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Sovereign Bancorp and Relational Investors
Authors: Larcker, David F.; Tayan, Brian
Product Type: Cases
Source: Stanford University
Publication Year: 2007
In 2005, Relational Investors, a registered investment advisor, launched a proxy contest to gain two seats on the board of directors of Sovereign Bancorp. This case considers the circumstances under which an activist investor might wish to seek change in the management or governance of a company and the operational, financial, and governance-related factors it might look for in a target. It also considers the extent to which shareholder activism adds efficiency and improves corporate governance and the extent to which it detracts from them.
A Rogue Trader at Daiwa Bank (A, B)
Author: Misawa, Mitsuru
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of Hong Kong
Publication Year: 2005
In 1995, the VP of Daiwa Bank's New York branch confessed that over the course of 11 years, he had lost nearly $1.1 billion through the unauthorized trading of United States Treasury Bonds and had sold securities the bank had in custody to cover losses. Discusses the impact of Japanese and American cultural differences on attitudes toward proper international business practices.
The Equator Principles
Authors: Esty, Benjamin C.; Knoop, Carin-Isabel; Sesia, Aldo
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2005
This case discusses the roles and responsibilities, if any, financiers (particularly commercial banks) have to ensure that risks to the environment and society are appropriately managed in large-scale projects. It also highlights the challenges of developing and implementing industry-wide policies on sustainable development.
Creating Community Banking Solutions
Authors: Rochlin, Stephen A.; Boguslaw, Janet
Product Type: Cases
Source: The Center for Corporate Citizenship at Boston College, The Wallace B. Carroll School of Management, Boston, MA
Publication Year: 2004
Union Bank of California has partnered with Operation Hope and Nix Check Cashing to offer financial services to low-income communities...
Commercial Bank of Africa
Authors: Chege, Gerald W.; Anzaya, Mbithe; Mullins, John; Low, Murray
Product Type: Cases
Source: United States International University
Publication Year: 2006
Commercial Bank of Africa (CBA) was a medium-sized bank, incorporated in Kenya. The bank served the Kenyan corporate sector as well as international institutions and organizations with offices in Kenya. In late 2003 Mr. Isaac Awuondo, the Managing Director of CBA, was facing an information technology management dilemma...
Penny Wise, Pound Foolish
Authors: Wong, Ka-fu; Lee, Jennifer
Product Type: Cases
Source: University of Hong Kong
Publication Year: 2005
In one trading day at the Hong Kong Exchange, roughly 10% of the market capitalization for microcaps was wiped out. What went wrong?
Swiss Re
Author: Hoffman, Andrew J.
Product Type: Cases
Source: Pew Center on Global Climate Change (www.pewclimate.org)
Publication Year: 2006
Swiss Re stands out as being more at risk from the physical impacts of climate change itself. The insurance industry may experience dramatically increased costs due to a growth in climate-related effects...
Converting Failed Financial Institutions into Mutual Organisations
Authors: Michie, Jonathan; Llewellyn, David T.; Anderson, David; Eyre, Nick; Hunt, Peter; Mills, Chris; Palmer, Jeremy
Product Type: Policy and Issue Reports
Source: Kellogg College, University of Oxford
Publication Year: 2009
The immediate issue is whether the failed financial institutions that were taken into public ownership could be re-launched as mutuals rather than as plcs.
CalPERS' Emerging Equity in the Markets Principles
Authors: Eccles, Robert G.; Sesia, Aldo
Product Type: Cases
Source: Harvard Business School
Publication Year: 2009
This case is an example of innovation in the investment management process and raises issues about broadening investment criteria into environmental, social and governance issues.
A Road Map for Natural Capitalism
Authors: Lovins, Amory B.; Lovins, L. Hunter; Hawken, Paul
Product Type: Magazine / Newspaper Articles
Source: Harvard Business Review
Publication Year: 1999
No one would run a business without accounting for its capital outlays. Yet most companies overlook one major capital component--the value of the earth's ecosystem services...
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