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- May 2011 (Revised June 2011)
- Case
The Crisis at Tyco - A Director's Perspective
By: Suraj Srinivasan and Aldo Sesia
In 2002, Wendy Lane had been a member of the board of directors at Tyco International a little more than a year when the company's CEO Dennis Kozlowski and other top executives were accused of fraud, which ultimately led to resignations, imprisonments, lawsuits, and... View Details
- April 2011 (Revised March 2021)
- Case
BANEX and the No Pago Movement (A)
By: Shawn Cole and Baily Blair Kempner
This case examines Grassroots Capital's decision of whether or not to continue investing in a Bolivian microfinance bank that is suffering financial distress. View Details
- April 2011 (Revised March 2013)
- Supplement
BANEX and the No Pago Movement (B)
By: Shawn Cole and Baily Blair Kempner
This case examines Grassroots Capital's decision of whether or not to continue investing in a Bolivian microfinance bank that is suffering financial distress. View Details
- April 2011
- Teaching Note
Santander Consumer Finance (TN)
Teaching Note for 711015. View Details
- April 2011 (Revised January 2024)
- Case
The Greek Crisis: Tragedy or Opportunity?
By: Dante Roscini, Jonathan Schlefer and Konstantinos Dimitriou
After its 2009-2010 fiscal crisis shook the euro, could the Greek government stabilize debt, avoid default, and stay on the euro? This case looks at the Greek social and political road to fiscal crisis; the economics of that crisis and efforts to recover from it; the... View Details
- April 2011
- Teaching Note
The Euro in Crisis: Decision Time at the European Central Bank (TN)
By: J. Gunnar Trumbull, Dante Roscini and Diane Choi
Teaching Note for 711049. View Details
- 2011
- Working Paper
The Impact of Forward-Looking Metrics on Employee Decision Making
By: Pablo Casas-Arce, F. Asis Martinez-Jerez and V.G. Narayanan
This paper analyzes the effects of providing forward-looking metrics on employee decision making. We use data from a southern European bank that, in April 2002, started providing its branch managers with customer lifetime value (CLV) information about mortgage... View Details
- March 2011 (Revised April 2011)
- Case
State Bank of India: Transforming a State Owned Giant
By: Rajiv Lal and Rachna Tahilyani
February 2011: O.P. Bhatt reflected contentedly on his five-year term as Chairman of State Bank of India (SBI), India's largest commercial bank. He had led SBI on a journey of transformation from an old, hierarchical, transaction oriented, government bank to a modern,... View Details
- March 2011 (Revised June 2013)
- Case
Next Street, LLC
By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
Next Street Financial, LLC was a modern merchant bank that provided high quality advisory services and capital to small- and mid-sized inner city businesses. Next Street was a for-profit business that aimed to increase the growth, profitability and success of its... View Details
- February 2011
- Teaching Note
Citigroup's Exchange Offer (TN)
By: Robin Greenwood
Teaching Note for 210009. View Details
- January 2011 (Revised April 2012)
- Case
BBVA Compass: Marketing Resource Allocation
By: Sunil Gupta and Joseph Davies-Gavin
BBVA Compass, the 15th largest commercial bank in the U.S., is a part of the BBVA Group of Spain, the second largest bank in Spain with $755 billion in assets. In December 2010, Frank Sottosanti, Chief Marketing Officer of BBVA Compass, was reviewing the marketing... View Details
- 2011
- Case
China Merchants Bank in Transition
By: F. Warren McFarlan, Guoqing Chen and Ziqian Zhao
This case depicts China Merchants Bank's second strategic transformation. In the 90's, China Merchants Bank creatively introduced an all-in-one-card and an all-in-one-net based on IT systems and network, enabling itself to expand nationwide. By successfully entering... View Details
- 2011
- Teaching Note
China Merchants Bank in Transition (TN)
By: F. Warren McFarlan, Guoqing Chen and Ziqian Zhao
This case depicts China Merchants Bank's second strategic transformation. In the 90's, China Merchants Bank creatively introduced an all-in-one-card and an all-in-one-net based on IT systems and network, enabling itself to expand nationwide. By successfully entering... View Details
- December 2010
- Teaching Note
The Export-Import Bank of the United States (TN)
By: C. Fritz Foley and Matthew Johnson
Teaching Note for 211032. View Details
- December 2010 (Revised June 2018)
- Case
The Pecora Hearings
By: David Moss, Cole Bolton and Eugene Kintgen
In 1932, in the depths of the Great Depression, the Senate Banking Committee began a much-publicized investigation of the nation's financial sector. The hearings, which came to be known as the Pecora hearings after the Banking Committee's lead counsel Ferdinand Pecora,... View Details
- November 2010
- Teaching Note
Mellon Financial and The Bank of New York (TN)
By: Ryan D. Taliaferro and Carliss Y. Baldwin
Teaching Note for 208129. View Details
- November 2010
- Case
Bling Nation
By: William A. Sahlman and Liz Kind
Bling Nation, a Palo Alto, CA startup, was founded in 2007 as a mobile payment service provider that bypassed industry participants such as Visa and MasterCard. Bling Nation partnered with local community banks and merchants in small towns. The banks provided their... View Details
Keywords: Culture
- 2010
- Chapter
Enamored with Scale: Scaling with Limited Impact in the Microfinance Industry
By: S. M. Datar, M. J. Epstein and K. Yuthas
- October 2010 (Revised November 2010)
- Case
The Export-Import Bank of the United States
By: C. Fritz Foley and Matthew Johnson
In the fall of 2009, Fred Hochberg, chairman of the Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im), and his team struggled to find a way to help finance the sale of Boeing aircraft to Emirates. Ex-Im responds to the challenges in the credit market with an innovative... View Details
Keywords: Trade; Credit; Financing and Loans; International Finance; Banking Industry; United States
- October 2010
- Supplement
The Export-Import Bank of the United States (CW)
By: C. Fritz Foley and Matthew Johnson
In the fall of 2009, Fred Hochberg, Chairman of The Export-Import Bank of the United States (Ex-Im), and his team struggled to find a way to help finance the sale of Boeing aircraft to Emirates. Ex-Im responds to the challenges in credit market with an innovative... View Details