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Yes, Short-Termism Really Is a Problem
Business and society Digital ArticleWe don’t need to prove it because we can all see it. -
Stock or Cash?: The Trade-Offs for Buyers and Sellers in Mergers and Acquisitions
Accounting Magazine ArticleCompanies are increasingly paying for acquisitions with stock rather than cash. But both they and the companies they acquire need to understand just how big a difference that decision can make to the value shareholders will get from a deal. -
Is Crypto Cleaning Up Its Act?
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleNew research suggests that the market's recent self-regulation efforts are more than a PR stunt. -
The Answer to Short-Termism Isn't Asking Investors to Be Patient
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleWe need to encourage larger stakes and a longer-term orientation. -
The New Economy Is Stronger Than You Think
Government policy and regulation Magazine ArticleSome people—in particular, panicky policy makers at the Fed—fear that the new economy is a bubble about to burst. They’re dead wrong. Barring any government interference, the new economy is rock solid and here to stay. -
What Managers Get Wrong About Capital
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleWhy do large corporations sell off business units to PE firms that make a fortune by selling them a few years later? The author, a former Rotman School... -
The Right Way to Manage Your Pension Fund
Accounting Magazine ArticleThe way we deal with risk depends on how we define it. This is often a more complicated task than appears. Risk is such a many-headed monster that selecting the right head to strike at can be a big challenge. Corporate executives have traditionally defined pension fund risk in terms of the trade-off between risk […] -
Serving Shareholders Doesn’t Mean Putting Profit Above All Else
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Finance Can Be a Noble Profession (Yes, Really)
Leadership & Managing People Digital ArticleDespite the industry's bad behavior, finance will always be central to our lives. -
How the Carl Icahns of the World Benefit Firms but Not Workers
Financial markets Digital ArticleResearch reveals how activist investors help and hurt. -
6 Factors That Determine Your Company's Valuation
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleInvestors have a quantitative understanding of how the market values a company. Management teams should too. -
Why China's Market Crash Is So Unsurprising
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleThe issues are structural. -
How to Assess True Macroeconomic Risk
Economics Magazine ArticleModels and forecasts can be seductive, but it’s time for executives to reclaim their economic judgment. -
Fintech Companies Could Give Billions of People More Banking Options
Social enterprise Digital ArticleConsumers in poor countries especially stand to benefit. -
Economist Paul Krugman on being surprised by the spread of the downturn
Global Business Magazine ArticleKrugman - a professor at Princeton University, the most recent winner of the Nobel Prize in economics, and a columnist for the New York Times - talks... -
U.S. Corporations Don’t Need Tax Breaks on Foreign Profits
Business and society Digital ArticleThe money will just end up in shareholders’ pockets. -
When Companies Want to Innovate, But Investors Won’t Let Them
Financial markets ResearchThe innovator’s dilemma is not only caused by customers. -
Making the World Safe for Markets
Emerging markets Magazine ArticleWhen the poor have no stake in their own economies, mixing democracy and capitalism can be catastrophic. -
Can Zombie Firms Survive Rising Interest Rates?
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleThey feast on cheap credit, which is drying up. -
New Thinking for a New Financial Order
Global Business Magazine ArticleWorld financial assets are growing faster than the world economy. Confronting that and other modern realities of global finance requires more than regulatory...
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Note: Credit Rating Agencies
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details The note examines the role of credit rating agencies in capital markets, with emphasis on the role of these agencies in the recent credit crisis and recommendations... -
The Florange Law: Encouraging Long-Termism in Equity Markets?
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This note provides background information on a French law ("the Florange law") passed in 2014 that the French government said would encourage long-term... -
BlueOrchard Finance: Connecting Microfinance to Capital Markets
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Microfinance is a field that has received increasing attention over the years in the development community. It consists of the delivery of financial services... -
Mexico: The Tequila Crisis--1994-95
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Describes the evolution of the Mexican economy and its relation to the international capital markets in the period leading up to the Peso crisis of December... -
The Euro Zone and the Sovereign Debt Crisis
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Jason Sterling sat on his hedge fund's Stamford, Connecticut, trading floor on January 28, 2011, scouring the Wall Street Journal and Bloomberg websites... -
Dealing with Capital Flows: Thailand in 2006
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details This case was written as an exam case for first-year course, Global Economies and Markets. It is written as a comprehensive case that examine the policy... -
Apple: Privacy vs. Safety (C)
Management Case Study5.00View Details In September 2021, Apple decided to delay updates to iOS and iPadOS that included features to fight child sexual abuse. While many-including prominent... -
Closed-End Funds at Saba Capital Management
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Long-Term Capital Management, L.P. (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Long-Term Capital Management, L.P. (LTCM) was in the business of engaging in trading strategies to exploit market pricing discrepancies. Because the firm... -
Loewen Group, Inc.
