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  • 01 Oct 1996
  • News

Tedlow on Tires and the Meaning of Life

as original equipment, therefore, that was the signal for tire companies either to insist on higher prices to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) -- prices that would not be easy to obtain, or to sell... View Details
  • June 2007
  • Article

Risk Management, Capital Budgeting and Capital Structure Policy for Insurers and Reinsurers

By: K. A. Froot
Keywords: Risk Management; Capital Budgeting; Cost of Capital; Policy; Insurance; Asset Pricing; Insurance Industry
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  • November 2016 (Revised March 2018)
  • Case

Deutsche Bank: Structured Retail Products

By: Boris Vallée and Jérôme Lenhardt
Describes how Deutsche Bank, a leading European bank, is deciding whether or not to launch a new structured retail product in Germany: an autocallable note. Will this product find a market and how does it fit into the bank’s product portfolio? The case investigates how... View Details
Keywords: Structured Products; Structured Retail Products; Germany; Auto Callable Note; Financial Product; Financial Product Development; Financial Product Marketing; Financial Product Launch; Financial Product Positioning; Finance; Assets; Asset Pricing; Asset Management; Capital Markets; Financial Institutions; Banks and Banking; Commercial Banking; Financial Instruments; Annuities; Bonds; Stocks; Financial Management; Financial Markets; Financial Strategy; Interest Rates; Investment
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  • 01 Dec 2002
  • News

Mary Callahan Erdoes

even in the womb!” explains Erdoes, who heads global investments for the private bank of J.P. Morgan Chase & Company. Her job puts her in charge of more than $200 billion in assets, managed on behalf of an exclusive group of private clients, most with View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • 23 Jan 2008
  • Op-Ed

A House Divided: Investment or Shelter?

that this economic juggernaut carries risk. Investors know that the price of all assets rise and fall. In much of the country, home prices are falling. Soon the dictionary,... View Details
Keywords: by Nicolas P. Retsinas; Banking; Construction; Real Estate
  • January 1998
  • Case

Meinhard v. Salmon: Court of Appeals of New York (1928)

By: Henry B. Reiling
Meinhard and Salmon were joint venturers who had a 20-year lease on the Hotel Bristol in New York City. Salmon was the managing party. Four months before the lease was to end, the owner approached Salmon and offered to lease all the property, of which the Bristol was... View Details
Keywords: Lawsuits and Litigation; Joint Ventures; Partners and Partnerships; Decisions; Asset Pricing; Leasing; New York (city, NY)
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  • Article

Optimal Value and Growth Tilts in Long-Horizon Portfolios

By: Jakub W. Jurek and Luis M. Viceira
We develop an analytical solution to the dynamic portfolio choice problem of an investor with power utility defined over wealth at a finite horizon, who faces a time-varying investment opportunity set, parameterized using a flexible vector autoregression. We apply this... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Private Equity; Investment; Investment Portfolio; Asset Pricing; Value
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  • 17 Nov 2015
  • Lessons from the Classroom

How Activist Investors Became Respectable

oversees more than $16 billion. Compare these figures with data from 2003, when the entire asset class consisted of only a handful of funds managing about $12 billion. Activist investors, once considered Wall Street outcasts, are now... View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Fuller; Financial Services; Banking
  • 02 Mar 2015
  • Research & Ideas

‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat

barring radical changes, stores with long-term leases are largely at the mercy of the deteriorations in same-store sales and gross margin caused by eCommerce. As brick-and-mortar sales per store decline, fixed assets become less... View Details
Keywords: Re: Rajiv Lal; Retail
  • 04 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 4

now own over 80% of banking assets in Mexico, and we show how, using a political economy model and a series of econometric tests, this has helped to stabilize the system and reduced non-performance loans, but it has also increased the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 1, 2016

their demand for a risky asset by weighing two signals: an average of the asset’s past price changes and the asset’s degree of overvaluation. The two signals are in conflict, and investors “waver” over time... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Mar 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The New Real Estate

2001, real estate has become a legitimate asset class and a good diversifier from stocks and bonds. Second, with graying populations in the West and Japan, real estate is particularly appreciated because it is a strong generator of... View Details
Keywords: by Arthur I. Segel; Construction; Real Estate
  • January 2010 (Revised October 2011)
  • Case

The Congressional Oversight Panel's Valuation of the TARP Warrants (A)

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
The Congressional Oversight Panel wants to value the warrants issued to the government in connection with the TARP investments of 2008, in order to increase the transparency of options repurchases. The case describes the methodology used to value the warrants. Students... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Asset Pricing; Financial Instruments; Investment; Business and Government Relations; Mathematical Methods; Valuation; Banking Industry; Public Administration Industry; United States
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  • March 2006
  • Module Note

Exchange Rates and Global Markets

By: Mihir A. Desai and Kathleen Luchs
Describes the first module of the International Finance course at Harvard Business School. This introductory module focuses on the concepts and skills that students need throughout a course on international finance: a familiarity with exchange rates and associated... View Details
Keywords: Asset Pricing; Currency Exchange Rate; Globalized Markets and Industries; International Finance; Teaching; Innovation and Invention; Education Industry
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  • 29 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 29

  Publications August 2013 Journal of Financial Economics X-CAPM: An Extrapolative Capital Asset Pricing Model By: Barberis, Nicholas, Robin Greenwood, Lawrence Jin, and Andrei Shleifer Abstract—Survey... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 29

http://www.francescagino.com/uploads/4/7/4/7/4747506/gino_shea_deception_chapter_2012.pdf Stock Price Fragility Authors:Robin Greenwood and David Thesmar Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We investigate the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Sep 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

"It isn't clear it's a bailout at all. It may in fact be a very profitable investment. And at what price are the assets to be purchased? You see, it's actually needn't be a bailout proposal at all. It's... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • 24 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 24

deposits from one intermediary to another. Regulatory policies, including deposit insurance, minimum capital requirements, and restrictions on the assets held by depository institutions can increase the ex ante welfare of depositors.  ... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 May 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Why Companies Should Compete for Your Privacy

Consumers are increasingly wary about sharing personal information with firms. Yet when they benefit from providing information in exchange for lower prices or better services, many consumers will gladly make the privacy trade-off. But... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Consumer Products
  • 21 Oct 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Missing the Wave in Ship Transport

shipping prices—and subsequent collapse—in the late 2000s," Greenwood recalls. "As researchers in asset pricing and behavioral finance, and interested in bubbles more broadly, we simply wanted to understand... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Transportation