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- March 2025
- Case
Silicon Valley Bank: Gone in 36 Hours
This case examines factors contributing to the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in March 2023, an event as unpredicted as it was quick. SVB funded nearly half of all U.S. venture-backed startups and at the end of 2022 held $173 billion in deposits, largely... View Details
Keywords: Accounting Standards; Bank Runs; Financial Accounting; Financial Reporting; Social Media; Banks and Banking; Financing and Loans; Investment Portfolio; Interest Rates; Debt Securities; Risk and Uncertainty; Financial Statements; Risk Management; Failure; Fair Value Accounting; Credit; Corporate Governance; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States
Kang, Jung Koo, Krishna G. Palepu, Charles C.Y. Wang, and David Lane. "Silicon Valley Bank: Gone in 36 Hours." Harvard Business School Case 125-094, March 2025.
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
The Biggest Industry You’ve Never Heard Of
Denmark known as Bjergsen. Several thousand people are watching him play LoL, as the game is known, right now on the streaming service Twitch, and tens of thousands more will watch the video of the game later. To guarantee that Bjerg, a... View Details
- 01 Jun 1997
- News
Blockbuster Deals
systems and nonfunctional governance systems." "In the 1980s," says Jensen, "there were many more takeovers, mergers, leveraged buyouts, and restructurings intended to create efficiency and value. While some of this is happening now,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Mar 2005
- News
Venture Capital’s Comeback
senior partners from two dozen top-tier VC firms, who visited with government officials and entrepreneurs in each country. Hardymon ranks the trips as “among the biggest recent events in the VC world.” SVB’s Wilcox says the trips helped... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
At Ease
Retired Admiral Mike Mullen (AMP 109, 1991), former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, returned to campus in February for a daylong round of activities, including an afternoon visit with veterans from the HBS student Armed Forces Alumni Association and the Kennedy... View Details
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51989 forthcoming Review of Financial Studies The Political Economy of Financial Innovation: Evidence from Local Governments By: Vallée, Boris, and Christophe Perignon... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
opinionated time line of Detroit’s highs and lows. And there have been a lot of lows. Just a few years ago, Cummings was done with Detroit. The municipal government was in disarray, the auto industry was collapsing, the population was... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Japanese Connection
It all started with a Japanese language class. Steven Williams (MBA ’84) was a senior marketing director at San Francisco’s Genentech when he took Saturday classes at Soko Gakuen Japanese language school four years ago “just to keep the neurons firing.” “It was a hobby... View Details
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/14-040_96933ceb-3097-4432-97d1-0b32625889f9.pdf January 2014 Harvard Business Review Building a Game-Changing Talent Strategy By: Ready, Douglas A., Linda A. Hill, and Robert J. Thomas Abstract—When most of the world's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- February 2023
- Supplement
Astyanax Kanakakis at norbloc: A Founder's Experience with the DIFC Fintech Hive
By: Linda A. Hill and Lydia Begag
norbloc was founded in 2016 in Stockholm, Sweden, by Astyanax Kanakakis and his co-founders, Vitalii Demianets and Sam Saatchi. Kanakakis and Demianets got to work to address a key gap in the industry: Know Your Customer (KYC) data sharing. As the first distributed KYC... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Design; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Organizations; Leadership; Leadership Development; Leadership Style; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Digital Transformation; Digital Strategy; Digital Platforms; Technology Adoption; Technological Innovation; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Business and Government Relations; Business Startups; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Sweden; Europe; Singapore; London; United Arab Emirates; Dubai; Middle East; Athens; Greece
Hill, Linda A., and Lydia Begag. "Astyanax Kanakakis at norbloc: A Founder's Experience with the DIFC Fintech Hive." Harvard Business School Supplement 423-066, February 2023.
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
The Long Run
existing electronic system for tracking opioid prescriptions. Today the group will have the chance to review a bill from the office of Georgia State Senator Renee Unterman, chair of the Senate Health and Human Services Committee. She now... View Details
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
heterogeneity, we identify key country- and organization-level determinants of corporate environmental disclosure. We focus on institutional factors related to firms' global embeddedness to describe how external environmental pressures emanating from View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 2
Pontal, a partially built irrigation project in the SFV. In exchange for partial reimbursement from the Brazilian government and free use of 30,000 hectares land for 25 years, the private-sector partner would finish constructing the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 8, 2016
of 1906 further assisted the management of product color in the food business by regulating and endorsing the industry's color control practices. By 1938, food dyes had achieved such widespread use, and had raised such public concern, that the federal View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Farming for Fuel
ethanol plant in an increasingly competitive, complex environment. “For the first time in history, the food and energy markets are converging,” says Reinhardt. “It’s hard to imagine two areas of greater importance, or with greater View Details
- 06 Jan 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Should Management Deal With “Anonymous”?
exactly what everyone else is doing does seem to be where we're heading." Antidotes to these challenges are reasonably clear: In addition to greater transparency and support for "whistle blowers," several of you suggested the possibility of View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett
- 09 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
The Manager’s Guide to Communicating with Customers Collection
Underhill. "If I go to a Web site that's hard to read because it's got funky type face, and I can't get service when I call, well, that's a problem." And many stores post signs with print far too small for many of their... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Student Conferences Inspire Campus Dialogue
African-American consumer market. Three HBS alumni were also honored with AASU awards: E. Stanley O'Neal (MBA '78), who received the Professional Achievement Award; Deborah C. Wright (MBA/JD '84), who received the Civic Commitment Award; and Nancy L. Lane (29th PMD),... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Winning Legally
research to administrative agencies that might not have the resources to gather such data on their own. There have been instances where companies have had a huge impact on the laws that govern them. In 1998, for instance, management and... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 06 Nov 2000
- Research & Ideas
The Determinants of Corporate Venture Capital Success
companies. The partners were allowed to spend up to $2 million at any one time without getting permission from the corporation. For larger expenditures, they were required to obtain permission from XTV's governing board, which consisted... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Gompers & Josh Lerner