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    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: financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services
    • 01 May 2020
    • In Practice

    COVID-19’s Hard Lessons Might Prepare Business for Climate Change

    The coronavirus pandemic caught the business world by surprise, but the catastrophe might force companies to face a crisis that has been unfolding in plain sight: climate change.  We asked faculty members affiliated with the Business and Environment Initiative at... View Details
    Keywords: by Danielle Kost
    • March 2002 (Revised July 2004)
    • Case

    Price of Light, The: Privatization, Regulation and Valuation in Brazil

    Asks students to produce a valuation for Rio Light, a Brazilian power company that is state owned and to be sold in March 1996. If successful, the privatization would bring in over $2 billion to the Brazilian treasury. But success was far from assured. Members of the... View Details
    Keywords: Valuation; Energy Generation; Privatization; Corporate Governance; Energy Industry; Brazil
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    • October 2019 (Revised June 2020)
    • Case

    Pantheon Ventures in 2019

    By: Victoria Ivashina and Tonia Labruyere
    The case discusses the strategy of Pantheon, a UK-based fund of funds investing in private equity. Client demands and preferences had changed in the aftermath of the 2008 global financial crisis and Pantheon had to adapt its business model to accommodate requests for... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Management; Private Equity; Corporate Strategy; Financial Services Industry; United Kingdom
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    • September 1993 (Revised September 1997)
    • Case

    China (A): The Great Awakening

    By: Debora L. Spar
    As the third largest economy after the United States and Japan, China's startling economic growth has spurred increasing interest in the economic, social, and political factors that catapulted the country to sudden prominence. This case starts with an overview of the... View Details
    Keywords: History; Government and Politics; Society; Macroeconomics; China
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    • July 1991 (Revised December 1993)
    • Case

    Grupo Industrial Alfa, S.A.--1982

    The rapid depreciation of the peso in 1982 precipitated a crisis at Grupo Alfa, Mexico's largest private company. The company's peso cash flow was insufficient to service its large dollar-denominated debt. Students are asked to formulate a plan for restructuring Alfa's... View Details
    Keywords: Currency Exchange Rate; Restructuring; Negotiation Participants; Business Strategy; Financial Crisis; Mexico
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    • April 2021 (Revised December 2023)
    • Case

    The Mahindra Group: Leading with Purpose

    By: Ranjay Gulati and Rachna Tahilyani
    India headquartered Mahindra Group is a multibillion-dollar federation of companies operating across the globe. It is ahead of its time in articulating its purpose and mapping its values, something it had first done at inception and then refreshed yet again as ‘Rise’... View Details
    Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Organizational Culture; Change Management; Communication Strategy; Family Ownership; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Revenue; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Asia; India; Mumbai; South Korea; Italy; United States
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    • April 2011 (Revised December 2012)
    • Supplement

    South Africa (B): Getting Unstuck?

    By: Richard H. K. Vietor and Diego Comin
    15 years after ending apartheid, formal unemployment in South Africa was still at 24%. While the country had grown at 4 to 5% annually during the 2000s, the financial crisis set it back by 1 million more unemployed. Moreover, it seemed as if the nation were stuck... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Crisis; Inflation and Deflation; Policy; Employment; Wages; Competition; South Africa
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    • April 2015 (Revised October 2024)
    • Case

    The German Export Engine

    By: Gunnar Trumbull, Jonathan Schlefer and Sophus A. Reinert
    In fall of 2018, Germany’s chancellor Angela Merkel had logged significant successes. Germany was the largest exporter in the world, had maintained low unemployment through the 2008 financial crisis, and was gradually reforming its welfare state to meet future pension... View Details
    Keywords: Economy; Economic Growth; Success; Leadership; Problems and Challenges; Germany
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    • August 2018 (Revised June 2019)
    • Case

    Oaktree: Pierre Foods Investment

    By: Victoria Ivashina and Mike Harmon
    This case is a setting to discuss “loan to own” investment strategy that is often pursued by distressed investors. The aftermath of the 2007 financial crisis left many companies with poor liquidity and limited ability to obtain credit. One of these companies was Pierre... View Details
    Keywords: Distress Investing; Investment; Debt Securities; Strategy; Restructuring
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    • May 2018
    • Article

