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- August 1994
- Case
E.F. Hutton (A)
By: Lynn S. Paine and Jane Palley Katz
Keywords: Financial Services Industry
Paine, Lynn S., and Jane Palley Katz. "E.F. Hutton (A)." Harvard Business School Case 395-004, August 1994.
- May 1994
- Teaching Note
BayBank Boston TN
By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. and Jerry Useem
Teaching Note for (9-393-095). View Details
- May 1986 (Revised July 1986)
- Case
MBAs at Merrill Lynch
By: George C. Lodge
Keywords: Financial Services Industry
Lodge, George C. "MBAs at Merrill Lynch." Harvard Business School Case 386-194, May 1986. (Revised July 1986.)
- 2021
- Working Paper
Shareholder Activism and Firms’ Voluntary Disclosure of Climate Change Risks
By: Caroline Flammer, Michael W. Toffel and Kala Viswanathan
This paper examines whether—in the absence of mandated disclosure requirements—shareholder activism can elicit greater disclosure of firms’ exposure to climate change risks. We find that environmental shareholder activism increases the voluntary disclosure of climate... View Details
Keywords: Shareholder Activism; Climate Risk; Corporate Accountability; Climate Change; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Governance; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Shareholder Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Natural Environment; Environmental Sustainability; Financial Services Industry; United States
Flammer, Caroline, Michael W. Toffel, and Kala Viswanathan. "Shareholder Activism and Firms' Voluntary Disclosure of Climate Change Risks." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 20-049, October 2019. (Revised March 2021.)
- September 20, 2024
- Article
It’s Time to Unbundle ESG
By: Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel
ESG is at an inflection point. It has come to represent a broad and inchoate aspiration for what business should be doing beyond maximizing shareholder value. With ESG advocates on the defensive, business leaders need a new roadmap to determine which factors to... View Details
Keywords: ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; ESG Ratings; ESG Reporting; ESG Disclosure; Sustainability; Climate; Climate Finance; Climate Risk; Social Accounting; Investment; Governance; Safety; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Financial Services Industry
Chatterji, Aaron K., and Michael W. Toffel. "It’s Time to Unbundle ESG." Harvard Business Review (website) (September 20, 2024).
- Web
Digital Operations - Course Catalog
Career Focus: Designed for students aspiring to leadership roles at the intersection of technology and operations, the course is relevant for careers in operations, consulting, product management, entrepreneurship, and venture capital. Students will analyze how firms... View Details
- Career Coach
Mandy Xu
Mandy tried out different industries and experienced multiple career pivots. Prior to HBS, she worked in both client services and corporate with focuses in real estate, retail, and financial institutions.... View Details
- 2017
- Book
Profits and Sustainability: A History of Green Entrepreneurship
By: Geoffrey Jones
This book explores whether profits and environmental sustainability are compatible through the lens of a global history of green entrepreneurship between the nineteenth century and today. It tells the story of the extraordinary and often eccentric men and women who... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Entrepreneurship; Green Business; Sustainability; Entrepreneurship; Ethics; Business History; Religion; Environmental Sustainability; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Africa; Asia; Europe; Latin America; North and Central America; Oceania
Jones, Geoffrey. Profits and Sustainability: A History of Green Entrepreneurship. New York: Oxford University Press, 2017.
Charles W. Moritz
Moritz took the helm of D&B just after it had acquired the major market research firm, A. C. Nielsen. Moritz led the successful integration of D&B’s largest acquisition and established a pattern of smooth and profitable mergers. Under his leadership, D&B... View Details
Keywords: Services
- Fast Answer
Identifiers Available by Database
Which identifiers can be searched in each financial database? Gathering data from several different financial databases can be challenging. There are identifiers that these databases have... View Details
- Student-Profile
Fanele Mashwama
in similar questions. “There are several people in the program who think about the questions that matter to me, such as how to ethically regulate financial markets with a look to real outcomes,” Fanele says. However, it’s just as... View Details
- 23 May 2019
- News
Michael R. Bloomberg, MBA 1966
computerize financial data and provide investment professionals with real-time market information and analysis. The computer terminal he and his partners created, which became known as the Bloomberg Terminal, transformed the buying and... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Long-Term Interest: Bill Crozier, a Banker Pegged to the Customer
the boundaries in financial services, the two giants have challenged more conventional banking mergers in which organizations merely seek to grow larger while remaining banking concerns." Crozier also sees the current merger trend as... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 04 Sep 2013
- News
From HBO to HBS
Me. Or questions related to the financial services industry by looking at Inside Job." McGee mentioned his idea to HBS professor of management practice Arthur Segel, a good friend from their undergraduate... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia; HBSO; HBS; faculty; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services
- 06 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 6
authority, substituting their economic and political sovereignty for the people's. This has been accomplished by creating an enormous public service sector operating in the material interest of politicians themselves and of their big... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Dec 2015
- News
Conducting Research That Influences Practice
School to offer generous financial support and compete for outstanding candidates who apply to these highly selective programs. “Tami’s research is a perfect reflection of the Doctoral Programs’ mission—she is a scholar who conducts... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Alumni Books
created so much financial devastation. The Curse of the Mogul: What’s Wrong with the World’s Leading Media Companies by Jonathan A. Knee, Bruce C. Greenwald, and Ava Seave (MBA ’82) (Portfolio) In an industry built on celebrity, media... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
HBS Creates Life Sciences Fellowship Fund
Next fall’s entering MBA Class of 2010 will include up to ten students who have received $20,000 fellowships based on their academic or professional excellence in the field of life sciences. Financial support from the Life Sciences... View Details
- 07 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 7
ObenchainHarvard Business School Case 310-055 Facing the worldwide financial crisis, Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein considered his options including whether his company could avoid a forced marriage and what steps Goldman Sachs should... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2020
- What Do You Think?
Will Challenged Amazon Tweak Its Retail Model Post-Pandemic?
manufacturers and service companies will seek permanently to diversify their supply chains radically going forward We might accept the lower financial results as the insurance premium we have to pay to... View Details