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      • August 1995 (Revised August 1995)
      • Case

      CIGNA Property and Casualty Reengineering (A)

      By: Richard L. Nolan, Donna B. Stoddard, Chiara Francalanci and Elise C Martin
      Reengineering was introduced at CIGNA Corp. in 1988. CIGNA entered a second wave reengineering effort through a major project at CIGNA P&C, one of CIGNA's larger businesses. P&C was in financial crisis and as a result brought in a new executive team in 1991 to head the... View Details
      Keywords: Transformation; Cost vs Benefits; Design; Growth and Development; Analytics and Data Science; Growth and Development Strategy; Balanced Scorecard; Financial Crisis; Crisis Management; Projects; Information Technology; Insurance Industry
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      Nolan, Richard L., Donna B. Stoddard, Chiara Francalanci, and Elise C Martin. "CIGNA Property and Casualty Reengineering (A)." Harvard Business School Case 196-059, August 1995. (Revised August 1995.)
      • February 1995 (Revised August 1995)
      • Case

      Microsoft in the People's Republic of China, 1993

      By: Tarun Khanna
      Explores some of the economic and political tradeoffs that need to be negotiated by a firm seeking to influence industry structure. The setting is the nascent personal computer software industry in the People's Republic of China (PRC) in 1993. Microsoft has to localize... View Details
      Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Product Marketing; Market Entry and Exit; Market Transactions; Industry Structures; Partners and Partnerships; Vertical Integration; Software; Information Technology Industry; China
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      Khanna, Tarun. "Microsoft in the People's Republic of China, 1993." Harvard Business School Case 795-115, February 1995. (Revised August 1995.)
      • 1995
      • Chapter

      Securities Transaction Taxes: What about International Experiences Migrating Markets?

      By: John Y. Campbell and Kenneth A. Froot
      Keywords: Corporation Taxation; Interest Deductibility; Cost of Capital; Taxation; Financing and Loans; Interest Rates; Corporate Finance
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      Campbell, John Y., and Kenneth A. Froot. "Securities Transaction Taxes: What about International Experiences Migrating Markets?" Chap. 4 in Securities Transaction Taxes: False Hopes and Unintended Consequences, edited by Suzanne Hammond, 110–142. Chicago: Irwin Professional Publishing, 1995. (Reprinted in Inversión y Finanzas, 1996.)
      • 1994
      • Chapter

      International Experiences with Securities Transaction Taxes

      By: K. A. Froot and J. Campbell
      Keywords: Corporation Taxation; Interest Deductibility; Cost Of Capital; Corporate Finance; Accounting; Borrowing and Debt; Financing and Loans; Interest Rates
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      Froot, K. A., and J. Campbell. "International Experiences with Securities Transaction Taxes." In The Internationalization of Equity Markets, edited by J. Frankel, 277–308. University of Chicago Press, 1994. (Revised from NBER Working Paper No. 4587, December 1993; also featured in The NBER Digest, May 1994.)
      • October 1994 (Revised November 1995)
      • Case

      N.V. Philips Electronics - Currency Hedging Policies

      By: Richard F. Meyer
      Describes Philips Electronics' policies and problems relating to foreign exchange risk and hedging. Explains centralization versus decentralization of currency hedging, economic role versus transaction role, the difficulties of capturing the necessary information... View Details
      Keywords: Business Divisions; Currency Exchange Rate; International Finance; Globalization; Policy; Information Management; Management; Problems and Challenges; Risk and Uncertainty
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      Meyer, Richard F. "N.V. Philips Electronics - Currency Hedging Policies." Harvard Business School Case 295-055, October 1994. (Revised November 1995.)
      • June 1994
      • Case

      Harvey Cohen

      By: F. Warren McFarlan
      An introductory case in the construction of financial statements from basic financial transactions where inflation accounting is an issue. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details
      Keywords: Accounting; Financial Statements; Inflation and Deflation
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      McFarlan, F. Warren. "Harvey Cohen." Harvard Business School Case 194-155, June 1994.
      • March 1994 (Revised October 1994)
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      Reading Energy

