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Angola and the Resource Curse (Spanish version)
Musacchio, Aldo; Werker, Eric; Schlefer, JonathanCase HBS-714S10Economicsimmense inequality, low life expectancy, a non-diversified economy, and constant grumblings of corruption. The global financial crisis and subsequent fall in state oil revenue drives a loan-seeking Angola towards either the IMF, who demand extensive reforms, or the Chinese, who seek to take a direct stake in the nation's recovery. The case explores the dynamics of post-conflict recovery as well as the challenges associated with a reliance on oil...Starting at €8.20
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Foreign Direct Investment and South Africa (B)
Werker, Eric; Cornell, Ian McKownCase HBS-712054-EEconomicsIncoming and outgoing foreign direct investment in an environment of politics, geography, globalization, and history. Since the end of apartheid, South Africa had undertaken substantial economic reforms in order to attract more foreign direct investment, but it was slow in coming. At the same time, South African firms had become major players in sub-Saharan Africa and beyond. Collectively, these investment decisions could have a major long-run im...Starting at €5.74
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4M: Four-Markets Analysis for Emerging Economies
Werker, EricCase HBS-713026-EEconomicsThis technical note describes a methodology for evaluating the political economy of business-government relations in an emerging or frontier economy. The note argues that there are not one but four markets in an emerging economy: the market of "rentiers" such as mining companies that earn profits by maximizing rents in the export sector, "powerbrokers" that use monopoly power and government relations in regulated industries to earn outsized profi...Starting at €8.20
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Privatization of the Power Sector in Nigeria (B)
Werker, Eric; Ezekwueche, Onyechi; Igun, Olatomiwa; Wei, AliceCase HBS-713043-EEconomicsSupplement for case 713042Starting at €5.74
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Ayala Corporation & the Philippines: Asset Allocation in a Growing Economy (B)
Werker, Eric; Mandviwala, Yasmin; Motte-Munoz, Henry; Wit, ArthurCase HBS-713094-EEconomicsStarting at €5.74
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Cyprus (A)
Werker, Eric; Berardi, Sebastian; Elia, Stelios; Muakkassa, Omar; Zumberge, JamesCase HBS-714010-EEconomicsCyprus is a small Mediterranean island located at the cross-roads of Europe, Africa, and the Middle East. Since its 1974 split, Cyprus has grown real GDP more than fivefold-in large part because of its development as an "international business" center. The country developed a large network of double-taxation-treaties (including some of the most robust agreements with Russia and other ex-Soviet Republics) that allowed it to serve as a tax-efficien...Starting at €8.20
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Cyprus (B)
Werker, Eric; Berardi, Sebastian; Elia, Stelios; Muakkassa, Omar; Zumberge, JamesCase HBS-714011-EEconomicsStarting at €5.74
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Cyprus (A) and (B), Teaching Note
Werker, Eric; Berardi, Sebastian; Elia, Stelios; Muakkassa, Omar; Zumberge, JamesTeaching Note HBS-714012-EEconomicsTeaching Note for 714010 and 714011.Starting at €0.00
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GM's Capital Allocation Framework
Foley, C. Fritz; Boland, F. Katelynn; Lemm, MichaelCase HBS-218026-EFinanceIn March of 2015, General Motors announced the details of a newly-established capital allocation framework. This framework provided a target for return on invested capital, guidelines for capital structure choices, and policies related to payouts. Senior managers face questions about how these policies should be implemented and what impact they might have.Starting at €8.20
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Project Moab at Hulu
Foley, C. Fritz; Weber, JamesCase HBS-218050-EFinanceIn 2015, Elaine Paul, CFO of Hulu, and the rest of the senior leadership team, must decide if they should offer a new, advertisement-free subscription service. At the time Hulu distributed a wide variety of content including in season current programming and earned significant revenues from advertising revenues. This choice had strategic implications and required formulating a view on how the video on demand industry would evolve. It also had val...Starting at €8.20