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      • August 1996 (Revised October 1996)
      • Case

      Howard, Shea & Chan Asset Management (A)

      By: Benson P. Shapiro
      A medium-sized investment management firm is attempting to decide whether to try to grow, and if so, how. It is a complicated decision because the managing partner and her colleagues have significantly different views. This case provides the background on the industry,... View Details
      Keywords: Partners and Partnerships; Decision Making; Sales; Growth and Development Strategy; Financial Services Industry
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      Shapiro, Benson P. "Howard, Shea & Chan Asset Management (A)." Harvard Business School Case 597-021, August 1996. (Revised October 1996.)
      • February 1996 (Revised February 1997)
      • Case

      America Online, Inc.

      By: Amy P. Hutton and Krishna G. Palepu
      America Online's (AOL) stock price has soared nearly 2,000% since its IPO. However, there is considerable disagreement among analysts regarding the future prospects of AOL. Although many analysts are bullish on the stock, short sellers have sold around 7 million... View Details
      Keywords: Cost Accounting; Analysis; Stocks; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Statements; Business Strategy; Web Services Industry
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      Hutton, Amy P., and Krishna G. Palepu. "America Online, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 196-130, February 1996. (Revised February 1997.)
      • January 1996
      • Case

      Case of the Unidentified Industries--1995, The

      By: William E. Fruhan Jr.
      Helps students to understand how the characteristics of a business are reflected in its financial statements. View Details
      Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Supply and Industry; Financial Statements
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      Fruhan, William E., Jr. "Case of the Unidentified Industries--1995, The." Harvard Business School Case 296-049, January 1996.
      • October 1995 (Revised December 1996)
      • Case

      Beechwood Spouts (B)

      By: William A. Sahlman and Andrew S. Janower
      Eight months has passed since Barker first invested in Beechwood Spouts, and the company's situation has deteriorated. The problems appear to be resolved. Barker must now decide whether to participate in a crucial bridge financing round, without which the company will... View Details
      Keywords: Decision Making; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financing and Loans; Information
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      Sahlman, William A., and Andrew S. Janower. "Beechwood Spouts (B)." Harvard Business School Case 396-041, October 1995. (Revised December 1996.)
      • September 1995 (Revised June 2002)
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      Intel Pentium Chip Controversy (A), The

      By: V.G. Narayanan and James D Evans
      Following Intel Inc.'s decision to replace flawed Pentium chips, the company faces revenue recognition choices. Events leading up to IBM's decision to halt shipment of computers that have Intel's microprocessor inside and Intel's decision to replace all the flawed... View Details
      Keywords: Business or Company Management; Decision Choices and Conditions; Revenue Recognition; Computer Industry
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      Narayanan, V.G., and James D Evans. "Intel Pentium Chip Controversy (A), The." Harvard Business School Case 196-091, September 1995. (Revised June 2002.)
      • 1995
      • Chapter

      Incentive Problems in Financial Contracting: Impacts on Corporate Financing, Investment, and Risk Management Policies

      By: K. 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. "Incentive Problems in Financial Contracting: Impacts on Corporate Financing, Investment, and Risk Management Policies." Chap. 7 in The Global Financial System: A Functional Perspective, by D. B. Crane, K. A. Froot, Scott P. Mason, André Perold, R. C. Merton, Z. Bodie, E. R. Sirri, and P. Tufano, 225–261. Boston: Harvard Business School Press, 1995. (Revised from Harvard Business School Working Paper No. 95-020.)
      • August 1995 (Revised October 1996)
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      IDS Financial Services (Condensed)

      By: John A. Deighton
      Highlights the decision that must be made on balancing customer acquisition and retention and de-emphasizing the structural issues involved in administering the independent contractor sales force. View Details
      Keywords: Customers; Customer Focus and Relationships; Decisions; Corporate Governance; Salesforce Management; Financial Services Industry
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      Deighton, John A. "IDS Financial Services (Condensed)." Harvard Business School Case 596-045, August 1995. (Revised October 1996.) (request a courtesy copy.)
      • August 1995 (Revised August 1995)
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      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.)
      • August 1995 (Revised September 1995)
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      Hutton Branch Manager (A)

