Darden Case Collection最新文献

筛选
英文 中文
Driverless Trucks at Ford: Cruising into a Compromised Brand Identity? 福特无人驾驶卡车:品牌形象受损?
Darden Case Collection Pub Date : 2019-02-11 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3331362
R. Venkatesan, Jenny Craddock
{"title":"Driverless Trucks at Ford: Cruising into a Compromised Brand Identity?","authors":"R. Venkatesan, Jenny Craddock","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3331362","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3331362","url":null,"abstract":"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 media positioned Ford as part of the pioneering culture. Ford also constantly introduced innovations to the F-Series to make the trucks more suitable to the changing needs of its consumers.In 2018, Ford's management decided to retreat from the low-margin cars segment and focus on trucks and SUVs. Ford was also working toward robot taxis and driverless delivery by 2021. These two parallel trajectories converge to pose a pivotal challenge for Ford: Should the company invest in developing driverless capabilities for its best-selling and highest-margin product, the F-150? The case provides students with a context in which to discuss the changing technologies in the auto industry and their implications for industry structure, along with the specific aspects of software-driven business models, consumer preferences, and brand identity. It also offers an opportunity to explore the challenges faced by traditional businesses as they develop digital capabilities and reimagine their business models to fully leverage artificial intelligence (AI). The competition among Ford, Google Inc. (Google), Uber Technologies, Inc. (Uber), and Tesla, Inc. (Tesla) in the automonous vehicle industry highlights the different routes these companies have taken to obtain develop autonomous vehicle capability that leverages their respective strategic capabilities. \u0000Excerpt \u0000UVA-M-0967 \u0000Rev. Jul. 10, 2020 \u0000Driverless Trucks at Ford: \u0000Cruising into a Compromised Brand Identity? \u0000In the summer of 2018, iconic American automaker Ford Motor Company (Ford) created a new limited liability company, Ford Autonomous Vehicles LLC (Ford AV). Ford charged the organization “with accelerating [Ford's] AV business to capitalize on market opportunities.” As members of the newly appointed management team at Ford AV considered the best way to guide Ford, the second-largest automaker in the United States, toward its well-publicized robot-taxi and driverless delivery services slated to debut in 2021, they had several important decisions to make regarding the company's strategy and driverless car product offerings of the future. \u0000Alongside its goals in the self-driving space, Ford had made a seminal product decision several months earlier, when the company announced it was retreating from the American car business and dropping several sedans, such as the Fusion, Fiesta, and Taurus (while preserving the Mustang and Focus Active crossover launching in 2019), in order to improve its profit margin. The company's decision to turn away from its slow-selling car models and instead focus on its more lucrative line of trucks and SUVs was in line with Ford's long-standing reliance on the success of its trucks division, especially the F-Series (which included the classic F-150 pickup truck and “super duty” F-250 and -","PeriodicalId":390041,"journal":{"name":"Darden Case Collection","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128480877","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
A User's Guide to International Capital Flows 国际资本流动用户指南
Darden Case Collection Pub Date : 2019-02-11 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3331361
Francis E. Warnock
{"title":"A User's Guide to International Capital Flows","authors":"Francis E. Warnock","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3331361","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3331361","url":null,"abstract":"This note provides a description of international flows and positions data, a way to identify extreme capital flow episodes (such as surges and stops), and a straightforward technique to predict whether a country should receive more or fewer portfolio inflows in the coming year based on a notion of benchmark inflows. \u0000Excerpt \u0000UVA-GEM-0171 \u0000Jan. 23, 2019 \u0000A User's Guide to International Capital Flows \u0000In some ways, capital flows are like oxygen: too little or too much can be dangerous. Surges of capital inflows are often followed by crises. Capital flows in, at first funding worthy projects but later enabling questionable ones, and all is well as long as capital continues to flow in and the recipient economy remains buoyant. But when the tide turns and the capital inflow surge turns into a sudden stop, questionable projects are exposed, defaults increase, and the economy suffers. It need not be this way—not all surges end in stops—but the specter of a virtuous cycle turning vicious looms over international capital flows. \u0000This note is intended to get the reader from 0 to 60 in just 10 pages. For those unaccustomed to capital flows, it begins with a description of balance of payments (BOP) and international investment position (IIP) data. It then proceeds to measures of extreme capital flows (such as surges and stops), before ending with new thinking on the benchmark amount of inflows a country can expect to receive. \u0000BOP and IIP Data: The Basics \u0000. . .","PeriodicalId":390041,"journal":{"name":"Darden Case Collection","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-02-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"125388489","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Goodio Supply Chain: A Chocolatey Future? Goodio供应链:巧克力的未来?
Darden Case Collection Pub Date : 2019-01-23 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3320845
Markko Hamalainen, Tim Kraft, Gerry Yemen, Meng Zhang, Yanchong Zheng
{"title":"Goodio Supply Chain: A Chocolatey Future?","authors":"Markko Hamalainen, Tim Kraft, Gerry Yemen, Meng Zhang, Yanchong Zheng","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3320845","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3320845","url":null,"abstract":"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 Jukka Peltola's business committed to social responsibility and purpose over profit. It describes Goodio's efforts toward transparency and follows Peltola as he asks what more he can do to advance transparency and how different presentations of supply chain transparency affect consumer purchase decisions cross-culturally. \u0000Excerpt \u0000UVA-OM-1613 \u0000Jan. 17, 2019 \u0000Goodio Supply Chain: A Chocolatey Future? \u0000Thinking it was unhealthy, Jukka Peltola had never eaten much chocolate. When he learned that cacao was high in antioxidants providing health benefits, Peltola was surprised and decided to try it. As he added raw cacao to his diet and discarded dairy products, Peltola started to feel rejuvenated. He carefully read labels searching for healthy chocolate products, but found it difficult to find out where ingredients came from or how they were processed. He kept coming back to a simple notion—“what if there was a food brand you could trust?” That set Peltola in motion to become a chocolatier and share his newfound energy and well-being with others. \u0000Leaving his work as a video game producer for Rovio Entertainment (of Angry Birds fame), Peltola opened his first craft chocolate factory in Helsinki, Finland, becoming chief creative officer. Goodio, his company, started with a EUR15,000 subsidy and a EUR35,000 loan from the government of Finland. Three years later, Goodio moved to a new factory to increase production volume and accommodate more staff. Not the typical manufacturing site, this one included a visitor center. Goodio reached EUR1million in sales in 2016 and by the end of summer 2018, Peltola and his team were running a medium-sized chocolate company with markets in Finland, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Germany, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Japan. \u0000Goodio was committed to social responsibility and purpose over profit. Peltola believed that transparency was key to that promise. As a result, Goodio purchased 35 tonnes of cacao from Luis Mancini, a farmer/supplier with whom Goodio had developed a relationship over the years. Mancini paid above farm-gate prices to farmers for cacao beans. In addition, Goodio focused on purchasing quality ingredients, such as locally picked Finnish blueberries, to go into the raw chocolate. \u0000. . .","PeriodicalId":390041,"journal":{"name":"Darden Case Collection","volume":"87 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121470873","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Leading Change: How Alaska Airlines Took Over an Industry Darling 引领变革:阿拉斯加航空如何接管行业宠儿
Darden Case Collection Pub Date : 2019-01-07 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3310465
J. West, Shea Gibbs
{"title":"Leading Change: How Alaska Airlines Took Over an Industry Darling","authors":"J. West, Shea Gibbs","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3310465","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3310465","url":null,"abstract":"Alaska Airlines (Alaska) acquired the small but sleek and much beloved Virgin America (Virgin) at the end of 2016. Alaska's executives had to set a strategy to take all the good in Virgin, integrate it into the larger company, and present the unified commercial carrier in a digestible way to its customers and affected employees. But taking over Virgin's fleet and operations without keeping its brand meant Alaska was going to feel blowback from the many Virgin fans in the Pacific Northwest and beyond when it subsumed its competitor.Systems guru Sandy Stelling and her leadership team—a carefully selected group of seven subject-matter experts, most of them women—were tasked with guiding Alaska through the trickiest part of the integration process: turning off the lights on Virgin's passenger service system (PSS) and merging all the data into Alaska's PSS. When the dust settled on the PSS integration, customers would no longer see any trace of Virgin's brand online, in airports, or when contacting call centers. The PSS integration was the highest-risk portion of the merger. Communicating exactly what Alaska planned to do and how—both to its customers and internal stakeholders—was critical. To make matters worse, executives were asking Stelling and her team to perform the integration faster than any airline had ever done it.If the company didn't perform