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    Lauren H. Cohen

    Lauren Cohen is the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance & Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an Editor of the Review of Financial... View Details

    Keywords: asset management; brokerage; financial services; federal government; investment banking industry; state government
    • March 2000
    • Supplement

    Charles Schwab Corporation, The: A Presentation by David Pottruck Co-CEO

    By: F. Warren McFarlan and Melissa Dailey
    David Pottruck, Co-CEO of Charles Schwab Corp., discusses the company's information technology and competitive strategy with an Executive Education (Program for Management Development) class at Harvard Business School, October 22, 1999. View Details
    Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Information Technology; Financial Services Industry
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    • Portrait Project

    Seth Cohen

    graduate school. I was convinced that my resumé represented the best of me: my greatest achievements, my pride and ambition. Resumé-building is a skill shared among HBS students, and I have been inspired – and even intimidated – by their... View Details
    • 07 Feb 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Attracting Flows by Attracting Big Clients: Conflicts of Interest and Mutual Fund Portfolio Choice

    Keywords: by Lauren H. Cohen & Breno Schmidt; Financial Services
    • 16 Jan 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Political Economy of “Natural” Disasters

    Keywords: by Charles Cohen & Eric D. Werker
    • 15 May 2007
    • Working Paper Summaries

    How is Foreign Aid Spent? Evidence from a Compelling Natural Experiment

    Keywords: by Eric Werker, Faisal Z. Ahmed & Charles Cohen
    • Profile

    Charles Jennings

    How has HBS prepared you for your current role and your long term career? HBS has improved my mental flexibility in handling new and challenging situations by exposing me to a wide variety of extremely talented individuals. I am better... View Details
    Keywords: Energy / Extractive Minerals; Manufacturing; Other Financial Services
    • August 2008
    • Supplement

    Becky Saeger, CMO, Charles Schwab & Co., Inc., Interviewed by Professor John Quelch

    By: John A. Quelch
    Professor John Quelch interviewed Becky Saeger, Chief Marketing Officer of Charles Schwab and Co., Inc., with regard to the background and success of the "Talk to Chuck" advertising campaign. View Details
    Keywords: Success; Advertising Campaigns; Financial Services Industry
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    • September 1999 (Revised March 2001)
    • Case

    Charles Schwab Corporation (A)

    By: F. Warren McFarlan and Nicole Tempest
    A look at the industrial restructuring in the brokerage industry made possible by e-commerce. Focuses the student's attention on the decision alternatives facing Charles Schwab, one of the industry leaders in January 1998. In a word, the challenge is "Do they slash... View Details
    Keywords: Restructuring; Internet and the Web; Price; Decision Choices and Conditions; Business Strategy; Competitive Strategy; Financial Services Industry
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    • September 1999 (Revised July 2001)
    • Case

    Charles Schwab Corporation (B)

    By: F. Warren McFarlan and Nicole Tempest
    Catches the situation facing Charles Schwab Corp. in late August 1999 in the dramatically changing brokerage industry. Their bold moves in January 1998 have created a new industry competitive pattern and provoked aggressive response by companies like Merrill Lynch. View Details
    Keywords: Information Technology; Business Strategy; Situation or Environment; Competition; Financial Services Industry
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    • 01 Jun 2000
    • News

    Debbie Cohen Scales Her Mountain

    "I never intended to write a book," says Deborah A. Cohen (MBA '87). Nor did she expect to be diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 35. The author of Just Get Me Through This! The Practical Guide to Breast Cancer (Kensington... View Details
    Keywords: Morgan Baker
    • 23 Jan 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Cost of Capital Dynamics Implied by Firm Fundamentals

    Keywords: by Matthew Lyle & Charles C.Y. Wang
    • August 2019
    • Case

    Simón Cohen at Henco: Sustaining 'High Performance, Happy People'

    By: Francesca Gino, Jeff Steiner, Arianna Camacho and Paul Green
    Simón Cohen—Founder of Henco Logistics—transformed a small Mexican logistics company into a major player within the industry. Cohen credits the firm’s focus on employee happiness as the key ingredient to its success, an approach he developed following a personal... View Details
    Keywords: Work/life Balance; Growth Strategy; Corporate Culture; Motivation; Values; Authentic Leadership Development; Leadership; Personal Development and Career; Motivation and Incentives; Values and Beliefs; Service Operations; Organizational Culture; Growth and Development Strategy; Service Industry
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    Sir Ronald Cohen (MBA 1969), HBS Class Day 2010 Keynote

      Charles S. Mott

      Under Mott’s management, the family owned company grew into a key supplier of automobile parts for General Motors. Realizing the great future of the automobile industry, Mott changed the firm’s activity from bicycle wheel production and sold the Mott Cider and Vinegar... View Details
      Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
      • July 2005 (Revised January 2011)
      • Case

      Understanding Customer Profitability at Charles Schwab

      By: Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez
      Charles Schwab is transforming into a customer-centric organization. Central to this cultural and organizational change is the utilization of customer profitability at different decision-making levels. Examines several technical aspects of the ABC cost system, as well... View Details
      Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Motivation and Incentives; Customer Relationship Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Activity Based Costing and Management; Decision Making; Organizational Culture; Profit; Performance Evaluation; Budgets and Budgeting
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        Charles D. Tandy

        Though Tandy Corporation was a successful leather goods company, Charles Tandy’s biggest accomplishment was his revitalization of Radio Shack. Acquiring the company with $4.5 million in debt and almost $1 million in largely uncollectible... View Details
        Keywords: Retail
        • 05 Dec 2014
        • Video

        The Future of Impact Investing Keynote Address with Sir Ronald Cohen

          Charles R. Shoemate

          any U.S.-based operation. Shoemate presided over the successful spin-off of BestFoods and orchestrated its eventual, highly profitable acquisition by Unilever. View Details
          Keywords: Food & Tobacco

            Charles R. Schwab

            In spite of the disdain given to discount brokerage by larger investment houses, Schwab took advantage of SEC deregulation in 1975, and went on to build “the Kmart of the stock brokerage industry.” Though discount brokerage at Schwab’s... View Details
            Keywords: Finance