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- 16 Feb 2017
- Cold Call Podcast
Black Business Leaders Series: A Remarkable Legacy of Firsts, Maggie Lena Walker
- 08 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
How to Fix a Broken Marketplace
on the cadaver waiting list. “We deal with much more complicated games than the game theory usually deals with.” They sent the paper to several kidney surgeons. The medical director of the New England Organ Bank met with Roth to pursue... View Details
- 18 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 18
system was in a state of crisis and Lehman Brothers went from a major Wall Street investment bank to an insolvent institution. It was a swift end for a firm that had its beginnings over 150 years prior. What would be the firm's legacy?... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 28 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 28, 2010
economic, institutional, and cultural setting of Germany. Publisher's Link: http://www.chbeck.de/productview.aspx?product=795301&toc=3264 Investor Behaviour in a Nascent Capital Market: Scottish Bank Shareholders in the Nineteenth... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
bankers, board members, or consultants). Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209137 First National Bank's Golden Opportunity Harvard Business School Case 208-072 Executives at First National Bank... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 13 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Government can Discourage Private Sector Reliance on Short-Term Debt
that financial institutions in the past ten years have relied excessively on short-term financing. The investment bank Lehman Brothers, for example, collapsed because it could not roll over its short-term financing. More broadly, if we... View Details
- 06 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018
whose demographic characteristics, and in turn needs, diverge more starkly from those of their bank’s average customers report significantly lower levels of satisfaction on a broad range of operating dimensions. Consistently, we find that View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
multinational firms requires a similar fortitude. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-107.pdf Corporate Misgovernance at the World Bank Authors:Ashwin Kaja and Eric Werker Abstract We test for evidence of corporate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
major investment bank to investigate factors associated with analysts' annual compensation. We find compensation to be positively related to "All-Star" recognition, investment-banking contributions, the size of analysts'... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 04 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018
the Largest Bank in the U.S.? When Jamie Dimon took over as CEO of JPMorgan Chase & Co. (JPMorgan Chase) in 2005, he reaffirmed the commitment to pursue a "universal bank" strategy—providing a full range of products and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
did not gain water during the privatization. This suggests that propaganda was persuasive when it had a basis in reality. Foreign Entry and the Mexican Banking System, 1997-2007 Authors:Stephen Haber and Aldo Musacchio... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51309 Harvard Business School Case 918-406 JPMorgan Chase: Invested in Detroit (A) Beginning in 2014, JPMorgan Chase launched Invested in Detroit, a $100 million philanthropic investment in the city over five years. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Revolution in the Middle East and North Africa
declining. Banking and other financial services are now more important to the national economy. Security forces initially fired upon demonstrators, but withdrew after President Obama intervened with a phone call to the king. Some... View Details
- 09 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 9
Author:Julio J. Rotemberg Publication:In Policymaking Insights from Behavioral Economics. Boston: Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, 2009 Abstract This paper starts by discussing consumers' cognitive and emotional reaction to posted prices.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Studying Japan from the Inside
governance system from U.S. companies; banks acted as monitors for Japanese companies, and the boards of Japanese companies had been dominated by insiders. In April this year, however, the commercial code was revised, and now Japanese... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 20 Mar 2000
- Research & Ideas
No Place Like Home: America’s Housing Crisis and Its Impact on Business
affordable housing is the low-income housing tax credit, part of the Tax Reform Act of 1986," she says. "In essence, it provides a tax benefit to private investors — typically banks and insurance companies — in return for their... View Details
- May 2022
- Case
From GOP to NFT: Anthony Scaramucci and the Launch of Flatter NFT
By: Lauren Cohen, Richard Ryffel and Grace Headinger
Anthony Scaramucci, Managing Director of SkyBridge Capital, considered whether he should officially greenlight the launch of SkyBridge’s own NFT platform — Flatter NFT. He had led the investment firm to push first into Bitcoin and then Ethereum to make SkyBridge a... View Details
Keywords: Business Startup; Fintech; Technology; Cryptocurrency; Web3; Business Startups; Volatility; Decision Making; Entertainment; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Strategic Planning; Adoption; Competitive Advantage; Technology Adoption; Finance; Currency; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; New York (city, NY)
Cohen, Lauren, Richard Ryffel, and Grace Headinger. "From GOP to NFT: Anthony Scaramucci and the Launch of Flatter NFT." Harvard Business School Case 222-085, May 2022.
- 08 Dec 2015
- Research Event
Research Trends Discussed at India and South Asia Conference
and institutions, and the post 1990s economy. Also covered was family business, a key to understanding the evolution of the Indian economy—like that in many emerging markets. Papers were presented on Bajaj group, the Tata family, and the Haribhakti View Details
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
What It Takes to Restore Trust in Business
It's not in great shape, but it isn't doing too badly, and measured by the standards of the rest of the world it is a marvel and it's doing quite well," he observed. The financial sector is not perfect, either, but banks are also in... View Details
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Becoming the Next Real Estate Mogul
saw—that's a ton of fun," he said. There was general agreement on this point, but land and buildings aren't always part of the equation when it comes to calculating the industry's appeal, added Vincent J. Constantini, founder and managing partner of Roseview... View Details