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  • February 1987 (Revised March 2006)
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Arley Merchandise Corporation

By: William E. Fruhan Jr.
Involves the initial public offering of a firm's stock. The offering includes a money-back guarantee to investors from the issuing firm which comes in the form of a "put" option. Option valuation is thus an important issue in this case. View Details
Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Stocks; Cases; Valuation; Stock Options; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Service Industry
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Fruhan, William E., Jr. "Arley Merchandise Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 287-063, February 1987. (Revised March 2006.)
  • January 2008 (Revised July 2008)
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The Allstate Corporation

By: John R. Wells
In 2007, Allstate was the number two property and casualty insurer in the USA and had enjoyed five years of rapid profit improvement. The question facing CEO Thomas J. Wilson was how to maintain the momentum. This case tracks the evolution of Allstate's strategy over... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Financial Institutions; Insurance; Profit; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Financial Services Industry
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Wells, John R. "The Allstate Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 708-485, January 2008. (Revised July 2008.)
  • February 1998
  • Teaching Note

Starlite Corporation TN

By: Kathleen L. McGinn, Julia Morgan and Katherine Lawrence
Teaching Note for (9-396-351)--(9-396-356). View Details
Keywords: Negotiation Participants; Negotiation; Learning; Cost; Employees
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McGinn, Kathleen L., Julia Morgan, and Katherine Lawrence. "Starlite Corporation TN." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 898-191, February 1998.
  • March 1996 (Revised July 1996)
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Service Corporation International

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Craig F Schreiber
The CFO of a high-growth company in the low-growth and fragmented funeral services industry must decide how to optimize capital structure and earnings growth while maximizing the company's market value. View Details
Keywords: Financial Management; Value Creation; Business Growth and Maturation; Consolidation; Industry Growth; Capital Structure; Expansion; Service Industry; United States; North and Central America
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Esty, Benjamin C., and Craig F Schreiber. "Service Corporation International." Harvard Business School Case 296-080, March 1996. (Revised July 1996.)
  • October 1995 (Revised September 1996)
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Dell Computer Corporation

By: Das Narayandas and V. Kasturi Rangan
Traces the evolution of the personal computer industry over the last 20 years and uses this as a backdrop to look at how Dell Computer Corp. grew from a small start-up to a multi-billion-dollar company in a decade. Dell is now faced with a set of decisions on the... View Details
Keywords: Industry Growth; Competitive Strategy; Profit; Computer Industry
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Narayandas, Das, and V. Kasturi Rangan. "Dell Computer Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 596-058, October 1995. (Revised September 1996.)
  • November 1994 (Revised April 2012)
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National Electric Corporation

By: David F. Hawkins and Norman Bartczak
A company meets financial analysis year-end earnings per share estimates, which have been progressively lowered during the year. View Details
Keywords: Goals and Objectives; Quality; Business Earnings; Stock Shares; Analysis
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Hawkins, David F., and Norman Bartczak. "National Electric Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 195-159, November 1994. (Revised April 2012.)
  • Forthcoming
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Consumer Choice and Corporate Bankruptcy

By: Samuel Antill and Megan Hunter
We estimate the indirect costs of corporate bankruptcy associated with lost customers. In incentivized experiments, randomly informing consumers about a firm’s Chapter 11 reorganization lowers their willingness to pay for the firm’s products by 17%-28%. Consumers worry... View Details
Keywords: Consumer Choice; Bankruptcy; Financial Distress; Structural Estimation; Experimental Economics; Hertz; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Perception; Consumer Behavior
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Antill, Samuel, and Megan Hunter. "Consumer Choice and Corporate Bankruptcy." Journal of Finance (forthcoming).
  • September 2000 (Revised March 2001)
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Note on Corporate Venture Capital, A

By: Josh Lerner
Provides an overview of corporate venture investment. View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Business Startups; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Financial Services Industry
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Lerner, Josh. "Note on Corporate Venture Capital, A." Harvard Business School Background Note 201-036, September 2000. (Revised March 2001.)
  • October 2007 (Revised January 2009)
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The Hertz Corporation (A)

By: Timothy A. Luehrman and Douglas Scott
Examines the leveraged buyout of Hertz in 2005, a complex, high-profile deal and a good example of cutting-edge practice in private equity. The first of a two-part series on the Hertz LBO, adopts the perspective of Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, the leader of a private... View Details
Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Private Equity; Bids and Bidding; Negotiation Deal; Valuation; Value Creation; Financial Services Industry; United States
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Luehrman, Timothy A., and Douglas Scott. "The Hertz Corporation (A)." Harvard Business School Case 208-030, October 2007. (Revised January 2009.)
  • June 2017
  • Teaching Note

The U-Turns of National Truck Stops

By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Alexander W. Schultz
Raj Makam had spent months trying to restructure a 2006 investment he had made in National Truck Stops, Inc. (“NTS”) as a senior member of Oaktree Capital Management’s (“Oaktree”) Mezzanine finance business within their Corporate Debt platform. It was the first time... View Details
Keywords: Mezzanine Financing; Corporate Debt; Bankruptcy; Real Assets; Financing and Loans; Borrowing and Debt; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Restructuring; Private Equity; Cost vs Benefits; Atlanta; New York (city, NY)
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Lietz, Nori Gerardo, and Alexander W. Schultz. "The U-Turns of National Truck Stops." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 217-075, June 2017.
  • February 2006 (Revised July 2007)
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Corporate Venture Capital at Eli Lilly

