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  • February 2016 (Revised June 2016)
  • Case

Janalakshmi Financial Services' HR Dilemma

By: Doug J. Chung and Radhika Kak
Janalakshmi Financial Services (JFS), an Indian microfinance institution, had grown rapidly by providing financial products to its main customer base, the urban poor. However, the company was facing several challenges. JFS’s productivity was declining, and it was... View Details
Keywords: Microfinance; Salesforce Management; Compensation and Benefits; Sales; Strategy; Financial Services Industry
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Asia Pacific - Global

research, but a full range of MBA and Executive Education student programming. Through their ongoing work they have developed important links with governments, academic institutions, and corporations within a region that is assuming an... View Details

    Paul W. Marshall

    MBA Class of 1960 Professor of Management, Paul W. Marshall, is affiliated with the Entrepreneurial Management Unit and teaches The Entrepreneurial Manager in the Turnaround Environment. This Elective Curriculum course focuses on the role of... View Details

    Keywords: aerospace; banking; brokerage; computer; consulting; defense; management consulting; manufacturing; metals; professional services; retail financial services; retailing; steel
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    Race, Gender & Equity

    Board Diversity Network.Take your management and leadership skills to the next level with one our Executive Education programs created expressly for women leaders, including Women on Boards . Sign Up For Our Newsletter Join our mailing... View Details
    • 01 Nov 2021
    • What Do You Think?

    How Long Does It Take to Improve an Organization’s Culture?

    University (completed before the outset of the pandemic) concluded that a strong corporate culture fosters better execution, reduction in agency cost, and therefore, higher productivity and creativity. Of the many executives surveyed, 92... View Details
    Keywords: by James Heskett
    • 18 Jul 2024
    • Blog Post

    Building the Future: An HBS Alumna’s Journey in Sustainable Infrastructure Investment

    joined an investment bank where I gained valuable experience in financial analysis and then transitioned to a pan-African infrastructure fund. I was deeply involved in the investment lifecycle, from due diligence and financial modeling to project View Details
    • 16 Jul 2018
    • Research & Ideas

    Kids of Working Moms Grow into Happy Adults

    every day for work, it can be painful,” she says. “As we gradually understand that our children aren’t suffering, I hope the guilt will go away.” Working moms can also take comfort from their own kids. In a panel discussion with female View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
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    Blavatnik Fellowship in Life Science Entrepreneurship - Health Care

    Fellowship is led by executive fellow Peter Barrett, PhD and Tracy Perry, associate director. The members of the Key Advisory Board, leading industry and biomedical authorities, provide programmatic guidance as well as one-on-one... View Details
    • March 2020 (Revised November 2020)
    • Case

    FinTech Hive at DIFC: Creating a Fintech Ecosystem in Dubai

    By: Marco Di Maggio and Gamze Yucaoglu
    The case opens in 2019 as Raja Al Mazrouei, executive vice president of FinTech Hive (the Hive) at the Dubai International Financial Centre (DIFC), the first and largest financial technology accelerator in the Middle East, Africa and South Asia region, contemplates her... View Details
    Keywords: Fintech; Emerging Markets; Business Startups; Venture Capital; Management; Information Technology; Growth Management; Financial Markets; Financial Institutions; United Arab Emirates; Middle East; Dubai
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    • July 2023 (Revised October 2024)
    • Case

    Revenue Recognition at Stride Funding: Making Sense of Revenues for a Fintech Startup

    By: Paul M. Healy and Jung Koo Kang
    The case explores the challenges of revenue recognition and financial reporting for Stride Funding (Stride), a fintech startup that has disrupted the student loan market. Stride leveraged proprietary machine learning and financial models to underwrite alternative... View Details
    Keywords: Revenue Recognition; Financial Reporting; Entrepreneurial Finance; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Governance Compliance; Accrual Accounting; Financial Services Industry; United States
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    • June 2010
    • Case

    Digital Link (A)

    The Digital Link (A) and (B) cases present the struggles of a small public technology company to get and maintain analyst and investor attention during the "dot-com boom" of the 1990's. The case can be used in MBA or Executive Education classes. The (A) case takes... View Details
    Keywords: Marketing; Institutional Investing; Public Ownership
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      Acquirer-Target Social Ties and Merger Outcomes

      This paper investigates the effect of social ties between acquirers and targets on merger performance.  We find that the extent of cross-firm social connection between directors and senior executives at the acquiring and the target firms has a significantly negative... View Details
      • 31 Jan 2022
      • Research & Ideas

      Where Can Digital Transformation Take You? Insights from 1,700 Leaders

      This is the first of our three-part "Leading in the Digital Era" series. Read parts two and three. "Got a driver’s license? Good! Now, step into this Formula 1 racecar." This was how one executive of a Latin American e-commerce company... View Details
      Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards
      • Oct 05 2020
      • Short Film

      Maximize Your Leadership Trajectory

      • Program

      Driving Nonprofit Performance and Innovation—Virtual

      nonprofit organization—especially when tackling society's toughest challenges—senior executives and board members must prioritize assessment of organizational performance. In this live online program, you will explore how to align mission... View Details
      • 07 Feb 2022
      • Research & Ideas

      Digital Transformation: A New Roadmap for Success

      This is the second of our three-part "Leading in the Digital Era" series. Read parts one and three. For the past two years, we've been asking executives: Where is your company in its digital journey, and where do you want to go? Roundtable discussions with 175 senior... View Details
      Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards
      • Article

      Political Skill: Explaining the Effects of Nonnative Accent on Managerial Hiring and Entrepreneurial Investment Decisions

      By: Laura Huang, Marcia Frideger and Jone L. Pearce
      We propose and test a new theory explaining glass-ceiling bias against nonnative speakers as driven by perceptions that nonnative speakers have weak political skill. Although nonnative accent is a complex signal, its effects on assessments of the speakers' political... View Details
      Keywords: Spoken Communication; Prejudice and Bias; Competency and Skills; Selection and Staffing; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Decisions
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      • May 2011
      • Article

      Extreme Productivity

      By: Robert C. Pozen
      A veteran top executive at two giant mutual fund companies, the author has also been an attorney, a government official, a law school professor, and a business school professor-sometimes simultaneously. Over the years, he has devised a number of principles and... View Details
      Keywords: Managerial Roles; Time Management; Performance Capacity; Performance Effectiveness; Performance Productivity; Personal Development and Career
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      Campus Tours | About

      Executive Education, or the Doctoral Programs. MBA Virtual Tour Public Tours Campus tours for the general public are available every Thursday at 10:00 AM, departing from the North Lobby of Baker Library. The tour lasts approximately one... View Details
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      Latin America - Global

      "Revitalize, Reinvent, Reskill: Unlocking Workforce Productivity" event in Medellín, Colombia, which gathered 80 participants—predominantly C-suite executives from Colombia, Mexico, Argentina, and Uruguay. Key takeaways included the... View Details