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17 Oct 2019
Research & Ideas

‘Chick Beer’ for Women? Why Gender Marketing Repels More Than Sells

Chick Beer tried to entice weight-conscious women with the brew’s 97 calories and 3.5 carbs per bottle, “about the same as half of a carrot.” And Clutch, a brand of dryer sheets, encourages men to “grab your manliness,” promising that “girls will like the way your... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products

September 1994 (Revised August 2011)
Supplement

ExtendSim® Simulation Exercises in Process Analysis (B2))

By: Roy D. Shapiro

Solutions and detailed discussion of exercises from the (B) case. Unadvertised per Case Records. View Details

Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques

2022
Article

The Impact of COVID-19 on Digital Communication Patterns

By: Evan DeFilippis, Stephen Michael Impink, Madison Singell, Jeff Polzer and Raffaella Sadun

We explore the impact of COVID-19 on employees’ digital communication patterns through an event study of lockdowns in 16 large metropolitan areas in North America, Europe, and the Middle East. Using de-identified, aggregated meeting and email meta-data from 3,143,270... View Details

Keywords: Meetings; Email; COVID-19 Pandemic; Communication Technology; Health Pandemics; Time Management

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May 2020 (Revised August 2021)
Case

Playing the Field: Competing Bids for Anadarko Petroleum Corp

By: E. Scott Mayfield, Daniel Green and Benjamin C. Esty

On April 8, 2019, Occidental’s CEO Vicki Hollub made a private offer to buy Anadarko Petroleum Corporation for $72 in cash and stock. Anadarko's CEO Al Walker said he would consider the offer, yet three days later, on April 11, he signed a merger agreement with Chevron... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Bids and Bidding; Decision Making; Cost vs Benefits

26 Dec 2014
News

Dentro il mondo del vinile, la moda del 2014 che già rischia l’implosione

2012
Working Paper

The Determinants of National Competitiveness

By: Mercedes Delgado, Christian Ketels, Michael E. Porter and Scott Stern

We define foundational competitiveness as the expected level of output per working-age individual that is supported by the overall quality of a country as a place to do business. The focus on output per potential worker, a broader measure of national productivity than... View Details

Keywords: Country; Competition; Microeconomics; Macroeconomics

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August 1998
Teaching Note

Quality Furniture Company (TN)

By: David F. Hawkins and Norman Bartczak

Teaching Note for (9-199-009). 51U per Case Records. View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing Industry

29 May 2009
News

How economists can misunderstand the crisis

05 Aug 2022
News

Balancing Act: How to Succeed in the Age of Hybrid Working

07 Nov 2015
News

I Am Paying for Your Expensive Medicine

November 1994 (Revised April 2012)
Case

National Electric Corporation

By: David F. Hawkins and Norman Bartczak

A company meets financial analysis year-end earnings per share estimates, which have been progressively lowered during the year. View Details

Keywords: Goals and Objectives; Quality; Business Earnings; Stock Shares; Analysis

28 Aug 2019
News

Sanders’s flawed statistic: 500,000 medical bankruptcies a year

September 1994 (Revised August 2011)
Supplement

ExtendSim® Simulation Exercises in Process Analysis (A2)

By: Roy D. Shapiro

Solutions and detailed discussion of exercises from the (A) case. Unadvertised per Case Records. View Details

Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques

17 Jul 2012
News

Rivals clash on US corporate tax reform

November 1999 (Revised March 2003)
Case

Circuits, Inc.

By: David F. Hawkins

To allow students to compute and explain quarterly and annual earnings per share figures by using financial accounting standards No. 128. View Details

Keywords: Business Earnings

2019
Article

The Frequency of Corporate Misconduct: Public Enforcement versus Private Reality

By: Eugene F. Soltes

Perceptions about the frequency of misconduct—among the public, academics and even regulators—have largely been formed by examining enforcement statistics, which rely on the detection and sanctioning of the misconduct. This study aims to illuminate the real occurrence... View Details

Keywords: Fraud; Bribery; Misconduct; Organizations; Crime and Corruption

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15 Nov 2016
News

Britain’s inflation data needs to be dragged out of the stone age

November 1999 (Revised June 2011)
Background Note

Accounting for Foreign Operations

By: David F. Hawkins

Students are required to compute and explain the quality annual earnings per share figures and major differences between managing domestic and global operations. View Details

Keywords: Business Earnings; Financial Statements; International Accounting; Globalized Firms and Management