Author Profile
Bodily, Samuel E.
Genzyme/Geltex Pharmaceuticals Joint Venture (SPANISH)
Bruner, Robert F. Bodily, Samuel E. Jacquet, Pierre
F-2078 | Published January 12, 2023 | 13 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This is a Spanish translation of the June 29, 2016 version of UVA-F-1254. In March 1997, an executive vice president of Genzyme Corporation must develop the terms by which the $518 billion (revenue) f... Read More
Grappling with Uncertainty: Fintop Technology Advisors
Andrasko, Joe Zorc, Saša Bodily, Samuel E.
QA-0948 | Published July 21, 2022 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Adewale Ogunleye is the founder and CEO of Fintop Technology Advisors, a technology development firm that specializes in providing outsourced software development services to financial technology (fin... Read More
Palmetto Paper (RUSSIAN)
Pfeifer, Phillip E. Bodily, Samuel E. Smith, Raiford
QA-0893 | Published January 19, 2018 | 12 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This is the Russian translation of the August 2005 version of UVA-QA-0657. The manager of a paper plant must decide whether to buy a new electrode boiler to replace a natural gas boiler. The challenge... Read More
Merck & Company: Product KL-798 (SPANISH)
Frey, Sherwood C. Jr. Bodily, Samuel E.
QA-0910 | Published October 11, 2017 | 5 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This is a Spanish translation of the June 14, 2016, version of UVA-QA-0582. Merck has been approached by a small biotech research firm with the proposal that Merck buy the rights to a new drug that pr... Read More
Random Walks (VIDEO PLAYLIST)
QA-0879 | Published July 13, 2017 | Duration 1:33:01 Video Playlist
Collection: Darden School of Business
This series of videos introduces the concept of a random walk and gives the model and specific estimation procedures for three random walks and their application. These videos may be used as an online... Read More
A GLUM Primer: The Risk-Adjusted Expected Value
Pfeifer, Phillip E. Bodily, Samuel E. Baucells, Manel
QA-0849 | Published August 11, 2016 | 9 pages Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
The purpose of this note is to improve on the expected value criterion by incorporating a rational decision-maker's willingness and capability to take on risk. First, this note will review the concept... Read More
The Pelayo Family Plays Roulette
Bodily, Samuel E. Pfeifer, Phillip E. Baucells, Manel
QA-0850 | Published August 11, 2016 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The Pelayo family has been studying roulette wheels and collecting data on tens of thousands of spins. Now the Pelayos have identified a wheel that they want to bet on, which has six numbers that have... Read More
The Pelayo Family Plays Roulette: The Prequel
Pfeifer, Phillip E. Bodily, Samuel E. Baucells, Manel
QA-0847 | Published June 20, 2016 | 1 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The case presents data from 70,340 spins of four roulette wheels: three of which are real ("imperfect") and one of which is simulated ("perfect"). The challenge posed is to identify which of the four ... Read More
Appshop, Inc. (JAPANESE)
QA-0913 | Published March 01, 2016 | 3 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This is a Japanese translation of the August 22, 2003, version of UVA-QA-0618. A regional director of a consulting firm must decide how to compete for a major consulting contract. Appshop can take a l... Read More
Nephila Builds a Portfolio of Weather Risk Transfer Contracts
Bodily, Samuel E. Coleman, D. Matthew
QA-0844 | Published September 23, 2015 | 5 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The weather team at Nephila Capital Ltd. (Nephila) was in the midst of the weather market’s busy winter renewal period. The list of weather risk transfer contracts that needed to be analyzed and price... 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
Picante Mexican Grill: A New Delhi Experience
Raz, Gal Weiss, Elliott N. Venkatesan, Rajkumar Bodily, Samuel E. Yemen, Gerry
OM-1520 | Published August 15, 2014 | 14 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Modeled loosely after the American restaurant chain Chipotle, Picante Mexican Grill seeks to offer fresh and healthy vegetarian fast-food options. The owners of this start-up chain in Gurgaon, India, ... Read More
Real Options (Abridged)
QA-0799 | Published September 20, 2012 | 10 pages Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
This note is an abridged version of QA-0639, "Real Options." Read More
Organizational Use of Decision Analysis
QA-0655 | Published May 13, 2012 | 40 pages Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
We consider three activities that are key to creating value for the organization: making excellent choices, actually bringing about change, and operating effectively with new choices. We recommend a ... Read More
Salmones Puyuhuapi Part II
QA-0777 | Published September 15, 2011 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case series is appropriate for undergraduate, MBA, executive education, and MBA Exec audiences but is specifically designed for decision analysis, a first-year MBA core course. The Part II case a... Read More
Salmones Puyuhuapi Part III
QA-0778 | Published September 15, 2011 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case series is appropriate for undergraduate, MBA, executive education, and MBA Exec audiences but is specifically designed for decision analysis, a first-year MBA core course. The Part III case ... Read More
Salmones Puyuhuapi Part I
Echeverria, Rafael Pfeifer, Phillip E.
