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Hertz & Dollar Thrifty
Estrada, JavierCase F-906-EFinanceMark Frissora, Hertz's chief executive officer and chairman of the Board, had been pushing Elyse Douglas, the company's chief financial officer, to come up with a figure. The figure was how much Hertz should bid to acquire Dollar Thrifty and still generate value for Hertz's shareholders. Frissora had been pursuing the acquisition of Dollar Thrifty for almost three years now, and yet a deal remained elusive. "It's now or never," Frissora told Doug...Starting at €8.20
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Atlas Financial Advisors
Estrada, JavierCase F-954-EFinanceThe team of advisors under the supervision of John Galt gathered at the Coral Gables, Florida, offices of Atlas Financial Advisors in early January 2020. The meeting was held with the sole purpose of issuing a recommendation to the Board of Trustees of the Green Hills golf club, whose $200 million endowment Atlas advised. This case replaces the F-727 Atlas Investment Management case from the same author.Starting at €8.20
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Hilton Hotels, Corp.
Estrada, JavierCase F-711FinanceUn cliente que solicita la formación de una cartera de valores, se muestra interesado en que en la misma hayan acciones de los hoteles Hilton. Análisis de la situación de dicha cadena para la toma de una decisión correcta.Starting at €8.20
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Stealth Sports - Teaching Note
Estrada, JavierTeaching Note FT-122-EFinanceEarly in 2020, Pamela Taggart, the recently-appointed CFO of Stealth Sports (a non-publicly-trade company), had one overriding task and little time to waste: She needed to estimate a hurdle rate to force some discipline in the decision-making process of the company. Her problem was that unlike some of the companies she had worked for before, Stealth was not publicly traded; that complicated her job but did not make it impossible. This case is des...Starting at €0.00
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Mobil USM&R (B): Ventas y Distribución New England
Kaplan, Robert S.Case HBS-104S05Accounting and ControlEl gerente general de una unidad de negocio de distribución de gasolina / ventas de destilados y local debe comunicar una nueva estrategia para 300 empleados de la unidad. Un primer ejercicio de planificación estratégica identificó una lista de alta prioridad de las oportunidades que se mezclaba la estrategia nacional de la división padre con una estrategia local personalizado. Pero para la nueva estrategia sea eficaz, el sistema de medición de e...Starting at €5.74
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Midwest Office Products (Spanish version)
Kaplan, Robert S.Case HBS-106S04Accounting and ControlPresents an easy introduction to time-driven activity-based costing (ABC) that allows students to build a simple ABC model of order profitability. Midwest's time-driven ABC approach is based on two categories of parameter estimates. The first is the cost per hour of employees performing diverse tasks, such as order-entry operators and delivery personnel performing desktop deliveries. The second is the estimated time required for employees to perf...Starting at €8.20
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Domestic Auto Parts (Spanish version)
Kaplan, Robert S.Case HBS-106S15Accounting and ControlDescribes a meeting of an executive team to discuss strategy for a company turnaround. The exercise is to construct a strategy map and Balanced Scorecard to capture the new strategy.Starting at €8.20
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Accounting Fraud at WorldCom (Spanish version)
Kaplan, Robert S.; Kiron, DavidCase HBS-109S04Business Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityThe principal players in WorldCom's accounting fraud included CFO Scott Sullivan, the General Accounting and Internal Audit departments, external auditor Arthur Andersen, and the board of directors. The case provides sufficient detail to allow for a full discussion of the pressures that lead executives and managers to "cook the books," the boundary between earnings smoothing or management and fraudulent reporting, the role for internal control sy...Starting at €8.20
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John Deere Component Works (A) (Spanish version)
Kaplan, Robert S.; March, ArtemisCase HBS-115S03Accounting and ControlThe division has recognized the inadequacies of its existing, traditional cost system for estimating product costs. Describes the innovative activity-based system that was developed to more accurately trace overhead costs to individual products. Provides students with the opportunity to critique a standard cost system and to assess the characteristics of the proposed system that traces costs to production activities.Starting at €8.20
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Componentes de Obras John Deere (B)
Kaplan, Robert S.; March, ArtemisCase HBS-115S04Accounting and ControlDespués de haber instalado un sistema basado en la actividad, la división está explorando la visión proporcionada por ese sistema. En particular, se estudia la economía del proceso de planificación del tamaño de lote y la gestión de la mezcla de productos.Starting at €5.74