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      • May 2000
      • Article

      Maxmin Expected Utility over Savage Acts with a Set of Priors

      By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Peter Klibanoff and Emre Ozdenoren
      This paper provides an axiomatic foundation for a maxmin expected utility over a set of priors (MMEU) decision rule in an environment where the elements of choice are Savage acts. This characterization complements the original axiomatizations of MMEU developed in a... View Details
      Keywords: Uncertainty Aversion; Ambiguity; Expected Utility; Set Of Priors; Knightian Uncertainty; Decision Making; Game Theory; Risk and Uncertainty; Mathematical Methods
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      Casadesus-Masanell, Ramon, Peter Klibanoff, and Emre Ozdenoren. "Maxmin Expected Utility over Savage Acts with a Set of Priors." Journal of Economic Theory 92, no. 1 (May 2000): 35–65.
      • March 2000
      • Exercise

      Developing Products on Internet Time: A Process Design Exercise

      By: Stefan H. Thomke
      This team exercise allows students to experience some of the dynamics of developing products in the fast-paced Internet environment and was inspired by the browser war between Netscape and Microsoft. Designed to be taught in a single class session, the exercise... View Details
      Keywords: Product Development; Internet and the Web; Problems and Challenges; Risk and Uncertainty; Design; Decisions; Management Practices and Processes; Integration; Organizations; Competition
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      Thomke, Stefan H. "Developing Products on Internet Time: A Process Design Exercise." Harvard Business School Exercise 600-121, March 2000.
      • March 2000 (Revised April 2003)
      • Case

      Iridium LLC

      By: Benjamin C. Esty, Fuaad Qureshi and William J Olson
      This case involves part of a module on financing large projects in the elective curriculum course entitled "Large-Scale Investment." It is set in August 1999, just after Iridium, a global communications firm, declared bankruptcy. Although the case describes Iridium's... View Details
      Keywords: Project Finance; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financial Strategy; Communications Industry; Technology Industry
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      Esty, Benjamin C., Fuaad Qureshi, and William J Olson. "Iridium LLC." Harvard Business School Case 200-039, March 2000. (Revised April 2003.)
      • 2000
      • Other Unpublished Work

      Do Executive Stock Options Encourage Risk-Taking?

      By: Randolph B. Cohen, Brian J. Hall and Luis M. Viceira
      Executive stock options create incentives for executives to manage firms in ways that maximize firm market value. Since options increase in value with the volatility of the underlying stock, executive stock options provide managers with incentives to take actions that... View Details
      Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Motivation and Incentives; Stock Options; Executive Compensation
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      Cohen, Randolph B., Brian J. Hall, and Luis M. Viceira. "Do Executive Stock Options Encourage Risk-Taking?" 2000.
      • February 2000 (Revised January 2008)
      • Case

      Merrill Lynch: Integrated Choice

      By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Marie Bell
      Merrill Lynch, a full-service brokerage firm with $1.5 trillion in client assets, is under attack from both discount and electronic brokerage firms. It responds with Integrated Choice, a suite of products designed to capture clients from the do-it-yourself investor who... View Details
      Keywords: Distribution Channels; Marketing Strategy; Product Launch; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Risk and Uncertainty; Financial Services Industry
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      Rangan, V. Kasturi, and Marie Bell. "Merrill Lynch: Integrated Choice." Harvard Business School Case 500-090, February 2000. (Revised January 2008.)
      • February 2000 (Revised April 2000)
      • Case

      RadioShack

      By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Youngme E. Moon and Marie Bell
      Outlines the transformation of RadioShack stores from a parts and accessories business to a provider of high bandwidth Internet access. View Details
      Keywords: Change Management; Marketing Strategy; Risk and Uncertainty; Internet
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      Rangan, V. Kasturi, Youngme E. Moon, and Marie Bell. "RadioShack." Harvard Business School Case 500-081, February 2000. (Revised April 2000.)
      • December 1999
      • Case

      Sun Microsystems, Inc. (A3): Network Computer: Robert Gianni on Answering the Skeptics

      By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Jane Roessner
      The concept behind the network computer (NC) at Sun Microsystems, Inc. was simple: bringing workstation performance to the desktop. Recent technological breakthroughs and changes in the marketplace made the NC project timely. But internal and external skeptics wondered... View Details
      Keywords: Information Infrastructure; Technology Adoption; Fluctuation; Risk and Uncertainty; Technology Industry; Computer Industry
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      Kanter, Rosabeth M., and Jane Roessner. "Sun Microsystems, Inc. (A3): Network Computer: Robert Gianni on Answering the Skeptics." Harvard Business School Case 300-077, December 1999.
      • December 1999
      • Case

