Publications

29 May 2013
Research & Ideas

Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research

financial industry and those who regulate it, there are strong but conflicting viewpoints about the impact of private equity buyouts of public firms, especially in the wake of the recent global financial... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

November 2011 (Revised April 2012)
Case

Quadriserv and the Short Selling Market

By: Lauren Cohen and Christopher Malloy

Keywords: Asset Management; Financial Instruments; Stocks; Financial Services Industry

January 1992 (Revised July 1992)
Case

MNC Financial: The Credit Card Business

By: Dwight B. Crane

Keywords: Finance; Financial Management; Financial Services Industry

July 2006
Supplement

Citigroup: Euro Zone Bond Trading (D)

By: Lynn S. Paine, Christopher Bruner and Aldo Sesia

Keywords: Bonds; Financial Services Industry; Europe

January 1976
Case

Weightman, Lawson & Frank (The Underwriting Decision)

By: Samuel L. Hayes III

Keywords: Financial Institutions; Financial Services Industry

1993
Chapter

Lessons from the Thrift Crisis

By: C. Y. Baldwin and B. C. Esty

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Financial Services Industry

September 2007 (Revised January 2008)
Teaching Note

Prudential Securities (TN)

By: Paul M. Healy, Boris Groysberg and Geoff Marietta

Keywords: Financial Instruments; Financial Services Industry

September 2007
Supplement

Wells Fargo Convertible Bonds (CW)

By: Malcolm P. Baker and Elizabeth Kind

Keywords: Bonds; Financial Services Industry

July 2006
Supplement

Citigroup: Euro Zone Bond Trading (C)

By: Lynn S. Paine, Christopher Bruner and Aldo Sesia

Keywords: Bonds; Financial Services Industry; Europe

March 2002
Background Note

Understanding Securities Markets in the United States and Japan

By: Lynda M. Applegate

Provides a basic understanding of how securities markets work. View Details

Keywords: Financial Markets; Financial Services Industry; Japan; United States

14 Mar 2007
Op-Ed

Government’s Misguided Probe of Private Equity

jointly underwriting public corporate offerings. Nor is this unique to the United States. Britain's Financial Services Authority has announced that it is increasing its scrutiny of private-equity firms.... View Details

Keywords: by Josh Lerner; Financial Services

25 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Lean Strategy Not Just for Start-Ups

Lean start-up strategies aren't just for start-ups anymore. That was the key message that Intuit cofounder Scott Cook (HBS MBA '76) shared in a small seminar with Harvard Business School faculty recently. Since its launch in 1983, the View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

May 2001
Supplement

Korea Stock Exchange

By: Tarun Khanna

Features a presentation by In-Kie Hong of Korea Stock Exchange discussing the depth of the crisis, its origin, and its possible resolution in the end. In-Kie Hong addresses a class of MBA students at the Harvard Business School. View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Financial Markets; Stocks; Financial Services Industry; Korean Peninsula

August 1995 (Revised October 1996)
Case

Futures on the Mexican Peso

By: Kenneth A. Froot, Matthew McBrady and Mark Seasholes

The Chicago Mercantile Exchange needs to decide how to design, and whether and when to introduce, a futures contract on the Mexican peso. View Details

Keywords: Exchange Rates; Money Markets; Futures Market; Country Analysis; International Finance; Financial Markets; Futures and Commodity Futures; Financial Services Industry; Chicago; Mexico

November 2006 (Revised June 2007)
Case

Centre Partners - American Seafoods 2003

Centre Partners, a leading private equity firm, is contemplating ways to realize liquidity from its successful investment in American Seafoods Corp., Inc. An apparently innovative solution is developed, which calls for issuing Income Deposit Securities. Does this... View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Financial Liquidity; Capital Structure; Financial Services Industry

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