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  • 04 Feb 2020
  • Video

Erling Lorentzen

Erling Lorentzen, former head of Aracruz Celulose, a leading Brazilan manufacturer of pulp and paper, describes the difficulty of gaining financing from the American banks Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs... View Details
  • January 2020
  • Case

Banorte Móvil: Data-Driven Mobile Growth

By: Ayelet Israeli, Carla Larangeira and Mariana Cal
In mid-2019, Carlos Hank was deliberating over the results for Banorte Móvil—the mobile application for Banorte, Mexico’s most profitable and second-largest financial institution. Hank, who had been appointed as Banorte´s Chairman of the Board in January 2015, had... View Details
Keywords: Data Analytics; Customer Lifetime Value; Financial Institutions; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Growth and Development Strategy; Customers; Technology Adoption; Communication Strategy; Banking Industry; Mexico; Latin America
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  • 19 May 2015
  • First Look

First Look: May 19

decreased volatility of supply shocks and increased volatility of the Fed's long-run inflation target. Endogenous responses of bond risk premia amplify these effects of monetary policy on bond risks. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2332106 Career... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • April 2004 (Revised June 2004)
  • Case

Neeley University Investment Management Company

This case analyzes the problem of a university looking to reduce its private equity exposure in its endowment. The university hires Cogent Partners, a small investment bank specializing in private equity secondary trading. View Details
Keywords: Financial Management; Private Equity; Higher Education; Financial Services Industry; Education Industry
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  • January 2013 (Revised October 2014)
  • Case

Barclays and the LIBOR Scandal

By: Clayton S. Rose and Aldo Sesia
In June of 2012, Barclays plc admitted that it had manipulated LIBOR—a benchmark interest rate that was fundamental to the operation of international financial markets and that was the basis for trillions of dollars of financial transactions. Between 2005 and 2009... View Details
Keywords: Financial Systems; Financial Services; Corruption; Regulation; General Management; Management; Leadership; Economic Systems; Crime and Corruption; Ethics; Culture; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; United Kingdom
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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: banking; banking; banking; banking; banking; banking
    • November 2001 (Revised December 2003)
    • Case

    Incentive Pay for Portfolio Managers at Harvard Management Company

    By: Brian J. Hall and Jonathan Lim
    This case describes the compensation system for portfolio managers at Harvard's portfolio management company, including its formulaic and bonus bank features. Harvard Management Co. President Jack Meyer explains the philosophy behind the incentive pay at his company. View Details
    Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Investment Portfolio; Compensation and Benefits; Financial Services Industry
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    • December 1961 (Revised January 1994)
    • Case

    Plowman Poultry Farm

    By: Samuel L. Hayes III
    A poultry farmer wanted to expand production greatly and sought a large extension of his line of credit from his bank in addition to his existing loan on which he had not made payment. The Board of Directors must review a detailed account of events leading to this... View Details
    Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Expansion; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financing and Loans; Commercial Banking; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
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    • Research Summary

    Level Playing Fields in International Financial Regulation

    Joint work with Alan Morrison, Saïd Business School, Oxford.

    We study a model of featuring two economies with adverse selection of and moral hazard by bankers. We demonstrate... View Details

    • February 2006 (Revised August 2006)
    • Case

    Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Art of the Entrepreneur

    By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
    Christo and Jeanne-Claude, the artists who created The Gates in New York City in 2005, are trying to decide how best to finance their next project. Over the River, a project to drape sections of the Arkansas River with translucent fabric is a very different enterprise... View Details
    Keywords: Private Equity; Arts; Fine Arts Industry; Arkansas
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      Laura Alfaro

      Laura Alfaro is the Warren Alpert Professor of Business Administration. At Harvard since 1999, she served as Minister of National Planning and Economic Policy in Costa Rica from 2010-2012, taking a leave from HBS. She is Co-Editor of the Journal of International... View Details

      • June 2024 (Revised February 2025)
      • Case

      Accounting for Loans at SoFi Technologies

      By: Joseph Pacelli and Michael Norris
      At the release of its first quarter earnings report on May 1, 2023, digital bank SoFi beat its earnings guidance by 25%. On May 2, Wedbush Securities analyst David Chiaverini issued a report downgrading the stock. A second downgrade followed from Chiaverini on May 15.... View Details
      Keywords: Accounting; Banks and Banking; Financing and Loans; Valuation; Stocks; Banking Industry; United States
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      • 21 Sep 2020
      • Working Paper Summaries

      The Targeting and Impact of Paycheck Protection Program Loans to Small Businesses

      Keywords: by Alexander Bartik, Zoë B. Cullen, Edward L. Glaeser, Michael Luca, Christopher Stanton, and Adi Sunderam
      • August 2011 (Revised November 2018)
      • Case

      Lind Equipment

      By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
      Lind Equipment failed to meet its loan covenants with its senior bank lender in the summer of 2008, just six months after it was acquired. While the senior bank debt comprised only 6% of the capital used in the acquisition and was fully secured, it exercised its right... View Details
      Keywords: Financial Condition; Borrowing and Debt; Capital; Revenue; Financing and Loans; Financial Strategy; Financial Management; Acquisition; Financial Crisis; Currency Exchange Rate; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Manufacturing Industry; Industrial Products Industry
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      • February 2007 (Revised April 2007)
      • Case

      Banca Regional Andino: Facing the Globalization of Microfinance

      By: Michael Chu and Jean Hazell
      Three leading Latin American microfinance banks join forces to face the new challenges of globalization, competition, and politics while common shareholder ACCION investments considers its options. From an initial project to share costs in the revamping of their IT... View Details
      Keywords: History; Microfinance; Competitive Strategy; Globalization; Problems and Challenges; Growth and Development; Bolivia; Ecuador; Peru
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      • October 1990
      • Case

      Manufacturers Hanover Corp.: Customer Profitability Report

      By: Robert S. Kaplan
      Banking company noting declining profitability from its traditional lending activities has started to measure the total profitability of its lending relationships. A loan pricing model estimates the profit and return-on-equity from commercial loans. Additional work was... View Details
      Keywords: Investment Return; Revenue; Commercial Banking; Banks and Banking; Customer Value and Value Chain; Banking Industry
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      • October 1993
      • Case

      Wertheim Schroder/Schroders

      By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Kalman D. Applbaum, Lisa Gabriel and Pamela A. Yatsko
      In 1986, Wertheim & Co. of New York entered into a joint venture with Schroders plc of London to form the investment bank Wertheim Schroder. By 1993, there were numerous successes as the partners pursued joint opportunities, but there were also areas in which... View Details
      Keywords: Joint Ventures; Investment Banking; Partners and Partnerships; Alliances; Horizontal Integration; Outcome or Result; Balanced Scorecard; New York (city, NY); London
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      • July 2009 (Revised January 2012)
      • Case

      Risk Management at Wellfleet Bank: All That Glitters Is Not Gold

      By: Anette Mikes
      This case motivates a debate on the role of staff functions, such as risk management: what does it mean for them to be independent, and at the same time, to partner the business lines? The case describes the risk assessment process in the corporate banking arm of... View Details
      Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Judgments; Credit; Banks and Banking; Governance Controls; Risk Management; Mathematical Methods
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      • August 2004 (Revised April 2007)
      • Case

      Allianz (A1): An Insurer Acquiring a Bank?

      By: Joseph L. Bower, Marc L. Bertoneche, Anders Sjoman and Sonja Ellingson Hout
      The deal of the year in 2002, was the acquisition of Dresdner Bank by Allianz. Written from the perspectives of Allianz's CEO, Henning Schulte-Noelle, before and after the deal and a regional manager implementing the concept of a full-line financial service provider.... View Details
      Keywords: Management; Corporate Strategy; Problems and Challenges; Acquisition; Financial Institutions; Corporate Finance; Banking Industry; Germany
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      • 12 Oct 2012
      • News

      Trade-offs: Having your cake