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My HBS Student Loan Story: Ina Foalea (MBA 2018) - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
Working PapersEconomic Catastrophe Bonds Authors:Joshua D. Coval, Jakub W. Jurek, and Erik Stafford Abstract The central insight of asset pricing is that a security's value depends on both its distribution of payoffs across economic states and state prices. In fixed...
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Martha Lagace
- Research Summary
Corporate Reputation
Stephen A. Greyser is undertaking an empirical analysis of
corporate reputation based on interviews conducted by Opinion Research
Corporation with more than four thousand executives in nineteen
countries. His study is examining public awareness of, familiarity
with,...
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- 2020
- Working Paper
Consumers Punish Firms That Cut Employee Pay in Response to COVID-19
By: Bhavya Mohan, Serena Hagerty and Michael Norton
Two experiments, including one incentive compatible study, examine the impact of cutting pay for executives versus employees in response to COVID-19 on consumer behavior. Study 1 explores the effect of announcing cuts or no cuts to CEO and employee pay, and shows that...
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Employee Furloughs;
CEO Pay Cuts;
Pay Ratios;
Purchase Intention;
Health Pandemics;
Employees;
Wages;
Executive Compensation;
Consumer Behavior
Mohan, Bhavya, Serena Hagerty, and Michael Norton. "Consumers Punish Firms That Cut Employee Pay in Response to COVID-19." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-020, August 2020.
- February 1996 (Revised November 2003)
- Case
Indianapolis: Activity-Based Costing of City Services (A)
By: Robert S. Kaplan
A new administration in the City of Indianapolis is initially determined to privatize many municipal services. Before taking this action, however, the city managers want to know the current cost of performing these services with the municipal workers. Existing...
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Cost Management;
Public Sector;
Activity Based Costing and Management;
Service Delivery;
Privatization;
City;
Indianapolis
Kaplan, Robert S. "Indianapolis: Activity-Based Costing of City Services (A)." Harvard Business School Case 196-115, February 1996. (Revised November 2003.)
- March 2006
- Module Note
International Regulatory Regimes
By: Mihir A. Desai and Kathleen Luchs
Describes the seventh module in the International Finance course at Harvard Business School. The module focuses on how national and international regulatory regimes influence financial decisions. The module explores how national regulatory regimes interact, the...
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Globalized Markets and Industries;
International Finance;
Decisions;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Business Ventures;
Teaching;
International Relations;
Education Industry
Desai, Mihir A., and Kathleen Luchs. "International Regulatory Regimes." Harvard Business School Module Note 206-128, March 2006.
- January 2017 (Revised January 2019)
- Case
Shisong Cardiac Center: Kumbo, Cameroon
By: Kevin Schulman and Nelly-Ange Konthcou
Shisong Cardiac Center in Kumbo, Cameroon, is a regional cardiac referral center in central Africa. As the continent transitions from communicable to non-communicable diseases, there is a critical shortage of surgical care required to treat these conditions. This case...
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Schulman, Kevin, and Nelly-Ange Konthcou. "Shisong Cardiac Center: Kumbo, Cameroon." Harvard Business School Case 317-085, January 2017. (Revised January 2019.)
- July 2012
- Case
Barclays Capital and the Sale of Del Monte Foods
By: John Coates, Clayton Rose and David Lane
This case explores the reputational and legal issues that arise as Barclays Capital attempted to manage client conflicts by following established industry practice in the face of changing legal norms. In February 2011, Judge Travis Laster granted a preliminary...
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Client Management;
Fiduciary Duty;
Mergers & Acquisitions;
Investment Banking;
Private Equity;
Ethics;
Finance;
Reputation;
Banking Industry;
United States
Coates, John, Clayton Rose, and David Lane. "Barclays Capital and the Sale of Del Monte Foods." Harvard Business School Case 313-036, July 2012.
- June 2011 (Revised January 2013)
- Case
Home Essentials: Building a Global Service Business with Local Operations
By: Lynda M. Applegate, William R. Kerr and David Lane
Chris Exline founded Home Essentials, a furniture rental business targeted toward expatriates, in Singapore but rapidly moved the base of operations to Hong Kong. The company was highly successful in Singapore and Hong Kong and then pursued rapid global expansion....
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Keywords:
Growth Management;
Renting or Rental;
Corporate Governance;
Global Strategy;
Failure;
Singapore;
Hong Kong
Applegate, Lynda M., William R. Kerr, and David Lane. "Home Essentials: Building a Global Service Business with Local Operations." Harvard Business School Case 811-078, June 2011. (Revised January 2013.)
- March 2009 (Revised July 2014)
- Case
PNC Financial: Grow Up Great (A)
By: Christopher Marquis, V. Kasturi Rangan and Alison Comings
In 2003, PNC Financial focused its corporate citizenship and philanthropic resources on a ten-year, $100 million investment in early childhood education called PNC Grow Up Great. The case tracks the origination of Grow Up Great, how it was developed and implemented...
