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Project Sun Devil and Project Paris
Lietz, Nori GerardoCase HBS-213078-EFinanceTony Lee is preparing to present a project to the invesment committee of Howard Street Capital. He will be recommending an investment in Project Sun Devil, a high-quality 225-unit student housing rental property near Tempe, Arizona. Tony Lee will compete for capital against the other project on the investment committee's agenda, Project Paris. Project Paris, a very different type of real estate transaction, is a hybrid mezzanine investment in the...Starting at €8.20
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Dan Gilbert: Crazy or Crazy Like a Fox
Lietz, Nori GerardoCase HBS-216066-EFinanceStarting at €8.20
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Prudential Financial and Asset-Liability Management
Seasholes, Mark; Sunderam, Adi; Viceira, Luis M.; Chien, Emily A.Case HBS-216076-EFinanceHow should a retirement fund that must make fixed payments to retirees invest its portfolio? This case introduces students to a variety of concepts in fixed income investing, focusing how on the need to make fixed payments changes portfolio management strategy. Students consider the advantages and disadvantages of asset-liability matching as an investment strategy and learn how to implement such a strategy in practice.Starting at €8.20
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Investcorp and the Moneybookers Bid
Rhodes-Kropf, Matthew; Knoop, Carin-Isabel; Lietz, Nori GerardoCase HBS-811013-EEntrepreneurshipIn January 2007, Hazem Ben-Gacem, managing director and co-head of Investcorp Technology Partners (ITP), needs to decide what to bid at an auction for Moneybookers Limited, one of the top three e-payment solution providers in Europe. However, approximately 70% of Moneybookers revenues were related to transactions from online gaming sites (down from 100% in 2002). Although the thesis was that e-commerce transactions would soon make up a much large...Starting at €8.20
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Leader Bank, N.A.
Scharfstein, David S.; Sunderam, Adi; Chagani, HafizCase HBS-214076-EFinanceStarting at €8.20
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"Doctor My Eyes"--The Acquisition of Bausch & Lomb by Warburg Pincus (A)
Lietz, Nori GerardoCase HBS-216021-EFinanceIn early 2010, senior partners at Warburg Pincus met to review a report on Bausch & Lomb Incorporated, the firm's largest investment at the time. Warburg Pincus had led a group of investors in acquiring Bauch & Lomb on October 26, 2007, taking the company private and becoming its largest and controlling shareholder. Since the acquisition, there had been significant progress at Bausch & Lomb through changes in senior leadership and in its business...Starting at €8.20
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Doctor My Eyes: The Acquisition of Bausch & Lomb by Warburg Pincus (B)
Lietz, Nori Gerardo; Andrade, RicardoCase HBS-218029-EFinanceSupplement to case 216021.Starting at €5.74
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The Financial Crisis: Hank Paulson in 2008
Sunderam, Adi; Greenwood, Robin; Hanson, Samuel G.; Scharfstein, David S.Case HBS-219037-EEconomicsOn the afternoon of Monday October 13, 2008, Hank Paulson Jr., the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, walked into the large conference room across the hall from his office in the Treasury Department. Joining him were Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, President of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York Timothy Geithner, Chair of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporate Sheila Bair, and the Chief Executive Officers of nine of the lar...Starting at €8.20
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Lending Club: Time to Join
Scharfstein, David S.; Sunderam, Adi; Ference, John; Roane, PhilipCase HBS-214046-EFinanceStarting at €8.20
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Restructuring JAL
Baker, Malcolm P.; Sunderam, Adi; Sato, Nobuo; Kanno, AkikoCase HBS-214055-EFinanceHideo Seto, the recently appointed chairman of the investment committee of the Enterprise Turnaround Initiative Corporation, must decide whether to push JAL group, Japan's largest airline, into bankruptcy or to act as a sponsor in an out-of-court restructStarting at €8.20