Bank Holding Companies - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Nov 2019
Op-Ed

Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything

The world is. on. fire. The Earth is burning. We only have a little time to arrest climate change, and if we fail to do so the consequences will be both dire and irreversible. We have the technology and the resources to fix things, if we want to. We even have a... View Details

Keywords: by Rebecca Henderson; Energy

08 Jan 2020
Blog Post

Know Your Audience - Recruiting HBS Students for Private Equity

come to campus to give a company presentation or hold company conversations to inform students about their organization.” Physically being on campus keeps firms top-of-mind... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity

01 Mar 2010
News

Alumni Books

of Corporate Boards Is Ruining American Business and Costing Us Trillions by John Gillespie (MBA ’83) and David Zweig (MBA ’83) (Free Press) The authors expose the flaws in the dysfunctional corporate board system: directors who are selected by the CEOs they are meant... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

Profile

Phoebe Peronto

father abandoned a career as an engineer to become an animator at DreamWorks. Her mother left banking to become a chef. “When you see at a young age that people can reinvent themselves,” says Phoebe, “it gives you an unbridled sense of... View Details

Keywords: Tech

01 Dec 2019
News

Capitalizing the Corner Shop

photo by Getty Images photo by Getty Images When Samuel Ejeh decides to open a new location for his Lagos-based supermarket chain Grocery Bazaar, he likes to move quickly. But expansion is capital-intensive, constraining his cash flow, and View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Sep 2015
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015

on track. Underpinning his advice with research and illustrating it with stories from others’ successes, Barnett lays out practical, step-by-step processes to help readers realize their goals. Money, Murder, and Madness: A Banking Life by... View Details

01 Feb 2001
News

Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde

laundering and illegal flight capital." These are among the most opaque problems the world faces," Baker says. "In this era of globalization, they constitute the biggest loophole in the free-market system." You assert that Western banks... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Government

15 Nov 2013
News

Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again

Côme Laguë by Robert S. Benchley Côme Laguë (MBA 1993) has no respect for firms he calls "patent trolls"—holding companies that buy up and bank the intellectual property of closed businesses solely for the... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley

William L. Moody, Jr.

Moody built a $400 million diversified enterprise. He founded the American National Insurance Company, which under his guidance grew into the largest enterprise of its kind in the southwest. By 1954, it had nearly $3 billion worth of insurance in force and offices in... View Details

Keywords: Finance

22 Apr 2014
First Look

First Look: April 22

control over the use of remittances. In partnership with a Salvadoran bank, we offered U.S.-based migrants from El Salvador bank accounts in their home country into which they could send remittances. We randomly varied migrant control... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?

were not realized. Four years later, another company working on the same technology went public to great acclaim and fanfare. The firm? Netscape Communications, under the leadership of Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark. 2 Because its new... View Details

Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner

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Politics and War - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

the suspension of gold payments by the Bank of England. Prime minister William Pitt was forced to implement the issue of paper money when the Bank announced a gold shortage, due to loans it had made to... View Details

Henry C. Alexander

Alexander changed the way in which the Morgan bank did business. Before Alexander, the Morgan bank did not solicit business. Alexander used greater aggressiveness in the development of new... View Details

Keywords: Finance

John D. Rockefeller, Sr.

The company Rockefeller started at age 23, Standard Oil, came to hold a virtual monopoly on the American oil industry. He maintained control of Standard Oil until its eventual break-up by the U.S.... View Details

Keywords: Utilities & Energy

21 Jun 2011
First Look

First Look: June 21

market value. Many outside the company questioned the board's leadership and diligence. Lane, who had a successful career in investment banking before becoming a professional director, was caught in the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Feb 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

incompatibility. We also investigate how factors such as exclusive content and hardware-only adopters affect compatibility incentives. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55682 January 4, 2019 Harvard Business Review How View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

Career Coach

Susan Wu

particularly well-equipped to help in 3 areas: 1) understanding a less traditional path in banking, specifically the intersection of banking with governments; 2) big tech recruiting: understanding how to recruit for big tech View Details

30 Jan 2009
News

What’s It Worth to You?

was leading a once-mighty firm into bankruptcy. Markets don’t always get it right, we now know. Nor do company boards when they determine CEO compensation, as HBS professors such as Jay Lorsch, George Baker, Brian Hall, Rakesh Khurana,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

28 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries

Lal says. “But 80 to 90 percent of mobile money operations are failures.” “If you don’t identify the right problem, the rest of it will not go anywhere” His research shows that companies are starting their market analyses in the wrong... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Telecommunications

01 Mar 2007
News

The Joy of Work

Unit, and faculty chair of the Arthur Rock Center for Entrepreneurship at HBS. For the past several years, Amabile, who holds a Ph.D. in psychology from Stanford University, has been analyzing findings from her longitudinal research on... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

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