The third conference on the future of life-cycle saving and investing, entitled “Financial Education and Consumer Financial Protection,” was held at the Boston University School of Management on 23–25 May 2011. Like the previous two conferences, it was organized by Professor Zvi Bodie of...

On a wintery day in early 2011, the small team at Doorways to Dreams Fund (D2D) finished up one of their many conference calls, beeps announcing as each person hung up. The ten-yearold organization based in Roxbury, Massachusetts, drew upon a broad range of volunteers including students,...

In the summer of 1999, Adecco SA, one of the world's leading staffing companies, was in the midst of attempting to acquire the staffing operations of Olsten Corp., a U.S. firm. This case analyzes the economics of the staffing industry, basic valuation, cross-border issues including tax...

In 1994 General Property Trust, an Australian property investment trust, was anticipating future cash needs beyond those that the Trust could fund with internal cash flows. The managers of the Trust were considering a novel financing structure whereby it would sell call options on the Trust's...

James Cross, VP of customer planning at the Tennessee Valley Authority, a major supplier of electric power in the Southeast United States, is considering meeting its incremental capacity needs by creating new financial contracts, Option Purchase Agreements (OPAs) to buy or sell electricity....

Supplements the (A) case.

Discusses a company deciding what it should do to manage its worldwide hedging operations.