Author Profile
Zorc, Saša
Toy Plaza
Zorc, Saša; Sheth, Alvint; Andrasko, Joe; Tomio, Davide
QA-0998 | Published July 20, 2026 | 11 Pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
As the COVID-19 pandemic reshapes the retail landscape, Milan Damani, a portfolio manager at Neysa Capital Group, must decide whether to recommend a short position in struggling toy retailer Toy Plaza... Read More
COVID-19 and the Vaccine Decision
Zorc, Saša; Parmar, Bidhan L.; Mead, Jenny
QA-0922 | Published July 20, 2026 | 6 Pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In this case, students take on the role of the CFO of a health system in a fictional island country. It’s early 2021—nearly one year into the COVID-19 pandemic—and two vaccines have just been approved... Read More
Grupo 5 Construction
QA-0994 | Published July 20, 2026 | 7 Pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case follows Juan E. Pardo, the CEO of Grupo 5 S.A.C (Grupo 5), as he grapples with the company’s strategy for bidding in a public procurement auction to build a new hospital in Peru. Students re... Read More
The Greatest Gamer: Reinforcement Learning
QA-0928 | Published June 15, 2026 | 11 Pages Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
In the 2020s, large language models have become very widespread very quickly, and they often are what people think of when they think of AI. But there is another, completely different AI that exhibits... Read More
Mixed Equilibrium: A Battle of Wits
QA-0996 | Published June 12, 2026 | 2 Pages Exercise
Collection: Darden School of Business
This exercise uses the drama of a soccer penalty kick to introduce one of game theory’s most important ideas: mixed-strategy Nash equilibrium. Students analyze strategic interactions between an attack... Read More
Boris's Brexit Dilemma (A)
Zorc, Saša; Gregorio, Alexander
QA-0956 | Published March 13, 2023 | 3 Pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In 2019, several years after a referendum in which British voters chose “Brexit,” meaning the United Kingdom’s (UK’s) exit from the European Union (EU), the transitional agreement between the UK and t... Read More
Boris's Brexit Dilemma (C)
Zorc, Saša; Gregorio, Alexander
QA-0958 | Published March 13, 2023 | 3 Pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In 2019, several years after a referendum in which British voters chose “Brexit,” meaning the United Kingdom’s (UK’s) exit from the European Union (EU), the transitional agreement between the UK and t... Read More
Boris's Brexit Dilemma (B)
Zorc, Saša; Gregorio, Alexander
QA-0957 | Published March 13, 2023 | 1 Pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
In 2019, several years after a referendum in which British voters chose “Brexit,” meaning the United Kingdom’s (UK’s) exit from the European Union (EU), the transitional agreement between the UK and t... Read More
Introduction to Dynamic Programming
QA-0955 | Published October 10, 2022 | 10 Pages Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
This technical note introduces dynamic programming (DP), a powerful tool for finding optimal solutions to complex problems that involve a concatenation of multiple decisions. This note assumes some fa... Read More
DeSouza Family Holdings
QA-0949 | Published August 16, 2022 | 3 Pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
As CIO of DeSouza Family Holdings, Caroline Erickson managed the family’s investment portfolio—a collection of real estate properties, hotels, several small grocery stores, stocks/bonds, and alternati... 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
Scheduling a Conference
QA-0925 | Published June 16, 2021 | 4 Pages Case
Collection: Darden School of Business
This case uses a mathematician’s experience as a first-time organizer for a prestigious conference in Barcelona, Spain, to set the stage for applying optimization methods to scheduling problems. In pa... Read More
Data Analysis with Two Groups
Pfeifer, Phillip E.; Zorc, Saša
QA-0386 | Published April 08, 1986 | 9 pages. Technical Note
Collection: Darden School of Business
This note illustrates several data-analysis techniques that can be used to compare two groups of interval data. Read More