In November 2017, Students for Fair Admissions Inc. filed a complaint alleging that Harvard College violated Title VI of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibited racial discrimination in institutions that received federal funding. The complaint alleged that Harvard College engaged in intentional discrimination against Asian American applicants in its admissions process. Harvard College acknowledged its use of race in the admissions process but maintained .....more

Teaching note for product W37380.

Instructor Spreadsheet to accompany product W34029.

Teaching note for product W34028.

James Waite, the manager at Western Film, must decide which film to screen at his cinema in the upcoming week. He must evaluate whether to continue showing Spider-Man: Far From Home (Spider-Man), or replace it with one of three other films available for him to screen. Western Film, a second-run theatre, has the advantage of having domestic box office information available, and Waite must analyze whether this information is helpful to him in making .....more

Student Spreadsheet to accompany product W34028.

In December 2022, after the independent film distributing company levelFILM Inc. experienced several box office failures, the company’s manager of sales strategy was wondering if the company needed to re-examine its portfolio strategy. Based in Toronto, Ontario, levelFILM Inc. operated in the highly uncertain film industry, in which it was almost impossible to predict how any one film would perform at the box office. The various distributors in the .....more

Teaching note for product W33828.

Instructor Spreadsheet to accompany product W33829.

Student Spreadsheet to accompany product W33828.