Efficient Utilization Of InterContinental New Orleans Hotel Resources After Hurricane Katrina: A Case Study

A significant capital budgeting problem faced the InterContinental New Orleans Hotel after the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The problem was presented to students as a case study.  Students were provided firm specific and market data to perform a detailed discounted cash flow analysis, includin...

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Published inJournal of business case studies Vol. 6; no. 3; p. 71
Main Authors Noguera, Magdy, Trejo-Pech, Carlos Omar, Santana, Jorge
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Littleton The Clute Institute 01.05.2010
Subjects
Capital budgeting
Case studies
Disaster recovery
Discounted cash flow
Efficiency
Festivals
Floods
Hotels & motels
Hurricanes
Insured losses
Levees & battures
Mardi Gras
Project evaluation
Storm damage
Tourism
New Orleans Louisiana
United States > US
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Summary:A significant capital budgeting problem faced the InterContinental New Orleans Hotel after the wake of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. The problem was presented to students as a case study.  Students were provided firm specific and market data to perform a detailed discounted cash flow analysis, including estimation of the weighted average cost of capital and the corresponding sensitivity analysis.  The case is designed to be used in an upper level undergraduate corporate finance class.
ISSN:1555-3353
2157-8826
DOI:10.19030/jbcs.v6i3.880