Institutional Investors - Publications - Faculty & Research

21 Jun 2011
First Look

First Look: June 21

If we are to break up the institutions that are "too big to fail," does that contradict the benefits of economies of scale, the driving force of globalization? Or, if these huge firms are to be left as they are, and we are to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

23 Aug 2011
First Look

First Look: August 23

Abstract This chapter describes the concept of integrated reporting, provides a brief history of its development, reviews the current state of practice, presents a strategy for institutional change that will accelerate the adoption of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Dec 2015
First Look

December 15, 2015

payments—single payments that cover all the care for a patient’s medical condition or treatment over a specified timeframe—are increasingly being deployed to motivate the delivery of better patient outcomes at lower costs. Hoag Orthopedic View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

29 Jul 2013
Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism

deployed systems did not." Second, capitalism tends to be self-correcting. When the free market does fail, the market itself steps in to correct the problem. For example, when investors lack information to properly determine the... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

28 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'

equity firms have billions of dollars of investible cash—although whether any of these investors have the appetite to risk their capital in the present environment is yet to be determined. And of course, an effective cure or vaccine for... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking

17 Aug 2021
Op-Ed

Dispensing Justice: The Case for Legalizing Cannabis Nationally

services. Institutional investors, such as endowments and pension funds, often have “vice clauses” prohibiting investments in Schedule I industries. Even private investors are dissuaded by the industry’s... View Details

Keywords: by Ashish Nanda and Tabatha Robinson

06 May 2021
HBS Case

How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups

change the dynamics because they can be written off as exceptions, Kanter says. That is one reason Hatcher’s BlackTech Week has been so key to spurring change, since it annually brings together Black speakers, founders of promising ventures, and View Details

Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

stakeholders leads to vulnerabilities. Companies are dependent not only on global supply chains and what might be happening in other countries, but also on the state of institutions in their own communities. The ecosystems in which... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

August 2021 (Revised November 2021)
Case

The NCB Capital Turnaround: Waking the Sleeping Giant

By: Sandra J. Sucher, Gamze Yucaoglu, Shalene Gupta and Fares Khrais

The case opens in 2019, five years after, Sarah Al Suhaimi, CEO of NCB Capital (NCBC), the investment arm of Saudi’s largest bank, NCB, took the helm. Having successfully turned the business to make it the market leader, she was contemplating her next steps as... View Details

Keywords: Turnaround; Investment Banking; Financial Institutions; Change Management; Leadership; Business Model; Strategy; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Management Teams; Asset Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Saudi Arabia

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24 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Boards and Corporate Governance: A Balanced Scorecard Approach

capital to the best ideas, weeding out the bad ones. Investors have the challenge of sorting through the overwhelming number of ideas to discern the good ones, a process compared to finding a needle in a haystack. They often lack the... View Details

Keywords: Re: Robert S. Kaplan & Krishna G. Palepu

04 Nov 2010
What Do You Think?

Why Do We Chase Stars?

performance," and reaches conclusions that might give pause to many who chase stars. Their subjects are top investment analysts (as identified annually by Institutional Investor magazine) and the... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

24 Feb 2022
Op-Ed

Want to Prevent the Next Hospital Bed Crisis? Enlist the SEC

institutions within individual and community networks. But they have not done so to date. Enter the SEC One novel way to assure that independent hospitals create network plans is to harness a new accounting standard, as specified by the... View Details

Keywords: by Regina Herzlinger and Richard Boxer; Health

30 Jun 2021
In Practice

The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

enjoying my colleague Tom Eisenmann's latest book, Why Startups Fail. This book is a well-crafted collection of case examples of how startups fail. Eisenmann offers a means for both entrepreneurs and their investors to see around corners... View Details

Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland

01 May 2019
What Do You Think?

What Should the Leadership of YouTube Do?

of their teams ” David Wittenberg would have YouTube look to its users for a solution to the dilemma. As he put it, ‘My preferred solution errs on the side of personal liberty and adds the element of information. I'd institute a rating... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Entertainment & Recreation; Media & Broadcasting

05 Jul 2017
Research & Ideas

Are Stockbrokers Illegally Leaking Confidential Information to Favored Clients?

investors (such as hedge funds, mutual funds, and pension funds) from 1999 to 2014. The information came from Abel Noser Solutions (formerly Ancerno Ltd.), a firm that performs transaction cost analysis for View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

30 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

Vanguard, Trian And The Problem With 'Passive' Index Funds

On August 31, 2016, many investors celebrated the 40th birthday of one of the world’s most successful financial instruments: the mutual index fund, created by Vanguard founder John C. Bogle. Index funds, which automatically track an index... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

29 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

bank, a deposit-taking institution that most often kept the loan on its books, retaining the credit risk. But over time the banks would sell more and more loans to the secondary market, particularly since the Fannie Maes and Freddie Macs... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

28 Aug 2017
Research & Ideas

Should Industry Competitors Cooperate More to Solve World Problems?

for the whole industry. We are unlikely to see progress in cases where collaboration is unprofitable in both the short and the long term. Second, large institutional investors must have significant ownership... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Manufacturing; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Mining

06 Dec 2010
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Doing Business in Emerging Markets

late 19th and early 20th centuries. Khanna and Palepu outline how to identify and respond to institutional voids in product, labor, and capital markets. Investors and entrepreneurs can respond to niches in... View Details

09 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

How Social Entrepreneurs Can Increase Their Investment Impact

opportunities, and the investor can channel the profits to other productive uses. In this sense, making an investment rather than a grant can help a firm more effectively combine its profit and mission motives and expand its total impact.... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

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