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Zeus Electronics

Constance Bagley
1997
Explores a variety of legal issues raised by a proposed marketing plan for the sale of personal digital assistants in the United States, Europe, and Japan by a fictitious U.K. company, Zeus Electronics, PLC, with sales of £12 billion. Antitrust and…
A157

The Quaker Oats Company

Mary Barth, Linda Bethel, Evelyn Hu, Paul Reist
1997
Quaker Oats acquired Snapple less than one year ago for $2 billion. Snapple’s sales were declining, calling into question the value of the $1.3 billion in goodwill Quaker Oats had recognized at the acquisition. Quaker Oats management needs to decide what…
P19

Shell, Greenpeace, and Brent Spar

Daniel Diermeier
1996
The Royal Dutch/Shell Group of companies owns a petroleum platform, the Brent Spar, in the North Sea. The Brent Spar is an oil storage facility and tanker loading buoy. It came to the end of its useful life and was taken out of commission in September…
A158

Fair Value Accounting for Securities and the FASB Process

Mary Barth, Dale Coxe
1996
FASB chairman and members debate fair value accounting for banks’ securities investments. Issues pro and con raised by various constituents include accounting appropriateness, economic and regulatory effects, and issues articulated in comment letters…
A155B

Stanford University (B): Aftermath

Steven Huddart
1992
This case updates and concludes Stanford University (A). The case details the costs incurred by the debacle, both at the organizational and personal level. The article “Navy Settles a Fraud Case on Stanford Research Costs”: (New York, October 19, 1994)…
123456

Buffett’s Alpha

Andrea Frazzini;Lasse Heje Pedersen;David Kabiller
1975
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