QA-0776 | Published September 14, 2011 | 10 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case series is appropriate for undergraduate, MBA, executive education, and MBA Exec audiences but is specifically designed for decision analysis, a first-year MBA core course. In the Part I case... Read More
Chandpur Enterprises Limited, Steel Division
QA-0761 | Published April 06, 2011 Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The managing director of a steel plant faces the decision of how much of each raw material to order for the plant for the following month. Due to lower and upper bounds on the amounts of each raw mate... Read More
Caprica Energy and Its Choices
Harris, Jared Mead, Jenny Adolphson, Donald Carmack, Brad Rogers, James
QA-0765 | Published March 15, 2011 | 24 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Jane Barrow, CEO of Caprica Energy, must recommend to the board which of three potential "unconventional" natural-gas development sites in different parts of the United States the company should pursu... Read More
Bloomex.ca Logistics Optimization
QA-0760 | Published January 19, 2011 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
A Canadian online floral delivery company considers whether to source more flowers from its existing growing locations and which of those would be optimal given its current market. What would be the a... Read More
ChinaCarb
Bodily, Samuel E. Gong, Yandong Yemen, Gerry
QA-0759 | Published December 31, 2010 | 6 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Suitable for MBA, EMBA, GEMBA, and executive education programs, this field-based case offers an opportunity to use simulation modeling to evaluate an investment affected by prices, technical success,... Read More
FLORA (B): National
Bodily, Samuel E. Ovchinnikov, Anton S.
QA-0755 | Published October 04, 2010 | 5 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In this, the second of a two-case decision analysis series, an entrepreneur must decide whether there are additional benefits from operating in more than one U.S. city. He explores the business model ... Read More
FLORA (A)
Bodily, Samuel E. Ovchinnikov, Anton S.
QA-0754 | Published October 01, 2010 | 5 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case was awarded first place in the INFORMS 2011 case competition. A seasoned Internet retailing entrepreneur considers starting a national floral delivery service to compete with the major U.S. ... Read More
Ponca City Cogeneration Plant: Model Improvement and Final Decision
QA-0747 | Published June 30, 2010 Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case follows up on the previous Ponca City case, addressing two classic flaws in spreadsheets of pro forma cash flows: (1) the treatment of the terminal value of the plant, and (2) the consistenc... Read More
Kelly Solar
Bodily, Samuel E. Lipson, Marc L. Lichtendahl, Kenneth C. Jr.
