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- January 2000 (Revised September 2000)
- Case
Casablanca Finance Group
Examines the founding and development of an investment bank in Morocco. Two Moroccan expatriates return from Paris and enter the brokerage business. Over the next six years they build the leading financial services firm in the country. Concludes with a series of...
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Kennedy, Robert E., and Ismail A Douiri. "Casablanca Finance Group." Harvard Business School Case 700-063, January 2000. (Revised September 2000.)
- February 1992 (Revised September 1995)
- Case
Goldman, Sachs & Co.: Nikkei Put Warrants--1989
By: Peter Tufano
Japanese financial institutions' willingness to sell put options on the Nikkei Stock Average provides investment banks with the raw material from which to create a security that would allow U.S. investors to bet on falls in the Japanese Stock Market. The investment...
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Keywords:
Debt Securities;
Investment Banking;
Product Design;
Globalized Markets and Industries;
Japan;
United States
Tufano, Peter. "Goldman, Sachs & Co.: Nikkei Put Warrants--1989." Harvard Business School Case 292-113, February 1992. (Revised September 1995.)
- 23 Jun 2015
- Video
Improving Value in Health Care: Recent Trends and Future Necessities
- January 2003 (Revised February 2004)
- Case
The Credit Suisse Group
By: Ashish Nanda and Kelley Elizabeth Morrell
On September 19, 2002, Lukas Muhlemann announced that he would step down as chairman and CEO of the Credit Suisse Group, effective January 1, 2003. The bank had progressed from a small Swiss start-up 150 years ago to a global banking powerhouse. Over the past 5 years,...
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Keywords:
Change Management;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Management Succession;
Problems and Challenges;
Business Startups;
Banks and Banking;
Banking Industry;
Switzerland
Nanda, Ashish, and Kelley Elizabeth Morrell. "The Credit Suisse Group." Harvard Business School Case 903-087, January 2003. (Revised February 2004.)
- 12 Apr 2013
- News
How to Fund Innovation
- March 1992 (Revised December 1992)
- Case
Salomon and the Treasury Securities Auction
By: Dwight B. Crane
Set in June 1991, two months prior to Salomon Brothers' announcement that the firm had violated the Treasury Department's rules governing the auctions of new Treasury securities. Salomon Vice Chairman John Meriwether must decide how to address problems that continue to...
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Keywords:
Debt Securities;
Managerial Roles;
Ethics;
Market Transactions;
Bonds;
Investment Banking;
Crisis Management;
Auctions;
Legal Liability;
Banking Industry
Crane, Dwight B. "Salomon and the Treasury Securities Auction." Harvard Business School Case 292-114, March 1992. (Revised December 1992.)
W. Matt Kelly
Matt Kelly is the CEO of JBG SMITH and a member of the Board of Trustees. Prior to the formation of JBG SMITH, Matt served as a Managing Partner of the JBG Companies and a member of the firm’s Executive Committee and Investment Committee. He... View Details
- 20 Oct 2014
- News
Private Equity Titans Open Cloistered World to Smaller Investors
- March 2013
- Article
Why 'Fair Value' Is the Rule: How a Controversial Accounting Approach Gained Support
By: Karthik Ramanna
For the past two decades, fair-value accounting—the practice of measuring assets and liabilities at estimates of their current values—has been on the ascent. This marks a major departure from the centuries-old tradition of keeping books at historical cost. It also has...
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Keywords:
Fair Value;
FASB;
Finance;
Politics;
Financial History;
Accounting;
Fair Value Accounting;
Financial Reporting;
Accounting Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Ramanna, Karthik. "Why 'Fair Value' Is the Rule: How a Controversial Accounting Approach Gained Support." Harvard Business Review 91, no. 3 (March 2013).
- 20 Sep 2020
- News
Buyout groups blasted at SEC meeting for ‘misleading numbers’
- October 2014 (Revised June 2016)
- Case
MasterCard: Driving Financial Inclusion
By: Sunil Gupta, Rajiv Lal and Natalie Kindred
MasterCard CEO Ajay Banga was investing significant time and attention to increase financial inclusion among individuals with historically no access to banking or financial services in countries around the world with large underserved populations. The effort included...
