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- October 1996 (Revised April 2004)
- Case
Eric Wood (A)
By: Myra M. Hart
Describes the early career of an MBA who went to work in a small business, bought the company, and is now contemplating an acquisition to expand the business. The issues involve personal/business finance and financial risk, as well as valuation and financial... View Details
- August 1996
- Article
Willingness to Pay and the Distribution of Risk and Wealth
By: John W. Pratt and Richard Zeckhauser
- June 1996
- Article
Risk-Based Capital Requirements and the Riskiness of Bank Portfolios
By: Brian J. Hall and Steven R. Grenadier
- April 1996 (Revised March 1998)
- Case
Lex Service PLC-- Cost of Capital
By: W. Carl Kester and Kendall Backstrand
Lex Service company has grown into a large multidivisional company with a substantial capital budget. In 1993, the board was reviewing its capital budgeting procedures. Specifically, it sought to determine the company's cost of capital and whether it should use... View Details
- 1996
- Chapter
Upside Opportunity and Downside Risk
By: Richard F. Meyer
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty
- 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
- 1995
- Book
Decisions under Uncertainty
By: D. E. Bell and A. Schleifer Jr.
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions
- September 1995 (Revised March 1999)
- Teaching Note
Canadian Airlines: Reservations About Its Future (A) and (B) TN
- 1995
- Chapter
Incentive Problems in Financial Contracting: Impacts on Corporate Financing, Investment, and Risk Management Policies
By: K. Froot
- 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