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  • January 2003 (Revised March 2003)
  • Case

Southwest Airlines 2002: An Industry Under Siege

By: James L. Heskett
The company's management is faced with long-term questions regarding the rate and manner of growth in the wake of the 9/11 attacks and general industry malaise. View Details
Keywords: Cost; Product; Risk and Uncertainty; Growth and Development; Air Transportation Industry
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  • April 2007
  • Case

Microfinance in Bolivia: A Meeting with the President of the Republic

By: Michael Chu
Herbert Muller, chair of leading microfinance bank BancoSol, has met with Evo Morales one year after the populist leader's inauguration as president of Bolivia and proceeds to write an email to his fellow board directors. The bank is world famous for pioneering... View Details
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Race; Government Administration; Business and Government Relations; Microfinance; Poverty; Interest Rates; Banks and Banking; Financial Services Industry; Bolivia; South America
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  • 22 Feb 2022
  • Research & Ideas

When Will the Hot Housing Market Finally Start to Cool?

Harvard Gazette spoke with Nori Gerardo Lietz, a senior lecturer who teaches real estate private equity at Harvard Business School, about what’s going on and whether rising interest rates may offer some relief. The interview has been... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

    Robert C. Merton

    Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

    Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

    Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
    • December 2019
    • Case

    CME Group in 2019

    By: José B. Alvarez, Forest Reinhardt and Natalie Kindred
    Chicago-based CME Group is the world’s largest futures and options marketplace, with annual trading volume of over 4.8 billion contracts in 2018. This case is set in late 2019, as heightened perceptions of risk stemming from the U.S.-China trade war are driving record... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Markets; Risk Management; Futures and Commodity Futures; Trade; Price; Competition; Risk and Uncertainty; Competitive Strategy; United States; China; Brazil
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    • March 2025
    • Case

    The Changing Climate on Wall Street

    By: Clayton S. Rose, Maxim Pike Harrell and Michael Norris
    Increasing and conflicting regulatory requirements and political pressures regarding climate change tested the leaders of U.S. financial institutions, as they struggled to determine how best to comply while managing their business and its risks.
    In October 2024,... View Details
    Keywords: Competency and Skills; Decision Making; Cost vs Benefits; Ethics; Corporate Accountability; Leadership; Management; Risk Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Adaptation; Risk and Uncertainty; Insurance; Climate Change; Change Management; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Insurance Industry; United States; Europe
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    • December 2002 (Revised June 2003)
    • Case

    Rabobank Group: Leadership Role in Global Agribusiness

    By: Ray A. Goldberg and Hal Hogan
    The largest global agribusiness bank has lost its triple A rating and is rethinking its global strategy as the leading global food and agribusiness bank. How does it position itself in the vertical value-added global food system? View Details
    Keywords: Agribusiness; Globalization; Finance; Risk Management; Global Strategy; Value Creation; Banking Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
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    • May 2011
    • Article

    Higher Risk, Lower Returns: What Hedge Fund Investors Really Earn

    By: Ilia Dichev and Gwen Yu
    The returns of hedge fund investors depend not only on the returns of the hedge funds they hold but also on the timing and magnitude of their capital flows in and out of the funds. We use dollar-weighted returns (a form of IRR) to assess the properties of actual... View Details
    Keywords: Investment Funds; Investment Return; Capital Markets; Market Timing; Currency
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    • 04 Oct 2017
    • HBS Seminar

    Tania Babina, Columbia Business School

    • November 2003 (Revised March 2004)
    • Case

    Drilling South: Petrobras Evaluates Pecom

    By: Mihir A. Desai and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho
    The Brazilian oil company, Petrobras, is evaluating the acquisition of an Argentine oil company, the Perez Companc Group (Pecom). The acquisition would increase Petrobras' oil reserves and expand its interests outside Brazil, a significant step for the largest company... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Forecasting and Prediction; Financial Crisis; Non-Renewable Energy; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Corporate Governance; Risk Management; Emerging Markets; State Ownership; Performance Evaluation; Risk and Uncertainty; Valuation; Energy Industry; Argentina; Brazil
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    • Article

