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Valuing the Future of Newspapers
May 2016, the Tribune Publishing board rejected a second all-cash buyout offer from Gannett Publishing, $15/share, up from an initial unsolicited bid ...
When famed fine-dining restaurateur Danny Meyer opened a hot dog cart in New York City's Madison Square Park in 2001, the venture drew legions of cust...
Creating New CR Metrics
A global leader in the insurance and asset management business, AXA had risen to the top ranks in terms of corporate responsibility (CR) as well. Not ...
Financing and Placemaking
Over nearly thirty years, developers of London's Canary Wharf had navigated the project through a variety of economic, financial, and construction cri...
Florida Retirement System
Institutional Investor magazine put "The Great Hedge Fund Experiment" on the cover of its June 2011 issue. Inside, the magazine described how in littl...
Flourishing Farmer Loans at MYbank
In 2015, Ant Financial's MYbank (an offshoot of Jack Ma's Alibaba company) was looking to extend services to rural areas in China through its Flourish...
In 2006 Deutsche Bank (DB) brought a new product to market an exchange traded fund (ETF) based on the carry trade, a strategy of buying and selling cu...
As Global Warming Ends the ICE Age, the Largest Automaker Considers how it Positions Itself in a Polarized Political Environment
During the 1950s, a small band of meteorologists, physicists and chemists began conducting observations and building models linking an increase in CO2...
With funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, Project Sammaan brought together a stellar group of designers, architects, and social science r...
The Ethanol Decision
In the early 2000s, the Federal government of Mexico enacted a series of laws promoting the use of alternative fuels in gasoline, beginning with ethan...
Unlocking the Value of Azerbaijan's Offshore Oil Fields
In Azerbaijan, observers had hailed it as the 'contract of the century.' In September of 1994, the Azerbaijani government signed a Production Sharing ...
Could the Information Service Survive Without Its Founder?
Richard Medley is not by nature a patient man, and the dinner in a trendy lower Manhattan restaurant seemed interminable to him. The Swiss banking off...
A Newly-installed Vice-president of Strategy Tries to Make Sense of His Company's Human Resource Policies
This case is written as a fictional journal by someone working in human resource management and details a number of conflicts that he encounters throu...
Expanding to the United States
At the end of 2010, Jifan Gao, Trina Solars founder and chairman, wondered how his company could expand its presence in the United States market. In t...
Assessing an Innovation at Three Points in Time
When colour television reached the mass market, many broadcasters dreamed of another goal - to improve the television picture so that it would rival t...
Martha Johnson brought a new vision of government, based on trust, to the General Services Administration. Then an 'over the top' conference at a Las ...
First Phase
In 2005, the European Union began a bold experiment in environmental regulation by instituting a cap and trade program for carbon emissions, the Europ...
An Ethical Company Struggles to Insure the Integrity of Its Supply Chain
Chocolate had always been considered an affordable little luxury, associated with romance and celebrations. Therefore in 2000 and 2001, revelations th...
In his tenure at BP, Robert Dudley had developed a reputation for coolness under fire. Which was a good thing, since his assignments frequently put hi...
In 2014, the four largest palm oil trading companies signed an agreement to end deforestation, development of peat lands and exploitation of locals no...
Transforming South Africa Through Black Economic Empowerment
In 1994, South Africa held its first free elections, marking the peaceful transition from a government controlled by the country's white minority to a...
When Synchrony Financial came into existence in 2014, the company was part start-up, part established financial giant. For 80 years, Synchrony's busin...
On August 14, 1935, two years and five months after his Inauguration in March 1933, Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Public Law 271, the Social Securi...
Andrea Illy is CEO of the global premium coffee company that bears his family's name. As one might expect, he is passionate about coffee its science, ...
On the Way to Becoming the World's Largest Automaker, Toyota Hit a Rough Road
In winter 2010, the Toyota Motor Corporation faced a crisis. Following a number of highly publicized accidents involving Toyota vehicles, the company ...
A Takeover Bid Focuses Attention on the Potash Market
In August of 2010, BHP Billiton, the Australia-based mining giant, launched a $38.6 billion hostile bid to take over the Potash Corporation of Saskatc...
Negotiations between the United Auto Workers (UAW) and General Motors (GM) in 2007 created a new entity to provide retiree healthcare, a Voluntary Emp...
ESG (Environmental Social and Governance) investing had become an increasingly hot topic in the financial community. Could Commonfund offer its endowm...
'managing by Values' Brought the Company Back, But Now Will it Guide Its Growth?
In 1991, Tom Cleveland, CEO and owner of the Caterpillar dealership, H.O. Penn Machinery Company, found himself contemplating the sale of his poorly p...
In August of 2014, the movement to divest fossil fuel investments from endowment portfolios was sweeping campuses across the United States, including ...
Determining a Path Forward
Harish Hande and the company he founded, SELCO, provide solar electricity for lighting and power to India's poor. For the work of his company, Hande h...
Local, State, & Federal Governments Play Deal Or No Deal
On a helicopter flight to a ceremony at the United Nations in 1995, President Clinton and New York's Senior Senator Daniel Patrick Moynihan flew acros...
A Nonprofit Contemplates the Purchase of a Greeting Card Company
In 2001, George Gieselman, president of the Rochester Rehabilitation Center, was considering a unique proposition for his nonprofit organization. A Ro...
The Disruption of Physician Staffing Services
In hospitals and practices there is a constant need for short-term doctors and nurses. The locum tenens agencies match doctors and nurses to hospitals...
When Barry Rand became the chief executive officer of AARP, in 2009, he took over an enterprise with close to 37 million members and an annual budget ...
How a Global Financial Services Firm Became 'One Bank'
As he surveyed the Credit Suisse Group in 2004, CEO Oswald J. Grรผbel saw a far-flung financial services firm that offered a variety of excellent prod...
A High-performing Network of Charter Schools Faces Political and Patron Pressures
For decades, the educational establishment had argued that the persistent achievement gap between the test scores of minority inner-city youths and su...
Responding to Insourcing
In the beginning of 2007, Dr Carlos Urmacher, the Chief Medical Officer of CBLPath, and David Bryant, President and Chief Operating Officer of CBLPath...
Fred Krupp, the President of Environmental Defense, received the first call from the Texas Pacific Group (TPG) requesting that EDF, along with NRDC, p...