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Innovating into Active ETFs: Factor Funds Capital Management LLC
Froot, Kenneth A.; Cohen, Lauren H.; Waggoner, ScottCase HBS-211031-EFinanceKishore Karunakaran, President and COO of FFCM, faces a variety of challenges in launching an innovative investment management business in the rapidly evolving ETF space.Starting at €8.20
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Quadriserv and the Short Selling Market
Cohen, Lauren H.; Malloy, Christopher J.Case HBS-212021-EFinanceTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. Ten years into Quadriserv's life, Greg DePetris and his company were at a crossroads. Perhaps more so than any of Greg's previous ventures, Quadriserv represented a move into an established marketplace with strong and entrenched incumbents. Greg had a tested record of startups in the trading and financial sectors, but the difference in this case was that Quadriserv would be ...Starting at €8.20
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Seeking Alpha in the Afterlife: CMG Life Services and the Life Settlement Industry
Cohen, Lauren H.Case HBS-214011-EFinanceThe work of CMG Life Services provides a window into the life settlement industry, showing the difficulties that one young company faces in trying to solve a market failure. This case uses CMG's strategic dilemma to both illuminate the mechanics of a small, inefficient market and show how the success or failure of a market can sometimes depend on more than intrinsic value. The case lays out disagreement about the future of the industry, and even ...Starting at €8.20
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Shanda Family Office
Malloy, Christopher J.; Cohen, Lauren H.; Alamsyah, EssieCase HBS-218102-EFinanceTianqiao Chen, founder and CEO of Shanda Group, has set up his family office in the U.S. in 2016 after exiting from Shanda's Internet games business in China in 2014, again pioneering an unconventional approach to the management of a family office.Starting at €8.20
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"Broadmoor Lives": A New Orleans Neighborhood's Battle To Recover from Hurricane Katrina (B)
Leonard, Herman; Lee, Henry; Fung, Archon; Scott, EstherCase HBS-KS1049-ESupplement case for KS1016.Starting at €5.74
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"Broadmoor Lives": A New Orleans Neighborhood's Battle To Recover from Hurricane Katrina (Sequel)
Leonard, Herman; Lee, Henry; Scott, EstherCase HBS-KS1058-EOn January 11, 2006, residents of New Orleans's Broadmoor neighborhood, which still bore the deep scars left by Hurricane Katrina, were shocked by the headlines in The Times-Picayune. The Urban Planning Committee of a mayoral commission charged with developing a reconstruction plan for the hurricane-ravaged city had proposed giving hard-hit neighborhoods like Broadmoor four months to prove that they were still viable and, hence, worth rebuilding...Starting at €8.20
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Miami-Dade County and Sea Level Rise
Lee, Henry; Unterstell, Natalie; Theel, Shauna; De Neve, PinarCase HBS-KS1212-EEconomicsThe case - Miami-Dade County and Sea Level Rise - focuses on the politics and economics of local adaptation to the threat of climate change impacts. Specifically it focuses on whether a jurisdiction -Miami-Dade County - should amend a draft consent decree to fix and upgrade the county's sewerage system by including investments in adaptation to climate change. The County has three sewerage treatment plants, all of which are built on the coast and ...Starting at €8.20
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Miami-Dade County and Sea Level Rise, Sequel
Lee, Henry; Unterstell, Natalie; Theel, Shauna; De Neve, PinarCase HBS-KS1213-EEconomicsSupplement to case KS1212. The case - Miami-Dade County and Sea Level Rise - focuses on the politics and economics of local adaptation to the threat of climate change impacts. Specifically it focuses on whether a jurisdiction -Miami-Dade County - should amend a draft consent decree to fix and upgrade the county's sewerage system by including investments in adaptation to climate change. The County has three sewerage treatment plants, all of which ...Starting at €8.20
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Miami-Dade County and Sea Level Rise, Teaching Note
Lee, Henry; Unterstell, Natalie; Theel, Shauna; De Neve, PinarTeaching Note HBS-KS1214-EEconomicsTeaching note for case KS1212.Starting at €0.00
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Patent Trolling
Cohen, Lauren H.; Gurun, Umit G; Kominers, Scott Duke; Hou, GeorgeCase HBS-218085-EEntrepreneurshipThe U.S. Intellectual Property (IP) Ecosystem is one of the most robust and dynamic in the world -- and has been for centuries. The bedrock of this system is the "patent," a legal document that allows its holder exclusive commercialization rights of a part of the "idea space" granted through the patent. Strong legal protection of IP has made the U.S. a destination of great thinkers and innovators worldwide in order to enjoy this legal protection ...Starting at €8.20