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Estimating Walmart's Cost of Capital - Teaching Note
Stephen R. FoersterTeaching Note IVEY-8B19N011-EFinanceTeaching note for product 9B19N011.Starting at €0.00
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Estimating Walmart's Cost of Capital
Stephen R. FoersterCase IVEY-9B19N011-EFinanceIn March 2019, two senior managers attending an executive education program had been assigned the task of applying their learnings from readings in order to estimate the costs of capital for Walmart Inc. (Walmart). They also needed to discuss why the cost of capital was such an important topic. The managers had with them background information, including a recent Walmart balance sheet and income statement; a U.S. Department of Treasury yield curv...Starting at €8.20
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Time Value of Money: The Buy Versus Rent Decision - Teaching Note
Sean Cleary; Stephen R. FoersterTeaching Note IVEY-8B14N024-EFinanceTeaching note for product 9B14N024.Starting at €0.00
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Sun Life Financial: A Potential Indian Life Insurance Joint Venture
Stephen R. Foerster; Tony S. Frost; Eric Morse; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B07M046-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThis supplement to Sun Life Financial: Planning for the Future, product 9B07M045, hones in on Sun Life's decision to re-enter the Indian insurance market.Starting at €8.20
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Michael McCain’s Maple Leaf Foods Tweet - Teaching Note
Gerard Seijts; Stephen R. Foerster; Kersi Antia; Lee Watkiss; Jana SeijtsTeaching Note IVEY-8B20C050-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching note for product 9B20C050.Starting at €0.00
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The Jaguar Project (Spanish version)
Gino, Francesca; Pisano, Gary P.Case HBS-610S17Service and Operations ManagementTeradyne, a leading manufacturer of semiconductor test equipment, embarked on a multiyear effort to improve its product development capabilities and to implement more formalized project management approaches. Examines the development of a new-generation tester that involved significant hardware and software design. For this, the company decided to implement new approaches to project management and project teams. Invites discussion of the effectiv...Starting at €8.20
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The Future of BioPasteur (Spanish version)
Gavetti, Giovanni; Gino, FrancescaCase HBS-719S20StrategyThe purpose of this exercise is to let students experience a few biases that can be deleterious to strategic decision-making. In particular, students are induced to fall into a confirmatory trap, and to experience other biases such as anchoring and sampling bias. Although the exercise can be performed individually, it is a better vehicle to explore how some team-level dynamics and structural choices can either increase or reduce the probability o...Starting at €8.20
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Let Me Give You Some Advice (Spanish version)
Gino, FrancescaArticle HBS-F0603ELeadership and People ManagementWhom do you turn to for advice when the stakes are high? Do you value others' opinions when the stakes are low? New research looks at how people weigh--and misuse--counsel.Starting at €8.20
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The North West Company: Cross-enterprise Strategy
Stephen R. Foerster; Mary M. Crossan; James E. Hatch; Ken MarkCase IVEY-9B07M047-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThe North West Company cases allow students to take a cross-enterprise leadership approach in looking at the dilemma facing the president and chief executive officer of The North West Company (North West), a food and general merchandise retailer operating primarily in Northern Canada. In early 2003, North West had negotiated a master franchisor agreement with Giant Tiger Stores Limited (Giant Tiger) with the objective of opening stores west of Wi...Starting at €8.20
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Time Value of Money: The Buy Versus Rent Decision
Sean Cleary; Stephen R. FoersterCase IVEY-9B14N024-EFinanceA recent MBA graduate had been renting a condominium, and a similar unit next door had just been listed for sale. Now facing the classic buy-versus-rent decision, the young grad decided it was time for her to apply some of the analytical tools she had acquired in business school — including “time value of money” concepts — to her personal life.Starting at €8.20