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- 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007
strengthened. These changes may reflect the growing role for the euro as a reserve currency in the international financial system. The risk-minimizing currency strategy for a global bond investor is close to a full currency hedge, with a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
New Learning at American Home Products
others, often foreign pharmaceutical companies, Orval (an oral contraceptive); Isodril, a coronary drug; estrogens for menopausal treatment; a new antihistamine and other antibiotics; and infant nutrition formulas. By 1979 prescription drugs View Details
- 01 Oct 2013
- News
Banking on Africa's Future
To achieve that transformation, Lawani believes, investment in the continent is the key. More specifically, Lawani notes, "Any investments we make that promote financial inclusion—especially that help bring folks into the... View Details
- November 2023 (Revised June 2025)
- Case
Aviva plc: Examining Net Zero
By: Peter Tufano, Brian Trelstad and Matteo Gasparini
The board of Aviva Plc, one of the world’s largest insurers, must review its climate risk exposures and evaluate next steps. Risk experts at the firm have conducted a robust set of analyses prepared for its regulator, the Bank of England, simulating how various climate... View Details
Keywords: Analysis; Climate Change; Insurance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Risk Management; Adaptation; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Europe; United Kingdom
Tufano, Peter, Brian Trelstad, and Matteo Gasparini. "Aviva plc: Examining Net Zero." Harvard Business School Case 324-008, November 2023. (Revised June 2025.)
- 28 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 28, 2009
implications for how policymakers should evaluate the financial reporting environment facing firms. A real-world tax shelter is dissected to illustrate how tax shelter products enable managers to manipulate reported earnings. A stylized... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
Chandler’s Legacies
had integrating the U.S. economy, creating out of necessity new organizational forms, financial instruments and accounting techniques. For my Ph.D. thesis, I decided to study transportation technologies in... View Details
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Luciana Baigun
catch at the best prices. Curious, she asked her colleagues about the phenomenon and learned about M-PESA in Kenya, a mobile payment system that allows people without bank accounts to make and manage View Details
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Jeremy Lipstein
exposure "to operations you don't see from the financial side," Jeremy looked for a program that welcomed younger candidates. "I felt it was the right time to go back to school," he says, "even though it was... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Feedback
bring much-needed accountability into the system? —Jim Mills (MBA 1986) Tim Draper’s investment in the school voucher campaign was not for naught. It caused the legislature to panic and pass a surprisingly progressive charter school law... View Details
- 25 Feb 2002
- Research & Ideas
MNCs in Asia: Investing in the Future
shareholders in both state and private enterprises." No Single Asian Market Mark Newman, vice president and CFO for GM Shanghai, the largest Sino-U.S. joint venture, presented statistics that clarified the corporation's significant investment in Asia. "Eight... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 25 Mar 2022
- Blog Post
ClimateCAP 2022
developing, supporting, and progressing solutions to address the climate crisis. In the Food & Agriculture breakout panel, the likes of Indigo Ag, Apeel Sciences, and Benson Hill discussed the importance of thinking about solutions within the food system, which... View Details
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Digital Archival Resources - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School
manufacturing operations, new product development, advertising and marketing strategies, and year-end financial statements. The Dewey Library, MIT Libraries and the Thomas J. Watson Library of Business Economics, Columbia University... View Details
- October 2018
- Supplement
African Bank Investments Limited (B)
By: Lynn S. Paine and Will Hurwitz
Less than a year after joining the board of African Bank Investments Limited (ABIL), the newest director finds himself in difficult discussions with other directors about removing the struggling company’s CEO. The case is set in South Africa in mid-2014 as shares in... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Personal Finance; Corporate Accountability; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Governance; Crisis Management; Insurance; Leadership; Management; Risk Management; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Africa; South Africa
Paine, Lynn S., and Will Hurwitz. "African Bank Investments Limited (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 319-053, October 2018.
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Manuscript Collections - A Chronicle of the China Trade
generations of the Heard Family of Ipswich, Massachusetts, constitute the most comprehensive and detailed collection held by Baker Library on the China trade. Engaged in the China trade principally from 1840 to 1877, Heard & Co. records include business correspondence,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Security Chief
explains. “They were very entrepreneurial and had great niches. And now we have to pull all of them together to act as one company.” He reels off a trio of management challenges: retaining valued workers whose knowledge and entrepreneurial zeal powered their former... View Details
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
forthcoming Review of Financial Studies Managing the Family Firm: Evidence from CEOs at Work By: Bandiera, Oriana, Andrea Prat, Renata Lemos, and Raffaella Sadun Abstract—We present evidence on the labor supply of CEOs and on whether... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Rebel with a Cause
environmental sustainability efforts, serving as executive director of Ceres, a coalition of environmental groups and institutional investors; initiator of the Investor Network on Climate Risk; and cofounder of the Global Reporting Initiative, the world’s leading View Details
- 09 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 9, 2007
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707413 Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd. Harvard Business School Case 707-441 Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707441 PublicationsThe Rules of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 May 2004
- Research & Ideas
Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures
such far-flung but tightly integrated subsidiaries? How do you ensure that financial reporting is effective while simultaneously optimizing your tax position? How do you design compensation systems that provide for local View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Cynthia Carroll
“International Power 50” list of women executives in 2008, has won praise for combining a conservative financial approach with progressive policies. Raised in New Jersey, Carroll studied geology at Skidmore College, went on to earn a... View Details