Financial Crisis - Publications - Faculty & Research

30 Jun 2020
Book

Capitalism Is More at Risk Than Ever

over as Unilever’s CEO less than two years earlier, in January 2009, when the company was reeling from the global financial crisis and its stock price was down 35 percent year-over-year. The company’s... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

2019
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Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream: How Technology Is Transforming Lending and Shaping a New Era of Small Business Opportunity

By: Karen G. Mills

Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream describes the needs of small businesses for capital and demonstrates how technology—novel data sources, artificial intelligence, machine learning—will transform the small business lending market. This market has been... View Details

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October 2018
Supplement

African Bank Investments Limited (B)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Will Hurwitz

Less than a year after joining the board of African Bank Investments Limited (ABIL), the newest director finds himself in difficult discussions with other directors about removing the struggling company’s CEO. The case is set in South Africa in mid-2014 as shares in... View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Personal Finance; Corporate Accountability; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Governance; Crisis Management; Insurance; Leadership; Management; Risk Management; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Africa; South Africa

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April 2009 (Revised March 2011)
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Dave and Millie: A Tale of Two Entrepreneurs

By: G. Felda Hardymon and Ann Leamon

Two entrepreneurs have just been told by their venture capital backer to prepare a list of possible cuts to help them weather the 2008–2009 economic downturn. The impact on each firm is very different: one is a later-stage company with revenues in excess of $100... View Details

Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Crisis; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Cost Management; Growth and Development Strategy

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11 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Building a Better Board

decisions that come before the board," Kaufman says. "One lesson from the recent global financial crisis was that some financial institution boards had few directors... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

January 1999
Case

Prague Post, The

By: Paul A. Gompers

Lisa Frankenberg, co-founder of the Prague Post, is faced with several business and professional decisions. The English-language paper she founded is under pressure from competition and a Czech Republic recession. She must decide how to return the paper to... View Details

Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Decisions; Decision Choices and Conditions; Profit; Competition; Financial Crisis; Personal Development and Career; Publishing Industry; Czech Republic

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July 2010
Teaching Note

Chrysler's Sale to Fiat (TN)

By: C. Fritz Foley and Lena G. Goldberg

Teaching Note for 210022. View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Restructuring; Financial Crisis; Assets; Policy; Cost vs Benefits; Sales; Government and Politics; Auto Industry; United States

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21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21

10, 2008, just before the financial crisis in September 2008. The focus of the case is on what happened after the financial crisis turned into a... View Details

22 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

of the action. When participants do not "see" or feel responsible for the whole, a dynamic ecosystem can easily evolve into a state of dangerous instability, as in the financial crisis of 2008-09, or even... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

31 Jul 2012
First Look

First Look: July 31

112-105 A simple consolidation exercise. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/112105-PDF-ENG Capitalizing for the Future: HSBC in 2010 Anette Mikes and Dominique HamelHarvard Business School Case 112-097 Following the financial View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

16 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 16

uninsured depositors in order to return the nation's largest banks to solvency. How had Cyprus's development model contributed to both the island's financial crisis as well as the structure of its ultimate... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Jan 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 23, 2018

was the result of deleveraging and the post-Global Financial Crisis period, a mere cyclical phase. Distilling the sources and drivers of productivity decline was further complicated by the rise in economic... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

August 2010
Teaching Note

Vereinigung Hamburger Schiffsmakler und Schiffsagenten e.V.: Valuing Ships (TN)

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Albert W. Sheen

Teaching Note for 210058. View Details

Keywords: Valuation; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Financial Crisis; Price; Financing and Loans; Contracts; Asset Pricing; Cash Flow; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Shipping Industry; Germany

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June 2010
Teaching Note

Sheikh Mohammed and the Making of "Dubai, Inc." (TN)

By: Anthony Mayo and Johnathan Cromwell

Teaching Note for 410063. View Details

Keywords: Balance and Stability; Growth and Development; Identity; Government and Politics; Infrastructure; Financial Crisis; Labor; Economic Systems; Culture; Managerial Roles; Local Range; Dubai

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November 10, 2022
Article

5 Ways Startups Can Prepare for a Recession

By: Lou Shipley

Startups face unique challenges during economic downturns. They typically aren’t yet profitable and so are reliant on outside funding—and therefore are especially exposed when macroeconomic conditions change. To make it through a recession, startup CEOs should hit the... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Organizational Culture; Sales; Customer Focus and Relationships; Decisions; Inflation and Deflation; Financial Crisis; Employee Relationship Management; Business Startups; Credit

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08 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile

experience has been a mixed blessing. In Argentina, liberalization and opening to the world in the 1990s first produced growth, and then instability as the Asian financial crisis impacted the country. At the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

03 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling

experts in the health care field, to provide their views on various facets of one of this country's most important and complex problems. Bill George Professor of Management Practice, former chair and CEO of Medtronic, and author of 7 Lessons for Leading in View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Health

20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016

overseas operations in countries with weak governance. Additional tests show that during a financial crisis when creditor recoveries are generally low, organizational complexity exacerbates creditor losses.... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

20 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 20

and the impact that entrepreneurs have on growth in developing nations Too Big to Save? How to Fix the U.S. Financial System Author:Robert C. Pozen Publication:John Wiley, 2009 Publisher's Abstract Too Big To Save? provides a... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

September 2010
Case

Aaron's: Household Goods for the U.S. Base of the Pyramid

By: Michael Chu and Charles Augustus Smithgall IV

With $2.5 billion system-wide revenues, Aaron's, a major rent-to-own supplier to the U.S. base of the pyramid, continues to grow in the recession, but CEO R.C. Loudermilk, Jr. wonders how long the company can sustain the fast growth rate of its past. Founded in 1955,... View Details