It describes a thinly veiled situation facing a recent Harvard MBA graduate who was forced by a potential employer to put a dollar value on stock options. There are two objectives: 1) To serve as an introduction to option pricing, giving students the opportunity to use market data to evaluate an option in a realistic …
This case from 2015 focuses on the development of Box’s management practices as the company grew from a small business to an organization with more than 1,000 employees in five large locations. The online file sharing and cloud content collaboration company was founded in 2005 and valued at $ 2.4 billion a decade later. During …
Berkshire Hathaway is known to many as the investment vehicle of Warren E. Buffett. This reputation is partly well founded when the performance of the company’s investments under his leadership is considered. However, less attention has been paid to the success of Berkshire Hathaway’s management. In 2008, the diversity of businesses owned by Berkshire Hathaway …
Analyzes the commercial relationship between Tempur Sealy and Mattress Firm following the events discussed in the (A) case.
It includes a series of three negotiation exercises that describe the relationships between management and ABC employees over a seven-year period. ABC, originally a family business, prided itself on its cooperative relationship with its Local 190 union. With inflation exploding in the 1970s, the administration considered drastic changes. Management and workers would go through a …
Janalakshmi Financial Services (JFS), an Indian microfinance institution, had grown rapidly by providing financial products to its main customer base, the urban poor. However, the company faced several challenges. JFS productivity has declined and the company has had a high and above-market turnover rate in its sales force. H. loan officers. In addition, the division …
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Lee Iacocca, a successful CEO of an auto company, took up various social causes after his retirement. He describes transition problems.
Michael Reich greatly doubts how he divided equity capital with his co-founders two months ago when they signed a one-sided “November Agreement.” Since then, Michael has found an angel investor and has been continually working in the business, with one co-founder spending winter break with his family and the other working lucrative consulting assignments for …
Shanghai Diligence Law Firm took its approach of growing through a merger rather than organically and eventually merged into a larger law firm in China. After the merger, a refined ABCD model is still used as the compensation system, although the challenge remains to improve both the willingness and skills of employees to improve team …