Publications

01 Sep 2013
News

A Focus on You

alumni—some well-known and others not so familiar—who are doing important work in, say, education, or health care, or entrepreneurial ventures. With this edition, we've given the "focus" concept a spin: We're looking at the alumni... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

October 2005 (Revised September 2006)
Case

DentalCorp

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho

DentalCorp is the fifth largest provider of dental insurance in Brazil and has tripled its sales in the past two years. Whether to expand to Chile or to continue expansion in Brazil is the major strategic choice facing the company at the end of 2004. View Details

Keywords: International Finance; Expansion; Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Global Strategy; Insurance Industry; Health Industry; Brazil; Chile

March 2001 (Revised February 2004)
Case

Power to the States: "Fiscal Wars" for FDI in Brazil

By: Laura Alfaro, Yasheng Huang and Marios S. Kalochoritis

On January 6, 1999, Itamar Franco, the governor of the state of Minas Gerais, the second-largest state in Brazil, declared a 90-day moratorium on its debt payment to the federal government. The announcement triggered a run on the Brazilian currency, the Real, and... View Details

Keywords: International Relations; Investment; Financial Crisis; Borrowing and Debt; Brazil

May 2011
Case

Oriental Fortune Capital: Building a Better Stock Exchange

By: Josh Lerner and Keith Chi-ho Wong

When ChiNext opened in October 2009 as the second tier market of the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE), it aimed to provide Chinese entrepreneurs with equity capital and to facilitate the exits of venture capital firms and other investors which had previously relied on... View Details

Keywords: Capital Markets; Stocks; Financial Markets; Venture Capital; Private Equity; International Finance; Financial Services Industry; China

Fast Answer

Sustainability in VCPE & Investing

This is a part of Baker Library's Sustainability Research Guide. Background Readings Private Equity and Venture Capital’s Role in Catalyzing Sustainable Investment A paper from the International View Details

Profile

Mariano Bomaggio

more international perspective outside the U.S., maybe in Africa." When asked about his plans after graduation, Mariano confides that it's "a tough question! I want to keep learning, probably within the View Details

Keywords: Tech; Manufacturing/Energy

02 Jan 2014
News

The Power to Change

maintains close ties with professors who helped his development, including entrepreneurial finance Professor Joseph Lassiter, who recently invited Wilcox to help teach a class about nuclear energy. "There is... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli; Business and Environment Initiative; Scientific Research and Development Services

01 Jan 2013
News

Thomas A. James, MBA 1966

Entrepreneur Of The Year, Financial Services 2013 James Center for Molecular and Life Sciences opens at Eckerd College Tom James's entrepreneurial bent was apparent early on. An avid coin collector, at the age of 15 he began to buy and... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

August 2015
Article

Dollar Funding and the Lending Behavior of Global Banks

By: Victoria Ivashina, David S. Scharfstein and Jeremy C. Stein

A large share of dollar-denominated lending is done by non-U.S. banks, particularly European banks. We present a model in which such banks cut dollar lending more than euro lending in response to a shock to their credit quality. Because these banks rely on wholesale... View Details

Keywords: Banks; Global Banks; Credit Supply; Dollar Funding; International Finance; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry

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Print View - Course Catalog

3.0 Business Solutions for the Global Poor General Management, Marketing Kash Rangan Spring 2025 Q4 1.5 Business and Geopolitics Business, Government & the International Economy Jeremy Friedman Fall 2024 Q1 1.5 Business at the Base of the... View Details

September 2012 (Revised July 2013)
Case

Can the Eurozone Survive?

By: Dante Roscini and Jonathan Schlefer

The sovereign debt crisis that took Greece by storm in 2010 began to spread to other European markets. Within a few months Ireland and Portugal had also lost access to the sovereign debt markets and had to rely on supranational loans for their financing. The risk of... View Details

Keywords: Sovereign Debt Crisis; Currency Areas; Financial Crisis; Borrowing and Debt; Currency Exchange Rate; International Relations; Banking Industry; European Union; Germany; France; Italy; Spain; Greece; Portugal

July 2009 (Revised June 2010)
Case

Kim Park (A): Long-lived Nonmonetary Assets

By: David F. Hawkins

A series of caselets exploring the accounting for long-lived nonmonetary assets. View Details

Keywords: Accounting; Financial Reporting; International Accounting; Assets; Asset Management; Standards