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- February 2002 (Revised February 2003)
- Case
Argentina's Financial System: The Case of Banco de Galicia
By: Rafael M. Di Tella, Tarun Khanna, Huw Pill, Alexandra de Royere and Ingrid Vogel
Describes the development of Argentina's financial system after the "Tequila Crisis" that came about as a result of the speculative attack on the Mexican peso's peg to the U.S. dollar in December 1994. Although Argentina's banking system was strengthened overall due to...
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Keywords:
Finance;
Emerging Markets;
Macroeconomics;
Business Strategy;
Banks and Banking;
Financial Crisis;
Family Business;
Acquisition;
Banking Industry;
Argentina
Di Tella, Rafael M., Tarun Khanna, Huw Pill, Alexandra de Royere, and Ingrid Vogel. "Argentina's Financial System: The Case of Banco de Galicia." Harvard Business School Case 702-033, February 2002. (Revised February 2003.)
- November 2001 (Revised September 2002)
- Case
Four Products: Predicting Diffusion
One of the critical tasks in the marketing of new innovations is predicting demand and rates of diffusion for those products. Focuses on four innovative products from different domains. Although one can speculate on the scope and rate of diffusion for each of these...
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Keywords:
Forecasting and Prediction;
Innovation and Invention;
Product Launch;
Demand and Consumers;
Technology Adoption
Gourville, John T. "Four Products: Predicting Diffusion." Harvard Business School Case 502-045, November 2001. (Revised September 2002.)
- June 1998
- Article
The Politics of Monetary Leadership and Followership: Stability in the European Monetary System Since the Currency Crisis of 1992
By: Rawi Abdelal
Despite widespread scepticism, there is a fundamental continuity in the stability of the European Monetary System (EMS) before and after the 1992 crisis. Although speculative pressures provoked European leaders to widen the fluctuation bands of the Exchange Rate...
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Abdelal, Rawi. "The Politics of Monetary Leadership and Followership: Stability in the European Monetary System Since the Currency Crisis of 1992." Political Studies 46, no. 2 (June 1998): 236–259. (Winner of Harrison Prize Awarded each year for the best article published by Political Studies in that volume.)
- May 1996
- Background Note
The GM's Operational Challenge: Managing Through People
By: Christopher A. Bartlett and Ashish Nanda
Highlights and explores how a general manager adds value to the firm at the operational level by managing through people. Discusses how assumptions about human motivation influence the employment contract that the general manager implicitly enters into with the workers...
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Keywords:
Employee Relationship Management;
Selection and Staffing;
Contracts;
Managerial Roles;
Operations;
Problems and Challenges;
Labor and Management Relations;
Motivation and Incentives;
Value
Bartlett, Christopher A., and Ashish Nanda. "The GM's Operational Challenge: Managing Through People." Harvard Business School Background Note 396-400, May 1996.
- March 1993
- Article
On the Speculative Efficiency of the Foreign Exchange Market
By: K. A. Froot
Froot, K. A. "On the Speculative Efficiency of the Foreign Exchange Market." Cuadernos económicos de I.C.E. (March 1993): 7–30.
- September 1992
- Article
Herd on the Street: Informational Inefficiencies in a Market with Short-Term Speculation
By: Kenneth Froot, David S. Scharfstein and Jeremy Stein
Froot, Kenneth, David S. Scharfstein, and Jeremy Stein. "Herd on the Street: Informational Inefficiencies in a Market with Short-Term Speculation." Journal of Finance 47, no. 4 (September 1992): 1461–1484. (Revised from NBER Working Paper No. 3250, February 1990.)
- 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.)
- 1990
- Working Paper
Herd on the Street: Informational Inefficiencies in a Market with Short-term Speculation
By: Kenneth A. Froot, J. Stein and David S. Scharfstein
- 1986
- Article
The Dollar as an Irrational Speculative Bubble: A Tale of Fundamentalists and Chartists
By: J. Frankel and K. A. Froot
- 1975
- Working Paper
Information, Efficiency and Equilibrium
By: Jerry R. Green
When economic agents receive information over time concerning future events it is likely that prices for commodities whose value is influenced by these events will fluctuate in response to changes in the state of knowledge. If such events occur periodically,...
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Green, Jerry R. "Information, Efficiency and Equilibrium." Harvard Institute of Economic Research Discussion Paper, No. 284, December 1975.
- January 1973
- Article
'Continuous-Time Speculative Processes': Appendix to Paul A. Samuelson's 'Mathematics of Speculative Price'
By: Robert C. Merton
Keywords:
Price
Merton, Robert C. "'Continuous-Time Speculative Processes': Appendix to Paul A. Samuelson's 'Mathematics of Speculative Price'." SIAM Review 15 (January 1973): 34–38.
- Research Summary
Overview
Professor Robertson conducts research on the history of financial markets. Her book manuscript and working papers shed light on the evolution of securities markets and the relationship between finance, governance, and society. Some of the topics she pursues include:...
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