By: Richard G. Hamermesh, Ron Laufer and David Lane
Reviews the role of corporate venture capital and its history at Eli Lilly. Also presents a challenging venture investment opportunity. View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Investment; Pharmaceutical Industry
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Hamermesh, Richard G., Ron Laufer, and David Lane. "Corporate Venture Capital at Eli Lilly." Harvard Business School Case 806-092, February 2006. (Revised July 2007.)
  • April 2025
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Crisis Interventions in Corporate Insolvency

By: Samuel Antill and Christopher Clayton
We model the optimal resolution of insolvent firms in general equilibrium. Collateral-constrained banks lend to (i) solvent firms to finance investments and (ii) distressed firms to avoid liquidation. Liquidations create negative fire-sale externalities. Liquidations... View Details
Keywords: Insolvent Firms; Government Intervention; Liquidation; Econometric Models; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Policy
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Antill, Samuel, and Christopher Clayton. "Crisis Interventions in Corporate Insolvency." Journal of Finance 80, no. 2 (April 2025): 875–910.
  • 1993
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Foreign Direct Investment

By: K. Froot
Keywords: Corporate Finance; Market Imperfections; Foreign Direct Investment; Financial Instruments; Markets; Asset Pricing
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Froot, K., ed. Foreign Direct Investment. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993.
  • March 2004 (Revised May 2006)
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Corporate Reform in the United States

By: Lynn S. Paine and Kim Bettcher
The spate of corporate misdeeds revealed to the American public in 2001 to 2002 prompted corrective action in many quarters of the U.S. economy. The note summarizes some of the steps taken by lawmakers, regulators, law-enforcement officials, companies, investors,... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Capital Markets; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Trust; United States
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Paine, Lynn S., and Kim Bettcher. "Corporate Reform in the United States." Harvard Business School Background Note 304-091, March 2004. (Revised May 2006.)
  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Corporate Misgovernance at the World Bank

By: Ashwin Kaja and Eric D. Werker
We test for evidence of corporate misgovernance at the World Bank. Most major decisions at the World Bank are made by its Board of Executive Directors. However, in any given year the majority of the Bank's member countries do not get a chance to serve on this powerful... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Banks and Banking; Financing and Loans; International Finance; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards
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Kaja, Ashwin, and Eric D. Werker. "Corporate Misgovernance at the World Bank." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-108, March 2009.
  • November 2011 (Revised September 2012)
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Underwater Engineer at Intel Corporation

By: E. Scott Mayfield
Molly Miller, an Intel employee and shareholder, must decide whether to vote FOR or AGAINST Intel's proposed 2009 option exchange program. Given recent declines in Intel's stock price, more than 99% of Intel's outstanding employee stock options are "underwater," and... View Details
Keywords: Stock Options; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Semiconductor Industry
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Mayfield, E. Scott. "Underwater Engineer at Intel Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 212-047, November 2011. (Revised September 2012.)
  • September 2005 (Revised May 2007)
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OuterLink Corporation (A)

By: Josh Lerner and Brenda Chia
Zero Stage Capital is addressing a troubled investment in OuterLink Corp., which has a capital deficit of $30 million and was written off by all but one of its investors as a victim of the technology bubble. The venture organization must decide whether to shutter the... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Decisions; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Price Bubble; Investment; Financial Services Industry
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Lerner, Josh, and Brenda Chia. "OuterLink Corporation (A)." Harvard Business School Case 806-059, September 2005. (Revised May 2007.)
  • March 2009 (Revised July 2010)
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State Street Corporation

By: William E. Fruhan
To maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. State Street Corp. reports a 13% gain in EPS in 2008 amidst a global financial crisis. The stock price declines 59% on the day of the earnings report. This one day decline was exceeded in the... View Details
Keywords: Fair Value Accounting; Financial Reporting; Financial Crisis; Financial Liquidity; Financial Markets; Crisis Management; Financial Services Industry
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Fruhan, William E. "State Street Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 209-112, March 2009. (Revised July 2010.)
  • December 2002 (Revised January 2004)
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Basel II: Assessing the Default and Loss Characteristics of Project Finance Loans (A)

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Aldo Sesia
In June 1999, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision announced plans to revise the capital standards for banks. The Basel Committee believed that project loans were significantly riskier than corporate loans and, therefore, warranted higher capital charges under... View Details
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Project Finance; Financing and Loans; Projects; Standards; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry
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Esty, Benjamin C., and Aldo Sesia. "Basel II: Assessing the Default and Loss Characteristics of Project Finance Loans (A)." Harvard Business School Case 203-035, December 2002. (Revised January 2004.)
  • 08 Aug 2018
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Parmigiano-Reggiano, Jane Austen, and Other Things You Didn't Know About Finance

MarsYu Who says finance is boring? These stories, written about HBS faculty research and case studies, cover such diverse topics as financial adviser robots, the rise of impact investing, and the tell-tale signs that brokers are giving... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services
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