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Maximizing Shareholder Value: What Are Shareholders' Interests?
Author: Scully, Maureen
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education's Corporate Governance and Accountability Project
Publication Year: 2005
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Maximizing shareholder value (MSV) guides many business decisions and quickly becomes part of business school students' vocabulary. However, it is important to understand shareholders' interests more precisely. This Teaching Module considers that shareholders might prefer maximization at the level of their portfolio or an industry, not at the individual firm level. It focuses on the underlying question: What are shareholders' interests...
Hong Kong's Financial Crisis 1997-1998
Authors: Cascales, Maria J.; Whitman, John
Product Type: Cases
Source: Asia Case Research Center, School of Business, University of Hong Kong
Publication Year: 1999
The Asian miracle turned into a nightmare in 1997. Thailand triggered the region's free-fall when the baht was delinked from the US dollar in July. This sent other Asian currencies tumbling as speculators took advantage of profit opportunities...
The Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project (A, B, C, D, E)
Authors: Ferman, Carrie; Esty, Benjamin C.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 2006
On June 6, 2000, the World Bank's and IFC's board of directors was scheduled to vote on whether to approve funding for the $4 billion Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline project. Although the project presented a unique opportunity to alleviate poverty in Chad, one of the poorest countries in the world, Chad had a president who had been described as a "warlord" and a history of civil war and oppression...
White Nights and Polar Lights: Investing in the Russian Oil Industry
Authors: Spar, Debora L.; Jarosz, William W.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School Publishing
Publication Year: 1995
In the latter half of the 1980s, the collapse of the Soviet empire created an unprecedented opportunity for Western businesses. Among those most attracted were the oil firms, who rushed to investigate Russia's vast petroleum reserves. But, as they soon discovered, investing in Russia still entailed tremendous risks...
Doing Business in Africa
Authors: Scully, Maureen; Roberts, Alex
Product Type: Reading Collections
Source: CasePlace.org
Publication Year: 2006
Many cases on Africa follow how large multinational companies do business in Africa: dealing with AIDS, pricing pharmaceutical products, or developing a post-divestiture strategy. The cases in this Teaching Module are distinctive for digging into how businesses within Africa manage growth and contribute to economic development...
Washington Mutual and the Tribal Lending Program
Authors: Rochlin, Stephen A.; Boguslaw, Janet
Product Type: Cases
Source: The Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College, The Wallace B. Carroll School of Management, Boston, MA
Publication Year: 2004
In the early 1990s, Washington Mutual committed to making loans for property on tribal trust land, allowing under-served Native Americans to enter the housing market...
Carden Park, Cheshire, England: Europe's Premier Hotel, Golf, Sports and Leisure Resort
Author: Bowie, David
Product Type: Cases
Source: Sheffield Hallam University
Publication Year: 1995
The case challenges students' understanding of key marketing principles and stimulates discussion on business ethics. Suitable for third year undergraduates, graduate students and senior managers...
Siam Canadian Foods Co., Ltd.
Authors: Gleeve, Tom; Kennedy, John; Frost, Tony S.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2002
The managing director and founder of Bangkok-based Siam Canadian Foods Co., Ltd., was considering the emerging business opportunities in neighboring Burma...
Investment Banking at Thomas Weisel Partners
Author: Baker, Malcolm P.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2006
Thomas Weisel Partners (TWP), a San Francisco-based bank focusing on emerging growth companies, is considering its strategy in the context of regulatory, competitive, and legal changes...
Beta Golf
Authors: Sahlman, William; Roberts, Michael J.; Katz, Lawrence
Product Type: Cases
Source: Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship @ Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2005
The Beta Group is a technology incubator in Menlo Park, CA that has successfully built a portfolio of businesses in the medical, consumer products, and industrial technology sectors by systematically matching proprietary technologies to unmet market needs...
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