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S&P Indices and the Indexing Business in 2012
Viceira, Luis M.; Wagonfeld, Alison BerkleyCase HBS-213049-EFinanceIn June 2012, Standard & Poor's Indices is finalizing a deal with the CME Group, the largest global exchange for futures and options and majority owner of Dow Jones Indexes, to combine their respective indices business into a new joint venture called S&P Dow Jones Indices. This case discusses the index provider business model through the lenses of this transaction: sources of revenue and profitability, business valuation, uses of indexes in the m...Starting at €8.20
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Team Conflict: The "Chatty" Accusation at the Customer Support Call Center - Teaching note
Behfar, Kristin J.; Yemen, Gerry; Davidson, Martin N.; Maiden, Stephen E.Teaching Note DARDEN-OB-1046TN-ELeadership and People ManagementTeaching Note for product OB-1046Starting at €0.00
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Sustainable Investing at J.P. Morgan Private Bank
Fleiss, Sara L.; Viceira, Luis M.Case HBS-220016-EFinanceThis case features Monica Issar, then Global Head of J.P. Morgan Endowments & Foundations Group in the Private Bank. In just five years, she and J.P. Morgan have grown the Outsourced Chief Investment Officer (OCIO) business from $5 billion in AUM from primarily family foundations to $30 billion AUM of institutional capital. Increasingly, clients are requesting guidelines that reflect not only their risk and return preferences, but also their soci...Starting at €8.20
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Nextel Peru: Emerging Market Cost of Capital, Teaching Note
Viceira, Luis M.; Heilprin, Joel L.Teaching Note HBS-916517-EFinanceTeaching note for case 916516.Starting at €0.00
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The Private Company Council
Ramanna, Karthik; Viceira, Luis M.Case HBS-113045-EAccounting and ControlFinancial Accounting Foundation chairman Jack Brennan is under pressure from private-company interests to set up a new body-the Private Company Council-to determine separate GAAP for private companies. PCC advocates-including the US Chamber of Commerce-argue that traditional US GAAP has too many disclosure and fair-value requirements that impose very high compliance costs on private companies. But there are influential players-including the Big F...Starting at €8.20
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How Hard Should You Push Diversity (HBR Case Study)
Davidson, Martin N.Article HBS-R1211X-ELeadership and People ManagementCharles Begley is the first ever managing director of diversity recruiting for GlobeBank, and he has worked hard to develop a pipeline of high-potential minority talent. He and his deputy director, Kumkum Bhatnagar, see an article their CEO has written for a business magazine website that downplays their efforts. Kumkum thinks the company should start pegging compensation to executives' minority hires and promotions. Charles resists her idea--par...Starting at €8.20
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Opening Week at Darden
Davidson, Martin N.; Thomas-Hunt, Melissa C.Case DARDEN-OB-1296-ELeadership and People ManagementThis case describes the experience of five MBA students beginning their two-year residential program. The students are members of a learning team, and each is experiencing challenges orienting to the new program and to her or his teammates.Starting at €8.20
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How Hard Should You Push Diversity (Commentary for HBR Case Study)
Davidson, Martin N.Article HBS-R1211Z-ELeadership and People ManagementCharles Begley is the first ever managing director of diversity recruiting for GlobeBank, and he has worked hard to develop a pipeline of high-potential minority talent. He and his deputy director, Kumkum Bhatnagar, see an article their CEO has written for a business magazine website that downplays their efforts. Kumkum thinks the company should start pegging compensation to executives' minority hires and promotions. Charles resists her idea--par...Starting at €8.20
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Self-Focus versus Mission-Focus Mindset
Davidson, Martin N.; Kemp, BiancaTechnical Note DARDEN-OB-1449-ELeadership and People ManagementThis technical note explores the "self-focus" and "mission-focus" mindsets based on two of the Arbinger Institute's bookStarting at €8.20
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Arjun Sachdev and the Collingwood’s Deal
Davidson, Martin N.; Schur-Narula, Niki;Case DARDEN-OB-1428-ELeadership and People ManagementArjun Sachdev is in a quandary. He is eager to land a $4 million account with Collingwood's Supermarkets, a large Australian supermarket chain, but Neil Fletcher, Collingwood's buyer, has casually made a number of racist comments in talking with Sachdev. This is a high-stakes sale; landing the account would certainly validate Sachdev's recent promotion to director of business development at his company, Strasbourg Organics. Losing it could jeopar...Starting at €8.20