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    Mihir A. Desai

    Mihir A. Desai is the Mizuho Financial Group Professor of Finance at Harvard Business School and a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School. He received his Ph.D. in political economy from Harvard... View Details

      Gunnar Trumbull

      Gunnar Trumbull is the Phillip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

      Professor Trumbull’s primary area of expertise in political economy, with a focus on consumer and regulatory politics. His book Strength in... View Details

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      • March 1992 (Revised December 1992)
      • Case

      Salomon and the Treasury Securities Auction

      By: Dwight B. Crane
      Set in June 1991, two months prior to Salomon Brothers' announcement that the firm had violated the Treasury Department's rules governing the auctions of new Treasury securities. Salomon Vice Chairman John Meriwether must decide how to address problems that continue to... View Details
      Keywords: Debt Securities; Managerial Roles; Ethics; Market Transactions; Bonds; Investment Banking; Crisis Management; Auctions; Legal Liability; Banking Industry
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      • November 2009 (Revised June 2012)
      • Supplement

      Crisis and Reform in Japan's Banking System (B)

      By: Thierry Porte, Rawi E. Abdelal, Laura Alfaro and Jonathan Schlefer
      In 1997, amidst Japan's ongoing financial problems, Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto sought to restructure the financial sector to make it more transparent and globally competitive. He hoped that this effort, dubbed the "Big Bang" after the British financial... View Details
      Keywords: History; Adaptation; Policy; Globalized Markets and Industries; Financial Crisis; Business and Government Relations; Macroeconomics; Restructuring; Global Strategy; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; Japan
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      • February 2001 (Revised April 2001)
      • Case

      Warnaco Group, Inc. (A)

      By: David F. Hawkins
      Warnaco's history of nonrecurring charges is traced from 1990 through 2000 along with the stock market and security analysts' response to these charges. Teaching Purpose: To expose students to the accounting for a variety of new recurring accounting items. View Details
      Keywords: Financial Statements; Financial Reporting; Restructuring; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Retail Industry
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      • 2017
      • Working Paper

      Salience through Information Technology: The Effect of Balance Availability on the Smoothing of SNAP Benefits

      By: Andrew Hillis
      Recipients of the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) run out of most benefits before halfway through a benefit deposit cycle. I study the introduction of a mobile software application, Fresh EBT, that enables beneficiaries to check their available balance... View Details
      Keywords: Mobile Technology; Welfare or Wellbeing; Technology Adoption; Behavior
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      • May 2008 (Revised June 2008)
      • Case

      Kenny Kahn at Muzak (A)

      By: Linda A. Hill and Emily Stecker
      Founded in 1934, Muzak pioneered the industry of background music. Equipped with propriety technology and a vast music library, over the ensuing decades the Muzak franchise organization expanded geographically. Despite a history of innovation, by the late 1990s Muzak... View Details
      Keywords: Change Management; Design; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Brands and Branding; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Franchise Ownership; Music Industry
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      • October 2018 (Revised August 2023)
      • Case

      Safecast: Bootstrapping Human Capital to Big Data

      By: Ethan Bernstein and Stephanie Marton
      On March 11, 2011, at 2:46pm, a 9.1-on-the-Richter-scale, six-minute long earthquake unleashed a tsunami that ravaged the Tohoku region of Japan, damaging the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power facility and releasing sufficient radioactive material into the air and ocean... View Details
      Keywords: Citizen Science; Creative Commons; Open Data; Open Architecture; Volunteer-based Organization; Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Facility; 311; Nuclear; Radiation; Crowdsourcing; Bgeigie; Geiger Counters; Kickstarter; Sustainability; Sustainable Business And Innovation; Design; Energy Generation; Social Entrepreneurship; Human Capital; Innovation and Invention; Crisis Management; Organizational Structure; Organizational Design; Information Technology; Business Model; Energy Industry; Technology Industry; Japan; North and Central America; Europe
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      • 07 Dec 1999
      • Research & Ideas

      Henry Heinz and Brand Creation in the Late Nineteenth Century

      working to expand a fledgling business operating in a new, as yet largely undefined, market. Heinz and Noble believed that they had no time to lose. To make the most of the opportunity they saw before them, they would have to use their limited View Details
      Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn
      • October 2001 (Revised January 2002)
      • Case

