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Does the Capital Asset Pricing Model Work?
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleThe capital asset pricing model (CAPM) is a theoretical representation of the way financial markets behave. It can be used to estimate a company's cost... -
Restoring Shareholder Confidence When Your Stock Is Down
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleWith an aggressive but thoughtful approach, it's possible to survive a downturn - and even emerge stronger. -
A Crisis of Long-Term Unemployment Is Looming in the U.S.
Career transitions Digital ArticleHow biases trap qualified job seekers in a cycle of rejection — and how to help them break free. -
Lead Your Business Through the Coronavirus Crisis
Global Business Digital ArticleTwelve lessons on analyzing data, communicating information, and protecting your employees. -
Europe's Financial Crisis: No Time for Dithering
Leadership & Managing People Digital Article"This is no time for a novice," declared Prime Minister Gordon Brown at his party conference two weeks ago. What the British people wanted, he said, was... -
How Banks Can Avoid a Repeat of the 2008 Foreclosure Crisis
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Creating Value in an Economic Crisis
Corporate communications Magazine ArticleIn the wake of some recent stock market rallies, consumer confidence is slowly rebounding from its lowest depths in decades. But it will take much more than a few good days on Wall Street to restore people’s faith in the positive forces of the free market and globalization. A recent Harris Poll shows that nine […] -
The Economic Crisis Requires Returning to Your Core
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleIt was, as baseball sage Yogi Berra said, "like déjà vu all over again." All that people wanted to talk about were variations on the theme of Profit from... -
In a Crisis, Ecosystem Businesses Have a Competitive Advantage
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleHow China's biggest insurance company adapted to meet consumer needs. -
What Will It Take to Solve the Student Loan Crisis?
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleReform needs to come from outside of higher ed. -
We Tracked Every Dollar 235 U.S. Households Spent for a Year, and Found Widespread Financial Vulnerability
Global Business Digital ArticleSalary data masks the true extent of the problem. -
Is It Fair to Blame Fair Value Accounting for the Financial Crisis?
Accounting Magazine ArticleInvestors and corporate executives don’t agree on how to value distressed assets. But maybe they don’t have to. -
What We've Learned from the Financial Crisis
Organizational Development Magazine ArticleFor decades, the basic idea that governed economic thinking was that markets work: The right price will always find a buyer and a seller, and millions... -
The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Needs a Real Website
Sales & Marketing Digital ArticleReally? This is the online face of the of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission? The commission that's tasked with restoring the public's trust in our... -
Crisis of Faith in the Financial System
Economics Digital ArticleWhat happens when there is a mass loss of confidence in the financial system? This very contemporary question was put in unexpected historical context for me this Christmas by a book I was given, A History of the World in 100 Objects by Neil MacGregor, Director of the British Museum. It is based on one […] -
How the War in Ukraine Is Further Disrupting Global Supply Chains
It may accelerate a shift to regional suppliers. -
Preparing for a Black Swan Cyberattack
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleOrganizations should take a cue from governments' growing sense of alarm. -
Are We On the Verge of Another Financial Crisis?
Business and society Digital ArticleHow climate change could spark a collapse in housing prices much like the one that brought down the financial system in 2008. -
The Economic Crisis Feeds on "Macromyopia"
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleWith the plethora of big stories already unfolding for 2009 - Obama's transition, the economic crisis, bailouts and stimuli, and globalization revisited... -
Why We Didn’t Learn Enough From the Financial Crisis
Economics Digital ArticlePolicymakers are victims of their own success.