the PSS integration flawlessly, Alaska risked wasting considerable time responding to bad press, infighting, and fixing mistakes. How would Stelling and her team make sure they did their job right? \u0000Excerpt \u0000UVA-BC-0268 \u0000Rev. Feb. 25, 2019 \u0000Leading Change: How Alaska Airlines Took Over an Industry Darling \u0000Sandy Stelling and her team sat together at Alaska Airlines (Alaska) headquarters in Seattle, plotting to eliminate a product customers loved. \u0000The airline had acquired the small but sleek and much beloved Virgin America (Virgin), closing the deal at the end of 2016. And Alaska planned to take over the smaller firm's fleet and operations without keeping its brand. Alaska was going to feel blowback from the many Virgin lovers in the Pacific Northwest and beyond when it subsumed its competitor. \u0000Alaska's executives had to set a strategy to take all the good in Virgin, integrate it into the larger company, and present the new unified commercial carrier in a digestible way to its customers and affected employees. \u0000. . .","PeriodicalId":390041,"journal":{"name":"Darden Case Collection","volume":"62 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121833683","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Generating Revenue Growth Ideas at Evergreen Executive Education, Llc (a) 在Evergreen Executive Education, Llc创造收入增长的想法(a)
Darden Case Collection Pub Date : 2019-01-07 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3310475
Mark E. Haskins
{"title":"Generating Revenue Growth Ideas at Evergreen Executive Education, Llc (a)","authors":"Mark E. Haskins","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3310475","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3310475","url":null,"abstract":"The new business development manager for Evergreen Executive Education has been asked by the firm's CEO to develop a list of as many revenue growth ideas as he could over the next week. The COE saw this task as critical for the new services initiative that he had been hired to lead. The list would be an inventory of possibilities for ongoing consideration as well as a catalyst for other professionals in the firm to generate additional ideas. The CEO had described the task for him was to keep his primary business-development mission in mind, and to think big and out of the box. \u0000Excerpt \u0000UVA-G-0644 \u0000Rev. Feb 15, 2019 \u0000Generating Revenue Growth Ideas at \u0000Evergreen Executive Education, LLC (A) \u0000As the newly hired business development manager for Evergreen Executive Education, LLC (EEEL), Curtis Koch had just finished his second week with the firm. As he settled behind his office desk after a meeting with Martha Hires, the firm's CEO, he took in the park-like view outside his office window and a smile spread across his face. Over the course of his first two weeks, he felt he had achieved a pretty good grasp of the firm's personnel, programs, and client portfolio. Indeed, the point of the meeting with Hires had been mostly for him to give her a sense of what he had learned about the firm. She had asked a few pertinent questions, listened intently to his answers, and, in the end, she had expressed her pleasure and affirmation that he had done his homework well and had learned so quickly. \u0000The genesis of the smile-inducing moment he was experiencing had come near the end of his meeting with Hires. She had asked him to develop a list of as many revenue growth ideas as he could over the next week. They had to be potentially viable, although not specifically proven. They had to be briefly described, although not fully fleshed out. She wanted him to imagine, to brainstorm, and to bring to bear all his experience, prior reading, and creativity to craft the ideas. She had expressed no illusion that all his ideas would be doable, but she had also expressed optimism that many of them would be actionable when studied further. She saw this task as critical for the new services initiative that Koch had been hired to lead. The list would be an inventory of possibilities for ongoing consideration as well as a catalyst for other professionals in the firm to spark their own creativity for generating additional ideas. The way Hires had framed the task for him as he was leaving was, with his primary business-development mission in mind, to think big and out of the box, think what if and why not? \u0000. . .","PeriodicalId":390041,"journal":{"name":"Darden Case Collection","volume":"35 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2019-01-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121521669","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Justin Thomas at Shining Star Academy (a) 贾斯汀·托马斯在闪亮之星学院(a)
Darden Case Collection Pub Date : 2018-12-17 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3301957
Morela Hernandez, Scott Guggenheimer
