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Risk Management at Lehman Brothers, 2007-2008
Maedler, Markus; van Etten, ScottCase C-758-EAccounting and Control, Corporate GovernanceLehman Brothers' September 2008 bankruptcy was the largest in U.S. history, with worldwide repercussions that persist today. The case takes an uncommon approach: it assumes a general management perspective and provides a unique 360º description of the firm's internal risk management system (RMS), i.e., the formal structures and processes managers had designed and were using to manage risk. This description serves as a vehicle for providing stud...Starting at €8.20
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Say on Pay at Citigroup
Ormazabal, Gaizka; Kadach, IgorCase C-795-EAccounting and Control, Corporate Governance, FinanceThis case examines the failed Advisory Vote on Executive Compensation (Say on Pay) for Citigroup and Vikram Pandit in April 2012. The general objective of the case is to help students understand executive compensation packages. As specific objectives, the case is intended to help students: i) Understand the components of executive compensation packages ii) Estimate the economic value of executive compensation packages iii) ...Starting at €8.20
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Elliot: A Sniper on the Board of Arconic
Corbatera Jorge, Sergi; Davila, AntonioCase C-787-EAccounting and Control, Corporate GovernanceThe case describes Elliot Management's actions to change the governance structure of Arconic. Elliot Management is one of the largest activist investor funds in the US. Among its businesses, it identifies undervalued companies and unlocks this value, taking a significant position in the equity of the company and through this position forcing changes, often starting at the governance level. Arconic is the Mid and Upstream company that came out of ...Starting at €8.20
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Investment Strategies and Berkshire Hathaway
Palencia, LuisCase C-734-EAccounting and ControlAn average investor, Josu Short, reviews Berkshire Hathaway's 13-plus-one points of the "contract with shareholders" present in each of the company's annual reports. Apparent inconsistencies and financial paradoxes are presented.Starting at €8.20
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Tidal Cloud: Cost Allocation in the Cloud - Teaching Note
Raney, RobertTeaching Note CT-38-EAccounting and ControlThis case uses a contemporaneous setting to introduce core managerial accounting concepts related to cost allocation, cost systems, activity-based costing and cost analysis for strategic decision making. The case is set in July of 2016 with Tidal Cloud, a late-stage startup with three products that differentially consume indirect costs of the company. Tidal has benefited from a period of high growth and the potential of a lucrative exit is on ev...Starting at €0.00
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Le Grand Hôtel de Leysin (GHL)
Soler, Edi; Ormazabal, GaizkaCase C-805-EAccounting and ControlIn Le Grand Hôtel de Leysin (GHL), the participant plays the role of the hotel's general manager, Sofie Keller, who must make several decisions to improve the profitability of the business. The main ones are: to decide whether to keep or stop offering the conference service, and to analyze how to react to the steep discount on the room price offered by a competitor with similar characteristics. Both decisions are framed in a context of crisis cau...Starting at €8.20
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Le Grand Hôtel de Leysin (GHL)
Soler, Edi; Ormazabal, GaizkaCase C-805Accounting and ControlLe Grand Hôtel de Leysin (GHL) permite poner al participante en la piel de la directora general del hotel, Sofie Keller, quien debe tomar varias decisiones para mejorar la rentabilidad del negocio. Las principales son dos: decidir si mantener o dejar de ofrecer el servicio de conferencias y analizar cómo reaccionar ante el fuerte descuento en el precio de habitación ofrecido por un competidor de características similares a las de su hotel. Ambas...Starting at €8.20
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Le Grand Hôtel de Leysin (GHL) (Portuguese Version, Brazil)
Soler, Edi; Ormazabal, GaizkaCase C-805-PBAccounting and ControlIn Le Grand Hôtel de Leysin (GHL), the participant plays the role of the hotel's general manager, Sofie Keller, who must make several decisions to improve the profitability of the business. The main ones are: to decide whether to keep or stop offering the conference service, and to analyze how to react to the steep discount on the room price offered by a competitor with similar characteristics. Both decisions are framed in a context of crisis cau...Starting at €8.20
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Tidal Cloud: asignación de costes en la nube
Raney, RobertCase C-806Accounting and ControlEste caso utiliza un contexto contemporáneo para introducir conceptos básicos de gestión de contabilidad relacionados con la asignación de costes, los sistemas de costes, el cálculo de costes basado en la actividad y el análisis de costes para la toma de decisiones estratégicas. El caso se sitúa en julio del 2016 con Tidal Cloud, una start-up en fase avanzada con tres productos que absorben de forma diferenciada los costes indirectos de la empres...Starting at €8.20
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Biosafety Level Logistics (BLL)
Duro, Miguel; Grandes, Mª Jesús; Palencia, LuisCase C-803-EAccounting and ControlBiosafety Level Logistics (BLL) was a Swiss company specialized in providing biosecurity logistic services to other companies. In 2020, BLL obtained a five-year contract to provide bio-secure transportation services to several Swiss research centers specialized in the development of vaccines. To offer this service, BLL had to buy ten refrigerated trucks that had been meticulously adapted to transport the vaccines, forcing the company to decide on...Starting at €8.20