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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?
How Short-Termism Invites Corruption--And What to Do About It
Author: Salter, Malcolm S.
Product Type: Research Notes / Working Papers
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2012
Researchers and business leaders have long decried short-termism: the excessive focus of executives of publicly traded companies—along with fund managers and other investors—on short-term results. The central concern is that short-termism discourages long-term investments, threatening the performance of both individual firms and the U.S. economy. I argue that short-termism also invites institutional corruption...
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.
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.
SKS and the AP Microfinance Crisis
Authors: Cole, Shawn; Saleman, Yannick
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2011
SKS, India's leading microfinance firm, is challenged when politicians declaim microfinance as exploitation of the poor and severely restrict business practices...
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...
Fighting a Dangerous Financial Fire: The Federal Response to the Crisis of 2007-2009
Authors: Moss, David; Bolton, Cole
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2011
By the summer of 2009, many observers concluded that a catastrophic financial collapse - which seemed all but imminent the previous fall and winter - had been averted. In particular, many wondered how the disaster had happened in the first place: what exactly had caused the brutal financial crisis of 2007-2009?
The Wizard of Lies: Bernie Madoff and the Death of Trust
Author: Henriques, Diana
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: Times Books
Publication Year: 2011
Who is Bernie Madoff, and how did he pull off the biggest Ponzi scheme in history?
The Big Short: Inside the Doomsday Machine
Author: Lewis, Michael
Product Type: Books / Book Chapters
Source: W. W. Norton & Company
Publication Year: 2011
When the crash of the U. S. stock market became public knowledge in the fall of 2008, it was already old news. The real crash, the silent crash, had taken place over the previous year, in bizarre feeder markets where the sun doesn’t shine, and the SEC doesn’t dare, or bother, to tread: the bond and real estate derivative markets where geeks invent impenetrable securities to profit from the misery of lower- and middle-class Americans who can’t pay their debts. The smart people who understood what was or might be happening were paralyzed by hope and fear; in any case, they weren’t talking.
CME Group
Authors: Reinhardt, Forest; Weber, James
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2011
CME Group operates the world's largest trading platform for futures and options based on agricultural commodities. New interest in commodities as an asset class, and new regulatory initiatives arising from the recent financial crisis, create an unusual set of opportunities and challenges for its leaders.
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