{"title":"Justin Thomas at Shining Star Academy (a)","authors":"Morela Hernandez, Scott Guggenheimer","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3301957","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3301957","url":null,"abstract":"When Justin Thomas began as principal of Shining Star Academy, an elementary school in Alabama, the school had been failing for eight years and was in serious risk of state takeover. One of Thomas's innovations was to implement data-driven instruction, but teachers struggled to change their routines. As hard as everyone was working, progress was minimal after a year. Thomas was heartbroken, and he didn't know what else to try. This case is used at Darden in executive programs for leaders in education and second-year MBA courses on leading change. It would also be suitable in courses covering data-driven instruction, school transformation, leadership, and change processes. \u0000Excerpt \u0000UVA-OB-1269 \u0000Dec. 12, 2018 \u0000Justin Thomas at Shining Star Academy (A) \u0000Shining Star Academy in Akron, Alabama—which served 310 students in pre-K to third grade—had been a failing school for eight years running. Identified by the superintendent as in a cluster of 10 schools that required transformation, Shining Star was in serious risk of state takeover. \u0000Before Principal Justin Thomas arrived, the school had struggled to promote a positive climate and build student engagement, and it lacked a structured process to train and support teachers. Instruction methods were based on exposure rather than mastery. \u0000Thomas had to start from scratch because the school had been reconstituted, which meant all teachers and staff were terminated. He needed to hire everyone from cafeteria workers to teachers to his leadership team. He was looking for people who had a vision for the school that complemented his own and who shared a sense of urgency about the project of school transformation. Unfortunately, Thomas soon realized that the available teachers had neither strong content expertise nor a notable track record of achieving results. \u0000. . .","PeriodicalId":390041,"journal":{"name":"Darden Case Collection","volume":"8 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130361375","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Change Management at the University of Virginia Health System's Body Imaging Division 弗吉尼亚大学健康系统身体成像部门的变革管理
Darden Case Collection Pub Date : 2018-12-17 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3301960
E. N. Weiss, R. Goldberg, A. English
{"title":"Change Management at the University of Virginia Health System's Body Imaging Division","authors":"E. N. Weiss, R. Goldberg, A. English","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3301960","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3301960","url":null,"abstract":"This field-based case explores the University of Virginia's Body Imaging Division (BID) along with the group's new director, Arun Krishnaraj, who is trying to assess and ameliorate the frustrations, confusions, delays, and other issues BID and its patients are dealing with.The case challenges students to address issues related to change management, in this case in a health care setting. If the instructor would rather focus on problem solving, Lean, and A3 thinking, please see \"Improving the Body Imaging Division at the University of Virginia Health System\" (UVA-OM-1597).Krishnaraj knew instinctively that there was much untapped potential in BID and significant value that could be created for the patients receiving care there. In addition, the entire health system and all BID employees would benefit from removing the waste in the various processes. The key would be moving beyond individual definitions of the issues toward a commonly accepted description of both the problem and the best approach to finding real solutions and managing change. \u0000Excerpt \u0000UVA-OM-1609 \u0000Dec. 12, 2018 \u0000Change Management at the \u0000University of Virginia Health System's Body Imaging Division \u0000A 64-year-old gentleman presented to the hospital with a fever and elevated white blood cell count, which are signs of an infection. After admission and treatment with antibiotics, the patient did not respond as expected. A CT scan of the abdomen was ordered, which revealed an organized fluid collection in the abdominal cavity. The referring physician requested that the fluid collection be aspirated and potentially drained under image guidance to determine if the fluid collection was the source of infection. \u0000—Arun Krishnaraj \u0000. . .","PeriodicalId":390041,"journal":{"name":"Darden Case Collection","volume":"57 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-12-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"123350661","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Fair to Whom? 对谁公平?
