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  • June 1986 (Revised October 1995)
  • Case

CSX

By: Richard H.K. Vietor
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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  • 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
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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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  • 01 Apr 2001
  • News

Ed Tian: Boardroom Revolutionary

nationwide high-speed, high-capacity fiber-optic network covering fifteen coastal cities and over 80 percent of the domestic data services market. With backing from shareholders, including the Ministry of Railways (fiber is being run along View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes; Telecommunications; Information
  • 24 Feb 2016
  • News

Did William Alden Invent the Car of the Future in the 1960s?

Alden envisioned a hybrid system he called the StaRRcar—a “car-like train” with small pods that a passenger could call like a taxi and would ride on rails directly to the desired destination. It was an idea ahead of its time, Adi... View Details
  • 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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  • Web

Crisis Leadership - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Introduction 1837: The Hard Times 1873: Off the Rails 1907: The Banker's Panic 1929: The... View Details
  • Web

Industrial Life Photograph Collection - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

1920s to the early 1940s—from hardhats operating rail trucks in the depths of the International Salt Company mines to uniformed women of the California Fruit Growers Exchange packing produce in cavernous factory spaces. Detroit, Michigan... View Details
  • Web

Site Credits - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Introduction 1837: The Hard Times 1873: Off the Rails 1907: The Banker's Panic 1929: The... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2014
  • News

Ask the Expert: Braving an Insecure New World

discounts, we hand over our zip codes or email addresses at the checkout counter. We rail about the NSA while carrying tracking devices—our smartphones—in our pockets. What seems to matter most to us is choice: Most people are willing to... View Details
Keywords: cybersecurity; Information