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- 14 Feb 2013
- News
Heinz CEO Who Turned Food Maker Around Hints He Might Stay
Robert C. Merton
Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.
Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of...
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- October 2012 (Revised July 2013)
- Case
Olympus (A)
By: Jay W. Lorsch, Suraj Srinivasan and Kathleen Durante
As 2012 approached, the woes of the financial crisis seemed to be fading, companies were resuming business as usual, and some of the scrutiny on corporate governance practices began to recede as well. That is until another major financial scandal emerged in Japan in...
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Lorsch, Jay W., Suraj Srinivasan, and Kathleen Durante. "Olympus (A) ." Harvard Business School Case 413-040, October 2012. (Revised July 2013.)
- 13 Oct 2008
- News
Bill George: Where Were the Boards?
- March 2014
- Teaching Note
Barclays Bank and Contingent Capital Notes, 2012
By: Lucy White
In 2012, regulatory changes following the financial crisis mean that Barclays Bank is faced with the need to raise large amounts of capital in order to comply with increased capital requirements, tightening rules as to the "quality of capital," and increased risk...
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- July 2014
- Supplement
Barclays Bank and Contingent Capital Notes, 2012 (CW)
By: Lucy White and Trent Kim
In 2012, regulatory changes following the financial crisis mean that Barclays Bank is faced with the need to raise large amounts of capital in order to comply with increased capital requirements, tightening rules as to the "quality of capital," and increased risk...
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- 10 Feb 2009
- First Look
First Look: February 10, 2009
magnitude of the current financial crisis reflects the failure of an economic and regulatory philosophy that had proved increasingly influential in policy circles over the past three decades. This paper...
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Martha Lagace
- Article
An Evaluation of Money Market Fund Reform Proposals
U.S. money market mutual funds (MMFs) are an important source of dollar funding for global financial institutions, particularly those headquartered outside the U.S. MMFs proved to be a source of considerable instability during the financial crisis of 2007–2009,...
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Hanson, Samuel G., David S. Scharfstein, and Adi Sunderam. "An Evaluation of Money Market Fund Reform Proposals." IMF Economic Review 63, no. 4 (November 2015): 984–1023.
- 2010
- Chapter
Cost Structure Patterns in the Asset Management Industry
By: Dennis Campbell and Frances X. Frei
This chapter examines patterns in the cost structure of asset management firms and establishes two important trends in cost behavior. First, when revenues are growing, "indirect" costs related to sales, distribution, marketing, personnel, technology, and occupancy are...
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- 2020
- Working Paper
How Should U.S. Bank Regulators Respond to the COVID-19 Crisis?
Drawing on lessons from the 2007–2009 Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and a simple conceptual framework, we examine the response of U.S. bank regulators to the COVID-19 pandemic. We argue that the current regulatory strategy of “watchful waiting”—the same strategy that...
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Keywords:
COVID-19;
Bank Regulation;
Recapitalization;
Health Pandemics;
Banks and Banking;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Strategy;
Risk Management;
United States
Blank, Michael, Samuel G. Hanson, Jeremy C. Stein, and Adi Sunderam. "How Should U.S. Bank Regulators Respond to the COVID-19 Crisis?" Hutchins Center Working Paper, No. 63, June 2020.
- 12 Jan 2013
- News
Striking a balance on money market funds
- November 2019 (Revised December 2019)
- Case
Marcus by Goldman Sachs
By: Rory McDonald, Samir Junnarkar and David Lane
Five years on from the 2008 financial crisis, Goldman Sachs remained wounded. Revenues at the global investment bank had stagnated below pre-crisis levels, and the firm had yet to rebound from a substantial decline in securities-trading revenues. Marcus by Goldman...
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Keywords:
Corporate Entrepreneurship;
Banks and Banking;
Innovation Leadership;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Growth Management;
Organizational Culture;
Financial Services Industry;
United Kingdom
McDonald, Rory, Samir Junnarkar, and David Lane. "Marcus by Goldman Sachs." Harvard Business School Case 620-005, November 2019. (Revised December 2019.)
