HBSP (USA)
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Dow's Bid for Rohm and Haas (Portuguese version)
Esty, Benjamin C.; Lane, DavidCase HBS-223P03FinanceThis case analyzes Dow Chemical Company's proposed acquisition of Rohm and Haas in 2008. The $18.8 billion acquisition was part of Dow's strategic transformation from a slow-growth, low-margin, and cyclical producer of basic chemicals into a higher-growth, higher-margin, and more stable producer of performance chemicals. Simultaneously, Dow had signed a joint venture agreement with Petrochemical Industries Company (PIC) of Kuwait, a deal that wou...Starting at €8.20
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El lanzamiento de Gillette Sensor
Ghemawat, Pankaj; Esty, Benjamin C.Case HBS-714S14StrategyLa introducción del sistema de afeitado del sensor, uno de los lanzamientos de productos más grande nunca, Gillette forzado a reevaluar su estrategia en su afeitar y no afeitado negocio. Tenía que decidir si seguir adelante con el lanzamiento y si es así, ¿a qué escala. Permite el análisis de los márgenes y volúmenes tiene probabilidades de alcanzar el sensor, y las cuestiones de sostenibilidad y flexibilidad.Starting at €8.20
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Sandlands Vineyards (Spanish version)
Esty, Benjamin C.; Saldutte, GregCase HBS-719S07StrategyApproximately 80% of the 9,000 wineries in the US breakeven or lose money. An even greater percentage lose money on an economic basis (i.e., after a charge for the capital employed). Tegan Passalacqua, a Californian winemaker who specializes in making "old vine" wine (i.e., wine from grape vines that are at least 60 and up to 100+ years old), appears to have defied these odds. By day, he is the head winemaker at Turley Wine Cellars, a leading Zin...Starting at €8.20
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Petrolera Zuata, Petrozuata C.A. (Spanish version)
Esty, Benjamin C.; Millett, Mathew MateoCase HBS-104S12FinancePetrozuata is a proposed $2.5 billion oil-field development project in Venezuela. The case is set in 1997 as the project sponsors, Conoco and PDVSA (Venezuela's national oil company), are planning to meet with various development agencies and rating agencies regarding the proposed financial structure. The sponsors hope to raise a portion of the $1.5 billion debt in the capital markets, which will require an investment-grade rating. The key questi...Starting at €8.20
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Dividend Policy at FPL Group, Inc. (A) (Spanish version)
Esty, Benjamin C.; Schreiber, Craig F.Case HBS-202S14FinanceA Wall Street analyst has just learned that FPL (the holding company for Florida's largest electric utility) may cut its dividend in several days despite a 47-year streak of consecutive dividend increases. In response to the deregulation of the electric utility industry, FPL has substantially revised its competitive strategy over the past several years. The analyst must decide whether a change in dividend policy will be a part of FPL's financial ...Starting at €8.20
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Acquisition of Consolidated Rail Corp. (B) (Spanish version)
Esty, Benjamin C.; Millett, Mathew MateoCase HBS-203S05FinanceEight days after CSX announced it was going to buy Consolidated Rail (Conrail) for $88.65 per share, Norfolk Southern made a hostile $100 per share bid for Conrail. Over the next several months, the potential acquirers upped their bids while exchanging criticism in the popular press, prompting analysts to call this one of the nastiest takeover battles of the 1990s. The case is set in January 1997, just before Conrail shareholders are scheduled to...Starting at €5.74
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Service Corporation International (Spanish Version)
Esty, Benjamin C.; Schreiber, Craig F.Case HBS-203S16FinanceEl director financiero de una empresa de alto crecimiento en el bajo crecimiento y fragmentada industria de servicios funerarios deben decidir cómo optimizar la estructura de capital y el crecimiento de las ganancias y aumentar al máximo el valor de mercado de la compañía.Starting at €8.20
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Nghe An Tate & Lyle Sugar Co. (Vietnam) (Spanish version)
Esty, Benjamin C.; Ferman, Carrie; Lysy, Frank J.Case HBS-206S15FinanceIn September 1998, Paul Cooper, Tate & Lyle's finance director for international investments, asked the International Finance Corp. (IFC) to consider lending up to $45 million to finance a $90 million sugar mill in northern Vietnam. Ewen Cobban, an IFC agricultural specialist, was in charge of reviewing the proposal and making a loan recommendation to senior management. Cobban's main concerns were whether the plant was commercially viable and whe...Starting at €8.20
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Los Principios del Ecuador: enfoque de la industria a la gestión de riesgo ambiental y social
Esty, Benjamin C.; Sesia, Aldo; Knoop, Carin-IsabelCase HBS-207S05FinanceEn junio de 2003, 10 principales bancos internacionales adoptaron nuevas directrices voluntarias, llamados los Principios de Ecuador, para promover el desarrollo sostenible en la financiación de proyectos. En los últimos años, las organizaciones no gubernamentales (ONG) habían planteado cuestiones acerca de las responsabilidades de los prestamistas en proyectos que puedan perjudicar el medio ambiente y / o la sociedad. Aunque muchos bancos tenían...Starting at €8.20
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Reseña del financiamiento de proyectos y del financiamiento de infraestructuras-Actualización de 2006
Esty, Benjamin C.; Sesia, AldoCase HBS-208S08FinanceProporciona una introducción a los campos de la financiación de proyectos y la financiación de infraestructuras, y da un resumen estadístico de las inversiones financiadas por el proyecto durante los años de 2002 a 2006. Los ejemplos de las inversiones financiadas por el proyecto incluirá los $ 4 billón oleoducto Chad-Camerún, $ 6 billón Iridium mundial sistema de telecomunicaciones por satélite, $ 900 millones de A2 carretera de peaje en Polonia...Starting at €8.20