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31 Jul 2012
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data. First, we use field data on employees' productivity from a mid-size bank in Japan, which we then match with daily weather data to investigate the effect of bad weather conditions (in terms of precipitation, visibility, and... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

24 Jul 2019
Lessons from the Classroom

Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?

policymaking. Companies have long used behavioral economics but have more recently begun to create these types of teams to be more systematic about it. Banks around the world, including Fidelity, Lloyds in the UK, Commonwealth View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

29 Mar 2011
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First Look: March 29

crisis, several commentators concluded that the continuing expansion of risk measurement is dysfunctional (Taleb, 2007; Power, 2009). This paper asks whether the expansion of measurement-based risk management in banking is as inevitable... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Apr 2008
Research & Ideas

The New Math of Customer Relationships

in as personal and amiable a way as possible, asks 10,000 customers to close their accounts every month. It's important to point out that this is out of a current base of about 6.5 million customers who give ING DIRECT the highest marks for satisfaction out of all U.S.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

31 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies

competition is really the right medicine. "Competition in the ratings industry has been increasing, and there have been calls for yet more competition. Whether competition is likely to reduce quality or improve it has been unclear," says HBS professor Bo... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

29 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

Building a Powerful Prestige Brand

consumers had to pay for merchandise with cash. This, the entrepreneur believed, precluded a consumer from making a spontaneous purchase. In the late 1940s, banks did not usually provide loans for consumer purchases other than housing.... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn; Beauty & Cosmetics; Consumer Products; Retail

15 Dec 2015
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December 15, 2015

I show that the scarcity of these coveted assets created by increased bank capital requirements can reduce overall bank funding costs and increase bank lending. I quantify this... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

August 2023 (Revised January 2024)
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Arla Foods: Data-Driven Decarbonization (B)

By: Michael Parzen, Michael W. Toffel, Susan Pinckney and Amram Migdal

The case describes Arla’s history, in particular its climate change mitigation efforts, and how it implemented a price incentive system to motivate individual farms to implement scope 1 greenhouse gas emissions mitigation measures and receive a higher milk price. The... View Details

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26 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

dollars. This creates a direct connection between U.S. monetary policy and EME credit cycles. We estimate that over a typical U.S. monetary easing cycle, EME borrowers experience a 32-percentage-point greater increase in the volume of loans issued by foreign View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

27 Sep 2004
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How Leaders Build Winning Streaks

Kellner (soon to succeed Bethune as CEO), Deborah McCoy, and others. Akin Ongor had Saide Kuzeyli, executive vice-president of human resources, as his sidekick-in-chief; she shared the duties of coaching the people of Garanti Bank to... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

06 Apr 2016
Research & Ideas

Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?

In trying to secure financial backing for a new product, independent innovators generally face the question of how much to invest in development before showing it around. Should they create, say, a working prototype (and maybe even generate sales) or pitch the idea for... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Banking; Banking

26 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

Why the US-China Tariff Standoff Hurts American Companies More

Monetary Fund and an economics professor at Harvard University; Brent Neiman, a professor at the University of Chicago; and Jenny Tang, senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. Danielle Kost is senior editor of Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Retail; Manufacturing; Steel

17 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Tales of the Newly-minted MBA

more pressing demands of earning a living. After stints at Bain & Co., J. Crew, and Old Navy, he landed his current position as vice president of People's Bank in Bridgeport, Connecticut. Now he's decided to follow another turn in his... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

20 Jan 2015
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attention to increase financial inclusion among individuals with historically no access to banking or financial services in countries around the world with large underserved populations. The effort included partnerships with governments... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Mar 2016
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March 22, 2016

forthcoming World Bank Economic Review Productivity Gains from Foreign Direct Investment: Macro and Micro Approaches By: Alfaro, Laura Abstract—This paper discussed the importance of an “integrated approach” to the study of the effects of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 19, 2010

Harvard Business School Case 311-003 Mary Erdoes, the CEO of JP Morgan's asset management business, and three colleagues provide insights into risk management issues faced by the firm's private bank during the financial crisis in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Mar 2011
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immigrants made a conspicuous impact. Part I demonstrates the dominant role of immigrants in forming public financial policies from 1775 to 1817. Part II surveys 12 merchant and investment banking firms founded during the nineteenth... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

09 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 9

M. Sharpe and John O. WhitneyHarvard Business School Case 813-049 With a competitor nipping at his heels, his bank reluctantly covering his recent overdraft, Jacob Zimmerman is considering expanding his midwestern retail jewelry business... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 24

short-term and long-term thinking, and craft emotionally engaging visions while staying focused on execution. In this article, we analyze how one organization, GE Money Bank in Switzerland, successfully created a new growth business... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research

that, donating a portion of their stimulus checks to food banks or to friends who are out of work. Some are helping others in non-financial ways, including recovered coronavirus patients donating plasma to help the sick. “During this... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost

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Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?

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The New Math of Customer Relationships

Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies

Building a Powerful Prestige Brand

December 15, 2015

Arla Foods: Data-Driven Decarbonization (B)

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How Leaders Build Winning Streaks

Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?

Why the US-China Tariff Standoff Hurts American Companies More

Tales of the Newly-minted MBA

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