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  • 21 Jan 2009
  • First Look

First Look: January 21, 2009

http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=609046 Note: Credit Rating Agencies Harvard Business School Note 209-056 The note examines the role of credit rating agencies... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 5

gatekeeping institutions, from credit rating agencies to supply-chain auditors, are important players in contemporary regulatory regimes. Yet little is known about what influences the decisions of the individual accountants, auditors,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

benchmarks' polling nature and the sheer volume of the derivative market linked to these rates. The authors make several recommendations on how changes to benchmark definition View Details
  • September 2004 (Revised February 2007)
  • Case

Hedging Currency Risks at AIFS

By: Mihir A. Desai, Vincent Dessain and Anders Sjoman
The American Institute for Foreign Studies (AIFS) organizes study abroad programs and cultural exchanges for American students. The firm's revenues are mainly in U.S. dollars, but most of its costs are in eurodollars and British pounds. The company's controllers review... View Details
Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Investment Funds; Financial Strategy; Forecasting and Prediction; Revenue; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Currency; Currency Exchange Rate; Education Industry; North and Central America
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Global Impact of the Collapse | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

default swap contracts. As confidence in the banks eroded, borrowing rates rose and home foreclosures continued to spike. Lawrence McDonald, author and a former vice-president... View Details
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Bankruptcy | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Moody’s, or Fitch. [17] MBSs and CDOs are sold to investors all over the world, including pension funds, insurance companies, mutual funds, hedge funds, and other investment banks. [18] Investors can hedge... View Details
  • 07 Jul 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

or fail to analyze the utter breakdown in board governance and Enron's internal controls, and the failure of credit rating agencies to blow the whistle," he says.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities
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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

Derivatives and Swaps (1) Credit (8) Crime and Corruption (43) Crisis Management (51) Cross-Cultural View Details
  • 04 Aug 2010
  • News

A Lonely Crusader

2002, Ackman shorted MBIA’s stock and bought credit default swaps betting that the firm would tank. Then he went public with his bets and a... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; subprime mortgages; Finance; Real Estate
  • March 2005 (Revised March 2006)
  • Case

Foreign Exchange Hedging Strategies at General Motors: Competitive Exposures

By: Mihir A. Desai and Mark Veblen
How can a multinational firm analyze and manage currency risks that arise from competitive exposures? General Motors has a substantial competitive exposure to the Japanese yen. Although the risks GM faces from the depreciating yen are widely acknowledged, the company's... View Details
Keywords: Multinational Firms and Management; Currency Exchange Rate; Competition; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; International Finance; Financial Management; Investment Funds; Risk and Uncertainty; Auto Industry
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Podcast - Business & Environment

co-Founder and Vice Chairman of SUN Mobility, aims to accelerate mass adoption of electric mobility in India by making it affordable and accessible. SUN Mobility’s battery View Details
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Bloomberg: corporate bonds

the main menu for the selected bond, note the ticker for future reference; e.g., GM8 1/4 07/23. To analyze bonds: Browse a bond's main menu or type a shortcut and hit GO: CDSW for credit default View Details
  • 24 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Rethinking Activity-Based Costing

minutes to handle an inquiry, and 50 minutes to perform a credit check. Deriving cost-driver rates. The cost-driver rates can now be calculated by multiplying the two input... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

that credit growth dynamics and bank lending channels vary across these loan types using credit-registry data for Spain and Peru. The effects of monetary policy propagating... View Details
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Leadership Transitions | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

heavily in derivatives in the form of subprime mortgages that yielded unprecedented profits. In the early 2000s, Lehman Brothers bought five mortgage lenders, including subprime lender BNC Mortgage and... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

Made in Italy

were one of the first banking houses to use double-entry bookkeeping—the foundation of modern accounting—and, equally important, one of the first to create letters of credit and multiple branch banking,... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 05 Jun 2009
  • What Do You Think?

What Does Slower Economic Growth Really Mean?

services? The latter grew so rapidly in the U.S. in recent years (with every mortgage backed security and credit default swap transaction counted, resulting in substantial... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate
  • June 1995 (Revised May 1996)
  • Teaching Note

B.F. Goodrich-Rabobank Interest Rate Swap, The TN

By: Andre F. Perold and Wai Lee
Teaching Note for (9-284-080). View Details
Keywords: Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Rubber Industry
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Winners & Runners-Up | New Venture Competition

(MD/PhD) Social Enterprise Track Winner Empowering Black college students pursuing careers in health sciences. Pando Claire Wu (MBA 2023) Andrew Setiawan Social Enterprise Track Runner-Up & Crowd Favorite Winner Democratizing credit for... View Details
  • 01 Oct 1997
  • News

Brice Cutrer Jones

program he instituted in 1992. Bred to yield the most intense flavors possible, the pea-sized Grand Cru grapes, derived from French clones, are harvested from the vineyard's rocky hillsides, sorted on a vibrating culling table invented by... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross