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  • 9 AM – 9 AM EDT, 09 Oct 2018

HBX Financial Accounting

Learn how managers, Wall Street analysts, and entrepreneurs use an understanding of accounting to unlock critical insights from financial statements and drive strategic decision making. Program Dates: October 9, 2018 - December 6, 2018 View Details
  • 08 Oct 2010
  • News

Big Banks, Small Clients

  • 2010
  • Other Unpublished Work

Top Executive Background and Corporate M&A: The Case of Former Investment Bankers

By: Francois Brochet and Kyle Welch
We study the M&A activity of firms with top executives whose employment history includes experience in a Wall Street firm, especially those with investment banking background ("IB executives"). In terms of strategy, controlling for firm-level effects, we document that... View Details
Keywords: Managerial Roles; Reputation; Investment Banking; Financial Reporting; Mergers and Acquisitions; Social and Collaborative Networks; Goodwill Accounting; Power and Influence; Banking Industry
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  • June 2023
  • Case

Block: Creating an Ecosystem of Ecosystems

By: Lauren Cohen, Richard Ryffel, Grace Headinger and Ruoshi Qi
At Investor Day 2022, Block announced a new vision for its businesses: creating an ecosystem of ecosystems. Outside the norm for many public growth companies, Block had recently acquired a variety of new business streams in the creator economy and Bitcoin despite a... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth; Fintech; Company Management; Growth Strategy; Innovation And Strategy; Acquisition; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Change; Finance; Growth Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Communication Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Business Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry; United States; California; San Francisco
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  • 21 Mar 2016
  • News

Valeant Analysts Aren't Alone in Thinking 'Sell' Is a Dirty Word

  • 9 AM – 10 AM EDT, 20 Mar 2019
  • HBS Online

HBS Online Financial Accounting

Learn how managers, Wall Street analysts, and entrepreneurs use an understanding of accounting to unlock critical insights from financial statements and drive strategic decision making. Program Dates: March 20, 2019 - May 15, 2019 View Details
  • July 2023 (Revised November 2023)
  • Supplement

Equity Restructuring at Dell Technologies: Buy Out, Buy Up, Buy In (B)

By: Stuart C. Gilson and Sarah L. Abbott
Following Dell’s return to the public market in 2018, the company’s stock underperformed. In June 2020, the Wall Street Journal reported that Dell was exploring various options with respect to its majority stake in the virtualization software company VMware. View Details
Keywords: Recapitalization; Reverse Merger; Spin Off; Public Ownership; Restructuring; Technology Industry; United States
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    How Donor-Advised Funds Can Amp Up Their Giving Power

    Vikram Gandhi, a former Wall Street investment banker who now teaches a course at Harvard Business School that focuses on return, risk and impact investing, also sees investment opportunities for DAFs that go well beyond the usual ESG funds. View Details
    • 19 Feb 2012
    • News

    No Bitter Aftertaste From This Stock Offering

    • 16 Feb 2015
    • News

    Hillary Clinton's talent problem

    • 17 Feb 2015
    • News

    Oil Plunge Sends Energy Workers Back to Business School

    • 13 Jul 2015
    • News

    Seven big things to know about Hillary Clinton’s new plan for the economy

    • 01 Nov 2012
    • News

    What Makes Analysts Say “Buy”?

    • November 1999
    • Supplement

    "ACT UP": Peter Staley, An Interview with Professor Willis Emmons, November 17, 1995

    By: Willis M. Emmons III
    Provides excerpts from an interview with Peter Staley of Act Up reflecting on the Wall Street protest against Burroughs Wellcome in the fall of 1989 and on the role and impact of AIDS advocacy and activism in general. View Details
    Keywords: Health Pandemics; Social Issues; Public Opinion; Pharmaceutical Industry
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    • 01 Mar 2012
    • News

    Capitalism's New Agenda

    • 04 Dec 2011
    • News

    That Eternal Question of Fairness

    • August 2019
    • Case

    Preserving Trust at Care.com (A)

    By: Krishna G. Palepu and Julia Kelley
    Care.com was an online platform designed to match caregivers with individuals seeking care for themselves, others, and pets, through job postings, caregiver profiles, and directories of local day care centers. In March 2019, the Wall Street Journal had just published a... View Details
    Keywords: Business Strategy; Corporate Governance; Digital Platforms; Market Design; Emerging Markets; Trust; Technology Industry; United States
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    • 27 Jun 2011
    • News

    The Innovator's Solution

    • July 2002 (Revised August 2002)
    • Case

    Nomura Securities, 2002

    By: Tarun Khanna and David Lane
    In 2002, Nomura, though long the market leader in Japan, lacked global presence and was beset at home by strengthened local competitors, Wall Street firms that were taking the best deals, outdated systems, controls, and staff skills. Was Nomura still a player to fear?... View Details
    Keywords: Competition; Local Range; Global Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Japan
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    • February 2014
    • Case

    The Fall of the 'Fabulous Fab'

    By: Eugene F. Soltes and Nanette Byrnes
    Fabrice Tourre, a mid-level trader at Goldman Sachs, seeks to understand how he was one of the only executives of any Wall Street firm held accountable in the aftermath of the financial crises. The case includes commentary from Tourre and jurors that found him guilty... View Details
    Keywords: Management; Corporate Accountability; Ethics; Financial Crisis; Finance; Financial Services Industry; United States
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