Publications

October 2013 (Revised December 2013)
Teaching Note

Blackstone and the Sale of Citigroup's Loan Portfolio Teaching Note

By: Victoria Ivashina and David Scharfstein

Keywords: Derivatives; Bankruptcy; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Private Equity; Restructuring; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry

January 2008 (Revised September 2009)
Case

Financing American Housing Construction in the Aftermath of War

By: David Moss and Cole Bolton

At the start of WWI, the United States faced a significant housing shortage. Public officials feared the spread of disease—and even communism—in the nation's cramped urban centers where vacancy rates held near zero and families often "doubled up" in single-housing... View Details

Keywords: Central Banking; Bonds; Mortgages; Government Legislation; Business History; Housing; Banking Industry; United States

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September 1996 (Revised November 1996)
Case

World Bank (A): Under Siege

By: George C. Lodge and Carin-Isabel Knoop

Describes the issues that James Wolfensohn faces when he takes over the World Bank as president in June 1995. Presents several lines of criticism of the bank's strategy, structure, and relevance. View Details

Keywords: Financial Institutions; International Finance; Organizational Structure; Leading Change; Situation or Environment; Decision Choices and Conditions; Strategy; Management Teams; Value; Banking Industry

Fast Answer

Stock ownership: statistics

Where can I find data on institutional vs. individual ownership of equities in the U.S.? Institutional holding information going back to 1980 is available by using Thomson Reuters Ownership Databases in... View Details

Web

Additional Archives - Creating Emerging Markets

entrepreneurs and business leaders and includes video clips. The database is searchable by both topic and interviewee name. In English or Cantonese. Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA) Archives The Indian View Details

January 2021
Supplement

Aster DM Healthcare: Budget Exercise

By: V.G. Narayanan and Amy Klopfenstein

In April 2020, Alisha Moopen, Deputy Managing Director of Aster DM Healthcare, a network of clinics, hospitals, and pharmacies in the Middle East and India, must create her company’s budget for the 2021 fiscal year in light of the onset of Covid-19. The pandemic had... View Details

March 1996
Case

Telmex PRIDES

By: Kenneth A. Froot and Mark Seasholes

The case examines an issue by a Mexican development bank of PRIDES written on Telmex stock. PRIDES are a dividend-enhanced security which are exchangeable into shares of the underlying stock. The focus is on pricing these instruments, which involve large... View Details

Keywords: Financial Derivatives; Securities; International Finance; Banks and Banking; Financial Instruments; Valuation; Mexico

Article

The Cross Section of Bank Value

By: Mark Egan, Stefan Lewellen and Adi Sunderam

We study the determinants of value creation in U.S. commercial banks. We develop novel measures of individual banks' productivities at collecting deposits and making loans. We relate these measures to bank market values and find that deposit productivity is responsible... View Details

Keywords: Productivity; Banks and Banking; Valuation; Performance Productivity; Value Creation; United States

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April 2010 (Revised July 2010)
Background Note

Introduction to Mutual Funds

By: Robert C. Pozen

This note is an excerpt from my book The Mutual Fund Business and is an introduction to mutual funds, contrasted with commercial banks. View Details

Keywords: Commercial Banking; Investment; Investment Funds; Banking Industry

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