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Genzyme Center (C)
Toffel, Michael W.; Sesia, AldoCase HBS-610010-EService and Operations ManagementGenzyme Corporation is in the midst of planning its new corporate headquarters, which incorporates many innovative green building features. After learning that the building as planned would likely earn a LEED Silver rating, an intermediate score in the LEED green building rating scheme, the CEO charged the building team with exploring opportunities that would enable the building to earn the highest rating, LEED Platinum. Five additional green bui...Starting at €5.74
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BlackRock (C): Integrating BGI
Gulati, Ranjay; Rivkin, Jan W.; Sesia, AldoCase HBS-717406-EStrategyThis (C) case is a supplement to HBS case no. 717-404 "BlackRock (A): Selling the Systems?"Starting at €5.74
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BlackRock (B): Acquire MLIM - Teaching Note
Gulati, Ranjay; Gilson, Stuart C.; Sesia, AldoTeaching Note HBS-719431-EStrategyTeaching note to case 717405 and 717485Starting at €0.00
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If We Ran the World
Halaburda, Hanna; Dohnalova, Radka; Sesia, AldoCase HBS-711490-EStrategyTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. Cindy Gallop launched IfWeRanTheWorld (IWRTW) in February 2010, as what the tech world called minimum viable product, in order to real-world test Gallop's "business of the future" concept while development was ongoing. IWRTW was conceived to bring together human good intentions with corporate good intentions, to activate both into shared action, against shared goals, to deli...Starting at €8.20
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CalPERS' Emerging Equity in the Markets Principles
Eccles, Robert G.; Sesia, AldoCase HBS-409054-ELeadership and People ManagementThe California Public Employees' Retirement System (CaIPERS)-the largest public pension fund in the U.S.-had adopted a new principles-based approach to investing in emerging market equities in November 2007. Previously, CalPERS internal and external money managers were prohibited from investing in certain developing countries because the countries failed to meet certain standards for political stability, human rights, market regulation, etc. The ...Starting at €8.20
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Chances Are Course Selection at HBS and at Kellogg
Halaburda, Hanna; Sesia, AldoCase HBS-711417-EStrategyThe case describes two alternative elective course assignment procedures: Harvard Business School's lottery-based system and Kellogg Graduate School of Management's bidding-based system. The case has been designed to discuss the benefits and drawbacks of each system and their desirability (or lack thereof) depending on the context (the broader business system) within which they are implemented. The case also describes the draft used by the NBA to...Starting at €8.20
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High Wire Act: Credit Suisse and Contingent Capital (A)
Rose, Clayton; Sesia, AldoCase HBS-312007-ELate in 2010, Credit Suisse CEO Brady Dougan and his team closed in on the decision of whether or not to issue contingent capital, which Swiss regulators would require by 2019. There were a number of substantial issues facing Dougan and his team, including whether contingent capital would provide sufficient loss absorption when called upon, would there be sufficient demand for this new instrument, would it be cost effective capital, and what were...Starting at €8.20
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High Wire Act: Credit Suisse and Contingent Capital (B)
Rose, Clayton; Sesia, AldoCase HBS-312008-EThe B case describes the process and terms of the very successful offerings of contingent capital in February 2011, as well as The Basel Committee's preliminary decision not to allow contingent capital to count as Tier 1 equity.Starting at €5.74
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Transatlantic Holdings, Inc. - The Belle of the Ball
Rose, Clayton; Sesia, AldoCase HBS-313017-EIn November of 2011 Transatlantic Holdings, Inc., a global property and casualty reinsurance company, announced it had agreed to sell itself to Alleghany Corporation, ending "the most frenzied takeover battle" of 2011, which involved competitors, Warren Buffett's National Indemnity, and private equity investors. The agreement with Alleghany came after Transatlantic's failed effort at a merger of equals, and a several other unsuccessful bids for t...Starting at €8.20
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Friend Bank: The Time for Hope
Rose, Clayton; Sesia, AldoCase HBS-310070-EIn 2010, Friend Bank was entering the fifth year of Hope Harris Johnson's ambitious 20-year growth plan to transform her family's one branch community bank into an institution with a substantial presence in southeastern Alabama. Harris Johnson was pleased, so far, with the results. Strategically they had exceeded expectations in opening a second office and execution of the plan was going well. And while the financial and economic crisis that bega...Starting at €8.20