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  • 10 Mar 2015
  • First Look

First Look: March 10

http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/15-068_c417331e-2146-40b6-8dfc-aa9a029db119.pdf February 2015 Harvard Business Review Corporate Governance 2.0 By: Subramanian, Guhan Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • October 2009
  • Case

Noble Group

By: C. Fritz Foley, Michael Shih-ta Chen, Matthew Johnson and Linnea Meyer
What role does trade finance play in facilitating global supply chain management? Richard S. Elman, founder and CEO of Noble Group Ltd., a global commodities trading company based in Hong Kong, must raise capital to support the firm's working capital and investment... View Details
Keywords: Trade; Capital; Financing and Loans; International Finance; Globalized Firms and Management; Risk Management; Supply Chain Management; Hong Kong
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  • 09 Jun 2009
  • First Look

First Look: June 9

claim that goal setting, like a potent medication, can produce both beneficial effects and systematic, negative outcomes (Ordóñez, Schweitzer, Galinsky, & Bazerman, 2009), and as a result, it should be carefully prescribed and closely monitored. Responding to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • April 2009 (Revised May 2010)
  • Case

Urbi and the City Licensee Managers

By: John D. Macomber and Regina Garcia-Cuellar
A leading low income housing builder in Mexico decides which prospective new local partner best extends its advantages in managing twin production lines of homes and clients. URBI has built substantial competitive advantage in the technology and culture that matches... View Details
Keywords: Mortgages; Government and Politics; Housing; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Market Entry and Exit; Production; Supply Chain; Organizational Culture; Franchise Ownership; Partners and Partnerships; Competitive Advantage; Real Estate Industry; China; India; Mexico; United States
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  • 27 Sep 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Religion in the Workplace: What Managers Need to Know

considered one of the last taboos,” says Senior Lecturer Derek van Bever. “Our students have been asking for it because they see very clearly that they will be in positions of global leadership where they will have to deal with it.” To... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage; Apparel & Accessories
  • 2020
  • Chapter

Climate Change Is Going to Transform Where and How We Build

By: John D. Macomber
As fires, floods, and droughts increasingly threaten homes, businesses, and other institutions, climate risk has become financial risk. This implies that homeowners and investors have been making location decisions without properly pricing the cost of potential peril,... View Details
Keywords: Climate Change; Housing; Mortgages; Geographic Location; Real Estate Industry
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  • February 2018 (Revised August 2018)
  • Case

Blue Haven Initiative: The PEGAfrica Investment

By: Vikram S. Gandhi, Caitlin Reimers Brumme and Amram Migdal
This case examines Blue Haven Initiative (BHI), an impact investing fund and family office, and one of its investments, PEGAfrica (PEG). BHI founder Liesel Pritzker Simmons’ motivations for using her family wealth to start a family office focused on impact investing,... View Details
Keywords: Impact Investing; Family Office; Development; International Development; International Development Investing; Development Fund; Sustainability; Solar Energy; Solar; Pay As You Go; PAYG; MFI; Social Venture; Business Ventures; Acquisition; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Economics; Development Economics; Energy; Energy Conservation; Energy Sources; Renewable Energy; Social Entrepreneurship; Finance; Assets; Asset Pricing; Capital; Capital Budgeting; Capital Structure; Venture Capital; Cash; Cash Flow; Currency; Currency Exchange Rate; Equity; Private Equity; Financial Instruments; Debt Securities; Stock Shares; Financing and Loans; Microfinance; International Finance; Investment; Investment Return; Investment Activism; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Price; Geography; Geographic Location; Emerging Markets; Ownership; Ownership Stake; Private Ownership; Social Enterprise; Value; Valuation; Value Creation; Energy Industry; Financial Services Industry; Green Technology Industry; Africa; United States
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  • 28 Oct 2009
  • Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance

management, financial markets, private equity, venture capital, financial engineering (which I also coteach), and a host of other topics. Retail financial services are also occasionally the subject of cases in other areas. But we didn't... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Financial Services; Education
  • 01 Jun 2023
  • HBS Case

A Nike Executive Hid His Criminal Past to Turn His Life Around. What If He Didn't Have To?

and loved reading, often devouring two books a week. He was a responsible child who eagerly volunteered for the school’s safety patrol to guide young students across the street. But Miller’s surroundings would change for the worse—and so... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Apparel & Accessories
  • 14 Mar 2023
  • In Practice

What Does the Failure of Silicon Valley Bank Say About the State of Finance?

bank was different, and it is highlighted in its name and in the history of its public statement. "The bottom line: The art is not to predict whether a run might take place, but when." For example, it is very clear that there is no other bank with over half of its... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking
  • 07 May 2014
  • What Do You Think?

How Should Wealth Be Redistributed?

disconnection," May 16, 2014, The Sarasota Herald-Tribune, p. 9A (reprinted from The Washington Post, May 15, 2014). Original Article Some years ago, my spouse and I had a conversation with a former student over dinner and a fine... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 09 Dec 2014
  • First Look

First Look: December 9

information-processing activity. Prior research has identified consequential information-processing failures that occur in small groups, such as the failure to discuss privately held relevant information, biased processing of information,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'

the reorganization plan. And, critically, it was able to raise over $8 billion in new DIP financing—a remarkable feat, given the timing. Funded by a consortium of commercial banks, investment banks, private equity firms, and hedge funds,... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking
  • 10 Aug 2009
  • Research & Ideas

High Commitment, High Performance Management

or silent killers. We call them silent killers because while everyone knows about them and they are discussed in private where it is safe, they are not discussible publicly with senior management. The fact that a company's people are seen... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 19 Jun 2012
  • First Look

First Look: June 19

312-002 McKesson, a large, diversified drug distribution and health care IT company, is considering development of new business offerings to help private practice physicians remain independent. The company, with $122 billion in 2010... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 May 2009
  • First Look

First Look: May 19, 2009

private banker, and a Nobel-prize winning economist. They present different interpretations of the causes of the financial crisis and make proposals about how a similar crisis might be stopped in the future. The goal of the case is to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 May 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Are Banks the ‘Bad Guys’? Overdraft Fees Are Crushing Low-Income Customers

checks, or use convenient banking products and services, like debit cards and direct deposit. This possibility induces some low-income customers to pay back the bank with high-interest loans from payday lenders, the researchers suggest.... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services
  • 2016
  • Article

Organizational Decision-Making and Information: Angel Investments by Venture Capital Partners

By: Andy Wu
We study information aggregation in organizational decision-making for the financing of entrepreneurial ventures. We introduce a formal model of voting where agents face costly tacit information to improve their decision quality. Equilibrium outcomes suggest a... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Angel Investors; Organization Design; Voting; Group Decision-making; Information; Strategy; Organizations; Entrepreneurship; Decision Making; Financing and Loans
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  • 04 Feb 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Putting Entrepreneurship in the Social Sector

take the ideas from our MBA social entrepreneurship course, which has been taught at HBS for many years, beyond the walls of the HBS classroom. The book is geared toward students with whom we would not otherwise have the opportunity to... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Feb 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 5

scholars who focus diverse conceptual lenses on a single high-stakes management task-enhancing port security across the United States. This title considers the challenge of driving change in a complex system involving hundreds of private... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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