Publications

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

November 1979 (Revised July 1986)
Case

Boise Cascade: Manufactured Housing Division, Lafayette Region (A)

By: W. Earl Sasser

Keywords: Operations; Performance Capacity; Planning

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17 Apr 2012
News

Japan's trading houses move into the big league

July 2013
Supplement

Lighting the Way at the Manor House Hotel

By: Samuel Gregory Hanson, Joel Heilprin and Charles Andersen

February 2009
Teaching Note

House of Tata: Acquiring a Global Footprint (TN)

By: Tarun Khanna and Krishna G. Palepu

Teaching Note for case #708-446 View Details

May 2008
Teaching Note

Subprime Meltdown: American Housing and Global Financial Turmoil

By: Julio J. Rotemberg

Teaching Note for [708042]. View Details

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

11 Mar 2013
News

Miller Sees `True Price Increases' in U.S. Housing

22 Jun 2009
News

Echo boomers a lifeline for embattled U.S. housing

July 2013 (Revised June 2015)
Case

Lighting the Way at the Manor House Hotel

By: Samuel G. Hanson, Joel Heilprin and Charles Andersen

27 Aug 2014
News

Jacob Donnelly, Wrendon Hunt Named White House Fellows

Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

September 2017
Case

From 80 Thoreau to Mooncusser Fish House & Moon Bar (A)

By: Lena G. Goldberg and Sandra Bahous

After extensive planning, Ian Calhoun, (MBA 2010) who was also a chef trained in Paris at Le Cordon Bleu, and two co-founders launched 80 Thoreau, a “progressive fine dining” restaurant in Concord, Massachusetts, that became a local favorite as well as a special... View Details

Keywords: Small Business; Expansion; Decision Choices and Conditions; Consumer Products Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Boston; Cambridge

February 1998 (Revised August 2006)
Case

House of Tata, 1995: The Next Generation (A)

By: Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu and Danielle Melito Wu

The Tata Group began the 1990s as a confederation of loosely coupled firms. This case considers the rise to prominence of the new CEO of Tata Group, Ratan Tata, and his attempts to strengthen the inter-relationships among the group companies at a time when critics... View Details

Keywords: Business or Company Management; Business Conglomerates; Organizations; Corporate Strategy; Consolidation; Business Strategy; Alignment; Consumer Products Industry; Service Industry