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- October 2009 (Revised November 2011)
- Case
Citigroup-Wachovia-Wells Fargo
By: Guhan Subramanian and Nithyasri Sharma
In late September 2008, amidst the spiraling financial crisis, many firms on Wall Street were in a precarious position. One such institution was Wachovia, which entered acquisition talks with Citigroup and Wells Fargo. This case describes the development of these...
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Mergers and Acquisitions;
Financial Crisis;
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Managerial Roles;
Banking Industry;
United States
Subramanian, Guhan, and Nithyasri Sharma. "Citigroup-Wachovia-Wells Fargo." Harvard Business School Case 910-006, October 2009. (Revised November 2011.)
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Bozidar Djelic
central bank on rhythm guitar and Serbia's minister for foreign economic relations on lead vocals. Djelic himself, along with several other government ministers, sang back-up. According to the Wall Street...
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- 30 Apr 2012
- Research & Ideas
India’s Ambitious National Identification Program
entitled to receive. The case includes the story of one widow who couldn't cash a government check; she was unable to open a bank account because she lacked the proper documentation. "You are basically denied almost everything if you...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
Peter Brooks, and Patrick Kalaher Abstract Many recent studies highlight the need to rethink the way we manage innovation. Traditional approaches, based on the assumption that the creation and pursuit of new ideas is best accomplished by a View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 28 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 28
characterizations could be easily read to imply that one’s BATNA could not itself be a negotiated agreement. Second, and more seriously, common descriptions of one’s BATNA as the “best outside option, independent of the other side”...
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy - Course Catalog
explains dramatic events in the international economy, such as recurrent banking and financial crises in several countries. Much of this explanation focuses on the role of confidence, expectations, and crowd psychology. These factors...
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- May 2008 (Revised September 2014)
- Teaching Note
TD Canada Trust (A), (B), and (C)
By: Dennis Campbell
- Web
Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
Cornell Tech, Initiative 31 was established to: Make New York City the global hub of urban innovation. As part of her Independent Project, Zoe collaborated with the NYCEDC team to design a research-backed roadmap incorporating all...
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- 17 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 17
independent of the shortcomings in the regulatory system. Managers and boards of directors in scores of systemically important firms failed to protect employees, customers, or shareholders and placed the global financial system at risk. I...
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Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2021
- News
Leading for a Better World in Boston; Virtual Event Showcases Japan Fellowship
Clubs News Clubs News Boston Alumni Find Leadership Inspiration in Project Impact Series Hunger and food insecurity. Racial justice. Youth and education. These issues have served as the central organizing topics for Project Impact, the...
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Margie Kelley
- January 2004
- Case
Macroeconomic Policy and the State of the U.S. Economy, 2003
By: David A. Moss
Based on excerpts from Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on July 16, 2003, as well as economic data that were available to Chairman Greenspan at the time. Taken together, the text...
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- 28 Nov 2018
- Blog Post
Making the Switch from Finance to Fitness
“Fitness is your hobby. Finance is your career.” - Words so false that they changed my life. Finance After graduating from Yale University, I joined the fast-paced world of Foreign Exchange (FX) at a large US-based investment bank in New...
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Entertainment / Media / Sports
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Secondary Resources
Mortgage Debt on Homes Other Than Farm Homes at the Fourteenth Census, 1920 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1923). Ham, Arthur H. A Credit Union Primer; an Elementary Treatise on Cooperative Banking (New York City: Division...
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- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
Handbook for Banking and Governance, edited by James Barth, Chen Lin, and Clas Wihlborg. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming Abstract In this chapter, we examine the characteristics of acquisition of private firms by...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments
$38 trillion. Once again, the inexorable shift in demographics, combined with high and increasing healthcare costs, will result in a widening gap between tax intake and payment outflow for Medicare. On another front, the government is also on the hook for insuring...
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by Staff
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
control over the use of remittances. In partnership with a Salvadoran bank, we offered U.S.-based migrants from El Salvador bank accounts in their home country into which they could send remittances. We randomly varied migrant control...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
just adopted a "New Growth Path," hoping to create several million jobs over the next few years. Both the finance minister and the head of the Central Bank support the initiative but worry how they...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
Publication:American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract The central insight of asset pricing is that a security's value depends on both its distribution of payoffs across economic states and state prices. In fixed-income markets, many...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Faculty Research Looks to Latin America
Markets, International Finance, and Risk Management. His research is on a broad range of topics in finance and international economics. Current research: "Global Investor Portfolio Flows" using data from State Street Bank for...
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by Martha Lagace
- 02 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Once a Castle, Home is Now a Debtors’ Prison
textbooks. First, lenders can recognize the wisdom of short sales, accepting less than the face value of the mortgage. Currently banks do accept short sales but only after protracted negotiations. One advice columnist recently advised...
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