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Lehman Brothers and Repo 105
Mikes, Anette; Yu, Gwen; Hamel, DominiqueCase HBS-112050-EKnowledge and CommunicationThe collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008 was the largest bankruptcy in US history. The case examines the economics of the off-balance sheet transactions Lehman undertook prior to the collapse, and highlights the corporate governance challenges in situationStarting at €8.20
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Mr. Five Percent: Calouste Gulbenkian and the Origins of Global Oil
Jones, Geoffrey G.; Al-Rashed, YazeedCase HBS-321003-EKnowledge and CommunicationThis case describes the business career of Calouste Gulbenkian, a skilled intermediary who was able to secure 5 per cent of a vast oil concession covering much of the Middle East that was signed in 1928. Gulbenkian was an ethnic Armenian born in the Ottoman Empire, which was a large multi-ethnic empire covering large swathes of the Middle East and eastern Europe. Gulbenkian's career is set against the steady erosion of the Empire's sovereignty by...Starting at €8.20