F-1614 | Published January 29, 2010 | 3 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
A small start-up company must make additional investments to maximize its firm value. But the company owner will not make this investment unless she can renegotiate outstanding debt claims. Solving th... Read More
Office Depot E-Business (Abridged)
Venkataraman, S. Cross, Tom Chatterjee, Sayan
BP-0524 | Published January 21, 2009 | 11 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is an excellent illustration of offline/online integration. Office Depot used its supply chain, systems integration, and existing offline channel strengths to overcome competitive online thr... Read More
Intrinergy: Carbon Offsets (A)
Bodily, Samuel E. Ogilvie, Brandon Brohl, Brett
QA-0737 | Published January 14, 2009 | 6 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The A case describes the decision the BurMills textile company will make regarding whether to change from producing their own steam to outsourcing their steam production to Intrinergy. BurMills can ca... Read More
Intrinergy: Carbon Offsets (B)
Bodily, Samuel E. Ogilvie, Brandon
QA-0738 | Published January 14, 2009 | 3 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The B case brings Intrinergy’s point of view into play. Intrinergy has two options for obtaining the biomass to produce steam for the industrial plant. They can use wood chips or sawdust. The wood chi... Read More
Darden's Luckiest Student 2008
QA-0717 | Published August 04, 2008 | 11 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The case describes a three-factor, full-factorial experiment run in conjunction with the Darden's Luckiest Student event of 2008. Prior to identifying Darden's Luckiest, all 300 first-year students ma... Read More
Saving Troubled Stutts Corporation: Widely Known Information
QA-0712 | Published July 31, 2008 | 3 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case, part of a series (see also UVA-QA-0713-UVA-QA-0715), contains information known to both negotiating parties. Two individuals own all the capital in Stutts Corporation. Decker owns all the d... Read More
Saving Troubled Stutts Corporation: Information Known Only to Decker
QA-0713 | Published July 31, 2008 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case, part of a series (see also UVA-QA-0712, UVA-QA-0714, and UVA-QA-0715), contains information known only to Decker. Two individuals own all the capital in Stutts Corporation. Decker owns all ... Read More
Saving Troubled Stutts Corporation: Information Known Only to Evenson
QA-0714 | Published July 31, 2008 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case, part of a series (see also UVA-QA-0712, UVA-QA-0713, and UVA-QA-0715), contains information known only to Evenson. Two individuals own all the capital in Stutts Corporation. Decker owns all... Read More
Instructions for Saving Troubled Stutts Corporation Exercise
QA-0715 | Published July 31, 2008 | 3 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case, part of a series (see also UVA-QA-0712-UVA-QA-0714), contains the instructions for the series. Two individuals own all the capital in Stutts Corporation. Decker owns all the debt and Evenso... Read More
Airbus and Boeing: Superjumbo Decisions
QA-0720 | Published May 07, 2008 Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Set in 1999, this case allows students to put themselves in the positions of both Airbus and Boeing as Boeing considered how to respond to Airbus's decision to announce its plans to proceed or not wit... Read More
Bidding for the Legacy Hotel
QA-0696 | Published November 29, 2007 | 3 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The task is to prepare a sealed bid against one opponent for a hotel that has an appraised value and a specific, higher value for a company. There is data about the ratio of bids of the other bidder t... Read More
Lac Leman Festival de la Musique (A)
Bodily, Samuel E. Jenkins, Robert
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
Lac Leman Festival de la Musique (B)
Bodily, Samuel E. Jenkins, Robert
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
Risk Preference Utility Caselets
QA-0703 | Published July 03, 2007 | 3 pages Exercise
Collection: Darden School of Business
These three caselets provide practice using risk preference and utility, with both exponential utility (constant risk aversion) and logarithmic utility (decreasing risk aversion). The second caselet i... Read More
SnackChips in China
Bodily, Samuel E. Lichtendahl, Kenneth C. Jr. Clemen, Robert
QA-0698 | Published April 08, 2007 | 6 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is intended to work well as an exam or a capstone for a course on decision analysis, simulation, real options, and game theory. It explores a conventional snack-chip marketer's strategy in C... Read More
Regression: Forecasting Using Explanatory Factors
Pfeifer, Phillip E. Bodily, Samuel E. Carraway, Robert L. Frey, Sherwood C. Jr.
QA-0693 | Published November 08, 2006 | 51 pages Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
This comprehensive technical note explains linear regression. It is intended for students with no prior knowledge of the topic. It is divided into nine sections, which may be assigned separately: 1. T... Read More
Palmetto Paper
Pfeifer, Phillip E. Bodily, Samuel E. Smith, Raiford
QA-0657 | Published July 14, 2005 | 12 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The manager of a paper plant must decide whether to buy a new electrode boiler to replace a natural gas boiler. The challenge is to cut through complexities, such as uncertainty in boiler efficiency, ... Read More
Risk Analysis for Merck and Company: Product KL-798
QA-0600 | Published September 25, 2003 | 8 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case builds on the case "Merck & Company: Product KL-798" (UVA-QA-0582) by providing market uncertainties for the drug (drug quality, the presence of a competitor, market growth, and the time to ... Read More
Correlations in Crystal Ball
Bodily, Samuel E. Palacios, Miguel
QA-0593 | Published August 28, 2003 | 2 pages Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
The Crystal Ball add-in to Excel for Monte Carlo simulation has capabilities to correlate assumptions (uncertain quantities). This note describes the various ways that correlations may be used and iss... Read More
Using OptQuest
Bodily, Samuel E. Palacios, Miguel Brohl, Brett
QA-0594 | Published August 28, 2003 | 9 pages Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
This note describes the use of the OptQuest tool (updated July 2009) for optimal decision variable searches based on Crystal Ball Monte Carlo simulations. Setup of the objectives and constraints, sele... Read More
Appshop, Inc.
