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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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Red Star Macalline: Strategic Evolution
Jie Li; Jean-Louis SchaanCase IVEY-9B17M086-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyIn 2016, the founder and chief executive officer of Red Star Macalline, China’s largest furniture shopping mall operator, was finalizing the company’s new growth plan—the “1001 Strategy.” The plan was to be implemented in two phases: first, building 1,000 brick-and-mortar shopping malls, focused on home improvement products, and then integrating the malls into a seamless ecosystem through a single overarching Internet platform. The company faced ...Starting at €8.20
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Pandora: Royalties Kill the Web Radio Star (B)
Pozen, Robert C.; Rosenfeld, AlexCase HBS-310027-EStarting at €5.74
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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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ArcelorMittal (B)
Jean-Louis Schaan; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B10M002-EStrategyFrom the perspectives of the senior executive of Mittal and the senior executive of Arcelor, this case looks at post-merger integration. As with many mergers, the ArcelorMittal merger was touted as a merger of equals. Unlike most, it was actually managed as such and it worked. The case series looks at three critical decision points (one for each case) and challenges that the two senior executives faced from the line organization during the execut...Starting at €5.74
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ArcelorMittal (C)
Jean-Louis Schaan; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B10M003-EStrategyFrom the perspectives of the senior executive of Mittal and the senior executive of Arcelor, this case looks at post-merger integration. As with many mergers, the ArcelorMittal merger was touted as a merger of equals. Unlike most, it was actually managed as such and it worked. The case series looks at three critical decision points (one for each case) and challenges that the two senior executives faced from the line organization during the execut...Starting at €5.74
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ArcelorMittal (A)
Jean-Louis Schaan; Ramasastry ChandrasekharCase IVEY-9B10M001-EStrategyFrom the perspectives of the senior executive of Mittal and the senior executive of Arcelor, this case looks at post-merger integration. As with many mergers, the ArcelorMittal merger was touted as a merger of equals. Unlike most, it was actually managed as such and it worked. The case series looks at three critical decision points (one for each case) and challenges that the two senior executives faced from the line organization during the execut...Starting at €8.20
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Hopax (B)
Jean-Louis Schaan; Yung-Chien LouCase IVEY-9B10M005-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThis supplement to Hopax (A), product number 9B10M004, explains that, unlike the other players, Hopax decides to fight in court after Staples, Hopax's largest customer in the United States, decides to cancel its contract.Starting at €5.74
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Hopax (C)
Jean-Louis Schaan; Yung-Chien LouCase IVEY-9B10M006-EEntrepreneurship, StrategyThis supplement to Hopax (A), product number 9B10M004, recounts the events that followed until 2008 and explains how the company applied principles of judo strategy to become the second largest supplier of repositionable notes in the world.Starting at €5.74