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  • 13 Feb 2014
  • Other Presentation

Shared Value in Extractives (Video)

By: Michael E. Porter
Michael Porter presentation at the Next-Gen CSR and Shared Value Forum in Calgary, Alberta View Details
Keywords: Mining; Canada; Society; Mining Industry; Canada
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  • March 2014
  • Teaching Note

Barclays Bank, 2008

By: Lucy White
In the midst of the financial crisis, Barclays (the world's 4th largest bank by assets) is forced by UK regulators to raise more capital. Should it take up the UK government's offer to invest, or take funding from investors from the Middle East? Students may price the... View Details
Keywords: Government And Business; Option Contract; Corporate Finance; Bank Capital; Bank Regulation; Finance; Banking Industry; Europe; North and Central America
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  • 22 Jun 2012
  • Other Presentation

Competitive Advantage: Enduring Ideas and New Opportunities

By: Michael E. Porter
This presentation draws on ideas from Professor Porter's books and articles, in particular, Competitive Strategy (The Free Press, 1980); Competitive Advantage (The Free Press, 1985); "What is Strategy?" (Harvard Business Review, Nov/Dec 1996); and On... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Canada
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  • February 1997
  • Article

Mexico Going Highly Inflationary for FAS 52 Accounting

By: David F. Hawkins
Keywords: Accounting; Standards; Mexico
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  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Private Equity's Diversification Illusion: Economic Comovement and Fair Value Reporting

By: Kyle Travis Welch
This study examines how accounting has informed private equity diversification claims and demand for private equity investments. Despite research showing private equity lacks portfolio diversification benefits, those marketing private equity assets continue to... View Details
Keywords: Fair Value; Access To Capital; IAS 39; FAS No. 157; FASB; IASB; ASC 820; Covariance Risk; Accounting Beta; Accounting; Private Sector; Valuation; Corporate Finance; Asset Management; Cost of Capital; Private Equity; Accounting Industry; Financial Services Industry; Europe; North and Central America
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  • 2012
  • Other Unpublished Work

Towards Efficiencies in Canadian Internet Traffic Exchange

By: Benjamin Edelman and Bill Woodcock
Canadian Internet access is heavily and unnecessarily dependent upon foreign infrastructure, especially U.S. infrastructure. This dependence imposes significant burdens upon Canadian Internet users:

* Service prices are higher than would be the case if... View Details
Keywords: Networks; Canada; Privacy; Technology Networks; Rights; Communication Technology; Internet; Ethics; Telecommunications Industry; Canada
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  • 2013
  • Working Paper

These Are the Good Old Days: Foreign Entry and the Mexican Banking System

By: Stephen Haber and Aldo Musacchio
In 1997, the Mexican government reversed long-standing policies and allowed foreign banks to purchase Mexico's largest commercial banks and relaxed restrictions on the founding of new, foreign-owned banks. The result has been a dramatic shift in the ownership structure... View Details
Keywords: Market Entry and Exit; Balance and Stability; Foreign Direct Investment; Banks and Banking; Society; Economics; Banking Industry; Mexico
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  • August 2009 (Revised July 2010)
  • Case

Choosing a GAAP for Canada

By: Karthik Ramanna and Beiting Cheng
Explores Canadian regulators' decision to adopt International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). The Canadian decision in 2005 to adopt IFRS is particularly interesting because Canada had well-developed domestic accounting standards and because a significant... View Details
Keywords: Financial Reporting; International Accounting; Cost vs Benefits; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Standards; Accounting Industry; Canada
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  • May 2008 (Revised September 2014)
  • Teaching Note

TD Canada Trust (A), (B), and (C)

By: Dennis Campbell
Keywords: Performance Evaluation; Banks and Banking; Mergers and Acquisitions; Customer Focus and Relationships; Profit; Balanced Scorecard; Service Delivery; Announcements; Compensation and Benefits; Canada
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  • February 2008 (Revised July 2008)
  • Case

Banco Compartamos: Life after the IPO

By: Michael Chu and Regina Garcia Cuellar
After an international IPO yielding extraordinary returns to original investors, Banco Compartamos, Mexico's leading microfinance institution, contemplates its future strategic and competing priorities: maintaining growth, defending industry, leadership, preserving... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Microfinance; Initial Public Offering; Non-Governmental Organizations; Competition; Value Creation; Banking Industry; Mexico
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  • August 2006
  • Teaching Note

Cinco de Mayo (TN)

By: Arthur I Segel and Nicolas P. Retsinas
Keywords: Mexico
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  • 2008
  • Book

Mexico Since 1980

By: Stephen Haber, Herb Klein, Noel Maurer and Kevin Middlebrook
This book addresses two questions that are crucial to understanding Mexico's current economic and political challenges. Why did the opening up of the economy to foreign trade and investment not result in sustained economic growth? Why has electoral democracy not... View Details
Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Foreign Direct Investment; Government and Politics; Growth and Development; Law Enforcement; Welfare or Wellbeing; Mexico
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  • January 2004 (Revised April 2011)
  • Teaching Note

Farmington Industries,Inc.: Managing Currency Exposure Risk (TN)

By: David F. Hawkins and Jacob Cohen
Teaching Note to 104053. View Details
Keywords: Currency Exchange Rate; Electronics Industry; Mexico
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  • October 2003 (Revised October 2004)
  • Case

AT&T Canada (A)

By: Andre F. Perold and Kwame C. Van Leeuwen
AT&T Canada (ATTC) is a merger arbitrage situation where AT&T Corp. has a contractual commitment to purchase the shares of ATTC at an escalating formula price. However, ATTC's business is performing poorly, and its bonds are trading at significant discounts to par.... View Details
Keywords: Agreements and Arrangements; Valuation; Mergers and Acquisitions; Investment; Telecommunications Industry; Canada
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  • May 2001 (Revised December 2003)
  • Case

Mexico: The Unfinished Agenda

By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Rebecca Evans
President Vincente Fox takes over in Mexico on December 1, 2000--a political revolution ending 71 years of PRI rule. In the past five years, Mexico has solved a number of macroeconomic problems and had a good run of economic growth. But a host of microeconomic problems... View Details
Keywords: Economic Growth; Macroeconomics; Microeconomics; Policy; Government and Politics; Strategic Planning; Problems and Challenges; Mexico
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  • March 2001 (Revised January 2007)
  • Teaching Note

Basil "Buzz" Hargrove and de Havilland, Inc. (A) and (B) TN

By: Kathleen L. McGinn and Linda-Eling Lee
Teaching Note for (9-899-138) and (9-899-176). View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing Industry; Canada
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  • February 1997 (Revised October 2002)
  • Case

Mexico (C): Reform and Crisis, 1987-1995

By: Huw Pill
Describes the evolution of the Mexican economy and its relation with the international capital markets in the period leading up to the Peso crisis of December 1994. Emphasizes the role of "Washington consensus" policies in stimulating the inflows, and the inability of... View Details
Keywords: Globalized Economies and Regions; Capital Markets; Financial Crisis; Macroeconomics; Mexico
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  • August 1996 (Revised December 1996)
  • Case

Veraguas (B): Engine of Change

By: George C. Lodge
Keywords: Change Management; Developing Countries and Economies; Development Economics; Panama
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  • August 1996 (Revised December 1996)
  • Case

Veraguas (A): System of Poverty

By: George C. Lodge
Keywords: Poverty; Change Management; Development Economics; Panama
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  • March 1993
  • Teaching Note

Empresas ICA and the Mexican Road Privatization Program (TN)

By: Willis M. Emmons III
Teaching Note for (9-793-028). View Details
Keywords: Construction Industry; Mexico
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