Publications

October 2009
Supplement

Merger of Equals: The Integration of Mellon Financial and The Bank of New York (C)

By: Ryan D. Taliaferro, Clayton S. Rose and David Lane

[Continuation of "A" and "B" cases.] Less than a month after the close of the merger between The Bank of New York and Mellon Financial, managers at the two firms realized that plans for combining their asset servicing businesses – and realizing the $180 million of... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Horizontal Integration; Financial Institutions; Business Processes; Risk Management; Strategy; Market Transactions; Assets; System; Saving; Banking Industry; New York (state, US)

August 2001 (Revised October 2001)
Case

Shinsei Bank (D)

By: Michael Y. Yoshino and Perry Fagan

One year later, Yashiro and his management team can be proud of the young bank's first-year results, but face a set of difficult implementation issues. View Details

Keywords: Financial Reporting; Restructuring; Management Systems; Management Teams; Success; Banking Industry

02 Oct 2009
News

Who Can Take Charge at Bank of America?

11 Dec 2013
HBS Seminar

Anna Kovner, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

19 Feb 2014
HBS Seminar

Tobias Adrian, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

04 Dec 2013
HBS Seminar

Motohiro Yogo, The Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis

16 Oct 2013
HBS Seminar

David Lucca, Federal Reserve Bank of New York

Fall 2017
Article

Strengthening and Streamlining Bank Capital Regulation

By: Robin Greenwood, Samuel Gregory Hanson, Jeremy C. Stein and Adi Sunderam

We propose three core principles that should inform the design of bank capital regulation. First, wherever possible, multiple constraints on the minimum level of equity capital should be consolidated into a single constraint. This helps to avoid a distortionary... View Details

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Capital; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Banking Industry

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March 2001 (Revised September 2002)
Case

Merck Latin America (C): Brazil

By: Michael Beer and James Weber

Examines Merck's change effort in Brazil from the perspective of the local employees. View Details

Keywords: Change Management; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Multinational Firms and Management; Employees; Operations; Perspective; Pharmaceutical Industry; Brazil

12 Feb 2015

Latin America Prospective Students Webinar

In this webinar a panel of current students from Latin America will discuss life at HBS. The webinar will also include a brief presentation from MBA Admissions and the Career & Professional Development... View Details

06 Dec 2013

Latin America Prospective Student Webinar

This online information session is designed for prospective students from Latin America to learn more about HBS and the community of students from that region. The session will include a Q&A with a panel... View Details

04 Oct 2023

The MBA Tour: Latin America

Interested in learning more about the Harvard MBA? Join us on October 4th at The MBA Tour: Latin America hosted by GMAC. This virtual event is a great opportunity to learn more about the Harvard MBA and hear from members View Details

01 Feb 2024
Video

2023 BiGS Latin America Roundtable

1994
Book

Contrived Competition: Regulation and Deregulation in America

By: Richard H. K. Vietor

This book explains how four major firms--American Airlines, El Paso Natural Gas, AT&T, and Bank America--and their respective managements were challenged by the deregulation of markets starting in the late 1970s. The four stories illustrate the dynamic process of... View Details

Keywords: Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; United States

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21 May 2015
News

Rebuilding America starts with businesses

05 Jun 2013
News

America Lags in Developing Leaders

February 2016
Case

Banking and Politics in Antebellum New York

By: David Moss and Colin Donovan

After a long period of solid Democratic control, Whigs secured a majority of seats in the New York State Assembly in 1837, the same year that a major financial panic had crippled the banking system and shaken public confidence in the state's governance. The next year,... View Details

Keywords: Governance; Central Banking; Ethics; Laws and Statutes; Business and Government Relations; Government and Politics; History; New York (state, US)