Publications

Educators

May 2013
Teaching Plan

High Wire Act: Credit Suisse and Contingent Capital

By: Clayton Rose and David Lane

Late in 2010, Credit Suisse CEO Brady Dougan and his team considered whether or not to issue contingent capital, which Swiss regulators would require by 2019. They faced a number of substantial issues, including: Would contingent capital actually work as conceptualized... View Details

Keywords: Financial Institutions; Capital Markets; Financial Crisis; Decision Choices and Conditions; Leadership; International Finance; Financial Liquidity; Risk and Uncertainty; Competitive Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Switzerland

01 Mar 2009
News

Letters to the Editor

HBS Flunks Finance 101 As regards your December Editor’s Note wherein you refer to Dean Jay Light’s remarks to the hastily organized financial crisis panels during the week of September 22: Light attributes... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

2010
Article

M@n@gement in Times of Economic Crisis: Insights Into Organizational Ambidexterity

By: Achim Schmitt, Gilbert Probst and Michael Tushman

Keywords: Management; Financial Crisis; Organizations

17 Jul 2009
Research Event

Business Summit: Ethics in Globalization

capitalism in general, and the financial crisis in particular. The current financial crisis has raised questions about the legitimacy of... View Details

Keywords: Re: Rafael M. Di Tella

May 2003
Case

Sun Hydraulics: Leading in Tough Times (A) (Abridged)

By: Linda A. Hill and Jennifer Suesse

Sun Hydraulics, 32-year-old global hydraulics engineering and manufacturing company headquartered in Sarasota, Florida; confronts tough choices due to the economic downturn in 2001. The company leadership debates how to maintain profitability and reduce labor costs... View Details

Keywords: Organizational Culture; Mission and Purpose; Financial Crisis; Crisis Management; Manufacturing Industry; Florida

Educators

05 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Watching for the Next Economic Downturn? Follow Corporate Debt

focused on housing and household debt for good reason: In the United States, a residential housing loan collapse touched off the deep financial crisis of 2008. But in the decade-plus since, the focus on... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

April 1990
Case

What Is Done Is Dun . . . & Bradstreet

By: Stephen A. Greyser and Norman Klein

Keywords: Crisis Management; Financial Services Industry

August 1984 (Revised June 1985)
Teaching Note

Great Depression: Causes and Impact, Teaching Note

By: Richard S. Tedlow

Keywords: Outcome or Result; Financial Crisis

August 1984 (Revised January 1986)
Case

Great Depression: Causes and Impact

By: Richard S. Tedlow

Keywords: Outcome or Result; Financial Crisis

01 Mar 2009
News

Damon Silvers

to restructure home mortgages in a manner homeowners can afford is at the heart of our financial crisis. We have paid a terrible price for not addressing the foreclosure crisis at its inception, but it is... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Transportation

June 2002 (Revised October 2002)
Background Note

Argentina: Data Supplement, 1990-2002

By: Huw Pill and Ingrid Vogel

Provides basic macroeconomic data for Argentina for the period 1990 through 2002. Covers the period from the adoption of Argentina's currency board to its ultimate demise and beyond. View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Macroeconomics; Argentina

13 Jun 2012
HBS Case

HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants

to by assigning overly optimistic ratings to highly complex and opaque mortgage- and asset-backed securities. The high ratings signaled to investors that the financial instruments had little chance of default, but the burst of the... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Financial Services; Financial Services

August 2011
Teaching Note

Going to the Oracle: Goldman Sachs, September 2008 (TN)

By: Clayton Rose and Sally Canter Ganzfried

Teaching Note for 309-069. View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Investment; Negotiation Deal; Capital; Financial Liquidity; Decisions; Management Teams; Banks and Banking; Financing and Loans; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States