Darden Case Collection Pub Date : 2018-11-27 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3291192
J. Detert, C. Black, Britton Taubenfeld
{"title":"Fair to Whom?","authors":"J. Detert, C. Black, Britton Taubenfeld","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3291192","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3291192","url":null,"abstract":"The head of an R&D unit in a high-tech firm in India faces a tough decision about whether to recommend firing and replacing or investing even larger amounts of time and resources into training employees who have come up through India's “reservation system.” Similar to “affirmative action” policies in the United States and Brazil (where the focus is on race), the reservation system in India is meant to counteract inequalities resulting from the historic oppression of “lower” castes in the country. The question faced by the protagonist in this case is whether and how a middle manager can address problems in her team that result from much larger, systemic problems in her country.The case is designed to surface and explore students' instinctive decision-making tendencies around a complicated problem. Thus, it is short enough to be read and responded to in class. Students are assigned readings and assignments related to the case after class discussion in which they are encouraged to reflect on their initial responses.The case is quite flexible and would work in any course that deals with leadership, ethics, difficult conversations, decision-making, organizational behavior, human resources, and related topics. It is appropriate for a range of levels and audiences, including undergraduate, MBA, and executive education. \u0000Excerpt \u0000UVA-OB-1261 \u0000Nov. 5, 2018 \u0000Fair to Whom? \u0000Anaya Deshpande stared at the blank screen in front of her. Scattered around her desk were several depressing reports on her unit's projects, a glowing newspaper article on her high-tech, global employer as a model company for India, and an internal memo reiterating the top management team's belief that it was the company's unique culture—one focused on unwavering commitment to world-class quality work, high ethical standards, and manifest desire to help Indians build fulfilling careers and upper-middle-class lives—that had been and must remain its core differentiator. The contrast between the company's general performance and external reputation, and the situation she was facing in her own role, could hardly be starker—or more paralyzing. Deshpande was angry and scared. She knew she had to do something, but none of the obvious options were attractive or tenable. \u0000Upon becoming the head of one of the company's major internal R&D units 18 months ago, Deshpande had inherited a number of PhD-level employees whose core job functions were research, data analysis, and report writing. Her elation and optimism about what her unit could accomplish had faded relatively quickly as she received report after report revealing underwhelming progress on almost all of her unit's projects. Looking into the issues more closely, Deshpande found that, of the 15 researchers working for her, 12 lacked anything close to the level of sophistication in theorizing, research design, and data analysis to which she had been exposed during her schooling in the United States. The employees' work revealed gaps and flaws","PeriodicalId":390041,"journal":{"name":"Darden Case Collection","volume":"5 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130620084","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Swatch Group and Francogeddon 斯沃琪集团和frangeddon
Darden Case Collection Pub Date : 2018-11-27 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3291190
K. Walsh
