Publications

March 1996
Case

Ernst & Young United Kingdom (B) (Abridged)

By: John J. Gabarro and Samantha Graff

Keywords: Financial Services Industry; United Kingdom

September 1994
Case

Leadership Problems at Salomon (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Michael Santoro

Deryck Maughan, a vice chairman and co-head of investment banking at Salomon Brothers, learns that his superiors have been less than candid about their knowledge of bidding improprieties by the firm's government trading desk. He must decide what, if anything, he should... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Decision Choices and Conditions; Ethics; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Crime and Corruption; Rank and Position; Financial Services Industry

August 1994
Case

E.F. Hutton (C)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Jane Palley Katz

Keywords: Financial Services Industry

August 1994
Case

E.F. Hutton (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Jane Palley Katz

Keywords: Financial Services Industry

May 1994
Teaching Note

BayBank Boston TN

By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. and Jerry Useem

Teaching Note for (9-393-095). View Details

Keywords: Mortgages; Problems and Challenges; Programs; Business and Community Relations; Financial Services Industry; Boston

May 1986 (Revised July 1986)
Case

MBAs at Merrill Lynch

By: George C. Lodge

Keywords: Financial Services Industry

August 2020
Background Note

US Private Equity Firms: ESG and Impact (B)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Holly Fetter

This is the second part of a two-part note. The first part (A) explores how US private equity firms are incorporating ESG (Environmental, Social, & Governance) factors and impact objectives into their investment strategies and firm practices. It is based on publicly... View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Social Issues; Financial Services Industry; United States

June 2008 (Revised October 2008)
Case

International Carbon Finance and EcoSecurities

By: Andre F. Perold, Forest L. Reinhardt and Mikell Hyman

In late 2007, EcoSecurities had to decide whether to undertake a new Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) project in China. EcoSecurities was an aggregator of carbon credits and also invested directly in projects that produced carbon credits. Governments and firms... View Details

Keywords: Non-Renewable Energy; Cost Management; Investment Return; Business and Government Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Investment; Cash Flow; Valuation; Pollutants; Environmental Sustainability; Financial Services Industry; China

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

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14 May 2024
Blog Post

Creating Emerging Markets Sustainability Series - How to Build a Culture of Intrapreneurship

is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of InGenia Uruguay, an outsourcing and strategic consultancy services company based in Montevideo. Established in 2003, InGenia specializes in risk management for Uruguay’s View Details

23 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 23

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Keywords: Anna Secino

01 Feb 1997
News

Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS

subscribers in financial services and the media who pay more than $1,000 a month to lease them. Just sixteen years after leaving a partnership position at Salomon Brothers, Bloomberg is outpacing more... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry and Susan Young; profiles by Garry Emmons

30 Nov 2017
News

SEAS Complex Reaches for a New Frontier

become the next major center of innovation,” said Paulson, who graduated as a Baker Scholar. Paulson said the gift “will help continue that legacy by making SEAS a 21st-century engineering leader. It provides a solid endowment for faculty development, research,... View Details

February 1999 (Revised June 2010)
Case

Car Wash Partners, Inc.

By: Paul A. Gompers

Examines the investment decision of Cabot Brown and Bill Burgin, two venture capitalists, to finance Car Wash Partners (CWP). CWP intends to purchase automatic car washes around the country. Investment strategy and deal structuring are discussed. View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Financial Strategy; Service Industry; Service Industry

20 Nov 2019
News

Lifting Fallen Families

kind of personal support is a big part of our mission.” Seven of the organization’s current employees have benefited as students, just like Lemon. They are now in a unique position, observes Kim, to provide not only financial support but... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

August 2002 (Revised February 2003)
Case

Myteam.com

By: John T. Gourville, Joseph B. Lassiter III and Taslim Pirmohamed

Elliot Katzman is faced with the need to raise cash and cut spending to develop his online amateur sports software application, Myteam.com. Even with powerful allies such as Little League and Coca-Cola, "big deals with big players" had not kept the company from running... View Details

Keywords: Cash Flow; Financial Management; Leadership Style; Crisis Management; Resource Allocation; Alliances; Sports; Web Sites; Web Services Industry; Web Services Industry