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  • 13 May 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Company Reviews on Glassdoor: Petty Complaints or Signs of Potential Misconduct?

such as violation history or financial leverage. In fact, those indicators rose and fell with remarkable consistency as violations occurred. “When we looked at Wells Fargo relative to the average in the banking industry, we could see it... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Technology
  • August 2023 (Revised December 2023)
  • Case

Money Fellows: The Quest for Expansion

By: Álvaro Rodríguez Arregui, Michael Chu and Ahmed Dahawy
This case explores the opportunities and challenges associated with expanding the operations of a complex entrepreneurial business model. It highlights how cultural aspects of different geographies impact a startup's operational and economic models. The case also... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Developing Countries and Economies; Geographic Scope; Business Strategy; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Business and Shareholder Relations; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Egypt
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  • 30 Oct 2019
  • Research & Ideas

How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup

the startup approaches its “fume date” —when its bank balance hits zero. In parallel, the founder will probably start to lay off employees, deciding how deeply to cut. And this is just the prelude to a shutdown. Things get worse when it... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 18 Nov 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Where Morals and Profits Meet: The Corporate Value Shift

GTB's founders felt it was imperative to try. They set out to build a bank that would be known for its workplace innovations, outstanding customer service, superior financial results, and exemplary corporate citizenship. In general,... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
  • Web

ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

modern venture capital industry. "We are a movement, not just a company. A commercial bank lends only on the strength of past successes and proven assets. I want money to do things that have never been done before." Georges F. Doriot, in... View Details
  • 16 Jan 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Adam Smith, Behavioral Economist?

voice of the impartial spectator. With my coauthors I applied this framework to designing a savings product for a bank in the Philippines that helps clients act in line with their long-term interests. In this "commitment savings... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
  • 18 Apr 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Impact of Pooling on Throughput Time in Discretionary Work Settings: An Empirical Investigation of Emergency Department Length of Stay

Keywords: by Hummy Song, Anita L. Tucker & Karen L. Murrell; Health
  • 11 Apr 2024
  • News

Mission Control

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. By the time Peter Platzer (MBA 2002) was a teenager, he knew he wanted to be a physicist—and he was fascinated by space, eagerly engrossed in space-time diagrams... View Details
  • 08 Oct 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Knowing What Your Boss Earns Can Make You Work Harder

experiment with 2,060 workers at a large, multibillion dollar commercial bank with thousands of employees. The researchers examined a variety of information, including the number of emails sent and received over time and time-stamp data,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 06 Jan 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Motivate Your High Performers to Share Their Knowledge

however, may not be enough. “You need to have more active or curated interviews, giving people a reason to talk to one another, and an agenda so they can reflect on their strengths and opportunities for growth,” Stanton says. “You don’t have to break the View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • Web

Charts & Statistics - Leadership

Airmail service starts Influence: High 30 1930 s 19 The New Deal Commercial and investment banking separated Reconstruction Finance Corp. created to combat bank and business failures Introduction of Federal... View Details
  • February 2017 (Revised December 2018)
  • Case

From Start-Up to Grown-Up Nation: The Future of the Israeli Innovation Ecosystem (Abridged)

By: Elie Ofek and Margot Eiran
In June 2016, Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu, Prime Minister of Israel, wrestled with how to sustain Israel’s strong innovation track record and the country’s reputation as the “start-up nation.” Despite the economic miracle the country had wrought since its founding, he... View Details
Keywords: Innovation and Management; Entrepreneurship; Business Startups; Government and Politics; Economy; Equality and Inequality; Israel
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  • 2021
  • Working Paper

The Changing Role of Business in Society

By: Michael E. Porter
Business interaction with the U.S. government, historically based on securing industry or company special interests at the expense of the public good, has enabled and furthered government dysfunction. Gridlock within the American political system has precluded the... View Details
Keywords: Politics; Shared Value; Social Progress Index; Competitiveness; Walmart; BlackRock; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; ESG; Transparency; Campaign Contributions; Campaign Finance; Lobbying; Revolving Door; Political Ideology; Political Parties; Political Partisanship; Government And Business; Government Innovation; Elections; Democracy; Capitalism; Stakeholder Capitalism; Shareholder Engagement; Competition; Strategy; Government and Politics; Society; Social Issues; Human Needs; Wealth and Poverty; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Corporate Accountability; Financial Services Industry; Banking Industry; United States
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  • 21 Feb 2005
  • Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

graduate degree for the past twenty years, it is not a requirement for becoming a manager. It is true that for those seeking access to senior executive positions or work in the fields of investment banking or consulting, an MBA has become... View Details
Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice
  • 20 Jul 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Bankruptcy Spells Death for Too Many Businesses

information from Bankruptcydata.com, Bloomberg Law, Moody’s Investors Service, and the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Antill studied 503 nonfinancial companies, each carrying more than $50 million in debt at the time of default... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 01 Dec 2022
  • News

Full Court Press

first lady, Jeannette Kagame. Inside Kigali’s three-year-old, $104 million BK Arena (named for the Bank of Kigali), pregame entertainment features a troupe of thunderous, polyrhythmic drummers and dancers.The seats and court are adorned... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
  • 11 Aug 2021
  • Blog Post

The Equity Network: How HBS Helped Me Launch a Tech-Enabled Social Enterprise

Kristina Hu is from the Class of 2022 and a proud member of Section H. After graduating from Harvard College in 2016, she worked in investment banking at Morgan Stanley before pivoting into tech, eventually becoming a product manager at... View Details
  • 18 Jul 2022
  • Research & Ideas

After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?

they can’t make an overall risk assessment. Gazette: This week, a panel of banking regulators and treasury officials from the G20 countries said it will put forward “robust” new regulations in October in response to the “intrinsic... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Financial Services; Technology
  • 26 Oct 2018
  • Blog Post

Making the Switch from Finance to Fitness

“Fitness is your hobby. Finance is your career.” - Words so false that they changed my life.  Finance After graduating from Yale University, I joined the fast-paced world of Foreign Exchange (FX) at a large US-based investment bank in New... View Details
  • Web

Electricity - Business & Environment

Esema MBA 2014 Vice President, Renewable Energy Finance, Bank of America Merrill Lynch “Investing in clean energy solutions is necessary to address climate change. Deploying renewable energy globally will allow the world to increase... View Details