{"title":"Swatch Group and Francogeddon","authors":"K. Walsh","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3291190","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3291190","url":null,"abstract":"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 to end its policy of putting a ceiling on the euro/Swiss franc exchange rate. It is useful for an introductory class that defines different exchange rate concepts, illustrates why managers should care about exchange rates, and motivates/previews the study of the macroeconomics of exchange rates, capital flows, and monetary policy. This case is appropriate for use in a first-year MBA course that deals with international economics or finance, though it is written to be standalone and thus could also be employed in an advanced undergraduate or master's level course on international macroeconomics or finance. \u0000Excerpt \u0000UVA-GEM-0167 \u0000Oct. 29, 2018 \u0000Swatch Group and Francogeddon \u0000“The Swiss National Bank has decided to discontinue the minimum exchange rate of CHF 1.20 per euro with immediate effect and to cease foreign currency purchases associated with enforcing it.” \u0000Thomas Jordan, Chairman, Swiss National Bank \u0000With that one sentence uttered on a cold Zurich day in early 2015, Thomas Jordan ended the Swiss National Bank (SNB) policy to hold the Swiss franc (CHF) down against the euro (EUR). The policy, which had been in place since September 2011, had SNB purchasing foreign currency in exchange for the Swiss franc in order to maintain a floor of CHF1.2 per euro (or, equivalently, a ceiling of EUR0.83 per franc). Within a week of removing this policy, the franc appreciated over 20% and the stock price of Swatch Group, a Swiss watch manufacturer and exporter, fell by over 20% (Figure 1). Swatch CEO Nick Hayek Jr. proclaimed, “Words fail me! Jordan is not only the name of the SNB president, but also of a river and today's SNB action is a tsunami; for the export industry and for tourism, and finally for the entire country.” \u0000. . .","PeriodicalId":390041,"journal":{"name":"Darden Case Collection","volume":"26 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-11-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130753498","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
Bitcoin: Investment or Illusion? (Russian) 比特币:投资还是幻想?(俄罗斯)
Darden Case Collection Pub Date : 2018-09-17 DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.3246241
G. Allayannis, A. Fernstrom, Anastasiya Luzgina
{"title":"Bitcoin: Investment or Illusion? (Russian)","authors":"G. Allayannis, A. Fernstrom, Anastasiya Luzgina","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.3246241","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3246241","url":null,"abstract":"This is a Russian translation of the January 29, 2018 version of UVA-F-1819. 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 digital currencies more broadly, and financial innovation in the space, such as ICOs. It can be taught as part of a second-year MBA elective course in investments, financial institutions/capital markets, or fintech. \u0000Excerpt \u0000UVA-F-1851 \u0000Rev. Jan. 29, 2018 \u0000Биткоин: инвестиции или иллюзии \u0000Если вы покупаете биткоин или любую другую криптовалюту, вы не владеете ничем, что производит хоть что-то…. Вы не инвестируете, когда делаете это, вы просто спекулируете. – Уоррен Эдвард Баффетт (известный инвестор и миллиардер). \u0000Это мошенничество. Это хуже, чем луковицы тюльпанов. - Джеймс Даймон (главный директор JP Morgan Chase). \u0000Биткойн предлагает широкую перспективу возможностей. - Марк Андреессен (американский инвестор и программист, совладелец Andreessen Horowitz). \u0000. . .","PeriodicalId":390041,"journal":{"name":"Darden Case Collection","volume":"90 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-09-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"122535353","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
引用次数: 0
0
×
引用
GB/T 7714-2015
复制
MLA
复制
APA
复制
导出至
BibTeX EndNote RefMan NoteFirst NoteExpress
×
提示
您的信息不完整,为了账户安全,请先补充。
现在去补充
×
提示
您因"违规操作"
具体请查看互助需知
我知道了
×
提示
确定
请完成安全验证×
相关产品
×
本文献相关产品
联系我们:info@booksci.cn Book学术提供免费学术资源搜索服务,方便国内外学者检索中英文文献。致力于提供最便捷和优质的服务体验。 Copyright © 2023 布克学术 All rights reserved.
京ICP备2023020795号-1
ghs 京公网安备 11010802042870号
Book学术文献互助
Book学术文献互助群
群 号:481959085
Book学术官方微信