (UVA-F-2012) and “LVMH: The Tiffany Acquisition” (UVA-F-2013) serve as two sides of a merger negotiation exercise set in October 2019. Students are asked... Read More
Outsourcing, Near-sourcing, and Supply Chain Flexibility in the Apparel Industry (A)
QA-0854 | Published October 14, 2016 | 5 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Timm 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 roo... Read More
Outsourcing, Near-sourcing, and Supply Chain Flexibility in the Apparel Industry (B)
QA-0855 | Published October 14, 2016 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Timm 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 roo... Read More
Rough Seas for ChenMed (A)
QA-0920 | Published July 26, 2021 | 11 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic is looming. Gordon Chen, MD, the chief medical officer of ChenMed, a family-owned company committed to delivering primary care to the oldest and most vulnerable pa... Read More
The Human Factor: Social Engineering and Cybersecurity at the University of Virginia
S-0452 | Published July 16, 2024 | 11 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case explores the challenges faced by the University of Virginia (UVA) in defending against sophisticated social engineering cyberattacks. Despite proactive measures, UVA Chief Information Securi... Read More
CarMax: Driving What's Possible
S-0317 | Published | 14 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
CarMax, based in Richmond, Virginia, is the largest retailer of used cars in the United States. Over the past several years leading up to 2019, CarMax has undergone a major digital transformation, int... Read More
The Multichannel Challenge at Natura in Beauty and Personal Care (C): Digital Transformation and Toward a Fintech Business
M-1023 | Published | 18 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
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... Read More
Sanofi-Aventis's Tender Offer for Genzyme
F-1716 | Published October 22, 2014 | 24 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In October 2010, Henri Termeer, the chairman and CEO of Genzyme, received a letter from the CEO of Sanofi-Aventis announcing its intention to commence a tender offer for Genzyme. Termeer thought the o... Read More
Toxic for Teens? Navigating a Career in the Social Media Industry (B)
OB-1396 | Published | 4 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. Gia is an early-car... Read More
RadNet, Inc.: Financing an Acquisition
F-1652 | Published August 05, 2011 | 22 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case examines issues surrounding the choice of financing arrangements for the acquisition of Radiologix in July 2006. The case follows Mark Stolper, the CFO of RadNet, as he considers how to rais... Read More
Starbucks Corporation: The New S-Curves
S-0239 | Published September 05, 2014 | 24 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
By the end of fiscal year (FY) 2010, Starbucks's painful, three-year transformation agenda was essentially complete. Starbucks began FY11 poised to focus on a new blueprint for growth described by CEO... Read More
Programming a "Fairer" System: Assessing Bias in Enterprise AI Products (A)
OB-1340 | Published | 5 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. In this case, Timot... Read More
Corteva Agriscience: Communicating R & D Strategy to a Global Organization
BC-0275 | Published April 30, 2021 | 29 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case explores Corteva Agriscience’s (Corteva’s) research and development (R & D) organization, and the work of Wendy Srnic, global leader of Integrated Field Sciences (IFS); Kate Irvin, Corteva’s... Read More
Smithfield Foods: Activists and Acquisitions
S-0308 | Published April 01, 2019 | 20 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This research-based case uses the circumstances surrounding Virginia-based Smithfield Foods' (Smithfield's) buyout offers from multiple foreign firms to examine the political and cultural constraints ... Read More
Leading Organic Growth: Module Caselets
BP-0541 | Published June 30, 2009 | 32 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This is a series of 12 short caselets profiling individual growth leaders that—used in conjunction with "Business Model Innovation: A Process Model" (UVA-BP-0538)—will help students evaluate business ... Read More
Cavalier Hospital
F-1696 | Published June 11, 2013 | 14 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
A midsize community hospital must choose a strategy to compete with an expanding regional rival. The strategy, focused on acquiring patient volume, includes expanding investment into integrated care, ... Read More
The Multichannel Challenge at Natura in Beauty and Personal Care (A)
M-0943 | Published August 02, 2017 | 18 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Faced with declining market share and sales between 2014 and 2016, Natura, at the time Brazil’s second-largest brand in the cosmetics, fragrances, and toiletries market, was expanding its customer rea... Read More
Climate Risk and Banking: Citi’s Net-Zero Future
F-2024 | Published October 18, 2022 | 32 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
On her first day as the new CEO of Citigroup Inc. (Citi), Jane Fraser announced Citi’s commitment to net-zero greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) by 2050. The case examines the implications of such a decis... Read More
Recommendation Algorithms and Politics on Social Media (B)
OB-1400 | Published July 28, 2022 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case set is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. Dax Enzo is the... Read More
Choosing a Bank Account
F-1893 | Published August 22, 2019 | 12 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case simulates the decision of choosing a bank account through the eyes of a new couple on the verge of getting married. Bill Donlon has no prior experience in banking, choosing instead to accumu... Read More
Recommendation Algorithms and Politics on Social Media (A)
OB-1399 | Published | 5 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case set is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. Dax Enzo is the... Read More
The Curious Case of the Disputed Rabbits
OM-1618 | Published April 17, 2019 | 6 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Service systems are inherently subject to variability, whether through customers, service providers, suppliers, or unexpected events. Yet customers demand excellence and consistency regardless of this... Read More
Takeover! 1997 (B): The Raider: Continental Finance Corporation
F-1171 | Published March 03, 1997 | 49 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The B case, part of a series of cases that simulate a hostile-takeover attempt involving four companies in January 1997 (see also the A [F-1170], C [F-1172], and D [F-1173] cases), focuses on the raid... Read More
Longview Services
ENT-0170 | Published February 17, 2012 | 4 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
John Mangum is a partner in Longview Services (Longview), an engineering consulting firm he began with his friend and former coworker, Frank Edmonds. The firm has seen steady growth over the past few ... Read More
Value Line Publishing, October 2002
F-1403 | Published November 21, 2002 | 13 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case follows the performance review and financial-statement-forecasting decisions of a Value Line analyst for the retail building-supply industry in October 2002. The case contrasts the strong op... Read More
Toxic for Teens? Navigating a Career in the Social Media Industry (A)
OB-1395 | Published | 7 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. Gia is an early-car... Read More
Bill Ritter (A)
OB-0598 | Published October 15, 1996 | 5 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
A new supervisor in a managed health care facility created from a merger wrestles with taking charge and dealing with human resource problems for the first time. See also the B case (UVA-OB-0599).... Read More
Target Corporation (SPANISH)
F-1937 | Published | 20 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This is a Spanish translation of the March 22, 2016, version of UVA-F-1563. Students are in the role of Target Corporation's CFO considering the pros and cons of a variety of capital-investment propos... Read More
Rough Seas for ChenMed (B)
QA-0921 | Published July 26, 2021 | 4 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In March 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic is looming. Gordon Chen, MD, the chief medical officer of ChenMed, a family-owned company committed to delivering primary care to the oldest and most vulnerable pa... Read More
Hilton: Tru to Its Brand?
