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    Frances X. Frei

    Frances Frei is a Professor of Technology and Operations Management at Harvard Business School. Her research investigates how leaders accelerate performance and design for excellence in leadership, strategy, and operations. She regularly advises senior executives... View Details

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      Srikant M. Datar

      Srikant M. Datar became the eleventh dean of Harvard Business School on 1 January 2021. During his tenure as a faculty member, he served as Senior Associate Dean for University Affairs (including Faculty Chair of the Harvard Innovation Lab), for Research, for... View Details

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      • October 2024
      • Supplement

      NOW PT (A)

      By: George A Riedel, Allison J. Wigen and Dave Habeeb
      Pre-Abstract: Instructors should consider the timing of making videos available to students, as they may reveal key case details.

      Abstract: In fall 2021, a team of students from the HBS Impact Investing Fund considered Neurologic Optimal Wellness Physical... View Details
      Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Medical Specialties; Investment; Business Model; Health Industry; United States
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      • 2014
      • Article

      Corporate Governance and the Financial Crisis in Italy

      By: Dante Roscini
      The financial crisis hit Italy harder than many other Eurozone countries. In part this was due to the fact that the crisis came upon a system that was weakened by years of sub-par economic growth. One of the several endogenous factors that explain the stagnation of the... View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Governance; Financial Crisis; Italy
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      • April 2011 (Revised May 2013)
      • Case

      South Africa (A): Stuck in the Middle?

      By: Richard H. K. Vietor and Diego Comin
      Fifteen years after ending apartheid, formal unemployment in South Africa was still at 24%. While the country had grown at 4 to 5% annually during the 2000s, the financial crisis set it back by 1 million more unemployed. Moreover, it seemed as if the nation were stuck... View Details
      Keywords: Financial Crisis; Inflation and Deflation; Policy; Employment; Wages; Competition; South Africa
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      • December 2008 (Revised March 2009)
      • Case

      Rosetree Mortgage Opportunity Fund

      By: Victoria Ivashina and Andre F. Perold
      In December 2008, in the midst of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, Rosetree Capital Management was evaluating the purchase of a pool of U.S. residential mortgages. The firm had formed an investment vehicle to acquire troubled residential mortgages... View Details
      Keywords: Financial Crisis; Borrowing and Debt; Mortgages; Investment; Housing; Valuation; United States
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      • 01 Nov 2017
      • What Do You Think?

      What Are the Real Lessons of the Wells Fargo Case?

      If that’s the case, there must be an educational treasure trove in the recent experiences at Wells Fargo, regarded as one of the best-managed banks in the world. A case about Wells Fargo might well contain some of the following. For... View Details
      Keywords: by James Heskett; Banking
      • 28 May 2008
      • First Look

      First Look: May 28, 2008

      MaterialsChina in Africa: The Case of Sudan Harvard Business School Case 308-060 This case examines the relation between China's demand for resources and political risk. Purchase the case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=308060 Mellon... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 01 Apr 2008
      • First Look

      First Look: April 1, 2008

      Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=308009 Kinyuseisaku: Monetary Policy in Japan Harvard Business School Case 708-017 Toshihiko Fukui, Government of the Bank of Japan, faced a complex... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • July 2014
      • Article

      Accounting for Crises

      By: Venky Nagar and Gwen Yu
      We provide among the first empirical evidence consistent with recent macro global-game crisis models, which show that the precision of public signals can coordinate crises (e.g., Angeletos and Werning, 2006; Morris and Shin, 2002, 2003). In these models,... View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Disclosure; Mathematical Methods; Game Theory; Financial Markets; Forecasting and Prediction; Accounting; Financial Crisis
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      • November 2008 (Revised January 2009)
      • Case

      The Restructuring of Daiei

      By: Richard S. Ruback
      In 2004, the Industrial Revitalization Corporation of Japan (IRCJ) was given the task of restructuring Daiei, one of the largest Japanese retailers and the country's most prominent zombie companies. The IRCJ was a government-sponsored organization that was funded with... View Details
      Keywords: Restructuring; Capital Structure; Private Equity; Performance Effectiveness; Retail Industry; Japan
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        Adi Sunderam

        Adi Sunderam is the Willard Prescott Smith Professor of Corporate Finance at Harvard Business School, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, and a Faculty Affiliate of the Harvard Economics department. He teaches Finance 2 in... View Details

        Keywords: banking; banking; banking; banking; banking; banking
        • November 2019
        • Case

        Apple, Einhorn, and iPrefs (Abridged)

        By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and W. Carl Kester
        In March 2013, Apple Computer has a very large cash balance, and is under pressure to return cash to shareholders. Hedge fund manager David Einhorn thinks Apple can "unlock value" by issuing perpetual preferred stock, dubbed iPrefs. Henry Blodget, CEO of Business... View Details
        Keywords: Markets; Stock Shares; Value Creation; Business and Shareholder Relations
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        • January 2018
        • Technical Note

        The Scope of Business at the Base of the Pyramid: Middle and Lower Income Countries

        By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Tricia Gregg
        Using World Bank data, the note defines the Base of the Pyramid population as the 4.76 billion people living on less than $10/day. It briefly reviews the perspectives of key business articles that address this market, notably C.K. Prahalad’s work on Bottom of the... View Details
        Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Poverty; Social Issues; Human Needs; Segmentation
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        • May 2014
        • Article

        Incorporating Field Data into Archival Research

        By: Eugene F. Soltes
        I explore the use of field data in conjunction with archival evidence by examining Iliev, Miller, and Roth's (2014) analysis of an amendment to the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. This regulatory amendment allowed depositary banks to cross-list firms without the... View Details
        Keywords: Analytics and Data Science; Research; Financial Reporting
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        • Web

        Strategy - Faculty & Research

        offering solutions in payments, credit, wealth management, and business payment processing. Ualá’s hypergrowth was driven by a record-breaking $350 million funding round in 2021, enabling it to enter new markets, secure banking licenses,... View Details
        • May 2010
        • Case

        Alpen Bank: Launching the Credit Card in Romania

        By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Sunru Yong
        In 2006, the country manager for Alpen Bank in Romania, Gregory Carle, considers whether to recommend the launch of a credit card business. The firm rejected the idea several years earlier because of poor economic conditions in Romania. However, Romania is experiencing... View Details
        Keywords: Consumer Credit; International Business; International Marketing; Product Introduction; Service Management; Credit Cards; Globalized Firms and Management; Product Positioning; Marketing Strategy; Service Delivery; Personal Finance; Product Launch; Banking Industry; European Union; Romania
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        Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

        national banks from state laws against predatory lending by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) as a quasi-experiment to study the effect of deregulation and its interaction with competition on the supply of complex... View Details
        • 12 Oct 2006
        • First Look

        First Look: October 12, 2006

        learning officer (CLO) of Shinsei Bank in Japan, pondered how he could facilitate development of an integrated culture and transformation of the organization. Shinsei Bank had not developed longstanding... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • Article

        An Evaluation of Money Market Fund Reform Proposals

        By: Samuel G. Hanson, David S. Scharfstein and Adi Sunderam
        U.S. money market mutual funds (MMFs) are an important source of dollar funding for global financial institutions, particularly those headquartered outside the U.S. MMFs proved to be a source of considerable instability during the financial crisis of 2007–2009,... View Details
        Keywords: Balance and Stability; Globalized Markets and Industries; Banks and Banking
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