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Barclays Global Investors and Exchange Traded Funds
Viceira, Luis M.; Wagonfeld, Alison BerkleyCaso HBS-208033-EFinanzasProvides 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...Desde 8,20 €
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S&P Indices and the Indexing Business in 2012
Viceira, Luis M.; Wagonfeld, Alison BerkleyCaso HBS-213049-EFinanzasIn 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...Desde 8,20 €
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Embrace
Chu, Michael; Bloom, David E.; Wagonfeld, Alison BerkleyCaso HBS-814001-EIniciativa emprendedoraDesde 8,20 €
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Applications for Financial Futures (Spanish version)
Mason, Scott P.; Durdan, Sally E.Caso HBS-220S05FinanzasConsists of a series of four brief descriptions of the use of financial futures as hedging vehicles: a savings and loan hedging the rollover of three-month money market certificates with T-bill futures, a corporate debt issuer hedging the cost of a future debt issue with T-bond futures, an equity investor hedging a decline in the market, and an example of a company with a natural interest rate hedge on its balance sheet. The examples describe the...Desde 8,20 €
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Massey-Ferguson Ltd.--1980 (Spanish version)
Baldwin, Carliss Y.; Mason, Scott P.; Hughes, Jennifer H.Caso HBS-202S12FinanzasMassey Ferguson began fiscal year 1981 in default on $2.5 billion of outstanding debt. The company's future depends on the ability of lenders, the governments of Canada and Ontario, and management, to agree on a refinancing plan. The case reviews Massey's performance and position in the industry and raises questions about the company's ability to compete in the long run. Provides information on the firm's claimants in order to focus students on t...Desde 8,20 €
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Nanosolar, Inc.
Steenburgh, Thomas; Wagonfeld, Alison BerkleyCaso HBS-510037-EMarketingNanosolar is a start-up company in the clean tech sector. It expects to be one of the first manufacturers to produce thin-film solar panels using copper indium gallium (di)selenide (CIGS) technology. Although this technology is less efficient in producing electricity than polysilicone, it is much less costly too. As it is about to enter the market, Nanosolar is facing the decision on which market to enter. Should it attempt to go into the Europea...Desde 8,20 €
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Yieldex (B)
Stuart, Toby; Wagonfeld, Alison BerkleyCaso HBS-809091-EIniciativa emprendedoraYieldex CEO Tom Shields was hired by the company's technical founder, Doug Cosman, in October 2007. One of Shields' top priorities is finding a vice president of engineering to manage the company's software development efforts. Shields and Costman disagree about the ideal profile of the new hire. Shields found a candidate that he likes, and he wonders about the implications of hiring the person against Cosman's wishes.Desde 5,74 €
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Cisco in 2012
Gulati, Ranjay; Wagonfeld, Alison Berkley; Silvestri, LucianaCaso HBS-413069-ELiderazgo y Dirección de personasIn 2012, Cisco was under intense pressure to show results: growth in its core business was decelerating and a number of exploratory ventures and acquisitions had not proven as profitable as expected. CEO John Chambers vowed to restore the company's health in a way that would support the agility and entrepreneurial mindset required to be successful in emerging sectors while continuing to achieve efficiency and profitability in Cisco's core busines...Desde 8,20 €
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Warner Bros. Entertainment
Pisano, Gary P.; Wagonfeld, Alison BerkleyCaso HBS-610036-EServicios y operacionesExamines the process used by a major motion picture studio to develop and select movie projects. Warner Bros.' strategy is to focus its efforts on a small number of major "event" films (i.e., films with the potential to generate gross box-office receipts of $300 million or more). This strategy--which has worked for the past two years--entails risks. The studio is now asking how it can better manage these risks and, specifically, how it can improv...Desde 8,20 €
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Khosla Ventures: Biofuels Gain Liquidity
Lassiter, Joseph B.; Sahlman, William A.; Wagonfeld, Alison Berkley; Richardson, EvanCaso HBS-812035-EIniciativa emprendedoraSamir Kaul, a Partner at Khosla Ventures, looked out his office window. It was late June, 2011, and like almost every day in Menlo Park, the sun was shining. Kaul was reflecting on what had been a very positive 10 months in the venture capital business. Over that span, he had helped three of his portfolio companies through IPOs, and helped Khosla Ventures raise its third fund, bringing the total outside capital raised by the group to more than $2...Desde 8,20 €