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SYUSA (A) - Saneamiento y Urbanización S.A. La crisis de 1993
Paladino, M.; Willi, A.Case IAE-IAE-C115-00484-SPFinanceQuince años después de haber iniciado sus operaciones, la empresa Saneamiento y Urbanización S.A. (SYUSA), dedicada a la deposición de residuos sólidos urbanos, vivía una crisis muy fuerte que había comenzado a fines de la década de los ochenta. Un nuevo director general se hace cargo de la empresa y se encuentra con numerosos problemas que afectan al clima laboral, al comportamiento de los mandos intermedios, a la actitud de los empleados, que e...Starting at €8.20
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Novartis: un Nuevo Lanzamiento en Latinoamérica (B)
Corrales, José María; Frias,Pedro; Lobo IvanaCase IAE-IAE-C117-02495-SPFinanceNovartis tenía previsto para 2008 el lanzamiento en Latinoamérica de un nuevo medicamento para el tratamiento de la hipertensión. Argentina, México y Brasil debían plantear sus estrategias adecuando el modelo de negocios de Novartis AG a las realidades locales. El caso permite abordar el análisis diferencial de una estructura de costos y rentabilidad, la fijación de precios, la complejidad del contexto latinoamericano y del sector farmacéutico....Starting at €5.74
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Dental Company: financiar la expansión
Soto Araneta, MiguelCase IIST-FI-69FinanceUna importante cadena de clínicas dentales tiene la oportunidad (y necesidad) de crecer: hay demanda de franquiciados y ubicaciones localizadas, el mercado está creciendo y concentrándose simultáneamente. La limitación viene porque los bancos no dan la financiación necesaria a los franquiciados para la inversión inicial.Starting at €8.20
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Ben S. Bernanke in 2005
Li, WeiCase DARDEN-F-1510-EFinanceThe case has been used in a first-year required course called Global Economies and Markets in a module on monetary policy. On October 24, 2005, President Bush nominated Ben S. Bernanke to be chairman of the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System for a term of four years along with a 14-year term on the board of governors. With the U.S. Senate confirmation widely anticipated, Bernanke was expected to take over stewardship of the U.S. mon...Starting at €8.20
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Cypress Semiconductor: 1.25% Convertible Notes
Conroy, Robert M.Case DARDEN-F-1532-EFinanceThe treasury department staff at Cypress Semiconductor Corporation (Cypress) had just received the final draft of the proposal for the pending $600 million convertible bond issue. This would be the latest in a series of convertible bond issuances by Cypress. But this time the situation was quite different. The last offerings were in 2000 when Cypress’s stock price was trading in the $40 to $50 range for the year and had, in fact, hit a high of $5...Starting at €8.20
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Investure, LLC, and Smith College
Chaplinsky, Susan; Harris, Robert S.; Kelly, Dorothy C.Case DARDEN-F-1537-EFinanceAlice Handy, an investment professional with 30 years' experience as head of the University of Virginia Investment Management Company, has opened a new asset management firm targeted at midsize endowments and nonprofit institutions in January 2004. Her business, Investure, LLC, offered outsourced investment services to institutions with $150 million to $1 billion in assets and access to top-performing managers at lower cost than a fund of funds (...Starting at €8.20
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Victoria Chemicals PLC (B): The Merseyside and Rotterdam Projects
Bruner, Robert F.Case DARDEN-F-1544-EFinanceThis case series considers the capital-investment decisions to be made by executives of a large chemicals firm in January 2008. The A case (UVA-F-1543) presents a go/no-go project evaluation regarding improvements to a polypropylene production plant. The B case reviews the same project but from one level higher, where the executives face an either/or investment decision between two mutually exclusive projects.Starting at €5.74
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New Leaders of Financial Giants: The Cases of Vikram Pandit (Citi) and John Thain (Merrill Lynch)
Allayannis, George (Yiorgos)Case DARDEN-F-1551-EFinanceIn January 2008, Citi and Merrill Lynch are trying to steer their ships back to calm waters. The new CEOs, Vikram Pandit (Citi) and John Thain (Merrill), have been at the helm of their companies for less than three months. This case focuses on their steps to counteract the massive losses resulting from their firms' investments in subprime-mortgage structures. What actions have these leaders taken thus far and what actions should they consider goi...Starting at €8.20
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SunTrust Acquisition of National Commerce
Allayannis, George (Yiorgos); Shapiro, AndrewCase DARDEN-F-1554-EFinanceThis case presents an interesting acquisition opportunity that SunTrust considered in 2004: National Commerce Financial, a large commercial bank, based in Memphis, Tennessee, with a strong footprint in North and South Carolina. The case shows how capital ratios are often a key component in the bank-merger process, and it allows for the evaluation of whether Phil Humann (SunTrust’s CEO) could justify a multi-billion-dollar acquisition that had the...Starting at €8.20
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The Case of Sovereign Wealth Funds: A New (Old) Force in the Capital Markets
Allayannis, George (Yiorgos); Loeffler, RachelCase DARDEN-F-1564-EFinanceIn mid-January 2008, Merrill Lynch announced a $6.6 billion mandatory convertible-preferred share issuance, much of which was placed privately with the Kuwait Investment Authority (KIA), the Korean Investment Corporation (KIC), and the Mizuho Corporate Bank. The case is set during the subprime-mortgage crisis, which plagued banks and depleted their capital. It focuses on the decision of John Thain to issue capital and place it with sovereign weal...Starting at €8.20