Skip to Main Content
HBS Home
  • About
  • Academic Programs
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Research
  • Baker Library
  • Giving
  • Harvard Business Review
  • Initiatives
  • News
  • Recruit
  • Map / Directions
Faculty & Research
  • Faculty
  • Research
  • Featured Topics
  • Academic Units
  • …→
  • Harvard Business School→
  • Faculty & Research→
  • Research
    • Research
    • Publications
    • Global Research Centers
    • Case Development
    • Initiatives & Projects
    • Research Services
    • Seminars & Conferences
    →
  • Publications→

Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (2,071) Arrow Down
Filter Results: (2,071) Arrow Down Arrow Up

Show Results For

  • All HBS Web  (2,071)
    • People  (2)
    • News  (443)
    • Research  (1,288)
    • Events  (6)
    • Multimedia  (5)
  • Faculty Publications  (897)

Show Results For

  • All HBS Web  (2,071)
    • People  (2)
    • News  (443)
    • Research  (1,288)
    • Events  (6)
    • Multimedia  (5)
  • Faculty Publications  (897)
← Page 10 of 2,071 Results →
  • 2008
  • Working Paper

Using Financial Innovation to Support Savers: From Coercion to Excitement

By: Peter Tufano
We review a wide variety of programs that support savings by families, in particular by low- and moderate-income families. These programs range from ones that literally compel families to save, to those that make it hard not to save, make it easier to save, provide... View Details
Keywords: Saving; Motivation and Incentives; Programs; Income; Personal Finance; Family and Family Relationships; Performance Effectiveness
Citation
Read Now
Related
Tufano, Peter, and Daniel Schneider. "Using Financial Innovation to Support Savers: From Coercion to Excitement." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 08-075, April 2008.
  • 15 Jun 2016
  • Research & Ideas

These VC Partners May Make Your Firm Less Innovative

of students, the researchers surmised it may dampen innovation among competitive companies. To test that hypothesis, McDonald, Pahnke, Hallen and Wang looked at close to 200 medical device startups that developed products for minimally... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services; Banking
  • January 2008
  • Article

Innovation Killers: How Financial Tools Destroy Your Capacity to Do New Things

By: Clayton M. Christensen, Stephen P. Kaufman and Willy C. Shih
Most companies aren't half as innovative as their senior executives want them to be (or as their marketing claims suggest they are). What's stifling innovation? There are plenty of usual suspects, but the authors finger three financial tools as key accomplices.... View Details
Keywords: Investment; Innovation and Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Business and Shareholder Relations; Prejudice and Bias; Value Creation
Citation
Find at Harvard
Related
Christensen, Clayton M., Stephen P. Kaufman, and Willy C. Shih. "Innovation Killers: How Financial Tools Destroy Your Capacity to Do New Things." Special Issue on HBS Centennial. Harvard Business Review 86, no. 1 (January 2008).
  • February 2021
  • Article

Do Household Wealth Shocks Affect Productivity? Evidence from Innovative Workers During the Great Recession

By: S. Bernstein, T. McQuade and R. Townsend
We investigate how the deterioration of household balance sheets affects worker productivity, and, in turn, economic downturns. Specifically, we compare the output of innovative workers who experienced differential declines in housing wealth during the financial crisis... View Details
Keywords: Great Recession; Household; Financial Condition; System Shocks; Employees; Performance Productivity
Citation
Find at Harvard
Related
Bernstein, S., T. McQuade, and R. Townsend. "Do Household Wealth Shocks Affect Productivity? Evidence from Innovative Workers During the Great Recession." Journal of Finance 76, no. 1 (February 2021): 57–111.
  • Web

Managing and Innovating in Financial Services - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Managing and Innovating in Financial Services Course Number 1509 Professor David Scharfstein Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits 27 Sessions Exam Course Content Financial services firms play a critically important role in the... View Details
  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Technology Innovation and Diffusion as Sources of Output and Asset Price Fluctuations

