Credit Intermediation and Related Activities - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Oct 2024
In Practice

Research-Based Advice for the Seasonally Overwhelmed and Schedule Challenged

more productive, escaping the trap of all-consuming work. The second rule is to focus on the right thing. Embrace a framework for allocating your efforts. US President (and legendary General) Dwight D. Eisenhower is credited with one... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

Vikram Gandhi

Vikram S. Gandhi is the Gerald P. Kaminsky Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the General Management Unit. He has developed and teaches two new courses in the Elective Curriculum of the MBA Program. The first is a finance and investing course, Sustainable... View Details

Keywords: financial services

07 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Effective Leaders Share the Spotlight with Their Teams

Zou. Including others also boosted retention, according to the research. Employees working with a CEO willing to share credit were significantly less likely to leave the firm the following year. The team found that female managers were... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

10 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Look at Globalization Now

standardized products. Yet the bulk of the related literature, which focuses on whether consumers prefer global brands, misses out on supply-side considerations related to costs. Q: How can the study of... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

06 Feb 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53786 forthcoming Strategic Management Journal Scope versus Speed: Team Diversity, Leader Experience, and Patenting Outcomes for Firms By: Choudhury, Prithwiraj, View Details

01 Jun 1997
News

Blockbuster Deals

A wave of mergers is sweeping the country, activity that recalls the 1980s, the 1960s, and even, some say, the empire-building of a century ago. In the following article, nine HBS professors comment on the... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry

23 May 2017
First Look

First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

technology firms, we show that founders who received advice from other founders with more “hands-on” management styles were more likely to reorient their own management activity and, subsequently, experience lower employee attrition View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Institute Associates - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

as a Senior Institute Associate at the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness. Dr. Bozic has extensive research and policy experience in the growing field of value-based health care, focused on... View Details

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After the Opium War: Treaty Ports and Compradors - A Chronicle of the China Trade

Related Collections Site Credits I must say the Comprador has come out like a brick. I can count upon . . . certain $23,000. — Albert Heard to John Heard, Hong Kong, February 28, 1863 22 After the Opium War:... View Details

April 2012
Article

Bouncing Out of the Banking System: An Empirical Analysis of Involuntary Bank Account Closures

By: Dennis Campbell, F. Asis Martinez-Jerez and Peter Tufano

Using a new database, we document the factors that relate to the extent of involuntary consumer bank account closure resulting from excessive overdraft activity. Consumers who have accounts involuntarily closed for overdraft activity may have limited or no access to... View Details

Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Customers; Social Issues; Outcome or Result; Budgets and Budgeting; Forecasting and Prediction; Competition; Banks and Banking; Policy; Personal Characteristics; Credit; Employment; United States

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25 Jan 2019
Blog Post

Not Waiting for Progress: Diversity and Inclusion in the Film Industry

relationships they need to succeed.” Diamond grew up in Atlanta, Georgia,where he was student body president in his high school. He comes by his passion for community engagement and activism honestly; his... View Details

01 Feb 1997
News

Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS

and CEO Thompson terms "satellite infrastructure" (technology that enables people to conduct business activity anywhere on the planet). Before reaching its fifteenth birthday this spring, Virginia-based... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry and Susan Young; profiles by Garry Emmons

29 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 29, 2008

proposals that received a MV between 1997 and 2004, we find that the frequency of implementation has almost doubled from 22% between 1997 and 2002 to 41% in 2003-2004. With respect to the determinants of the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

07 Jul 2008
Research & Ideas

Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

or fail to analyze the utter breakdown in board governance and Enron's internal controls, and the failure of credit rating agencies to blow the whistle," he says.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities

28 Jul 2015
First Look

First Look: July 28, 2015

essentially the same frequency as they target cash related to the alleged infringement. By contrast, cash is neither a key driver of intellectual property lawsuits by practicing entities (e.g., IBM and... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

17 Sep 2024
HBS Case

The Climate Targets Leaders Need to Know as Regulations Loom

As investor pressure mounts on companies to show their environmental impacts, leaders are encountering an unwieldy tangle of terms and approaches. Climate accounting basics and a dictionary of sorts can help demystify the calculations and voluntary targets that... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

Peter Tufano

Peter Tufano is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and Senior Advisor to the Harvard Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability. From 2011 to 2021, he served as the Peter Moores Dean at View Details

14 Apr 2015
First Look

First Look: April 14

Hellenic Bottling Company) and the role of regulation in integrated reporting (Anglo-American). April 2015 American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Real Effects of View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Jun 2011
First Look

First Look: June 21

telecommunications to tobacco and soft drinks. The dangers of excessive market concentration are greater in finance, however, because of the systemic importance of credit to the economy View Details