Publications

01 Mar 2009
News

Damon Silvers

to restructure home mortgages in a manner homeowners can afford is at the heart of our financial crisis. We have paid a terrible price for not addressing the foreclosure crisis at its inception, but it is... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Transportation

15 Nov 2020
News

Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint

in the report Restarting Under Uncertainty. “We learned how firms are approaching tremendous uncertainty. This crisis has created an opportunity for many companies to renew their commitment to customers, suppliers, and employees. Others... View Details

Forthcoming
Article

The Evolution of Banking in the 21st Century: Evidence and Regulatory Implications

By: Samuel Gregory Hanson, Victoria Ivashina, Laura Nicolae, Jeremy C. Stein, Adi Sunderam and Daniel K. Tarullo

As revealed by the failures of three regional banks in the spring of 2023, bank runs are not a thing of the past. To inform the ongoing discussion of the appropriate regulatory response, we examine trends in the banking industry over the last twenty-five years. On the... View Details

Keywords: Financial Instruments; Financial Crisis; Assets; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Financial Condition; Banking Industry

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01 Dec 2009
News

An Action Plan for Economic Recovery

POZEN: Offers a plan for overhauling the U.S. financial system to avoid a repeat of the recent market meltdown. Most books about the nation’s financial crisis tell us what... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

13 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Global Investments Are Still a Good Bet

sectors that are booming. However, as markets in different countries have increasingly moved in tandem or correlated, from 50 or 60 percent in the 1990s to more than 90 percent after the financial crisis of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

September 1998 (Revised December 1998)
Case

Infinity Carpets, Inc.

By: Ronald W. Moore and Thomas R. Piper

A turnaround expert must determine whether a firm in distress is worth more as a going concern than its liquidation value. If so, the finances of the firm must be restructured in a way consistent with the bargaining power of the holders of the various securities. The... View Details

Keywords: Restructuring; Borrowing and Debt; Financial Liquidity; Crisis Management; Value; Apparel and Accessories Industry

07 Sep 2021
News

Embracing Activism for Social Change

behavioral health professionals in situations where their expertise would make a critical difference in resolving crisis situations, or even preventing them in the first place,” explains 2020–2021 HBS Leadership Fellow Sarika Mendu (MBA... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

07 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

The Rise of Personalized Entrepreneurial Finance and Other VC Trends

such an in-demand course and pursuit for recent MBAs? A: I don’t think there’s an easy answer. Things in society tend to be popular or unpopular at different times, and student enrollments tend to reflect that. There was a lot of interest in structuring View Details

Keywords: Re: Josh Lerner; Financial Services; Financial Services

March 2004 (Revised November 2004)
Case

Great Depression, Mass Unemployment, and Business Leadership, The

Explores the texture of mass unemployment during the Great Depression in the United States. Business leaders offer assessments of the Great Depression and the New Deal. View Details

Keywords: History; Employment; Financial Crisis; United States

05 May 2009
First Look

First Look: May 5, 2009

during the Asian financial crisis from 1997 to the end of 1998. Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708001 E Ink in 2008 Harvard... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Nov 2020
News

The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises

2008 Financial Crisis ultimately found more interesting career paths than some of the previous sort of standard choices that we’d all thought about. I think there was a lot... View Details

07 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Market Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies

The steep market drop in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis is being used as a laboratory to study the importance of companies investing in stakeholder relations with their employees, suppliers, and customers, and how those investments could be strategic resources... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services

07 May 2013
First Look

First Look: May 7

Publications 2006 Review of Financial Studies Unstable Equity: Combining Banking with Private Equity Investing By: Fang, Lily H., Victoria Ivashina, and Josh Lerner Abstract—Bank-affiliated private equity groups account for 30% of all... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

24 Apr 2014
News

Ensuring success through education

opened its first campus in 2008 and its second in 2011. “There are many businesses that are born and die. A university is supposed to live forever,” says the founder and chairman of FiBA Group, a multibillion-dollar portfolio of... View Details

July 2007 (Revised January 2008)
Case

Andrea Jung: Empowering Avon Women (A)

By: William W. George, Diana Mayer and Andrew N. McLean

In October 2005 Andrea Jung is coping with a 30% decline in Avon's stock price--the biggest test of her leadership since she became CEO in 2000. View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Price; Stocks; Crisis Management; Gender

2005
Article

Thai Firms' Adaptations Following the Asian Economic Crisis: Market Orientation, Innovativeness and Organizational Culture Five Years After

By: Rohit Deshpandé and John U. Farley

Keywords: Business Ventures; Financial Crisis; Markets; Innovation and Invention; Organizational Culture; Thailand

January 1990 (Revised June 1993)
Case

Colgate-Palmolive in Mexico (Abridged)

Describes the Mexican subsidiary of Colgate-Palmolive as it sets its strategy for coping with hyperinflation and the November 1987 devaluation of the peso. View Details

Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Financial Crisis; Consumer Products Industry; Mexico