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- 20 Feb 2019
- Research & Ideas
Rocket-tunity: Can Private Firms Turn a Profit in Space?
that's the goal,” he says. “So, is that policy going to get transferred over to the private sector? Or is the private sector going to be able to operate more like high-risk adventure activities, where the individuals are able to sign away a lot of risk or a lot of... View Details
- June 2017 (Revised September 2021)
- Case
Sales Misconduct at Wells Fargo Community Bank
Set in early 2017, this case examines widespread sales misconduct at Wells Fargo Community Bank. Wells Fargo's governance and controls are described in the lead up to the September 2016 announcement that Wells Fargo had settled with regulators for $185 million in... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Governance; Governance Controls; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Governing and Advisory Boards; Executive Compensation; Lawsuits and Litigation; Crisis Management; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Design; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Crime and Corruption; Business Organization; Business Model; Ethics; Corporate Accountability; Governance Compliance; Policy; Compensation and Benefits; Resignation and Termination; Laws and Statutes; Legal Liability; Business or Company Management; Risk Management; Business Processes; Organizational Culture; Organizational Structure; Failure; Agency Theory; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Salesforce Management; Public Opinion; Banking Industry; North and Central America
Srinivasan, Suraj, Dennis W. Campbell, Susanna Gallani, and Amram Migdal. "Sales Misconduct at Wells Fargo Community Bank." Harvard Business School Case 118-009, June 2017. (Revised September 2021.)
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details
- 04 May 2021
- Blog Post
Asian American Pacific Islander Heritage Month at HBS
are sometimes a liability - I was often torn between the Asian values of my parents and the American ones I saw outside – but bridges are also remarkable – helping people travel to and imagine new places, drawing their strength from both... View Details
- 23 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
Product Disasters Can Be Fertile Ground for Innovation
the Strategy Unit of Harvard Business School. The case caught the attention of Luo and Alberto Galasso, a professor at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management, who have together looked at the impact of changes in liability... View Details
- June 2007 (Revised July 2007)
- Case
USG Corporation (A)
Deals with CEO Bill Foote's decision of how to deal with USG's exposure to asbestos liability. USG was the largest building materials company in the United States, with 14,000 employees and gross revenues of $3.8 billion. Although USG used asbestos in a small subset of... View Details
Bagley, Constance E., and Eliot Sherman. "USG Corporation (A)." Harvard Business School Case 807-090, June 2007. (Revised July 2007.)
- Web
HBS - Financials | Consolidated Balance Sheet
4,747 4,915 Endowment Interests in Trusts Held by Others 182 178 211 Endowment Pledges 131 148 137 Undistributed General Investment Income 18 13 2 Current Use Investments 62 63 70 Current Use Pledges 109 110 104 Facilities, Net 720 733 738 Total Assets $6,639 $6,603... View Details
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HBS - Financials | Consolidated Balance Sheet
Liabilities 2021 2020 2019 Deposits, Advances & Other $69 $62 $95 Deferred Revenue 206 191 183 Other Debt Owed to University 79 81 31 Building Debt 33 40 46 Total Liabilities $387 $374 $355 Net Assets 2021... View Details
- 05 Jul 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Buying the Verdict
Keywords: by Lauren H. Cohen and Umit G. Gurun
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Consolidated Balance Sheet | Annual Report 2024
Trusts Held by Others 189 181 178 Endowment Pledges 101 131 148 Undistributed General Investment Income 9 18 13 Current Use Investments 87 62 63 Current Use Pledges 113 109 110 Facilities, Net 712 720 733 Total Assets $ 6,942 $ 6,639 $ 6,603 View Details
- Web
HBS - Financials | Consolidated Balance Sheet
4,915 3,799 Endowment Interests in Trusts Held by Others 178 211 167 Endowment Pledges 148 137 119 Undistributed General Investment Income 13 2 7 Current Use Investments 63 70 63 Current Use Pledges 110 104 122 Facilities, Net 733 738 762 Total Assets $6,603 $6,755... View Details
- 17 Feb 2014
- Research & Ideas
Companies Detangle from Legacy Pensions
full responsibility for paying out the pensions; or was it going to "buy-out" the annuities, transferring both the assets and the liabilities of the plan to Prudential's own balance sheet? The decision would determine who was... View Details
- Student-Profile
Fanele Mashwama
regulation. In the first, he is looking at episodes of capital flight in emerging markets and the way that the currency composition of firm liabilities can have serious ripples effects in times of turbulence. “Firms in emerging markets,... View Details
- Article
To Drive Efforts...Don't Tiptoe Around Your Legal Risk
By: Edward Chang and Bonnie Levine
Many Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiatives are scuttled because DEI leaders and legal teams feel themselves to be at odds over questions of acceptable risk. DEI leaders see lawyers as guardians of the status quo, whereas legal experts, trained to... View Details
Chang, Edward, and Bonnie Levine. "To Drive Efforts...Don't Tiptoe Around Your Legal Risk." Harvard Business Review 100, no. 4 (July–August 2022): 74–81.
- 19 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Unlocking Your Investment Capital
extreme, poorly implemented risk management can lead to the firm's demise. Under Sarbanes-Oxley 404, both the CEO and CFO have to attest with personal liability to the accuracies of the financial statements (including footnotes with... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Setting the Legislative Agenda
assume trillions of dollars in liabilities spent to try to repair a broken system. The costs of regulatory failure and the urgency of regulatory reform could not be clearer.” Related Links Too Big To Fail View Details
- 20 Jul 2020
- Op-Ed
It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees
valid, pay-as-you-go basis would avoiding worsening Medicare’s mammoth unfunded liabilities and could even help address them. The Public Option should also avoid government accounting; independent accountants should verify that the Public... View Details
- February 2005 (Revised February 2005)
- Case
SpudSpy
Students in a technology transfer class identify a promising application for a dormant university technology. In the process, they alienate the inventor, who threatens legal action. What exactly are the problems, and how should the professor teaching the class proceed? View Details
Keywords: Engineering; Legal Liability; Problems and Challenges; Projects; Groups and Teams; Technology
Snow, Daniel C., and Lee Fleming. "SpudSpy." Harvard Business School Case 605-059, February 2005. (Revised February 2005.)
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Terrorism, Insurance, and Uncle Sam
"contrary to popular wisdom, government involvement with private-sector risks is nothing new." Moss noted that public-risk management goes back to the earliest days of the Republic and cited policies such as limited liability, federal deposit insurance, bankruptcy, and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Encouraging Women Leaders
and investment banking. She found her eclectic background to be an asset rather than a liability in the classroom, “because HBS looks for such diversity in its students.” Serra says that learning in this welcoming environment, “everything... View Details