Financial Services - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 10, 2007

was concerned, however, that the firm's success, and the changing landscape of the financial services industry, were challenging the core aspects of the strategy that had brought the firm so far. He knew... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 25, 2007

Conventions and the Operational Risk Maze—The Cases of Three Financial Services Institutions Author:Anette Mikes Periodical:International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management (in press): 1027-1056... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2024
News

Next Level

In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in gaming—an industry with a... View Details

Keywords: Maggie Mertens; photos by Cameron Karsten; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

12 Dec 2018
News

Lesson Plan

favor, and manufacturing dried up. At a certain point, jobs in local government and services became the gold standard for security, benefits, and compensation—which is when the pendulum swung toward corruption. “Patronage, taking care of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Chris Sorensen

01 Jun 2010
News

Noted & Quoted

businesses. ” — DEIRDRE LEOPOLD, managing director of MBA admissions and financial aid, commenting on the increasing numbers of women heading to business schools. (Forbes.com, April 16, 2010) “CEOs who actually take the trouble to delve... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services

01 Apr 2001
News

Teresa Clarke: An Advocate for Education in South Africa

top private and public schools around Johannesburg, with the financial assistance and mentoring efforts of 25 local sponsors. The second year of the program, begun in January, launched another 40 students. Clarke hopes to place 60... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Educational Support Services; Educational Support Services

01 Sep 2005
News

WATER Ltd.

tax-averse citizens. Turning over water operations to private companies that can offer economies of scale, financial resources, expertise, and efficiency is an attractive option. Privatization, however, troubles some consumer advocates... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Waste Management and Remediation Services; Waste Management and Remediation Services

22 Aug 2019
News

Getting There

the beginning—taxi by taxi, they knocked on drivers’ windows, trying to convince them to join the service. Tan says they went as far as buying smartphones for drivers who didn’t own one. Now available throughout Southeast Asia, Grab has acquired Uber’s ride-hailing... View Details

Keywords: Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation

Profile

Tuce Zengin Van den Eynde

Both Tuce Zengin Van den Eynde and her husband, Alain, had completed master’s degrees, and had considerable experience in corporate finance. But Alain was eager to go the United States to get an MBA, and in what might be considered a foreshadowing of the negotiation... View Details

Keywords: Other Financial Services; Other Financial Services

Profile

Mohamed Farid

Mohamed Farid, MBA 2015, likes change. In the last ten years, he's worked in nine different cities from Boston to Bangalore, Dubai, Cairo, Montreal, Ottawa, Chicago, San Francisco, and Waterloo, Canada. "So if you ever ask me where I'm from, you'll get a confused... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services; Financial Services; Financial Services

13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13

PublicationsMisvaluing Innovation Authors:Lauren Cohen, Karl Diether, and Christopher Malloy Publication:Review of Financial Studies (forthcoming) Abstract We demonstrate that a firm's ability to innovate is predictable, persistent, and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2018
News

Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter

Illustration by Vahram Muradyan Illustration by Vahram Muradyan With one quarter of all renters spending more than half their income on housing in the United States, as Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies found in 2017, about 11 million Americans are one View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

12 Jul 2019
News

The Power of Entrepreneurship

started IGNIA because of the power of entrepreneurship to really bring change into an economy, into a country, into a business community. “Especially in a country like this, the disparities are so big. We have easy access to quality education, quality housing, quality... View Details

Keywords: Finance

01 Dec 2004
News

Capitalizing Poetry

director of SG Barr Devlin, a New York firm that provides strategic and financial advice to clients in the electricity and gas industries. Barr, the foundation’s president and a poet in his own right, has published six volumes of verse... View Details

Keywords: poetry; Educational Support Services; Educational Support Services; Educational Support Services

23 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

What’s Your Strategy for Managing Knowledge?

mail messages with them and checked Bain's "people finder" database for more contacts. Eventually she connected with nine partners and several managers who had developed growth strategies for financial View Details

Keywords: by Morten T. Hansen, Nitin Nohria & Thomas Tierney; Consulting

Profile

Nabihah Sachedina

learning how to use health-care services as effectively as possible, we wanted to find ways to make prevention work and see how local government could support health." For the U.K., where health care is nationalized, this local... View Details

Career Coach

Jonathan Shepherd

Jonathan is CPD's Corporate Relations Director overseeing principal investing: VC/PE, investment management and real estate. Since 2007, he has coached thousands of students & alumni and forged recruiting relationships with hundreds of firms across these... View Details

06 Aug 2001
Research & Ideas

Go Global—or No? Can You Make the Case?

financial service companies. Benro was very familiar with European customers in the financial services sector but had no experience with other... View Details

Keywords: by Walter Kuemmerle

19 Oct 2010
First Look

First Look: October 19, 2010

Diversity in Experience and Team Familiarity on Team Performance Authors:Robert S. Huckman and Bradley R. Staats Publication:Manufacturing and Service Operations Management (forthcoming) Abstract In this paper, we consider how the... View Details