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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
    • March 2005
    • Case

    Windhoek Nature Reserve: Financing a Sustainable Conservation Model in Namibia

    In 2003, a Namibian entrepreneur was deciding how to finance and manage the risks of an ecotourism, nature reserve, venture project. Explores the challenges facing an entrepreneur operating in an emerging market with imperfect local financial and legal institutions. View Details
    Keywords: Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship
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    • March 2009 (Revised February 2011)
    • Background Note

    Note: Fair Value Accounting for Investments in Debt Securities

    By: William E. Fruhan
    The note describes how fair value accounting applies to debt securities that are classified by financial institutions as (1) "trading" securities, (2) "available for sale" securities, or (3) "hold to maturity" securities. It explains the hierarchy for inputs used in... View Details
    Keywords: Fair Value Accounting; Financial Reporting; Assets; Debt Securities; Investment
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    • October 2014 (Revised November 2016)
    • Technical Note

    Customer Lifetime Value (CLV) vs. Customer Lifetime Return on Investment (CLROI)

    By: Elie Ofek
    This note presents two related measures for assessing the financial value of a customer to the firm. The first is the well-known measure of Customer Lifetime Value, or CLV for short. The second, which has received much less attention, treats the acquisition of a... View Details
    Keywords: Customer Lifetime Value; Return On Investment; Segmentation; Social Networks; Customer Relationship Management; Marketing Strategy; Investment Return; Social and Collaborative Networks; Social Media
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    • October 1987 (Revised September 1992)
    • Case

    Hurricane Island Outward Bound School

    Hurricane Island Outward Bound, a small, nonprofit school that helped pioneer experiential education in the United States, has recently recovered from a financial crisis. Students take the role of the school's new marketing manager, who is preparing his first marketing... View Details
    Keywords: Demand and Consumers; Nonprofit Organizations; Marketing Strategy; Education; Education Industry; United States
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    Finance I

    By: Archie L. Jones

    This course examines the role of finance in supporting the functional areas of a firm, and fosters an understanding of how financial decisions themselves can create value.

    Topics covered include:

    • July 2007 (Revised November 2007)
    • Case

    Leasing Computers at Persistent Learning

    Newly public Persistent Learning is acquiring vital computer assets. They need to determine how the lease or purchase decision will impact their financial statements, and how the market will react given previously forecast earnings and competitor's accounting. View Details
    Keywords: Information Infrastructure; Financial Statements; Leasing
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    • 27 Jul 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: July 27

    likely to perceive CSR strategies favorably. Our results show how CSR strategies can affect value creation in public equity markets through analyst recommendations. Institutional Stock Trading on Loan Market... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • Video

    What's Behind China's Wild Stock Ride?

    • January 2004 (Revised June 2004)
    • Case

    Innovation at the Treasury: Treasury Inflation-Protection Securities (A)

    By: Kenneth A. Froot, Peter A. Hecht and Christopher Edward James Payton
    In 1997, the U.S. Treasury was deciding whether to proceed with a proposal to issue inflation-indexed bonds. This case explores the challenges facing innovation in the financial markets as the Treasury tries to determine whether to introduce Treasury... View Details
    Keywords: Inflation; Innovation; Federal Government; Securities; Debt Securities; Risk Management; Bonds; Investment Portfolio; Capital Markets; Inflation and Deflation; Government and Politics; Innovation and Invention; United States
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    • September 2014 (Revised May 2017)
    • Case

    Fresno's Social Impact Bond for Asthma

    By: John A. Quelch and Margaret L. Rodriguez
    In 2014, Social Impact Bonds (SIBs) were quickly gaining popularity as an investment vehicle which joined together private investors and nonprofits to tackle social issues. Although numerous SIB projects and proposals had cropped up across the U.S. following the launch... View Details
    Keywords: Social Enterprise; Health Care; Marketing; Bonds; Financing; Asthma; Air Pollution; Air Quality; Chronic Disease; Public Health; Health; Health Care and Treatment; Finance; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States
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    • November 2010 (Revised October 2011)
    • Case

    Oriflame S.A. (A)

    By: David F. Hawkins, Karol Misztal and Daniela Beyersdorfer
    A direct-selling cosmetics company involved in emerging markets exhibits significant foreign exchange risk exposure and profitability swings in the wake of the 2008 financial crisis. Students must review the company's use of derivative instruments and other hedging... View Details
    Keywords: Accounting; Financial Crisis; Currency Exchange Rate; Financial Strategy; Investment; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Risk Management; Emerging Markets; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry
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    Executive Education: Leading Growth through Customer Centricity — India

    By: Rajiv Lal

    Establishing a strategic advantage in India's highly competitive marketplace requires a systemic shift in focus—away from selling products and toward meeting the needs of customers. But how many companies are prepared to carry out such fundamental change? By... View Details

    • 19 Apr 2018
    • Video

    Alpha Vantage Final Pitch New Venture Competition 2018 Business Track

    • March 2012
    • Article

    How to Make Finance Work

    By: Robin Greenwood and David S. Scharfstein
    Once a sleepy old boys' club, the U.S. financial sector is now a dynamic and growing business that attracts the best and the brightest. It is tempting to declare the industry a roaring success. But its purpose is to serve the needs of U.S. households and firms, and by... View Details
    Keywords: Business Ventures; Value; Competitive Advantage; Investment; Performance Evaluation; Household; Financial Crisis; Finance; Financial Services Industry; United States
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    • December 2010
    • Article

    Implications for GAAP from an Analysis of Positive Research in Accounting

    By: S.P. Kothari, Karthik Ramanna and Douglas J. Skinner
    Based on extant literature, we review the positive theory of GAAP. The theory predicts that GAAP's principal focus is on control (performance measurement and stewardship) and that verifiability and conservatism are critical features of a GAAP shaped by market forces.... View Details
    Keywords: Fair Value Accounting; Standards; International Accounting; Financial Markets; Financial Reporting
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    • October 2003 (Revised January 2004)
    • Background Note

    Online Securities Trading in Japan

    By: Lynda M. Applegate, Jamie Ladge, Haruki Umezawa and Masako Egawa
    Provides an overview of the Japanese securities industry and discusses how the online trading/brokerage industry grew as a result of deregulation of financial markets and penetration of the Internet in Japan. Describes major players in the online industry--Matsui... View Details
    Keywords: Internet and the Web; Competitive Strategy; Emerging Markets; Financial Markets; Business Strategy; Financial Instruments; Globalized Markets and Industries; Internet and the Web; Japan
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    • December 2010 (Revised June 2018)
    • Case

    The Pecora Hearings

    By: David Moss, Cole Bolton and Eugene Kintgen
    In 1932, in the depths of the Great Depression, the Senate Banking Committee began a much-publicized investigation of the nation's financial sector. The hearings, which came to be known as the Pecora hearings after the Banking Committee's lead counsel Ferdinand Pecora,... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Crisis; Fairness; Borrowing and Debt; Financial Institutions; Debt Securities; Stocks; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government Legislation; History; Financial Services Industry; United States
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    • October 2023
    • Case

    Leading Transformation at IHCL

    By: Krishna G. Palepu, V.G. Narayanan and Malini Sen
    In November 2017, Puneet Chhatwal, took charge as MD and CEO of IHCL, popularly referred to as the Taj Hotels. Despite being India’s largest hospitality company by market capitalization and respected for its values and service, IHCL had made losses for the last seven... View Details
    Keywords: Turn Around Management; Hospitality Industry; Brand Management; Financial Strategy; Business Model; Restructuring; Asset Management; Leadership Style; Crisis Management; Brands and Branding; Product Positioning; Segmentation; Asia; India
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    • 02 Jan 2020
    • News

    British invasion: The UK fintechs taking on the US