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  • 04 Nov 2002
  • Research & Ideas

From Lone Star to Team Player

on individual performance are prone to this problem. It is a problem in investment banking and can also be a problem in sales organizations where individuals are compensated for their own sales and not for helping others and sharing best... View Details
Keywords: by Mallory Stark
  • 20 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How Small Businesses Can Survive the Coronavirus Outbreak

and Fundbox, which specialize in loans to small businesses, are also considering ways to support the sector. Renegotiate terms of contracts and debt. Owners should ask landlords for more time to pay their rent, for example. They should also ask View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Service; Food & Beverage
  • 16 Jan 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation

prompted a new research paper that starts to investigate ways to make these patents less volatile and more efficient—and makes the case for increased government involvement. "Standards are ubiquitous and necessary," says Josh Lerner, the Jacob H. Schiff... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Technology; Legal Services
  • 25 Jan 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Why a Harvard Finance Instructor Went to the Kumbh Mela

how many hectares each Akhara required. (The Juna Akhara, the biggest, has four separate quadrants.) They had to figure out how to provide on the order of 30 MVa of power to 22,000 temporary poles (provided by a bank of diesel generators... View Details
Keywords: by John D. Macomber; Construction; Real Estate
  • 02 Dec 2009
  • What Do You Think?

Should Immigration Policies Be More Welcoming to Low-Skilled Workers?

work." He would address the issue by: (1) (greeting) "all immigrants with a social security card" (implying payment of taxes, Medicare, etc.) and (2) requiring employers to "pay immigrants with check or automatic bank... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 15 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 15, 2008

price in one month (European-style derivative). The students are essentially working on an equity derivatives desk at a large bank and are responsible for delivering a derivative payoff to a client. The desk has taken in a premium upfront... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 2011
  • Article

Strategic Change and the Jazz Mindset: Exploring Practices That Enhance Dynamic Capabilities for Organizational Improvisation

By: Ethan S. Bernstein and Frank J. Barrett
How can leaders adopt a mindset that maximizes learning, remains responsive to short-term emergent opportunities, and simultaneously strengthens longer-term dynamic capabilities of the organization? This chapter explores the organizational decisions and practices... View Details
Keywords: Dynamic Capabilities; Strategic Change; Jazz; Jazz Mindset; Improvisation; Innovation; Change Management; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Innovation Leadership; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Leading Change; Leadership Style; Leadership; Management; Management Style; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Organizations; Creativity; Strategy; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; United States; Japan; Taiwan; Europe; Asia
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  • 15 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 15

producing analysis and interpretation, while operating in key decision-making fora. In the first bank ("Saxon Bank"), the risk function was successful in achieving such influence. The risk experts established a tight... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 1

risk-management actions. Purchase this supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/111052-PDF-ENG The Pecora Hearings David A. Moss, Cole Bolton, and Eugene KintgenHarvard Business School Case 711-046 In 1932, in the depths of the Great Depression, the Senate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 May 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Faculty Symposium Showcases Breadth of Research

buyout. Others maintain that PE fund managers are better at managing firms and making them more efficient than many corporate executives. Josh Lerner, the Jacob H. Schiff professor of investment banking at HBS, has spent much of the past... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
  • 23 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 23

Course MaterialsBANEX and the ,,No Pago" Movement (A) Shawn Cole and Baily Blair KempnerHarvard Business School Case 211-092 This case examines Grassroots Capital's decision of whether or not to continue investing in a Bolivian microfinance View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Feb 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Capital Rules: The Tensions of Global Finance

country's domestic institutional foundations for sound banking systems as a precondition for full liberalization. Every organized voice of authority within the international financial system has backed away from embracing complete,... View Details
Keywords: by Rawi Abdelal
  • 05 Nov 2024
  • Book

Building the Road to 'Small Business Utopia' with AI and Fintech

predict the creditworthiness of a small business, much like a consumer’s personal credit score helps banks predict creditworthiness for personal loans, credit cards, and mortgages? What if a small business owner had a dashboard of their... View Details
Keywords: by Karen G. Mills; Financial Services
  • 12 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 12, 2007

evidence from two large banking organizations, I argue that systematic variations in ERM practices exist in the financial services industry. The cases illustrate four risk management ideal types and show how they form the 'risk management... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 12 Dec 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017

conglomerate. With leading positions in newspapers, broadcast television, broadcast radio, cable television, and Internet services, Grupo Clarín caught the attention of U.S.-based investment bank Goldman Sachs, which acquired an 18% share... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Nov 2016
  • First Look

November 8, 2016

Credit Guaranty Corporation (TCGC), purchased approved receivables, funding 90% of the invoice face values by electronic transfers into clients' bank accounts. As of September 2013, TCGC had purchased more than $13 million small business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business

in the bank, that’s what counts / Money in the bank in large amounts.” The selling cycle is usually the biggest driver of cash out and cash in: Accounts payable accrue during selling, and accounts receivable are mainly determined in most... View Details
Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes
  • 01 Apr 2019
  • What Do You Think?

Does Our Bias Against Federal Deficits Need Rethinking?

mechanics of private banking and federal finance correct. Their models are therefore fatally flawed, so their predictions of doom (and inflation) should not be taken seriously.” Is JohnfrmCleveland right? Is modern monetary theory a fancy... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 06 Sep 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Summing Up: What Are the Limits of CEO Activism?

with outspoken banking executives, argued that, “Silence may be both a more eloquent statement and a more intelligent one ” CEOs and other high-profile people “do a service by restraining their knee-jerks and shutting their mouths.” RCD... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 07 Dec 2016
  • HBS Case

Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing

faith in the power of technology to solve their problems. (In fact, the Occupy Wall Street generation may be more likely to trust a fintech company than a big New York banking firm.) Moreover, millennials are heavy users of social media,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

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