By: Diego A. Comin, Mark Gertler and Ana Maria Santacreu
We develop a model in which innovations in an economy's growth potential are an important driving force of the business cycle. The framework shares the emphasis of the recent "new shock" literature on revisions of beliefs about the future as a source of fluctuations,... View Details
Keywords: Business Cycles; Economic Growth; Asset Pricing; Technological Innovation; Mathematical Methods; System Shocks; Technology Adoption
Citation
Read Now
Related
Comin, Diego A., Mark Gertler, and Ana Maria Santacreu. "Technology Innovation and Diffusion as Sources of Output and Asset Price Fluctuations." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-134, May 2009. (Revise and Resubmit at the Journal of Political Economy.)
  • 1995
  • Book

Cases in Financial Engineering: Applied Studies of Financial Innovation

By: Scott P. Mason, Robert C. Merton, André Perold and Peter Tufano
Keywords: Finance; Innovation and Invention; Cases
Citation
Find at Harvard
Related
Mason, Scott P., Robert C. Merton, André Perold, and Peter Tufano. Cases in Financial Engineering: Applied Studies of Financial Innovation. Englewood Cliffs: Prentice Hall, 1995.
  • February 2006
  • Article

The New New Financial Thing: The Origins of Financial Innovations

By: Josh Lerner
Keywords: Finance; Innovation and Invention
Citation
Find at Harvard
Related
Lerner, Josh. "The New New Financial Thing: The Origins of Financial Innovations." Journal of Financial Economics 79, no. 2 (February 2006): 223–255. (Earlier version distributed as National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 10223 and Harvard Business School Negotiations Organizations and Markets Working Paper No. 04-20.)

    Think Outside the Building: How Advanced Leaders Can Change the World One Smart Innovation at a Time

    One of the leading business thinkers in the world offers a bold, new theory of advanced leadership for tackling the world's complex, messy, and recalcitrant social and environmental problems.

    Over a decade ago, renowned innovation... View Details
    • 15 Jun 2016
    • News

    These VC Partners May Make Your Firm Less Innovative

    • 20 Mar 2025
    • Blog Post

    Scaling Climate Tech Innovation with Lee Scott (MBA 2023)

    uncertainty for project finance risk appetite, leaving a capital gap for FOAK projects. Trellis Climate was founded to help startups deploy their FOAK climate projects. In my role, I lead pipeline development, project diligence, and... View Details
    • 18 Feb 2021
    • News

    Kenya Is Becoming a Global Hub of FinTech Innovation

    Keywords: FinTech
    • September 1995 (Revised May 1998)
    • Case

    RogersCasey Alternative Investments: Innovative Response to the Distribution Challenge

    By: Josh Lerner
    RogersCasey Alternative Investments faces the challenge of managing distributions of stock by the private equity investors in which their clients have invested. These distributed shares appear to behave in complex ways, apparently at odds with market efficiency. A... View Details
    Keywords: Private Equity; Stocks; Financial Strategy; Investment; Innovation Strategy; Management; Distribution; Performance; Behavior
    Citation
    Educators
    Purchase
    Related
    Lerner, Josh. "RogersCasey Alternative Investments: Innovative Response to the Distribution Challenge." Harvard Business School Case 296-024, September 1995. (Revised May 1998.)
    • April 1998 (Revised July 1998)
    • Teaching Note

    RogersCasey Alternative Investments: Innovative Response to the Distribution Challenge TN

    By: Josh Lerner
    Teaching Note for (9-296-024). View Details
    Keywords: Distribution; Investment
    Citation
    Purchase
    Related
    Lerner, Josh. "RogersCasey Alternative Investments: Innovative Response to the Distribution Challenge TN." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 298-151, April 1998. (Revised July 1998.)
    • March 2004 (Revised July 2004)
    • Case

    UCB: Managing Information for Globalization and Innovation (A) (Abridged)

