Publications

Article

Choosing the Method of Sale: A Clinical Study of Conrail

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Sugato Bhattacharyya

Keywords: Sales; Information; Rail Industry

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

November 1986 (Revised May 1999)
Teaching Note

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

By: Robert S. Kaplan

Keywords: Rail Industry

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

January 1986 (Revised June 1986)
Case

Union Pacific (B)

By: Robert S. Kaplan

Keywords: Rail Industry

January 1986 (Revised June 1986)
Case

Union Pacific (A)

By: Robert S. Kaplan

Keywords: Rail Industry

April 1978 (Revised August 1978)
Supplement

Baxley Railroad (B)

By: Michael Beer

Keywords: Rail Industry

March 1996
Case

Burlington Northern Railroad: Back on Track

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Carin-Isabel Knoop

Keywords: Rail Industry

March 1996
Case

Burlington Northern Railroad: Strategic Repositioning

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Randi Wade Purchia

Keywords: Strategy; Rail Industry

27 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses

While trucks continue to rumble in and out of the container-cargo rail yard opposite the HBS parking lot, the depot's days are numbered. Adjacent to it, several blocks of low-rise commercial buildings are already history, demolished and... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Biotechnology; Health

March 2021 (Revised August 2021)
Case

Nayana Mawilmada: Transforming Urban Development in Sri Lanka

By: Joshua D. Margolis and Mahima Rao-Kachroo

In February 2018, Nayana Mawilmada (Nayana), investment head for the Sri Lankan government’s ambitious $40 billion Megapolis project, must weigh an attractive job offer to move from the public sector to the private sector. A massive government project aimed at... View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Transformation; Decision Making; Public Sector; Experience and Expertise; Strategic Planning; Work-Life Balance; Transportation; Risk and Uncertainty; Power and Influence; Personal Development and Career; Real Estate Industry; Real Estate Industry; Real Estate Industry; South Asia; Sri Lanka; Boston; Virginia; United States

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