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- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
gaining ground in banking. In light of the recent financial crisis, several commentators concluded that the continuing expansion of risk measurement is dysfunctional (Power, 2009; Taleb, 2007). This paper asks whether the expansion of measurement-based risk management... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Watching for the Next Economic Downturn? Follow Corporate Debt
than households. Once banks are forced to cope with that load of unpaid debt, historically, the consequences amplify, says Ivashina, the Lovett-Learned Professor of Business Administration and Finance Unit... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 28 Mar 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, March 28
leaving questions about future procurement. Finally, Amul's farmers form a large vote bank in the state of Gujarat, and its cooperative structure risks being compromised by vested political interests. Should... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
its currency. Investors started to flee Asia, and the crisis rapidly spread to other countries. Central banks spent billions of dollars to try and defend their currencies, only... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- March 1998
- Teaching Note
Chemical Bank: Implementing the Balanced Scorecard TN
By: Krishna G. Palepu and Kenneth A. Merchant
Teaching Note for (9-195-210). (Not listed on case). View Details
Keywords: Banking Industry
- 01 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Crowdfunding a Poor Investment?
for the Securities and Exchange Commission to pass rules that would allow for crowdfunding investment on a large scale. Already, companies have dipped their toes into crowdfunding through websites such as Kickstarter, Indiegogo, View Details
- 23 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 23
credit because they have been taught that access to credit is welfare promoting. This perception emerged from a historical coalition between commercial banks and NGOs that promoted credit as the solution to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
Case 709-017 Despite a tradition of high household savings, Japan has supported a dynamic and technically sophisticated consumer-lending sector. The high profitability of the sector has periodically attracted interest from domestic View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Bridges: New Dimensions in Negotiation
Kennecott also arranged for an Export-Import Bank loan plus U.S. political risk insurance. The mine's output would then be sold to North American and European industrial customers under long-term supply... View Details
Keywords: by Anita M. Harris
- 27 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere
Near the Guatemalan border in Mexico's Chiapas region, sandwiched between the Sierra Madres and the Pacific Ocean, there's a fertile pocket of land called the Soconusco. While once a hotbed of cacao production for the Aztecs View Details
- 05 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 5, 2007
competitors. Virgin Mobile USA, for example, has lured millions of angry cell phone customers away from the incumbents by offering a straightforward plan with no hidden fees, no time-of-day restrictions, and no contracts. ING Direct, now... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
then dominated by state owned companies. In some developing countries, officials were converted to the new beliefs. In other countries, officials were not so enthusiastic about the new ideology, but they found themselves cut off from other sources of finance as the... View Details
- September 2024 (Revised January 2025)
- Teaching Note
Leading Culture Change at SEB
By: Amy Edmondson and Cat Huang
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 621-074. The Risk organization at SEB, a leading Nordic financial services group founded in 1856, undertook a culture change program focused on psychological safety, empathic listening, and strategic framing. The program enabled risk... View Details
- August 2004 (Revised July 2005)
- Case
Allianz (D2): The Dresdner Transformation
By: Joseph L. Bower, Anders Sjoman and Sonja Ellingson Hout
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Bower, Joseph L., Anders Sjoman, and Sonja Ellingson Hout. "Allianz (D2): The Dresdner Transformation." Harvard Business School Case 305-017, August 2004. (Revised July 2005.)
- 21 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 21, 2008
banking industry and Garanti Bank's position within it, and asks students to consider whether partnership makes sense for Garanti and, if so, which bidder it should select.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Aug 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
The Manager's Guide to Leveraging Disruption
In 1995, Harvard Business School professors Clayton M. Christensen and Joseph L. Bower wrote a seminal article for Harvard Business Review, Disruptive Technologies: Catching the Wave. Those words launched the theory of disruptive... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
securities to retail investors. We focus on a large market of investment products targeted exclusively at households: retail-structured products in Europe. We hypothesize that banks strategically use product complexity to cater to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 06 Jan 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Should Management Deal With “Anonymous”?
hackers, organized theft by criminals, and efforts by international terrorists to target and shut down, or threaten to shut down, everything from bank accounts to nuclear... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Economics May Lead to Better Football Games
unraveling comes about for strategic reasons. For example, the HBS recruiting office regularly has to deal with investment banks and others that would like to make offers that expire before other offers... View Details
- 10 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 10
of physical infrastructure and workforce education are the strongest predictors of entry, with labor laws and household banking quality also playing important roles. Looking at... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne