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Weatherford, Larry
Teaching Notes
PHA-0034 | Published May 23, 1995 | 11 pages Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
This note describes the characteristics of good case-method teaching notes. 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
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