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  Foreign Direct Investment and South Africa (B)

  Eric Werker and Ian McKown Cornell

  Incoming and outgoing foreign direct investment in an environment of politics, geography, globalization, and history. Updates the 2006 case to 2012. The subsequent six years only reinforce the message of the original case. Since the end of apartheid, South Africa had undertaken substantial economic reforms in order to attract more foreign direct investment, but it was slow in coming. At the same time, South African firms had become major players in sub-Saharan Africa and beyond. Collectively, these investment decisions could have a major long-run impact on South Africa's economic growth and political stability. South African policymakers needed to decide what they wanted from the private sector, and how to achieve it.

  Keywords: global business; developing countries; foreign direct investment; business government relations; South Africa;

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  Werker, Eric, and Ian McKown Cornell. "Foreign Direct Investment and South Africa (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 712-054, May 2013. (Revised from original June 2012 version.)

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  Privatization of the Power Sector in Nigeria (A)

  Eric Werker, Onyechi Ezekwueche, Olatomiwa Igun and Alice Wei

  In spite of its abundant energy resources, Nigeria in 2012 had one of the lowest levels of energy use in the world. Self-generation of power from costly generators was double that of grid-supplied electricity. The history of its power sector was one of inefficient monopolies, missteps, and corruption. But a wholesale change to the market, designed under reformist President Obasanjo and pushed forward by President Jonathan, promised greater efficiencies and investment guided by private-sector principles including widespread privatization, pricing reforms, and reliance on firms to produce and distribute the electricity. Power producer firms on the sideline needed to decide whether they wanted to be a part of this new market.

  Keywords: privatization; Energy; Nigeria;

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  Werker, Eric, Onyechi Ezekwueche, Olatomiwa Igun, and Alice Wei. "Privatization of the Power Sector in Nigeria (A)." Harvard Business School Case 713-042, March 2013. (Revised from original October 2012 version.)

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  Pittsburgh

  Eric D. Werker, Meg Rithmire, Benjamin Kennedy and Andrew Knauer

  The case narrates the development of Pittsburgh from the 1940s to 2012. It analyzes the collapse of the steel industry in the early 1980s, the city's subsequent decline, and the city's later re-emergence as a hub for higher education, the tech sector, and the healthcare industry. Attention is given to the public-private partnerships that emerged in Pittsburgh, as well as the economic development and taxation initiatives pursued by different mayors.

  Keywords: google; population; city growth; shale; PNC; Tom Murphy; Luke Ravenstahl; Public-private partnership; Tax increment financing; brownfields; Renaissance; Industry Clusters; Industry Growth; City; Business and Government Relations; Taxation; Giving and Philanthropy; Nonprofit Organizations; Higher Education; Technology Industry; Health Industry; Steel Industry; Education Industry; Pittsburgh;

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  Werker, Eric D., Meg Rithmire, Benjamin Kennedy, and Andrew Knauer. "Pittsburgh." Harvard Business School Case 713-035, January 2013.

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