QA-0618 | Published August 22, 2003 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
A regional director of a consulting firm must decide how to compete for a major consulting contract. Appshop can take a level payment contract, a lower level payment with a prospective bonus given hig... Read More
Internet Rapide
QA-0617 | Published July 23, 2003 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case concerns a company's advertising and redesign decisions for a DSL service. These decisions affect the switching of customers among various classifications, including those who currently use ... Read More
MNB One Credit-Card Portfolio
QA-0613 | Published July 09, 2003 | 10 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
A credit-card company must value portfolios of customers based on their future earnings. The payment characteristics of customers serve to classify them into states. This case can be the basis for dis... Read More
Kendall Power Plant (B): Hedging
Bodily, Samuel E. Smith, Raiford Palacios, Miguel
QA-0598 | Published December 17, 2002 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The B case adds the possibility of using hedging to manage risks. The impact of hedging on the distribution of profits and particularly its variance is analyzed to understand the value that hedging cr... 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
John Carter: Hedging
Bodily, Samuel E. Fiedler, Lee
QA-0596 | Published September 10, 2002 | 3 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
A farmer can lock in the prices of his product and wants to know how much, if any, of the production should be hedged. This case examines how the answer is affected by factors such as the certainty of... Read More
Kendall Power Plant (A): Operational Options
Bodily, Samuel E. Smith, Raiford Palacios, Miguel
QA-0597 | Published September 10, 2002 | 11 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case series brings together the evaluation of operating options and financial hedging. An electric power plant has several hourly operating alternatives, and a decision model is used to evaluate ... Read More
Office Depot E-Business
Venkataraman, S. Cross, Tom Chatterjee, Sayan
BP-0445 | Published April 16, 2002 | 22 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is an excellent illustration of offline/online integration. Office Depot used its supply chain, systems integration and existing offline channel strengths to overcome competitive online thre... Read More
Scor-eStore.com
QA-0581 | Published September 04, 2001 | 7 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
An angel/venture capitalist could invest in an Internet sheet-music publishing start-up. The chance of success multiplied by the value, if successful, suggests that this isn't a good investment. Never... Read More
Merck & Company: Product KL-798
Frey, Sherwood C. Jr. Bodily, Samuel E.
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
Enron Corporation's Weather Derivatives (A)
Bodily, Samuel E. Bruner, Robert F.
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
Enron Corporation's Weather Derivatives (B)
Bruner, Robert F. Bodily, Samuel E.
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
Genzyme/Geltex Pharmaceuticals Joint Venture
Bruner, Robert F. Bodily, Samuel E. Jacquet, Pierre
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
Browser Wars: Microsoft Versus Netscape
QA-0534 | Published July 13, 1998 Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Microsoft is planning the introduction of Internet Explorer along with Windows 95. Issues include how aggressive the company should be in providing its browser with Windows 95 and restricting OEMs (or... Read More
Armco Inc.: The Bubble Policy
Frey, Sherwood C. Jr. Gabel, H. Landis Sessoms, W. K.
