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Cresud S.A., Farmer or Real Estate Developer?
Goldberg, Ray A.; Segel, Arthur I; Herrero, Gustavo A.; Terris, AndrewCase HBS-211011-EFinanceAlejandro EIsztain, CEO of Cresud S.A., is faced with the difficult choice of whether to sell, develop or continue to hold the 151,000 hectares of remaining undeveloped farmland at the company's Los Pozos farm in Argentina. Developing the land will further expose Cresud to a variety of risks related to owning and operating farmland, but the potential financial rewards are potentially significant. As competition has increased and farmland values h...Starting at €8.20
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Schon Klinik: Measuring Cost and Value
Kaplan, Robert S.; Witkowski, Mary L.; Hohman, Jessica A.Case HBS-112085-EFinanceThe case illustrates how a leading German hospital group has invested deeply in the measurement of patient-level outcomes and costs, the foundations of a health care value framework. The company launches a pilot project to use time-driven activity-based costing (TDABC) for measuring the cost of total knee replacements. The costing project complements an existing initiative for comprehensive outcomes measurement. The combination of accurate measur...Starting at €8.20
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Buenos Aires Embotelladora S.A. (BAESA): A South American Restructuring
Gilson, Stuart C.; Herrero, Gustavo A.Case HBS-202009-EFinanceIn 1998, BAESA, PepsiCo's largest bottler and distributor outside North America, experienced severe financial difficulty and had to restructure its debt and business operations to avoid bankruptcy or liquidation. Based in Argentina, with operations throughout South America, the company had for years been a spectacular success story and media darling, until it undertook an ill-fated expansion in Brazil. The company's debt was owed to banks and fin...Starting at €8.20
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Farmland Investing: A Technical Note
Goldberg, Ray A.; Segel, Arthur I; Herrero, Gustavo A.; Terris, AndrewCase HBS-211022-EFinanceTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. This note seeks to provide an overview of farmland investing; the investment thesis behind investing in agriculture, how and why investors would choose farmland, and the general risks and return characteristics of this asset class. In recent years, a growing number of individual and institutional investors have allocated a portion of their capital into agricultural farmland....Starting at €8.20