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Early Childhood Education;
Philanthropy and Charitable Giving;
Leadership;
Brands and Branding;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Organizational Structure;
Business and Community Relations
Marquis, Christopher, V. Kasturi Rangan, and Alison Comings. "PNC Financial: Grow Up Great (A)." Harvard Business School Case 409-108, March 2009. (Revised July 2014.)
- July 2010
- Article
Board Interlocks and the Propensity to Be Targeted in Private Equity Transactions
By: Toby E. Stuart and Soojin Yim
In this paper, we examine the propensity for U.S. public companies to become targets for private equity-backed, take-private transactions. We consider the characteristics of 483 private equity-backed deals in the 2000-2007 period relative to public companies, and find...
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Board Interlocks;
Board Networks;
Social Networks;
Private Equity;
Corporate Governance;
Public Ownership;
Market Transactions;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
United States
Stuart, Toby E., and Soojin Yim. "Board Interlocks and the Propensity to Be Targeted in Private Equity Transactions." Journal of Financial Economics 97, no. 1 (July 2010): 174–189.
- August 2008 (Revised December 2009)
- Case
Absolute Return for Kids
By: Herman B. Leonard, Marc J. Epstein and Melissa Tritter
Absolute Return for Kids [ARK] is a charity with strong financial support-what are the constraints on its growth and impact? ARK seeks to transform the lives of children who are victims of abuse, disability, illness, and poverty. As one of the 50 largest fundraising...
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Keywords:
Growth and Development Strategy;
Performance Capacity;
Quality;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Expansion;
South Africa;
Europe;
United Kingdom
Leonard, Herman B., Marc J. Epstein, and Melissa Tritter. "Absolute Return for Kids." Harvard Business School Case 309-036, August 2008. (Revised December 2009.)
- February 2006 (Revised May 2006)
- Case
JA Worldwide: Managing Change in a Multi-governed Environment
By: Michael Chu and Barbara Zepp Larson
Post-merger, the head of Junior Achievement (JA) Worldwide must now oversee operations in 98 countries serving 6.6 million students, with over 7,600 local chapter board directors. President and CEO David Chernow's own board has increased to 111 members. Two separate...
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Mergers and Acquisitions;
Business Model;
Change Management;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Governance;
Business or Company Management;
Service Operations;
Organizational Structure;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Balance and Stability
Chu, Michael, and Barbara Zepp Larson. "JA Worldwide: Managing Change in a Multi-governed Environment." Harvard Business School Case 306-025, February 2006. (Revised May 2006.)
Government and Markets: Toward a New Theory of Regulation
As the financial crisis has shown, neither traditional market failure models nor public choice theory, by themselves, sufficiently inform or explain our current regulatory challenges, nor point us toward the best solutions. Regulatory studies, long neglected in an...
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- 15 Aug 2023
Q&A with Admissions
This virtual session will be hosted by a member of the MBA Admissions Office Team and will include a short presentation on the MBA program as well as information on financial aid and admissions. This event is primarily Q&A based, so we...
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- 18 Jun 2020
- Research & Ideas
What Is an "Essential" Purchase for a Low-Income Family?
As they write, "We call attention to another dark side of pervasive economic inequality: Lower-income individuals are restricted not only by what they can financially afford to purchase, but also what they are socially permitted to...
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by Rachel Layne
- 12 Dec 2005
- Research & Ideas
Using the Law to Strategic Advantage
there are legal dimensions to business and they, like the financial or IT functions, need to be managed. They are too important to delegate to persons, i.e., lawyers, who may not understand the broader business objectives. Second, the law...
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- 01 Oct 1997
- News
J. Hughes Norton III
athletes were terribly exploited," he points out. "There is a pendulum; somehow, it's got to swing back the other way." As for his most famous client ("He's more like my little brother"), Norton observes, "I think my key role now for Tiger is less about building the...
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Garry Emmons
- Web
Exploring the Intersection of Business & Health Care: Summer Fellow Derek Soled (MD/MBA 2022) - MBA
Business & Environment Career Change Career and Professional Development Case Method Clubs Curriculum Digital Entrepreneurship FIELD Financial Aid Health Care Instagram Takeover JD/MBA Leadership Letters to Classmates MBA/MPP & MBA/MPA-ID...
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- 20 Jul 2021
- Research & Ideas
Bankruptcy Spells Death for Too Many Businesses
which sounds like such a great thing. People get to keep their jobs, the creditors get paid equity, and the customers don't lose this business that they loved,” says Antill, whose article Do the Right Firms Survive Bankruptcy? will appear in a forthcoming issue of The...
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by Rachel Layne