QA-0227 | Published April 05, 1997 Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case considers the EPA's bubble policy, which allows pollution to be managed on a plantwide basis rather than stack by stack. A pollution constraint is added to a linear-programming model that ma... Read More
Risk Management
QA-0511 | Published February 10, 1997 | 9 pages Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
This note describes how to move beyond the appraisal of risk toward improving the risk characteristics of alternatives that the world offers us. It considers ways to create value and reduce risk throu... Read More
Structuring Assumptions in Decision Making
QA-0499 | Published August 19, 1996 | 19 pages Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
This note describes how one would structure assumptions using influence diagrams and decision trees. It discusses modeling under certainty and under uncertainty. Contrast and comparison between influe... Read More
Ponca City Cogeneration Plant
QA-0469 | Published September 15, 1994 | 6 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
An electric utility faces the hard choice between losing their third largest customer or building a cogeneration plant that is very risky to them and appears to take value away from the firm. Students... Read More
Ponca City Cogeneration Plant Supplement
QA-0470 | Published September 15, 1994 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
An electric utility faces the hard choice between losing its third largest customer or building a cogeneration plant that is very risky to them and appears to take value away from the firm. Students f... Read More
The Value of Information and Control
QA-0468 | Published August 31, 1994 | 3 pages Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
Using a simple example, this short note demonstrates how to place a monetary value on information and control. The monetary value is the change in expected monetary value due to the change in some act... Read More
Structuring Influence Relationships Among Variables
QA-0462 | Published August 26, 1994 | 9 pages Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
This note describes the use of influence diagrams for structuring relationships in a decision model. Two primary uses are considered: (1) the structuring of deterministic relations among variables (in... Read More
Waite First Securities
QA-0453 | Published January 31, 1994 | 8 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
An account executive has the task of calculating a beta value for three stocks of interest to an important client, based on five years of monthly total returns. The client is interested in these beta ... Read More
Time Series Forecasting
QA-0438 | Published April 14, 1993 | 17 pages Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
This technical note introduces (1) approaches to forecasting in general, (2) simple moving averages and exponential smoothing, (3) accounting for seasonality in forecasting, (4) accounting for trend i... Read More
ENTel Privatization: Telefonica de Argentina Public Offering
QA-0432 | Published October 07, 1992 Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
A public offering to complete the privatization of the Argentine phone company is planned. The initial pro form analysis suggests a negative net present value for the offering. The task is to check th... Read More
ACP, Inc. (A)
QA-0430 | Published September 09, 1992 Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
A division president of a Fortune 50 company must decide whether to initiate an immense capacity expansion. The critical question is whether revenue from the company's major product line will continue... Read More
ACP, Inc. (B)
QA-0431 | Published September 09, 1992 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case can be used with the A case (see QA-0430) to extend the "first-cut" decision analysis into issues of risk management and consideration of options to stop the project. Read More
GM Hungary
G-0453 | Published August 04, 1992 | 11 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case is an analysis of GM-Europe's decision process in establishing a production operation in Hungary. The issues addressed include market analysis, foreign-currency requests, government negotiat... Read More
ABB and Bergmann-Borsig
G-0452 | Published March 09, 1992 | 9 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Asea Brown Boveri, Mannheim, is considering the purchase of an East Berlin manufacturer of turbines from the Treuhandanstalt. It is an opportunity to start in East Germany and to work for markets in E... Read More
Ace Automotive
QA-0425 | Published September 27, 1991 | 11 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
A plant manager must decide which contracts to take for his casting-press operation and the price to bid on a new GM water pump. In the process, jobs must be scheduled in regular time, overtime, and o... Read More
CyberLab: A New Business Opportunity for PRICO (B)
QA-0383 | Published August 04, 1991 | 3 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Several uncertain quantities that affect the desirability of the CyberLab proposal to PRICO (see UVA-QA-0382) are described, with their probability distributions. Students are expected to select a few... Read More
Sleepmore Mattress Manufacturing: Plant Consolidation
QA-0405 | Published August 04, 1991 | 10 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The president of a well-established manufacturer of mattresses has asked his assistant to recommend whether to consolidate plants of three different locations. He must decide not only which criteria a... Read More
Influence Diagram Exercises
QA-0373 | Published April 05, 1991 | 1 pages Exercise