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details This case asks students to select and implement a methodology for estimating the damages in a complex lawsuit filed under Chapter 11 of the North American... -
Rutas de Lima
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details The case involves tapping global capital markets for an important revenue-driven project in a developing country. It addresses key issues in project and... -
Brick by Brick
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Hailey Song walked out of the 88th floor boardroom and paused before making her way towards the elevator. For the first time in three months as Head of... -
Latam Airlines and COVID-19: Seeking Bankruptcy Protection in the United States
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details On May 26, 2020, Latam Airlines became the largest airline in the world to be driven to bankruptcy by COVID-19. With a complex debt structure and international... -
The Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic and the Global Economy (A)
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details In April 2020, the world struggled to contain the exponential escalation of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Dozens of countries had imposed restrictions... -
Star Magnolia Capital: Becoming Experts at Finding Experts
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Shinya Deguchi, Founder and Managing Partner of Star Magnolia Capital, a Shanghai-based multi-family office (MFO), considered how to convince a new prospective... -
Building Businesses at Brainspark Plc.
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details In June of 1999, Steward Dodd, Noah Freedman, and Richard Davidson established Brainspark, a British business incubator designed to support and grow fledgling... -
Walt Disney Co.'s Sleeping Beauty Bonds, Duration Analysis
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Walt Disney Co. issues a 100-year bond. This case describes the terms of the bond and immediate capital market reaction. -
The Credit Crisis of 2008: An Overview
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details This case examines the causes and consequences of the credit crisis of 2008 from a national and global perspective and explores the actions taken and... -
The Takeover of Arcelor by Mittal Steel: Change in a Mature Global Industry (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details There are two cases. Both concern the six-month battle in 2006 to create the steel group, Arcelor Mittal, by far the largest steel company in the world,... -
Japanese Financial System: From Postwar to the New Millennium
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details Describes the development of the Japanese financial system, from extensive regulation and fund allocation through administrative guidance in the 1950s...
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Yes, Short-Termism Really Is a Problem
Business and society Digital ArticleWe don’t need to prove it because we can all see it. -
The Race for Space, and the Invasion of the Electric Scooters
Competitive strategy AudioDoes Space represent a real economic opportunity or are expensive endeavors like SpaceX a form of billionaire hubris? Youngme, Felix and Mihir discuss the Race for Space, before debating the viability of the electric scooter market in cities around the world. -
French Pension System: On the Verge of Retirement? (Abridged)
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Surveys the French pension system, its particular institutional characteristics, and some of the critical challenges and opportunities facing French reformers.... -
Stock or Cash?: The Trade-Offs for Buyers and Sellers in Mergers and Acquisitions
Accounting Magazine ArticleCompanies are increasingly paying for acquisitions with stock rather than cash. But both they and the companies they acquire need to understand just how big a difference that decision can make to the value shareholders will get from a deal. -
Vietnam's Private Sector Development: Mr. Nam's Dilemma
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details In 2000, Vietnam passed the Enterprise Law to spur private sector development and facilitate its transition from a centrally-planned to a market economy.... -
The New Economy Is Stronger Than You Think
Government policy and regulation Magazine ArticleSome people—in particular, panicky policy makers at the Fed—fear that the new economy is a bubble about to burst. They’re dead wrong. Barring any government interference, the new economy is rock solid and here to stay. -
The October 2009 Petrobras Bond Issue (C)
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details The Petrobras case explores the debt financing decisions of one of the largest oil companies in the world. The task is to decide on debt issues that are... -
How to Spot a Nationalized Bank
Global Business Digital ArticleAs part of the ongoing bailout of Citigroup, it was recently announced that the government's investment of about $25 billion in preferred stock would... -
Financial Crisis and the Revolutions of 1848 (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details On March 15, 1848, the governor of the Bank of France, Antoine d'Argout, faced the potential collapse of his institution. A cascade of agricultural and... -
How Midsize Companies Can Access Capital in Turbulent Times
Organizational Development Digital ArticleLending to mid-market companies has fallen nearly 60% over the last year.