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    Leadership To Last: How Great Leaders Leave Legacies Behind

    Society tends to glorify the get-rich-quick entrepreneur—who builds a company, takes it public and then (maybe) contributes to charity.

    In Leadership to Last, Geoffrey Jones and Tarun Khanna interview... View Details
    • 12 Aug 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Investors Often Lose When They Sue Their Financial Adviser

    Years of bull market bliss gave brokerage clients few reasons to open their account statements—until March. Within one month, stocks in the United States notched their biggest one-day losses—and gains—as mounting fears about COVID-19’s economic impact and efforts to... View Details
    Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services
    • 25 Aug 2022
    • News

    Reinventing the Future of Business

    in July, launched the Digital, Data, and Design Institute at Harvard (D^3). The Institute provides HBS and other schools at Harvard with a powerful foundation for accelerating research on big,... View Details
    • September 2024
    • Article

    Activist Directors: Determinants and Consequences

    By: Ian D. Gow, Sa-Pyung Sean Shin and Suraj Srinivasan
    This paper examines determinants and consequences of hedge fund activism, focusing on activist directors, i.e., directors appointed in response to activist demands. Using a sample of 3,259 activism events from 2004 to 2016, we identify 1,623 activist directors.... View Details
    Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Investment Activism; Business and Shareholder Relations
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    • 2022
    • Book

    Leadership to Last: How Great Leaders Leave Legacies Behind

    By: Geoffrey Jones and Tarun Khanna
    Society tends to glorify the get-rich-quick entrepreneur who builds a company, takes it public and then (maybe) contributes to charity. In Leadership to Last, Geoffrey Jones and Tarun Khanna discuss the interviews they and other Harvard faculty have undertaken... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation; Corruption; Gender; Innovation and Invention; Leadership; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Society; India; Pakistan; Bangladesh; Middle East; Africa; Latin America; Philippines
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    • 2014
    • Case

    Meizhou Dongpo Restaurant: Entrepreneurship, Leadership and Culture

    By: F. Warren McFarlan, Weiku Wu and Jia Guo
    Meizhou Dongpo is a large catering group in China. On June 6, 1996, the first Meizhou Dongpo Restaurant was opened in Beijing. The enterprise entered the stage of rapid development in 2000, and set up Beijing Meizhou Restaurant Management Co., Ltd. In June 2003 the... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Leadership; National Culture; China; Restaurants; China
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    • 2013
    • Working Paper

    Cross-Border Reverse Mergers: Causes and Consequences

    By: Jordan Siegel and Yanbo Wang
    We study non-U.S. companies that have used reverse mergers as a means to adopt U.S. corporate law (and sometimes U.S. securities law as well). Early adopters of cross-border reverse mergers and those firms that hired a Big Four auditor exhibited superior corporate... View Details
    Keywords: Reverse Merger; Corporate Law; Corporate Governance; Nevada; United States
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    • 2009
    • Report

    State of the Region Report 2009: Boosting the Top of Europe

    By: Christian H.M. Ketels
    The 2009 State of the Region Report, the sixth in this series of annual evaluations of competitiveness and cooperation across the Baltic Sea Region, provides a perspective on the radical change in the economic climate of the Region over the last year. The Report puts... View Details
    Keywords: Economic Growth; Financial Crisis; Macroeconomics; Competitive Strategy; Cooperation; Baltic Countries; European Union
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    • 2008
    • Working Paper

    Do Legal Origins Have Persistent Effects Over Time? A Look at Law and Finance around the World c. 1900

    By: Aldo Musacchio
    How persistent are the effects of legal institutions adopted or inherited in the distant past? A substantial literature argues that legal origins have persistent effects that explain clear differences in investor protections and financial development around the world... View Details
    Keywords: History; Law; Development Economics; Investment; Corporate Governance; Finance; Business and Government Relations
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    • July 1998 (Revised August 1998)
    • Case

    Optimark: Launching a Virtual Securities Market

    Bill Lupien's OptiMark Technologies, Inc., plans to launch a super-computer system in September, 1998 that he believes will release previously withheld liquidity to the securities market. While today's market matches those trades based on price and size, Lupien's... View Details
    Keywords: Information Technology; Financial Markets; Product Launch; Financial Services Industry; United States
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    • Web

    Dean Srikant Datar Statements & Speeches | About

    institution whose motto, Veritas, impels us to seek truth, it is incumbent upon us to acknowledge and understand the ways that Harvard’s strength today was built on human subjugation and the systems—including business—that perpetuated it.... View Details
    • Web

    Speeding Up the Trade: Clippers and Steamships - A Chronicle of the China Trade

    Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership Networked Business... View Details
    • 19 Feb 2010
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Evolution of Science-Based Business: Innovating How We Innovate

    Keywords: by Gary P. Pisano
    • 30 Apr 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Earnings Quality and Ownership Structure: The Role of Private Equity Sponsors

    Keywords: by Sharon P. Katz; Financial Services
    • 2014
    • Supplement

    Bluestar's Acquisition of Adisseo (B)

    By: F. Warren McFarlan, Donghong Li and Lei Li
    This case describes the post-M&A integration of Adisseo of France in 2006 by Bluestar Group, the largest subsidiary of ChemChina (a Fortune 500 company) until 2013. Adisseo was mainly engaged in production of methionine, a feed additive, while China had no methionine... View Details
    Keywords: Internationalization; Mergers ＆ Acquisitions; Postmerger Integration; Strategy; China; France
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    • October 2013
    • Case

    Oaktree and the Restructuring of CIT Group (A)

    By: Victoria Ivashina and David Scharfstein
    CIT's prepackaged bankruptcy marked the first time a major financial institution was able to successfully restructure and emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy, challenging conventional views that a financial firm could not survive bankruptcy proceedings as a going... View Details
    Keywords: Debt Securities; Restructuring; Financial Services Industry
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    • March–April 2013
    • Article

    Language Matters: Status Loss & Achieved Status Distinctions in Global Organizations

    By: Tsedal Neeley
    How workers experience and express status loss in organizations has received little scholarly attention. I conducted a qualitative study of a French high-tech company that had instituted English as a lingua franca, or common language, as a context for examining this... View Details
    Keywords: Organizations; Status and Position; Loss; Spoken Communication; Emotions; Attitudes; Behavior; Globalization
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    • 23 Jul 2020
    • News

    The Long Game of Coronavirus Research

    • 26 Jan 2018
    • HBS Seminar

    John Helveston, Boston University

      When Do Firms Greenwash? Corporate Visibility, Civil Society Scrutiny, and Environmental Disclosure

      Under increased pressure to report environmental impacts, some firms selectively disclose relatively benign impacts, creating an impression of transparency while masking their true performance; other firms’ disclosures, in contrast, are more representative of their... View Details