      By: Forest L. Reinhardt
      Reading Energy builds facilities that produce energy from nontraditional fuels. A privately held, entrepreneurial organization, it has spent six years developing a plan to build a waste-to-energy plant in the town of Robbins, Illinois. The plant would burn municipal... View Details
      Keywords: Energy Generation; Wastes and Waste Processing; Business and Community Relations; Business Plan; Agreements and Arrangements; Contracts; Risk and Uncertainty; Government and Politics; Environmental Sustainability; Business Strategy; Energy Industry; Utilities Industry; Illinois
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      Reinhardt, Forest L. "Reading Energy." Harvard Business School Case 794-102, March 1994. (Revised October 1994.)
      • October 1993 (Revised October 1996)
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      Paragould City Cable

      By: Willis M. Emmons III
      Unhappy with the prices provided by the local, privately owned cable television operator, the city of Paragould, Arkansas constructs a competing municipally owned cable system. Once in operation, Paragould City Cable faces vigorous competition from the incumbent... View Details
      Keywords: Business Strategy; Television Entertainment; Competitive Strategy; Distribution Channels; Media; Public Sector; Programs; Growth and Development Strategy; Cost; Performance Improvement; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Arkansas
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      Emmons, Willis M., III. "Paragould City Cable." Harvard Business School Case 794-030, October 1993. (Revised October 1996.)
      • September 1993 (Revised December 1993)
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      Cott Corp.: Private Label in the 1990s

      By: Ray A. Goldberg and Robert S. Kaplan
      Private label cola, Cott, gets 30% of the market in Canada. How does it move into the U.S. market? How do retailers evaluate its benefit costs? Does Cott use an existing structure or build new ones? Does Cott diversify from drink to snack foods? View Details
      Keywords: Private Sector; Cost Management; Labels; Growth and Development Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Industry Structures; Diversification; Food and Beverage Industry
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      Goldberg, Ray A., and Robert S. Kaplan. "Cott Corp.: Private Label in the 1990s." Harvard Business School Case 594-031, September 1993. (Revised December 1993.)
      • September 1993 (Revised December 1993)
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      Note on Pricing and Public Policy

      By: Willis M. Emmons III
      Surveys a number of essential issues related to pricing and public policy in market economies. Begins with a brief review of the price-determination process in competitive markets, then examines a range of topics involving pricing and public policy in monopoly and... View Details
      Keywords: Price; Business Strategy; Policy; Valuation; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Competition; Economic Systems; Monopoly; Duopoly and Oligopoly; Cost
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      Emmons, Willis M., III. "Note on Pricing and Public Policy." Harvard Business School Background Note 794-027, September 1993. (Revised December 1993.)
      • August 1993
      • Article

      Transaction Cost Theory: Inferences from Clinical Field Research on Downstream Vertical Integration

      By: V. K. Rangan, E. R. Corey and F. V. Cespedes
      Keywords: Theory; Health; Vertical Integration
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      Rangan, V. K., E. R. Corey, and F. V. Cespedes. "Transaction Cost Theory: Inferences from Clinical Field Research on Downstream Vertical Integration." Organization Science 4, no. 3 (August 1993): 454–477.
      • 1993
      • Working Paper

      Currency Hedging Over Long Horizons

      By: K. A. Froot
      This paper reexamines the widely-held wisdom that the currency exposure of international investments should be entirely hedged. It finds that the previously documented ability of hedges to reduce portfolio return variance holds at short horizons, but not at long... View Details
      Keywords: Currency; Hedging; Transaction Costs; Exchange Rates; International Markets; Real Exchange Rate; Purchasing Power Parity; International Finance; Currency Exchange Rate; Asset Pricing; Investment; Globalized Markets and Industries
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      Froot, K. A. "Currency Hedging Over Long Horizons." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 4355, May 1993. (Featured in the NBER Digest, October 1993. Harvard University, April 1993.)
      • April 1993 (Revised May 1994)
      • Case

      General Dynamics and Computer Sciences Corporation: Outsourcing the IS Function (A)

      By: F. Warren McFarlan and Katherine Seger
      Designed to generate discussion on the issues of outsourcing from the perspective of a firm thinking about turning over its IS activities to a third-party vendor. View Details
      Keywords: Management Systems; Management Style; Information Technology; Job Cuts and Outsourcing; Business Strategy; Economic Systems; Business or Company Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business Processes; Employment; Emerging Markets; Activity Based Costing and Management; Information Technology Industry; Consulting Industry
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      McFarlan, F. Warren, and Katherine Seger. "General Dynamics and Computer Sciences Corporation: Outsourcing the IS Function (A)." Harvard Business School Case 193-144, April 1993. (Revised May 1994.)
      • April 1993 (Revised May 2009)
      • Case