      By: Lynn S. Paine and Jane Palley Katz
      The manager of an E.F. Hutton branch office must decide how best to approach a colleague whose aggressive and ethically problematic cash management practices have cost the branch a major institutional client. These practices had been encouraged by top management at... View Details
      Keywords: Ethics; Business or Company Management; Decisions; Management Skills; Cash Flow; Financial Management; Investment; Management Teams; Financial Services Industry
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      Paine, Lynn S., and Jane Palley Katz. "Hutton Branch Manager (A)." Harvard Business School Case 396-044, August 1995. (Revised September 1995.)
      • August 1995
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      Hutton Branch Manager (D)

      By: Lynn S. Paine and Jane Palley Katz
      Describes the actions taken by E.F.Hutton management in response to the Bell Report, a study prepared by former Attorney General Griffin Bell and his law firm after Hutton pleaded guilty to 2,000 counts of mail and wire fraud in connection with its cash management... View Details
      Keywords: Legal Liability; Crime and Corruption; Moral Sensibility; Acquisition; Decisions; Business or Company Management; Financial Services Industry
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      Paine, Lynn S., and Jane Palley Katz. "Hutton Branch Manager (D)." Harvard Business School Case 396-047, August 1995.
      • May 1995 (Revised April 1998)
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      AT&T Paradyne

      By: Robert S. Kaplan
      A company making data communication devices has adopted a Total Quality philosophy for working with suppliers, employees, and customers. The finance group finds its existing cost system has become obsolete because of a shift from manual to automatic production... View Details
      Keywords: Decisions; Product; Corporate Accountability; Activity Based Costing and Management; System; Performance Efficiency; Financial Reporting; Operations; Technology Industry; Telecommunications Industry
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      Kaplan, Robert S. "AT&T Paradyne." Harvard Business School Case 195-165, May 1995. (Revised April 1998.)
      • January 1995
      • Case

      Keller Fund's Option Investment Strategies, The

      By: W. Carl Kester
      A closed-end mutual fund's decision to study option trading provides an opportunity to study the profit profile and pricing of multiple option investment strategies (e.g., buy a call, buy a put, write a call, buy stock-write call, etc.). This case is designed to... View Details
      Keywords: Investment Funds; Stock Options; Profit; Price; Strategy; Financial Services Industry
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      Kester, W. Carl. "Keller Fund's Option Investment Strategies, The." Harvard Business School Case 295-096, January 1995.
      • January 1995
      • Background Note

      A Note on Distribution of Venture Investments

      By: Josh Lerner
      Venture capitalists typically exit investments by distributing shares to investors. These transfers pose challenges for these investors. Predictions and evidence about the behavior of stock prices of firms around the time of these distributions are presented. View Details
      Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Venture Capital; Stocks; Investment; Price
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      Lerner, Josh. "A Note on Distribution of Venture Investments." Harvard Business School Background Note 295-095, January 1995.
      • November 1994 (Revised February 1996)
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      Toy World, Inc.

      By: W. Carl Kester
      A shift from seasonal to level production of toys will change the seasonal cycle of Toy World's working capital needs and necessitate new bank credit arrangements. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details
      Keywords: Working Capital; Business Cycles; Cash Flow; Forecasting and Prediction; Investment Funds; Financial Statements
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      Kester, W. Carl. "Toy World, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 295-073, November 1994. (Revised February 1996.)
      • November–December 1994
      • Article

