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11 Aug 2009
First Look

First Look: August 11, 2009

essay, this uncommonly readable book answers the questions of how American business powered most of the twentieth century and was then severely challenged in the twenty-first, first by its own mistakes and then by globalization. View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

June 2010
Teaching Note

The Southeast Bank of Texas in the Financial Crisis (TN)

By: Robert C. Pozen and Benjamin Greff Schneider

Teaching Note for 310141. View Details

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Financial Crisis; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Liquidity; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Capital; Forecasting and Prediction; Banking Industry; Texas

October 2009
Teaching Note

GE Money Bank: The M-Budget Card Initiative (TN)

By: Michael L. Tushman, Sebastian Raisch and Christian Welling

Teaching Note for [410052]. View Details

Keywords: Time Management; Change Management; Problems and Challenges; Projects; Banks and Banking; Innovation and Invention; Product Launch; Knowledge; Experience and Expertise; Value; Competition; Operations; Financial Services Industry; Real Estate Industry

January 2009
Supplement

The Tip of the Iceberg: JP Morgan Chase and Bear Stearns (B2)

By: Clayton S. Rose, Daniel Baird Bergstresser and David Lane

Bear Stearns & Co burned through nearly all of its $18 billion in cash reserves during the week of March 10, 2008, and an unprecedented provision of liquidity support from the Federal Reserve on Friday March 13 was insufficient to reverse the decline in Bear's... View Details

Keywords: Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Capital; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financial Liquidity; Banks and Banking; Governance; Crisis Management; Goals and Objectives; System; Valuation; New York (state, US)

January 2008 (Revised May 2008)
Case

Subprime Meltdown: American Housing and Global Financial Turmoil

By: Julio Rotemberg

This case focuses on the financial difficulties faced in the U.S. from August to December 2006 as well as their roots in subprime lending. After briefly discussing how mortgages were structured and traded in the pre-1990 period, it describes subprime mortgage lending,... View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Central Banking; Financial Markets; Mortgages; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; United States

29 May 2008
Research & Ideas

Global Change in the Built Environment

itself in recent years among institutional investors, partly because of the collapse of the stock market in 2001 and partly because of the high returns for over a decade relative to stocks and bonds. Because of graying populations in the... View Details

Keywords: by Arthur Segel; Construction; Real Estate

March 2021 (Revised October 2021)
Case

Aligning Mission and Margin at Southern Bancorp

By: Rebecca M. Henderson, Brian Trelstad and Eren Kuzucu

In October 2020, after spending almost a decade to turnaround Southern Bancorp, an Arkansan bank founded with the mission to provide financial services to rural, underserved communities, CEO Darrin Williams is wondering how Southern Bancorp should continue to grow.... View Details

Keywords: Racial Wealth Gap; Banks and Banking; Growth and Development; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Going Public; Investment Return; Social Issues; Wealth and Poverty; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States; Arkansas

10 Jul 2020
Working Paper Summaries

Making Economics More Useful: How Technological Eclecticism Could Help

Keywords: by Amar Bhidé

July 2007
Article

Geographical Segmentation of U.S. Capital Markets

Demographic variation in savings behavior can be exploited to provide evidence on segmentation in US bank loan markets. Cities with a large fraction of seniors have higher volumes of bank deposits. Since many banks rely heavily on deposit financing, this affects local... View Details

Keywords: Age; Economy; Capital Markets; Banks and Banking; Financing and Loans; Local Range; United States

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September 1997 (Revised October 1997)
Case

Information at the World Bank: In Search of a Technology Solution (B)

By: W. Earl Sasser and Josep Valor

Acting on his vision to make the World Bank a knowledge institution, bank President Wolfensohn announces the creation of an Information and Knowledge Management Council and an Information Solutions Group, headed by a newly nominated CEO, Mohamed Muhsin. This case... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Information Technology; Knowledge Management; Management Teams; Information Management; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry

11 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

The House Wants to Squelch Voices of ‘Small’ Shareholders. Research Shows Those Voices Matter.

Exxon’s institutional investors would be eligible to submit shareholder proposals under the current law, only 7 (at the time of this writing) would meet the 1 percent threshold. In high tech, the thresholds grow even higher: Owning 1... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

30 Nov 2011
Research & Ideas

Only Capitalists Can Save Capitalism

growth in the future? What aspects of the system at the level of firms, industries, nations, or multilateral institutions might cause serious difficulties?" The principal response is summed in the book: "Market capitalism has proven to be... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

July 1997 (Revised April 1998)
Case

Chase Manhattan Corporation: The Making of America's Largest Bank

By: Stuart C. Gilson and Cedric Escalle

Chase Bank and Chemical Bank intend to merge, producing the largest commercial bank in the United States, the fourth largest in the world. Projected financial benefits under the merger reflect significant planned reduction in operating costs, including 17,000 employee... View Details

Keywords: Commercial Banking; Profit; Corporate Strategy; Value Creation; Restructuring; Negotiation; Mergers and Acquisitions; Risk and Uncertainty; Resignation and Termination; Revenue; Banking Industry; United States

20 Oct 2009
First Look

First Look: October 20

and currency crises—is a crucial aspect to making informed managerial decisions. The cases in this book have been designed to give students an appreciation of the critical role of institutions and policies in affecting patterns of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

24 May 2011
First Look

First Look: May 24

heterogeneity, we identify key country- and organization-level determinants of corporate environmental disclosure. We focus on institutional factors related to firms' global embeddedness to describe how external environmental pressures... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Feb 2010
First Look

First Look: Feb. 9

characteristic of emerging markets is the lack of institutions (credit-card systems, intellectual-property adjudication, data research firms) that facilitate efficient business operations. While such "institutional voids"... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

1994
Chapter

British Multinational Banking in Asia before 1960

By: G. Jones

Keywords: History; Multinational Firms and Management; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; Asia; United Kingdom