HBSP (USA)
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Celata Bioinnovations
Wells, John R.; Weinstock, BenjaminCase HBS-720427-EIn December 2019, Jon Hu (Harvard Business School MBA, 2019) and Dr. Samantha Dale Strasser, co-founders of Celata Bioinnovations, were raising $1 million to launch their company. They had founded Celata less than six months earlier with the aim of redefining the drug discovery process. Celata's platform used novel data types and a unique data integration process to generate hypotheses about proteins that were involved in the formation and progre...Starting at €8.20
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Tottenham Hotspur plc (Spanish version)
Coval, Joshua D; Cohen, Lauren H.; Malloy, Christopher J.Case HBS-215S01FinanceTottenham Hotspur Football Club is a publicly-owned professional soccer team based in London, England. The club's chairman, Daniel Levy, is contemplating a significant investment in physical assets, including the development of a new stadium as well as the acquisition of a new player. The team must decide if the expected cash flows associated with adding the stadium, the player, or both, warrant the considerable required investments in these asse...Starting at €8.20
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Event Arbitrage
Stafford, Erik; Coval, Joshua DCase HBS-208090-EFinanceThe event arbitrage module includes two simulation sessions. The first simulation focuses on analyzing and evaluating individual merger transactions, while the second simulation emphasizes managing a portfolio of individual positions and the limitations of arbitrage investing in real world capital markets. The underlying data and information are derived from actual merger transactions and have been disguised to prevent students from knowing the o...Starting at €8.20
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Event Arbitrage, Teaching Note
Stafford, Erik; Coval, Joshua DTeaching Note HBS-208091-EFinanceTeaching Note to (208-090).Starting at €0.00
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Bulb 2017: Launch
Wells, John R.; Weinstock, BenjaminCase HBS-719441-EStrategyRapid Growth" (719-442). It describes the launch of Bulb, a renewable energy supplier entering the highly competitive UK market in August 2015. By the end of March 2017, Bulb had grown to supply 29,311 properties, well ahead of its Launch Plan of 23,166 and beyond the point of breakeven. It had been a slow start, and growth had been volatile, reaching a rate of over 3,000 new members per week at one point, putting severe strains on service level...Starting at €8.20
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The Indian Premier League, 2020
Wells, John R.; Weinstock, BenjaminCase HBS-721362-EStrategySince its founding in 2008, the Indian Premier League (IPL), India's eight-week Twenty20 (T20) cricket competition, had become one of the most popular and lucrative sporting leagues in the world. In 2019, the IPL attracted 462 million TV viewers and 300 million digital viewers, and the total IPL ecosystem was estimated to be worth $6.8 billion. Key to the IPL's success was its league structure, which shared central revenues with its eight perman...Starting at €8.20
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State of Charge: The Massachusetts Energy Storage Initiative
Wells, John R.; Weinstock, BenjaminCase HBS-719448-EStrategyIn early 2017, Judith Judson (Harvard Business School MBA, 2000), Commissioner of the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (DOER), was reflecting on the results of the initiative she had led to identify the contribution advanced electricity storage could make to electricity generation and distribution in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. The study was the first major output from the $10 million Energy Storage Initiative (ESI) launched by...Starting at €8.20
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Salary Finance
Wells, John R.; Weinstock, BenjaminCase HBS-720355-EStrategyIn April 2019, Asesh Sarkar, co-founder and chief executive of Salary Finance Limited, a London-based FinTech, faced tough choices. Sarkar had founded Salary Finance with Dan Cobley and Daniel Shakhani in 2015. The company's value proposition was quite siStarting at €8.20
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Gap, Inc., 2019
Wells, John R.; Weinstock, BenjaminCase HBS-720377-EStrategyIn 2000, The Gap, Inc. (Gap) was the world's largest player in specialty fashion retailing, and companies such as Inditex of Spain, H&M of Sweden, and Fast Retailing of Japan were less than a quarter of Gap's size. But after two decades of growth, Gap's pStarting at €8.20
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Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDOs)
Stafford, Erik; Coval, Joshua DCase HBS-208113-EFinanceThis lesson integrated Merton's (1974) contingent claims model of debt and equity claims with the CAPM, which allows us to examine the risks and pricing of credit portfolios, and the derivative claims issued against them. In particular, this model is used to make investment and risk management decisions in the market for collateralized debt obligations (CDOs).Starting at €8.20