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A Crisis of Long-Term Unemployment Is Looming in the U.S.
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Not Enough Companies Are Ready for Brexit, No Matter What Happens Next
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Big Data and Machine Learning Won't Save Us from Another Financial Crisis
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The Economic Crisis Requires Returning to Your Core
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The Hidden Dangers of Playing It Safe
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John Kotter on the Financial Crisis
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What Entrepreneurs Should Ask Themselves When an Economic Crisis Hits
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Is This an Analytics-Driven Financial Crisis?
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Peter Bernstein's Lasting Lessons
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Europe's Financial Crisis: No Time for Dithering
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The Economic Crisis Feeds on “Macromyopia”
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Are We On the Verge of Another Financial Crisis?
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The Surprising Winners in the Financial Crisis
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Silicon Valley Bank's Focus on Startups Was a Double-Edged Sword
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Crisis of Faith in the Financial System
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How Struggling Businesses Can Renegotiate Rent
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What We've Learned from the Financial Crisis
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Restoring Shareholder Confidence When Your Stock Is Down
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Why Some Crowdsourcing Efforts Work and Others Don't
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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.
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Lehman Brothers: Too Big to Fail?, Epilogue
Global Business Case Study5.00View Details In September 2008, Hank Paulson, U.S. Treasury Secretary, Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, and Tim Geithner, President... -
Brennan Warranty Corporation (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Brennan Warranty sold warranty contracts to the used car market. During the recession in 2008/2009 Brennan sales declined by 26% Instead of growing by... -
1933: Germany's Economic Crises (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In January 1933, German president Paul von Hindenburg confronted the dilemma of whom to appoint as chancellor in the midst of the Great Depression, polarization... -
Hungary: Economic Crisis and a Shift to the Right
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Jan Carlzon: CEO at SAS (A)
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... -
The Obama Stimulus
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details This case describes the factors that led to the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) and the impact the financial stimulus... -
21st Century Populism
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details While the first decade of the 21st century saw a massive financial crisis that led to significant economic downturn, the second decade saw the rise of... -
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... -
The Panic of 1873 and the "Long Depression" (B)
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Yes Bank: Financial Distress
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High Wire Act: Credit Suisse and Contingent Capital (B)
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NovaStar Financial: A Short Seller's Battle
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Saginaw Parts Co. and the General Motors Corp. Credit Default Swap
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Portugal: Can Socialism Survive?
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South Africa (A): Stuck in the Middle?
Global Business Case Study8.95View 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... -
Capitalizing for the Future: HSBC in 2010
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Following the financial crisis of 2007/2008, HSBC CEO Michael Geoghegan saw a fundamental change in global opportunities and risks. With increasing regulation... -
Friend Bank: The Time for Hope
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The Global Great Depression, 1929-1939
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details The Great Depression was, by far, the worst economic contraction of the twentieth century, and some of the most important ideas about both fiscal and... -
1990 USSR: Reform, Revolution, or Retrenchment (A)
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Liza Davis and the Bargain Hunting Customer
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Liza Davis, an upscale women's fashion retailer, is reeling from worldwide recession and lower demand. Should the company target the fast growing bargain...
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Lehman Brothers: Too Big to Fail?, Epilogue
Global Business Case Study5.00View Details In September 2008, Hank Paulson, U.S. Treasury Secretary, Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, and Tim Geithner, President... -
Brennan Warranty Corporation (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Brennan Warranty sold warranty contracts to the used car market. During the recession in 2008/2009 Brennan sales declined by 26% Instead of growing by... -
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. -
1933: Germany's Economic Crises (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In January 1933, German president Paul von Hindenburg confronted the dilemma of whom to appoint as chancellor in the midst of the Great Depression, polarization... -
Hungary: Economic Crisis and a Shift to the Right
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details ... -
Jan Carlzon: CEO at SAS (A)
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... -
The Obama Stimulus
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details This case describes the factors that led to the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (ARRA) and the impact the financial stimulus... -
21st Century Populism
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details While the first decade of the 21st century saw a massive financial crisis that led to significant economic downturn, the second decade saw the rise of... -
Ten Thousand Villages in Crisis: Can the Fair Trade Pioneer Survive and Flourish in an Economic Downturn?, Teaching Note
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Primus 2007, Teaching Note
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleTeaching Note for [208099].
