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June 1986 (Revised October 1995)
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CSX

By: Richard H.K. Vietor

Keywords: Rail Industry

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August 2017 (Revised February 2024)
Teaching Note

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

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31 Oct 2017
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: In Tackling #MeToo, Don’t Ignore Micro-Insults That Harm Women’s Careers

up anywhere. For example, a female tech genius CEO in a promising startup privately railed against a member of her investor-dominated all-male board of directors. “He calls me ‘sweetie,’” she said. Every time she heard it, she cringed,... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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

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; Rail Industry; Rail Industry; Rail Industry; South Asia; Sri Lanka; Boston; Virginia; United States

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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

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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

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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08 Nov 2024
HBS Case

What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders

dairy worker on a rail stop in western Kansas, Eisenhower felt passionate about military history and football from a young age. He was determined to escape his father’s line of work in the local creamery and applied for officer training,... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Entertainment & Recreation

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

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

26 Jul 2016
First Look

July 26, 2016

Business School Case 716-444 Detroit: On the Right Track? As this case opens in 2012, a cross-sector alliance to bring new rail transport to the Motor City seems about to collapse, and civic leaders have one last chance to save it. The... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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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

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

May 2020
Teaching Note

Digitalization at Siemens

By: David J. Collis

Teaching Note for HBS No. 717-428. View Details

Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Technology; Rail Industry; Rail Industry; Rail Industry; Rail Industry; Rail Industry; Rail Industry; Rail Industry

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23 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

other domains, such as rail or hospital passenger flow. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55098 Bayesian Ensembles of Binary-Event Forecasts: When Is It Appropriate to Extremize or Anti-Extremize? By:... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman