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  • 24 Sep 2021
  • News

‘A Different Kind of Moral Hazard’: The History and Politics behind the Evergrande Debt Crisis

  • October 2014 (Revised June 2016)
  • Case

MasterCard: Driving Financial Inclusion

By: Sunil Gupta, Rajiv Lal and Natalie Kindred
MasterCard CEO Ajay Banga was investing significant time and attention to increase financial inclusion among individuals with historically no access to banking or financial services in countries around the world with large underserved populations. The effort included... View Details
Keywords: Marketing; Financial Services; Financial And Social Return; Financial Inclusion; Strategic Management; South Africa; Nigeria; Ajay Banga; Marketing Strategy; Social Marketing; Financial Services Industry; Banking Industry; South Africa; Nigeria
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  • 2015
  • Working Paper

Banks' Risk Exposures

By: Juliane Begenau, Monika Piazzesi and Martin Schneider
This paper studies U.S. banks' exposure to interest rate and credit risk. We exploit the factor structure in interest rates to represent many bank positions in terms of simple factor portfolios. This approach delivers time varying measures of exposure that are... View Details
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Interest Rates; Credit; Banks and Banking; United States
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    Lauren H. Cohen

    Lauren Cohen is the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance & Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an Editor of the Review of Financial... View Details

    Keywords: asset management; brokerage; financial services; federal government; investment banking industry; state government
    • 15 Jun 2012
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Reaching for Yield in the Bond Market

    Keywords: by Bo Becker & Victoria Ivashina
    • March 2007 (Revised April 2011)
    • Case

    Madam C.J. Walker: Entrepreneur, Leader, and Philanthropist

    By: Nancy F. Koehn, Anne Dwojeski, William Grundy, Erica Helms and Katherine Miller
    Madam C. J. Walker, who has been credited as the first self-made African-American woman millionaire, created a hair-care empire after years spent as a laundress in St. Louis, Missouri. Decades before the Civil Rights movement, her company gave employment to thousands... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership; Business History; Race; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Gender; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Saint Louis
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    • May 2016
    • Supplement

    2016 Update: Argentina Turns the Page

    By: David E. Bell, Forest Reinhardt and Natalie Kindred
    This brief case is a supplement to “Cresud and Argentina” (515-043) and “Note on Agriculture in Argentina” (515-069). Set in early 2016, it describes developments in Argentina under newly elected President Mauricio Macri, including the country’s return to international... View Details
    Keywords: Argentina; ＂ Cresud; Agriculture; Economic Reform; Economic Policy; Land Investment; Macri; Currency; Agribusiness; Diversification; Economy; Emerging Markets; Credit; Currency Exchange Rate; Investment; Business and Government Relations; Government and Politics; Inflation and Deflation; Trade; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Argentina; Buenos Aires; South America
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    • 14 Dec 2017
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Real Exchange Rate, Innovation and Productivity

    Keywords: by Laura Alfaro, Alejandro Cuñat, Harald Fadinger, and Yanping Liu; Manufacturing
    • August 2008 (Revised July 2011)
    • Case

    Consumer Payment Systems — United States

    By: Benjamin Edelman and Andrei Hagiu
    In 2008, the U.S. consumer payments landscape was characterized by the ongoing prevalence of credit and debit card networks, the decline of checks, the rise of stored value cards, and the growth of new payment methods such as PayPal, Bill Me Later, and decoupled debit.... View Details
    Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Financial Management; Personal Finance; Digital Platforms; Motivation and Incentives; Competitive Strategy; Internet and the Web; United States
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    • 27 Sep 2021
    • News

    Revival: The Independent Bookstore Industry Is Growing with a Loyal Customer Base Wanting to Shop Local

    • May 2014 (Revised March 2017)
    • Case

    Unilever's Lifebuoy in India: Implementing the Sustainability Plan

    By: Christopher A. Bartlett

    Unilever's new Global Brand VP must not only revitalize Lifebuoy soap's sagging market performance, but simultaneously impact the health of one billion people worldwide. The latter challenge comes from Unilever's new CEO who has introduced the Unilever Sustainable... View Details

    Keywords: Multinational Management; Corporate Social Responsibility; Strategy Implementation; Marketing Strategy; Mission And Purpose; Change Management; International Business; Global; Fast-moving Consumer Goods; Soap; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Health Care and Treatment; Environmental Sustainability; Global Strategy; Developing Countries and Economies; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Health Industry; India
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    • January 2021 (Revised May 2021)
    • Case

    Delta Air Lines: Navigating the COVID-19 Storm

    By: Ted Berk and Ryan Flamerich
    This case examines Delta Air Lines’ response as demand for its services plummeted in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic, with a focus on the company’s funding needs and capital structure. Following a series of initial actions, the company’s cash “burn” had reduced from... View Details
    Keywords: COVID-19; Health Pandemics; Financial Condition; Capital Structure; Crisis Management; Risk Management; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Air Transportation Industry
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    • August 2008 (Revised May 2009)
    • Case

    Consumer Payment Systems — Japan

    By: Benjamin Edelman and Andrei Hagiu
    In 2008, the Japanese consumer payments landscape featured ongoing widespread use of cash, limited use of credit cards and rapid rise of e-money systems based on contactless technology embedded in cards and especially mobile phones. The case details the alliances that... View Details
    Keywords: Personal Finance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Digital Platforms; Alliances; Competitive Strategy; Information Infrastructure; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Japan
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    • 25 Apr 2013
    • News

    HBS Professor Brings Jay-Z, Lady Gaga to the Classroom

    • 10 Apr 2020
    • News

    Managing the Liquidity Crisis

    • November 2023 (Revised January 2024)
    • Case

    Votorantim: Uniting Family and Business Across Generations

    By: Christina R. Wing, Carla Larangeira and Pedro Levindo
    Over a 105-year span, the Ermírio de Moraes family built Votorantim, one of Latin America’s largest industrial conglomerates, and among Brazil’s topmost businesses, also credited for helping “build” the country over decades. By early 2023, Votorantim included... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Governance; Family Ownership; Business and Shareholder Relations; Family and Family Relationships; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Chemical Industry; Mining Industry; Financial Services Industry; Latin America
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    • Research Summary

    Overview

    Professor Schreger studies international finance and macroeconomics, with an emphasis on sovereign debt. Following a series of sovereign debt crises in the 1980s and 1990s, which caused defaults among emerging markets governments on their foreign currency obligations,... View Details
    • 02 Nov 2017
    • News

    Trump’s tax bill is one tough sell

    • 23 Jun 2013
    • News

    Happier Spending

    • October 2013 (Revised August 2016)
    • Case

    NOWaccount

    By: Ramana Nanda, William A. Sahlman and Lauren Barley

    It was September 2013, and NOWaccount Network Corporation (NOW®) co-founders John Hayes and Lara Hodgson were putting the final touches on the presentation deck for their annual shareholders' meeting. Along with co-founder Stacey Abrams, the pair had designed NOW's... View Details

    Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Finance; Entrepreneurship
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