DARDEN CONSULTING CASE BOOK 2012-2013 EDITION TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. The Consulting Case Interview 1. Structure of the Case Interview 2. Frameworks 3. The Math 2. Company Overviews & Interview Processes 3. Practice Cases 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. Bike DVD Rental Service in NYC Dry Wall Competitive Threat Organ Donation Case Central Power Chemicals‚ Inc. Hospital Profitability Contact Lens Manufacturer Growth TABLE OF CONTENTS (CONT’D) 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. E-commerce
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Boston Beer Company- Case Analysis You are the investment banker assigned with the task of setting the IPO price for Boston Beer Company (BBC). Prepare a research report to support your recommendation. As you prepare this report‚ you may find that you would like to have more field information than what the case offers you. However‚ the case contains critical information that gives you a reasonable basis to compute its valuation. In addition use the following information for 1995.1 Sales ($ millions)
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2. Boston Beer showed a promising growth as a company with a dozen reps in 1989 to a company going public in 1995‚ which was considered to have made a mark in the specialty brewing business. It successfully changed the consumer preferences from cheaper beers made by large breweries to expensive specialty brewers within its niche. With their variety of crafted beer‚ Boston Beer captured a niche market and proved itself a number of times by winning numerous competitions for its best taste. It placed
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The Boston Beer Company BEM106 Final Project Brian Cleary Sarah Luxenberg Peter Seidel Bill Van de Water May 28‚ 2004 Overview The Boston Beer Company has had amazing success in its transition from a small scale microbrewer to a large scale national brewery. Almost all of the company’s success is due to the Samuel Adams Lager product line‚ which has hardly changed from the founding of the company in 1984‚ to the IPO in 1995‚ to the present day. In fact‚ much of the appeal of Samuel Adams
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After doing a thorough review of your current costing system and other costing systems as well‚ JBJ consulting‚ Inc. has concluded that standard costing is the best costing system for your company when used correctly. We have identified a few problems with your standard costing system that we would like to address. The first problem with ChillOut Corporation is the overall focus of the organization is too centralized around favorable variances. Managers are awarded bonuses for favorable variances
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Question 1: What is your analysis of the structure of the portable electric tool industry? Has it been structurally attractive? Degree of Competitive forces in the Portable Electric Power Tool industry (Structural Analysis) Barriers to Entry: High The major barriers to entry in this industry were found in terms of 1. Technology‚ 2. Capital investment‚ 3. Economy of scale in manufacturing‚ and 4. Brand reputation in specific market segments & product categories. Barriers
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11/18/2007 Online Social Networks and E-Commerce Their Threats to Privacy and a Proposal for a New Blanket Privacy Policy and Accountability Infrastructure for Consumer Online Privacy Clarence Lee and Shirley Fung Clarence Lee and Shirley Fung Table of Contents Introduction..........................................................................................................................6 Background...............................................................................
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The events of March 5‚ 1770‚ dubbed as "The Boston Massacre"‚ was a tragedy in which 5 Bostonian civilians lost their lives at the hands of British Redcoats. Although the Redcoats‚ terribly at fault‚ shot into the masses‚ the rebellious Bostonians played a role in the shooting as well. Although they were quite justified in doing so‚ the townspeople of Boston severely over exaggerated the events of that day in order to gain public sympathy and pit more colonists against the British regime. Within
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BOSTON CHICKEN‚ INC.: CASE STUDY AND ANALYSIS 1. Assess Boston Chicken’s business strategy. What are its critical success factors and risks? Boston Chicken Inc (abbreviate as BCI as follow). is chain of fast food restaurants‚ and also in the business of take-out home cooked food. Boston Chicken restaurants mainly sell rotisserie-cooked chicken‚ fresh vegetables‚ salads and other side dishes available for take-out. Because Boston Chicken is fast food restaurants chain‚ its
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Boston Marathon Bombing The bombing of Boston Marathon is now the issue about which all people are talking about. It turned to be the theme of many discussions in mass media‚ transportation means and even at home. Looking much deeper upon that terroristic attack‚ we shall find some questions need to be answered regarding this issue. The policy of the U.S should be revised concerning their seeking for those terrorists. The whole issue started when two bombs struck near the finish line of the Boston
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