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  • 11 Sep 2020
  • Video

James Mwangi

James Mwangi, CEO of Kenya’s Equity Bank, which has one of the largest customer bases of any bank in Africa, explains the challenges faced by his bank as it expanded into neighboring countries, especially lack of infrastructure, security and politics View Details
  • September 2010 (Revised November 2010)
  • Case

J.P. Morgan Private Bank: Risk Management during the Financial Crisis 2008-2009

By: Anette Mikes, Clayton S. Rose and Aldo Sesia
Mary Erdoes, the CEO of JP Morgan's asset management business, and three colleagues provide insights into risk management issues faced by the firm's private bank during the financial crisis in 2008–2009. The case provides perspective on the philosophy with which they... View Details
Keywords: Judgments; Financial Crisis; Globalized Firms and Management; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Risk Management; Mathematical Methods; Banking Industry; United States
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    Dwight B. Crane

    Mr. Crane was a member of the Finance Faculty at Harvard Business School for a number of years, working primarily in the field of financial institutions and corporate governance.  He taught in the MBA and executive education programs at the School, most recently... View Details

    • January 2013 (Revised October 2014)
    • Case

    Barclays and the LIBOR Scandal

    By: Clayton S. Rose and Aldo Sesia
    In June of 2012, Barclays plc admitted that it had manipulated LIBOR—a benchmark interest rate that was fundamental to the operation of international financial markets and that was the basis for trillions of dollars of financial transactions. Between 2005 and 2009... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Systems; Financial Services; Corruption; Regulation; General Management; Management; Leadership; Economic Systems; Crime and Corruption; Ethics; Culture; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; United Kingdom
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    • March 2009 (Revised November 2009)
    • Supplement

    Washington Mutual's Covered Bonds Courseware

    By: Daniel Baird Bergstresser, Robin Greenwood and James Quinn
    Washington Mutual issues 6 billion Euro of covered bonds in 2006. The objective of the case is to ask whether these bonds are mispriced in late 2008. The case is set in September 20008, and Washington Mutual is facing considerable distress due to mounting losses on its... View Details
    Keywords: Banks and Banking; Bonds; Education; Information; Banking Industry
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      James I. Cash

      Professor Cash received a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics from Texas Christian University; a Master of Science in Computer Science from Purdue University's Graduate School of Mathematical Sciences; and a Doctor of Philosophy in Management Information... View Details

      Keywords: accounting industry; computer; e-commerce industry; financial services; health care; information technology industry; software
      • 29 Oct 2015
      • Other Presentation

      Social Progress: The Next Development Agenda (Video)

      By: Michael E. Porter and Scott Stern
      How do we measure development? The Social Progress Index was launched in 2013 as a holistic approach to benchmarking countries' social performance, independent of economic measures. SPI has been widely taken up on a global basis in evaluating national performance, and... View Details
      Keywords: Economic Development; Development Economics; Society; United States
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      • 03 Mar 2022
      • News

      Can Workers Climb the Career Ladder From Outside the Office?

      • 18 Oct 2011
      • First Look

      First Look: October 18

      giving a subsidy as a lump sum to offset capital costs is more effective. This has different regulatory implications for urban and rural settings where the environmental objectives may differ. Bouncing Out of the Banking System: An... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • April 1998
      • Case

      Responding to 21st Century Financial Crisis

      By: Huw Pill
      During the 1990s, financial crises appear to have been almost annual events. Examples abound: the collapse of S & Ls in the United States; currency mayhem in Europe; Mexican devaluation and banking crisis; Japanese banks teetering on the verge of default; currency and... View Details
      Keywords: Global Range; Financial Crisis
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        Ray A. Goldberg

        A native of North Dakota, Dr. Goldberg received his A.B. from Harvard University in 1948, his MBA from the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration in 1950 and his Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics from the University of Minnesota in 1952.

        ... View Details

        Keywords: agribusiness; agriculture; fast food; food; food processing; forest products; grocery; high technology; information; restaurant; retailing; soft drink; textiles; tobacco; transportation; wholesale; wine
        • 29 May 2018
        • First Look

        New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

        February 2018 Journal of Accounting & Economics Bank CEO Materialism: Risk Controls, Culture and Tail Risk By: Bushman, Robert, Robert Davidson, Aiyesha Dey, and Abbie Smith Abstract—We investigate how the prevalence of materialistic... View Details
        Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
        • 29 Oct 2015
        • Other Presentation

        Social Progress: The Next Development Agenda

        By: Michael E. Porter and Scott Stern
        How do we measure development? The Social Progress Index was launched in 2013 as a holistic approach to benchmarking countries' social performance, independent of economic measures. SPI has been widely taken up on a global basis in evaluating national performance, and... View Details
        Keywords: Economic Development; Development Economics; Society; United States
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        • 21 Jul 2014
        • Research & Ideas

        Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?

        (Editor's note: This first in a series of articles based on a Harvard Business School working paper by Karen Mills that analyzes the current state of availability of bank capital for small business.) Small businesses are core to America's... View Details
        Keywords: by Karen Mills; Manufacturing

          Robert C. Merton

          Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

          Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

          Keywords: banking; banking; banking; banking; banking; banking
          • Career Coach

          Kelsey Young

          compares to traditional finance roles like investment banking and capital markets, 2) successfully executing on a networking-led job search, and 3) navigating resources for technical interview preparation, particularly in impact... View Details
          • October 2000
          • Article

          BanCrecen

          By: S. Dario, E.L. Montiel and Tatiana Sandino
          This case describes the aggressive entry of BanCrecen, an affiliate of the Mexican bank BanCrecer, in Costa Rica in 1994. Its strategy, like that of the Mexican home office, was to focus on personal banking, with the rapid expansion of neighborhood branches and strong... View Details
          Keywords: Expansion; Globalization; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; Costa Rica; Mexico
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          • 2008
          • Book

          The Ascent of Money: A Financial History of the World

          By: Niall Ferguson
          Niall Ferguson traces the historical evolution of the financial system, from its origins in ancient Mesopotamia to the latest upheavals on what he calls "Planet Finance." In doing so, he reveals financial history as the essential backstory behind all history, from the... View Details
          Keywords: Financial History; Money; Financial Institutions; Financial Instruments; Investment; Globalization
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          • April 2019 (Revised February 2020)
          • Case

          Ripple: The Business of Crypto

          By: David B. Yoffie and George Gonzalez
          The case explores Ripple CEO Brad Garlinghouse’s mission to disrupt the global payments industry by leveraging the cryptocurrency XRP. Students will learn about Bitcoin and the blockchain industry, as well as Ripple’s unique crypto business model. The case provides an... View Details
          Keywords: Payment Systems; Cryptocurrency; Bitcoin; Blockchain; Fintech; Business Startups; Business Model; Disruption; Strategy; Banking Industry; Banking Industry
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          • June 2009
          • Article

          Level Playing Fields in International Financial Regulation

          By: Lucy White and Alan Morrison
          We analyze the desirability of level playing fields in international financial regulation. In general, level playing fields impose the standards of the weakest regulator upon the best-regulated economies. However, they may be desirable when capital is mobile because... View Details
          Keywords: Economy; International Finance; Multinational Firms and Management; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Standards; Banking Industry
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