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Icahn Enterprises: Ponzi Scheme or Sound Investment
Dey, Aiyesha; Heese, Jonas; Weber, JamesCase HBS-124013-EAccounting and ControlIcahn Enterprises, a publicly traded limited partnership founded and operated by famed activist investor Carl Icahn, had earned above market returns for over a decade. Between 2018 and early 2023, it had a compound annual return of 31%. Icahn invested in undervalued companies and then publicly pressured boards of directors to make changes to increase the share price. Hindenburg Research (Hindenburg), an activist short-selling investment firm foun...Starting at €8.20
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It's My Turn (HBR Case Study and Commentary)
Sharpe, Jim; Weber, JamesArticle HBS-R1310K-EEntrepreneurshipSusie Gordon and Antonio Barile, a married couple, own a manufacturing company together. When their first child was born, they agreed that Susie would stay home with the kids while Antonio ran the business, and then, after a few years, they would swap roles. Now Susie is itching to get back to work, but Antonio is reluctant to step out of the CEO's job and return home. Does he have to honor their original deal--and what will happen if he doesn't?...Starting at €8.20
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AEEC: Becoming an Innovation Catalyst
Applegate, Lynda M.; Weber, James; Mehta, SarahCase HBS-317011-EStarting at €8.20
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Public Education in New Orleans: Pursuing Systemic Change through Entrepreneurship
Childress, Stacey; Weber, JamesCase HBS-310052-EEntrepreneurshipTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. After Hurricane Katrina devastated the city in August 2005, the state had taken over 102 of the 118 public schools in New Orleans and shifted the management structure from a "single school system to a system of schools." Entrepreneurs from the region and around the country had flocked to New Orleans to run schools and provide the talent those schools needed to help their stu...Starting at €8.20
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School of One: Reimagining How Students Learn
Childress, Stacey; Weber, James; Haldeman, MatthewCase HBS-310053-EEntrepreneurshipTo maximize their effectiveness, color cases should be printed in color. School of One was a start-up with a new approach to learning. Instead of one teacher delivering the entire math curriculum to a class of 20-25 students, School of One utilized a technology platform that allowed several teachers to collectively oversee the learning of a larger group of students. Each student followed a personalized pathway to mastery of a set of math concepts...Starting at €8.20
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AFSCME vs. Mozilo...and "Say on Pay" for All! (A) (Abridged)
Ferri, Fabrizio; Weber, JamesCase HBS-309101-ERichard Ferlauto, director of pensions and benefits policy at the AFSCME, the largest public sector workers union in the U.S., was responsible for protecting the pensions of its members. Because pensions were invested for decades, Ferlauto wanted the companies in which the union invested to be managed for the long-term interests of shareholders. He believed this required good corporate governance and effective oversight by the board of directors....Starting at €8.20
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Project Moab at Hulu
Foley, C. Fritz; Weber, JamesCase HBS-218050-EFinanceIn 2015, Elaine Paul, CFO of Hulu, and the rest of the senior leadership team, must decide if they should offer a new, advertisement-free subscription service. At the time Hulu distributed a wide variety of content including in season current programming and earned significant revenues from advertising revenues. This choice had strategic implications and required formulating a view on how the video on demand industry would evolve. It also had val...Starting at €8.20
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El trilema de Algorismika
Armengou Orús, Jaume; García-Castro, RobertoCase AD-383Decision Analysis, Entrepreneurship, Information TechnologiesUna start-up de desarrollo de software se plantea si seguir tal como está, o bien consolidarse, o bien venderse a otra empresa ya consolidada.Starting at €8.20
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Starling Trust Sciences: Measuring Trust in Organizations
Dey, Aiyesha; Heese, Jonas; Weber, JamesCase HBS-120006-EEntrepreneurshipStephen Scott needed to decide whether to keep his behavioral analytics startup in the people analytics sector or shift his company into the RegTech sector. Starling had develop technology that enabled its customers to anticipate and shape the behavior of their employees by examining company data on employees, including email traffic. Starling had struggled to grow in the people analytics sector while RegTech was an emerging sector that might pro...Starting at €8.20
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Measuring Risk in Investment Projects: NPV at Risk
García-Castro, RobertoTechnical Note ADN-286-EDecision Analysis, FinanceNPV is based on the discount of expected, future cash flows. As such, it is subject to substantial uncertainty in real applications. This uncertainty is often neglected in some companies due to a lack of appropriate tools to manage it. One way to account for all the risk associated with a particular investment project is to use the probability distribution associated with the NPV (NPVAR), once the main uncertainties have been identified and measu...Starting at €8.20