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- May 2002 (Revised August 2006)
- Case
Yangcheng: AES in China
AES, an American electric power company with 141 plants worldwide, is just completing construction of a 2,100-MW plant in China--the largest ever. The project, a joint venture with five local companies, has several environmental, ownership, and operational issues as... View Details
- April 2002 (Revised February 2003)
- Module Note
Teaching Project Finance: An Overview of the Large-Scale Investment Course
By: Benjamin C. Esty
Large-Scale Investment is a case-based course about project finance for second-year MBA students. Project finance involves the creation of a legally independent project company financed with nonrecourse debt for the purpose of investing in a single-purpose industrial... View Details
- March 2002 (Revised January 2003)
- Teaching Note
BP Amoco (A) & (B)TN
By: Benjamin C. Esty
Teaching Note for (9-201-054) and (9-201-067). View Details
- March 2002 (Revised January 2010)
- Case
BP and the Consolidation of the Oil Industry, 1998-2002
By: Forest L. Reinhardt, Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and David J Hanson
Examines the economics of the oil and gas industry with a focus on 1998 through 2001. Discusses the rationale behind using a growth in scale as a means to increase profitability and to gain competitive advantage. Also examines the classic strategic implications of... View Details
- February 2002 (Revised November 2002)
- Case
Activity-Based Management at W.S. Industries (B)
By: V.G. Narayanan and Jeremy Cott
Describes activity-based budgeting at W.S. Industries. Also describes target costing-led product redesign, and product, customer, and order profitability. View Details
- January 2002 (Revised June 2002)
- Background Note
A Note on Building and Leading Your Senior Team
By: Linda A. Hill and Maria Farkas
As performance demands intensify in fast-moving global markets, more executives are coming to rely on senior teams for strategic and operational assistance. Team building with powerful senior executives presents special challenges, including competition for their boss'... View Details
- December 2001 (Revised July 2005)
- Case
E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Company: The Conoco Split-off (A)
By: Stuart C. Gilson and Perry Fagan
After taking 30% of its Conoco oil and gas subsidiary public in the largest domestic initial public offering (IPO) in U.S. history, management of E.I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. (DuPont) is considering divesting its remaining interest in Conoco. This goal is to be... View Details
- November 2001 (Revised November 2001)
- Supplement
Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Project
By: Benjamin C. Esty
Spreadsheet to (9-201-068). Download only. View Details
- October 2001 (Revised January 2003)
- Teaching Note
Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project (A) and (B), The TN
By: Benjamin C. Esty
Teaching Note for (9-202-010) and (9-202-012). View Details
- October 2001 (Revised June 2006)
- Supplement
Chad-Cameroon Petroleum Development and Pipeline Project (B), The
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Carrie Ferman
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
- October 2001 (Revised January 2002)
- Case
OAO YUKOS Oil Company
By: Malcolm S. Salter and Joshua N. Rosenbaum
This case presents the history and current position of Russia's second-largest oil company, YUKOS, as it seeks listing on the NYSE as an ADR and attempts to rid itself from a punishing "governance discount" by the capital markets. This is a company with a history of... View Details
- August 2001
- Teaching Note
EnronOnline: Louise Kitchen, Intrapreneur (A) & (B) TN
Teaching Note for (9-301-085) and (9-301-102). View Details
- June 2001
- Case
NESWC (A)
Documents attempts to restructure a public-private partnership between the operator of a $200 million trash-to-energy cogeneration plant and a consortium of two dozen Massachusetts municipalities. Describes the process that led to a one-sided agreement, as well as the... View Details
- June 2001
- Case
GE's Early Dispute Resolution Initiative (A)
By: Michael A. Wheeler and Gillian Morris
GE's chief litigation counsel sought to rationalize litigation flow by viewing it as a manufacturing process. By applying the principles of Six Sigma, P.D. Villareal created an Early Dispute Resolution (EDR) system that enabled both lawyers and managers to work... View Details
- May 2001 (Revised January 2003)
- Teaching Note
Calpine Corporation: The Evolution From Project to Corporate Finance TN
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Michael Kane
Teaching Note for (9-201-098). View Details
- May 2001 (Revised January 2003)
- Case
Calpine Corporation: The Evolution from Project to Corporate Finance
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Michael Kane
In early 1999, Calpine Corp.'s CEO Pete Cartwright adopted an aggressive growth strategy with the goal of increasing the company's aggregate generating capacity from approximately 3,000 to 15,000 megawatts (MW) by 2004. He believed there was a fleeting opportunity to... View Details
- March 2001
- Teaching Note
U.S. Export-Import Bank and the Three Georges Dam (A) and (B) TN, The
By: George C. Lodge
Teaching Note for (9-900-017) and (9-900-018). View Details
- January 2001 (Revised May 2010)
- Case
BP Amoco (B): Financing Development of the Caspian Oil Fields
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Michael Kane
British Petroleum and Amoco were the two largest members of the Azerbaijan International Oil Consortium (AIOC), an 11-firm consortium that was spending $10 billion to develop oil fields in the Caspian Sea. As of March 1999, AIOC had completed a $1.9 billion development... View Details