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Keywords:
Marketing;
Financial Services;
Financial And Social Return;
Financial Inclusion;
Strategic Management;
South Africa;
Nigeria;
Ajay Banga;
Marketing Strategy;
Social Marketing;
Banking Industry;
Banking Industry;
South Africa;
Nigeria
Gupta, Sunil, Rajiv Lal, and Natalie Kindred. "MasterCard: Driving Financial Inclusion." Harvard Business School Case 515-035, October 2014. (Revised June 2016.)
- January 1997 (Revised November 1997)
- Case
Fojtasek Companies and Heritage Partners, The: March 1995
By: Samuel L. Hayes III and Josh Lerner
The Fojtasek Companies, a family business, faces several financing choices to address generational succession issues. Several buyouts have expressed interest in acquiring the firm outright; an investment bank has proposed a leveraged recapitalization; and a private...
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Keywords:
Family Ownership;
Financing and Loans;
Private Equity;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Investment Banking;
Partners and Partnerships;
Management Succession;
Capital Structure;
Financial Strategy
Hayes, Samuel L., III, and Josh Lerner. "Fojtasek Companies and Heritage Partners, The: March 1995." Harvard Business School Case 297-046, January 1997. (Revised November 1997.)
Samuel G. Hanson
Samuel G. Hanson is the William L. White Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Faculty Affiliate of the Harvard Economics department. He teaches Finance 1... View Details
- 06 Sep 2017
- News
Staples finalizes its sale, beginning a new chapter
- 05 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond
exclude customers without Internet access or a bank account. That strikes me as a relatively small investment to make for a relatively large number of individuals. Tufano suggests a few adjustments to...
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- March 2014
- Article
Cyclicality of Credit Supply: Firm Level Evidence
By: Bo Becker and Victoria Ivashina
Theory predicts that there is a close link between bank credit supply and the evolution of the business cycle. Yet fluctuations in bank-loan supply have been hard to quantify in the time series. While loan issuance falls in recessions, it is not clear if this is due to...
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Keywords:
Business Cycles;
Borrowing and Debt;
Credit;
Banks and Banking;
Bonds;
Financial Markets;
Financing and Loans;
Banking Industry
Becker, Bo, and Victoria Ivashina. "Cyclicality of Credit Supply: Firm Level Evidence." Journal of Monetary Economics 62 (March 2014): 76–93.
- 23 Mar 2018
- News
Dropbox shares surge in biggest tech debut since Snap
- 2011
- Working Paper
Cyclicality of Credit Supply: Firm Level Evidence
By: Bo Becker and Victoria Ivashina
Theory predicts that there is a close link between bank credit supply and the evolution of the business cycle. Yet fluctuations in bank-loan supply have been hard to quantify in the time-series. While loan issuance falls in recessions, it is not clear if this is due to...
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Keywords:
Business Cycles;
Borrowing and Debt;
Credit;
Banks and Banking;
Bonds;
Financial Markets;
Financing and Loans;
Banking Industry
Becker, Bo, and Victoria Ivashina. "Cyclicality of Credit Supply: Firm Level Evidence." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-107, June 2010. (Revised August 2011.)
- 2022
- Working Paper
Markups to Financial Intermediation in Foreign Exchange Markets
By: Jonathan Wallen
On average from 2013 to 2020, foreign asset managers in net sold forward 1.1 trillion U.S. dollars. This forward sale of dollars hedges the currency mismatch of foreign investment in U.S. dollar assets. By accommodating this demand, U.S. and European banks earn an...
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Keywords:
Foreign Exchange;
Financial Intermediation;
Arbitrage;
Market Power;
Regulations;
Currency;
Assets;
Interest Rates;
Banking Industry
Wallen, Jonathan. "Markups to Financial Intermediation in Foreign Exchange Markets." Working Paper, March 2022.