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Kola Real: La expansión internacional
Ferré, Miguel; Natividad, GabrielCase PAD-DG-C-406EntrepreneurshipDescribe el caso de la internacionalización de una empresa peruana en varios países de la región, partiendo de unos modestos inicios en Ayacucho (1988). Se puede discutir la similitud o diferencias en la forma de nacer según el contexto de cada país.Starting at €8.20
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Valuing Assets in Financial Markets
Harris, Robert S.; Conroy, Robert M.Technical Note DARDEN-F-1518-EFinanceThis technical note provides an overview of techniques used to value assets, including multiples, arbitrage pricing, and discounted cash flow. The note emphasizes the basic nature of valuation approaches and their logical underpinning, focusing on how techniques are applied to assets that are or might be traded in financial markets. The note sets the stage for specific (and often complicated) applications of the pricing techniques.Starting at €8.20
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Spot and Forward Interest Rates
Harris, Robert S.; Conroy, Robert M.Technical Note DARDEN-F-1520-EFinanceThis note examines how spot and forward interest rates relate to bond prices and to each other. After defining spot and forward rates, the note shows how to estimate spot rates from data on either zero-coupon bonds or coupon bonds. It also shows how to express these stated rates for different compounding assumptions. The note pays particular attention to understanding how arbitrage forces in markets establish the links between forward and spot ra...Starting at €8.20
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Stock Options and Compensation
Harris, Robert S.; Conroy, Robert M.Technical Note DARDEN-F-1521-EFinanceThis note is a brief introduction to the logic and practice of using stock options to compensate executives. The Black-Scholes option-pricing model is used to estimate the value of option grants for a company. The note affords the opportunity to apply options valuation in the context of executive compensation, and serves as a companion to introductions to options that expose the reader to the Black-Scholes option-pricing model. A spreadsheet is a...Starting at €8.20
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The Black-Scholes Option-Pricing Model
Harris, Robert S.; Conroy, Robert M.Technical Note DARDEN-F-1522-EFinanceThis note discusses the Black-Scholes option-pricing model and then applies the model to call options. The underlying logic of the model is emphasized and illustrated through the use of simple examples. The model is then applied using real data. The note pays particular attention to procedures for estimating the potential for stock-price changes (volatility). It also provides the reader with an appreciation of the economic underpinnings of the mo...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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You Need an Innovation Strategy (Spanish version)
Pisano, Gary P.Article HBS-R1506BStrategyWhy is it so hard to build and maintain the capacity to innovate? The reason is not simply a failure to execute but a failure to articulate an innovation strategy that aligns innovation efforts with the overall business strategy. Without such a strategy, companies will have a hard time weighing the trade-offs of various practices--such as crowdsourcing and customer co-creation--and so may end up with a grab bag of approaches. They will have troub...Starting at €8.20
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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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Managing Growth (Spanish version)
Huckman, Robert S.; Pisano, Gary P.Case HBS-611S08Service and Operations ManagementConsiders the situation facing David Barger, President and CEO of JetBlue Airways, in May 2007 as he addresses the airline's need to slow its growth rate in the response to increasing fuel costs and the effects of major operational crisis for the airline in February 2007. In 2005, JetBlue-typically viewed as a low-cost carrier (LCC)-made a move that is often considered antithetical to the LCC model. Specifically, JetBlue moved from a single aircr...Starting at €8.20
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American Connector Co. (A) (Spanish version)
Pisano, Gary P.; Rossi, SharonCase HBS-604S12Service and Operations ManagementAmerican Connector Co. is forced to reexamine operations at its Sunnyvale plant when a Japanese competitor announces plans to build an "ultimate" plant in the United States. Case examines issues related to benchmarking a competitor's manufacturing capabilities and productivity. Allows students to compare two companies' manufacturing strategies and their implications for productivity and flexibility.Starting at €8.20