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  • 01 Jun 2024
  • News

Crash Pad

When 4753 North Broadway opened in 1924, the neoclassical tower represented the height of American architectural design, a terra-cotta temple of capitalism at the heart of Chicago’s Uptown neighborhood. Over the next century, a series of banks occupied the spacious... View Details
Keywords: Amy Crawford; illustrations by Kathleen Fu; building coversion; housing crisis; innovation; real estate; Real Estate
  • January 2017 (Revised December 2017)
  • Case

Carmichael Roberts: To Create a Private Equity Firm?

By: Steven Rogers and Kenneth J. Cooper
Carmichael Roberts, a rare African-American venture capitalist, considered leaving his general partnership in a private equity firm near Boston and setting up his own in 2015. He weighed whether the timing was right, with the economy still not fully recovered from the... View Details
Keywords: Venture Capital; Equity; Innovation And Invention; Investment; Ownership; Science; Science Bassed Business; Markets; Relationships; Capital; Private Equity; Technological Innovation; Investment Return; Going Public; Ownership Stake; Science-Based Business; Market Timing; Marketplace Matching; Partners and Partnerships; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States; Massachusetts; Boston; California; San Francisco; New York (city, NY)
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  • October 2017 (Revised October 2022)
  • Case

JetBlue: Relevant Sustainability Leadership

By: George Serafeim
In 2017, JetBlue, the airline founded on the mission to “bring humanity back to air travel,” was considering becoming one of the first companies to report its sustainability performance according to the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB) standards. SASB... View Details
Keywords: Sustainability; Metrics; Leadership And Change Management; Airlines; Innovation; Purpose; ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; Sustainability Reporting; Change Management; Leadership; Financial Reporting; Environmental Sustainability; Mission and Purpose; Reports; Competitive Strategy; Measurement and Metrics; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Air Transportation Industry; United States
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    Peter Tufano

    Peter Tufano is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and Senior Advisor to the Harvard Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability. From 2011 to 2021, he served as the Peter Moores Dean at View Details

    Keywords: financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services

      Roberto Verganti

      Roberto Verganti (rverganti@hbs.edu) is in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches Design Theory and Practice for the View Details

      Keywords: automotive; computer; consumer products; electronics; fashion; food; furniture; high technology; home appliances; industrial goods; pharmaceuticals; semiconductor; software; telecommunications; textiles
      • October 2023 (Revised December 2023)
      • Case

      Compound: Lending on the Blockchain

      By: Marco Di Maggio, George Gonzalez and Richard Dulude
      This case critically examines Compound, an innovative decentralized finance (DeFi) platform. Focusing on Compound’s blockchain-based borrowing and lending protocol, the case explores its automated, intermediary-free system using Ethereum smart contracts. This system... View Details
      Keywords: Blockchain; Cryptocurrency; Disruptive Innovation; Borrowing and Debt; Financing and Loans; Organizational Design; Technological Innovation
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        Josh Lerner

        Josh Lerner graduated from Yale College with a special divisional major. He worked for several years on issues concerning technological innovation and public policy at the Brookings Institution, for a public-private task force in Chicago, and on... View Details

        Keywords: biotechnology; high technology; venture capital industry

          Lauren H. Cohen

          Lauren Cohen is the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance & Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an Editor of the Review of Financial... View Details

          Keywords: financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services
          • January 2017 (Revised November 2018)
          • Case

          Vox Capital: Pioneering Impact Investing in Brazil

          By: Julie Battilana, Marissa Kimsey, Falko Paetzold and Priscilla Zogbi
          Vox Capital was the first certified impact investing fund in Brazil. Founded in 2009, it provides early-stage capital for companies offering innovative and scalable solutions to enhance the lives of low-income Brazilians, while aiming to simultaneously generate... View Details
          Keywords: Impact Investing; Social Performance Measurement; Social Entrepreneurship; Investment Funds; Social Enterprise; Brazil
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          • 03 Oct 2019
          • News

          At Harvard B-School, lessons for impact investors

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          By: Boris Vallee
          Professor Vallée focuses on financial innovation, investigating it from different angles. This research thread has led him to relate the methods and insights of corporate finance and banking with those of other subfields, including household finance, public finance,... View Details
          • October 2000
          • Article

          BanCrecen

          By: S. Dario, E.L. Montiel and Tatiana Sandino
          This case describes the aggressive entry of BanCrecen, an affiliate of the Mexican bank BanCrecer, in Costa Rica in 1994. Its strategy, like that of the Mexican home office, was to focus on personal banking, with the rapid expansion of neighborhood branches and strong... View Details
          Keywords: Expansion; Globalization; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; Costa Rica; Mexico
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            Feng Zhu

            Feng Zhu is the MBA Class of 1958 Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he leads the Platform Lab within the Digital, Data, and Design Institute, co-chairs the Harvard Business Analytics Program, and serves as the course head for the... View Details

            • 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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              Suraj Srinivasan

              Suraj Srinivasan is the Philip J. Stomberg Professor of Business Administration, a member of the Accounting and Management faculty unit, and chair of the View Details

              Keywords: financial services; financial services
              • February 2018 (Revised March 2018)
              • Case

              Artificial Intelligence and the Machine Learning Revolution in Finance: Cogent Labs and the Google Cloud Platform (GCP)

              By: Lauren Cohen, Christopher Malloy and William Powley
              This case examines the intersection of two firms (Cogent Labs—a machine learning software firm in Tokyo; and Google, the technology infrastructure giant) attempting to exploit the benefits of artificial intelligence and machine learning in the financial services... View Details
              Keywords: Technological Innovation; Finance; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Model; Applications and Software; Infrastructure; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry
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              • 09 May 2012
              • Research & Ideas

              Clayton Christensen’s “How Will You Measure Your Life?”

              responded in a 2002 press release. "We have not seen a business model that is financially viable in the long term in this arena. Online rental services are 'serving a niche market.' " Netflix, on the other hand, thought this... View Details

                Robert C. Merton

                Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

                Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

                Keywords: financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services
                • November 2000 (Revised May 2002)
                • Case

                FleetBoston Financial: Online Banking

                By: Frances X. Frei and Hanna Rodriguez-Farrar
                As the ninth largest bank holding company in the United States in 2000, FleetBoston Financial Corp. provided a myriad of financial services, including retail banking, loan origination, and brokerage accounts. This case explores how FleetBoston responded to the Internet... View Details
                Keywords: Business Model; Borrowing and Debt; Cost Management; Banks and Banking; Consumer Behavior; Service Operations; Competition; Online Technology; Banking Industry; United States
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                • 27 Apr 2009
                • Research & Ideas

                Building Businesses in Turbulent Times

                Launching New Ventures: Jump-Starting Innovation for Entrepreneurs and Business Owners. Staff: Why is innovation important today? Lynda Applegate: The global financial crisis... View Details
                Keywords: by Staff