F-1852 | Published October 29, 2018 | 16 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Tripp McLaughlin was senior director of brand management at Hilton Worldwide in McLean, Virginia, when the company decided to explore growth through the launch of a new midscale brand in 2015. McLaugh... Read More
(Still) Fighting the Financial Crisis of 2008: Ten Years Later
F-1838 | Published July 27, 2018 | 34 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Set in the spring of 2018, the US Congress contemplated changes to the Dodd-Frank Act in an effort to improve financial regulation in the United States. The case offers details on the slow recovery fr... Read More
Value Stream Mapping at SysInteg (A)
OM-1369 | Published April 03, 2009 | 16 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case focuses on the application of Value Stream Mapping as a means of identifying waste in a supplier's logistics- services activities. Students are given the information needed to construct a Va... Read More
Euro Disneyland S.C.A.: The Project Financing
F-1034 | Published March 22, 1993 | 23 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In 1989, the Walt Disney Company financed its major European theme park and real estate development using a variety of financing tools and techniques that, when bundled together, amounted to a project... Read More
Managed Document Services at Xerox: Handle with Care
OB-1321 | Published July 23, 2020 | 11 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This public-sourced case offers an opportunity to explore how to think about and approach a change that involves numerous complex issues, including new products, different competitors, cultural compla... Read More
Marriott Rooms Forecasting
QA-0389 | Published April 08, 1989 | 6 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The manager of a large downtown hotel has to decide whether to accept 60 additional reservations or not. If she accepts, she will be overbooked and face certain costs if all the people holding reserva... Read More
Hedge Fund Pitch and Persuasion (B)
BC-0273 | Published April 18, 2019 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This field-based case uses the experiences of an equity analyst at his first job post-MBA to explore challenges of persuading a boss to support an action that the analyst determined would benefit the ... Read More
A Partner for Mary Washington: Glide with Cerner or Chart a New Path with Epic (A)
OM-1731 | Published November 09, 2021 | 7 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case set focuses on a health system undergoing transformation and change. In 2015, Mary Washington Healthcare is the latest health care organization to plan to upgrade its electronic health recor... Read More
Counterfeits and E-Commerce: Why Even Build It?
OM-1753 | Published February 28, 2022 | 8 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This public-sourced case set in early 2021 examines the role counterfeiting has come to play in e-commerce, specifically at Amazon, which represents over one-third of the US online market. The case's ... Read More
The Depression of 1920–1921 and the Return to “Orthodoxy” (A)
F-1890 | Published October 15, 2019 | 38 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In March 1921, the Federal Reserve Board (FRB) wrestled with setting monetary policy during a severe economic contraction, called by many a depression. FRB members disagreed over whether to respond to... Read More
The Panic of 1791: Hamilton's Reports and the Rise of Faction (B)
F-1784 | Published November 07, 2017 | 10 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
On December 5, 1791, Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton presented to Congress his "Report on the Subject of Manufactures," which proposed significant government support for nascent American ... Read More
Washington Enterprises, Inc.: Pro Forma Financial Statements
C-2495 | Published February 21, 2025 | 7 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
A newly hired analyst at a boutique investment bank, Jenny Smith, is tasked with preparing pro forma financial statements for Washington Enterprises, Inc. (WEI). Smith must construct these pro forma s... Read More
Peerless Potato Chips
OB-1370 | Published June 02, 2021 | 13 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The Peerless Potato Chip Company (Peerless) is a private-label, family-owned-and-operated, national potato chip manufacturer specializing in organic chips. The CEO, Kate Kelly, had been with the compa... Read More
Wilson Family Foundation
F-1899 | Published February 28, 2020 | 10 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
An up-and-coming staffer at a small family foundation was considering whether to recommend a corporate bond investment to the foundation’s investment committee. Her exploration was inspired by an arti... Read More
National Railroad Passenger Corporation ("Amtrak"): Acela Financing
F-1363 | Published January 28, 2001 | 11 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In the late 1990s, the National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) faced a rude awakening as Congress stipulated that it eliminate its reliance on federal subsidies by 2002. In response, Amtrak d... Read More
Trump v. Twitter, et al.
S-0360 | Published November 23, 2021 | 16 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
During a 30-day window between late May and late June of 2020, President Donald Trump earned international attention not only for the content he posted to social media sites such as Twitter, but also ... Read More
Repositioning Axon Enterprise (A)
F-2003 | Published August 10, 2022 | 21 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In November 2017, Axon Enterprise, Inc. (Axon), was amid transforming from a simple manufacturing company focused almost exclusively on its market leading TASER-brand conducted energy weapons (CEWs) f... Read More
Bitcoin: Investment or Illusion?
F-1819 | Published December 08, 2017 | 18 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The case describes a hypothetical hedge fund manager who is examining whether to invest in bitcoin. The case discusses potential risks and rewards of investing in bitcoin, the role of bitcoin and digi... Read More
Boulevard Sandwiches, Inc. (A)
C-2433 | Published January 14, 2020 | 5 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Carla Thomas, the owner of Boulevard Sandwiches, is preparing to meet with Alan Philips, the new manager of Boulevard Sandwiches, Inc., Unit No. 2, in mid-December 2017. The primary purpose of this me... Read More
Bond Buyback at Deutsche Bank
F-1790 | Published March 13, 2017 | 23 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The case describes a 2016 debt buyback transaction for Deutsche Bank, a major, global, systemically important bank. The case focuses on the large, global bank during a turbulent period, giving student... Read More
The Multichannel Challenge at Natura in Beauty and Personal Care (B): Building a Successful Digital and Omnichannel Transformation
M-1022 | Published December 15, 2021 | 16 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
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 grou... Read More
Introduction to Consolidation Accounting: Google's Acquisition of Waze
C-2354 | Published August 26, 2015 | 8 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
When Google purchased Israel-based Waze on June 11, 2013, many wondered how the quirky start-up had even gotten noticed. The answer was its product, an app launched from Ra'anana, Israel, that connect... Read More
The Business Valuation (B)
OB-1408 | Published | 1 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case set is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. Isabel is a you... Read More
The Fine Art of Financing: The JPMorgan Private Bank and Lending Against Art
F-1760 | Published May 26, 2016 | 14 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Due to an increase in the number of wealthy individuals the demand for artwork had increased, and artwork was considered an investment asset. Artwork was listed as a “treasure asset” or an “investment... Read More
The Federal Reserve and Goldman Sachs: Mike Silva
OB-1078 | Published November 24, 2015 | 9 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Mike Silva, the NY Fed's senior supervisory officer for Goldman Sachs, is having trouble with Carmen Segarra, a recently hired bank examiner who reports to Silva. The two disagree about whether Goldma... Read More
Tao & Willis, Inc.: Inventory Accounting Methods
C-2384 | Published July 27, 2016 | 5 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
An executive with Tao & Willis, Inc. (TW), is faced with choosing an inventory accounting method for a new Brazilian subsidiary of a U.S.-based company. Students are asked to assess the different prof... Read More
Research Affiliates and Dynamic Multifactor Strategies: Time to Time? (PORTUGUESE)
F-2083 | Published April 24, 2024 | 23 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This is a Portuguese translation of the August 11, 2021 version of UVA-F-1988. This case explores the dynamic allocation approach to investing, an approach that would time the market based on factors’... Read More
Repositioning Axon Enterprise (B): Financing the Future of Police Reform
F-2004 | Published August 10, 2022 | 12 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case on Axon Enterprise, Inc. (Axon), highlights what the company’s CFO and head of investor relations told attendees at Axon’s Investor Day in November 2017. It also describes a follow-on offeri... Read More
Product Development at StubHub: Don't Stop Believin'
OM-1705 | Published | 12 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Arnie Katz, chief product and technology officer at StubHub (SH), was helping to lead a contest intended to result in innovative and valuable new ideas. Product managers presented more than 100 new bu... Read More
The University of Virginia Health System (B): Are Service Lines the Answer?
