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- August 2010 (Revised February 2012)
- Case
Cosmeticos de Espana, S.A. (A)
By: David F. Hawkins
Management must decide which exchange rate to use to consolidate the company's Venezuelan subsidiary.
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Keywords:
Financial Statements;
Business Subsidiaries;
Inflation and Deflation;
Currency Exchange Rate;
Beauty and Cosmetics Industry;
Spain;
Venezuela
Hawkins, David F. "Cosmeticos de Espana, S.A. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 111-019, August 2010. (Revised February 2012.)
- 15 Jan 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
The Creation and Evolution of Entrepreneurial Public Markets
- Research Summary
The NYSE Trading Floor and Spatial Dependence in Stock Returns
The floor of the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) is organized by physical posts. Each post has at most thirty panels, and each panel tracks up to thirty stocks. I demonstrate that there is spatial dependence in return correlations. Specifically, returns for...
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- January 2009 (Revised December 2017)
- Case
Who Broke the Bank of England?
By: Niall Ferguson and Jonathan Schlefer
In the summer of 1992, hedge fund manager George Soros was contemplating the possibility that the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) would break down. Designed to pave the way for a full-scale European Monetary Union, the ERM was a system of fixed exchange rates...
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Keywords:
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Currency Exchange Rate;
Investment;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Financial Services Industry;
European Union
Ferguson, Niall, and Jonathan Schlefer. "Who Broke the Bank of England?" Harvard Business School Case 709-026, January 2009. (Revised December 2017.)
- December 2010 (Revised June 2018)
- Case
The Pecora Hearings
By: David Moss, Cole Bolton and Eugene Kintgen
In 1932, in the depths of the Great Depression, the Senate Banking Committee began a much-publicized investigation of the nation's financial sector. The hearings, which came to be known as the Pecora hearings after the Banking Committee's lead counsel Ferdinand Pecora,...
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Keywords:
Financial Crisis;
Fairness;
Borrowing and Debt;
Financial Institutions;
Debt Securities;
Stocks;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Government Legislation;
History;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Moss, David, Cole Bolton, and Eugene Kintgen. "The Pecora Hearings." Harvard Business School Case 711-046, December 2010. (Revised June 2018.)
- June 2003 (Revised January 2004)
- Case
The Euro-Dollar Decision (A)
By: Huw Pill, John C. Kelleher, Michael T. Nally and David Schlendorf
Explores the factors that determine floating exchange rates in the context of the introduction of the euro in January 1999.
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Pill, Huw, John C. Kelleher, Michael T. Nally, and David Schlendorf. "The Euro-Dollar Decision (A)." Harvard Business School Case 703-071, June 2003. (Revised January 2004.)
- 09 Jul 2019
- Video
Inside the Classroom
- March 2011 (Revised February 2012)
- Supplement
Cosmeticos de Espana, S.A. (E)
By: David F. Hawkins
Spanish parent company must decide on the Euro/BsF exchange rate to translate its Venezuelan subsidiary's financial statements into Euros.
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Keywords:
Financial Statements;
Business Subsidiaries;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Currency Exchange Rate;
Beauty and Cosmetics Industry;
Spain;
Venezuela
Hawkins, David F. "Cosmeticos de Espana, S.A. (E)." Harvard Business School Supplement 111-119, March 2011. (Revised February 2012.)
- September 1987 (Revised November 1992)
- Background Note
Note on Transaction and Translation Exposure
By: W. Carl Kester and Richard P. Melnick
Describes the transaction and translation exposures that companies doing business internationally face when foreign exchange rates change. Also discusses how to measure and cover both types of exposure. Covering techniques are demonstrated using examples of forward...
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Kester, W. Carl, and Richard P. Melnick. "Note on Transaction and Translation Exposure." Harvard Business School Background Note 288-017, September 1987. (Revised November 1992.)
- May 2008
- Article
Regulation and Bonding: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Flow of International Listings
By: Suraj Srinivasan and Joseph Piotroski
In this paper, we examine the economic impact of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) by analyzing foreign listing behavior onto U.S. and U.K. stock exchanges before and after the enactment of the Act in 2002. Using a sample of all listing events onto U.S. and U.K. exchanges...
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Keywords:
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Stocks;
Government Legislation;
Market Transactions;
Motivation and Incentives;
United Kingdom;
United States
Srinivasan, Suraj, and Joseph Piotroski. "Regulation and Bonding: The Sarbanes-Oxley Act and the Flow of International Listings." Journal of Accounting Research 46, no. 2 (May 2008).
- 01 Apr 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Opting Out of Good Governance
- 30 Mar 2021
- Working Paper Summaries
Kidney Exchange: An Operations Perspective
- Nov 30 2017
- Testimonial
Developing a Broader Vision of Real Estate
- September 1987 (Revised November 1992)
- Background Note
Note on Operating Exposure to Exchange-Rate Changes
By: Timothy A. Luehrman
Describes the effects on operating cash flows of a real change in exchange rates. Describes different elements of operating exposure and includes illustrative examples.
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Luehrman, Timothy A. "Note on Operating Exposure to Exchange-Rate Changes." Harvard Business School Background Note 288-018, September 1987. (Revised November 1992.)
- Research Summary
"Modeling B2B Exchanges" (with Gabor Fath)
B2B exchanges are revolutionizing the way businesses will buy and sell a variety of intermediary products and services. It is estimated that most of the roughly $7 trillion worth of business transactions are likely to go through these new institutions within the next...
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- January 1994 (Revised July 1994)
- Case
Dell Computer Corporation
By: Peter Tufano
Tina Chen, chief investment officer of a large insurance company, hears accusations by a Kidder Peabody equity research analyst that Dell Computer Corp. might be improperly accounting for what he suspects are large foreign exchange losses resulting from speculation....
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Keywords:
International Accounting;
Financial Instruments;
Ethics;
Financial Statements;
Computer Industry;
United States
Tufano, Peter, and Jon Headley. "Dell Computer Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 294-051, January 1994. (Revised July 1994.)
- March 2003 (Revised June 2003)
- Case
International Securities Exchange, The: New Ground in Options Markets
This case examines the equity options market and studies the major parties involved and the options trading process. It takes an in-depth look at the path taken by the International Securities Exchange as it entered a mature exchange industry and transformed itself...
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Chacko, George C., and Eli Strick. "International Securities Exchange, The: New Ground in Options Markets." Harvard Business School Case 203-063, March 2003. (Revised June 2003.)
- Jul 09 2019
- Short Film
Inside the Classroom
- December 2007
- Article
Regional Health Information Organizations: Current Activities and Financing
Electronic clinical data exchange promises substantial financial and societal benefits, but it is unclear whether and when it will become widespread. In early 2007 we surveyed 145 regional health information organizations (RHIOs), the U.S. entities working to establish...
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Keywords:
Information Technology;
Financing and Loans;
Health Care and Treatment;
Information Management;
Health Industry;
United States
Adler-Milstein, Julia Rose, Andrew McAfee, David Bates, and Ashish Jha. "Regional Health Information Organizations: Current Activities and Financing." Web Exclusive Health Affairs (December 2007): w60–w69.
- December 2001
- Case
Dairy.com
By: Ray A. Goldberg and James M Beagle
Dairy.com's ecommerce exchange attempts to provide value to the dairy industry through price discovery mechanisms.
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