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Bank of America Acquires Merrill Lynch (B)
Pozen, Robert C.; Beresford, Charles E.Case HBS-310106-ESupplements to HBS no. 310-092.Starting at €5.74
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Bank of America Acquires Merrill Lynch (A)
Pozen, Robert C.; Beresford, Charles E.Case HBS-310092-EOn December 22, 2008, Bank of America (BofA) chairman and CEO Ken Lewis convened a special board of directors meeting to review his company's pending acquisition of investment bank Merrill Lynch. Negotiations for the acquisition had begun a few months earlier, during the disastrous week in September in which Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy. Initially both Merrill and BofA viewed their agreement favorably, but in the intervening months, as Mer...Starting at €8.20
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Pandora: Royalties Kill the Web Radio Star (A)
Pozen, Robert C.; Rosenfeld, AlexCase HBS-310026-EJoe Kennedy, president and CEO of Pandora, one of the largest and most popular web (internet) radio broadcasters, had just received bad news. The Copyright Royalty Board (CRB) had announced its decision to increase the royalties required to be paid by the web radio industry by 2.5 times over the next five years, effectively pushing profitability for Pandora out of sight. Pandora was a "webcaster" that was based on the Music Genome Project, which ...Starting at €8.20
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The Case for Professional Boards
Pozen, Robert C.Article HBS-R1012B-ELeadership and People ManagementWhen the world's largest financial institutions had to be rescued from insolvency in 2008, many experts laid the blame at the feet of corporate boards. But insufficient board oversight is a problem that had supposedly been solved in 2002. As the United States reeled from the blatant failures of corporate governance at Enron and WorldCom, Congress passed the famous Sarbanes-Oxley Act to prevent such failures from happening again. The new rules loo...Starting at €8.20
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Ganeden Biotech, Inc.
Pozen, Robert C.; Winger, Dale; Ahlers, MatthewCase HBS-310073-ETo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. The CEO of Ganeden Biotech, a small firm with several viable probiotic products but limited resources, must decide what markets to invest in and what intellectual property strategies will best serve its immediate and longer term business interests.Starting at €8.20
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Decoding CEO Pay*
Pozen, Robert C.; Kothari, S.P.Article HBS-R1704E-ELeadership and People ManagementEach year most public companies issue reports describing the pay packages of their CEOs. In them compensation committees attempt to explain the rationale behind the pay figures to the shareholders, who often must vote to approve them. The issue is, in their reports many committees adjust performance numbers in obscure and inappropriate ways that lead to overly generous CEO pay. And they do so using nonstandard criteria that are difficult for even...Starting at €8.20
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Controlling Hot Money
Pozen, Robert C.Case HBS-311022-EFinanceThe manager of the Japan Equities Fund is faced with an increase in "hot money" moving quickly in and out of the Fund. This short term trading is an attempt to take advantage of the difference between the closing times of the Tokyo and New York Stock Exchanges. The CFO of the fund manager considers the various strategies available to limit such short term trading, which will be presented soon to the Fund's board of directors.Starting at €8.20
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Geographical Indications: I Say
Pozen, Robert C.; Satchcroft, AniCase HBS-309114-EIn April 2005, Alexandra was the owner of an Australian farm that produced olives, including Kalamata table olives. Alexandra had invested in the expansion of her farm in anticipation of the evolution of her market from domestic trade in Australia to international export. There was, however, a disruptive dispute before a WTO tribunal between Australia and the EU regarding the protection of Geographical Indications, which identify a product's orig...Starting at €8.20
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Extreme Productivity
Pozen, Robert C.Article HBS-R1105K-EA veteran top executive at two giant mutual fund companies, the author has also been an attorney, a government official, a law school professor, and a business school professor-sometimes simultaneously. Over the years, he has devised a number of principles and practices to maximize his personal productivity without sacrificing his health or family life. In this article he presents six of them. Know your comparative advantage. Focus not on what yo...Starting at €8.20
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Is It Fair to Blame Fair Value Accounting for the Financial Crisis
Pozen, Robert C.Article HBS-R0911G-EFinanceWhen the credit markets seized up in 2008, many heaped blame on "mark to market" accounting rules, which require banks to write down their troubled assets to the prices they'd fetch if sold on the open market - at the time, next to nothing. Recording those assets below their "true" value, critics argued, drove financial institutions toward insolvency. Proponents of marking to market, on the other hand, said it exposed executives' bad decisions. I...Starting at €8.20