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  • 29 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 29

note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/110070-PDF-ENG The Robin Hood Foundation Alnoor S. Ebrahim and Cathy RossHarvard Business School Case 310-031 Created by hedge fund and financial managers, the Robin Hood Foundation fights... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • December 2015
  • Article

Introduction: New Perspectives on Corporate Capital Structure

By: Viral Acharya, Heitor Almeida and Malcolm Baker
The National Bureau of Economic Research held a symposium titled "New Perspectives on Corporate Capital Structures" on April 5–6, 2013 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In its call for the submission of theoretical and empirical papers for the symposium, the NBER noted that... View Details
Keywords: Capital Structure; Economic Growth; Financial Crisis; Corporate Finance
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  • October 2012 (Revised July 2013)
  • Case

Olympus (A)

By: Jay W. Lorsch, Suraj Srinivasan and Kathleen Durante
As 2012 approached, the woes of the financial crisis seemed to be fading, companies were resuming business as usual, and some of the scrutiny on corporate governance practices began to recede as well. That is until another major financial scandal emerged in Japan in... View Details
Keywords: Accounting; Corporate Governance; Electronics Industry; Health Industry; Japan
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  • 14 Feb 2013
  • News

Heinz CEO Who Turned Food Maker Around Hints He Might Stay

    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
    • 13 Oct 2008
    • News

    Bill George: Where Were the Boards?

    • 10 Feb 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: February 10, 2009

    magnitude of the current financial crisis reflects the failure of an economic and regulatory philosophy that had proved increasingly influential in policy circles over the past three decades. This paper... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • March 2014
    • Teaching Note

    Barclays Bank and Contingent Capital Notes, 2012

    By: Lucy White
    In 2012, regulatory changes following the financial crisis mean that Barclays Bank is faced with the need to raise large amounts of capital in order to comply with increased capital requirements, tightening rules as to the "quality of capital," and increased risk... View Details
    Keywords: Capital; Financial Crisis; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry
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    • July 2014
    • Supplement

    Barclays Bank and Contingent Capital Notes, 2012 (CW)

    By: Lucy White and Trent Kim
    In 2012, regulatory changes following the financial crisis mean that Barclays Bank is faced with the need to raise large amounts of capital in order to comply with increased capital requirements, tightening rules as to the "quality of capital," and increased risk... View Details
    Keywords: Capital; Financial Crisis; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry
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    • October 2005
    • Case

    Tad Piper and Piper Jaffray

    By: William W. George and Andrew N. McLean
    In 2005, Tad Piper reflects on the successful spin-off from US Bancorp of Piper Jaffray, the investment bank founded by his grandfather. Profiles the development of Piper Jaffray from a Midwestern brokerage house to a national, diversified financial services firm. In... View Details
    Keywords: Crisis Management; Leadership Style; Management Style; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Financial Services Industry
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      Suraj Srinivasan

      Suraj Srinivasan is the Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Business Administration, a member of the Accounting and Management faculty unit, and chair of the View Details

      Keywords: financial services; financial services
      • 2010
      • Chapter

      Cost Structure Patterns in the Asset Management Industry

      By: Dennis Campbell and Frances X. Frei
      This chapter examines patterns in the cost structure of asset management firms and establishes two important trends in cost behavior. First, when revenues are growing, "indirect" costs related to sales, distribution, marketing, personnel, technology, and occupancy are... View Details
      Keywords: Financial Crisis; Asset Management; Cost Management; Financial Services Industry
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      • August 2010 (Revised March 2012)
      • Supplement

      The Dow Acquisition of Rohm and Haas (C)

      By: Jay W. Lorsch and Melissa Barton
      The global economy entered a crippling recession in the fourth quarter of 2008 and Dow lost its primary source of funding for its planned acquisition of Rohm and Haas. View Details
      Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Financial Crisis; Financing and Loans; Chemical Industry
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      • Article

      An Evaluation of Money Market Fund Reform Proposals

      By: Samuel G. Hanson, David S. Scharfstein and Adi Sunderam
      U.S. money market mutual funds (MMFs) are an important source of dollar funding for global financial institutions, particularly those headquartered outside the U.S. MMFs proved to be a source of considerable instability during the financial crisis of 2007–2009,... View Details
      Keywords: Balance and Stability; Globalized Markets and Industries; Banks and Banking
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      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      Internal Models, Make Believe Prices, and Bond Market Cornering

      By: Ishita Sen and Varun Sharma
      Exploiting position-level heterogeneity in regulatory incentives to misreport and novel data on regulators, we document that U.S. life insurers inflate the values of corporate bonds using internal models. We estimate an additional $9-$18 billion decline in regulatory... View Details
      Keywords: Life Insurers; Capital Regulation; Internal Models; Corporate Bonds; Regulatory Supervision; Concentrated Ownership; Bonds; Capital; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Insurance; Investment Portfolio
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      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      How Should U.S. Bank Regulators Respond to the COVID-19 Crisis?

      By: Michael Blank, Samuel G. Hanson, Jeremy C. Stein and Adi Sunderam
      Drawing on lessons from the 2007–2009 Global Financial Crisis (GFC) and a simple conceptual framework, we examine the response of U.S. bank regulators to the COVID-19 pandemic. We argue that the current regulatory strategy of “watchful waiting”—the same strategy that... View Details
      Keywords: COVID-19; Bank Regulation; Recapitalization; Health Pandemics; Banks and Banking; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Strategy; Risk Management; United States
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      • February 2008 (Revised March 2009)
      • Case

      Primus, 2007

      Primus is a credit derivative product company. How will they weather the credit crisis of 2007? View Details
      Keywords: Financial Crisis; Credit; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Financial Markets; Financial Services Industry
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      • 12 Jul 2020
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Sticky Capital Controls

      Keywords: by Miguel Acosta-Henao, Laura Alfaro, and Andrés Fernández
      • 24 Jun 2012
      • News

      Suggested Safeguards Irk Fund Industry

      • 12 Jan 2013
      • News

      Striking a balance on money market funds