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- 28 Aug 2017
- Research & Ideas
Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?
performance on business-relevant ESG issues based on a firm’s industry membership has a positive association with future financial performance. A company’s efforts to improve its social impact could result in cost savings, increased brand...
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- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes to Restore Trust in Business
It's not in great shape, but it isn't doing too badly, and measured by the standards of the rest of the world it is a marvel and it's doing quite well," he observed. The financial sector is not perfect, either, but banks are also in...
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- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Something Ventured, Something Gained: A European View of Venture Capital
"that's where we have a distinct advantage." For Tazartes and his colleagues, in fact, the demand for the services they render has never been greater, as governments privatize state-run operations and companies consolidate in a...
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- 2010
- Book
A Call for Judgment: Sensible Finance for a Dynamic Economy
By: Amar Bhide
Our prosperity requires the enterprise of innumerable individuals and businesses who exercise their imagination and judgment—and bear responsibility for outcomes. And it is through dialogue and relationships that widespread enterprise is fostered, not merely prices in...
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Keywords:
Recession;
Banking;
Banks;
Finance;
Economics;
Macroeconomics;
Banks and Banking;
Financial Services Industry;
Financial Services Industry
Bhide, Amar. A Call for Judgment: Sensible Finance for a Dynamic Economy. Oxford University Press, 2010.
- April 2004 (Revised June 2004)
- Case
Neeley University Investment Management Company
This case analyzes the problem of a university looking to reduce its private equity exposure in its endowment. The university hires Cogent Partners, a small investment bank specializing in private equity secondary trading.
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Keywords:
Financial Management;
Private Equity;
Higher Education;
Financial Services Industry;
Financial Services Industry
Chacko, George C., Ian Charles, Colin McGrady, and Veeral Rathod. "Neeley University Investment Management Company." Harvard Business School Case 204-150, April 2004. (Revised June 2004.)
- September 2010 (Revised December 2010)
- Case
Santander Consumer Finance
By: J. Gunnar Trumbull, Elena Corsi and Andrew Barron
A Spanish company has to decide if they should expand into the fragmented European consumer finance market and has to make important organizational strategy decisions in the midst of the world economic downturn that followed the 2007 U.S. credit crunch. Since 2002, the...
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Keywords:
Borrowing and Debt;
Financial Markets;
International Finance;
Personal Finance;
Consolidation;
Corporate Strategy;
Expansion;
Financial Services Industry;
European Union;
Spain
Trumbull, J. Gunnar, Elena Corsi, and Andrew Barron. "Santander Consumer Finance." Harvard Business School Case 711-015, September 2010. (Revised December 2010.)
- January 2010 (Revised March 2013)
- Teaching Note
Western Union: Our World, Our Family® (TN)
By: Christopher Marquis and Bobbi Thomason
Teaching Note for [410050].
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- August 1995 (Revised September 1995)
- Case
Hutton Branch Manager (C)
By: Lynn S. Paine and Jane Palley Katz
Centers on the company's plea of guilty to 2,000 counts of mail and wire fraud in response to the U.S. government's challenge to its cash management practices. Describes the Justice Department's investigations as well as the findings and recommendations of former...
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Keywords:
Organizational Change and Adaptation;
Financial Management;
Governance Controls;
Crime and Corruption;
Governance Compliance;
Law Enforcement;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Paine, Lynn S., and Jane Palley Katz. "Hutton Branch Manager (C)." Harvard Business School Case 396-046, August 1995. (Revised September 1995.)
- Profile
Giuseppe Morgana
ambitions fit into the big picture of the world beyond? I’m passionate about looking at how different forces, like technology, are forcing dramatic shifts in the ways businesses are run. But at the same time, HBS has a great focus on thinking beyond View Details
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Jackie Burgos
to see more diverse characters and storylines on Television. At HBS, the Career Services office has been especially supportive of Jackie’s ambition to further continue her success in the Media and Entertainment industry. “I use all the...
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- 10 Jan 2018
- Research & Ideas
Working for a Shamed Company Can Hurt Your Future Compensation
work. It does seem like companies make some distinctions between employees, who are not all painted with the same broad brush. Senior executives suffer a 6.5 percent compensation discount on average while financial executives take a 10...
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- May 2021 (Revised June 2021)
- Supplement
'GEnron'? Markopolos versus General Electric (B)
By: Jonas Heese and David Lane
Supplement to the (A) case that offers an assessment of the August 2019 Markopolos report on General Electric.
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Keywords:
Financial Statements;
Communication;
Energy;
Financial Condition;
Insurance;
Performance;
Planning;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Value;
Financial Services Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
Financial Services Industry
Heese, Jonas, and David Lane. "'GEnron'? Markopolos versus General Electric (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 121-033, May 2021. (Revised June 2021.)
- 06 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Trouble Behind Livedoor
into market manipulation, especially in Japan? Robin Greenwood: Generally speaking, market manipulation comes in two forms: manipulating investor expectations, or manipulating investors' ability to trade. Financial economists know a lot...
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- February 2001 (Revised April 2001)
- Case
CDC Capital Partners
By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
In 2001, CDC Capital Partners is facing the greatest challenge in its 53-year history. Founded as part of the U.K. government's post-war colonial reconstruction, it had operated as a developmental finance institution, largely issuing debt to the world's poorest...
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Keywords:
Business or Company Management;
Private Equity;
Emerging Markets;
Cost vs Benefits;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Partners and Partnerships;
Financial Institutions;
Financial Services Industry;
United Kingdom
Hardymon, G. Felda, Josh Lerner, and Ann Leamon. "CDC Capital Partners." Harvard Business School Case 801-333, February 2001. (Revised April 2001.)
- April 2009
- Teaching Note
SKS Microfinance (TN)
By: Shawn A. Cole
Teaching Note for [208137].
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
One Student’s HBS Journey
Wallace Christina Wallace (MBA ’10) applied to business schools knowing that the best financial aid offer would determine where she earned an MBA. Her job as a rehearsal associate at the Metropolitan Opera came with many benefits, but a...
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- 07 Dec 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Rise of Personalized Entrepreneurial Finance and Other VC Trends
such an in-demand course and pursuit for recent MBAs? A: I don’t think there’s an easy answer. Things in society tend to be popular or unpopular at different times, and student enrollments tend to reflect that. There was a lot of interest in structuring View Details
- Profile
Naeill Leigh
yourself? I’ve always been most comfortable with technology and engineering. Just by having great interactions with my finance professor has pushed me toward going into finance, which I wouldn’t have considered before coming to HBS. In my free time, I’m learning about...
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- 2004
- Chapter
The Globalization of Stock Markets and Convergence in Corporate Governance
By: Gerald F. Davis and Christopher Marquis
Keywords:
Globalized Markets and Industries;
Financial Markets;
Corporate Governance;
Financial Services Industry;
Financial Services Industry
Davis, Gerald F., and Christopher Marquis. "The Globalization of Stock Markets and Convergence in Corporate Governance." In Economic Sociology of Capitalism, edited by Victor Nee and Richard Swedberg. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004.
- January 1998
- Case
From Wall Street to Main Street: Morgan Stanley, Dean Witter, Discover & Co.
By: James K. Sebenius and David T. Kotchen
Designed as a follow-up to Morgan Stanley and S.G. Warburg: Investment Bank of the Future (A).
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Keywords:
Negotiation;
Valuation;
Investment Banking;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Financial Services Industry;
Financial Services Industry
Sebenius, James K., and David T. Kotchen. "From Wall Street to Main Street: Morgan Stanley, Dean Witter, Discover & Co." Harvard Business School Case 898-143, January 1998.