      Sun Microsystems, Inc. (A4): Sun Peak: Helen Yang and Mark Walden on "Running Sun on Sun"

      By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Jane Roessner
      SunPeak was the largest project Sun Microsystems, Inc. had ever undertaken: shifting Sun's entire business transaction system from a mainframe-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) system to a Sun-based system. Making the shift would be complicated and financially... View Details
      Keywords: Projects; Transformation; Organizational Structure; Business Strategy; Complexity; Risk and Uncertainty; Success; Information Technology; Internet and the Web; Technology Industry; Computer Industry
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      Kanter, Rosabeth M., and Jane Roessner. Sun Microsystems, Inc. (A4): Sun Peak: Helen Yang and Mark Walden on "Running Sun on Sun". Harvard Business School Case 300-078, December 1999.
      • November 1999
      • Case

      Adam Opel AG (A) and (B) (Condensed)

      By: Joseph L. Bower
      Focuses on the strategic issue of how to approach the East German market after the Berlin wall came down in late 1989. Within an unusually rich economic-political and organizational-personal context, the chairman of GM's German subsidiary has to respond to Volkswagen's... View Details
      Keywords: Adoption; Decision Choices and Conditions; Situation or Environment; Risk and Uncertainty; Auto Industry; Germany
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      Bower, Joseph L. "Adam Opel AG (A) and (B) (Condensed)." Harvard Business School Case 300-067, November 1999.
      • November 1999 (Revised April 2003)
      • Case

      Financing the Mozal Project

      By: Benjamin C. Esty and Fuaad Qureshi
      It is June 1997, and a team from the International Finance Corp. (IFC) is recommending that the board approve a $120 million investment in a $1.4 billion aluminum smelter in Mozambique, known as the Mozal project. Four factors make the investment controversial: it... View Details
      Keywords: Investment; Capital Markets; Emerging Markets; Projects; Financial Management; Risk and Uncertainty; Developing Countries and Economies; Metals and Minerals; Financial Strategy; Government and Politics; International Finance; Infrastructure; Mozambique
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      Esty, Benjamin C., and Fuaad Qureshi. "Financing the Mozal Project." Harvard Business School Case 200-005, November 1999. (Revised April 2003.)
      • October 1999
      • Case

      CIBC Corporate and Investment Banking (C): 1997-1999

      By: Joseph L. Bower and Michael Raynor
      By 1997 the turnaround of CIBC's troubled investment bank, Wood Gundy, and its integration with corporate banking activities was complete. Marketplace results were encouraging, but scuttled mergers and tumultuous succession issues made the future uncertain. View Details
      Keywords: Integration; Investment Banking; Success; Risk and Uncertainty; Management Succession; Mergers and Acquisitions; Financial Services Industry
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      Bower, Joseph L., and Michael Raynor. "CIBC Corporate and Investment Banking (C): 1997-1999." Harvard Business School Case 300-043, October 1999.
      • fall 1999
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      The Evolving Market for Catastrophe Event Risk

      By: K. A. Froot
      Keywords: Catastrophe Risk; Corporate Finance; Cost Of Capital; Banking And Insurance; Asset Pricing; Hedging; Banking; Decision Choice And Uncertainty; Financial Markets; Insurance; Policy; Risk Management; Natural Disasters; Insurance Industry
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      Froot, K. A. "The Evolving Market for Catastrophe Event Risk." Risk Management and Insurance Review 2, no. 3 (fall 1999): 1–28. (Reprinted in Risk Management: The State of the Art, edited by S. Figlewski and R. Levich, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2001.)
      • 1999
      • Book

      The Financing of Catastrophe Risk

      By: Kenneth A. Froot
      Keywords: Catastrophe Risk; Corporate Finance; Banking And Insurance; Hedging; Banking; Decision Choice And Uncertainty; Financial Markets; Insurance; Policy; Risk Management; Natural Disasters; Cost of Capital; Asset Pricing; Insurance Industry
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      Froot, Kenneth A., ed. The Financing of Catastrophe Risk. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1999.
      • June 1999 (Revised May 2017)
      • Teaching Note

      Guidant Corporation: Shaping Culture Through Systems

      By: Robert Simons and Antonio Dávila
      Teaching Note for (9-198-076). View Details
      Keywords: Strategy And Execution; Management Control Systems; Risk And Uncertainty; Service Industry; Financial Services Industry
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      Simons, Robert, and Antonio Dávila. "Guidant Corporation: Shaping Culture Through Systems." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 199-056, June 1999. (Revised May 2017.)
      • May 1999 (Revised July 2000)
      • Teaching Note

