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Hexion/Apollo's Courtship of Huntsman Corporation (B)
Goldberg, Lena G.; Holland, Danielle V.Case HBS-316046-ETo be used with Hexion/Apollo's Courtship of Huntsman Corporation (A) 316-028.Starting at €5.74
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Petrobras in Ecuador (A)
Musacchio, Aldo; Goldberg, Lena G.; Reisen de Pinho, RicardoCase HBS-309107-EOn October 18, 2007, Ecuador's President Rafael Correa announced his intention to migrate Petrobras' existing participation contracts to exploit oil reserves in Ecuador's Blocks 18 and 31 to servicing agreements under which Petrobras would be paid a production fee and reimbursed for investment costs but all recovered oil would belong to the government. Correa also announced a dramatic increase in corporate taxes and changes to other contracts to ...Starting at €8.20
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Cypress Sharpridge: Raising Capital in a Time of Crisis
Goldberg, Lena G.; Nebesar, AdamCase HBS-310140-EFinanceCypress Sharpridge, a REIT investing in agency securities, launched its IPO just before the collapse of the subprime mortgage market. The IPO failed. In June 2009, an IPO window seemed to be opening. Should the company try again? CEO Kevin Grant knew that his company's survival depended on differentiating itself from discredited real estate investment strategies and raising permanent capital. But if its IPO failed again, the company might lose an...Starting at €8.20
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T. Rowe Price and the Dell Inc. MBO (B)
Goldberg, Lena G.Case HBS-317089-EMarketingSupplement to case 317088. After deciding to oppose the Dell MBO, T. Rowe Price together with other dissident Dell shareholders sought appraisal of their shares in the Delaware courts. The appraisal process resulted in a significant increase in the price to be paid to dissenting shareholders for their Dell shares. T. Rowe Price discovered, however, that a voting glitch had resulted in T. Rowe's shares being voted in favor of the transaction thus ...Starting at €5.74
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Goldman Sachs: A Bank for All Seasons (B)
Goldberg, Lena G.; Obenchain, TiffanyCase HBS-310056-EHaving taken steps to shore up investor confidence, during the turbulent fourth quarter of 2008, Goldman Sachs confronts the challenge of whether its business model will continue to be viable under radically altered market conditions and a new regulatory regime.Starting at €5.74
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Third Point Paints a Target on Sotheby's
Goldberg, Lena G.Case HBS-318086-EWhen faced with the increasing accumulation of its stock by activist investors led by Daniel Loeb's Third Point LLC and the activists' stated objective to replace management and at least some Sotheby's Board members, Sotheby's, the world's oldest auction house, responded with the adoption of a rights plan, also known as a poison pill. Third Point then sued seeking to overturn the plan. The case presents excerpts from the Delaware Chancery Court's...Starting at €8.20
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Give Us a 'C'! Killing Knock-offs with Copyright
Goldberg, Lena G.Case HBS-318046-EVarsity Brands, the leading manufacturer of cheerleading uniforms in the U.S., obtained copyright protection for certain designs of stripes, chevrons, color blocks and lines on cheerleading uniforms. Star Athletica, a newcomer in the field, used those designs in its own uniforms and was promptly sued by Varsity for copyright infringement. Star countered that cheerleading uniforms were useful articles and, as such, were excluded from copyright pro...Starting at €8.20
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Barclays Wealth: Reignite WAR or Launch AlphaStream
Goldberg, Lena G.; Farri, ElisaCase HBS-310090-EIn late January 2009, Thomas Fekete, Managing Director at Barclays Wealth in London, redeemed the most illiquid positions in the so-called Wealth Absolute Return Fund (WAR), one of Barclays Wealth's most promising offshore funds of hedge funds, and halted the Fund's investment activities. For Fekete, the decision to declare the WAR funds a ''failed experiment" marked a turning-point. In May 2009, money from the redeemed underlying funds would bec...Starting at €8.20
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These People are Fiduciaries
Goldberg, Lena G.Case HBS-314067-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityThe fiduciary duties of loyalty and care, the corporate opportunity doctrine and the business judgment rule are introduced in the context of three vignettes drawn from decided cases that explore: a classic test of loyalty when one partner elects to take advantage of an opportunity the partnership may also be able to pursue (Meinhard v. Salmon); the care and procedure directors should employ when approving a merger or sale of the company (Smith v....Starting at €8.20
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CreditEase: Providing Credit and Financial Services for China's Underclass
Goldberg, Lena G.; Healy, Paul M.; Hua Dai, NancyCase HBS-315027-ELeadership and People ManagementIn 2013 Ning Tang, who in 2006 founded CreditEase as a broker of P2P loans to unbanked individuals and small businesses in China, confronts the challenges of rapid growth and expansion in a changing regulatory environment. CreditEase needs to develop technology to manage its growth, address issues related to the company's expansion into products and services for China's growing high net worth (HNW) population, including questions about the suitab...Starting at €8.20