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Nexgen: estructuración de obligaciones de deuda colaterizada (CDOs)
Chacko, George; Hecht, Peter; Subrahmanyam, Marti; Dessain, Vincent; Sjoman, AndersCase HBS-208S02FinanceUn cliente pide Luc Giraud, director general del proveedor de soluciones de financiación estructurada Nexgen Financial Solutions, para armar una solución que permite al cliente añadir los bonos con calificación AAA a su cartera. El cliente no puede encontrar enlaces con mejor puntuación adecuada precio en el mercado y se pregunta si Nexgen puede utilizar bonos de grado más bajo para crear instrumentos AAA-equivalentes. El proceso de paquetes de t...Starting at €8.20
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Disrupting the Meat Industry: Tissue Culture Beef
Alvarez, Jose B.; Preble, MatthewCase HBS-515001-EMarketingDr. Mark Post and his team at Maastricht University were perfecting their tissue culture beef product-made entirely from muscle grown in his lab-to give it the same taste, texture and appearance of a traditional beef hamburger. A previous iteration of this product had been taste tested live, with good results, and Sergey Brin, a co-founder of Google, had provided Post with much of the funding to make the burgers. The next step was to form an inde...Starting at €8.20
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Bonos para catástrofes en Swiss Re
Chacko, George; Dessain, Vincent; Sjoman, Anders; Hecht, PeterCase HBS-208S01FinanceEn 2002, Swiss Re, la segunda del mundo - más grande compañía de seguros, está considerando la titularización de partes de su cartera de riesgo en los mercados de capitales. Esta sería la primera vez para la empresa que, hasta entonces, nunca había transferido el riesgo fuera de su balance. Peter Giessmann, jefe del Grupo de retrocesión, está considerando bonos de catástrofe como una forma de transferir el riesgo. "bonos gato" son valores cuyos p...Starting at €8.20
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The "Wonder Drug" that Killed Babies
Krieger, Joshua Lev; Nicholas, Tom; Preble, MatthewCase HBS-818044-EEconomicsIn the early 1960s, a popular drug taken by patients worldwide for a range of maladies was found to cause severe birth defects and other health problems in babies born to mothers who had taken it during a certain stage of fetal development. As many as 10,000 children may have been affected. Just a handful of these children were born in the U.S., where safety concerns were raised by Dr. Frances Oldham Kelsey, the medical officer handling the thali...Starting at €8.20