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Models of Endowment Management: King's College, Cambridge
Chambers, David; Dimson, Elroy; Viceira, Luis M.; Corsi, ElenaCase HBS-216023-EFinanceOne of the University of Cambridge's Colleges evaluates different asset management options for its endowment fund. The King's College, one of the constituent colleges of the University of Cambridge in the UK, had most of its endowment invested in equity index funds. Its committee was to discuss whether they should overhaul their investment strategy. The college had three options. One was to invest in a new pooled fund created by the University, i...Starting at €8.20
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Shelley Capital and the Hedge Fund Secondary Market
Viceira, Luis M.; Corsi, Elena; Dittrich, RuthCase HBS-211112-EFinanceAn advisory company has to decide how to sell their client's hedge fund holdings in the secondary market, and thinks about their future. Shelley Capital was a a European advisory company operating in the hedge fund secondary market, a market that boosted in 2008 with the world financial crisis. Shelley had identified four final bidders for the $84.5 million portfolio of illiquid hedge fund holdings that one of their clients had commissioned them ...Starting at €8.20
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Santander Consumer Finance
Trumbull, Gunnar; Corsi, Elena; Barron, AndrewCase HBS-711015-EFinanceTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. A Spanish company has to decide if they should expand into the fragmented European consumer finance market and has to make important organizational strategy decisions, in the midst of the world economic downturn that followed the 2007 US credit crunch. Since 2002, the consumer finance branch of the Spanish banking Grupo Santander, Santander Consumer Finance (SCF) had grown i...Starting at €8.20
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Bitfury: Blockchain for Government
Weiss, Mitchell B.; Corsi, ElenaCase HBS-818031-EEntrepreneurshipIn the Republic of Georgia, legend had it their land was a precious gift from God he had intended to keep for his mother. But over time, the land had been under intermittent threat from without and within. In 2017, the Bitfury Group, which Valery Vavilov had co-founded, had helped publish 300,000 Georgian land titles onto the blockchain, making them immutable and, many believed, unhackable. What came next, Vavilov's team envisioned, were smart p...Starting at €8.20
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Moet Hennessy Espana
Casciaro, Tiziana; Dessain, Vincent; Corsi, ElenaCase HBS-408108-ELeadership and People ManagementSince being appointed CEO of Mo t Hennessy Espa a (MHE), the Spanish subsidiary of the wine & spirits business of Louis Vuitton Mo t Hennessy (LVMH), the world's leading luxury products group, Ramiro Ota o had overseen a spectacularly successful run at the company by any financial measure. Despite the company's growth, some of the employees who had been at the company for years were complaining that the company had lost its "human touch" in t...Starting at €8.20
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Paradigm Capital Value Fund
Viceira, Luis M.; Corsi, ElenaCase HBS-220014-EFinanceKarl Jan Erick Hummel had founded Paradigm Capital Value Fund in 2007 together with Columbia Business School Professor Bruce Greenwald, an expert in value investing and now chairman of the fund. The fund followed the principles of value investing to their target universe: publicly traded companies with market capitalization between 100 million and 4.5 billion based in Germany, the Nordic countries, the U.K., and Ireland. Hummel and Greenwal...Starting at €8.20
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Chef Davide Oldani and Ristorante D'O
Pisano, Gary P.; Di Fiore, Alessandro; Corsi, Elena; Farri, ElisaCase HBS-613080-EService and Operations ManagementThis case examines the unique business model of Ristorante D'O, a high end gourmet restaurant located near Milan, Italy. Founded by Chef Davide Oldani, D'O offers meals at approximately one-third the price of other Michelin starred restaurants. Oldani has made this business model profitable by making a conscious set of operating strategy choices (menu, meal design, service process, lay-out, reservation process) that reduce waste and inefficiency,...Starting at €8.20