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  • February 2006 (Revised August 2006)
  • Case

Investment Banking at Thomas Weisel Partners

By: Malcolm P. Baker and Lauren Barley
Thomas Weisel Partners (TWP), a San Francisco-based bank focusing on emerging growth companies, is considering its strategy in the context of regulatory, competitive, and legal changes. Blake Jorgensen, the chief operating officer and co-director of investment banking,... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Business or Company Management; Conflict of Interests; Change Management; Investment Banking; Financing and Loans; Laws and Statutes; Financial Strategy; Corporate Finance; Banking Industry; San Francisco
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  • 01 Jun 2008
  • News

A Binary Formula

horizons, risks, and norms. New management skills, new organizational forms, new institutional and financial arrangements, and a new breed of leadership are all essential.” Adds Pisano, whose case “The... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; science; research; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management
  • 01 Dec 1997
  • News

Growing Together

institution to donate funds and expertise to build a half-way house for homeless teenagers in Sao Paulo, Brazil, where the bank has a major presence, and to link up schoolchildren in New England and Latin America over the Internet. "What... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Nancy O. Perry
  • Student-Profile

Rohan Kekre

and corporate finance (particularly financial intermediation). I’m currently engaged in research on both fronts: the macroeconomic consequences of heterogeneity in labor market institutions across the... View Details
  • Web

Figuring Out Her Mission | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

position. “We both recognized that Leadership Fellows is great for this kind of work – everyone benefits. The organization gets financial support from HBS for the first-year salary, and a pipeline of talent they wouldn’t have access to... View Details
  • 04 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 4

for a reduction in financial expenditures due to the subsidies accompanying loans. However, BNDES does not systematically lend to underperforming firms. Our results indicate that BNDES subsidizes firms that could fund their projects with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 2002
  • News

Sam Hayes

good results a factor in this scandal? The focus on the short term has been a chronic plague on our financial system for years. It's partly tied to the cadre of security analysts on Wall Street who are influential in shaping the attitudes... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 20 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 20

existence of free trade in labor and capital as well as goods and services between the two countries. Thus, Canada had no financial crisis in 2007-08. Capitalism is a system of governance because it embodies human purposes, which differ... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Profile

Micah Macfarlane

business-to-business, Micah needed new kinds of expertise to make a difference. The MBA curriculum covered key areas that Micah was looking to learn. "I had never worked directly in investment banking – I wanted to study that. Or marketing. My work was with View Details
Keywords: Healthcare/Biotech; Manufacturing/Energy; Nonprofit/Government/Education
  • 09 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 9

failures are likely to spur problem solving. We hypothesize that problem solving activities are especially likely to follow reported operational failures that provoke financial and legal liability risks. We also hypothesize that... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 21

study of a sponsorship collaboration between a global financial institution (UBS) and a multi-site museum (Guggenheim) evaluates critical aspects of resource integration between the partners with... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • July 2008 (Revised October 2012)
  • Case

Affinity Plus (A)

By: Dennis Campbell and Peter Tufano
The executive team at Affinity Plus Federal Credit Union has pushed the concept of members first deeply throughout the organization, empowering employees to put member-owners' interests ahead of either the organization's interests or their own interests. As a result of... View Details
Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Financial Institutions; Financing and Loans; Profit; Cooperative Ownership; Conflict of Interests; Strategy
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  • 01 Sep 2024
  • News

Reduce, Reuse, Recycle

Thirteen years ago, Marcelo Claure, founder of wireless services company Brightstar, discussed with a reluctant Steve Jobs the idea of launching a trade-in and recycling program for iPhones. It was a business move that expanded the market and created a new profit... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Meyers
  • 05 Nov 2013
  • First Look

First Look: November 5

of the developed West compared to the rest of the world, which is only now partially closing. Publisher's link: http://www.amazon.com/Entrepreneurship-Multinationals-Global-Business-Making/dp/1781951942 August 2013 The European Financial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Dec 2008
  • First Look

First Look: December 23, 2008

alliance partners. Chief Risk Officers at Crunch Time: Compliance Champions or Business Partners? Author:Anette Mikes Publication:Journal of Risk Management in Financial Institutions 2, no. 1... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Digital Exhibits | Baker Library

Manufacturing course. He also helped found the European Institute of Business Administration. A Chronicle of the China Trade: The Records of Augustine Heard & Co., 1840-1877 Augustine Heard & Co. was among the largest American trading... View Details
  • October 2009
  • Article

Democratizing Entry: Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints, and Entrepreneurship

By: William R. Kerr and Ramana Nanda
We examine entrepreneurship and creative destruction following US banking deregulations using Census Bureau data. US banking reforms brought about exceptional growth in both entrepreneurship and business closures. Most of the closures, however, were the new ventures... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Market Entry and Exit; Capital Markets; Banks and Banking; Growth and Development; Disruptive Innovation
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  • 28 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 28

financial and nonfinancial measures, some envisioned its role only in formulaic compensation contracts. We describe an alternative view, in which the scorecard's formal measures are created and used for informal management, with... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Aug 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Faculty Research Looks to Latin America

you: more police equals less crime. But there has been no evidence to support that [in previous studies]. "In 1994 there was a terrible terrorist attack on the Jewish community in Buenos Aires. Afterwards, the government placed one police officer in front of each... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 13 Nov 2018
  • News

Building a New Real Estate Investment Model

both immoral and financially ridiculous,” Davis says. “It erodes the community and the value of your assets.” Instead, Davis developed a long-term plan to invest in renovating and maintaining rental properties in major East Coast cities.... View Details
Keywords: April White; Real Estate