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- March 1992 (Revised December 1992)
- Case
Salomon and the Treasury Securities Auction
By: Dwight B. Crane
Set in June 1991, two months prior to Salomon Brothers' announcement that the firm had violated the Treasury Department's rules governing the auctions of new Treasury securities. Salomon Vice Chairman John Meriwether must decide how to address problems that continue to... View Details
Keywords: Debt Securities; Managerial Roles; Ethics; Market Transactions; Bonds; Investment Banking; Crisis Management; Auctions; Legal Liability; Banking Industry
Crane, Dwight B. "Salomon and the Treasury Securities Auction." Harvard Business School Case 292-114, March 1992. (Revised December 1992.)
- Fall 2014
- Article
Seesaws and Social Security Benefits Indexing
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
Weinzierl, Matthew. "Seesaws and Social Security Benefits Indexing." Brookings Papers on Economic Activity (Fall 2014): 137–196.
- August 2023
- Article
Can Security Design Foster Household Risk-Taking?
By: Laurent Calvet, Claire Célérier, Paolo Sodini and Boris Vallée
This paper shows that securities with a non-linear payoff design can foster household risk-taking. We demonstrate this effect empirically by exploiting the introduction of capital guarantee products in Sweden from 2002 to 2007. The fast and broad adoption of these... View Details
Keywords: Financial Innovation; Household Finance; Structured Products; Stock Market Participation; Finance; Innovation and Invention; Household; Personal Finance; Risk and Uncertainty; Behavior; Market Participation
Calvet, Laurent, Claire Célérier, Paolo Sodini, and Boris Vallée. "Can Security Design Foster Household Risk-Taking?" Journal of Finance 78, no. 4 (August 2023): 1917–1966.
- 23 Sep 2016
- News
Will Yahoo hack trigger better security checks?
- November 1987
- Case
Fidelity Security Insurance Co.
By: David F. Hawkins
Keywords: Insurance Industry
Hawkins, David F. "Fidelity Security Insurance Co." Harvard Business School Case 187-078, November 1987.
- February 1998
- Case
Security Capital Group Incorporated
By: Jay O. Light, William J. Poorvu and Elizabeth McLoughlin
Keywords: Financial Services Industry
Light, Jay O., William J. Poorvu, and Elizabeth McLoughlin. "Security Capital Group Incorporated." Harvard Business School Case 898-175, February 1998.
- 08 Dec 2014
- News
Seesaws and Social Security Benefits Indexing
- July 1997
- Case
Treasury Inflation-Protection Securities (TIPS)
Explores the development of a new product offering based on the first issuance of "real" bonds in the United States. Looks at a specific organization's efforts to position itself to profit from this market development. Follows naturally from a case on nominal bonds. View Details
Das, Sanjiv R., and Jeffrey T. Slovin. "Treasury Inflation-Protection Securities (TIPS)." Harvard Business School Case 298-017, July 1997.
- September 2005 (Revised March 2006)
- Supplement
Land Securities Group (B)
Riedl, Edward J. "Land Securities Group (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 106-020, September 2005. (Revised March 2006.)
- Apr 12 2016
- Interview
Securing A Strategic Edge
- Oct 2020
- Conference Presentation
Optimal, Truthful, and Private Securities Lending
By: Emily Diana, Michael J. Kearns, Seth Neel and Aaron Leon Roth
We consider a fundamental dynamic allocation problem motivated by the problem of securities lending in financial markets, the mechanism underlying the short selling of stocks. A lender would like to distribute a finite number of identical copies of some scarce resource... View Details
Diana, Emily, Michael J. Kearns, Seth Neel, and Aaron Leon Roth. "Optimal, Truthful, and Private Securities Lending." Paper presented at the 1st Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) International Conference on AI in Finance (ICAIF), October 2020.
- Forthcoming
- Article
Social Security and Trends in Wealth Inequality
By: Sylvain Catherine, Max Miller and Natasha Sarin
Recent influential work finds large increases in inequality in the U.S. based on measures of wealth concentration that notably exclude the value of social insurance programs. This paper shows that top wealth shares have not changed much over the last three decades when... View Details
Catherine, Sylvain, Max Miller, and Natasha Sarin. "Social Security and Trends in Wealth Inequality." Journal of Finance (forthcoming).
- March 2009 (Revised September 2011)
- Case
UBS and Auction Rate Securities (A)
By: Daniel Baird Bergstresser, Shawn A. Cole and Siddharth Bhaskar Shenai
UBS, a global financial services company, must decide whether to continue to support the market for Auction Rate Securities in the face of a growing financial crisis. These instruments, underwritten by UBS, were marketed to clients as highly liquid and safe... View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Financial Crisis; Asset Pricing; Financial Liquidity; Financial Instruments; Government Legislation; Risk and Uncertainty; Financial Services Industry
Bergstresser, Daniel Baird, Shawn A. Cole, and Siddharth Bhaskar Shenai. "UBS and Auction Rate Securities (A)." Harvard Business School Case 209-119, March 2009. (Revised September 2011.)
- August 1991 (Revised June 1992)
- Case
Nikko Securities Co. Ltd.
By: Andre F. Perold
Keywords: Financial Services Industry
Perold, Andre F. "Nikko Securities Co. Ltd." Harvard Business School Case 292-002, August 1991. (Revised June 1992.)
- February 1997 (Revised April 2001)
- Teaching Note
Security Plus, Inc. TN
By: David F. Hawkins and Norman Bartczak
Teaching Note for (9-195-167). View Details
Keywords: Service Industry
- March 23, 2006
- Article
The Search for Security
By: Raymond Fisman and Eric D. Werker
Keywords: Safety
Fisman, Raymond, and Eric D. Werker. "The Search for Security." Mastering Uncertainty Financial Times (March 23, 2006).
- 10 Jan 2007
- HBS Case
The Challenge of Managing National Security
only beginning to learn about these matters. And by the way, we don't have security clearances. The case is based on publicly available documents and information. The role of this case is not to assess how well the intelligence community... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Ask the Expert: In Security
Illustration by Taylor Callery Remember a decade ago, when the main cybersecurity worry was a retail breach of credit card information? “Obviously that still happens,” says Chris Young (MBA 2003), CEO of the security software company... View Details
- 05 Dec 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Seesaws and Social Security Benefits Indexing
Keywords: by Matthew Weinzierl
- September 2020
- Article
Relaxing Household Liquidity Constraints Through Social Security
By: Sylvain Catherine, Max Miller and Natasha Sarin
More than a quarter of working-age households in the United States do not have sufficient savings to cover their expenditures after a month of unemployment. Recent proposals suggest giving workers early access to a small portion of their future Social Security benefits... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Personal Finance; Employment; Welfare; Insurance; Government Legislation
Catherine, Sylvain, Max Miller, and Natasha Sarin. "Relaxing Household Liquidity Constraints Through Social Security." Art. 104243. Journal of Public Economics 189 (September 2020).