Publications

Educators

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

November 1983
Article

On the Problems of Applying Ramsey Pricing to the Railroad Industry with Uncertain Demand Elasticities

By: William B. Tye and Dutch Leonard

Keywords: Problems and Challenges; Price; Risk and Uncertainty; 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

January 2017
Case

Exotic Interest Rate Swaps: Snowballs in Portugal

By: Boris Vallee, Patrick Augustin and Philippe Rich

This case explores a complex swap transaction implemented by Metro do Porto in 2007. It represents an opportunity to study fixed income derivative instruments, such as plain-vanilla swaps and structured swaps, as well as understand the opportunities and challenges of... View Details

Keywords: Swaps; Public Finance; Structured Finance; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Public Sector; Rail Industry; Rail Industry; Portugal

Educators

15 Feb 2017
Op-Ed

What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects

also inform infrastructure investors—or even abutters of projects—who want to see their funds go directly to X bus or Y power plant or Z interchange. Consider the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority’s Commuter Rail stop, which is... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction

19 Dec 2012
Research & Ideas

Affordable Housing: Israel and the United States

approach. And there is the public-transit link: the government can construct high-speed rails to move people from cheaper housing to big cities, a project underway in Modiin. (The United States, while voicing support for high-speed... View Details

Keywords: by Nicolas P. Retsinas, John H. Vogel & Charles S. Laven; Construction; Real Estate

Research Summary

Overview

In my research historical inquiry plays an important part in understanding the continuities from the pre-1949 past and the complex convergence of business institutions in the process of China’s current economic, political, and social modernization. Historians are able... View Details

Keywords: Business History; China; Business Government Relations; Entrepreneurs; Family Business; Industrial Development; Infrastructure; Transportation; Entrepreneurship; History; Rail Industry; Rail Industry; Rail Industry; Rail Industry; Asia

11 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Riding the Internet Fast Track

Take a seat and hold on tightly. You're aboard the Internet Express, where speed is the order of the day and profit but a remote destination. For firms that ride the rails of the Internet's fast track, getting big fast—whatever its... View Details

Keywords: by Peter Jacobs

13 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

How Government Can Restore the Faith of Citizens

Henry David Thoreau once said, "That government is best that governs least." Easy for him to say. Stuck out by himself at Walden Pond, he never had to deal with potholes on his morning commute or broken streetlights at night. It can be fashionable to View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

October 2017
Teaching Note

Canadian Pacific's Bid for Norfolk Southern

By: Benjamin C. Esty and E. Scott Mayfield

Teaching Note for HBS No. 216-057. View Details

Keywords: Capital Structure; Cash Flow; Cost of Capital; Financial Strategy; Investment Activism; Bids and Bidding; Negotiation Offer; Corporate Strategy; Rail Transportation; Mergers and Acquisitions; Transformation

April 2016
Supplement

Canadian Pacific's Bid for Norfolk Southern Spreadsheet Supplement

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Scott Mayfield

In December 2015, Canadian Pacific Railroad (CPR) has just made its third bid to acquire Norfolk Southern Corporation (NSC), one of the largest railroads in the United States. Having rejected the prior offers, NSC’s CEO James Squires and the NSC board must now value... View Details

Keywords: Capital Structure; Cash Flow; Cost of Capital; Financial Strategy; Investment Activism; Bids and Bidding; Negotiation Offer; Corporate Strategy; Rail Transportation; Mergers and Acquisitions; Transformation; United States; Canada