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Social Enterprise - Faculty & Research

Lawsuits and Litigation ; Measurement and Metrics ; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact ; Business and Shareholder Relations ; Social Issues ; Retail Industry ; Food and Beverage Industry ; Banking Industry ; United States Citation... View Details

17 Apr 2022
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How to Avoid the 'Ethical Slide' That Leads Companies Astray

defrauding investors. A sure sign of the ethical lapse at Theranos was that “people started asking questions, and they got fired,” Nelson says. Wells Fargo’s 2016 account fraud scandal, in which bank representatives were pressured into... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

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Leading Successful Digital Transformation

growth. For example, digital banking allowed DBS bank of Singapore to expand into India with a fully digital bank—a market it could not compete in previously. Similarly, J.P. Morgan used blockchain... View Details

25 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 25

PublicationsJoining a Nonprofit Board: What You Need to Know Authors:Marc J. Epstein and F. Warren McFarlan Publication:Jossey-Bass/Wiley, 2011 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Ryann has extensive teaching experience in varied instructional settings. She was appointed the Qualitative Advisor for the Harvard University Sociology Department senior thesis writers in 2015-2016, and supervised two senior thesis writers in prior years. She served... View Details

June 2018 (Revised February 2019)
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Home Nursing of North Carolina

By: Richard S. Ruback, Royce Yudkoff and Ahron Rosenfeld

In 2011, immediately after graduating HBS, Ari Medoff began a self-funded search for a small firm to buy and run as its CEO. After just three month of searching, he identified Home Nursing of North Carolina (HNNC), a home care agency based in Greensboro, NC, as a... View Details

Keywords: Small Firms Management; Acquisition; Negotiation Process; Investment; Small Business; Management; Personal Development and Career

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09 Feb 2011
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Sustainable Cities: Oxymoron or the Shape of the Future?

Keywords: by Annissa Alusi, Robert G. Eccles, Amy C. Edmondson & Tiona Zuzul

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In The Classroom - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Carmen Reinhart HKS ITF-270 The Financial System and the Central Bank By: Jeremy C. Stein Harvard University Econ 1759 Behavioral Finance By: Jeremy C. Stein & Andrei Shleifer Harvard University Econ 2728, PhD Corporate Finance and View Details

25 Jun 2020
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Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles

that’s my number one leadership takeaway.” HOME REGION Mexico City, Mexico UNDERGRAD EDUCATION Columbia University PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE IGNIA, Home Depot, Houlihan Lokey, Inc., Bank of America Merrill Lynch HBS ACTIVITIES Student... View Details

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Cars on Time

market share in the 1920s. Ford, who believed that buying cars on credit was morally reprehensible, responded to GMAC with a surge in advertising and an unpopular program that encouraged customers to use their local Ford dealer as a savings View Details

05 May 2020
Research & Ideas

China Tariffs and Coronavirus a Double Hit to American Retailers

Evidence from U.S. Trade Policy, accepted for publication by American Economic Review: Insights. It was co-authored by Gita Gopinath of Harvard University and the International Monetary Fund; Brent Neiman of the University of Chicago; and Jenny Tang of the Federal... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

30 Jul 2007
Research & Ideas

Repugnant Markets and How They Get That Way

do so. Maybe someone else wants to sell her kidney. Such a law would make her better off. So let's say that selling your kidney was legal, and you don't want to sell yours. But now you go to get a mortgage. The bank says to you, "Ah,... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Aug 2001
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Richard B. Fisher (MBA '62)

investment banking institution had a staff of 110 and annual revenues of about $8 million. Today, the firm has more than 64,000 employees in offices stretching from New York to Beijing. Revenues last year totaled more than $26 billion,... View Details

Keywords: Richard B. Fisher; Warren A. Law; Alumni Achievement Award; Finance; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

26 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 26

multivariate time series model to investigate the interaction between paid search and display ads and calibrated the model using data from a large commercial bank that uses online ads to acquire new checking account customers. We find... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2022
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Is It Time to Consider Lifting Tariffs on Chinese Imports?

put it, religious belief may affect organizational performance “if the belief excludes individuals from “alien” religions from the organization, such as an Islamic bank not employing Christians or a strictly Christian firm not employing... View Details

Keywords: Re: James L. Heskett

February 2010
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Shurgard Self-Storage: Expansion to Europe (Abridged)

By: Richard G. Hamermesh

Shurgard, a U.S.-based firm that rents storage facilities to consumers and small businesses, is considering financing options for rapid expansion of its European operations. Five years after entering Europe, Shurgard Europe has opened 17 facilities in Belgium, France,... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Business Growth and Maturation; Multinational Firms and Management; Logistics; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Trade; Equity; Corporate Finance; United States; Europe

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Morgan Hall | About

philanthropist, art collector, and iconic figure in US business. Morgan began his career in 1857, working in international finance in a firm headed by his father. In 1871, with Anthony Drexel, he cofounded Drexel, Morgan & Company, a merchant View Details

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Climate Impact - Business & Environment

solutions with an initial focus on industrial heat for hard-to-abate sectors.” Charley Cummings MBA 2011 | President & CEO, Walden Mutual Bank “Walden Mutual is an online bank that is helping to build a more... View Details

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Site Credits | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s... View Details

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Online Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

the Good Jobs Strategy 5 hrs Module 5 Mastering Productivity Explore why some companies are more productive than others, the power of economies of scale, and opportunities to share value with your suppliers. Highlights Fixed and Variable Costs How Big View Details

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