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  • October 2020 (Revised March 2022)
  • Case

Automercados Plaza's: Surviving Venezuela's Hyperinflation

By: Alberto Cavallo, Mariana Cal and Carla Larangeira
Under the rule of presidents Hugo Chávez and Nicolas Maduro, Venezuela experienced one of the worst economic and political meltdowns in modern history, culminating with a massive hyperinflation. Remarkably, during this dramatic times Automercados Plaza's had grown to... View Details
Keywords: Hyperinflation; Populism; Inflation and Deflation; Macroeconomics; Management; Strategy; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business and Government Relations; Retail Industry; South America; Venezuela
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  • January 1998 (Revised June 1999)
  • Case

German Hyperinflation of 1923, The

By: David A. Moss and Julio J. Rotemberg
Presents a compilation of primary and secondary sources as well as a set of data exhibits on the German hyperinflation of 1923. The hyperinflation represented a defining moment in German history and certainly one of the two or three most important economic events of... View Details
Keywords: History; Price; Production; Money; Inflation and Deflation; Policy; Economy; Government and Politics; Germany
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  • March 2022
  • Teaching Note

Automercados Plaza's: Surviving Venezuela's Hyperinflation

By: Alberto Cavallo
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 721-014. View Details
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  • March 2001
  • Teaching Note

German Hyperinflation of 1923, The TN

By: David A. Moss and Julio J. Rotemberg
Teaching Note for (1-798-048). View Details
Keywords: Germany
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  • October 2014 (Revised February 2017)
  • Case

A Currency We Can Call Our Own: Populism, Banking Crises, and Exchange Rate Crises in Argentina, 1946–2002

By: Rafael Di Tella
The case describes Argentina's struggle to establish a credible monetary system under populist pressures and the recurrent use of exchange rate stabilization plans. It focuses on two episodes where there was "too little money" in the economy: during the hyperinflation... View Details
Keywords: Debt Crisis; Hyperinflation; Financial Crisis; Inflation and Deflation; Currency Exchange Rate; Argentina
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  • 18 Nov 2019
  • Video

Alberto Grimoldi

Alberto Grimoldi, head of the Grimoldi Group, in Argentina, describes the ways the company successfully managed the era of hyperinflation beginning in 1989. View Details
  • 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
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  • January 2008
  • Case

The Deutsche Bank (A)

By: David A. Moss
Founded in 1870 to help finance surging German exports and imports, the Deutsche Bank soon moved into domestic banking. In fact, its founders aimed to create both a commercial bank and an investment bank under one roof—that is, a "universal bank." By the end of the... View Details
Keywords: History; Investment Banking; Commercial Banking; Banking Industry; Germany
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  • 01 Oct 1998
  • News

Going Against the Flow

Brazil was defaulting on its overseas debt and hyperinflation was running rampant. Somehow, amid the country's financial fracasso, Jakurski sensed opportunity. "With inflation at times increasing 2 percent daily," he recalls, "we would... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
  • 01 Dec 2010
  • News

Additional alumni books for your consideration.

Customer: New Rules for Winning in a Time-Starved, Always-Connected Economy by Adrian C. Ott (MBA ’87) (Harper Business) 101 Things I Learned in Business School by Michael W. Preis (MBA ’72) and Matthew Frederick (Grand Central Publishing) How to Protect Your Life... View Details
Keywords: Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
  • 03 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 3

use of exchange rate stabilization plans. It focuses on two episodes where there was "too little money" in the economy: during the hyperinflation episodes during the late 1980s, when money demand collapsed, and the early 2000s,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 22, 2008

European market and, indeed, in the world economy. Over the first half of the twentieth century, however, the bank faced a series of national crises: defeat in WWI (1914-1918), revolution in 1919, hyperinflation in 1923, economic... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace