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The Dow Acquisition of Rohm and Haas (C)
Lorsch, Jay W.; Barton, MelissaCase HBS-411003-ELeadership and People ManagementThe global economy entered a crippling recession in the fourth quarter of 2008 and Dow lost its primary source of funding for its planned acquisition of Rohm and Haas.Starting at €5.74
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Mega Oil Corporation
Laseter, Timothy M.; Kelly, Dorothy C.Case DARDEN-OM-1169-EService and Operations ManagementScoping the situation at the Mega Oil Corporation, a major management-consulting firm, had been the easy part. The firm is seriously behind its best competitors and risks falling further behind unless changes are made to reorganize its worldwide staff functions. Now the more difficult task is identifying and prioritizing the actions to take.Starting at €8.20
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Junta directiva de Morgan Stanley Dean Witter (A)
Lorsch, Jay W.; Robertson, Ashley C.Case HBS-110S26Leadership and People ManagementExamina la renuncia de Felipe Purcell como presidente y CEO de Morgan Stanley como consecuencia de los malos resultados y los problemas culturales, así como su relación con el consejo de administración.Starting at €8.20
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Digitas (A) (Spanish Version)
Lorsch, Jay W.; Robertson, Ashley C.Case HBS-410S17Leadership and People ManagementPlantea cuestiones acerca de cómo la naturaleza y función de una tabla cambia a medida que se mueve de su Sociedad de propiedad de sus empleados (incluyendo el fundador) a la propiedad por una firma de capital privado, Hellman & Friedman, a la propiedad pública. Propósito de enseñanza: Para tener en cuenta los cambios en los miembros del consejo, los derechos de mesa, y las responsabilidades de la junta. Un reescrito versión de un caso anterior....Starting at €8.20
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Leading from the Boardroom
Lorsch, Jay W.; Clark, Robert C.Article HBS-R0804G-ELeadership and People ManagementThese days, boards are working overtime to comply with Sarbanes-Oxley and other governance requirements meant to protect shareholders from executive wrongdoing. But as directors have become more hands-on with compliance, they've become more hands-off with long-range planning. That exposes corporations and their shareholders to another - perhaps even greater - risk, say professors Lorsch, of Harvard Business School, and Clark, of Harvard Law Schoo...Starting at €8.20
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Larry Puglia and the T. Rowe Price Blue Chip Growth Fund
Eades, Kenneth M.; Kelly, Dorothy C.Case DARDEN-F-1772-EFinanceSet in late 2016, this case recounts the remarkable performance record of Blue Chip Growth Fund (BCGF), a mutual fund managed by Larry Puglia at T. Rowe Price, Inc. The case describes the investment style of Puglia, whose record with BCGF had on average outperformed the S&P 500 since the inception of the fund in 1993. The tasks for the student are to assess the performance of the fund, consider the sources of its success, and decide on the sustai...Starting at €8.20
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Liderar desde el consejo de administración
Lorsch, Jay W.; Clark, Robert C.Article HBS-R0804GLeadership and People ManagementEn estos días, las juntas están trabajando horas extras para cumplir con otros requisitos de gobierno destinados a los accionistas protegen de la maldad ejecutivo Sarbanes-Oxley y. Pero a medida que los directores se han vuelto más práctica con el cumplimiento, se han vuelto más manos libres con planificación a largo plazo. Que expone las corporaciones y sus accionistas a otra - tal vez incluso mayor - riesgo, dicen los profesores Lorsch, de la H...Starting at €8.20
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Investure, LLC, and Smith College
Chaplinsky, Susan; Harris, Robert S.; Kelly, Dorothy C.Case DARDEN-F-1537-EFinanceAlice Handy, an investment professional with 30 years' experience as head of the University of Virginia Investment Management Company, has opened a new asset management firm targeted at midsize endowments and nonprofit institutions in January 2004. Her business, Investure, LLC, offered outsourced investment services to institutions with $150 million to $1 billion in assets and access to top-performing managers at lower cost than a fund of funds (...Starting at €8.20
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Próspera: Partnering for Economic Development in Honduras
Frank, Mary Margaret; Holtz, Paul; Kelly, Dorothy C.Case DARDEN-F-1980-EFinanceErick A. Brimen’s vision was on the verge of reality. As CEO of Próspera LLC, an economic development platform based in Washington, DC, he had devoted years to fostering efforts to bring economic development and stability to a small region in Honduras. He had worked with government officials, scholars of economics and law, and local residents to develop a zone for employment and economic development (in Spanish, zona de empleo y desarrollo económ...Starting at €8.20
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WNG Capital LLC
Eades, Kenneth M.; Kelly, Dorothy C.; Gangemi, MichaelCase DARDEN-F-1777-EFinanceIn late 2013, an analyst at WNG Capital LLC, Wenbo Su, must recommend whether the terms of a sale-and-leaseback deal are value adding for WNG. WNG was an operating lessor of used commercial aircraft manufactured by Airbus Group and Boeing Corporation. The lessee in the deal was a small private airline based in the United Kingdom. The essence of the transaction was to transform the airline from being the owner of certain aircraft in its fleet to b...Starting at €8.20