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Alcoa's Bid for Alcan (A)
Healy, Paul M.; Rossano, PenelopeCase HBS-114029-EAccounting and ControlIn spring 2007, Alcoa CEO Alain Belda was concerned about the company's market position in light of increased competition from developing markets. China's recent entry into the aluminum market was affecting both supply and demand. Furthermore, downstream and upstream product was coming on-line from other parts of the world, including Russia. As a result, Alcoa had lost its historical market dominance and stock premium. Belda was convinced that fo...Starting at €8.20
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Alcoa's Bid for Alcan (B)
Healy, Paul M.; Rossano, PenelopeCase HBS-114030-EAccounting and ControlIn spring 2007, Alcoa CEO Alain Belda was concerned about the company's market position in light of increased competition from developing markets. China's recent entry into the aluminum market was affecting both supply and demand. Furthermore, downstream and upstream product was coming on-line from other parts of the world, including Russia. As a result, Alcoa had lost its historical market dominance and stock premium. Belda was convinced that fo...Starting at €5.74
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Accounting for Nuclear Power Provisions at RWE
Healy, Paul M.; Heese, JonasCase HBS-118013-EAccounting and ControlIn early 2016, RWE, a utility that operates nuclear power plants in Germany, came under scrutiny from regulators and the media over the adequacy of its provisions for costs of decommissioning and dismantling (D&D) its nuclear power plants. Accounting standards required utilities to record the present value of projected D&D costs as a liability. However, there were many uncertainties associated with these estimates given the actual cash outlays wo...Starting at €8.20
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Updating Dating
Eisenmann, Thomas R.; Kominers, Scott Duke; Lam, AlanCase HBS-818052-EEntrepreneurshipTo identify design ideas for their own startup, two MBAs compare the different profiling, matching, and monetization approaches employed by five incumbent dating services: Coffee Meets Bagel, OKCupid, Jiayuan, Dating Ring, and HurryDate.Starting at €8.20
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Kl ckner & Co: Steeling for a Digital World
Kominers, Scott Duke; Knoop, Carin-IsabelCase HBS-820035-EEconomicsHoping to get ahead of potential digital disruption at Kl ckner & Co. - one of the world's largest steel and metal distributors - CEO Gisbert R hl set up both kloeckner.i (KCI), an internal transformation arm, and XOM Materials (XOM), an independent industry platform. KCI and XOM sought to digitize the $350 billion materials supply and service chain, and promote greater price transparency and efficiency. However, the materials market traditiona...Starting at €8.20
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CreditEase: Providing Credit and Financial Services for China's Underclass
Goldberg, Lena G.; Healy, Paul M.; Hua Dai, NancyCase HBS-315027-ELeadership and People ManagementIn 2013 Ning Tang, who in 2006 founded CreditEase as a broker of P2P loans to unbanked individuals and small businesses in China, confronts the challenges of rapid growth and expansion in a changing regulatory environment. CreditEase needs to develop technology to manage its growth, address issues related to the company's expansion into products and services for China's growing high net worth (HNW) population, including questions about the suitab...Starting at €8.20
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Value Partners and the Evergrande Situation
Healy, Paul M.; Wong, Keith Chi-hoCase HBS-113113-EAccounting and ControlIn June 2012, Cheah Cheng-Hye and his colleagues at Value Partners, a Hong-Kong-based investment firm, received a copy of a short-seller report alleging that Evergrande, one of China's largest property developers, was using fraudulent accounting and paying bribes to secure business. Evergrande's stock plummeted, and Value Partners, which had a sizable holding of Evergrande stock, had to determine how to respond to the allegations. The case provid...Starting at €8.20
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Three-Year Planning at Li & Fung Limited
Healy, Paul M.; Wong, Keith Chi-hoCase HBS-114098-EAccounting and ControlHaving been able to follow its own "three-year plan" on course constantly, Li & Fung Limited fell short of meeting its stretch earnings target for the first time in almost two decades, leading to a double-digit drop in stock price overnight. Questions were raised on the company's strategies pursued to meet such targets, and on the validity of its Three-Year Planning process.Starting at €8.20