    Coming to America: IPOs from Emerging Market Issuers

    By: Robert Bruner, Susan Chaplinsky and Latha Ramchand
    We compare the issue costs of 299 companies from emerging and developed market countries making initial public offerings (IPOs) in the United States between 1991 and 2001. Our results indicate that IPOs from emerging markets experience the same costs on average as IPOs... View Details
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    • Fall 2014
    • Article

    Seesaws and Social Security Benefits Indexing

    By: Matthew Weinzierl
    The price indexation of Social Security benefit payments has emerged in recent years as a flashpoint of debate in the United States. I characterize the direct effects that changes in that price index would have on retirees who differ in their initial wealth at... View Details
    Keywords: Retirement; Compensation and Benefits; United States
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    • Spring 2024
    • Article

    The Evolution of Banking in the 21st Century: Evidence and Regulatory Implications

    By: Samuel Gregory Hanson, Victoria Ivashina, Laura Nicolae, Jeremy C. Stein, Adi Sunderam and Daniel K. Tarullo
    As revealed by the failures of three regional banks in the spring of 2023, bank runs are not a thing of the past. To inform the ongoing discussion of the appropriate regulatory response, we examine trends in the banking industry over the last twenty-five years. On the... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Instruments; Financial Crisis; Assets; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Financial Condition; Banking Industry
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    • October 1998 (Revised May 2001)
    • Case

    Preview Travel (A)

    By: William A. Sahlman, Nicole Tempest, Daniel H Case III and Robert Keller
    Preview Travel was a leader in the online travel industry, having generated $80 million in bookings in 1997 and growing at a 34% compound annual growth rate per quarter. This case describes the evolution of Preview Travel's business plan and financing strategy and... View Details
    Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Business Model; Initial Public Offering; Valuation; Internet and the Web; Business Plan; Capital; Financial Strategy; Travel Industry; United States
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    • 04 Dec 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

    implications of these relationships for start-up innovation and performance. Value creation in such relationships occurs when assets are exchanged by the parties involved: collaboration allows for passive knowledge flows and active... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 2014
    • Case

    Microfinance Services in Rural Areas--Farmers' Self-reliance Branch of CFPA Microfinance in Shangyi County

    By: F. Warren McFarlan, Siqun Yang and Meihua Shen
    Microfinance is introduced into China in the 1990s. It had gone through 3 phases since the beginning, namely the pilot phase when all Microfinance practices are sponsored by charity funds based on projects, the promotion phase when the government subsidized some... View Details
    Keywords: Rural Entrepreneurship; Value Added; China; Risk Management; Microfinance; China
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    • January 26, 2016
    • Article

    Hiding Personal Information Reveals the Worst

    By: Leslie K. John, Kate Barasz and Michael I. Norton
    Seven experiments explore people's decisions to share or withhold personal information and the wisdom of such decisions. When people choose not to reveal information—to be "hiders"—they are judged negatively by others (experiment 1). These negative judgments emerge... View Details
    Keywords: Disclosure; Transparency; Policy-making; Privacy; Information; Corporate Disclosure; Decision Choices and Conditions; Trust
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    • April 2013
    • Case

    Sterling Household Products Company

    By: William E. Fruhan and Craig Stephenson
    Sterling Household Products manufactures and markets a broad line of consumer goods from laundry soap and cosmetics to cleaning, disinfecting, and sanitizing products. The company has many highly regarded brand names and consistently reports impressive sales and... View Details
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      George Serafeim

      George Serafeim is the Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He co-leads a Lab, within Harvard's Digital, Data, Design Institute, and serves on the faculty steering commitee of Harvard University's Salata Institute. He... View Details

      Keywords: asset management; insurance industry; automobiles; industrial goods; fashion; food; green technology
      • 28 Jul 2016
      • Op-Ed

      Where is TripAdvisor for Doctors?

      addition, they regard gathering such data as a poor use of their time. There is also the adverse-selection concern that doctors might avoid difficult cases and difficult patients to boost their ratings. 2. Privacy. Rating a doctor is more... View Details
      Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health