Collection: Darden School of Business
Three exercises show how to structure a decision problem with an influence diagram. Read More
Multiobjective and Multistakeholder Choice
QA-0406 | Published April 08, 1990 | 18 pages Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
This technical note considers how one makes choices in situations where there are multiple objectives and attributes that measure performance against these objectives. In some instances, given attribu... Read More
Seasonality in Time Series Forecasting
Bodily, Samuel E. Weatherford, Larry
QA-0407 | Published April 08, 1990 | 6 pages Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
This note teaches the student how to account for seasonality in time-series data. All the necessary steps to (1) deseasonalize, (2) forecast with deseasonalized data, and then (3) reseasonalize the fo... Read More
Shumway, Horch, and Sager (A)
Bodily, Samuel E. Weatherford, Larry
QA-0396 | Published April 08, 1990 | 6 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
A consultant is hired by an organization of magazine publishers to make recommendations for an improved procedure for deciding how many Good Housekeeping magazines to print each month. She has histori... Read More
Shumway, Horch, and Sager (B)
Bodily, Samuel E. Weatherford, Larry
QA-0397 | Published April 08, 1990 | 4 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The consultant (see QA-0396) looks at historical data for five consumer magazines (Health, Better Homes and Gardens, Working Woman, Country Living, and True Story). For each one, she tries to think of... Read More
Wachovia Bank & Trust Company, N.A. (B): Piedmont Operations Center Scheduling
Bodily, Samuel E. Weatherford, Larry
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
Marriott Rooms Forecasting
Bodily, Samuel E. Weatherford, Larry
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
Wachovia Bank & Trust Company, N.A. (B): Supplement
Pfeifer, Phillip E. Bodily, Samuel E. Weatherford, Larry
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
CyberLab: A New Business Opportunity for PRICO (Supplement)
Bodily, Samuel E. Weatherford, Larry
QA-0384 | Published January 31, 1989 | 2 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Some background material is provided for a forecasting/judgmental assessment exercise based on the decision described in "Cyberlab (A)" (UVA-QA-0382). The supplement could, assuming that students alre... Read More
CyberLab: A New Business Opportunity for PRICO (A)
Bodily, Samuel E. Weatherford, Larry
QA-0382 | Published April 08, 1988 | 9 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The president of a large and established manufacturer of laboratory equipment has to decide whether to invest $1 million for 30% equity in a start-up company in the field of lab robotics. The agreemen... Read More
Sprigg Lane (A)
Bodily, Samuel E. Weatherford, Larry
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
Piedmont Airlines: Discount Seat Allocation (B)
QA-0340 | Published April 05, 1985 | 7 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In this B case (see QA-0339), the initial results from a Monte Carlo simulation seem to conflict with the critical fractile result discussed earlier in the case. The manager must figure out why and t... Read More
Stevens and Company
Bodily, Samuel E. McEnearney, Michael B.
QA-0249 | Published April 05, 1982 | 13 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
A real-estate broker wishes to develop a model to be used by a sophisticated buyer to analyze the financial characteristics of a large estate. This case raises several issues, including risk in long-t... Read More
Risk Preference and Utility
QA-0232 | Published April 05, 1981 | 14 pages Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
This introduction to methods for treating risk illustrates the assessment and use of a utility function and gives simplified techniques for typical forms of risk aversion. Some associated risk-prefere... Read More
William Taylor and Associates (A)
Bodily, Samuel E. McEnearney, Michael B.
QA-0241 | Published April 05, 1981 | 11 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The owner of a small consulting firm faces conflicting objectives in the choice of an organizational form for his firm. This case focuses on the structuring of objectives and corresponding measures of... Read More
William Taylor and Associates (B)
Bodily, Samuel E. McEnearney, Michael B.
QA-0242 | Published April 05, 1981 | 9 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case describes a multiattribute decision analysis done for Mr. Taylor (see QA-0241). Read More
Whirlpool Research And Engineering Division (B)
Bodily, Samuel E. McNair, Jeffrey L.
QA-0210 | Published April 05, 1979 | 31 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
With the assistance of a temporary graduate student, the director of corporate research uses multiattribute decision analysis to find a plan with greatly improved projected performance (see UVA-QA-020... Read More
Whirlpool Research And Engineering Division (C)
Bodily, Samuel E. McNair, Jeffrey L.
QA-0211 | Published April 05, 1979 | 3 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
Four years after the A and B cases (UVA-QA-0209 and UVA-QA-0210), the annual plan has drifted greatly from that suggested by the analysis in the B case. How can the decision-analysis methodology be si... Read More
Whirlpool Research And Engineering Division (A)
Bodily, Samuel E. McNair, Jeffrey L.
QA-0209 | Published January 31, 1979 | 7 pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
The director of Corporate Research faces the problem of setting the annual budget for the various areas of research. See also UVA-QA-0210 and UVA-QA-0211. Read More