OM-1834 | Published May 19, 2025 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Tracey Hoke, MD, chief of quality and performance improvement for the University of Virginia Health System (UVAHS), is deciding how to better achieve organizational goals in safety and quality. UVAHS ... Read More
Analytics at Spetses Shipping: Navigating the Waves of Uncertainty
QA-0977 | Published August 22, 2024 | 6 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In this case, a shipping broker must decide where to relocate his tanker to find new cargo. The ship is currently based in the United Kingdom, and he can either send it to the Baltic or the Mediterran... Read More
Autonomous Mobile Robots and Amazon Operations
OM-1831 | Published April 01, 2025 | 10 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case explores the strategic and operational implications of expanding the use of autonomous mobile robots (AMRs) at Amazon.com, Inc. (Amazon), beyond warehouse automation, moving into last-mile d... Read More
Managing Virtual Teams (A)
BC-0210 | Published October 25, 2007 | 4 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Karl Henderson was a senior manager at Metrionic Systems, a Santa Clara, California-based provider of networking solutions. During his time there, he had worked on and managed various cross-functional... Read More
The Third Battle of Bull Run: The Disney's America Theme Park (B)
BC-0178 | Published January 29, 2001 | 5 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In the A case, Disney CEO Michael Eisner pondered whether to go forward with his plans for a U.S. history theme park called Disney's America, in Virginia. The case depicts the origins of the Disney i... Read More
Fiat and Chrysler: Gaining on Global Automakers?
M-0780 | Published October 06, 2009 | 20 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case examines the formation of an alliance between Fiat and Chrysler during the height of the financial crisis as a mechanism to save Chrysler from liquidation. The case traces the events leading... Read More
Kitchenware.com
OM-1600 | Published July 25, 2018 | 5 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The 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, cou... Read More
Driverless Trucks at Ford: Cruising into a Compromised Brand Identity?
M-0967 | Published January 31, 2019 | 24 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Ford's F-Series of trucks were first introduced in 1948, and ever since they have represented American identity for their consumers. Both earned media, in movies like Urban Cowboy, and Ford's paid med... Read More
Trump Says the WTO is a Disaster
GEM-0152 | Published February 07, 2018 | 14 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In 2017, it was a challenge to assess the future of global trade. It was an open question whether the US financial crisis and the recession that it triggered would mark a turning point for the liberal... Read More
Wells Fargo Circles the Wagons: Communicating during a Crisis
BC-0263 | Published July 12, 2017 | 22 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In October 2016, Timothy Sloan, the newly appointed CEO of American banking giant Wells Fargo, faced a massive public-relations crisis. A few weeks earlier, a United States government agency had annou... Read More
Leading Innovation at Kelvingrove (B)
S-0163 | Published September 26, 2009 | 4 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case series explores the leadership story of director Mark O'Neill as he oversees a major innovation initiative at Kelvingrove, Scotland's most visited museum. The A case describes his background... Read More
Twitter, Inc.: Deal on Hold
QA-0965 | Published January 03, 2025 | 10 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case puts students in the shoes of Chas Cocke, founder and portfolio manager of investment fund LB Partners (LB) as he evaluates the risks around investing in Twitter, Inc. (Twitter), stock in mi... Read More
Erika James: The Life and Career of an Associate Professor
OB-0957 | Published July 17, 2008 | 14 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Erika James had been in academe for nine years and was a tenured associate professor at the Darden School when she was asked to be the Associate Dean for Diversity, a new position at the school. She d... Read More
Orion Controls (B)
QA-0603 | Published November 01, 2002 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Avion is interested in a new valve to manage the highly volatile phenol in its production process. Avion and Orion strike a deal for Orion to try to produce these valves. There are time, engineering, ... Read More
AMF (C): The Turnaround Of AMF Bowling
OM-0639 | Published April 10, 1988 | 12 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case follows OM-0637 and OM-0638. After the leveraged buyout of AMF Bowling is complete, management has to develop a plan for improving cash flow in order to repay loans. The case outlines area-m... Read More
Balancing Social Goals and Financial Viability: "Both Have to Coexist and Work Well—No Point Cribbing About It" (A)
OB-1138 | Published February 28, 2010 | 12 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. In this case, a c... Read More
LG Investments, LLC: A Family Business in Generational Transition (B)
ENT-0124 | Published September 24, 2009 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is suitable for courses in entrepreneurship and managing small or family businesses. It follows ENT-0123, the (A) case, and raises further issues about family demands for larger dividends, f... Read More
Boulevard Sandwiches, Inc. (B)
C-2434 | Published January 14, 2020 | 5 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Alan Philips has just completed his first year as manager of Boulevard Sandwiches, Inc., Unit No. 2. Actual profit for the year was well below budgeted profit. Philips is preparing for a meeting with ... Read More
The Dynamis Fund: An Energy Hedge Fund
F-1337 | Published July 16, 2001 | 12 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Fred Bocock was examining the performance of the Energy Hedge Fund and the Energy Portfolio, a hedge fund and a mutual fund respectively, which he manages. Bocock had become increasingly aware that ab... Read More
SEC versus Goldman Sachs (A)
GEM-0101 | Published October 27, 2010 | 26 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In April 2010, the SEC brought fraud charges against Goldman Sachs for its structuring and marketing of Abacus 2007-AC1, a complex mortgage-related security. Less than two years after the onset of the... Read More
Developing the Workforce of the Future
OB-1391 | Published May 05, 2022 | 1 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This fictional caselet puts you in the role of a senior company leader who has just seen data estimating that more than one in three workers worldwide may need to change their skill mix by 2030. With ... Read More
Hedge Fund Pitch and Persuasion (A)
BC-0272 | Published April 18, 2019 | 6 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This field-based case uses the experiences of an equity analyst at his first job post–MBA to explore challenges of persuading a boss to support an action that the analyst determined would benefit the ... Read More
East Tacoma Works
C-2001 | Published January 25, 1991 | 5 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is useful as an initial case pertaining to a typical capital-budgeting process and a straightforward analysis. Behavioral issues deal with the committal to savings, and the analysis lends it... Read More
Sampson Paint Manufacturing Company
G-0564 | Published January 14, 2004 | 22 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Driving home from the Sampson Paint Manufacturing Company on a beautiful spring afternoon, David Finster reviewed the question of whether he should purchase the business. Four months earlier on Decemb... Read More
W. R. Grace & Co. and the Neemix Patent (A)
E-0157 | Published June 10, 1997 | 11 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Neemix is a natural biopesticide developed by W. R. Grace from the neem tree, which is indigenous to rural India. Because of its medicinal and religious use by rural Indians for more than 1,000 years,... Read More
The "What If" Effects of an Income Tax Rate Change: A Deferred Tax Focus
C-2448 | Published August 06, 2021 | 10 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
A change in the corporate US federal income tax rate necessitates an adjustment to a company’s balance sheet deferred tax account. Stephanie Allen has been tasked with determining the projected effect... Read More
Emerson Electric Company ACP Division: The Fan Subpack Sourcing Decision
OM-0631 | Published April 10, 1988 | 20 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The consumer-products division of a multinational company is facing a decision on the sourcing of product components: whether to stay in Taiwan or switch to Mexico. See also the supplement to this cas... Read More
Progressive Insurance
M-0633 | Published March 28, 1989 | 12 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Since the late 1980s, Progressive Casualty Insurance Company has maintained a strong position in the nonstandard auto-insurance market (auto insurance for high-risk drivers). Progressive's goals in th... Read More