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HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing in a Downturn, Expanded Edition (with bonus article "Preparing Your Business for a Post-Pandemic World' by Carsten Lund Pedersen and Thomas Ritter)
24.95View Details How do the most resilient companies survive--and even thrive--during a slowdown? If you read nothing else on surviving a tough economy and coming back... -
The Southeast Bank of Texas in the Financial Crisis
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The Southeast Bank of Texas, like most other financial institutions in the US, has fallen on hard times during the financial crisis of the past year.... -
Fighting Financial Crises: Problems and Remedies
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This note reviews seven recurrent factors in financial crises (runnable debt, rising leverage, financial innovation, complexity, contagion, cognitive... -
MF Global: Changing Stripes
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details 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... -
Lyric Dinner Theater (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Rivka Belzer, after receiving her MBA and turning down other options, has agreed to a low salary and substantial bonus to join the dinner theater partially... -
Societe Generale (A): The Jerome Kerviel Affair
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This case illustrates the tension/balance that firms with complex and risky business models must consider in designing their internal controls. It describes... -
Dow's Bid for Rohm and Haas
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This case analyzes Dow Chemical Company's proposed acquisition of Rohm and Haas in 2008. The $18.8 billion acquisition was part of Dow's strategic transformation... -
1990 USSR: Reform, Revolution, or Retrenchment (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In August 1990, Mikhail Gorbachev, president of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist... -
Jackson Automotive Systems
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Jackson Automotive Systems produces automotive parts for advanced heating and air conditioning systems, engine cooling systems, fuel injection and transfer... -
Crawford Development Co. and Southeast Bank of Texas
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In the early months of the 2007-08 financial crisis, a loan manager faces a real estate financing decision. Should he approve a bullet structure three-year... -
MF Global: Where's the Money?
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details When MF Global failed in October of 2011, it was discovered that $1.6 billion of segregated customer assets was missing. Safeguarding these assets was... -
Necessity and Invention: Monetary Policy Innovation and the Subprime Crisis
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This case describes the efforts of Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve, to improve liquidity in money markets during the subprime crisis. The... -
The Panic of 1837 and the Market Revolution in America (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In 1837, President Martin Van Buren confronted a dilemma over the appropriate federal response to the recent panic of 1837 that seemed to undercut the... -
The South Sea Bubble and the Rise of the Bank of England (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In October 1720, John Hanger, governor of the Bank of England (BoE), and his fellow directors confronted the imminent collapse of the South Sea Company... -
Cyprus (B)
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Bahtulism, Collapse, Resurrection? Financial Crisis in Asia: 1997-1998
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Describes, in detail, events precipitating crises. Provides both conventional and new explanations of crises. Presents a chronology of crises as the events... -
Bank of America Acquires Merrill Lynch (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details On December 22, 2008, Bank of America (BofA) chairman and CEO Ken Lewis convened a special board of directors meeting to review his company's pending... -
Pro-invest: How to Launch a Private Equity Real Estate Fund
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details The case describes how the Pro-invest Group - a boutique investment firm specialising in private equity real estate and real estate asset management -... -
Barack Obama and the Bush Tax Cuts (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details As his inauguration approached, President-elect Obama faced a financial sector meltdown, a costly bailout, and massive government deficits. With the economy...
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Does the Capital Asset Pricing Model Work?
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleThe capital asset pricing model (CAPM) is a theoretical representation of the way financial markets behave. It can be used to estimate a company's cost... -
Restoring Shareholder Confidence When Your Stock Is Down
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleWith an aggressive but thoughtful approach, it's possible to survive a downturn - and even emerge stronger. -
HBR's 10 Must Reads on Managing in a Downturn, Expanded Edition (with bonus article "Preparing Your Business for a Post-Pandemic World' by Carsten Lund Pedersen and Thomas Ritter)
24.95View Details How do the most resilient companies survive--and even thrive--during a slowdown? If you read nothing else on surviving a tough economy and coming back... -
A Crisis of Long-Term Unemployment Is Looming in the U.S.
Career transitions Digital ArticleHow biases trap qualified job seekers in a cycle of rejection — and how to help them break free. -
The Southeast Bank of Texas in the Financial Crisis
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details The Southeast Bank of Texas, like most other financial institutions in the US, has fallen on hard times during the financial crisis of the past year.... -
Fighting Financial Crises: Problems and Remedies
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This note reviews seven recurrent factors in financial crises (runnable debt, rising leverage, financial innovation, complexity, contagion, cognitive... -
Pershing Square's Pandemic Trade, Teaching Note
Management Digital ArticleTeaching note for cases 222007, 222008, 222009, and 222010. -
MF Global: Changing Stripes
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details 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... -
Lyric Dinner Theater (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Rivka Belzer, after receiving her MBA and turning down other options, has agreed to a low salary and substantial bonus to join the dinner theater partially...