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Lincoln Financial Group (C)
Godes, David B.; Lane, DavidCase HBS-508030-EMarketingLFG reorganizes its business in order to improve customer intimacy. However, to implement the strategy, they need to effect significant changes in the skills of their salespeople. This case series straddles human resource management, corporate strategy, and sales management by exploring the link between a shift in the firm's overall strategy (customer intimacy), the structural implementation of this strategy in the form of the creation of a new d...Starting at €5.74
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Sonoco Products Co. (C)
Groysberg, Boris; Thomas, David A.; Lane, DavidCase HBS-407063-ELeadership and People ManagementSupplements the (A) case. An abstract is not available for this product.Starting at €5.74
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Matrix Capital Management (C)
Baker, Malcolm P.; Lane, DavidCase HBS-211060-EFinanceBen Balbale, a partner at hedge fund Matrix Capital, must decide whether to exit their investment in Rovi Corporation, a company with a diverse portfolio of patents used primarily for digital interactive guides. Rovi's shares are up over 50% from the time Balbale initiated a position in the middle of 2009.Starting at €5.74
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MELF and Business Culture in the Twin Cities (C)
Rose, Clayton; Lane, DavidCase HBS-315080-ELeaders of the many Fortune 500 firms headquartered in Minneapolis-St. Paul have a long history of engaging collectively, and with educational, political and social leaders, to deal with important community issues. Focusing on the participation of leading CEOs in the 2008-2011 Minnesota Education and Learning Foundation's efforts to promote early childhood education for low-income children, this case series explores the nature of their engagement...Starting at €5.74
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Sonoco Products Company (A), (B), and (C), and Sonoco Products Company (A) (Abridged), Teaching Note
Groysberg, Boris; Lane, David; Thomas, David A.Teaching Note HBS-407058-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching Note to 405-009, 405-010, 407-063 and 410082.Starting at €0.00
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Merger of Equals: The Integration of Mellon Financial and The Bank of New York (C)
Taliaferro, Ryan D.; Rose, Clayton; Lane, DavidCase HBS-210028-E[Continuation of "A" and "B" cases.] Less than a month after the close of the merger between The Bank of New York and Mellon Financial, managers at the two firms realized that plans for combining their asset servicing businesses - and realizing the $180 million of annual cost savings that they had promised Wall Street - were fraught with risk. Senior executives must evaluate the seriousness of the risks and identify alternative ways of integratin...Starting at €5.74
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Dow's Bid for Rohm and Haas
Esty, Benjamin C.; Lane, DavidCase HBS-211020-EFinanceThis case analyzes Dow Chemical Company's proposed acquisition of Rohm and Haas in 2008. The $18.8 billion acquisition was part of Dow's strategic transformation from a slow-growth, low-margin, and cyclical producer of basic chemicals into a higher-growthStarting at €8.20
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Dow's Bid for Rohm and Haas (Spanish version)
Esty, Benjamin C.; Lane, DavidCase HBS-215S12Financefirst, it lost an important funding source for the proposed acquisition; second, Dow's financial condition and internal cash flow deteriorated dramatically (its stock price was down more than 70% during 2008); and third, Rohm's forecast sales, earnings, and value declined precipitously thereby reducing its attractiveness as an acquisition target. Given this confluence of events, Dow sued to cancel the merger agreement with Rohm in January 2009. ...Starting at €8.20
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Corporate Reform Elements of the Dodd-Frank Act
Pozen, Robert C.; Andrews, Phillip; Lane, DavidCase HBS-311091-EThis note summarizes the four major changes affecting corporate governance that were made by the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010. These changes relate to: advisory notes by shareholders, refinements to board structure, non-disclosure on compensation and tightening up of certain enforcement provisions.Starting at €8.20
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Note on International Trade Finance
Foley, C. Fritz; Johnson, Matthew; Lane, DavidCase HBS-211007-EFinanceThis note provides an introduction to the financing terms and payment arrangements that support international trade. It describes the principal instruments of trade finance, the limited evidence on their relative use, and the international trade dispute rStarting at €8.20