Banking And Insurance - Publications - Faculty & Research

Web

The General Shoe Company, 1921 | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

the division of research, and a professor of investment banking at HBS. The case presents a labor problem in a hypothetical shoe manufacturing plant of the same name: workers were routinely leaving the plant... View Details

21 May 2012
Research & Ideas

OSHA Inspections: Protecting Employees or Killing Jobs?

With an election looming and the economy continuing to struggle, the effectiveness of government regulation has become a political football. While advocates hold regulations up as necessary to protect public health View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

Web

Student Research - Doctoral

integration of national financial markets and what are its consequences for regional growth? We digitize and collect US state-level banking data from 1953 to 1983 View Details

01 Sep 2022
What Do You Think?

Is It Time to Consider Lifting Tariffs on Chinese Imports?

put it, religious belief may affect organizational performance “if the belief excludes individuals from “alien” religions from the organization, such as an Islamic bank not employing Christians or a strictly Christian firm not employing... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

08 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

A Balanced Scorecard Approach To Measure Customer Profitability

The Balanced Scorecard introduced customer metrics into performance management systems. Scorecards feature all manner of wonderful objectives relating to the customer value proposition and customer outcome metrics—for example, market... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan

Web

In the Community | About

In the Community Whether helping to provide needed resources, offering expertise, or through volunteerism, Harvard Business School and its students, staff, faculty, and alumni are enthusiastic contributors... View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

Made in Italy

HBS faculty members and students visited Lamborghini’s headquarters in Bologna during the immersion to learn how the company became experts in electric car technology. Photo courtesy Lamborghini IMMERSIVE FIELD COURSES OFFERED AS ELECTIVES IN 2023 Denmark and... View Details

Keywords: April White

Web

Dan Lufkin | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Skip to Main Content HBS Entrepreneurs Collection Profiles About This Collection Contact Us Special Collections Search Paul Baier PurchasingCenter.com/Excara Frank Batten Weather Channel Steven B. Belkin Trans National Group (TNG) Hakeem Belo-Osagie United View Details

09 Apr 2018
Sharpening Your Skills

The Dark Side of Performance Bonuses

iPhoto Companies continually test ways to incent employees to perform more effectively, often turning to worker-motivation tools such as bonuses, “up or out” employee ranking tournaments, and employee of the month rewards. Behavioral... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Feb 2021
Blog Post

Choosing the Right Student Loan

be a good idea to consider these types of loans. Both domestic and international students may benefit from having a U.S. co-signer on private loans. When exploring private loan options, you may want to start with your current View Details

Research Summary

Principal Research Interests

My research is principally focused on nineteenth- and twentieth-century subjects, with an emphasis on economic and especially financial history. I am interested in the role of banks and capital markets in the process of economic development as well as in the political... View Details

Portrait Project

Mike Laffin

at Catholic Charities, devoted their lives to serving the less fortunate in Hartford. They taught me to use your gifts to serve others and to never shy away from an opportunity to do the right thing—no matter the risk. I left investment... View Details

Web

Curriculum - Business & Environment

students interested in gaining a broader view of the financing landscape for young firms, going beyond the basics of venture capital and angel financing to look at venture debt, bank finance, corporate... View Details

Web

Leadership Transitions | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

President Nixon, took over as head of Lehman Brothers. His restructuring of the firm, including reducing the number of employees and expanding its financial services, resulted in record revenues. Under Peterson’s watch, Lehman Brothers... View Details

Web

Finding Talent Opportunities

problem solving and strategic action plans to drive success. Learning from Mistakes and Leveraging Personal Experiences: Tiffany Kent (MBA 2001) Tiffany Kent 15 AUG 2024 After navigating the ups View Details

18 May 2016
Research & Ideas

Unethical Amnesia: Why We Tend to Forget Our Own Bad Behavior

not to recall pleading guilty to criminal possession of a weapon in 2009; and when asked whether he served several months at Riker’s Island in 2010, he answered, “I don’t know.” Similarly, in a 2007 Senate hearing to investigate his role... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

Web

The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership

Reconstruction Finance Corp. created to combat bank and business failures Introduction of Federal Deposit Insurance SEC established Federal regulations prohibit false... View Details

Web

Academics - Health Care

This course is the premier value-based health care course geared toward executive management and physician leaders from health care delivery organizations, health insurers and... View Details

2024
Working Paper

Does Private Equity Have Any Business Being in the Health Care Business?

By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Zirui Song

Private Equity (“PE”) has come under increased scrutiny by the press, academics, and policymakers, as well as the public, for its investments in health care delivery. This scrutiny has been exacerbated by recent high profile hospital bankruptcies following PE... View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Government Administration; Acquisition; Health Industry

Citation

SSRN

Read Now

12 May 2023
News

Alabama's Yella Fella

wood himself and the company was ‘completely busted.' Back in 1971, in need of a lifeline, he asked the Bank of Abbeville for a $5,000 loan. ‘I walked in there in my coveralls, nasty as hell,' Rane... View Details

Keywords: Merchant Wholesalers, Durable Goods; Wholesale Trade

Publications