    By: F. Warren McFarlan and Brian DeLacey
    A medium-size European manufacturer of pharmaceuticals and chemicals faces a number of information strategy issues. The case focuses on the issues of coordinating international IT activities and day-to-day operations as well as balancing the company's IT applications... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation and Invention; Information Technology; Operations; System; Corporate Strategy; Investment Portfolio; Globalization; Pharmaceutical Industry; Information Technology Industry; Brussels
    Citation
    Educators
    Purchase
    Related
    McFarlan, F. Warren, and Brian DeLacey. "UCB: Managing Information for Globalization and Innovation (A) (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 304-096, March 2004. (Revised July 2004.)
    • 15 May 2020
    • News

    Innovation Can’t Be Forced, but It Can Be Quashed

    • January 2017
    • Case

    Exotic Interest Rate Swaps: Snowballs in Portugal

    By: Boris Vallee, Patrick Augustin and Philippe Rich
    This case explores a complex swap transaction implemented by Metro do Porto in 2007. It represents an opportunity to study fixed income derivative instruments, such as plain-vanilla swaps and structured swaps, as well as understand the opportunities and challenges of... View Details
    Keywords: Swaps; Public Finance; Structured Finance; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Public Sector; Transportation Industry; Rail Industry; Portugal
    Citation
    Educators
    Purchase
    Related
    Vallee, Boris, Patrick Augustin, and Philippe Rich. "Exotic Interest Rate Swaps: Snowballs in Portugal." Harvard Business School Case 217-050, January 2017.
    • 2019
    • Book

    VC: An American History

    By: Tom Nicholas
    An exploration of venture financing in America, from its origins in the whaling industry to the rise of Silicon Valley, that shows how venture capital (VC) created an epicenter for the development of high-tech innovation. The VC industry arose from the United States’... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation; Venture Capital; Innovation and Invention; Entrepreneurship; History; United States
    Citation
    Find at Harvard
    Purchase
    Related
    Nicholas, Tom. VC: An American History. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2019. (Chinese Edition: 风投 看懂巨头的投资倾向 汤姆·尼古拉斯 著 中信出版社, Beijing: CITIC Press, 2020; Japanese Edition: ベンチャーキャピタル全史 トム・ニコラス, Shinchosha Publishing, 2022.)
    • 2022
    • Article

    The Effects of Public and Private Equity Markets on Firm Behavior

    By: Shai Bernstein
    In this article, I review the theoretical and empirical literature on the effects of public and private equity markets on firm behavior, emphasizing the consequences that emerge from disclosure requirements, ownership concentration, and degree of firm standardization.... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Finance And Governance; Financing Policy; Commercialization; Capital Markets; Private Equity; Public Equity; Venture Capital; Innovation and Invention; Cost of Capital
    Citation
    Find at Harvard
    Purchase
    Related
    Bernstein, Shai. "The Effects of Public and Private Equity Markets on Firm Behavior." Annual Review of Financial Economics 14 (2022): 295–318.
    • May 2000 (Revised April 2003)
    • Case

    Contractual Innovation in the UK Energy Markets: Enron Europe, The Eastern Group, and the Sutton Bridge Project

    By: Benjamin C. Esty and Peter Tufano
    In December 1996, Enron Europe and The Eastern Group were on the verge of signing an innovative transaction in the utility industry. Eastern was going to buy a long-term option to convert natural gas into electricity from Enron, thereby giving it the economic right to... View Details
    Keywords: Project Finance; Infrastructure; Supply and Industry; Corporate Finance; Utilities Industry; Energy Industry
    Citation
    Educators
    Purchase
    Related
    Esty, Benjamin C., and Peter Tufano. "Contractual Innovation in the UK Energy Markets: Enron Europe, The Eastern Group, and the Sutton Bridge Project." Harvard Business School Case 200-051, May 2000. (Revised April 2003.)
    • ←
    • 10
    • 11
    • …
    • 103
    • 104
    • →
    ǁ
    Campus Map
    Harvard Business School
    Soldiers Field
    Boston, MA 02163
    →Map & Directions
    →More Contact Information
    • Make a Gift
    • Site Map
    • Jobs
    • Harvard University
    • Trademarks
    • Policies
    • Accessibility
    • Digital Accessibility
    Copyright © President & Fellows of Harvard College.