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Does the Capital Asset Pricing Model Work?
Financial crisis Magazine ArticleAn important task of the corporate financial manager is measurement of the company’s cost of equity capital. But estimating the cost of equity causes a lot of head scratching; often the result is subjective and therefore open to question as a reliable benchmark. This article describes a method for arriving at that figure, a method […] -
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Why the Latest Financial Reform Bills Won’t Prevent Another Crisis
Finance and investing Digital ArticleIn case you were starting to feel good about the outcome of the financial reform debates, here’s a bold prediction: The reform bills making their way through Congress will not prevent another crisis. Who knows whether it will be next year, the year after, or five years from now? But it will happen eventually, for […] -
A Financial Crisis Fifty Years in the Making?
Financial crisis Digital ArticleOver the past few weeks, I grew sick of listening to “big picture” stories on the financial crisis that only covered the last 5 to 10 years. That’s not the big picture. If anything, that’s the small-to-medium picture. So I called Walter Kiechel, the former managing editor of Fortune magazine and former editorial director of […] -
Reckoning with Wall Street: From Fear to Outrage to Cynicism
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How Marketing The American Dream Caused Our Economic Crisis
Economics Digital ArticleThe current economic crisis has been blamed on the greed of Wall Street, on bankers’ excessive leveraging of assets, on irresponsible banks and mortgage brokers who fabricated applications for no downpayment home loans knowing that the risks could be readily laid off on unsuspecting third parties. But underpinning the collapse of the housing bubble is […] -
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What Has the Eurozone Learned from the Financial Crisis?
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleThe European Central Bank isn't ready for the next one. -
Creating Value in an Economic Crisis
Corporate communications Magazine ArticleIn the wake of some recent stock market rallies, consumer confidence is slowly rebounding from its lowest depths in decades. But it will take much more than a few good days on Wall Street to restore people’s faith in the positive forces of the free market and globalization. A recent Harris Poll shows that nine […] -
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Is It Fair to Blame Fair Value Accounting for the Financial Crisis?
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The Economic Crisis Feeds on “Macromyopia”
Economics Digital ArticleWith the plethora of big stories already unfolding for 2009 – Obama’s transition, the economic crisis, bailouts and stimuli, and globalization revisited – we may be too preoccupied and will miss the biggest story that has yet to happen: The moment the economic reset begins. The majority of us are (and should be) bracing for […] -
The Social and Political Costs of the Financial Crisis, 10 Years Later
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The UK Economic Crisis Might Not Be a One-Off
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The Surprising Winners in the Financial Crisis
Recessions Digital ArticleThe comment that stuck with me the most vividly after a high-powered Harvard panel discussion (RealPlayer required) on the financial crisis yesterday was a stray remark that might have interesting implications for businesses over the long term. It came at the very end of a brief Q&A session that followed informal presentations by six well-known […] -
How Banks Can Avoid a Repeat of the 2008 Foreclosure Crisis
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Necessity and Invention: Monetary Policy Innovation and the Subprime Crisis, Portuguese Version
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This case describes the efforts of Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve, to improve liquidity in money markets during the subprime crisis. The... -
Gucci Group in 2009
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details The Gucci Group had transformed itself into the world's third largest luxury retailer with multiple brands. The company had performed well even after... -
Milliway Capital: Battening Down the Hatches
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Facing the downturn in late 2008, the partners in a West-Coast venture capital firm are trying to decide how to manage their portfolio companies and whether... -
The Economics of Maturity Transformation
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Few concepts are as important as maturity transformation for understanding financial crises. This technical note guides students through the key mechanisms... -
The Rise and Fall of Lehman Brothers
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Barack Obama and the Bush Tax Cuts (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details As his inauguration approached, President-elect Obama faced a financial sector meltdown, a costly bailout, and massive government deficits. With the economy... -
OTE: Managing in Times of National Crisis (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In late 2010, Michael Tsamaz was appointed CEO and Chairman of Greek telecommunications company OTE. OTE still exhibited many traits of a large incumbent... -
Rosetree Mortgage Opportunity Fund
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In December 2008, in the midst of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, Rosetree Capital Management was evaluating the purchase of a... -
Butler Lumber Co., Chinese Version
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details The Butler Lumber Co. is faced with a need for increased bank financing due to its rapid sales growth and low profitability. Students must determine the... -
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Global Business Case Study8.95View Details This case presents excerpts from the speeches of observers to the 2008 financial crisis, including former and current central bankers, a private banker,... -
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Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details The CEO of a promising biotech company must decide how to respond to the macro-economic slump of late 2008. He had planned to pursue an aggressive schedule... -
The Southeast Bank of Texas in the Financial Crisis
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The Southeast Bank of Texas, like most other financial institutions in the US, has fallen on hard times during the financial crisis of the past year.... -
The Case of Sovereign Wealth Funds: A New (Old) Force in the Capital Markets
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In mid-January 2008, Merrill Lynch announced a $6.6 billion mandatory convertible-preferred share issuance, much of which was placed privately with the...
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Does the Capital Asset Pricing Model Work?
Financial crisis Magazine ArticleAn important task of the corporate financial manager is measurement of the company’s cost of equity capital. But estimating the cost of equity causes a lot of head scratching; often the result is subjective and therefore open to question as a reliable benchmark. This article describes a method for arriving at that figure, a method […] -
What Silicon Valley Bank Did Right
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleIt became a fixture among startups because it understood their needs better than other banks. -
Why the Latest Financial Reform Bills Won’t Prevent Another Crisis
Finance and investing Digital ArticleIn case you were starting to feel good about the outcome of the financial reform debates, here’s a bold prediction: The reform bills making their way through Congress will not prevent another crisis. Who knows whether it will be next year, the year after, or five years from now? But it will happen eventually, for […] -
A Financial Crisis Fifty Years in the Making?
Financial crisis Digital ArticleOver the past few weeks, I grew sick of listening to “big picture” stories on the financial crisis that only covered the last 5 to 10 years. That’s not the big picture. If anything, that’s the small-to-medium picture. So I called Walter Kiechel, the former managing editor of Fortune magazine and former editorial director of […] -
Necessity and Invention: Monetary Policy Innovation and the Subprime Crisis, Portuguese Version
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This case describes the efforts of Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve, to improve liquidity in money markets during the subprime crisis. The... -
Gucci Group in 2009
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details The Gucci Group had transformed itself into the world's third largest luxury retailer with multiple brands. The company had performed well even after... -
Milliway Capital: Battening Down the Hatches
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Facing the downturn in late 2008, the partners in a West-Coast venture capital firm are trying to decide how to manage their portfolio companies and whether... -
The Economics of Maturity Transformation
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Few concepts are as important as maturity transformation for understanding financial crises. This technical note guides students through the key mechanisms... -
The Rise and Fall of Lehman Brothers
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details ... -
Barack Obama and the Bush Tax Cuts (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details As his inauguration approached, President-elect Obama faced a financial sector meltdown, a costly bailout, and massive government deficits. With the economy...