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CityCenter (E): Blow up the Harmon
Macomber, John D.Case HBS-212092-EFinanceCasino owner considers whether to implode, complete, or do nothing with a 26 story vacant new building on the Las Vegas Strip. This case continues a series of pieces about the progress of CityCenter, an $11bn project in Las Vegas said to be the largest private construction project in the history of the United States. As in the prior observations of this project, issues around measurement of demand, architecture, construction, scheduling, and fina...Starting at €5.74
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e-Types A/S, Teaching Note
Austin, Robert D.Teaching Note HBS-609108-EService and Operations ManagementTeaching Note for [606118].Starting at €0.00
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Mexico City Water Shortage
Macomber, John D.; Garcia-Cuellar, Regina; James, Griffin H.; Nellemann, FrederikCase HBS-212044-EFinanceTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. In this case, a property company, a water privatizer, and municipal engineers explore the causes of and solutions to a severe water shortage in Mexico City, a great global capital. The protagonist is a real estate investor doing due diligence on the magnitude of the crisis, the impact on the firm's operations, and the likelihood of resolution. Due diligence includes intervie...Starting at €8.20
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Dharavi: Developing Asia's Largest Slum (A)
Iyer, Lakshmi; Macomber, John D.; Arora, NamrataCase HBS-710004-EEconomicsMaharashtra state is accepting bids to redevelop Dharavi, the largest slum in Asia. A real estate developer assesses the risks and tenders a bid. The bid conditions include providing new free housing to tens of thousands of slum dwellers. The cost of constructing the housing is anticipated to be paid for from the revenues from developing and selling market-rate housing. While the primary concerns are cost of construction, cost of capital, and rev...Starting at €8.20
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Secom: Managing Information Security in a Risky World
McFarlan, F. Warren; Austin, Robert D.Case HBS-308015-EInformation TechnologiesExamines the type of security that is appropriate for an Internet company to have on its site. Focuses on a 20-person electronic e-commerce company trying to decide what parts of the information security product line they should acquire from the largest sStarting at €8.20
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The Right Way to Lead Design Thinking
Bason, Christian; Austin, Robert D.Article HBS-R1902F-EThe authors studied almost two dozen major design-thinking projects within large private- and public-sector organizations in five countries and found that effective leadership is critical to their success. They focused not on how individual design teams did their work but on how the senior executives who commissioned the work interacted with and enabled it. To employees accustomed to being told to be rational and objective, design-thinking method...Starting at €8.20
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Standardization and Innovation, The Adventures of an IT Leader, Teaching Note
Austin, Robert D.; Nolan, Richard L.; O'Donnell, ShannonTeaching Note HBS-5507-EInformation Technologies"The Adventures of an IT Leader" invites readers to "walk in the shoes" of a new CIO, Jim Barton, as he spends a difficult year learning effective information technology leadership, sidestepping the pitfalls that make the CIO job the most volatile, high-turnover job in the business. This chapter addresses the problem of proliferating IT technologies.Infrastructure complexity increases the cost of overhead and the demand for IT support; it increas...Starting at €0.00
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The StarNight Hotel Construction Bid: Real Time Competition on Schedule, Scope, and Cost
Macomber, John D.Case HBS-209067-EFinanceThe case is intended for use with the HBS Educational Technology Group "Construction Bidding Simulation." Material that can be taught includes quantity survey methodology (from the case); analyzing preliminary estimated costs per building trade (from the discussion questions); playing the multiparty real time competitive bid simulation to receive and process market costs; and debriefing on which bids should be accepted and why. Discussion points ...Starting at €8.20
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Exporting Livability: Investing in New Urban Centers
Macomber, John D.; Alamsyah, EssieCase HBS-219072-EFinanceCan Singapore urban design, policy continuity, and system of laws be exported outside of Singapore to accelerate the effective development of new urban agglomerations? Nina Yang, CEO of Sustainable Urban Development at Ascendas-Singbridge, a large real estate company based in Singapore, was considering whether to build residential or commercial space in one of its sustainable urban development projects, Sino-Singapore Guangzhou Knowledge City. Co...Starting at €8.20
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Denial of Service Attack (Spanish version)
Austin, Robert D.; Leibrock, Larry; Murray, AlanCase HBS-603S06Service and Operations ManagementDescribes a new CIO trying to manage a denial of service (DOS) attack against his e-retailing business. The attack and its aftermath provide students an opportunity to discuss the business issues that are interwoven with computer security issues.Starting at €8.20