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Citigroup's Exchange Offer (C)
Greenwood, Robin; Quinn, JamesCase HBS-210015-EFinanceCitigroup faced considerable distress in early 2009. In late 2008, the bank had accepted $45 billion in preferred equity from the United States government via the Troubled Assets Relief Program (TARP). Yet, the stock had continued to slide in early 2009. In late February, the company announced that it would convert as much as $50 billion of preferred stock into common stock, at $3.25 per share. The case asks students to evaluate the pricing of pr...Starting at €5.74
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ArcelorMittal (C)
Jean-Louis Schaan; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B10M003-EStrategyFrom the perspectives of the senior executive of Mittal and the senior executive of Arcelor, this case looks at post-merger integration. As with many mergers, the ArcelorMittal merger was touted as a merger of equals. Unlike most, it was actually managed as such and it worked. The case series looks at three critical decision points (one for each case) and challenges that the two senior executives faced from the line organization during the execut...Starting at €5.74
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TVO: Leading Transformational Change (C)
Gerard Seijts; Jean-Louis Schaan; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B18M113-EStrategySupplement to TVO: Leading Transformation Change (A)Starting at €5.74
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Gowlings LLP: Canadian Legal Services Firm Going International
Brian C. Pinkham; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B16M190-EStrategyIn February 2014, the chairman and chief executive officer of the third-largest law firm in Canada, Gowlings LLP, was examining his options for taking the firm global. On the verge of retirement, he hoped to establish an enduring platform for international expansion based on three aspects: a new global location, a new global partner, and a new organizational structure. Each point was interlinked, and each presented its own managerial dilemmas. Go...Starting at €8.20
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NEC Electronics, Teaching Note
Greenwood, Robin; Foley, C. FritzTeaching Note HBS-209028-EFinanceTeaching Note for [209001].Starting at €0.00
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Glenmark Generics Inc.: Launch @ Risk
Peter C. Bell; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B15E010-ECorporate Governance, StrategyThe U.S.-based executive vice-president (EVP) of Glenmark Generics Inc., the subsidiary of an Indian generic manufacturer, is weighing his options on whether or not to proceed with what is known as a Launch @ Risk in the U.S. market. Defined as a “risk taken by a generic company when it puts a product on the market before resolving outstanding patent lawsuits against it,” Launch @ Risk is a widely acknowledged route to gain an entry into the worl...Starting at €8.20
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RBC: Social Network Analysis
Peter C. Bell; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B17E005-ECorporate GovernanceIn October 2013, the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), Canada’s largest bank, hired a new head of Enterprise Fraud Strategy, a department tasked with protecting RBC’s global customers from fraud. The department head’s immediate priority was to prevent fraudulent transactions by RBC’s own customers—a phenomenon called first-party fraud—by implementing a bourgeoning technology called social network analysis (SNA). The technology used predictive analytics...Starting at €8.20
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NEC Electronics
Foley, C. Fritz; Greenwood, Robin; Quinn, JamesCase HBS-209001-EFinanceWhy do shares in NEC Electronics, a publicly listed subsidiary of Japan conglomerate NEC trade at a discount to their fundamental value? Can Perry Capital, a U.S. hedge fund, restructure this subsidiary and generate significant returns? This case provides students with an opportunity to analyze Perry's decision to invest in NEC Electronics. In doing so, it asks for the reasons that NEC might take actions that destroy value and shift value away fr...Starting at €8.20
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The Proxy Fight at ADP
Greenwood, Robin; Mayfield, E. ScottCase HBS-219052-EFinanceIn July 2017, shares of Automatic Data Processing, Inc. (ADP) surged 12% following a report that the activist investor Bill Ackman had acquired a sizable stake in the company and planned to nominate his own slate of directors at the company's annual meeting in November. Over the months that followed, Ackman and ADP engaged in an increasingly acrimonious battle of words about the future of ADP. Ackman argued that the company was materially underpe...Starting at €8.20
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Intel Corp. - Bring Your Own Device
V. Joseph Compeau; Nicole R.D. Haggerty; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B13E002-EInformation Technologies, StrategySince early 2009, the information technology (IT) division of a leading manufacturer of semiconductor chips had noticed a growing trend among the company’s 80,000 employees worldwide to bring their own smartphones and storage devices to their individual workstations. Recognizing that Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) was not a passing fad but a growing phenomenon, the company decided in January 2010 to formally implement this initiative. As the compan...Starting at €8.20