      A Framework for Risk Management

      By: K. Froot, David S. Scharfstein and J. Stein
      Keywords: Catastrophe Risk; Cost Of Capital; Banking And Insurance; Hedging; Banking; Decision Choice And Uncertainty; Framework; Risk Management; Corporate Finance; Asset Pricing; Financial Markets; Insurance; Policy; Natural Disasters; Insurance Industry
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      Froot, K., David S. Scharfstein, and J. Stein. "A Framework for Risk Management." Harvard Business Review 72, no. 6 (November–December 1994): 59–71. (Revised from "Developing a Risk Management Strategy," Harvard Business School Working Paper No. 95-021. Reprinted in Bank of America Journal of Applied Corporate Finance 7, no. 3 (fall 1994): 22-33; Marsh & McLennan Companies' Viewpoint 24 (spring 1995): 21-37; and in Corporate Risk: Strategies and Management, edited by Greg Brown and Don Chew, London: Risk Books, December 1999.)
      • September 1994 (Revised March 1995)
      • Supplement

      Citibank: Launching the Credit Card in Asia Pacific (B)

      By: V. Kasturi Rangan
      Documents the decision taken by Citibank managers in 1989 regarding a new product. View Details
      Keywords: Credit Cards; Banking Industry; Asia; Oceania
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      Rangan, V. Kasturi. "Citibank: Launching the Credit Card in Asia Pacific (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 595-027, September 1994. (Revised March 1995.)
      • September 1994
      • Case

      Leadership Problems at Salomon (A)

      By: Lynn S. Paine and Michael Santoro
      Deryck Maughan, a vice chairman and co-head of investment banking at Salomon Brothers, learns that his superiors have been less than candid about their knowledge of bidding improprieties by the firm's government trading desk. He must decide what, if anything, he should... View Details
      Keywords: Leadership; Decision Choices and Conditions; Ethics; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Crime and Corruption; Rank and Position; Financial Services Industry
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      Paine, Lynn S., and Michael Santoro. "Leadership Problems at Salomon (A)." Harvard Business School Case 395-044, September 1994.
      • 1994
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      Managing Default: Some Evidence on How Firms Choose between Workouts and Chapter 11

      By: S. C. Gilson
      Keywords: Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Decision Choices and Conditions
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      Gilson, S. C. "Managing Default: Some Evidence on How Firms Choose between Workouts and Chapter 11." In Corporate Bankruptcy: Economic and Legal Perspectives, edited by J. Bhandari. Cambridge University Press, 1994.
      • December 1993
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      Risk Management: Coordinating Corporate Investment and Financing Policies

      By: K. A. Froot, David S. Scharfstein and J. Stein
      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, K. A., David S. Scharfstein, and J. Stein. "Risk Management: Coordinating Corporate Investment and Financing Policies." Journal of Finance 48, no. 5 (December 1993): 1629–1658. (Revised from NBER Working Paper No. 4084, February 1993. Reprinted in RAE-Revista de Administração de Empresas, Management Journal of Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV-EAESP), Business School for Administration in Sao Paulo, Brazil, volume no. 48, issue no. 1 (January-March 2008): 87-118. Reprinted in Insurance and Risk Management, Volume II, Corporate Risk Management, Part I: Theory on Why and How Firms Manage Risk, Chapter 3, edited by Gregory R. Niehaus, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd. (October 2008). Also in M.J. Brennan, The Theory of Corporate Finance from The International Library of Critical Writings in Financial Economics, edited by R. Roll, 1995; and in Merton Miller and Chris Culp, eds. Corporate Hedging in Theory and Practice: Lessons from Metallgesellschaft, Risk Books, 1999.)
      • November 1993 (Revised April 2007)
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      Continental Airlines--1992 (Abridged)

      By: Stuart C. Gilson
      The CEO is preparing a recommendation to the board regarding several potential outside investments in the company, which is currently operating in bankruptcy. In making his decision, the CEO has to consider various financial and strategic factors, including possible... View Details
      Keywords: Capital Structure; Cash Flow; Cost of Capital; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Investment; Taxation; Risk and Uncertainty; Valuation; Aerospace Industry; United States
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      Gilson, Stuart C. "Continental Airlines--1992 (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 294-058, November 1993. (Revised April 2007.)
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