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ProShares: The Alternative ETF Company
Matos, Pedro; Demir, AnilCase DARDEN-F-1729-EFinanceIn 2014, ProShares CEO Michael Sapir was meeting with Steve Cohen, managing director and head of the ProShares Strategy Group, whose agenda centered on the progress the firm was making in moving from its core offering of geared ETFs into establishing itself as the leading alternative ETF company. Since 2009, the firm had launched an array of ETFs and Sapir and Cohen were reviewing the current lineup, the assets under management (AUM), and net flo...Starting at €8.20
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Dominion Gas Holdings, LLC-Anticipatory Interest Rate Hedging
Matos, Pedro; Maiden, Stephen E.Case DARDEN-F-1754-EFinanceThe case examines interest rate risk management at a U.S. utility company, Dominion Gas Holdings. In November 2012, as part of its new financing plan, it wanted to hedge the interest rate risk involved with the company’s 2013 planned issuance of $1 billion in debt. While the coupon rates for the planned debt were unknown as of November 2012, the company wanted to lock in its financing costs one year ahead since interest rates were at historically...Starting at €8.20
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School of One: Reimagining How Students Learn
Childress, Stacey; Weber, James; Haldeman, MatthewCase HBS-310053-EEntrepreneurshipTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. School of One was a start-up with a new approach to learning. Instead of one teacher delivering the entire math curriculum to a class of 20-25 students, School of One utilized a technology platform that allowed several teachers to collectively oversee the learning of a larger group of students. Each student followed a personalized pathway to mastery of a set of math concepts...Starting at €8.20
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Genzyme and Relational Investors: Science and Business Collide?
Eades, Kenneth M.; Matos, Pedro; Green, RickCase DARDEN-F-1660-EFinanceThe chairman and CEO of the Genzyme Corporation, one of the country’s top five biotechnology firms, has received a phone call requesting a meeting with the cofounder and principal of a large activist investment fund that now has a 2.6% stake in his company. Before meeting with him, the CEO is aware that he needs a strategy for dealing with this “activist” investor with a track record of forcing out CEOs.Starting at €8.20
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Rethinking School
Childress, StaceyArticle HBS-R1203E-EEconomicsEconomists have found that the higher a country's academic test scores, the faster its GDP grows. That puts the United States' perennially mediocre test scores in a particularly ominous light. Progress is being made, says Childress, of the Gates Foundation, but at the rate even the most engaged school systems are improving, it will take 80 years to catch up to where China is now. New approaches, including personalized technology, online videos, a...Starting at €8.20
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Wireless Generation, Teaching Note
Childress, Stacey; Marietta, Geoff; Mahon, JasonTeaching Note HBS-309028-EEntrepreneurshipTeaching Note for [307049].Starting at €0.00
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Teach for America 2005, Teaching Note
Childress, Stacey; Mahon, Jason; Cheng, Tiffany K.Teaching Note HBS-309053-EStrategyTeaching Note for [805094].Starting at €0.00
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Launching the Bronx Lab School, Teaching Note
Childress, Stacey; Mahon, Jason; Cheng, Tiffany K.Teaching Note HBS-809053-EEntrepreneurshipTeaching Note for [805093].Starting at €0.00
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New Leaders for New Schools, Teaching Note
Childress, Stacey; Mahon, Jason; Cheng, Tiffany K.Teaching Note HBS-809041-EEntrepreneurshipTeaching Note for [803073].Starting at €0.00
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If We Blew It Up, Then We Could....
Childress, StaceyCase HBS-309042-EEntrepreneurshipBy setting up a thought experiment, this exercise challenges students to examine their own assumptions about the meaning of the word "public" in public education, as well as to understand competing assumptions held by others.Starting at €8.20