Eastman Tritan Product Development and Launch
OM-1540 | Published July 31, 2015 | 5 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In 2007, Eastman Chemical (Eastman), a global specialty chemicals company based in Kingsport, Tennessee, was set to launch Tritan, Eastman’s latest specialty plastic. The development team was excited ... Read More
Nelson Nurseries
F-1944 | Published March 27, 2020 | 4 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case captures the problems concerning cash flow and working-capital management typical of small, growing businesses. At the end of 2020, Roger and Christine Barton have completed their third year... Read More
A Guide to Taxation and Management Decisions
C-2185 | Published August 09, 2004 | 19 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This guide provides an overview of tax planning, the tax system, and tax laws. It can be used as a supplement to "Taxes and Business Strategy: A Planning Approach," by Myron Scholes, Mark Wolfson, Mer... Read More
Chrysler Group Supplier Cost Reduction Program (B)
OM-1065 | Published March 24, 2003 | 12 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Describes Chrysler Automotive company's innovative SCORE (Supplier Cost Reduction) program, credited with over $7 billion in savings for Chrysler during the 1990s and raises issues of program manageme... Read More
AMF (D): The Decentralization of AMF Bowling
OM-0640 | Published April 10, 1989 | 10 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Once short-term cash flow has improved (see OM-0637, OM-0638, and OM-0639), management at AMF is able to focus on long-term strategy. Four distinct technologies within the company suggest decentraliza... Read More
Merck & Company: Product KL-798
QA-0582 | Published July 09, 2001 | 4 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Merck has been approached by a small biotech research firm with the proposal that Merck buy the rights to a new drug that promises to treat obesity and lower cholesterol. The drug is in the middle of ... Read More
Cost of the Cold Chain: Perishable Shipping Solutions
OM-1700 | Published October 09, 2020 | 20 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
As he closed the books on September 2020, Mark Nelson breathed a sigh of relief. He and his business partners had just successfully raised $8.7 million of capital for their business venture, Perishabl... Read More
Diamond Chemicals PLC (B): Merseyside and Rotterdam Projects
F-1352 | Published February 14, 2001 | 6 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
These two cases consider the capital investment decisions to be made by executives of this large chemicals firm in January 2001. The A case presents a go/no-go project evaluation regarding improvement... Read More
Dooly County Doughnuts
OM-1572 | Published July 10, 2017 | 3 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Dooly County Doughnuts (DCD), a south Georgia based doughnut shop, faces capacity issues as its sales continue to grow. As its doughnuts continue to increase in popularity, DCD must gain a better unde... Read More
Valley Health (A)
OB-1074 | Published May 28, 2015 | 6 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Dr. Felton Wayne, the chief medical officer for North Carolina operations at Valley Health (VH), had been working incredibly hard for the past nine months trying to motivate and empower his medical st... Read More
Harman International and KKR (A)
C-2305 | Published April 15, 2010 | 20 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
When courted by KKR, Harman International was experiencing robust times. After several months of due diligence performed by KKR and its financial and legal partners, KKR announced that Harman Internat... Read More
Chick-fil-A: Bird of a Different Feather
G-0632 | Published March 19, 2013 | 13 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In 2011, sales at Chick-fil-A (CFA) surpassed $4 billion; however due to ownership’s aversion to debt, the pace of expansion was significantly slower than the fast-food-segment average. And the bigges... Read More
Saving Lives with Data Visualizations (B): Charts in the Time of COVID-19
BC-0314 | Published September 20, 2024 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This is a companion case to “Saving Lives with Data Visualizations (A): Charts in the Time of Cholera,” which has students analyze the work of early data scientists as they confronted cholera outbreak... Read More
John Wolford (A)
OB-0167 | Published April 03, 1981 | 8 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
When a former middle manager of a technology manufacturing company becomes a general manager, he finds his new role more stressful. There are complaints from sales reps about delayed shipments to cust... Read More
Inflating Value (A)
OB-1150 | Published February 28, 2010 | 3 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. In this case, an u... Read More
Real Estate Lease for Oilfield Services’ Division in Surgut: Oilfield Services Procurement Manager
E-0511 | Published April 08, 2025 | 6 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In this disguised negotiation case, students take on the role of the procurement manager from Oilfield Services Inc., a global leader in the oilfield services industry. The company is a tenant in an o... Read More
Integrated Circuits
F-2068 | Published August 12, 2024 | 13 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
On January 26, 2022, Dan Yu, treasurer for Integrated Circuits (IC), needed to decide between three financing options for a $200 million acquisition of Safe Technologies. The acquisition would signifi... Read More
Stocks versus Bonds: What Are the Odds?
F-1963 | Published May 06, 2024 | 5 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This fictional case, set in the summer of 2020, focuses on an article in the Wall Street Journal that compares stock and bond returns and notes, to the surprise of many, that about a third of the time... Read More
Oli: Can Artificial Intelligence Support Personal Well-Being?
OB-1465 | Published July 23, 2024 | 19 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Set in March 2024, this case asks students to take the perspective of Oli cofounder and CEO Sathish Gangichetty as he approaches an impact investor for seed funding. Oli is an app that draws on artifi... Read More
Hurricane Sandy and the Guardian Life Insurance Company (A)
OB-1379 | Published May 02, 2025 | 4 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In 2012, Hurricane Sandy damaged key infrastructure throughout New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut, and caused over 7.5 million people to lose electricity. This A case follows Deanna Mulligan, CEO o... Read More
Creating a Corporate Advantage: The Case of the Tata Group
ISB005 | Published February 15, 2013 | 19 pages Case
Collection: Indian School of Business
The Tata group is among the largest diversified business groups in India. The group generated about US$100 billion in revenues in 2011-12 from 90 companies operating in diverse businesses in seven bro... Read More
ProShares Hedge Replication ETF
F-1714 | Published February 19, 2015 | 31 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
At the start of 2014, Joanne Hill was preparing to present at a conference focused on alternative investments for financial advisers. Exhibit 1 provides selected slides from the presentation. Hill wan... Read More
Trusting the Trust Accounts (A)
OB-1182 | Published February 28, 2010 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. Undergraduate sum... Read More
EXECUTING THE BOGIBEEL BRIDGE FOR SOCIAL IMPACT: RISK PLANNING AND MANAGING EARNED VALUE
ISB265 | Published July 23, 2021 | 17 pages Case
Collection: Indian School of Business
The case goes on to describe the enormous challenges involved in building the 4.94 km long Bogibeel Bridge in the North Eastern Region (NER) of India.... Read More
Lorex Pharmaceuticals
QA-0347 | Published April 05, 1986 | 4 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In this case, the managers of quality assurance for a pharmaceutical company must specify a fill target for individual bottles of a new blood-pressure medicine. Higher targets lead to higher material ... Read More
Philip Morris U.S.A. and Marlboro Friday (A)
M-0468 | Published July 17, 1996 | 24 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In July 1993, Philip Morris executives met to consider second-quarter data on U.S. tobacco sales. Three months earlier, the company had announced a 40-cent-per-pack promotion for Marlboro cigarettes, ... Read More
Emerson Electric Company
F-0771 | Published March 28, 1988 | 13 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In the mid-1980s, Emerson Electric looked at possible two-year debt issues in three countries: the United States, Switzerland, and New Zealand. The $65 million to be raised is earmarked for general co... Read More
[NAV]igating PE Performance
F-2089 | Published August 29, 2024 | 15 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case explores E&R Advisors, a multifamily investment management company, as its chief investment officer considers the increasing use by general partners (GPs) of net asset value (NAV) credit fac... Read More
