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Napoleon Bonaparte: Victim of an Inferior Strategy? (Portuguese Version)
Kim, W. Chan; Mauborgne, R.; Van der Heyden, LudoCase INSEAD-4842PT-PPAccounting and ControlSomeone noted that, in addition to the continuous execution of superior personal strategies and Napoleon's leadership throughout his life, success had ultimately eluded him. Thus, at first glance, we will look at the example of a meteoric rise (victories of the Battles of Lodi, Marengo and Austerlitz) and, subsequently, their fall (Russian invasion, Battle of Waterloo). What is behind this rise and fall? Can we find a sensible explanation? These ...Starting at €8.20
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Betting on Gold Using a Futures-Based Gold ETF
Matos, PedroCase DARDEN-F-1690-EFinanceIn an environment of high macroeconomic uncertainty in the fall of 2012, Tom Michelson was looking at his next trading opportunity. Michelson wanted to build a position in gold with a trading horizon of around a year and was wondering how he should go about investing in gold. Gold futures-based exchange-traded funds (ETFs) seemed like a good alternative, but he needed to understand better how gold futures worked. He was aware that futures-based E...Starting at €8.20
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2012 Fuel Hedging at JetBlue Airways
Matos, PedroCase DARDEN-F-1697-EFinanceIn early 2012, an equity analyst, was examining the jet fuel hedging strategy of JetBlue Airways for the coming year. Because airlines cross-hedged their jet fuel price risk using derivatives contracts on other oil products such as WTI and Brent crude oil, they were exposed to basis risk. In 2011, dislocations in the oil market led to a Brent-WTI premium wherein jet fuel started to move with Brent instead of WTI, as it traditionally did. Faced wi...Starting at €8.20
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Hedge Fund Due Diligence at Leman Alternative Asset Management Company
Matos, PedroCase DARDEN-F-1698-EFinanceIn early January 2008, a senior VP with LAAMCO, a fund of hedge funds known for alternative investments, was conducting due diligence on an equity market-neutral hedge fund. The hedge fund used an option strategy known as a collar (also known as a bull spread or split-strike conversion). The track record of the hedge fund had been stellar. The fund’s performance had not only beaten that of the S&P 500 Index over the same period but had done so wi...Starting at €8.20
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ProShares Hedge Replication ETF
Matos, Pedro; Demir, AnilCase DARDEN-F-1714-EFinanceAt the start of 2014, Joanne Hill was preparing to present at a conference focused on alternative investments for financial advisers. Exhibit 1 provides selected slides from the presentation. Hill wants to showcase how Hedge Replication ETF (HDG) provided an exposure to hedge funds at low fees, with full transparency and providing daily liquidity. But she had to overcome some resistance in the audience because most hedge fund strategies had under...Starting at €8.20
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Hedge Fund Due Diligence at Leman Alternative Asset Management Company - Teaching Note
Matos, PedroTeaching Note DARDEN-F-1698TN-EFinanceTeaching note for product F-1698Starting at €0.00
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The Sanofi-Aventis Acquisition of Genzyme: Contingent Value Rights - Teaching Note
Matos, PedroTeaching Note DARDEN-F-1715TN-EFinanceTeaching note for product F-1715Starting at €0.00
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Principal-Protected Equity-Linked Note - Teaching Note
Matos, PedroTeaching Note DARDEN-F-1752TN-EFinanceTeaching note for product F-1752Starting at €0.00
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Creativity and the Role of the Leader (Spanish version)
Amabile, Teresa M.; Khaire, MuktiArticle HBS-R0810GStrategyThe leader's job is not to be the source of ideas but to encourage and champion ideas. Leaders must tap the imagination of employees at all ranks and ask inspiring questions. They also need to help their organizations incorporate diverse perspectives, which spur creative insights, and facilitate creative collaboration by, for instance, harnessing new technologies. The participants shared tactics for enabling discoveries, as well as thoughts on h...Starting at €8.20
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Business Teams at Rubbermaid, Inc. (Spanish version)
Amabile, Teresa M.; Whitney, DeanCase HBS-808S08Entrepreneurshipoptions for staffing, structuring, and managing cross-functional business teams; the difficulty of implementing cross-functional teams in a company with a strong functional structure; the difficulty of balancing accountability and empowerment in "entrepreneurial" teams within established firms; and the impact of different management approaches on the functioning of business teams.Starting at €8.20