      Reading Rehabilitation Hospital: Implementing Patient-Focused Care TN

      By: Jody H. Gittell and Sandra J. Sucher
      Teaching Note for (9-898-172). A rewritten version of an earlier teaching note. View Details
      Keywords: Health; Health Care and Treatment; Medical Specialties; Health Testing and Trials; Valuation; Service Operations; Balance and Stability; Production; Demand and Consumers; Risk and Uncertainty; Technology; Health Industry
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      Gittell, Jody H., and Sandra J. Sucher. "Reading Rehabilitation Hospital: Implementing Patient-Focused Care TN." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 899-139, May 1999. (Revised July 2000.)
      • April 1999 (Revised September 2000)
      • Case

      Interep National Radio Sales, Inc.

      By: Benson P. Shapiro, Stephen X. Doyle and Wade Myers
      Interep must mobilize sales information technology, organizational structures, and sales management processes to protect and enhance its strong position as a radio advertising sales firm. Opportunities and risks are high in this complex, rapidly changing sales agency... View Details
      Keywords: Management Practices and Processes; Sales; Strategy; Information Technology; Advertising; Risk and Uncertainty; Opportunities; Fluctuation; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Advertising Industry; New York (state, US)
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      Shapiro, Benson P., Stephen X. Doyle, and Wade Myers. "Interep National Radio Sales, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 999-011, April 1999. (Revised September 2000.)
      • April 1999 (Revised October 2001)
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      Motive Communications

      By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Marco Iansiti, Myra M. Hart, William W Chan and Find Findsen
      The founders of Motive Communications, Inc., a recent start-up dedicated to reinventing the support chain involved in the delivery of information technology support services, put in place a development process hinged on extensive customer feedback. As part of this, a... View Details
      Keywords: Business Startups; Customer Relationship Management; Risk and Uncertainty; Information Technology Industry
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      Rayport, Jeffrey F., Marco Iansiti, Myra M. Hart, William W Chan, and Find Findsen. "Motive Communications." Harvard Business School Case 699-157, April 1999. (Revised October 2001.)
      • March 1999 (Revised March 2000)
      • Case

      Cross Country Group, The: A Piece of the Rock (A)

      By: Robert L. Simons and Indra Reinbergs
      A new MBA graduate joins a privately held family business and sets ambitious growth goals for the next five years. To enhance motivation, he proposes a new incentive plan that will grant him a share of the wealth he creates. However, the family owners have a more... View Details
      Keywords: Family Business; Decisions; Motivation and Incentives; Business Strategy; Performance Efficiency; Risk and Uncertainty; Growth and Development; Planning; Accounting Industry; Employment Industry
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      Simons, Robert L., and Indra Reinbergs. "Cross Country Group, The: A Piece of the Rock (A)." Harvard Business School Case 199-044, March 1999. (Revised March 2000.)
      • March 1999 (Revised April 1999)
      • Case

      Environmental Risk Management at Chevron Corporation

      By: Forest L. Reinhardt, Monica M Mandelli and Jennifer Burns
      Chevron Corp., headquartered in San Francisco, manages a worldwide, vertically integrated value chain from the oil well to the gasoline station. Mishandling of oil at any stage of production can damage the natural environment, human health, corporate profitability, or... View Details
      Keywords: Risk Management; Risk and Uncertainty; Environmental Sustainability; Energy Generation; Supply Chain Management; Metals and Minerals; Management Systems; Management Teams; Trade; Vertical Integration; Energy Industry; Mining Industry
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      Reinhardt, Forest L., Monica M Mandelli, and Jennifer Burns. "Environmental Risk Management at Chevron Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 799-062, March 1999. (Revised April 1999.)
      • March 1999 (Revised June 2004)
      • Case

      Keurig

      By: Paul W. Marshall and Jeremy Dann
      Nick Lazaris becomes Keurig's third CEO in three years, after one founder was fired and the other decided to leave the company. He inherits a company that has made several abortive attempts to launch its new coffee brewing system. Now, problems with crucial suppliers... View Details
      Keywords: Resignation and Termination; Product Launch; Supply Chain Management; Problems and Challenges; Risk and Uncertainty; Manufacturing Industry
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      Marshall, Paul W., and Jeremy Dann. "Keurig." Harvard Business School Case 899-180, March 1999. (Revised June 2004.)
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