The Tragedy of the (Water) Commons

If left unattended, natural resources tend to move toward depletion, overuse, deterioration, or contamination. Common pastures are overgrazed; The lakes are overexploited; The rivers are polluted, etc. In the case of water, some may wonder how overuse or depletion is possible given that water is a renewable natural resource. However, there may be practical and …

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Amazon’s HQ2 (C): Choices

Amazon’s first bid for a second headquarters (HQ2), published in September 2017, attracted a lot of attention and eventually proposals from 238 cities and regions in North America. In this case, it is about the company’s decision to split its HQ2 into two locations and the resulting reaction from local politicians and the public.

US-China Economic Relations: Which Path to Take?

Since China joined the World Trade Organization in 2001, economic ties between China and the United States have deepened. However, with closer ties there have also been significant political conflicts. In this case, students will analyze current SinoUS diplomatic relations through two different lenses: 1) bilateral diplomatic relations; 2) economic theory. By understanding the complex …

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Subprime Meltdown: American Housing and Global Financial Turmoil

This case focuses on the financial difficulties the United States faced from August to December 2006, as well as its roots in subprime loans. After briefly analyzing how pre-1990 mortgages were structured and negotiated, he describes subprime mortgages, as well as other groundbreaking mortgages that were issued in the 1990s. It also discusses how these …

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The Competitive Advantage of Russia

The Russian Federation (Russia) was the largest of the 15 geopolitical entities that emerged from the Soviet Union in 1991. Despite a series of reforms launched in 1992 to facilitate the country’s transition from its centrally planned economy, Russia was it plunged into a deep recession that was exacerbated by a financial crisis in 1998. …

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Southern Implants: Designing and Manufacturing Dental Implants to the World

Southern Implants, a South African dental implant manufacturer, was considering ways to diversify its risk. Over the past 30 years, the company had grown from a local manufacturing company and now serves customers around the world through distributors and affiliates. The founder and managing director were primarily concerned with the final steps of production, which …

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Blair Wealth Project: Antecedents and Prospects

It analyzes the macroeconomic and political situation in the UK from the end of the Second World War to 2001. It focuses on the interactions between macroeconomic performance, industrial relations, the corporate governance system and social services. Specifically, it compares and contrasts the policies (and their effects) adopted by successive government administrations, from the postwar …

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JPMorgan Chase: Invested in Detroit (B)

Beginning in 2014, JPMorgan launched Chase Inverted in Detroit, a $ 100 million philanthropic investment in the city over five years. The bank worked with local business development organizations, human resource development organizations, small businesses, philanthropists, and the city government to make a variety of investments to improve the troubled city. In 2017, JPMorgan Chases …

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Tradition and Transformation at the Spanish Riding School of Vienna

The Spanish Riding School (SRS) was an icon of Austrian national identity, the oldest riding school in the world and the most important representative of the classical art of dressage (a “ballet” with horses). In 2012, 447 years after its founding, the school faced a serious threat: how to survive the so-called “privatization” by the …

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Lind Equipment

Lind Equipment defaulted on its loan agreements with its senior bank lender in the summer of 2008, just six months after the acquisition. Although the senior bank debt represented only 6% of the capital used in the acquisition and was fully guaranteed, it exercised its right to suspend payments to Lind’s junior lender, who financed …

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