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McNair, Jeffrey L.

Whirlpool Research And Engineering Division (B)

McNair, Jeffrey L.; Bodily, Samuel E.

QA-0210 | Published April 05, 1979 | 31 pages. Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

With the assistance of a temporary graduate student, the director of corporate research uses multiattribute decision analysis to find a plan with greatly improved projected performance (see UVA-QA-020... Read More

Whirlpool Research And Engineering Division (C)

McNair, Jeffrey L.; Bodily, Samuel E.

QA-0211 | Published April 05, 1979 | 3 pages. Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

Four years after the A and B cases (UVA-QA-0209 and UVA-QA-0210), the annual plan has drifted greatly from that suggested by the analysis in the B case. How can the decision-analysis methodology be si... Read More

Whirlpool Research And Engineering Division (A)

McNair, Jeffrey L.; Bodily, Samuel E.

QA-0209 | Published January 31, 1979 | 7 pages. Case

Collection: Darden School of Business

The director of Corporate Research faces the problem of setting the annual budget for the various areas of research. See also UVA-QA-0210 and UVA-QA-0211. Read More