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Societe Generale (B): The Jerome Kerviel Affair
Brochet, FrancoisCase HBS-110030-EAccounting and ControlThis case illustrates the tension/balance that firms with complex and risky business models must consider in designing their internal controls. It describes the environment in which a derivatives trader engaged in massive directional positions on major European stocks and indexes without being detected for over a year. Although the case could be used to teach the basics of internal controls, it is likely to be more effective by eliciting a debate...Starting at €5.74
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Tokyo AFM
Brochet, FrancoisCase HBS-109056-EAccounting and ControlThis case was written as the financial accounting portion of the final exam for a first-year MBA course at Harvard Business School. The goal was to test students' ability to apply major concepts taught during the course to an industry which they had not covered, but which shared similarities in terms of economics with issues addressed in the curriculum. The company, Tokyo Auto Fire & Marine (hereafter Tokyo AFM), is a fictitious insurance company...Starting at €8.20
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Afghanistan 2006: Building a Brand New State
Maurer, Noel; Spar, Debora L.; Trumbull, GunnarCase HBS-707033-EEconomicsIn 2006, Afghanistan remains a country in turmoil. It has a newly elected democratic government, a rebounding economy, and considerable economic potential. But the country is still torn by rival factions and dominated by the opium trade. Explores how Afghanistan has been rebuilt since the U.S. invasion of 2001, and what it means to create a modern state. Can state institutions be imposed from the outside? And what are the prospects for democracy ...Starting at €8.20
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Extend Fertility: Conceiving the Market for Egg Preservation (A)
Spar, Debora L.; Hull, OliviaCase HBS-719019-EStrategyThe case follows entrepreneur Christy Jones as she tries to imagine, and then build, a firm that will enable young women to preserve their eggs -- and thus extend their fertility. In April 2003, entrepreneur and MBA student Christy Jones was planning a new venture to help women preserve their fertility. Her company, Extend Fertility, would commercialize a technique known as egg freezing, in which a woman's eggs were extracted and stored at low te...Starting at €8.20
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Facebook Faces the Regulators
Spar, Debora L.Case HBS-720019-EEconomicsThe Inside the Case video that accompanies this case includes teaching tips and insight from the author (available to registered educators only). In the fall of 2019, Facebook and its CEO Mark Zuckerberg are facing increased scrutiny on multiple fronts. Regulators from around the globe are threatening the company with punitive measures. Users are organizing against it. But there is little consensus around what, precisely, Facebook has done wrong...Starting at €8.20
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Afrigen Biologics: Vaccines for the Global South
Spar, Debora L.; Comeau, JuliaCase HBS-323030-EEconomicsThe majority of vaccines used on the continent of Africa (99%) are produced offshore. This makes African nations reliant on the West for major health care needs, a problem which was exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Afrigen Biologics (in partnership with the WHO) is seeking to lessen this disparity by putting vaccine production in the hands of South Africans and other low- and middle-income countries. Afrigen Biologics is the first in a plann...Starting at €8.20
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Hitting Home: Amazon and Mary's Place
Healy, Paul M.; Spar, Debora L.; Klopfenstein, AmyCase HBS-122017-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social ResponsibilityIn 2020, Amazon, the $386 billion online retail behemoth, built an eight-story shelter for women and families experiencing homelessness on its expanding headquarters in Seattle, Washington. The shelter, operated in partnership with a non-profit organization known as Mary's Place, was designed to address what had become a searing problem for Seattle and many other wealthy American cities: although urban areas like New York, Los Angeles and San Fra...Starting at €8.20
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Nike and International Labor Practices (Spanish version)
Spar, Debora L.; Burns, JenniferCase HBS-712S17EconomicsNike and International Labor Practices' is set in the mid-1990s, when Nike, one of the world's most successful footwear companies, is hit by a spate of alarmingly bad publicity. After years of high-profile media attention as the company that can "just do it," Nike is suddenly being portrayed as a firm that relies on low-cost, exploited labor in its overseas plants. Nike officials vigorously deny the charges, claiming that Nike has no control ove...Starting at €8.20
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Recognizing Online Revenues
Brochet, FrancoisCase HBS-113087-EAccounting and ControlStarting at €8.20
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LinkedIn Corporation, Teaching Note
Brochet, FrancoisTeaching Note HBS-112080-EFinanceTeaching Note for 112006.Starting at €0.00