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Negative Rates Are Negative in More Ways than One
John S. McCallumArticle IVEY-9B16TD03-EFinanceToday’s official interest rates are unprecedented, thanks to the spread of negative interest rate policy around the world. Negative interest rate policy is not an academic abstraction to be ignored by the corporate world. Indeed, negative rates come with negative implications for running a business. Until recently, zero was the lower bound on policy rates. But lately, various central banks representing about 25 per cent of global GDP have gone ne...Starting at €8.20
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Herrajes Viladrich
Mor Figueras, J.Case IIST-FI-33FinanceEl caso cuenta la historia de una pequeña empresa familiar del sector de suministros industriales que se plantea y decide aprovisionarse de proveedores de chinos e indios. La decisión se toma movidos por el drástico cambio en márgenes comerciales que puede alcanzarse y por las facilidades de programación de las entregas que permiten los clientes. Al final del caso se plantea la dramática situación de tesorería que presenta la compañía que está al...Starting at €8.20
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Grupo de Empresas Fortuny (E)
Álvarez, E.; Tàpies, JosepCase F-606FinanceExplica cómo acabaron los acontecimientos que se describen en los casos (A), (B) y (C).Starting at €5.74
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PG&E and the First Climate Change Bankruptcy
Gilson, Stuart C.; Abbott, Sarah L.Case HBS-221057-EFinanceIn early 2020, the California-based utility PG&E filed a second amended plan of reorganization. PG&E had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the face of more than $30 billion of legal claims brought against it for its alleged role in causing California wildfires. The plan had the support of key creditors and shareholders and a court-appointed committee representing the wildfire victims. However, it faced strong opposition from California's governo...Starting at €8.20
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Portfolio performance evaluation - Exercises
Martínez Abascal, EduardoExercise FE-33-EFinanceExercises to acompany the technical note FE Portfolio Performance Evaluation. Thy conver: Measures of return (arithmetic vs. geosmetric mean); measures of risk and return; market timing abilities and Performance Attribution.Starting at €8.20
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PayPal: An e-mail payment system
Marcé, Carmen; Santomá, JavierCase F-742-EFinancePayPal, an e-mail payment system, was planning to establish itself in Europe. The case presents the alternatives available for PayPal's expansion as a banking product. It also explains how e-mail payment systems, and PayPal in particular, worked.Starting at €8.20
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Vidal e Hijos, S.A.
Fernández, PabloCase F-540FinanceEste caso permite profundizar en el significado e interrelaciones de los siguientes conceptos: necesidades operativas de fondos, fondo de maniobra, crecimiento... El caso también permite discutir el significado de algunos ratios que aparecen en el mismo, y hace especial énfasis en el flujo de caja y su relación con el beneficio.Starting at €8.20
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B/E Aerospace, Inc.
Wesley MarpleCase IVEY-9B09N010-EFinanceB/E Aerospace, Inc., (BEAV) the market leader for cabin interior products for commercial aircraft and business jets, and a leading aftermath distributor of aerospace fasteners, was reviewing its financial strategy. BEAV was a heavily leveraged company in the cyclical aircraft products industry. Its business had been threatened by the terrorist act of September 11, 2001, the epidemic of SARS in 2003 and the war in Iraq in 2004. These events discou...Starting at €8.20
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Environmental Technology Fund Partners and E-Leather
Gandhi, Vikram; Sesia, AldoCase HBS-318001-EFinanceIt is 2014 and Environmental Technologies Fund (ETF) Partners, a U.K.-based venture capital firm, has an opportunity to invest in a privately-held U.K. company that manufactured engineered composition leather extracted from waste leather using an environmentally-friendly process. The end product looked, smelled and felt like natural leather. Scalable marketplace adoption of E-Leather's products looked promising, but was just that-promising. And t...Starting at €8.20