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Rethinking the MBA Curriculum in the Finance Discipline
Author: Becker-Blease, John
Product Type: Syllabi; Teaching Modules
Source: Washington State University, Vancouver
Publication Year: 2008
Faculty Rating: 
[2 Faculty Ratings] 7633 views
The purpose of this course is to provide students with a heightened appreciation of the role of a financial manager within a firm and to understand the tools and the nature of the decisions that financial managers must make...
The Panic Of 1907
Authors: Bruner, Robert F.; Carr, Sean; Debaere, Peter
Product Type: Cases
Source: Darden Business Publishing
Publication Year: 2007
Faculty Rating: [1 Faculty Rating] 1186 views
The case discusses and analyzes the runup to the financial panic of 1907 and its aftermath.
Access: Outsourcing
Authors: Johnson, Jennifer; Scully, Maureen
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2009
Faculty Rating: [1 Faculty Rating] 3135 views
How businesses can access the benefits of a global marketplace without falling prey to the accompanying risks is a critical question.
Access Teaching Module
Authors: Johnson, Jennifer; Scully, Maureen
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2009
Faculty Rating: [1 Faculty Rating] 11265 views
Access, to new markets and materials, to new sources of labor and information, to new communities and new ideas, is crucial to business, and can also serve as a way to spread the benefits of economic development to people and their communities. How does access bring value to business and society and can it also be used to reduce the downside of globalization?
Maximizing Shareholder Value: What Are Shareholders' Interests?
Author: Scully, Maureen
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education's Corporate Governance and Accountability Project
Publication Year: 2005
Faculty Rating: 
[1 Faculty Rating] 18557 views
Maximizing shareholder value (MSV) guides many business decisions and quickly becomes part of business school students' vocabulary. However, it is important to understand shareholders' interests more precisely. This Teaching Module considers that shareholders might prefer maximization at the level of their portfolio or an industry, not at the individual firm level. It focuses on the underlying question: What are shareholders' interests...
Understanding the Credit Crisis of 2007 to 2008
Authors: Segel, Arthur I.; Creo, Ben
Product Type: Notes
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2008
Faculty Rating: [1 Faculty Rating] 781 views
This note examines the background of the credit crisis of 2007-2008, discusses potential causes of it, and considers its ramifications. The exhibits contain a variety of pertinent data regarding the rise of securitization, debt levels, and typical aspects of financial crises. A new matrix is introduced for thinking about a country's potential economic performance at any point in time.
Diamond Foods, Inc.
Authors: Srinivasan, Suraj; Gray, Tim
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2013
The Diamonds Foods, Inc. case describes the major accounting blow up at the company in late 2011 that was triggered by a report by Off Wall Street, a prominent short selling research firm...
FINO Pay Tech Ltd.: Branchless Banking for the Rural Poor
Authors: Sharp, David J.; Bapat, Dhananjay; Handoo, Jatinder
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2013
This case presents FINO’s technology-based model for financial inclusion and the challenges presented to the Kohlapur district coordinator as he starts the process of building the local organization...
Financial Flows, Development, and Global Justice
Authors: Mehta, Krishen; Beyerle, Shaazka
Product Type: Syllabi
Source:
Publication Year: 2013
This course will examine the structural roots of poverty, the connection between poverty and illicit financial flows, and how the shadow financial system prevalent in many countries facilitates such illicit flows and thereby undermines development.
Money Is Never Enough
Author: Casanueva, Leticia M. Jáuregui
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: Stanford Social Innovation Review
Publication Year: 2013
Since the 1970s, microcredit has been considered a critical tool for poverty reduction and development. After years of research and working hand-in-hand with female entrepreneurs in marginalized Mexican communities, however, I’ve learned that credit is a necessary but not a sufficient condition for success...
Governance Curricula for Employee-Ownership Companies
Author: The Beyster Institute
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The Beyster Iinstitute
Publication Year: 2013
The Beyster Institute is proud to announce the launch of the complete picture for employee ownership governance education, the Governance Curricula for Employee Ownership Companies.
Overcoming Short-Termism within British Business: The Key to Sustained Economic Growth
Author:
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: The Labour Party, UK
Publication Year: 2013
This Review looks at ‘short-termism’ within British business: the pressure to focus on short-term results to the possible detriment of the long-term health of a company, or even a whole industry. The investigation confirmed that short-termism constrains the ambition of UK business, holding back its development and inhibiting economic growth...
Capitec Bank: Leveraging Banking Innovations to Attract Wealthier Customers
Authors: Barnard, Helena; Ansell, Gwen
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business; Gordon Institute of Business Science
Publication Year: 2012
Capitec Bank was a new bank established at the end of apartheid to offer banking services and loans to the large numbers of low-income potential customers newly opened to economic progress and aspiration by the end of the discriminatory system. The case will be useful for postgraduate MBA courses and short courses focused on a key challenge of doing business at the so-called “base of the pyramid”: how successfully can an enterprise in a changing competitive climate both continue to consolidate and develop its low-income market, while at the same time diversifying its reach into higher-income banking markets?
Making Lemonade in Chicago's Troubled Neighborhoods
Authors: Retsinas, Nicolas P.; Lamas, Jazzmin; Strope, Lisa
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
This case focuses on the complexities of building a real estate portfolio in two low-income neighborhoods of Chicago, Roseland and Englewood, during the foreclosure crises in 2011.
When Exotic Investments Are Too Good to be True
Author: Sterngold, James
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: CNNMoney
Publication Year: 2012
Many investors don't trust Wall Street anymore, so they're putting money into exotic alternatives. The saga of two friends provides a window into a growing peril.
EcoPost: Financing a Green Startup in Africa
Authors: Sorensen, Jesper; Kennedy, Michael; Jorasch, Gina
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
Based in Nairobi, Kenya, EcoPost manufactures construction posts out of the thousands of tons of plastic waste produced daily by the city. However, they face many obstacles overcoming skepticism from investors, largely because of their relatively poor financial record keeping...
Lehman Brothers’ Fall
Authors: Kakani, Ram Kumar; Singhania, Vasudha; Stack, Martin
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
This case describes the financial undertakings of Lehman Brothers Inc., which was once the fourth-largest investment bank in the world. On September 15, 2008, less than a year after the bank presented its largest profit ever, the world watched its decline...
JP Morgan: Lessons Learned
Author: Sapp, Stephen
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
Following the revelation of a US$2 billion loss on trading at JP Morgan’s chief investment office in London, the company’s board of directors is tasked with recommending changes to its risk management practices and corporate governance structure...
Was Insider Trading Ahead of Takeovers a Problem?
Authors: Foerster, Stephen R.; King, Michael R.; Sonmez, Fatma
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
On January 6, 2010, Stanko Grmovsek was sentenced to three years and three months in prison for making profits of an estimated US$9 million over 14 years based on insider tips from his best friend from law school...
Frameworks for Dialogue and Research about Social Impact Investing
Author: Leonard, Herman B.
Product Type: Notes
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
This note suggests frameworks that help to clarify important dimensions of social impact investment projects, distinguishing and clarifying key differences in approaches to social impact investments undertaken by different organizations and funders.
Barclays Capital and the Sale of Del Monte Foods
Authors: Coates, John; Rose, Clayton; Lane, David
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
This case explores the reputational and legal issues that arise as Barclays Capital attempted to manage client conflicts by following established industry practice in the face of changing legal norms...
Sarvajal: Water for All
Authors: Macomber, John D.; Sinha, Mona
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
The company seeks to provide potable water services to rural and urban India where the public infrastructure does not exist. Using a franchising model that relies on seasoned local entrepreneurs, communication technology that monitors flows and quality, payment technology that takes cash out of the equation, and a "capital light" leasing model, the company hopes to create and share a new business model.
Edward Lundberg and the Rockville Building: Energy Efficiency Finance in Commercial Real Estate
Authors: Macomber, John D.; Nellemann, Frederik
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
A commercial landlord analyzes options for funding and accomplishing energy efficiency retrofit. Students must grapple with obstacles including changing energy prices, variations in energy needed in different climate scenarios, issues in net and gross lease responsibilities, and issues in finding adequate cash flow and security to satisfy a range of possible third party funders.
MF Global: Changing Stripes
Authors: Rose, Clayton; Dahya, Yasmin; Lee, Jenevieve
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
Jon Corzine became the CEO of MF Global in March of 2010. 18 months later, and in the wake of a massive trade in European sovereign debt, the firm filed for bankruptcy, the 8th largest in U.S. history. As the firm failed it was discovered that over $1.6 billion in segregated customer assets was missing...
Subprime Tsunami on Indian Shores: Communication Crisis Hits ICICI
Authors: Juneja, Chetan; Bajaj, Gita
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business; Indian School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
ICICI bank - India's largest private sector bank with maximum international exposure among Indian banks - was hit by rumors about its exposure to Lehman assets. Solvency fears drove its depositors to withdraw large sums of money and the bank's stock value started to erode. The case presents the context of the crisis including the financial and reputation assets of the ICICI bank, the crisis communication effort and the impact of the communication effort.
Crediamigo: Partnering with VivaCred?
Authors: Raufflet, Emmanuel; Lavoie, Frédéric
Product Type: Cases
Source: HEC Montréal; CECI
Publication Year: 2012
Marcelo Azevedo and the planning committee of Crediamigo, Brazil’s largest microfinance institution, need to figure out an entry strategy into Rio de Janeiro’s microfinance market. The challenge is to decide how best to enter this competitive market and how to partner with other organizations.
Building and Scaling a Cross-Sector Partnership: Oxfam America and Swiss Re Empower Farmers in Ethiopia
Authors: Doh, Jonathan P.; London, Ted
Product Type: Cases
Source: Villanova University; William Davidson Institute/Ross School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
HARITA is an innovative model designed to help propel some of the poorest farmers in Ethiopia out of poverty by helping them cope with weather-related risk. Oxfam’s goal for HARITA was to develop a scalable model that could be disseminated throughout developing countries across the globe to help farmers deal with the effects of drought and other challenges associated with climate change.
My Speech to the Finance Graduates
Author: Shiller, Robert J.
Product Type: Speeches
Source: Project Syndicate
Publication Year: 2012
In this address to graduating Finance students, Robert J. Shiller exhorts students to remember that if they are to succeed, liberal arts will be just as important in their careers as training in financial theory, and that they should never lose sight of the social as well as economic goals of their profession...
Business Intelligence Advisors (BIA), Inc.: Finding the Hidden Meaning in Corporate Disclosures
Authors: Cohen, Lauren H.; Malloy, Christopher
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
BIA aimed to give its clients a better way of interpreting information provided in analyst calls, media interviews, and other events where executives publicly faced skeptical questions and had to give unscripted answers. BIA's methodology used verbal and nonverbal cues to identify executives who parsed their words too carefully or displayed discomfort with what they were saying. In analyzing the case, students will learn about the role of information in markets-how investors get it, how they process it, and why it matters.
Aviva Investors
Authors: Serafeim, George; Eccles, Robert G.; Armbrester, Kyle
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
The case describes Aviva Investors' policies on materiality, engagement, and its corporate responsibility voting policy. It then explores how the company is implementing these policies in the case of a particular company, the FTSE 100 diversified mining company Vendanta.
Affinity Plus: Priorities and Performance Pressures
Authors: Campbell, Dennis; Lu, Rui
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
The CEO of a financial services organization must decide how to maintain the company's "customer-first" values in the face of significant performance pressures after the economic crisis of 2008...
SKS Microfinance: The Sour Taste of Success
Author: Sunderasan, Srinivasan
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
The initial public offer of SKS Microfinance shares was seen as the initiation of a conflict between the interests of the company’s shareholders and the poor rural borrowers it was expected to serve. The provincial government brought out an ordinance effectively curbing microfinance lending and recovery operations, and the Reserve Bank of India issued a notification placing caps on interest rates, margins and specifying minimum tenures for relatively larger loan sizes. Was this the end of the road for the microfinance movement in India?
Putting Integrity into Finance: A Purely Positive Approach
Authors: Erhard, Werner; Jensen, Michael C.
Product Type: Research Notes / Working Papers
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
Behavior that lacks integrity leads to value destruction. Werner Erhard and Professor Michael Jensen analyze some of the common beliefs, actions, and activities in finance that are inconsistent with being a person or a firm of integrity.
ESOPs
Author:
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Butcher Joseph Hayes
Publication Year: 2012
ESOPs are a unique combination of a benefit plan and a tool of corporate finance. The value of the plan, as an employee benefit, is directly related to the performance of the company, creating an effective incentive for management and employees to perform well.
KKR: Leveraging Sustainability
Authors: Eccles, Robert G.; Serafeim, George; Clay, Tiffany A.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
The case describes KKR's Green Portfolio Program, one of the firm's environmental initiatives, which has achieved $160 million in cost savings. While pleased with its progress in achieving greater energy efficiency and reduced carbon emissions, the firm is looking for other ways to expand its sustainability initiatives, such as in its supply chain and incorporating sustainability into its due diligence and deal making processes.
Water Funds: Financing Nature's Ability to Protect Water Supplies
Authors: Plambeck, Erica; Daily, Gretchen; Hoyt, David W.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford University
Publication Year: 2011
This case introduces the concept of ecosystem services (the role that natural ecosystems play in sustaining and fulfilling human life) and payment for ecosystem services (PES), in which stakeholders pay in order to preserve or restore the ability of nature to provide these services. It describes water funds and other PES arrangements, as well as some of the challenges that water funds face.
Groupon and the SEC
Authors: Radcliffe, Vaughan; Stein, Mitchell; Gottschalk, Alexis
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
Groupon's financial statements attracted a great deal of controversy due to revenue recognition policies that produced very substantially higher revenues for the corporation, as well as non GAAP earnings measures, especially ACSOI, an invention of the firm that served to exclude certain marketing expenses from the calculation of profit. Groupon backed down on both revenue recognition and the use of ACSOI following SEC queries as to the corporation's accounting policies.
