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Redesigning a 401(k) Plan at Haley-Midland
Pozen, Robert C.; Perl, ScottCase HBS-311128-EFinanceRose Adams, the CFO of Haley-Midland, Inc., dispensed with pleasantries and started right in on her questions for Jim Sweeney, the senior vice president of human resources, and Nancy Walters, Haley-Midland's vice president and treasurer, about the brewing crisis with the company's 401(k) plan.Starting at €8.20
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Taxi!
Gual, JordiCase ASE-401-EEconomicsThis case discusses regulation of the taxi sector in the metropolitan area of Barcelona. The analysis focuses on the economic effects of the regulations affecting fares and entry in the sector.Starting at €8.20
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Laia Bertran (D): Nuevos obstáculos, nuevos retos
Bertran, Laia; Las Heras, Mireia; Chinchilla, NuriaCase DPO-401Business Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Leadership and People ManagementEl caso D describe los acontecimientos sucedidos en las vidas de Jordi y Laia desde 2008, año en que finaliza el caso C, hasta 2015, cuando proponen a Jordi un traslado a Estados Unidos como director general de la filial de la empresa en la que trabaja. Durante este tiempo, Laia y Jordi han tenido su segunda hija y Jordi ha superado dos cánceres y se ha graduado del EMBA del IESE. Por su parte, durante estos años, Laia se ha recuperado notablemen...Starting at €5.74
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Perú 8mil
Pancorvo, Jorge.; Quiroga, GuillermoCase PAD-P-C-401Service and Operations ManagementUn grupo de amigos, aficionados al montañismo, deciden embarcarse en un desafío pionero: ser la primera expedición peruana en escalar una montaña nevada, de más de 8000 metros, en el Himalaya. Sin embargo, para acometer tan ambicioso reto se enfrentan a una diversidad de aspectos e interrogantes, muchos de ellos previsibles pero otros que van surgiendo durante el desarrollo del proyecto. Durante casi año y medio, desde la concepción de la idea h...Starting at €8.20
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Laia Bertran (D): New Hurdles, New Challenges
Bertran, Laia; Las Heras, Mireia; Chinchilla, NuriaCase DPO-401-EBusiness Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility, Leadership and People ManagementCase D describes the events that occur in the lives of Jordi and Laia from 2008, the year in which case C ends, to 2015, when Jordi is offered a transfer to the United States as general manager of a subsidiary of the company he works for. During this time, Laia and Jordi have their second daughter; Jordi overcomes two cancers and graduates from the IESE's Executive MBA program; and Laia makes a good recovery from her illness, works very hard (and...Starting at €5.74
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Perú 8thousand
Pancorvo, Jorge; Quiroga, GuillermoCase PAD-P-C-401-E-EService and Operations ManagementA group of friends, keen on mountain climbing, decide to take on a pioneer challenge: to be the first peruvian expedition to climb a snow-covered mountain, more than 8,000 meters high, in the Himalayas. However, to carry out such an ambitious challenge they must confront various aspects and ask themselves several questions; many of them are foreseeable while others emerge during the project's development. For nearly a year and a half, from t...Starting at €8.20
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Barclays Global Investors and Exchange Traded Funds
Viceira, Luis M.; Wagonfeld, Alison BerkleyCase HBS-208033-EFinanceProvides an overview of the Exchange Traded Funds (ETF) industry and highlights the leadership role that Barclays Global Investors (BGI) has played in this developing asset class. BGI launched its first ETFs under the iShares brand name in 2000, and by mid-2007 BGI was the global leader in the $600 billion ETF market. BGI's success had started attracting the interest of other large asset management firms, and Lee Kranefuss, CEO of BGI's iShares b...Starting at €8.20
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Achieving Mental Health Parity
Black, Samantha; King, DavidCase HBS-HKS687-EStrategyIn October 2008, President George W. Bush signed into law a requirement that certain private health insurance plans provide coverage for mental illness equal to coverage provided for medical-surgical illness as part of an economic stimulus package, capping more than a decade of advocacy in both houses of Congress by a bipartisan coalition of Congressmen and Senators for mental health parity. Through multiple changes in Congressional leadership, t...Starting at €8.20
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Introduction to Life Settlements
Braun, Alexander; Cohen, Lauren H.; Malloy, Christopher J.; Xu, JiahuaCase HBS-218127-EFinanceLife insurance is an asset owned by the majority of American adults (61%). Note that this 61% penetration rate is essentially at parity with home ownership (64%), and higher than that of 401(k) retirement account ownership (53%). Life settlements, or life insurance settlements, allow individuals to sell their life insurance policy in a secondary market. A life insurance policy is a tradable asset, for many individuals possibly the most valuable o...Starting at €8.20
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Financial Engines
Foster, G; Rosenthal, SCase SGSB-E399-EEntrepreneurshipThe Financial Engines case chronicles the firm’s evolution from launch to IPO, highlighting the various decisions and events that impacted the company’s business model from 1997 through 2010. The concept for the company sprung from Nobel Prize winning economist Bill Sharpe’s desire to help the average consumer better understand and manage their retirement assets. With the original intent to provide educational software, the company, led by Jeff...Starting at €8.20