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Northampton Group Inc.: How to Increase Shareholder Value
Stephen Sapp; Kamal PatelCase IVEY-9B11N007-EFinanceThe case examines the issues faced by a hotel management and development company as it tries to increase the return to its shareholders. The firm’s major shareholders have commented that they believe the firm is currently under-valued, so management is considering several means of unlocking extra value. Due to difficult economic conditions resulting from the global economic crisis, there are many opportunities as well as many risks to the alterna...Starting at €8.20
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CS Publishing Inc.: Foreign Exchange Risk Management
Stephen SappCase IVEY-9B19N024-EFinance, StrategyA medium-sized Canadian provider of specialized educational products and services, Canada Specialization Providers, had a subsidiary, CS Publishing Inc. (CSPub), which sold specialty learning materials around the world. Although the company's costs and revenues were almost exclusively in Canadian dollars and its subsidiary, CSPub, had most of its costs in Canadian dollars, this subsidiary also had a large and growing revenue base in other currenc...Starting at €8.20
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Spain: Can the House Resist the Storm (Spanish Version)
Comin, DiegoCase HBS-712S01Knowledge and CommunicationEl 16 de septiembre de 2008, el presidente Rodríguez Zapatero reconoció la gravedad de la situación macroeconómica de España y señaló claramente que el culpable delante del Congreso español: "Que nadie duda; ya existe un amplio consenso sobre el origen de la crisis: [Se ] es en el de sus hipotecas de alto riesgo de Estados Unidos y ". Durante los últimos ocho años, España ha pasado por una fenomenal expansión que ha tenido muchos ingredientes imp...Starting at €8.20
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Spain: Can the House Resist the Storm
Comin, DiegoCase HBS-709021-EOn September 16, 2008, President Rodriguez Zapatero recognized the severity of Spain's macroeconomic situation and clearly pointed to the culprit in front of the Spanish Congress: "Let nobody doubt it; there is already a wide consensus about the origin of the crisis: [It is] in the U.S. and its subprime mortgages." During the last eight years, Spain had gone through a phenomenal expansion that has had many important ingredients: immigration, hous...Starting at €8.20
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The Great Moderation, Dead or Alive
Comin, DiegoCase HBS-709023-EThe Great Moderation is a significant decline in the volatility of fluctuations in most macroeconomic variables that the United States and other developed and developing economies have experienced at least since the mid 1980s. This case describes the basic facts, presents contending explanations and explores the consequences of the Great Moderation for the likely amplitude of future business cycles.Starting at €8.20
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Spain: Can the House Resist the Storm, Teaching Note
Comin, DiegoTeaching Note HBS-710026-ETeaching Note for [709021].Starting at €0.00
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China ''Unbalanced''
Comin, Diego; Vietor, Richard H.K.Case HBS-711010-EEconomicsIn 2010, Wen Jiabao looked back at the financial crisis with some satisfaction. Using aggressive fiscal and monetary policy, China had weathered the crisis successfully, growing 8.7% annually in 2010. Most of the unemployed workers had returned to work, often demonstrating for higher wages or better working conditions. Wen, however, was really focused on his new development strategy-shifting away from export-led growth to ease domestic and intern...Starting at €8.20
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Fraunhofer: Innovation in Germany
Comin, Diego; Trumbull, Gunnar; Yang, KerryCase HBS-711022-EEconomicsFraunhofer is one of the largest applied research organizations in the world. With 17,000 employees and a 1.6 billion euros budget, Fraunhofer has 60 institutes in Germany that cover most fields of science. The case examines the consequences that Fraunhofer has for the competitiveness of the German economy. It also explores whether the organization of R&D is affected by the size distribution of firms as well as by institutions in labor and financ...Starting at €8.20
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Business Succession and the Asher Estate
Stephen Sapp; Alykhan AlidinaCase IVEY-9B20N011-EFinanceIn December 2017, Ali Asher, the second-eldest child of Aziz Asher, was conducting research for his father on the best way to restructure the family business to prepare for succession. Asher’s parents and siblings all lived in Canada, while Ali had been running a start-up in India for nearly two years. The family had a real estate and construction business in Vancouver, British Columbia. Ali’s older sister had special needs and lived with her par...Starting at €8.20
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ChimpChange: How to Raise Capital to Grow
Stephen SappCase IVEY-9B19N009-EEntrepreneurship, FinanceIn early 2016, ChimpChange Limited, a financial technology (fintech) start-up, had started operations in California and already had more than 80,000 customers. The company needed capital to acquire more customers in order to become cash-flow positive, as was the case with most start-ups. ChimpChange Limited should have been able to attain the break-even number of customers within another year or so, but it needed capital to execute a marketing ca...Starting at €8.20