Corporate Finance CaseWorks Abstracts
Summer 2008

Restructuring Kraft

Enrique R. Arzac

Kraft undergoes financial restructuring after investor Nelson Peltz acquires a 3% equity stake.

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Spring 2008

Transforming Procurement at Merck: Beyond Purchase Management

Noel Capon

In order to improve cost control, Merck has made changes to its approach to procurement.

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Spring 2008

Phelps Dodge 2005

Bruce Greenwald

In late 2005, Phelps-Dodge Corporation, one of the world's leading metals producers had to decide whether to open a new copper mine near Safford, Arizona at a projected cost of $550 million dollars.

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Spring 2008

Hospital Corporation of America, Inc. 2006: Leveraged Buyout

Gailen Hite

Should Roary Capital Partners join Blackstone in bidding on the leveraged buyout of Hospital Corporation of America?

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Spring 2008

Wireless Telecom Inc.

Alessandro Citanna
Geoffrey Heal

Wireless Telecom is a new company just beginning to provide cellular phone service in the North East of the United States.

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