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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... -
Preparing for the Next Macroeconomic Cycle - and Its Risks
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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... -
What Coronavirus Could Mean for the Global Economy
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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... -
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 Latest Supply Chain Disruption: Plastics
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleA global shortage is impacting companies across every industry. -
Not Enough Companies Are Ready for Brexit, No Matter What Happens Next
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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... -
A Financial Crisis Is Looming for Smaller Suppliers
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Europe’s Financial Crisis: No Time for Dithering
Crisis management 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 decisive leadership and action that would help them with their mortgages, their jobs, their businesses. His rallying call, a swipe at his inexperienced opposition leader David Cameron, brought […] -
John Kotter on the Financial Crisis
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Big Data and Machine Learning Won't Save Us from Another Financial Crisis
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How Marketing The American Dream Caused Our Economic Crisis
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleThe current economic crisis has been blamed on the greed of Wall Street, on bankers' excessive leveraging of assets, on irresponsible banks and mortgage... -
Is This an Analytics-Driven Financial Crisis?
Recessions Digital ArticleThere is clearly some evidence that the current financial crisis was created–at least in part–by poor use of analytical approaches and techniques. If we’re going to avoid similar crises in the future, we have to learn from our mistakes. What’s the evidence that the problem was somewhat analytical in origin? Let me count the ways: […] -
What Silicon Valley Bank Did Right
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleIt became a fixture among startups because it understood their needs better than other banks. -
Silicon Valley Bank’s Focus on Startups Was a Double-Edged Sword
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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. -
Research: How the Financial Crisis Drastically Increased Wealth Inequality in the U.S.
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Why the Latest Financial Reform Bills Won’t Prevent Another Crisis
Finance and investing Digital ArticleIn case you were starting to feel good about the outcome of the financial reform debates, here’s a bold prediction: The reform bills making their way through Congress will not prevent another crisis. Who knows whether it will be next year, the year after, or five years from now? But it will happen eventually, for […]
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Ten Thousand Villages in Crisis: Can the Fair Trade Pioneer Survive and Flourish in an Economic Downturn?
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This case examines major challenges faced by Ten Thousand Villages Canada in 2013, in the aftermath of the 2007-08 global financial crisis. Ten Thousand... -
The Devil's Derivatives: The Untold Story of the Slick Traders and Hapless Regulators Who Almost Blew Up Wall Street . . . and Are Ready to Do It Again
Finance & Accounting Book27.95View Details "The Devil's Derivatives" charts the untold story of modern financial innovation--how investment banks invented new financial products, how investors... -
1930-1933: The Great Depression and the End of "Orthodoxy" (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In February 1933, President Herbert Hoover reviewed the past four years of his administration. He had met a stock market crash and a recession that worsened... -
Jan Carlzon: CEO at SAS (A), Chinese Version
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Describes Jan Carlzon's actions on assuming the CEO's responsibility at SAS in a time of financial and organizational difficulty. After tracing Carlzon's... -
Delphi Corporation
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This case is suitable for students just beginning to learn finance principles but is also appropriate to use in courses with experienced students and... -
Crisis and Reform in Japan's Banking System (A)
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details In 1997, amidst Japan's ongoing financial problems, Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto sought to restructure the financial sector to make it more transparent... -
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details One of the leading publishers of textbooks and other educational materials for the U.S. K-12 educational instruction market has suffered a dramatic decline... -
Bob Beall at the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation
Organizational Development Case Study15.05View Details Bob Beall is the Chief Executive Officer of the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation ("CFF"). CFF is an extremely successful organization, but Beall has to determine... -
Rosetree Mortgage Opportunity Fund
Finance & Accounting Case Study6.95View Details In December 2008, in the midst of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, Rosetree Capital Management was evaluating the purchase of a... -
Alusaf Hillside Project, Spanish Version
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details The aluminum industry has suffered from long periods of depressed prices and profits interspersed with relatively short-lived price and profit peaks.... -
A Note on Cost Reduction in Financially Troubled Organizations
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details This note discusses methods for reducing costs, particularly labor costs, in a financially distressed organization. -
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)
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... -
Janet Yellen and the Bernanke Fed
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details The unelected Federal Reserve Chairman exerts exceptional influence over the U.S., in fact global, economy. As Janet Yellen prepared to take over the... -
Publicis Groupe 2009: Toward a Digital Transformation, Spanish Version
Leadership & Managing People Case Study15.05View Details After a series of acquisitions, Maurice Levy, the Chairman and CEO of Publicis Groupe, had created the fourth largest marketing and communications company... -
Gerry Pasciucco at AIG Financial Products (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Gerry Pasciucco was appointed to lead American International Group's Financial Products (AIGFP) group after the government bailout of AIG in 2008 and... -
The TARP Bailouts: Saving the Banking and Automotive Industries
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Comparison of the U.S. Government response, using the $700 billion TARP fund, to downturns in the banking and auto industries during the global financial... -
Societe Generale (A): The Jerome Kerviel Affair, Spanish Version
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... -
The Guggenheims and Chilean Nitrates, Spanish Version
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details The case describes the growth of Guggenheim Brothers as one of the largest mining companies in the world in the early twentieth century. Global expansion... -
Ford Motor Company: Strengthening the Dealer Network
Strategy & Execution Case Study14.00View Details The case describes a five-year effort (2006-2011) of distribution rationalization and consolidation at Ford. The financial crisis in the second-half of... -
Goldman Sachs: Anchoring Standards After the Financial Crisis
Sales & Marketing Case Study8.95View Details Goldman Sachs, a longtime venerable financial institution headquartered in New York City, had a partnership culture that was known to value its clients....
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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... -
Ten Thousand Villages in Crisis: Can the Fair Trade Pioneer Survive and Flourish in an Economic Downturn?
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details This case examines major challenges faced by Ten Thousand Villages Canada in 2013, in the aftermath of the 2007-08 global financial crisis. Ten Thousand... -
The Devil's Derivatives: The Untold Story of the Slick Traders and Hapless Regulators Who Almost Blew Up Wall Street . . . and Are Ready to Do It Again
Finance & Accounting Book27.95View Details "The Devil's Derivatives" charts the untold story of modern financial innovation--how investment banks invented new financial products, how investors... -
Rudy Wong, Investment Advisor, Teaching Note
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Preparing for the Next Macroeconomic Cycle - and Its Risks
Global Business Digital ArticleLeaders need to start thinking beyond 2021. -
1930-1933: The Great Depression and the End of "Orthodoxy" (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In February 1933, President Herbert Hoover reviewed the past four years of his administration. He had met a stock market crash and a recession that worsened... -
Ten Thousand Villages in Crisis: Can the Fair Trade Pioneer Survive and Flourish in an Economic Downturn?, Teaching Note
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleTeaching note for case HEC221 -
Jan Carlzon: CEO at SAS (A), Chinese Version
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Describes Jan Carlzon's actions on assuming the CEO's responsibility at SAS in a time of financial and organizational difficulty. After tracing Carlzon's... -
Delphi Corporation
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This case is suitable for students just beginning to learn finance principles but is also appropriate to use in courses with experienced students and... -
Crisis and Reform in Japan's Banking System (A)
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details In 1997, amidst Japan's ongoing financial problems, Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto sought to restructure the financial sector to make it more transparent...