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- Chapter
Management Turnover and Financial Distress
By: S. C. Gilson
Gilson, S. C. "Management Turnover and Financial Distress." In Bankruptcy Anthology, edited by Charles Tabb. Cincinnati: Anderson Publishing Company, 2002.
- 15 Aug 2007
- Op-Ed
3 Steps to Reduce Financial System Risk
advances in what is called "credit risk transfer" technology have lowered the vulnerability of the international financial system to any individual bank crisis. There has been less discussion about where the transferred risk has... View Details
- 2017
- Other Teaching and Training Material
Financial Accounting Reading: Basic Accounting Concepts and Assumptions
By: David F. Hawkins
Core Curriculum Readings in Financial Accounting cover the fundamental concepts in financial accounting. The objective of this reading is to enhance the student's understanding of the nature of the information that general purpose financial reports provide. This goal... View Details
Keywords: Accounting
Hawkins, David F. "Financial Accounting Reading: Basic Accounting Concepts and Assumptions." Core Curriculum Readings Series. Harvard Business Publishing 5060, 2017.
- July 2002 (Revised September 2002)
- Case
Competition in Japanese Financial Markets, 2002 (Abridged)
By: Tarun Khanna
In early 2002, Japan, the world's largest economy, had been mired in a decade-long recession. A range of stimulus packages had failed to work their magic. The "Big Bang" financial deregulation reforms announced in 1998 had not quite produced the economic boom that the... View Details
Keywords: Competition; Financial Markets; Global Strategy; Financial Crisis; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; Japan
Khanna, Tarun. "Competition in Japanese Financial Markets, 2002 (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 703-407, July 2002. (Revised September 2002.)
- January 2008 (Revised May 2008)
- Case
Subprime Meltdown: American Housing and Global Financial Turmoil
By: Julio Rotemberg
This case focuses on the financial difficulties faced in the U.S. from August to December 2006 as well as their roots in subprime lending. After briefly discussing how mortgages were structured and traded in the pre-1990 period, it describes subprime mortgage lending,... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Central Banking; Financial Markets; Mortgages; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; United States
Rotemberg, Julio. "Subprime Meltdown: American Housing and Global Financial Turmoil." Harvard Business School Case 708-042, January 2008. (Revised May 2008.)
- Teaching Interest
Information in Financial Markets (Econ 970, Spring 2016)
Second-year undergraduate course covering various aspects of information propagation in financial markets. The course is divided into four units. We begin by covering canonical pricing anomalies that illustrate the importance of information distribution and... View Details
- 2014
- Working Paper
Corporate Financial Policies in Misvalued Credit Markets
By: Jarrad Harford, Marc Martos-Vila and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
We theoretically and empirically investigate the repercussions of credit market misvaluation for a firm's borrowing and investment decisions. Using an ex-post measure of the accuracy of credit ratings to capture debt market misvaluation, we find evidence that firms... View Details
Harford, Jarrad, Marc Martos-Vila, and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf. "Corporate Financial Policies in Misvalued Credit Markets." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 14-097, April 2014.
- April 1992 (Revised October 1996)
- Case
Roosevelt Financial Group, Inc. (A)
By: Mary E. Barth and Krishna G. Palepu
Keywords: Financial Services Industry
Barth, Mary E., and Krishna G. Palepu. "Roosevelt Financial Group, Inc. (A)." Harvard Business School Case 192-138, April 1992. (Revised October 1996.)
- March 1991 (Revised May 1991)
- Case
Charles Schwab: Financial Advisors Service
Wheelwright, Steven C. "Charles Schwab: Financial Advisors Service." Harvard Business School Case 691-072, March 1991. (Revised May 1991.)
- 2014
- Article
Corporate Governance and the Financial Crisis in Italy
By: Dante Roscini
The financial crisis hit Italy harder than many other Eurozone countries. In part this was due to the fact that the crisis came upon a system that was weakened by years of sub-par economic growth. One of the several endogenous factors that explain the stagnation of the... View Details
Roscini, Dante. "Corporate Governance and the Financial Crisis in Italy." Journal of Modern Italian Studies 19, no. 4 (2014): 389–395.
- 23 Apr 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Corporate Financial Policies in Misvalued Credit Markets
- June 2004
- Teaching Note
First Commonwealth Financial Corporation (TN)
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Teaching Note to (9-104-042). View Details
- 2008
- Working Paper
Liquidity Needs in Economies with Interconnected Financial Obligations
By: Julio J. Rotemberg
A model is developed where firms in a financial system have to settle their debts to each other by using a liquid asset. The question that is studied is how many firms must obtain how much of this asset from outside the financial system to make sure that all debts... View Details
Rotemberg, Julio J. "Liquidity Needs in Economies with Interconnected Financial Obligations." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 14222, August 2008.
- April 2019
- Article
Private Equity and Financial Fragility during the Crisis
By: Shai Bernstein, Josh Lerner and Filippo Mezzanotti
Do private equity firms contribute to financial fragility during economic crises? We find that during the 2008 financial crisis, PE-backed companies increased investments relative to their peers, while also experiencing greater equity and debt inflows. The effects are... View Details
Bernstein, Shai, Josh Lerner, and Filippo Mezzanotti. "Private Equity and Financial Fragility during the Crisis." Review of Financial Studies 32, no. 4 (April 2019): 1309–1373. (Earlier version distributed as National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 23626 and Harvard Business School Working Paper No. 18-005.)
- November 1984 (Revised October 1986)
- Case
Financial Corp. of America (B)
Jones, E. Philip. "Financial Corp. of America (B)." Harvard Business School Case 285-021, November 1984. (Revised October 1986.)
- September 2019
- Teaching Plan
Financial Inclusion at Omidyar Network
By: Vikram S. Gandhi and James Barnett
Teaching Note for HBS No. 218-069. View Details
- September 2018
- Supplement
Prudential Financial and Asset-Liability Management
- 1993
- Book
Financial Services: Perspectives and Challenges
Hayes, Samuel L., III, ed. Financial Services: Perspectives and Challenges. Boston, MA: Harvard Business School Press, 1993.
- 01 Sep 2016
- Cold Call Podcast
Behind Apple's Tax Situation, an Unprecedented Financial Policy
- 2010
- Book
The Squam Lake Report: Fixing the Financial System
In the fall of 2008, fifteen of the world's leading economists-representing the broadest spectrum of economic opinion-gathered at New Hampshire's Squam Lake. Their goal: the mapping of a long-term plan for financial regulation reform. The Squam Lake... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Financial Markets; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business and Government Relations
Scharfstein, David S., as part of the Squam Lake Working Group. The Squam Lake Report: Fixing the Financial System. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010.