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- January 1996 (Revised February 1997)
- Case
Tennessee Valley Authority: Option Purchase Agreements
By: Peter Tufano
James Cross, VP of customer planning at the Tennessee Valley Authority, a major supplier of electric power in the Southeast United States, is considering meeting its incremental capacity needs by creating new financial contracts, Option Purchase Agreements (OPAs) to... View Details
- 1996
- Book Review
Book Review of Risk Taking edited by Z. Shapiro
By: M. H. Bazerman and K. A. Wade-Benzoni
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty
- January 1996
- Article
Reducing the Cost of Demand Uncertainty through Accurate Response to Early Sales
By: A. Raman and M. Fisher
- November 1995 (Revised April 1996)
- Case
ENTel and the Privatization of Argentine Telecommunications
Growing fiscal deficits, persistent economic recession, and underinvestment in the nation's telecommunications infrastructure lead the Argentine government to privatize its state-owned monopoly provider of telecommunications services, ENTel, in late 1990. The... View Details
- September 1995 (Revised March 1999)
- Teaching Note
Canadian Airlines: Reservations About Its Future (A) and (B) TN
- September–October 1995
- Article
Is Foreign Infrastructure Investment Still Risky?
By: L. T. Wells Jr. and E. S. Gleason
- August 1995 (Revised December 2003)
- Case
Cricket Road, 503
By: William J. Poorvu and Donald A. Brown
In September 2003, Mason Sexton, a young, inexperienced developer, was making plans to replace a rooming house he had inherited next to the University of Virginia campus in Charlottesville with a new 14-unit, 5-story apartment house. His attempts to assemble the... View Details
- July 1995
- Background Note
Reengineering: Competitive Advantage and Strategic Jeopardy
By: Richard L. Nolan
- June 1995 (Revised June 1996)
- Case
White Nights and Polar Lights: Investing in the Russian Oil Industry
By: Debora L. Spar
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,... View Details
- June 1995
- Teaching Note
Basic Industries TN
By: Joseph L. Bower
Teaching Note for (9-313-121). View Details
- April 1995 (Revised May 1995)
- Teaching Note
Exercises on the Value of Information (TN)
By: David E. Bell
Teaching Note for (9-893-006). View Details
- April 1995
- Teaching Note
Freemark Abbey Winery TN
By: David E. Bell
Teaching Note for (9-181-027). View Details
- March 1995
- Article
Tests of Conditional Mean-Variance Efficiency of the U.S. Stock Market
By: C. Engel, J. Frankel, Kenneth A. Froot and T. Rodrigues
- December 1994 (Revised September 2011)
- Case
The Millegan Creek Apartments
By: William J. Poorvu and John H. Vogel Jr.
Fleet Bank is considering a construction loan for a 390-unit apartment project in Austin, Texas. The case describes the location, market, product, and other real estate factors the bank needs to consider in making this loan. Also discusses the financial and... View Details
- November 1994
- Case
Dow Corning and the Breast Implant Controversy (A)
By: Willis M. Emmons III, Monica Brand and Greg Keller
In early 1994, Dow Corning Corp. debates whether to participate in a proposed $4.2 billion product liability settlement. Specifically, the firm must decide whether to contribute $2 billion to end a class action suit filed by women suffering from connective tissue... View Details
- November 1994 (Revised August 1995)
- Supplement
Canadian Airlines: Reservations About Its Future (B)
By: F. Warren McFarlan, Duncan G. Copeland and Chris L Marshall
- October 1994
- Case
Bankers Trust: Global Investment Bank
By: Andre F. Perold and Kuljot Singh
In October 1992, Eugene Shanks, president of Bankers Trust New York Corp., and Brian Walsh, head of the Global Investment Bank (GIB) business unit, are considering a proposal for a large and complex financing involving the North Sea Oil Co. (NSOC). The financing... View Details
- 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