    U.S. Treasury Premium

    By: Wenxin Du, Joanne Im and Jesse Schreger
    We quantify the difference in the convenience yield of U.S. Treasuries and government bonds of other developed countries by measuring the deviation from covered interest parity between government bond yields. We call this wedge the “U.S. Treasury Premium.” We document... View Details
    Keywords: Bonds; Investment Return; Interest Rates; Financial Crisis
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    • September 2016 (Revised March 2018)
    • Case

    Qalaa Holdings and the Egyptian Refining Company

    By: Victoria Ivashina and Marc Homsy
    This case follows Qalaa Holdings, a successful Egypt-based private equity firm, and gives insight into the types of investments it pursued, its growth over time, and the limited partner base it had at hand. It also allows students to consider and debate whether the... View Details
    Keywords: Africa; Structuring And Financing Large Projects; Private Equity; Infrastructure; Project Finance; Emerging Markets; Financial Services Industry; Egypt; Africa
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    • September 2009 (Revised September 2009)
    • Case

    The Termination of U.S. Auto Dealerships in 2009

    By: Das Narayandas, Kerry Herman and Sarah Morton
    The case chronicles the sudden termination of many U.S. autodealers in the wake of the economic crisis in the fall of 2008. View Details
    Keywords: Business Exit or Shutdown; Financial Crisis; Marketing; Distribution; Sales; Auto Industry; United States
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    • April 2011 (Revised May 2013)
    • Case

    South Africa (A): Stuck in the Middle?

    By: Richard H. K. Vietor and Diego Comin
    Fifteen years after ending apartheid, formal unemployment in South Africa was still at 24%. While the country had grown at 4 to 5% annually during the 2000s, the financial crisis set it back by 1 million more unemployed. Moreover, it seemed as if the nation were stuck... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Crisis; Inflation and Deflation; Policy; Employment; Wages; Competition; South Africa
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    • February 2016 (Revised July 2017)
    • Case

    Leadership and Independence at the Federal Reserve

    By: David Moss and Marc Campasano
    “From the Great Depression, to the stagflation of the seventies, to the current economic crisis caused by the housing bubble, every economic downturn suffered by this country over the past century can be traced to Federal Reserve policy.” Ron Paul, a Republican from... View Details
    Keywords: Government Legislation; Central Banking; Policy; Financial Crisis; Business and Government Relations; Banking Industry; Public Administration Industry; United States
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    • December 2008 (Revised March 2009)
    • Case

    Rosetree Mortgage Opportunity Fund

    By: Victoria Ivashina and Andre F. Perold
    In December 2008, in the midst of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, Rosetree Capital Management was evaluating the purchase of a pool of U.S. residential mortgages. The firm had formed an investment vehicle to acquire troubled residential mortgages... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Crisis; Borrowing and Debt; Mortgages; Investment; Housing; Valuation; United States
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    • August 1995 (Revised August 1995)
    • Case

    CIGNA Property and Casualty Reengineering (A)

    By: Richard L. Nolan, Donna B. Stoddard, Chiara Francalanci and Elise C Martin
    Reengineering was introduced at CIGNA Corp. in 1988. CIGNA entered a second wave reengineering effort through a major project at CIGNA P&C, one of CIGNA's larger businesses. P&C was in financial crisis and as a result brought in a new executive team in 1991 to head the... View Details
    Keywords: Transformation; Cost vs Benefits; Design; Growth and Development; Analytics and Data Science; Growth and Development Strategy; Balanced Scorecard; Financial Crisis; Crisis Management; Projects; Information Technology; Insurance Industry
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    • 18 May 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Are Banks the ‘Bad Guys’? Overdraft Fees Are Crushing Low-Income Customers

    shows. Despite scrutiny of overdraft fees during the financial crisis more than a decade ago, some banks still reorder checking account debits so that the largest amounts, rather than the earliest debits... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services
    • 21 Apr 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    7 Successful Battle Strategies to Beat COVID-19

    empower teams who are closer to the customer and unlock the full potential of organizations. While born in the software world, the approach is viewed as transformative in both software and hardware across sectors, including financial... View Details
    Keywords: by Euvin Naidoo
    • 11 Dec 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Doing Well by Doing Good? One Industry’s Struggle to Balance Values and Profits

    in an uncertain economy. Navigating an industry in crisis Working in the field of journalism has never been financially rewarding or secure. But the field enjoyed a “golden age” from the mid-to-late 20th... View Details
    Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis