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The Tip of the Iceberg: JP Morgan and Bear Stearns (A, B1, B2)
Authors: Bergstresser, Daniel B.; Rose, Clayton; Lane, David
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2009
This case examines a seminal event in the financial and economic crisis that began in the summer of 2007, and provides background for better understanding the full scope of the crisis as it was revealed during the summer and fall of 2008.
Getting It Right: Making the Most of an Opportunity to Update Market Regulation
Author: Knowledge@Wharton
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Publication Year: 2009
As the global economic crisis continues, politicians and investors are escalating calls for new regulatory scrutiny of financial markets.
Risky Business with Structured Finance
Author: Hanna, Julia
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2009
In the wake of the financial crisis, many once-esoteric investment terms have become a familiar part of our vocabulary.
Green to Gold
Authors: Esty, Daniel; Winston, Andrew
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Wiley
Publication Year: 2009
Two experts from Yale tackle the business wake-up-call du jour-environmental responsibility-from every angle in this thorough, earnest guidebook: pragmatically, passionately, financially and historically. Though "no company the authors know of is on a truly long-term sustainable course," Esty and Winston label the forward-thinking, green-friendly (or at least green-acquainted) companies WaveMakers and set out to assess honestly their path toward environmental responsibility, and its impact on a company's bottom line, customers, suppliers and reputation. Following the evolution of business attitudes toward environmental concerns, Esty and Winston offer a series of fascinating plays by corporations such as WalMart, GE and Chiquita (Banana), the bad guys who made good, and the good guys-watchdogs and industry associations, mostly-working behind the scenes. A vast number of topics huddle beneath the umbrella of threats to the earth, and many get a thorough analysis here: from global warming to electronic waste "take-back" legislation to subsidizing sustainable seafood. For the responsible business leader, this volume provides plenty of (organic) food for thought.
Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism
Author: Yunus, Muhammad
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: PublicAffairs
Publication Year: 2009
The Grameen Bank has helped seven million people live better lives building businesses to serve the poor.
Social vs. Commercial Enterprise: The Compartamos Debate and the Battle for the Soul of Microfinance
Authors: Santos, Felipe; Carrick-Cagna, Anne-Marie
Product Type: Cases
Source: INSEAD - The Business School for the World
Publication Year: 2009
More than just a question about the future of microfinance, this debate that concerns the role of commercial enterprises operating on a foundation of self-interest versus social enterprises operating on a foundation of goodwill, is central to economic development policies and the advancement of social entrepreneurship. It brings to the the forefront the meaning of responsible leadership in business within the context of an increasingly connected and socially conscious world.
Insuring the Poor: Bajaj Allianz Microinsurance Initiatives in India
Author: Walter, I.
Product Type: Cases
Source: INSEAD The Business School for the World
Publication Year: 2009
Kanyakumari and Hyderabad were a study in contrast in India, itself a land of contrasts. Kanyakumari was a small town at the extreme southern tip of the Indian Ocean, and the Arabian Sea - with a population of about 20,000 and an economy focused mainly on fishing and tourism. Far to the north, Hyderabad was the financial and economic capital of the state of Andhra Pradesh, having evolved from a primarily service city to an urban complex of some seven million people with a highly diversified economy, including trade, transport, commerce, storage, communication and a vibrant technology sector.
The Downfall of Washington Mutual
Authors: George, S; Prasad, V.; Chinmayee, N.
Product Type: Cases
Source: ICMR Center for Management Research
Publication Year: 2009
This case describes the growth of Washington Mutual Inc, one of the largest financial institutions in the US, and its eventual collapse, which led to the sale of its banking operations to JPMorgan Chase & Co.
The 'Bernard Madoff' Financial Scam
Authors: Gupta, V.; Chakraborty, B
Product Type: Cases
Source: ICMR Center for Management Research
Publication Year: 2009
This case examines the 'Ponzi Scheme' operated by Bernard Madoff, a prominent Wall Street trader and former Chairman of the National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations, through the investment management and advisory division of his firm, Bernard L Madoff Investment Securities LLC.
The Societe Generale Fiasco: Lessons in Risk Management
Authors: Gupta, V.; Indu, P.
Product Type: Cases
Source: ICMR Center for Management Research
Publication Year: 2009
This case discusses in detail the fraud that took place at Societe Generale, the second largest bank in France, leading to losses of 4.9 billion euros.
Mining and Metals: Sustainability and Core Operations
Authors: Shattuck, Rachel; Scully, Maureen
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2009
The mining and metals industry faces the depletion of resources, the stewardship of land, and the impacts on local communities as issues central to its operations.
Do the SEC's New Rating Agency Rules Have Any Bite?
Author: Knowledge@Wharton
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Publication Year: 2008
On December 3 the Securities and Exchange Commission approved tighter regulations on the credit rating agencies, hoping curbs on conflicts of interest will prevent the kind of ratings-grade inflation that played such a key role in the credit crisis.
A Closer Look at Business Education: Finance Faculty Reflect on the Financial Crisis
Author: Shattuck, Rachel
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2008
This Closer Look—which highlights several MBA finance professors’ teaching on the financial crisis and sets forth some of their thoughts on how finance as a discipline might best adjust its pedagogy and core assumptions going forward—is the first in a series of short papers that will examine business education’s response to the crisis. The series aims to cover a range of disciplines and, where possible, to highlight current teaching.
Banco Real: Banking on Sustainability
Author: Reisen de Pinho, Ricardo
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2008
ABN AMRO REAL made corporate social responsibility central to its brand, adding to customer focus and reflecting its values. Leaders developed the Bank of Value theme and implemented it through activities such as microfinance in poor communities, environmentally oriented lending products, socio-environmental screening of customers and suppliers, employee diversity, and reduction of waste and recycling.
Hedging Their Bets: How Hedge Funds Can Curb Critics and Avoid Regulation
Author: Knowledge@Wharton
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Publication Year: 2008
Hedge fund managers oversee $1.9 trillion in assets, but no one knows what they invest in or even what those assets are actually worth.
Was There a Loan It Didn’t Like?
Author: Morgenson, Gretchen
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The New York Times
Publication Year: 2008
As a senior mortgage underwriter, Keysha Cooper was proud of her ability to spot fraud and other problems in a loan application. A decade of vetting mortgage documents had taught her plenty, she says.
Understanding the Credit Crisis of 2007 to 2008
Authors: Segel, Arthur I.; Creo, Ben
Product Type: Notes
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2008
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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.
Assessing Equity Risk in Firms with Leveraged ESOP Financing
Author: Chaplinsky, Susan J.
Product Type: Cases; Notes
Source: University of Virginia
Publication Year: 2008
This note explores the financing implications of leveraged ESOP financing.
H&R Block 2006
Authors: Tufano, Peter; Roy, Arijit; McClintock, Emily
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2008
Mark Ernst, the Chairman, CEO and President of H&R Block, has to decide how to respond to a competitive threat posed by a competitor's refund lending product.
Bear Stearns and the Seeds of Its Demise
Author: Chaplinsky, Susan
Product Type: Cases
Source: Darden School of Business
Publication Year: 2008
The case covers the events that led to the collapse of Bear Stearns's (Bear's) hedge funds in July 2007 and traces management's response to the situation through January 2008.
Social Entrepreneurship
Author: Baron, David P.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford University
Publication Year: 2008
After hearing a talk by Muhammad Yunis, a Bangladeshi economist, about an innovative program to provide loans to beggars, Jessica Jackley Flannery became convinced that microfinance "was the coolest thing in the world." This case describes Kiva's operations and introduces the challenges that the organization faced as it pondered growth.
How the Credit Crisis Could Forge a New Financial Order
Author: Knowledge@Wharton
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Publication Year: 2008
In the middle of a battle, it's hard to know what the landscape will look like after the smoke clears.
Taking a Calmer View
Authors: Gushurst, Klaus-Peter; de Souza, Ivan; Wallace, Vanessa
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: strategy+business
Publication Year: 2008
The financial sector’s prospects in the wake of crisis may be better than you think.
Subprime Crisis and Fair-Value Accounting
Authors: Healy, Paul M.; Palepu, Krishna G.; Serafeim, George
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2008
This case examines the challenges in implementing fair value accounting for mortgage instruments, the role of accounting in the sub-prime crisis, and proposals for revising accounting standards given the crisis.
Lehman Managers Portrayed as Irresponsible
Authors: Becker, Bernie; White, Ben
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The New York Times
Publication Year: 2008
Richard S. Fuld Jr. blamed the news media. He blamed the short-sellers. He blamed the government, as well as what he characterized as an “extraordinary run on the bank.” But the chief executive of Lehman Brothers Holdings, the bankrupt remnant of a once-great investment house, never really blamed himself.
Lawrence Trihn: Venturing to Vietnam
Authors: Margolis, Joshua D.; Gordon, Rachel
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2008
Should Lawrence Trinh pursue his aspiration of working in Vietnam -- and if so, what set of principles and practices should he adopt if he encounters corruption?
PlanetTran
Authors: Cohen, Lauren H.; Malloy, Christopher
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2008
PlanetTran is an environmentally-friendly car service that utilizes a fleet of hybrid cars in providing livery service to corporations and individuals.
Effects of Predatory Lending Lead to Economic Crisis
Author: SRI World Group
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: SocialFunds.com
Publication Year: 2008
Proposed $700 billion bailout by Treasury Department offers measure of relief to roiling markets while raising questions of fairness. Part I of a three-part series.
Mining and Metals: Five Issues with Broad Implications
Authors: Shattuck, Rachel; Scully, Maureen
Product Type: Teaching Modules
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education
Publication Year: 2008
The mining and metals industry offers many challenging questions and useful lessons for MBA students. This teaching module helps professors raise these topics in the classroom by bringing together a variety of different materials from different sources that can be used both as background reading and as the focus of class discussion...
Eyes on the Wrong Prize: Leadership Lapses That Fueled Wall Street's Fall
Author: Knowledge@Wharton
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Publication Year: 2008
The shocking succession of corporate meltdowns signals a massive leadership failure across the financial services landscape, according to Wharton faculty.
Khosla Ventures
Authors: Lassiter III, Joseph B.; Sahlman, William; Wagonfeld, Alison Berkley
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2008
By 2008, a number of the firm's early cleantech investments were showing promise, and the companies were starting to need significantly more money to create the massive scale required in the energy sector.
Market Reaction to the Adoption of IFRS in Europe
Authors: Armstrong, Christopher S.; Barth, Mary E.; Jagolinzer, Alan D.; Riedl, Edward J.
Product Type: Research Notes / Working Papers
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2008
This study examines the European stock market reaction to sixteen events associated with the adoption of International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) in Europe.
Money to Grow On
Author: Foster, William
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Stanford Social Innovation Review
Publication Year: 2008
In the for-profit world, the term "investment" has clear meaning and investors have sophisticated techniques for spotting and growing the most promising companies. Yet foundations and other nonprofit donors have not developed similar clarity or approaches. As a result, the nonprofit sector's greatest gems often languish well below their full potential. By better translating for-profit concepts, donors can learn how to scout out and grow the best nonprofits. Likewise, certain nonprofits can take a page from business's playbook and learn how to attract cash for expansion.
Rediscovering Social Innovation
Authors: Deiglmeier, Kriss; Miller, Dale T.; Phills, James A., Jr.
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Stanford Social Innovation Review
Publication Year: 2008
Social entrepreneurship and social enterprise have become popular rallying points for those trying to improve the world. These two notions are positive ones, but neither is adequate when it comes to understanding and creating social change in all of its manifestations. The authors make the case that social innovation is a better vehicle for doing this. They also explain why most of today's innovative social solutions cut across the traditional boundaries separating nonprofits, government, and for-profit businesses.
National Australia Bank (A, B)
Authors: Hubbard, G.; Hubbard, J.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2008
This case is about the fall from grace of a revered, high-performing Australian company that had gone international in its quest for growth. It covers the investigation of the foreign exchange trading scandal disaster, the changes in personnel in the top management team and the board, the introduction of new external people to support the new CEO and many other detailed events that took place as part of the turnover.
Socially Responsible, With Egg on Its Face
Author: Lieber, Ron
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: The New York Times
Publication Year: 2008
When the news broke late last month, it read almost like satire. The Securities and Exchange Commission had charged a mutual fund company that specialized in socially responsible investments with taking stakes in companies involved with alcohol, gambling and military contracting.
Green Fields Investments: Evaluating Biofuels Investment Options
Authors: Kiesling, Lynne; Hunnewell, Jeremy
Product Type: Cases
Source: Kellogg School of Management
Publication Year: 2008
Green Fields Investments is a socially responsible investment firm. The student is faced with the management decision of whether or not to invest in a new ethanol plant being built.
Auditor Liability in Canada (A, B)
Authors: Hewitt, G.; Radcliffe, Vaughan
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business
Publication Year: 2008
A savvy investor was reviewing her investment account statements.
Triodos Bank - Matching Conscious Customers with Transformative Enterprises
Author: Weatherhead School of Management
Product Type: Mini-Cases
Source: Case Western Reserve University
Publication Year: 2008
In consonance with its name of Triodos or ‘three way’, Triodos Bank has built its business model on the three pillars of people, planet and profits.
Nickel and Dimed
Author: Ehrenreich, Barbara
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Holt Paperbacks
Publication Year: 2008
Barbara Ehrenreich sets off to find work as a cleaner or waitress in various American cities, and to live off her wages.
Financial Services for the Unbanked: Vodafone
Author: World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: World Business Council for Sustainable Development
Publication Year: 2008
Following a successful pilot program in Kenya, Vodafone is rolling out a service that allows customers to access cash via their mobile phones. Called M-PESA, the service allows customers to borrow, transfer and make payments using a mobile phone, transforming financial services by making transactions cheaper, faster and more secure...
Reimagining Microfinance
Author: Counts, Alex
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Stanford Social Innovation Review
Publication Year: 2008
Despite the fact that most microfinance institutions (MFIs) were established to reduce poverty, many are starting to look like traditional financial institutions.
Kiva: Improving People's Lives, One Small Loan at a Time
Author: Knowledge@Wharton
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Publication Year: 2008
Kiva mixes the entrepreneurial daring of Google with the do-gooder ethos of Bono.
The Failure of Corporate Governance at UBS
Authors: Steger, U.; Nedopil, C
Product Type: Cases
Source: ECCH
Publication Year: 2008
In April 2008, UBS was the bank that had been hit hardest by the subprime crisis. Due to its high risk exposure, UBS had to write down almost US$40 billion.
Webcast: Rethinking MBA Curriculum in the Finance Discipline
Authors: Becker-Blease, John; Scully, Maureen
Product Type: Multimedia
Source: The Aspen Institute Center for Business Education's Corporate Governance and Accountability Project
Publication Year: 2008
This web-conference discusses the recently revamped core MBA Finance Course at WSU, Vancouver which covers a traditional slate of topics present in most corporate finance courses and also formally introduces students to the stakeholder and shareholder primacy models of the corporate objective function.
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] 7709 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 BOP Beckons
Author: Weissburg, Joshua
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Stanford Social Innovation Review
Publication Year: 2008
How do you go about delivering reliable energy to poor, off-the-grid villages in India? If you're an established energy company, you don't.
Finance and Labor: Perspectives on Risk, Inequality, and Democracy
Author: Jacoby, Sanford M.
Product Type: Research Notes / Working Papers
Source: University of California, Los Angeles
Publication Year: 2008
We live in an era of financial development. Since 1980, capital markets have expanded around the world; capital shuttles the globe instantaneously. Shareholder concerns drive executive decision-making and compensation, while the fluctuations of stock markets are a source of public anxiety.
Hydrofruit, Inc.: Ripe for Harvest or Rotten Tomato? (A)
Authors: Boswell, Timothy; Freeman, R. Edward; Mead, Jenny
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of Virginia Darden School Foundation
Publication Year: 2008
MegaBank manager Judson Dillon is on the verge of finalizing a $65 million equity investment in the world’s largest tomato greenhouse, HydroFruit, Inc., which he believes is an attractive investment opportunity. At the same time, he suspects that the company is an employer of illegal immigrants.
How I Became a Little-Guy Lender
Author: Feldman, Amy
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: BusinessWeek.com
Publication Year: 2008
Lending site Prosper gives average folks the opportunity to be small-scale angel investors by funding other people's loans
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