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  • November 2009
  • Article

Telegraphs—Shrinking Economic Distances? A Preliminary Enquiry, 1870s-1912

By: Felipe Tamega Fernandes
This is a very preliminary report on sources and data for my research on telegraphs. Telegraphs are usually analysed in the context of railway expansion and the literature has somewhat neglected the role of telegraphic communication for the development of steamship... View Details
Keywords: Economic History; Communication Technology; Rail Transportation; Ship Transportation; Telecommunications Industry
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  • January 1975 (Revised May 1978)
  • Case

Penn Central Co.

By: David F. Hawkins
Keywords: Rail Industry
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  • September 1992
  • Teaching Note

Burlington Northern: The ARES Decision (A) and (B) TN

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Julie H. Hertenstein
Teaching Note for (9-191-122) and (9-191-123). View Details
Keywords: Rail Industry
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  • November 1989 (Revised March 2000)
  • Case

Wisconsin Central Ltd. Railroad and Berkshire Partners (A): Leveraged Buyouts and Financial Distress

By: Michael C. Jensen, Willy Burkhardt and Brian Barry
Wisconsin Central Ltd. is a regional railroad formed in a leveraged buyout, which is currently in default on its loan covenants. The case uses this situation to examine the financial structure of a typical LBO association and its internal control mechanisms and... View Details
Keywords: Financial Management; Governing and Advisory Boards; Leveraged Buyouts; Financial Condition; Financing and Loans; Corporate Finance; Rail Industry
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  • April 1990
  • Teaching Note

Burlington Northern (A) and (B), Teaching Note

By: Janice H. Hammond
Teaching Note for (9-689-081) and (9-689-083). View Details
Keywords: Rail Industry
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  • March 1993
  • Supplement

Burlington Northern: The ARES Decision (C)

By: Lynda M. Applegate
Continues the story of the implementation of the ARES project. View Details
Keywords: Rail Industry
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  • Article

Choosing the Method of Sale: A Clinical Study of Conrail

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Sugato Bhattacharyya
Keywords: Sales; Information; Rail Industry
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  • March 2009 (Revised March 2010)
  • Case

Groupe Eurotunnel S.A. (A)

By: Stuart C. Gilson, Vincent Marie Dessain and Sarah Abbott
In the summer of 2006, the chairman and CEO of Eurotunnel Group is faced with the decision whether to file for bankruptcy protection, after having failed to gain creditor approval of an ambitious out-of-court restructuring plan. The company, which has been attempting... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Capital Structure; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Laws and Statutes; Risk Management; Rail Industry; France; United Kingdom
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  • March 2005
  • Supplement

Henkel Iberica (B)

By: Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez, V.G. Narayanan and Lisa Brem
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Rail Industry; Germany; Spain
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  • November 1986 (Revised May 1999)
  • Teaching Note

Union Pacific (A), (B), and Introduction, Teaching Note

By: Robert S. Kaplan
Keywords: Rail Industry
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  • December 1990 (Revised February 2000)
  • Supplement

Wisconsin Central Ltd. Railroad and Berkshire Partners, Video

By: Michael C. Jensen and Brian Barry
Edward Burkhardt, president and CEO of Wisconsin Central, and Carl Freebback, general partner of Berkshire Partners, engage in a question and answer session with the students. View Details
Keywords: Financial Management; Governing and Advisory Boards; Leveraged Buyouts; Financial Condition; Financing and Loans; Corporate Finance; Rail Industry
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  • January 1986 (Revised June 1986)
  • Case

Union Pacific (B)

By: Robert S. Kaplan
Keywords: Rail Industry
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  • January 1986 (Revised June 1986)
  • Case

Union Pacific (A)

By: Robert S. Kaplan
Keywords: Rail Industry
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  • April 1978 (Revised August 1978)
  • Supplement

Baxley Railroad (B)

By: Michael Beer
Keywords: Rail Industry
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  • March 1996
  • Case

Burlington Northern Railroad: Back on Track

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Carin-Isabel Knoop
Keywords: Rail Industry
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  • March 1996
  • Case

Burlington Northern Railroad: Strategic Repositioning

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Randi Wade Purchia
Keywords: Strategy; Rail Industry
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  • August 2012
  • Supplement

Albert 'Jack' Stanley in Nigeria (C)

By: Lena G. Goldberg and Annelena Lobb
The international joint venture that successfully bid for $6 billion in contracts to build LNG trains on Nigeria's Bonny Island became entangled in a widening bribery and corruption probe triggered by an unrelated accusation against an employee of one of the JV... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Crime and Corruption; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Governance Compliance; Law; Joint Ventures; Business Subsidiaries; Government Legislation; Rail Industry; Nigeria; United States; United Kingdom
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  • January 1993
  • Case

Burlington Northern: The ARES Decision (B), Abridged

By: Robert S. Kaplan
Keywords: Rail Industry
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  • November 1989 (Revised December 1996)
  • Supplement

Wisconsin Central Ltd. Railroad and Berkshire Partners (B): LBO Associations and Corporate Governance

By: Michael C. Jensen
Describes the resolution of the default situation. Further examines the internal control mechanisms and distinct role of the board of directors of a typical LBO association. View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Leveraged Buyouts; Rail Industry
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  • March 2005
  • Case

Henkel Iberica (A)

By: Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez, V.G. Narayanan and Lisa Brem
In 2002, Esteban Garriga, customer service director at Henkel Iberica, questions whether Collaborative Planning, Forecasting, and Replenishment (CPFR) would help manage retail promotions and limit their impact on the stock-outs and obsolete inventory. Describes the... View Details
Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Forecasting and Prediction; Price; Distribution Channels; Strategic Planning; Commercialization; Valuation; Rail Industry; Germany; Spain
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