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Schroder Family (A): Personal Wealth, Family, and Estates
Parker, G; Rappaport, A,, Foroughi, JCase SGSB-F306A-ECorporate Governance, FinancePaul Schroder had recently celebrated his sixty-eighth birthday and was beginning to feel his age. While he recognized that there were many good years ahead, he also realized that it was not too early to begin to think seriously about his retirement and his estate. For years, he had been encouraged to make a careful estate plan, but he always put it off, thinking that he would take care of it at a later time. Now was that later time. This case d...Starting at €8.20
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Schroder Family (B): Investment Strategy ad Asset Allocation
Parker, G; Rappaport, A,, Foroughi, JCase SGSB-F306B-ECorporate Governance, FinanceHaving identified his “needs and dreams,” Paul Schroder had to figure out what to do next. Putting emotions aside, he needed to identify the best options to come up with the required amounts of liquidity at the right times. As Schroder thought through the issues, he viewed his company, Travel Imagination, as the key to his goals. He could continue to manage and own the business, but he was concerned about this asset’s concentration and unpredic...Starting at €5.74
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FedEx and Pension Accounting
Blankespoor, E; ForoughiJCase SGSB-A222-EAccounting and ControlSusan Barney, chief financial officer of Parcel Expeditors (Parcel), a thriving same-day package delivery company headquartered in the United States, had to make some decisions. The management of Parcel was planning to take the company public in the coming year but they had yet to determine the accounting for certain pension plan costs. The most important goal for management was to provide investors with useful information for their decision ma...Starting at €8.20
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The Decision
Parker, G; Rappaport, A; Foroughi, JCase SGSB-F310-ELeadership and People ManagementSarah would soon graduate from Stanford GSB, and had received entry-level job offers from a number of wealth management firms. A tech-savvy Millennial, she wanted a career that would provide both intellectual challenges and a healthy work/life balance. She had five job lucrative offers to evaluate, and needed to weigh her options carefully. This case describes a hypothetical scenario of a student deciding which wealth management firm is the b...Starting at €8.20
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BOBST Group: Costing New Parts
Dávila Parra, Antonio; Oyon, Daniel; Regazzoni A.Case SGSB-A204-ESebastien Solana se había unido recientemente al equipo de investigación y desarrollo de Bobst Group, un proveedor de la industria gráfica. Su primera tarea fue examinar los elementos estructurales de la SPeria® Foilmaster 102 (una máquina de corte para productos de embalaje) con el objetivo de reducir su costo de producción. Solana había analizado el diseño de una pieza específica, el rodamiento montado, y había diseñado un nuevo rodamiento mont...Starting at €8.20