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John W. Marriott
Marriott built the fastest growing, most diversified and most profitable lodging company in the United States. By 1964, it had approximately $85 million in annual sales with 122 units in 14 states. Its business lines included 73 restaurants and cafeterias, 14 fast-food... View Details
Keywords: Restaurants & Lodging
- March 2009 (Revised October 2009)
- Teaching Note
Washington Mutual's Covered Bonds (TN)
By: Daniel Baird Bergstresser and Robin Greenwood
Teaching Note for [209093]. View Details
- October 8, 2008
- Article
How to Unfreeze Bank Lending
By: Robert C. Pozen
Pozen, Robert C. "How to Unfreeze Bank Lending." Wall Street Journal (October 8, 2008).
- 1988
- Other Unpublished Work
The Relationship Between Banks and Manufacturers: Effects on Investment
By: Timothy A. Luehrman
- Article
Relationships, Competition, and the Structure of Investment Banking Markets
By: Bharat Anand and Alexander Galetovic
Anand, Bharat, and Alexander Galetovic. "Relationships, Competition, and the Structure of Investment Banking Markets." Journal of Industrial Economics 54, no. 2 (June 2006): 151–199. (Lead Article.)
- May 1986
- Case
Data Administration in Citibank Brazil (D): Implementation of the Central Liabilities Pilot
By: Shoshana Zuboff
Zuboff, Shoshana. "Data Administration in Citibank Brazil (D): Implementation of the Central Liabilities Pilot." Harvard Business School Case 486-112, May 1986.
- April 1985 (Revised February 1990)
- Background Note
Regulation and Competition in Commercial Banking
By: Richard H.K. Vietor and Dekkers L. Davidson
Vietor, Richard H.K., and Dekkers L. Davidson. "Regulation and Competition in Commercial Banking." Harvard Business School Background Note 385-247, April 1985. (Revised February 1990.)
- 27 Jul 2021
Future Leadership MBA + Engineering Multi-School Webinar
Join Cornell University, Harvard's MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program, Kellogg School of Management, UC Berkeley Haas, University of Michigan's Tauber Institute for Global Operations, and MIT Leaders for Global Operations to learn more... View Details
Philip K. Wrigley
In addition to continuing the success of the chewing gum products, PK Wrigley greatly improved labor relations at the firm, instituting an “income insurance” plan, a gradual retirement program, and an extensive pension system. During... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Artful Contributions
The director of the High Art Museum in Atlanta regards two HBS graduates as the “twin pillars” of the museum’s recently completed $124 million expansion project. Terry Stent (MBA ’68), chairman of the museum’s board of directors, and his wife, Margaret, have been major... View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Christian Bjelland
As president and fourth-generation owner of Chr. Bjelland & Company, an industrial holding company headquartered in Oslo, Christian Bjelland has more than enough challenges to fill any given workday. But over the last decade, Bjelland has devoted himself to an equally... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
Quelch in Vietnam
assistance. Said Dung, “Vietnam is in great need of support from international organizations and academic institutions for developing good human resources.” Quelch was in Vietnam to conduct research. View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
Allston Plan’s First Building
A 500,000-square-foot science complex will be the first building of Harvard University’s new Allston campus. The complex, which will house the Harvard Stem Cell Institute and a number of cross-departmental science initiatives, will be... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
2017 in Education: Investing in the Next Generation of Workers
for a successful educational experience in later years. And second, there is a new “culture of completion” in higher education, in which institutions are focusing on improving graduation rates for all students. Smart business leaders... View Details
- Web
Can Private Equity Reach Regular People? One Company’s Mission | Working Knowledge
Finance and Investing Can Private Equity Reach Regular People? One Company’s Mission Featuring Victoria Ivashina . By Avery Forman on July 24, 2025 . Private equity has long been limited to institutional and high-net-worth investors, but... View Details
Truman K. Gibson
African-American communities it served. This sales technique was successful, but expensive, and in 1953, Gibson instituted a number of changes designed to improve the flow of information and centralize company control. View Details
Keywords: Finance
- March 2006
- Case
Wells Fargo Convertible Bonds
By: Malcolm P. Baker and Elizabeth Kind
Howard Atkins, the chief financial officer of Wells Fargo, is considering issuing $3 billion in convertible debt. With an investment-grade credit rating, Wells Fargo is not the typical issuer of convertible securities, but the market conditions in 2003 are unusual.... View Details
Keywords: Capital Structure; Financial Institutions; Banks and Banking; Debt Securities; Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Strategy; Banking Industry
Baker, Malcolm P., and Elizabeth Kind. "Wells Fargo Convertible Bonds." Harvard Business School Case 206-022, March 2006.
- November 1998 (Revised May 1999)
- Case
Collateralized Loan Obligations and the Bistro Trust
By: Kenneth A. Froot and Ivan G. Farman
This case examines a large bank trying to protect itself from the risks and capital requirement created by its loan portfolio. Considers a variety of ways available to the firm to offload the risks. View Details
Keywords: Banking; Loan Evaluation; Financing Strategy; Credit; Risk Management; Banks and Banking; Financing and Loans; Financial Strategy; Banking Industry
Froot, Kenneth A., and Ivan G. Farman. "Collateralized Loan Obligations and the Bistro Trust." Harvard Business School Case 299-016, November 1998. (Revised May 1999.)
- April 2025
- Article
How Central Banks Manage Climate and Energy Transition Risks
By: Esther Shears, Jonas Meckling and Jared Finnegan
Central banks have begun to examine and manage climate risks, including both transition risks of moving from fossil fuels to clean energy and physical climate risks. Here we provide a systematic assessment of how and why central banks address climate risks on the basis... View Details
Shears, Esther, Jonas Meckling, and Jared Finnegan. "How Central Banks Manage Climate and Energy Transition Risks." Nature Energy 10, no. 4 (April 2025): 470–478.
- 2014
- Book
Los Buenos Tiempos Son Éstos: Los efectos de la incursión de la banca extranjera en México después de un siglo de crisis bancarias [These Are the Good Old Days: Foreign Entry and the Mexican Banking System]
By: Stephen Haber and Aldo Musacchio
This book is the Spanish edition of our award winning paper "These Are the Good Old Days: Foreign Entry and the Mexican Banking System." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 18713, January 2013. The book examines the effects of foreign bank entry into Mexico. Foreign banks... View Details
Keywords: Banks And Banking; Mexico; Commercial Banking; Foreign Direct Investment; Competition; Financial Markets; Banking Industry; Mexico
Haber, Stephen, and Aldo Musacchio. Los Buenos Tiempos Son Éstos: Los efectos de la incursión de la banca extranjera en México después de un siglo de crisis bancarias [These Are the Good Old Days: Foreign Entry and the Mexican Banking System]. Mexico City, Mexico: Centro de Estudios Espinosa Yglesias, 2014, Spanish ed. Electronic.