      Aravind Eye Hospital, Madurai, India: In Service for Sight, The

      By: V. Kasturi Rangan
      Starting as a modest 20-bed hospital, Aravind had grown into a 1,400-bed hospital complex by 1992. It had by then screened 3.65 million patients and performed 335,000 cataract surgeries, nearly 70% of them free of cost for the poorest of India's blind population.... View Details
      Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Social Marketing; Service Delivery; Service Operations; Welfare; Expansion; Health Industry; India
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      Rangan, V. Kasturi. "Aravind Eye Hospital, Madurai, India: In Service for Sight, The." Harvard Business School Case 593-098, April 1993. (Revised May 2009.)
      • 1993
      • Conference Presentation

      Transaction Costs and Contractual Choice in Alliances: Implications of Repeated Ties

      By: Ranjay Gulati
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      Gulati, Ranjay. "Transaction Costs and Contractual Choice in Alliances: Implications of Repeated Ties." Paper presented at the Academy of Management Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, 1993.
      • November 1992 (Revised December 1994)
      • Case

      BEA Associates: Enhanced Equity Index Funds

      By: Andre F. Perold
      BEA's enhanced index fund product uses derivatives and cash market securities to find the most efficient way to "track an index." The considerations involve transaction costs, custodial fees, withholding taxes on dividends, and fees from securities lending. In this... View Details
      Keywords: Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Investment Portfolio; Management; Investment Banking; Competitive Advantage; Cost Management
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      Perold, Andre F. "BEA Associates: Enhanced Equity Index Funds." Harvard Business School Case 293-024, November 1992. (Revised December 1994.)
      • February 1992 (Revised April 1993)
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      Acid Rain: The Southern Co. (A)

      By: Forest L. Reinhardt
      The Southern Co., an electric utility, is planning its compliance with the 1990 amendments to the Clean Air Act. The Act established a system of tradeable permits for sulfur dioxide emissions. The company must decide whether to install pollution control equipment and... View Details
      Keywords: Energy Generation; Business Strategy; Environmental Sustainability; Cost vs Benefits; Financial Management; Strategic Planning; Investment Return; Government Legislation; Wastes and Waste Processing; Utilities Industry; Energy Industry; United States
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      Reinhardt, Forest L. "Acid Rain: The Southern Co. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 792-060, February 1992. (Revised April 1993.)
      • December 1991 (Revised October 1998)
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      Eli Lilly and Co.: Manufacturing Process Technology Strategy--1991

      By: Gary P. Pisano, Steven C. Wheelwright and Jonathan West
      Outlines the evolution of Lilly's corporate manufacturing strategy over the past decade. The corporate vice president of manufacturing must decide on the next phase of Lilly's strategy for the early 1990s, as well as to what extent and what role process development... View Details
      Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Management Practices and Processes; Industry Structures; Product Development; Production; Research and Development; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Strategy; Manufacturing Industry
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      Pisano, Gary P., Steven C. Wheelwright, and Jonathan West. "Eli Lilly and Co.: Manufacturing Process Technology Strategy--1991." Harvard Business School Case 692-056, December 1991. (Revised October 1998.)
      • November 1991 (Revised December 1996)
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      Pressco, Inc.--1985

      By: William E. Fruhan Jr.
      A capital budgeting problem is viewed from the context of a marketing representative attempting to make a sale of energy saving heavy industrial equipment. Tax law changes promise to have a significant impact on the customer's decision process. Teaching purpose: To... View Details
      Keywords: Capital Budgeting; Machinery and Machining; Valuation; Taxation; Customer Value and Value Chain; Cost vs Benefits; Inflation and Deflation; Cost Management; Product Marketing; North and Central America
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      Fruhan, William E., Jr. "Pressco, Inc.--1985." Harvard Business School Case 292-085, November 1991. (Revised December 1996.)
      • September 1991 (Revised February 1993)
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      Burroughs Wellcome and AZT (A)

      By: Willis M. Emmons III
      Burroughs Wellcome Co., developer of AZT, the first drug approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for the treatment of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS), finds itself under siege in September 1989 by AIDS activists and various segments of the U.S.... View Details
      Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Ethics; Business and Government Relations; Communication Strategy; Health Care and Treatment; Monopoly; Intellectual Property; Research and Development; Price; Pharmaceutical Industry; London
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      Emmons, Willis M., III. "Burroughs Wellcome and AZT (A)." Harvard Business School Case 792-004, September 1991. (Revised February 1993.)
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