Financial and ESG Performance at Tesla: Accelerating the World’s Transition to Sustainable Energy
C-2486 | Published July 30, 2024 | 11 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In this case, Grace Dagda, an employee at Ceres, a boutique investment adviser, has been asked to provide a client a detailed analysis of Tesla, Inc. The client had expressed strong concerns about the... Read More
Teamwork Turmoil
OB-0897 | Published May 24, 2007 Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Not all groups are teams. That statement certainly applies to the learning team in this case study. Tony Marshall, a second-year learning team mentor, witnessed an interaction with the team last night... Read More
Work Pants Finance: The Miners Go to B-School
C-2453 | Published June 28, 2022 | 6 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is based on the real-life experiences of Matt Miner, who completed his MBA at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business in 2009. After completing his degree, Miner realized that he and his ... Read More
Malaka Spice: Revolutionizing Restaurant Ecosystems for a Sustainable Planet
ISB363 | Published March 27, 2023 | 28 pages Case
Collection: Indian School of Business
The case is set in 2021 and explores the journey of Chiranjeev Restaurant and Foods Pvt. Ltd., located at Koregaon Park, Pune. It has evolved sustainable business practices, delivering innovative orga... Read More
Crossroads (B)
OB-0666 | Published March 09, 1999 | 1 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This series presents the challenges facing the board of directors of a small merchant-banking company in London that is trying to get into the New York market. After hiring an American to develop the ... Read More
Jack Ryan and Palisades Produce: Tough Decisions at Pacific Trust (A)
E-0214 | Published May 10, 2002 | 6 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case frames a common business situation in which the protagonist (in this case a commercial lender who has made a mistake which might cost him his job) is faced with making a decision for which n... Read More
Apologizing at Community Hospital (A)
OB-1136 | Published February 28, 2010 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. Giving Voice to V... Read More
Customer Care at eTOTS.com
M-0649 | Published August 09, 2001 | 7 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The case provides the background for a hands-on data-mining exercise. The purpose of the analysis is to identify high value customers of an online retailer in order to give them VIP treatment. The exe... Read More
Eli Lilly and Company: Globalization, Foreign Tax Credits, and Equipment Leasing
F-1008 | Published July 05, 1992 | 13 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Eli Lilly's Worldwide Treasury organization is integrating the effects of foreign tax credits into its lease-versus-purchase analysis for new equipment. The case serves as a review of discounted-cash-... Read More
Levy Restaurants
S-0155 | Published March 06, 2008 | 21 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Growing from a passive investment in a Chicago delicatessen in 1978, into a national foodservice company by 2007, Levy Restaurants (Levy) served approximately 63 million customers a year at more than ... Read More
DeSouza Family Holdings
QA-0949 | Published August 16, 2022 | 3 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
As CIO of DeSouza Family Holdings, Caroline Erickson managed the family’s investment portfolio—a collection of real estate properties, hotels, several small grocery stores, stocks/bonds, and alternati... Read More
Identifying the VIPs at eTOTS
M-0650 | Published August 09, 2001 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case contains the instructions for a hands-on data-mining exercise. The purpose of the exercise is to identify high value customers of an online retailer in order to give them VIP treatment. The ... Read More
Enron Corporation's Weather Derivatives (A)
F-1299 | Published September 01, 2000 | 12 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
New options on weather from Enron are described, in particular floors, swaps, and caps on heating degree days. An electric utility is considering whether to purchase a weather derivative to offset the... Read More
Philip Morris/Kraft
C-2071 | Published March 12, 1990 | 9 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case requires students to prepare a pro-forma consolidated income statement and a pro-forma consolidated balance sheet to reflect the acquisition of Kraft by Philip Morris, accounted for as a "pu... Read More
Accessory Dwelling Units in California: The Roles of the Private and Public Sectors
GEM-0198 | Published June 21, 2022 | 11 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case examines California’s housing crisis and the growing market for Accessory Dwelling Units (ADUs)—secondary housing units built on single-family primary residential lots—within the state. Cali... Read More
Cialis
M-0685 | Published February 11, 2003 | 17 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Lilly ICOS is preparing to launch Cialis, a prescription drug that treats erectile dysfunction, and executives must decide how to position Cialis against market leader Viagra and recent entrant Levitr... Read More
A Quicksand of Loans: Loan Types
F-1867 | Published May 20, 2019 | 8 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Rachel Moore was an optimistic, cheerful, friendly woman who had recently graduated with a bachelor’s degree in business management. She had used scholarships and grants while working 30 hours a week ... Read More
Credit Where Credit is Due: The Latino Community Credit Union
ENT-0104 | Published December 31, 2008 | 12 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Five years after its launch, the Latino Community Credit Union had made remarkable progress, garnering 40,000 members and $22 million in assets. More extraordinary was the LCCU's customer base: Hispan... Read More
US Migration in Four Acts
GEM-0214 | Published February 22, 2023 | 16 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Immigration is a powerful force shaping a country’s population, and a nation’s immigration policy often reveals who is welcome and who is not. “US Migration in Four Acts” offers an overview of migrati... Read More
Harman International and KKR (B)
C-2311 | Published April 15, 2010 | 6 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case provides the outcome of the scenario provided in the (A) case, C-2305, as KKR tries to get out of the deal with Harman due to its declining profit margins. At stake for KKR is the $225 termi... Read More
Crossroads (A)
OB-0665 | Published March 09, 1999 | 10 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This series presents the challenges facing the board of directors of a small merchant-banking company in London that is trying to get into the New York market. After hiring an American to develop the ... Read More
Apple Inc.: The Second Green Bond (SPANISH)
F-2113 | Published April 10, 2025 | 16 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This is a Spanish translation of the Jan. 10, 2024 version of UVA-F-2022. Lisa Jackson, vice president of Environment, Policy and Social Initiatives at Apple Inc. (Apple) and, previously, the first Af... Read More
Patrick Bugas
OM-1559 | Published November 28, 2016 | 9 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Patrick Bugas must determine a staffing plan to meet targets for average speed of answer (ASA) for a telephone call center. 35,000 records are included in a spreadsheet for student analysis. This ca... Read More
Marriott Corporation
F-0477 | Published March 28, 1982 | 25 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case describes management's sequential reevaluation of Marriott's debt capacity and the decision about how to invest this unused debt. Videotape #5556, "Strategic Leadership," is designed for use... Read More
Reality Equity Partners: An Aircraft Acquisition
G-0660 | Published February 23, 2023 | 18 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case follows Linda Wright, Director of Aviation for a medium-sized real estate company, as she researches purchasing a second aircraft for the firm. Her task is to recalibrate the flight departme... Read More
Anna Pessah: Lean Thinking at Summit Funding (A)
OM-1569 | Published May 12, 2017 | 16 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case was a runner-up in the Decision Sciences Institute (DSI) 2017 case competition. Anna Pessah, process engineer at Summit Funding (Summit), a mortgage-loan-processing company, is reflecting b... Read More
Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Virginia Budgeting: Achieving Bright Futures
C-2462 | Published March 14, 2024 | 10 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case covers strategic financial planning at the Boys & Girls Clubs of Central Virginia (BGCCVA), a nonprofit youth-serving organization with an annual expense budget of $6.7 million. In preparati... Read More
Pravda Asset Management
F-1602 | Published August 26, 2009 | 9 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case examines the importance of forecasting expected returns in asset allocation decisions. Although the case is targeted to MBA students in an investments or portfolio management course, it is a... Read More
