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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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JPMorgan Chase & Co.: Open Banking
Robert D. Austin; Jashan PuniyaCase IVEY-9B21M060-EInformation Technologies, Knowledge and CommunicationJPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPMC), one of the world’s largest banks, was confronting the advent of open banking in its retail banking business. In late 2020, policy makers and regulators were advocating movement toward open banking with growing enthusiasm as a way to stimulate competition in the financial services sector and thus, encourage greater value creation for consumers.
JPMC, however, seemed to embrace open banking while also resisting i...Starting at €8.20
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MINTing Innovation at NewYork-Presbyterian (A) and (B), Teaching Note
Hamermesh, Richard G.; Kiron, DavidTeaching Note HBS-811010-EEntrepreneurshipTeaching Note for 810004.Starting at €0.00
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Gene Patents (A)
Hamermesh, Richard G.; Kiron, David; Andrews, PhillipCase HBS-811089-EEntrepreneurshipIn March 2010, U.S. District Court Judge Robert Sweet overturned 30 years of legal precedent and ruled that unaltered human genes could not be patented. This case reviews patent law and how it relates to our increasing knowledge of the Human Genome. The case issues deal with the potential implications of Judge Sweet's decision for biotechnology entrepreneurs and investors.Starting at €8.20
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Knight Capital Americas LLC
Robert D. Austin; Darren MeisterCase IVEY-9B15E008-EInformation TechnologiesIt took 19 years to build Knight Capital Americas LLC into the largest market maker on the New York Stock Exchange, but on August 1, 2012, it took only 45 minutes for the firm to be wiped out by an information technology (IT) problem: a change in the company's software caused it to lose more than $450 million dollars in less than an hour. Although it was ultimately saved from bankruptcy when it was acquired two days later, the terms of acquisitio...Starting at €8.20
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Hart Schaffner Marx: Neurodiversity at a Classic American Suit Maker
Robert D. AustinCase IVEY-9B18C048-ELeadership and People ManagementIn 2015, the chief executive officer (CEO) of Hart Schaffner Marx, a 130-year-old U.S. maker of men’s suits and sport coats in Des Plaines, Illinois, set out to create an employment program for people with autism with the help of the company's partner, AuStarting at €8.20
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Digital Transformation at GE: What Went Wrong
Robert D. Austin; Genevieve PelowCase IVEY-9B19M110-EStrategyAs recently as 2017, General Electric (GE) had been touted as an example of how established companies could pre-emptively transform their businesses digitally, without waiting to be forced to do so by their competition. But in 2018, the wheels appeared to fall off GE's transformation, amid a crisis that included leadership changes, dividend cuts, credit downgrades, and a stock price crash. The company announced that it would sell GE Digital, the ...Starting at €8.20
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MINTing Innovation at NewYork-Presbyterian (A)
Hamermesh, Richard G.; Kiron, DavidCase HBS-810004-EEntrepreneurshipSeveral top surgeons at NewYork-Presbyterian hospital (NYP) are receiving financial and administrative support to advance their surgical device inventions through the earliest stages of commercialization.Starting at €8.20
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1366 Technologies
Lassiter, Joseph B.; Nanda, Ramana; Kiron, DavidCase HBS-810005-ETo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. Just months after declaring their intent to become a solar cell equipment supplier, van Mierlo and Sachs were again revisiting the issue of what the company should be. Becoming a successful solar cell manufacturer would potentially be much more lucrative than becoming a successful equipment supplier. But, the latter was much less capital intensive and perhaps a less operatio...Starting at €8.20
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1366 Technologies: Scaling the Venture
Lassiter, Joseph B.; Nanda, Ramana; Kiron, David; Richardson, EvanCase HBS-811076-EEntrepreneurshipTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. For some time, 1366's co-founders, Frank van Mierlo and Ely Sachs, had faced a choice, which was now made all the more stark: 1366 could expand to produce silicon wafers itself, raising the required capital from "friendly" investors and building shipment volume slowly, or 1366 could accelerate its market entry dramatically by partnering with the Asian manufacturers that had ...Starting at €8.20