Publications

March 2010 (Revised April 2013)
Case

Equitas Microfinance: The Fastest-Growing MFI on the Planet

By: V.G. Narayanan and V. Kasturi Rangan

Founded as a for-profit microfinance company, Equitas had acquired nearly a million clients in the short two years since it was founded. The founder, Vasu, and his management team wished to accelerate the already impressive spurt to three million clients in the next... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; For-Profit Firms; Microfinance; Growth and Development Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Enterprise; Financial Services Industry; India

June 2009 (Revised August 2010)
Background Note

How Institutional Investors Think About Real Estate

By: Arthur I Segel

Real estate is an increasingly important component in the portfolios of institutional investors. This note discusses the issues these investors must consider when investing in real estate from the legal forms of ownership, to separate or commingled funds, to property... View Details

Keywords: Investment; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Property; Financial Services Industry

July 2008
Teaching Note

3i Group plc: May 2006 (TN)

By: Josh Lerner, G. Felda Hardymon and Ann Leamon

Teaching Note for [807006]. View Details

Keywords: Financial Services Industry

July 2008
Teaching Note

Sanford C. Bernstein: The Fork in the Road (TN) (A) and (B)

By: Boris Groysberg and Geoff Eckman Marietta

Teaching Note for [404001] and [409008]. View Details

Keywords: Financial Services Industry

July 2008
Teaching Note

Teena Lerner: Dividing the Pie at Rx Capital (TN) (A) and (B)

By: Boris Groysberg and Geoff Eckman Marietta

Teaching Note for [406088] and [406112]. View Details

Keywords: Financial Services Industry

June 2008 (Revised October 2008)
Case

International Carbon Finance and EcoSecurities

By: Andre F. Perold, Forest L. Reinhardt and Mikell Hyman

In late 2007, EcoSecurities had to decide whether to undertake a new Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project in China. EcoSecurities was an aggregator of carbon credits and also invested directly in projects that produced carbon credits. Governments and firms... View Details

Keywords: Non-Renewable Energy; Cost Management; Investment Return; Business and Government Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Investment; Cash Flow; Valuation; Pollutants; Environmental Sustainability; Financial Services Industry; China

March 1990 (Revised November 2004)
Case

O.M. Scott & Sons Co. Leveraged Buyout

By: George P. Baker III and Karen Wruck

Documents the organizational changes that took place at O.M. Scott & Sons Co. in response to their leveraged buyout. Provides the opportunity for students to discuss the effects of high leverage on management decision making, and the differences between operating as a... View Details

Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Capital Structure; Borrowing and Debt; Organizational Structure; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Management; Business Conglomerates; Cost of Capital; Financial Services Industry

October 2007
Case

Blue River Capital

By: Krishna G. Palepu, Tarun Khanna and Richard Bullock

Examines the strategy and experience of Indian private equity firm Blue River Capital. Blue River was established in 2005 to invest primarily in middle market, particularly family-run, businesses in India. Blue River caters to this niche as an active investor,... View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Investment Portfolio; Corporate Governance; Emerging Markets; Family Ownership; Competitive Strategy; Financial Services Industry; India

November 2006 (Revised July 2012)
Teaching Note

Fleet Managed Assets Division (TN)

By: Paul W. Marshall

Keywords: Asset Management; Financial Services Industry

October 2006 (Revised October 2012)
Teaching Note

Wells Fargo Convertible Bonds (TN)

By: Malcolm P. Baker

Keywords: Financial Services Industry

September 2006
Teaching Note

Berkshire Partners: Bidding for Carter's (TN)

By: Malcolm P. Baker

Keywords: Financial Services Industry

March 2006
Teaching Note

Cutlass Capital, L.P. (TN)

By: Richard G. Hamermesh and Erin Seefeld

Teaching Note to 805075. View Details

Keywords: Financial Services Industry

September 2005
Teaching Note

Hedging Currency Risks at AIFS (TN)

By: Mihir A. Desai and Kathleen Luchs

Keywords: Currency; Risk and Uncertainty; Financial Services Industry

July 2005 (Revised August 2006)
Case

Amagansett Funds (A)

Amagansett Funds has had a troubled history with its customer relationship management (CRM) system. Sales agents feel that they derive no value from it and that it is a "tax on their jobs." Amagansett is investigating whether CRM can be improved by making its data... View Details

Keywords: Management; Customer Relationship Management; Information Technology; Financial Services Industry