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Morris Hall | About

financial institution, the Bank of North America, in 1782. Washington chose Morris to be the first secretary of the treasury, offering him that post in 1789, but Morris declined, recommending that Alexander Hamilton be given the job... View Details

    Malcolm S. Salter

    Malcolm Salter has been a member of the Harvard Business School faculty since 1967. His teaching and research focus on issues of corporate strategy, organization, and governance.

    In addition to teaching at HBS, he has held faculty positions at the Harvard... View Details

    Keywords: investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry; investment banking industry
    • 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 Jan 2010
    • News

    James Dimon, MBA 1982

    and management practices are legendary — as a strategist who can integrate fractured businesses; as a dealmaker who bought two failing banks during the extraordinary circumstances of the past two years; as a relentless risk manager who... View Details
    • December 2020
    • Case

    XP: Dual Track Financing Alternatives

    By: Marco Di Maggio, Pedro Levindo and Carla Larangeira
    XP, an investment platform, was on the verge of defining whether to do an IPO or selling off a majority stake to Itaú Unibanco, Brazil´s largest financial conglomerate. Under the leadership of Guilherme Benchimol, XP´s co-founder and CEO, XP had risen to become the... View Details
    Keywords: Financing Decisions; Expansion; Decision Choices and Conditions; Latin America; Brazil
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    • 04 Jun 2013
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Prosocial Bonuses Increase Employee Satisfaction and Team Performance

    Keywords: by Lalin Anik, Lara B. Aknin, Michael I. Norton, Elizabeth W. Dunn & Jordi Quoidbach
    • 2015
    • Working Paper

    Financial Patent Quality: Finance Patents After State Street

    By: Josh Lerner, Andrew Speen, Mark Baker and Ann Leamon
    In the past two decades, patents of inventions related to financial services ("finance patents"), as well as litigation around these patents, have surged. One of the repeated concerns voiced by academics and practitioners alike has been about the quality of these... View Details
    Keywords: Patents; Lawsuits and Litigation; Finance
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    • 11 Mar 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    Branding Sells Cereal, Handbags, and Vacations. Can It Sell a Country?

    culture, setting off a K-Drama (Korean television drama) and K-Pop (Korean pop music) craze, with music exports, for example, expanding ninefold to $277 million in 2013. Think virally and socially. When New York City sought to bring back fleeing companies during its... View Details
    Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Tourism
    • 01 Sep 2022
    • What Do You Think?

    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
    • 05 Jun 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    How Anchor Investors Help Impact Funds Succeed

    decide it makes sense to actively seek anchor investments, our results suggest that banks with CRA (Community Reinvestment Act) requirements and foundations represent the large potential allocations. Investment advisors also represent a... View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services
    • 01 Feb 1999
    • News

    Too Much of a Good Thing?

    booming. Banks and companies, eager for a piece of the action, invest heavily in production capability. Not surprisingly, a market can soon become saturated with too much product; consequently, demand drops, revenues slow to a trickle,... View Details
    Keywords: Garry Emmons
    • 06 Nov 2008
    • Op-Ed

    Selling Out The American Dream

    leveraging of assets, on irresponsible banks and mortgage brokers who fabricated applications for no downpayment home loans knowing that the risks could be readily laid off on unsuspecting third parties. But underpinning the collapse of... View Details
    Keywords: by John Quelch
    • 01 Oct 1996
    • News

    Trading Up — Kenneth D. Brody (MBA 1971)

    possibilities. For me, HBS was a turning point." After graduating, Brody went directly to Goldman and began an outstanding twenty-year career there. Over the years, he founded and headed Goldman's high-technology investment banking group,... View Details
    Keywords: Garry Emmons
    • 01 Dec 2019
    • News

    Bridging the Gap

    $120 million redevelopment initiative completed in 2005. The Tennessee Aquarium—a soaring, impressive glass-and-brick structure—stands on the banks of the Tennessee River, now lined with high-end condominiums. People bike and stroll... View Details
    Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Administration of Economic Programs; Government
    • 01 Dec 2023
    • News

    Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

    Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The World’s Littlest Book on Climate: Ten Facts in Ten Minutes About CO2 By Mike Nelson, Pieter Tans, and Michael Banks (MBA 1983) Independently Published In this updated edition of the world’s... View Details
    Keywords: podcasts
    • 12 Jun 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: June 12

    external risks, companies can call on tools such as war gaming and scenario analysis. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2012/06/managing-risks-a-new-framework/ar/1   Working PapersDid Bank Distress Stifle Innovation During the Great... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • July 2021
    • Case

    Bessemer Venture Partners: Century Fund

    By: Jo Tango and Alys Ferragamo
    In July of 2021, Bessemer Venture Partners (BVP) contemplated the future of its growth investing practice, known as “Century.” While still relatively new as a focused initiative, BVP’s growth investing already had significant momentum. The fund’s investment pace had... View Details
    Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Financial Institutions; Growth and Development Strategy; Investment Banking; Competitive Strategy; Public Sector; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Acquisition
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    • 16 Dec 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    Taking on the Taboos That Keep Women Out of India's Workforce

    work less.” Empowerment through financial access Conducted in partnership with state and bank authorities, the study, which took place from 2013 to 2017, looked at 5,851 married couples in 197 villages in the northern India state of... View Details
    Keywords: by Julia Hanna
    • May 2016
    • Case

    The Inexorable Rise of Walmart? 1988—2016

    By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
    In October 2015, Walmart surprised investors by announcing that it expected flat sales growth for 2015 and growth of only 3% to 4% over the coming three years. Profits would also fall due to significant investments in people and technology. The company’s stock price... View Details
    Keywords: Asda; Costco; David Glass; Convenience Stores; Discount Retailing; Dollar Stores; Doug McMillon; E-commerce; Online Retail; General Merchandise; Grocery; Lee Scott; Mike Duke; Multichannel Retailing; Omnichannel; Neighborhood Market; Sam Walton; Sam's Club; Store Formats; Supercenter; Supermarket; Warehouse Clubs; Merchandising; Walmart; Wal-Mart; Globalized Firms and Management; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Units; Business Divisions; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Business Organization; For-Profit Firms; Film Entertainment; Television Entertainment; Banks and Banking; Price; Profit; Revenue; Food; Global Range; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Global Strategy; Business History; Compensation and Benefits; Employees; Human Capital; Labor Unions; Wages; Business or Company Management; Goals and Objectives; Management Succession; Brands and Branding; Product Positioning; Distribution; Supply Chain; Supply Chain Management; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Labor and Management Relations; Strategy; Adaptation; Business Strategy; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Diversification; Expansion; Segmentation; Information Technology; Internet; Mobile Technology; Online Technology; Web; Web Sites; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; United States; Arkansas; Bentonville
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    • 17 Aug 2021
    • Op-Ed

    Dispensing Justice: The Case for Legalizing Cannabis Nationally

    deductions or credits. "Banks are extremely chary about extending capital to them. Even if they do, banks charge cannabis firms hefty fees." These inefficiencies are compounded by a dearth of capital. Banks... View Details
    Keywords: by Ashish Nanda and Tabatha Robinson