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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...
Sustaining a Social Venture: Transformation of Annapurna Mahila Mandal into Annapurna Pariwar
Author: Basargekar, Prema
Product Type: Cases
Source: Richard Ivey School of Business; Indian School of Business
Publication Year: 2012
AMM is a trust that provides micro credit and allied services to poor working women. It was established by a veteran freedom fighter and social entrepreneur and her late husband, a union leader, in 1975 in the wake of a decade-long millworkers' strike in Mumbai. AMM needed to develop a very clear vision as to which direction it should grow in order to become sustainable without losing its focus on the core objective of empowerment of poor women...
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?
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...
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.
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?
10b5-1 Plans: Mortgaging a Defense against Insider Trading
Authors: Larcker, David F.; Tayan, Brian
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford Graduate School of Business
Publication Year: 2007
This case is designed for a discussion of insider trading regulations and the safe haven provisions of 10b5-1. Readers of the case are expected to consider from the perspective of shareholders, corporate boards and regulators the appropriate restrictions that should be placed on executive stock sales and specifically what constitutes trading on the basis of material nonpublic information.
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