Double G Western Wear
C-2288 | Published October 16, 2008 Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Frustrated by not being able to find a pair of red cowboy boots in her size, a Florida woman, who works as a bookkeeper, decides to open her own business with her out-of-work husband. Although the sto... Read More
Novo Nordisk: Focusing the Corporate Brand
BC-0192 | Published December 20, 2004 | 37 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Kare Schultz, COO of Denmark's Novo Nordisk, must choose one of several scenarios for focusing the company's corporate brand. ... Read More
The Backdating Scandal: Who Am I Trying to Persuade? (A)
OB-1123 | Published March 01, 2010 | 3 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. The chairman of t... Read More
Burlington Northern Railroad Company: Equipment Leasing
F-0969 | Published September 16, 1991 Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The director of equipment finance at Burlington Northern Railroad Company must decide if a leveraged-lease proposal is acceptable. The case emphasizes the importance of the lessee's tax status to the ... Read More
Peyton Enterprises
C-2365 | Published August 25, 2015 | 7 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case provides a context wherein a variety of financial accounting issues can be discussed, particularly those related to the multi-period dependence of accounting accruals. A less direct but none... Read More
Robert J. O'Neill, Jr. and the Fairfax County Government (B)
OB-0703 | Published July 18, 2000 | 1 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The A case (UVA-OB-0702) describes the career of Fairfax County (Virginia) Executive Robert O'Neill, who runs one of the highest-per-capita-income counties in the United States. The case discusses the... Read More
The Part-Time Job with a Full-Time Challenge
OB-1162 | Published February 28, 2010 | 1 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. Giving Voice to V... Read More
Classic Tours, Inc.: Financial Projections for Starting a Business
C-2106 | Published August 23, 1994 | 3 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The purpose of this case is to allow students to confront the issues related to starting a new service business, such as evaluation of the business concept, identification of different customer segmen... Read More
Branding the Master Brander (A): Positioning Procter & Gamble's Employer Brand
M-1004 | Published October 12, 2020 | 17 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case provides students with an opportunity to analyze and define a desired positioning for Procter & Gamble's (P&G's) US employer brand. In addition to enabling students to actively engage in ass... Read More
Robert J. O'Neill, Jr. and the Fairfax County Government (A)
OB-0702 | Published July 18, 2000 Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The A case describes the career of Fairfax County (Virginia) Executive Robert O'Neill, who runs one of the highest-per-capita-income counties in the United States. The case discusses the events leadin... Read More
BE Oil
GEM-0161 | Published August 20, 2018 | 5 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Quentin Bell, the owner of a small oil extraction firm, BE Oil, owns the rights to drill on six different wells. Drilling requires substantial up-front costs, and each well has different drilling cost... Read More
MiniScribe Corporation
C-2139 | Published February 24, 1998 | 29 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
MiniScribe manufactured disk drives for personal computers. It stumbled during an industry shake, but was rescued by a turnaround specialist. The turnaround appeared to be spectacular, but it was only... Read More
Neons Fashion LLP (A): A Small Seller on Amazon Marketplace
IIMA-MAR0509(A) | Published October 07, 2019 | 21 pages Case
Collection: Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
Neons Fashion LLP was an entrepreneurial venture of Arthi Ramalingam after completion of her MBA. Arthi had an interest in jewellery since childhood and she decided to focus on design, manufacturing ... Read More
Gibson Insurance Company
C-2237 | Published June 27, 2006 | 10 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case provides students with an opportunity to practice a set of activity-based costing calculations. More importantly, it provides an instructor with the opportunity to challenge students to thin... Read More
Creating a Tentative Talent Development Plan
G-0658 | Published December 21, 2021 | 6 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
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 manag... Read More
Charley's Family Steak House (C)
C-2212 | Published September 06, 2004 | 3 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In this, the third of a three-case series, Alex Pearson, Charley's Family Steak House No. 2 manager, continues to prepare for his upcoming meeting with steak house owner Charley Turner. The purpose of... Read More
Aetna Inc.: Managing Inherent Enterprise Risks Through Stakeholder Management
BC-0218 | Published November 27, 2009 | 20 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Inherent risks or negatives are a critical element of "enterprise risk management" that must be mitigated or dramatically managed through constructive actions to sustain growth and manage reputation. ... Read More
Mack Henley (A)
G-0346 | Published March 08, 1989 | 10 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This series of cases follows a Darden student's career decision and tracks his search process for an acquisition candidate in the retail industry. The (A) case confronts the student's career choice. B... Read More
Preference for Sequences: Rock Loud and Proud Music Set List
QA-0856 | Published January 31, 2017 | 4 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Numerous situations require sequencing objects. Several factors can be taken into account, such as creating contrast, avoiding satiation, satisfying impatience, or managing anticipation and recall. In... Read More
Mack Henley (D)
G-0349 | Published March 08, 1987 | 14 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This series of cases follows a Darden student's career decision and tracks his search process for an acquisition candidate in the retail industry. The (A) case confronts the student's career choice. B... Read More
Development of Project Risk Management System for Progressive Metro Rail Corporation in the National Capital of Emerging Asian Economy (A)
IIMA-PSG0144(A) | Published April 27, 2022 | 19 pages Case
Collection: Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
The case discusses the situation of Mr. Madhavan, Managing Director of the Progressive Metro Rail Corporation, following the mayhem at the constructio... Read More
Disney Theme Parks: Mickey Goes to China?
OM-0898 | Published July 13, 1999 | 10 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Disney must decide whether to build a theme park in China. If the decision is yes, a number of key design decisions must be made.... Read More
UrbanClap: Market Place for On-Demand Services (A)
IIMA-MAR0512(A) | Published May 16, 2020 | 23 pages Case
Collection: Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
UrbanClap was setup in October 2014 to address the opportunity of bringing the workforce from the unorganised sector into the mainstream using the power of technology. It was an on-demand marketplace... Read More
Mack Henley (C)
G-0348 | Published March 08, 1989 | 8 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This series of cases follows a Darden student's career decision and tracks his search process for an acquisition candidate in the retail industry. The (A) case confronts the student's career choice. B... Read More
Required Returns, the Market Risk Premium, and Historical Returns
F-1022 | Published September 03, 1992 | 5 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This technical note discusses the use of historical returns as a guide for estimating forward-looking required returns on equity. The note discusses uses of short- and long-term interest rates plus eq... Read More
Mack Henley (B)
G-0347 | Published March 08, 1987 | 1 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This series of cases follows a Darden student's career decision and tracks his search process for an acquisition candidate in the retail industry. The (A) case confronts the student's career choice. B... Read More
Risk Exposure and Risk Management at Korea First Bank
F-1386 | Published May 13, 2002 | 24 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is ideal for analyzing the currency, liquidity, operating interest-rate, and other types of risk that a bank faces, especially a bank in emerging markets as it was hit during the Asian crisi... Read More
Shanghai Hai Xing Shipping Company
F-1224 | Published July 28, 1998 | 22 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case illustrates the valuation issues one faces when valuing a company in an emerging market. It focuses on the decision by a Chinese company on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange to participate in an ... Read More
Pacific National Industries, Inc.
