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  • 01 Dec 2015
  • News

Case Study: Bionic Banking

choices—align yourself with a big consolidator of wealth management firms or decide to go after the 17,000-plus independent RIA firms. If you go with the independent firms, you will need to have a robust sales and support capability; most... View Details
  • May 1998
  • Background Note

Note on the Retailing Industry

By: David E. Bell and Ann Leamon
Presents a survey discussion of retailing and current issues. Examines the impact of changing consumer attitudes on the industry and outlines the industry's response: consolidation, adoption of technology, use of brands and private labels, and changing relationships... View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Debates; Customers; Surveys; Partners and Partnerships; Attitudes; Adoption; Consolidation; Retail Industry
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  • 11 Apr 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Financial Services 24/7

routine part of most people's lives, there is no doubt that technology—especially Internet technology—is having a huge impact on the financial services industry. With much hype and headlines, Web trading has revolutionized the securities business, and the rapidly View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
  • 01 Feb 2000
  • News

Financial Services 24/7

a routine part of most people's lives, there is no doubt that technology - especially Internet technology - is having a huge impact on the financial services industry. With much hype and headlines, Web trading has revolutionized the securities business, and the rapidly... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • April 1996 (Revised June 2001)
  • Case

Partners HealthCare System, Inc. (B): Cardiac Care Improvement

By: Gary P. Pisano and Maryam Golnaraghi
Explores the challenges confronting the CEO at the Brigham and Women's Hospital in the wake of radical changes in the health care environment. As pressures have risen for cost containment in health care, the hospital has embarked on a series of reengineering efforts to... View Details
Keywords: Consolidation; Health Care and Treatment; Mergers and Acquisitions; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Management Teams; Operations; Innovation and Invention; Cost Management; Health Industry; Massachusetts
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  • 01 Jan 2005
  • News

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965

basic business operations, reduced payroll by 35,000 employees, and updated and consolidated its inefficient IT systems. To refocus and reenergize employees, he also implemented a number of policy changes. Bonuses and variable pay, for... View Details
  • 03 Aug 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Corporate Social Responsibility in a Downturn

social responsibility evolving during the current recession? A: There is no doubt that corporations are engaging in less philanthropy, but that is not necessarily bad as long as they cut the ineffective ones and consolidate those that are... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2018
  • News

Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers

as much for the same seeds. That knowledge would help farmers haggle with dealers, but the real insight would come from analytics that go beyond consolidating seed prices to measuring a seed variety’s potential success. The most important... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
  • Web

Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2016

Financials Supplemental Financial Information 5-Year Data Summary CFO Letter Financial Highlights Statement of Activity & Cash Flows Consolidated Balance Sheet Supplemental Financial Information page 1 of 2 Revenues At the core of Harvard... View Details
  • March 1996 (Revised July 1996)
  • Case

Service Corporation International

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Craig F Schreiber
The CFO of a high-growth company in the low-growth and fragmented funeral services industry must decide how to optimize capital structure and earnings growth while maximizing the company's market value. View Details
Keywords: Financial Management; Value Creation; Business Growth and Maturation; Consolidation; Industry Growth; Capital Structure; Expansion; Service Industry; United States; North and Central America
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  • Web

HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer

2023 Annual Report From The Dean Key Metrics Financials PDF Downloads Financials From the CFO Financial Highlights Statement of Activity & Cash Flows Consolidated Balance Sheet Supplemental Financial Information Financials From the CFO... View Details
  • Web

HBS - Financials | From the CFO

2021 Annual Report From The Dean Financials PDF Downloads Archive Financials 5 Year Summary From the CFO Financial Highlights Statement of Activity & Cash Flows Consolidated Balance Sheet Supplemental Financial Information Financials 5... View Details
  • 22 Aug 2006
  • First Look

First Look: August 22, 2006

manufacturing and the Toyota Production System. Asks students to consider whether New Balance should change aspects of its operations strategy in light of the consolidation among its competitors or whether the Adidas-Reebok transaction... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 May 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Improving Market Research in a Recession

based on fewer expenditures. For example, combining data sets may reveal new leading indicators of changes in consumer behavior. Tracking studies may have an edge over one-off projects. CMOs who trim costs by consolidating their budgets... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
  • 14 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 14

of the debt has partially offset the Federal Reserve's attempts to reduce the supply of long-term bonds held by private investors through its policy of quantitative easing. We then examine the appropriate debt management policy for the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 30

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-006.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsKanebo Ltd. (A) David F.Hawkins, Suraj Srinivasan, Akiko Kanno, and Lizzie GomezHarvard Business School Case 111-037 Speculation as to how Japanese companies might implement IFRS with particular... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Aug 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs

payoffs will be over a much longer term than in the traditional business. But even when he's creating a new team to pursue breakthrough growth, Urquhart is thinking about how he will consolidate it with the core business. In the case of... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
  • Web

Supplemental Financial Information - Financial Report 2015

Financials Supplemental Financial Information Statement of Activity & Cash Flows Consolidated Balance Sheet Supplemental Financial Information page 1 of 2 Revenues At the core of the School’s economic model is internally funded faculty... View Details
  • 26 Aug 2013
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Built for Global Competition from the Start

trend in global labor markets. In the end, students grapple with a very recent phenomenon for entrepreneurial companies—they may start global for the first phases of development and then consolidate into a single location, the opposite of... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Education
  • 31 Jan 2024
  • Blog Post

Career Advice from the Guests of the HBS Climate Rising Podcast

opportunities. We’ve consolidated many of the resources our guests recommended below as a starting point for engaging in the climate community. More resources are available in the show notes of each Climate Rising episode. Newsletters:... View Details