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Megaprojects & the Role of the Public: Germany's Embattled 'Stuttgart 21' Rail Project
Varley, Pamela; Mayne, QuintonCase HBS-KS1130-EEconomicsIn February 2010, Germany's national railway broke ground on a project that had been under negotiation for more than 20 years-the Stuttgart segment of the European Magistrale, a 930-mile cross-Europe high-speed rail line that would one day extend from Paris through Munich and Vienna to Budapest and Bratislava. At long last, the German national railway, the state of Baden-W rttemberg, and the city of Stuttgart had come to agreement on the routing...Starting at €8.20
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Karstadt Warenhaus GmbH: Do Department Stores Have a Future
Robin Dresenkamp; Johannes Effenberger; Max Meinhövel; Friedrich Sommer; Carolin Taprogge; Miriam Varón Romero; Arnt WöhrmannCase IVEY-9B15M089-EStrategyAt the end of 2013, Karstadt Warenhaus GmbH, the second-biggest German department store chain and one of the most traditional and well-known companies in Germany, was in a highly challenging strategic position. Following recent mismanagement, it had narrowly escaped insolvency. By the end of 2013, however, Karstadt was still struggling against competition in the retail sector. Could the newly appointed chief executive officer come up with a busin...Starting at €8.20
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Aung San Suu Kyi, Seizing the Moment: Soaring Hopes & Tough Constraints in Myanmar's Unfolding Democracy, Abridged
Varley, Pamela; Bowles, Hannah RileyCase HBS-KS1276-EEconomicsThis 9-page version of Seizing the Moment primarily differs from the original in omitting a 4-page section that describes the early, confusing stages of Myanmar's democratization process. Like the original, this leadership case is set in the spring of 2016 and gives students the chance to grapple with the difficult challenges confronting Myanmar's opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, after a rapid turn of fortune took her, over a period of six ye...Starting at €8.20
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Fallen Idol Aung San Suu Kyi & the Rohingya Humanitarian Crisis
Varley, Pamela; Robichaud, ChristopherCase HBS-KS1277-EEconomicsSoon after Myanmar's longtime democracy crusader and opposition leader, Aung San Suu Kyi, was released from a long house arrest and elected to the country's parliament in 2012, intercommunal violence began to escalate in the western state of Rakhine between local Buddhists and Rohingya Muslims. Over the next five years, the long-persecuted Rohingya minority faced increasingly violent waves of attack, culminating in a humanitarian catastrophe in A...Starting at €8.20