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    Malcolm S. Salter

    Malcolm Salter has been a member of the Harvard Business School faculty since 1967. His teaching and research focus on issues of corporate strategy, organization, and governance.

    In addition to teaching at HBS, he has held faculty positions at the Harvard... View Details

    Keywords: arts; automobiles; energy; investment banking industry; retailing; venture capital industry
    • 07 Feb 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research: February 7

    Reinsurance developed at the fringe of financial services and, for most of its existence, was largely unnoticed outside the expert community. However more recently public and professional sensitivity towards managing risks has increased.... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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    Investing: Risk, Return and Impact (MBA)

    By: Shawn A. Cole

    This is an investing/finance course, designed to build on skills introduced in the RC finance course, but with an emphasis on how and whether investors should incorporate what have traditionally been considered “non-financial” criteria in their decisions: for... View Details

    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    Digital Agility: The Impact of Software Portfolio Architecture on IT System Evolution

    By: Alan MacCormack, Robert Lagerström, Martin Mocker and Carliss Y. Baldwin
    The modern industrial firm increasingly relies on software to support its competitive position. However, the uncertain and dynamic nature of today’s global marketplace dictates that this software be continually evolved and adapted to meet new business challenges. This... View Details
    Keywords: Information Systems; Software; Architecture; Modularity; Agility; Coupling; Applications and Software; Design; Decisions; Performance
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    • August 2002 (Revised December 2002)
    • Case

    Quality Imaging Products (QIP)

    Martin Stein, a recent business school graduate, is the new owner of Quality Imaging Products (QIP), a $10-million-a-year remanufacturer of printer and copier ink cartridges. Within weeks of buying the company, QIP's vp for finance, gives an ultimatum: a raise or he... View Details
    Keywords: Business or Company Management; Organizational Culture; Crisis Management; Manufacturing Industry
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    Skydeck - Alumni

    year in media Solving the Underemployment Crisis More than half of college grads are underemployed. In this excerpt from Managing the Future of Work, Stephen Moret (MBA 2011) discusses the root causes of this trend—and what policymakers... View Details
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    HBS Fund - Alumni

    Giving HBS Fund Giving HBS Fund Annual Giving Fuel HBS’s continued excellence Annual gifts to the HBS Fund provide resources that we can put to use immediately toward core priorities, such as financial aid and faculty research. Similar to... View Details

      Paul W. Marshall

      MBA Class of 1960 Professor of Management, Paul W. Marshall, is affiliated with the Entrepreneurial Management Unit and teaches The Entrepreneurial Manager in the Turnaround Environment. This Elective Curriculum course focuses on the role of... View Details

      Keywords: retail financial services; retail financial services; retail financial services; retail financial services; retail financial services; retail financial services; retail financial services; retail financial services; retail financial services; retail financial services; retail financial services; retail financial services; retail financial services
      • May 2021 (Revised May 2022)
      • Supplement

      Odebrecht's 'Transformation Journey' (B)

      By: Lynn S. Paine, Ruth Costas and Pedro Levindo
      The case describes the changes in Odebrecht’s board of directors while the company had to file for court-supervised reorganization and cope with an ongoing feud within its founding family, and the new challenges that the Group’s leadership has to face. The changes in... View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Misconduct; Corporate Governance; Crisis Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Reputation; Mission and Purpose; Business and Government Relations; Engineering; Family Business; Emerging Markets; Construction Industry; Brazil; Latin America
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      General Merchants to Commodities Brokers | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

      Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s Leadership Transitions 2008 Bankruptcy Global Impact of the Collapse Lehman Brothers Timeline... View Details
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      Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

      consequences of a range of alternative policies. 2015 Book Leading Sustainable Change: An Organizational Perspective By: Rebecca Henderson , Ranjay Gulati and Michael Tushman The business case for acting sustainably is becoming increasingly compelling—reducing our... View Details
      • 24 Oct 2006
      • First Look

      First Look: October 24, 2006

      Internasional Harvard Business School Case 207-021 In late 2004, Hilmi Panigoro, CEO of the publicly traded Indonesian oil company Medco Energi Internasional, is striving to regain majority control of the company his brother Arifin founded in 1980. The Asian View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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      Our Mission | About

      society, and who create value before claiming value. I’ve not found anyone who begrudges a leader for claiming value after creating value. Rather, the recent economic crisis showed us too many examples of leaders who claimed value without... View Details
      • 25 Jan 2021
      • Book

      In a Nutshell, Why American Capitalism Succeeded

      How did the United States become the world’s center of business growth following its founding in 1776? Surely a number of nations had powerful natural resources, stable financial and legal institutions, and dynamic entrepreneurs over that same span. Why was American... View Details
      Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Manufacturing
      • 19 Aug 2008
      • First Look

      First Look: August 19, 2008

      blurring by retailers have generally increased both inventory levels and gross profit dollars across retail segments. Download paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-078.pdf New Framework for Measuring and Managing Macrofinancial Risk and View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 01 Sep 2023
      • News

      History Matters

      chain is as strong as its most vulnerable link. In 1907, runs began among trust companies, the “shadow banks” of the day. Fourth, financial crises can be quite damaging. Carr and I show that US economic growth fell well below trend for... View Details
      Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
      • 11 Apr 2023
      • Research & Ideas

      Is Amazon a Retailer, a Tech Firm, or a Media Company? How AI Can Help Investors Decide

      companies. Portfolio managers and analysts have been using the Global Industry Classification Standard, or GICS—a taxonomy of 11 sectors, 25 industry groups, and additional subsets—to compare stocks since 1999. Periodically, Standard... View Details
      Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services; Financial Services; Financial Services; Financial Services
      • 11 Sep 2012
      • First Look

      First Look: September 11

      plan was going well. And while the financial and economic crisis that began in 2008 had affected the financial results, it also presented Friend with competitive opportunities.... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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      Leadership - Faculty & Research

      organizations that can innovate time and again to address the challenges we face as a global community. Article Professionalism, Fiduciary Duty, and Health-Related Business Leadership By: Joshua D. Margolis Expanding fiduciary duty to... View Details
      • 2011
      • Other Unpublished Work

      Pioneers in Finance: An Interview with Michael C. Jensen - Part 1

      By: Michael C. Jensen and Ralph A. Walkling
      This interview is first of a two-part series in which Professor Ralph Walkling, the Stratakis Chair in Corporate Governance and Executive Director of the Center for Corporate Governance at Drexel University, interviews Professor Michael C. Jensen, Jesse Isidor Straus... View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Research; Financial Crisis; Compensation and Benefits; Agency Theory
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