- March 2005 (Revised July 2007)
- Case
Capital Controls in Chile in the 1990s (A)
By: Laura Alfaro, Rafael M. Di Tella and Ingrid Vogel
In 1991, Chile adopted a framework of capital controls focused on reducing the massive flows of foreign investment coming into the country as international interest rates remained low. Capital inflows threatened the Central Bank's ability to manage the exchange rate...
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Keywords:
Developing Countries and Economies;
Economic Growth;
Financial Crisis;
Capital;
Governance Controls;
Business and Government Relations;
Chile
Alfaro, Laura, Rafael M. Di Tella, and Ingrid Vogel. "Capital Controls in Chile in the 1990s (A)." Harvard Business School Case 705-031, March 2005. (Revised July 2007.)
- July 1998 (Revised October 1998)
- Case
Jan Eriksson at Novartis Indonesia: Turmoil in the Indonesian Pharmaceutical Industry
By: Carin-Isabel Knoop and Anthony St. George
Jan Eriksson is the country manager of the Indonesian joint venture of Basel-based Novartis (Novartis Indonesia), the world's largest pharmaceutical company, formed by the 1996 merger between Sandoz and Ciba-Geigy. The case describes the actions he has taken since...
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Keywords:
Joint Ventures;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Crisis Management;
Management Teams;
Financial Crisis;
Pharmaceutical Industry;
Indonesia
Knoop, Carin-Isabel, and Anthony St. George. "Jan Eriksson at Novartis Indonesia: Turmoil in the Indonesian Pharmaceutical Industry." Harvard Business School Case 899-040, July 1998. (Revised October 1998.)
- 12 Jul 2020
- Working Paper Summaries
Sticky Capital Controls
- 24 Jun 2012
- News
Suggested Safeguards Irk Fund Industry
- May 2017 (Revised January 2020)
- Case
Webasto Roof Systems Americas: Leadership Through Change (A)
By: Francesca Gino and Paul Green
Webasto Roof Systems, Americas, the North American subsidiary of Germany-based Webasto Group, limped into 2014 in poor financial and operational shape. The company's early optimism emerging from the financial downturn had proven naive, and now, five years later, the...
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Keywords:
Culture Change;
Change Management;
Leading Change;
Crisis Management;
Organizational Culture;
Manufacturing Industry;
Auto Industry;
North and Central America
Gino, Francesca, and Paul Green. "Webasto Roof Systems Americas: Leadership Through Change (A)." Harvard Business School Case 917-015, May 2017. (Revised January 2020.)
- January 2011 (Revised July 2019)
- Case
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
By: Stuart C. Gilson and Sarah L. Abbott
One of the leading publishers of textbooks and other educational materials for the U.S. K-12 educational instruction market has suffered a dramatic decline in sales and profits in the wake of the 2008-2009 financial market crisis and economic recession, and is now...
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Keywords:
Restructuring;
Capital Structure;
Financial Crisis;
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Publishing Industry;
Massachusetts
Gilson, Stuart C., and Sarah L. Abbott. "Houghton Mifflin Harcourt." Harvard Business School Case 211-027, January 2011. (Revised July 2019.)
- February 2008 (Revised March 2009)
- Case
Primus, 2007
Primus is a credit derivative product company. How will they weather the credit crisis of 2007?
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Keywords:
Financial Crisis;
Credit;
Credit Derivatives and Swaps;
Financial Markets;
Financial Services Industry
Bergstresser, Daniel B. "Primus, 2007." Harvard Business School Case 208-099, February 2008. (Revised March 2009.)
- 2020
- Working Paper
Internal Models, Make Believe Prices, and Bond Market Cornering
By: Ishita Sen and Varun Sharma
Exploiting position-level heterogeneity in regulatory incentives to misreport and novel data on regulators, we document that U.S. life insurers inflate the values of corporate bonds using internal models. We estimate an additional $9-$18 billion decline in regulatory...
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Keywords:
Life Insurers;
Capital Regulation;
Internal Models;
Corporate Bonds;
Regulatory Supervision;
Concentrated Ownership;
Bonds;
Capital;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Insurance;
Investment Portfolio
Sen, Ishita, and Varun Sharma. "Internal Models, Make Believe Prices, and Bond Market Cornering." Working Paper, June 2020.