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Are We On the Verge of Another Financial Crisis?
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Crisis of Faith in the Financial System
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Peter Bernstein's Lasting Lessons
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Managing the Liquidity Crisis
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A Crisis of Long-Term Unemployment Is Looming in the U.S.
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What We've Learned from the Financial Crisis
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A Financial Crisis Is Looming for Smaller Suppliers
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What Entrepreneurs Should Ask Themselves When an Economic Crisis Hits
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We Tracked Every Dollar 235 U.S. Households Spent for a Year, and Found Widespread Financial Vulnerability
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What Silicon Valley Bank Did Right
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The Financial Crisis’s Silver Lining
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Does the Capital Asset Pricing Model Work?
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The Economic Crisis Feeds on "Macromyopia"
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Startups Could Fundamentally Change the Way Big Investors Operate
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How Struggling Businesses Can Renegotiate Rent
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A Financial Crisis Fifty Years in the Making?
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The UK Economic Crisis Might Not Be a One-Off
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Is This an Analytics-Driven Financial Crisis?
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Adapting Your Sales Approach in a Downturn
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How Banks Can Avoid a Repeat of the 2008 Foreclosure Crisis
Global Business Digital ArticleMitigate, don't litigate.
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1930-1933: The Great Depression and the End of "Orthodoxy" (B)
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JBS Swift & Co.
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Brazilian meat packer JBS surprised many in the U.S. beef industry when it acquired Swift & Co.--a company more than five times its size--in 2007, then... -
OTE: Managing in Times of National Crisis (A)
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Argentina Currency Peg and Fiscal Reforms (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Case (A) starts by reviewing several attempts made by three consecutive Argentine governments between 1973 and 1989 to fight the three-digit inflation... -
The Panic of 1837 and the Market Revolution in America (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View 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... -
Jackson Automotive Systems
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Lyric Dinner Theater (A)
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The South Sea Bubble and the Rise of the Bank of England (B)
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Publicis Groupe 2009: Toward a Digital Transformation
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Honeywell and the Great Recession (A)
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A Currency We Can Call Our Own: Populism, Banking Crises, and Exchange Rate Crises in Argentina, 1946-2002
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The IMF: the Washington Consensus, the critics, and the New Challenges as China Rises
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details How the International Monetary Fund (IMF) defined and carried out its mandate has evolved considerably since 1944, when it was founded to serve a vital... -
Jan Carlzon: CEO at SAS (A)
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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. -
Lyric Dinner Theater (B)
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Tombstones
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details This case consists primarily of excerpts from term sheets and prospectuses for six securities offerings made by US companies during 2009-2010, just after... -
Financial Crisis and the Revolutions of 1848 (B)
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South Africa (A): Stuck in the Middle?
Global Business Case Study11.95View Details Fifteen years after ending apartheid, formal unemployment in South Africa was still at 24%. While the country had grown at 4 to 5% annually during the... -
Jan Carlzon: CEO at SAS (B)
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The Panic of 2001 and Corporate Transparency, Accountability, and Trust (B)
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details These cases are part of a module of teaching materials that study the major financial events of the first decade of the 2000s and the dramatic shift in...
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1930-1933: The Great Depression and the End of "Orthodoxy" (B)
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details Supplement to case UV7888 Following an A case that presents the dominant narrative around the causes and remedies for the Great Depression, this B case... -
JBS Swift & Co.
Sales & Marketing Case Study11.95View Details Brazilian meat packer JBS surprised many in the U.S. beef industry when it acquired Swift & Co.--a company more than five times its size--in 2007, then... -
OTE: Managing in Times of National Crisis (A)
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details In late 2010, Michael Tsamaz was appointed CEO and Chairman of Greek telecommunications company OTE. OTE still exhibited many traits of a large incumbent... -
Are We On the Verge of Another Financial Crisis?
Global Business Digital ArticleHow climate change could spark a collapse in housing prices much like the one that brought down the financial system in 2008. -
Argentina Currency Peg and Fiscal Reforms (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Case (A) starts by reviewing several attempts made by three consecutive Argentine governments between 1973 and 1989 to fight the three-digit inflation... -
The Panic of 1837 and the Market Revolution in America (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View 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... -
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... -
Lyric Dinner Theater (A)
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View 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... -
Songy 2011: Restructuring to Survive (Or, Surviving to Restructure?), Teaching Note
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The South Sea Bubble and the Rise of the Bank of England (B)
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