G-0646 | Published April 18, 2019 | 4 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Eric Walsh, newly promoted director of aviation for Pacific National Industries, Inc. (PNI), is one week away from having to make his very first presentation to the company's COO and CFO. PNI is one o... Read More
FedEx and UPS—The War Continues
M-0689 | Published February 20, 2004 | 15 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case examines both the nature of competition between two formidable firms and how they continue to transform themselves. See also "Package War: FedEx vs. UPS" (UVA-G-0485).... Read More
Bright Books, Inc.: Chapter 2
C-2499 | Published March 05, 2025 | 4 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Bright Books, Inc.—a wholesale bookseller specializing in the education sector—has just completed its second year of operations, and the company's finance director, Joan Spark, must construct a summar... Read More
StreetShares, Inc.: Fintech Platform Lending Business
F-1916 | Published December 17, 2019 | 24 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In November 2017, John Fruehwirth, managing partner of Rotunda Capital Partners (RCP), was considering the final terms of a Series B offer to StreetShares, Inc. (StreetShares), a fintech platform lend... Read More
ServerVault: "Reliable, Secure, and Wicked Fast"
F-1304 | Published October 27, 2000 | 11 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In July 2000, two founders of this new web-hosting company are contemplating raising $5 million to $15 million in a second-round financing from venture capitalists. The task for the student is to fore... Read More
Kelly Services, Inc.
F-0708 | Published March 28, 1991 | 10 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case presents a straightforward repurchase of equity with debt and forces students to decide whether leverage creates value and, if so, under what circumstances. Data in the case encourage studen... Read More
Cafeteria Services at Bharat College of Medicine (A)
OB-1142 | Published February 28, 2010 | 5 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. The dean of a pub... Read More
Developing a Personal Strategy: The Alumni Reunion
S-0355 | Published June 10, 2021 | 5 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case describes the thoughts and reflections of five MBA alumni on their way back to their alma mater for a 20-year reunion event. As invited speakers, they will advise the upcoming graduating cla... Read More
Exercises in the Strategy of Post-Merger Integration
F-1303 | Published October 27, 2000 | 7 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case recounts the announced terms of five prominent acquisitions of the late 1990s, and asks the student to suggest a preliminary strategy for integrating the target firm into the buyer. The five... Read More
Building Products Company
OM-1741 | Published August 31, 2021 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
After a successful first consulting project, Sarah is about start another case. She is tasked with developing a customer segmentation and growth workstream for a building products company that is unde... Read More
Greenland
OB-0581 | Published September 13, 1994 | 22 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The Greenland case describes the experience of four young Norwegian men determined to set a world record for unsupported crossing of Greenland. The case describes the team, their preparations, and the... Read More
Juno Manufacturing, Inc.: Verify Those Asset Figures
C-2325 | Published November 08, 2011 | 3 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The vice president of business development for the Better Living Spaces Company is excited about the prospects of his first acquisition, Juno Manufacturing, Inc., (JMI). He decides it would be prudent... Read More
Devils Backbone Brewing: Integrated Independence?
OM-1616 | Published January 22, 2020 | 16 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case presents a scenario wherein Hayes Humphreys, the Chief Operating Officer of Devils Backbone Brewing Company (DBB), has just attended a quarterly summit held by Anheuser-Busch InBev (ABI) for... Read More
Competition or Collaboration: The Relationship between Businesses
OB-1192 | Published February 28, 2010 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. In this case, a st... Read More
Who’s My Boss? (A)
OB-1184 | Published February 28, 2010 | 3 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. The chief informa... Read More
Disney's Entry into the Streaming Battle
S-0376 | Published May 19, 2022 | 12 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
As of 2019, Netflix is the market leader in the streaming space, spending $17 billion per year on original content. Its award-winning content coupled with its technology of delivery and its highly su... Read More
Online Identities (A) (SPANISH)
OB-1424 | Published August 28, 2022 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This is a Spanish translation of the November 29, 2016 version of UVA-OB-1161. This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please vis... Read More
eBay, Inc. (A)
F-1357 | Published March 22, 1999 | 15 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case examines the Fall 1998 decision of eBay management to proceed with the company's initial public offering during the quietest IPO market in twenty years. In Case A, eBay's Chief Financial Off... Read More
Lone Star Steakhouse
M-0736 | Published March 17, 2006 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is about a restaurant franchisee's flight department that is reexamining its pilot training requirements. It is one of a series of four cases to be used in a value-based selling workshop.... Read More
Fredrick Martin at UVA (A)
OB-1257 | Published September 17, 2018 | 14 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Senior Change Manager Fredrick Martin and the UVA HR leadership team are tasked with the implementation of Ufirst, a project that will merge more than 70 HR programs and 11 distinct HR offices in both... Read More
Value Creation, Net Present Value, and Economic Profit
F-1164 | Published January 10, 1997 | 18 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This technical note compares economic-profit (economic value added) and net-present-value techniques for evaluating corporate investments and performance. The note shows the relationship between the t... Read More
Marcy’s Foods, Inc.
C-2496 | Published February 10, 2025 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In this fictionalized case, Claire Marcy has just finished her first year running Marcy's Foods, Inc., a wholesale supplier of ingredients for the New York City restaurant industry. During the past ye... Read More
Battle For Value: Federal Express Corporation Vs. United Parcel Service Of America, Inc.
F-1115 | Published August 09, 1995 | 33 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Set in July 1995, this case invites students to assess the financial performance of Federal Express and United Parcel Service, two close competitors in the U.S. overnight express package-delivery indu... Read More
Starbucks's Loyalty Reigns
M-0903 | Published February 09, 2016 | 10 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
By July 2015, 20% of Starbucks's payments in the United States came through its mobile app. The company had created a tool to both drive loyalty and grow its customer base. No stranger to innovation, ... Read More
Giberson's Glass Studio
C-2205 | Published November 01, 2004 | 6 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Edward Englehardt Giberson, the proprietor, is a skilled glassblower whose business is on the verge of bankruptcy. He works in his studio almost every day, and his products sell reasonably well. On av... Read More
Social Responsibility or Insanity: The Entrepreneurial Struggle to Build Utah's First Wind Project
OB-1171 | Published February 28, 2010 | 7 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. Entrepreneur mu... Read More
Performance Goals at Tractors, Inc.
