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- November 2000 (Revised May 2002)
- Case
FleetBoston Financial: Online Banking
By: Frances X. Frei and Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar
As the ninth largest bank holding company in the United States in 2000, FleetBoston Financial Corp. provided a myriad of financial services, including retail banking, loan origination, and brokerage accounts. This case explores how FleetBoston responded to the Internet... View Details
- November 2000 (Revised March 2001)
- Case
Iggy's Bread of the World
By: Kathleen L. McGinn and Alexis Lefort
In January 1994, Igor and Ludmilla Ivanovic opened the doors of their bakery, Iggy's Bread of the World. This case describes their unusual mission statement and the way in which they try to bring a social consciousness mentality to a for-profit business. Six years... View Details
- November 2000 (Revised June 2001)
- Case
Ventro: Builder of B2B Businesses
By: Lynda M. Applegate and Meredith Collura
Enables a thorough analysis of Ventro (formerly known as Chemdex), which builds and operates multiple B2B marketplace companies. Examines Ventro's business model and strategy as well as the company's operating, technical, and management expertise. Part of the... View Details
- November 2000
- Case
University Technology Ventures: October 2000
By: Josh Lerner
The founders of University Technology Ventures, a fund of funds designed for university professors, face numerous challenges in raising their first fund. The role, economics, and structure of funds-of-funds are examined in the course of examining the partners' dilemma. View Details
- November 2000 (Revised December 2000)
- Case
Loewen Group Inc., The
By: Stuart C. Gilson and Jose Camacho
A publiclytraded funeral home and cemetery consolidator faces imminent financial distress. The company has aggressively grown through use of debt. Restructuring the debt is potentially very costly to creditors, shareholders, suppliers, and other corporate stakeholders.... View Details
- October 2000
- Teaching Note
Drivers of Industry Financial Structure
By: Dwight B. Crane and Indra Reinbergs
Teaching Note for (9-201-039). View Details
- October 2000 (Revised June 2017)
- Case
Vyaderm Pharmaceuticals: The EVA Decision
By: Robert Simons and Indra A. Reinbergs
In 2016, the new CEO of Vyaderm Pharmaceuticals introduces an Economic Value Added (EVA) program to focus the company on long-term shareholder value. The EVA program consists of three elements: EVA centers (business units), EVA drivers (operational practices that... View Details
- October 2000 (Revised October 2000)
- Case
Off-Balance Sheet Leases in the Restaurant Industry
By: Amy P. Hutton, Paul M. Healy and Jacob Cohen
Amid mounting concern by credit agencies about off-balance sheet liabilities, an analyst for one of the leading credit-rating agencies has been asked to make a presentation about off-balance sheet liabilities, the strategic analysis behind leasing versus purchasing... View Details
- September 2000 (Revised October 2002)
- Case
National Logistics Management
By: Lynda M. Applegate, Mary Rotelli and Kristin Kohler
National Logistics Management (NLM), a third-party logistics company, is a successful, profitable business that provides a more cost-effective and efficient means to expedite premium freight. With the logistics landscape changing, NLM's market niche is threatened. Can... View Details
- September 2000 (Revised October 2000)
- Exercise
Drivers of Industry Financial Structure
By: Dwight B. Crane and Indra Reinbergs
This case contains common-size balance sheets and financial ratios for 10 companies, each representative of a different industry. Students are asked to identify the industries from the structure of the financial statements. View Details
Keywords: Finance
- September 2000 (Revised March 2001)
- Case
Old Mutual
By: Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu and Kirsty O'Neil-Massaro
Designed to explore the demutualization and listing overseas of one of Africa's largest financial institutions, Old Mutual, and the effects that these actions have on South Africa's domestic capital markets. Explores the particular difficulties that arise as a result... View Details
Keywords: Financial Institutions; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Structure; Global Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Capital Markets; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business Education; Financial Strategy; Business or Company Management; Financial Services Industry; Banking Industry; South Africa
- August 2000
- Case
Belmont Industries, Inc. (A)
By: Joseph L. Bower
A new general manager has to propose a salary structure for the top 20 managers. His task is complicated as he learns about past performance, ambitions, interpersonal relations, and market conditions. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details
- August 2000
- Case
Alison Brown of Compass Records
By: Teresa M. Amabile and Amy Blitz
Highly acclaimed recording artist, banjo player, and jazz/blue grass composer Alison Brown has used her artistic experience and MBA-based business savvy to found a successful independent record company with bassist/husband Garry West. Representing a stellar roster of... View Details
- July 2000
- Background Note
Industry Transformation
By: Michael E. Porter and Jan W. Rivkin
One of the steepest challenges a strategist faces is to navigate his or her company through a period of industry transformation--an era of rapid and wholesale changes in industry structure. This note considers how periods of transformation typically unfold. It then... View Details
- July 2000
- Case
Aerospace Technologies, Inc.
By: Paul M. Healy and Jacob Cohen
Ben Galil's privately held engineering consulting firm represents aerospace products manufacturers in Israeli government biddings. The company incurs expenses for years before getting paid. This case deals with the alternative methods for booking revenues and expenses... View Details
- July 2000 (Revised September 2005)
- Case
BMG Entertainment
By: Jan W. Rivkin and Gerrit Meier
As dramatic changes in technology and customer tastes roil the music industry, the top executives of BMG Entertainment, one of the world's largest record companies, must decide how to organize for digital distribution of music. This case includes a brief history of the... View Details
- July 2000 (Revised April 2011)
- Case
Greeley Hard Copy, Portable Scanner Initiative (A)
By: Michael L. Tushman and Daniel Radov
Hewlett-Packard's Greeley Hard Copy Division is the market leader in the production of desktop flatbed scanners for personal computers. The division has been working to develop a portable scanner product for the past five years with mixed results. The new general... View Details
- July 2000 (Revised April 2011)
- Supplement
Greeley Hard Copy, Portable Scanner Initiative (B)
By: Michael L. Tushman and Daniel Radov
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
- July 2000
- Article
Information, Non-Excludability, and Financial Market Structure
By: B. Anand and A. Galetovic