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Strategic Capital Management, LLC (A) (Spanish version)
Stafford, Erik; Mitchell, Mark; Pulvino, ToddCase HBS-217S01FinanceStrategic Capital Management, LLC, is a hedge fund that is planning to make financial investments in Creative Computers and Ubid. Creative Computers recently sold approximately 20% of its Internet auction subsidiary, Ubid, to the public at $15 per share. Ubid's stock price closed the first day of trading at $48, giving Ubid a $439 million market capitalization. Paradoxically, the parent's stock price did not keep pace with that of its subsidiary....Starting at €8.20
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Edelnor (A)
Siegel, JordanCase HBS-707473-EStrategyFernando del Sol, president of F. S. Inversiones in Chile, had just bought himself a headache as a New Year's present. On December 31, 2001, he purchased a Chilean electricity generation and transmission company called Edelnor that was in danger of becoming insolvent within months. del Sol had six months to restructure the company before it would become completely insolvent, and his headache was compounded by the fact that the process for company...Starting at €8.20
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The Central Challenge of Global Strategy (Spanish version)
Ghemawat, PankajArticle HBS-R0703CStrategyThe main goal of any international strategy should be to manage the large differences that arise at the borders of markets. Yet executives often fail to exploit market and production discrepancies, focusing instead on the tensions between standardization and localization. In this article, Pankaj Ghemawat presents a new framework that encompasses all three effective responses to the challenges of globalization. He calls it the AAA Triangle. The ...Starting at €8.20
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Nikkei 225 Reconstitution
Greenwood, RobinCase HBS-207109-EFinanceTaka Haneda, a proprietary trader at the Tokyo office of Goldman Sachs, has just learned that the Nikkei 225 will undergo a significant redefinition over the coming week. He faces several billion dollars of customer orders, as well as the opportunity to commit the firm's capital to provide liquidity for the event. He must decide what positions to establish, and at what price he is willing to get out.Starting at €8.20
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Nikkei 225 Reconstitution, Teaching Note
Greenwood, RobinTeaching Note HBS-207110-EFinanceTeaching note to 207109.Starting at €0.00
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Edelnor (A) and (B), Teaching Note
Siegel, JordanTeaching Note HBS-707550-EStrategyTeaching note to 707473 and 707530.Starting at €0.00
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Spot and Forward Interest Rates
Harris, Robert S.; Conroy, Robert M.Technical Note DARDEN-F-1520-EFinanceThis note examines how spot and forward interest rates relate to bond prices and to each other. After defining spot and forward rates, the note shows how to estimate spot rates from data on either zero-coupon bonds or coupon bonds. It also shows how to express these stated rates for different compounding assumptions. The note pays particular attention to understanding how arbitrage forces in markets establish the links between forward and spot ra...Starting at €8.20
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Arbitrage: Exploiting Differences: Strategies for Global Value Creation
Ghemawat, PankajBook Chapter HBS-2624BC-EStrategyThis chapter focuses on arbitrage strategies that exploit selected differences across countries instead of treating them all as constraints, examining economic and labor arbitrage in particular. This chapter was originally published as chapter 6 of "Redefining Global Strategy: Crossing Borders in a World Where Differences Still Matter."Starting at €8.20
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Leveraged Loans 2007
Perold, Andre F.; Stafford, ErikCase HBS-208145-EFinanceThe leveraged loan market was in a crisis during the summer of 2007, following many years of low realized volatility (less than 4% per annum), an index of leveraged loans had fallen over 5% in the month of July. A sudden drop in capital market prices for an asset class can be caused by news affecting fundamental values; or by a widespread liquidity shock. The implication of a shock to fundamental value is that the price drop is permanent, whereas...Starting at €8.20