C-2443 | Published September 25, 2020 | 4 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case presents the coming year's performance goals as established by Marietta Austin, the new president of Tractors, Inc. (a subsidiary of AA Equipment Corporation [AAEC], a fictional company), al... Read More
Soft Issues in the Software Industry (A)
OB-1172 | Published February 28, 2010 | 6 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please visit http://store.darden.virginia.edu/giving-voice-to-values. Rahul had to make ... Read More
Fighting the Financial Crisis of 2008
F-1833 | Published July 27, 2018 | 34 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Set in January 2009, this case summarizes the events surrounding the financial crisis of 2008 as well as leading theories of its origin. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson must brief the incoming Obama ... Read More
Petrosupra Exploration
QA-0839 | Published July 24, 2015 | 8 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Wilford Marshall is preparing recommendations to Petrosupra Exploration (Petrosupra), an independent oil and gas company, regarding a drilling project in Lafourche Parish, Louisiana, on the Gulf Coast... Read More
Development of Project Risk Management System for Progressive Metro Rail Corporation in the National Capital of Emerging Asian Economy (B)
IIMA-PSG0144(B) | Published April 27, 2022 | 18 pages Case
Collection: Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
The case discusses the detailed microplanning of the risk sources for the PMRC underground corridor metro project. The client, Progressive Metro Rail ... Read More
Fredrick Martin at UVA (B): Crisis Scenarios
OB-1322 | Published July 30, 2020 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Senior Change Manager Fredrick Martin and the UVA HR leadership team are tasked with the implementation of Ufirst, a project that will merge more than 70 HR programs and 11 distinct HR offices in both... Read More
Darden Capital Management: The Cavalier Fund
F-1853 | Published October 04, 2018 | 10 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case examines the investment strategy decisions of a student portfolio management team in April 2017. The case is designed to provide a context for an introduction to the intuition of the Capital... Read More
Tariffs on Tires (A)
GEM-0159 | Published July 31, 2018 | 11 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In September 2009, President Barack Obama announced a hefty tariff on low-cost automobile and light truck tires imported from China. Earlier that year, the United Steelworkers of America, which repres... Read More
Tanishq: Pricing, Retail Selling and Inventory Management of Jewellery
IIMA-MAR0518 | Published November 09, 2020 | 21 pages Case
Collection: Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
The Indian jewellery market is highly fragmented and ruled over by local players. Many unethical practices exist in the jewellery market, like the under caratage of gold, misrepresentation of quality... Read More
Vail Resorts: Planning for the Future of Sustainability Reporting
C-2465 | Published August 15, 2024 | 14 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Kirsten Lynch, newly appointed CEO of Vail Resorts (Vail), needs to decide on a framework for environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reporting. This case is designed to encourage the discussion o... Read More
CREATING AND SUSTAINING A SOCIAL ENTERPRISE: THE VITTALA STORY
ISB121 | Published October 01, 2018 | 17 pages Case
Collection: Indian School of Business
Vittala International Institute of Ophthalmology (Vittala), a not-for-profit orgnization was involved in providing free/highly subsidized eye care to the rural and the economically underprivileged pop... Read More
Wagh Bakri Tea Lounge: Brewing a new Experience
IIMA-MAR0527 | Published June 08, 2022 | 17 pages Case
Collection: Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
Wagh Bakri, a packaged-tea company, started operating tea lounges as a forward integration for the company. The goal was to increase both visibility and physical presence across different locations. ... Read More
Horse Vet, LLC: Transaction Analysis and Statement of Cash Flows Preparation (Option 1)
C-2333 | Published August 09, 2012 | 12 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case pertains to the foundational underpinnings of the accounting process and the statement of cash flows. In Part I, students are presented with 23 business events that they must evaluate for re... Read More
All's Well that Ends Well (A) (SPANISH)
OB-1422 | Published August 28, 2022 | 4 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This is a Spanish translation of the September 22, 2016 version of UVA-OB-1134. This case is part of the Giving Voice to Values (GVV) curriculum. To see other material in the GVV curriculum, please vi... Read More
Account Opening in Blue Bank – Part B: Root Cause Analysis
ISB371 | Published March 31, 2023 | 5 pages Case
Collection: Indian School of Business
The fictional case is set in 2023 when Blue Bank, a rural retail bank, was set up to respond to the economic distress surfacing in the U.S. state of Mississippi.... Read More
Anna Pessah: Lean Thinking at Summit Funding (B)
OM-1583 | Published December 06, 2017 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case, a follow-up to "Anna Pessah: Lean Thinking at Summit Funding (A)" (UVA-OM-1569), contains answers from Anna Pessah about her operations improvement challenges at Summit Funding and what act... Read More
Graphics, Inc.
C-2190 | Published February 06, 2004 | 14 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This competitive bidding game consists of four teams, which can be two to four students. (Several games can be played simultaneously.) Each team runs a printing company that has a capacity of forty pr... Read More
Taxes and the Cannabis Business
OB-1256 | Published September 28, 2018 | 3 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The legal availability and use of marijuana is on the rise. More than half the states in the country allow its use for medical purposes, eight of which also permit it for recreational purposes. The ma... Read More
Virginia Craftsmen, Inc.
G-0286 | Published March 08, 2001 | 18 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is intended to help students understand the complexities in selling or attempting to turn around an unprofitable business. Some of the issues involved are: (1) valuing a private company that... Read More
The Machiavellianism Scale: Mach (V)
OB-0394 | Published April 03, 1991 | 10 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This note contains a modified version of Christie and Geis's (1970) Machiavellianism Scale, which measures leadership and interpersonal style based on opportunism, self-interest, and manipulation. The... Read More
Alpha Architect: Is Momentum Losing Steam?
F-1977 | Published June 28, 2021 | 16 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The case explores the momentum investment strategy of AlphaArchitect, a boutique asset management firm. The protagonist, Wes Grey the CEO of AlphaArchitect, is preparing a potential client presentati... Read More
Panera Bread Company (SPANISH)
F-1827 | Published January 26, 2016 | 8 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This is a Spanish translation of the September 3, 2009 version of UVA-F-1575. As 2007 drew to a close, Panera Bread Company faced a new challenge. To date, it had relied on retained earnings and minor... Read More
Are We Sacrificing by Sacrificing?
OB-1363 | Published October 14, 2021 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The game of baseball offers a team’s manager relatively few tactical decisions to affect their team’s chances of winning on any given day. The manager chooses the batting lineup and where the fielders... Read More
Cost Analysis For Sourcing Alternatives For Emerson Electric Company ACP Division
OM-0823 | Published March 21, 1996 | 6 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This supplement to the case "Emerson Electric Company ACP Division: The Fan Subpack Sourcing Decision" (UVA-OM-0631) contains data from an Excel-spreadsheet model comprising a cost analysis of alterna... Read More
The Wm. Wrigley Jr. Company: Capital Structure, Valuation, and Cost of Capital (SPANISH)
F-1840 | Published January 27, 2016 | 12 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This is a Spanish translation of the Nov. 15, 2005 version of UVA-F-1482. In June 2002, a managing director of an "active investor" hedge fund is considering the possible gains from increasing the deb... Read More
Dim Sum Bonds at Renault S.A.
C-2373 | Published April 13, 2016 | 4 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case explores the accounting for long-term debt from the perspective of the issuer of bonds payable. The global setting involving France-based Renault issuing Chinese yuan-denominated debt in th... Read More
Witzbold Corporation (B)
F-1682 | Published October 26, 2012 | 3 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The CFO of Witzbold Corporation has suddenly realized that the distributors of a significant product line have 2 years' inventory on their shelves. He has to assess how to cure the problem and how to ... Read More
The Horizon Insurance Agency
C-2140 | Published September 25, 1998 Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The basic decision scenario is whether to outsource an internal publishing department. What is initially presented as a comparison of a department's annual operating costs versus an outside contract q... Read More
Managing Inventory: Intuition-Generating Problems
OM-1487 | Published December 14, 2012 Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This problem set introduces the concepts of order quantities and inventory tradeoffs, enabling students to develop intuition around the basic costs involved in inventory thinking. This can be used wit... Read More