China Life: Micro Insurance for the Poor
Authors: Cole, Shawn; Xu, Lilei
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
China Life must decide whether to accept the government's "invitation" to develop a micro-insurance product for the rural poor. Can it be done profitably?
Islamic Banking Lessons for the Financial Sector
Authors: Ribera, Alberto; Etzold, Veit M.; Wackerbeck, Philipp
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: IESE Business School
Publication Year: 2011
As they try to strengthen their capital and reduce their risk operations, whom should governments, regulators and financial bosses turn to for inspiration? A good place to start would be to study those banks that have performed best since the crisis...
Seeing Profitability Through a Banking Lens
Authors: Prior, Francesc; Santomá, Javier
Product Type: Journal Articles
Source: IESE Business School
Publication Year: 2011
The two things that emerging markets lack -- access to finance and the extension of credit -- are the two basic factors considered as key drivers of economic growth. Yet, for banks, the lack of access to financial services and money transfer facilities in these markets represents a huge business opportunity, especially among low-income segments and small and medium-sized enterprises...
American International Group - 2010
Authors: Lorsch, Jay W.; Barton, Melissa
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2010
The objective of this case is to explore how the board of a company in TARP struggled to oversee its top management.
Fortune Minerals - Adoption of IFRS
Authors: Sturby, Chris; Jean, Melissa
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2011
The controller of a publicly traded mining company must make a series of recommendations the chief executive officer and chief financial officer of the company as the company prepares to adopt international financial reporting standards (IFRS). Major decisions revolve around accounting for the company's fixed assets and mining properties.
Avid Life (A, B)
Authors: Seijts, Gerard; Watson, Thomas
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
The Avid Life offering represented a legal and potentially lucrative investment. Nevertheless, only one investment bank was willing to help Biderman raise capital - because among the various social networks Avid Life owns is the notorious Ashley Madison online community for married people seeking to commit adultery...
Exile on Wall Street: One Analyst's Fight to Save the Big Banks from Themselves
Author: Mayo, Mike
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Wiley
Publication Year: 2011
Veteran sell side Wall Street analyst Mike Mayo writes about one of the biggest financial and political issues of our time – the role of finance and banks in the US. He has worked at six Wall Street firms, analyzing banks and protesting against bad practices for two decades.
Airport Express Metro Line: Infrastructure Project Financing and Implementation Through Public Private Partnership
Authors: Chaudhary, Hukam Singh; Kumar, Sushil; Aggarwal, Vijay; Bajaj, Gita
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2011
The case describes the delivery of an urban public transportation project through a public private partnership in Delhi. In the recent past in India, the public private partnership model of infrastructure development had emerged as a dominant model due to its certain desirable characteristics.
Gulf Bank: Re-Building a Bank
Authors: Busaba, Walid; Khokher, Zeigham; Safieddine, Assem; Mark, Ken
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2011
In December 2009, about a year after it suffered a crisis after clients walked away from massive derivative losses, Gulf Bank’s new chief executive officer is trying to changes the way Gulf Bank operates and is governed.
TowneBank: Of David and Goliaths
Authors: Nair, Anil; Trendowski, Joseph
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2011
During the summer of 1998, Bob Aston and his partners, all bankers, spent many days discussing their plans to start a bank in the south-eastern region of Virginia, USA. The decisions they made at the founding had a lasting imprint on TowneBank. This became evident a decade later as financial institutions around the country experienced a severe crisis that was sparked by exposure to risky mortgages, while TowneBank remained relatively unscathed. However, the management team had to consider several issues as the crisis unfolded.
Lehman Brothers
Authors: Nicholas, Tom; Chen, David
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2010
In 2008, the U.S. financial system was in a state of crisis and Lehman Brothers went from a major Wall Street investment bank to an insolvent institution...
Rethinking 'Shareholder Value' and the Purpose of the Firm
Author: The Aspen Institute CVSG
Product Type: Reading Collections
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2011
This reading collection contains suggested readings for the Aspen-UCLA Roundtable, Rethinking 'Shareholder Value' and the Purpose of the Firm. More specifically, the readings on this page are focused on law and policy.
Rethinking 'Shareholder Value' and the Purpose of the Firm
Author: The Aspen Institute CVSG
Product Type: Reading Collections
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2011
This reading collection contains suggested readings for the Aspen-UCLA Roundtable, Rethinking 'Shareholder Value' and the Purpose of the Firm. More specifically, the readings on this page are focused on corporate governance.
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