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The Dutch East India Company in 1612 (A)
Paine, Lynn S.; Dari-Mattiacci, GiuseppeCase HBS-320047-EEconomicsThe Dutch East India Company's board of directors must decide what to do about an impending legal requirement to liquidate the company's assets and return to shareholders their capital and any profits earned during a ten-year lock up period. The charter granted to the company in 1602 by the Dutch Estates General (legislature) required the liquidation and accounting to shareholders after the initial ten-year period and again at the end of a second...Starting at €8.20
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The Dutch East India Company in 1612 (B)
Paine, Lynn S.; Dari-Mattiacci, GiuseppeCase HBS-320048-EEconomicsThe case relates the decision made in the A case and what happened in the aftermath.Starting at €5.74
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a-connect: In Search of Talent Partners (A)
Eccles, Robert G.; Karadzhova, DilyanaCase HBS-409036-ELeadership and People Managementa-connect was started in 2002 by three former McKinsey partners who wanted to develop an alternative business model consulting firm which they have positioned as a high-end staffing company. The company has been very successful, growing to revenues of CHF 30 million with offices in Zurich, Dusseldorf, Boston, San Francisco, Hong Kong, and Singapore. Instead of hiring full-time employees, the company uses a pool of 700 independent professionals (I...Starting at €8.20