      OAO YUKOS Oil Company

      By: Malcolm S. Salter and Joshua N. Rosenbaum
      This case presents the history and current position of Russia's second-largest oil company, YUKOS, as it seeks listing on the NYSE as an ADR and attempts to rid itself from a punishing "governance discount" by the capital markets. This is a company with a history of... View Details
      Keywords: Stocks; Capital Markets; Corporate Governance; Developing Countries and Economies; Energy Sources; Energy Industry; Russia
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      • 1987
      • Book

      Banking and Oil

      By: Geoffrey Jones
      This is the second of two volumes of a business history of a major British bank in the Middle East. Volume 1 traces the history of the bank from its foundation in 1889 as The Imperial Bank of Persia, through the years it was the state bank of Iran, and its... View Details
      Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Economics; Banks and Banking; Government and Politics; Growth and Development; Business History; Problems and Challenges; Iran; Jordan; Kuwait; Oman; Dubai
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      • November 2006 (Revised May 2014)
      • Case

      Li Ka-Shing and the Growth of Cheung Kong

      By: Nitin Nohria, Anthony J. Mayo and Mark Benson
      Events in the history of Cheung Kong's growth reveal how Li Ka-Shing applied his skills as a "first-class noticer" to complex political and socioeconomic environments. While Li's determination to succeed is legendary, so are his skills in reading and responding to the... View Details
      Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Competency and Skills; Decision Choices and Conditions; Investment Portfolio; Business History; Leadership; Personal Development and Career; Hong Kong
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      • 23 Apr 2020
      • Research & Ideas

      This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money

      As the US Congress prepares to replenish its Paycheck Protection Program for small businesses, questions still linger: Do guaranteed loans for small businesses work in the long term? Who wins? Employees? Businesses? Taxpayers? The answer appears to be yes for all... View Details
      Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services
      • Research Summary

      Overview

      Dr. Sheth's research focuses on Indian political economy and social history from the sixteenth century to the contemporary, concentrating on the relationship between business households, financial capital, landed rights, and the dissolution and formation of states.... View Details
      • January 1997 (Revised March 1997)
      • Case

      Crisis at the Federal Reserve: Arthur Burns and the Stagflation of 1973-75

      By: David A. Moss and Wyatt C. Wells
      Briefly examines the history of the Federal Reserve System up through 1970 and then delves into how the central bank, under the leadership of Arthur F. Burns, responded to the "stagflation" of the early 1970s. It culminates with the Federal Reserve's response to the... View Details
      Keywords: Central Banking; Inflation and Deflation; Government Administration; Financial Crisis; United States
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      • April 1993 (Revised September 1996)
      • Case

      General Mills, Inc.: Analyzing an Annual Report

      By: William J. Bruns Jr. and Marc H. Zablatsky
      A directed analysis of the General Mills 1992 Annual Report. Focuses on the basics of reading an annual report including analysis of financial statements, calculations of financial ratios, and study of the layout and message of an annual report. View Details
      Keywords: History; Cost Management; Activity Based Costing and Management; Financial Statements; Financial Strategy
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      • May 1998 (Revised October 1998)
      • Case

      Teleswitch (A)

      Describes the financing history of Teleswitch, a maker of small digital telephone switches for the wireless/cellular industry. As the case ends, Teleswitch is revisiting its selection of an investment banker for its hoped-for IPO. A rewritten version of an earlier... View Details
      Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Investment Banking; Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Wireless Technology; Manufacturing Industry; Telecommunications Industry
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      • 17 May 2010
      • Research & Ideas

      What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection

      The current debate in the United States about how to regulate Wall Street focuses on laws, regulations, and monitoring. But lawmakers may want to look to history for guidance, to Brazil 100 years ago, when transparent governance and... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Financial Services
      • November 2005 (Revised October 2012)
      • Case

      The MCI Takeover Battle: Verizon versus Qwest

      By: Malcolm P. Baker and James Quinn
      MCI's board of directors is considering competing bids from Verizon and Qwest. Qwest, a smaller company with a weaker balance sheet, is offering almost a billion dollars more. But Verizon, one of the largest telecommunications companies in the world, has a history of... View Details
      Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Decision Choices and Conditions; Capital Markets; Financial Strategy; Governing and Advisory Boards; Valuation; Telecommunications Industry; United States
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      • 19 Nov 2019
      • Op-Ed

      Gender Bias Complaints against Apple Card Signal a Dark Side to Fintech

      Apple Card marked another significant innovation in access to financial services. Fast forward two months, and Apple Card may now find its place in history for a less positive reason—the dark side of the... View Details
      Keywords: by Karen G. Mills; Financial Services