Offices of Bank Holding Companies - Publications - Faculty & Research

31 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 31

inversely related to income earned. This result holds even when the conventional model accurately describes the average individual, and it suggests one potential resolution to the puzzle of why observed... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel

14 Jul 2023
Blog Post

Balancing Act: Kate Eberle Walker’s Action Plan for C-suite Diversity

When Kate Eberle Walker (MBA 2005) took the reins of the special education company PresenceLearning in 2019, she was determined to build a gender-balanced C-suite. “You have to be very deliberate and... View Details

03 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 3

Brightwork Brand Holdings Corp. acquired it as an asset purchase in 2011. Ghurka, under CEO John Reuter, worked to re-launch the brand with a ten-year, three-phase growth plan. The company aimed to be... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

Jack." German entrepreneurs were autocratic and paternalist, but it is by no means clear that they had a particular lock on this sort of behavior. How many American CEOs would like to have labor representatives on their boards? We... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

13 Dec 2016
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December 13, 2016

https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/317039-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 217-011 Qalaa Holdings and the Egyptian Refining Company This case follows Qalaa Holdings, a successful Egypt-based... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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About - Business & Environment

materials about business & environment More on Curriculum Leadership Michael Toffel Faculty Chair; Senator John Heinz Professor of Environmental Management Professor Michael Toffel has been interested in how View Details

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Japan - Global

oversaw all executive searches in the financial sector. In addition, he managed a corporate governance practice group and oversaw the firm's Japan-based industry sector research team. Prior to Egon Zehnder, Nobuo worked for 15 years in the Tokyo and London View Details

05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

Treasury of the United States, walked into the large conference room across the hall from his office in the Treasury Department. Joining him were Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke, President View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2

of Your Organization Author:Ranjay Gulati Publication:Harvard Business School Press, forthcoming Abstract In an era of raging commoditization and eroding profit margins, survival depends on resilience:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Mar 2023
Research & Ideas

When Showing Know-How Backfires for Women Managers

is also clearly divided between public- and private-facing spaces: the floor, where people shop, and the office. By analyzing three years of records from company databases, Feldberg found that women... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Retail; Consumer Products

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Finance - Faculty & Research

debt held by the domestic banking sectors of Eurozone countries was more than twice its 2007 level. We show that this type of increasing reliance on the domestic View Details

31 Mar 2008
HBS Case

JetBlue’s Valentine’s Day Crisis

information systems. "We had so many people in the company who wanted to help but who weren't trained to help," Neeleman told the New York Times. "We had an emergency control center full of... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Air Transportation

21 Jun 2010
Research & Ideas

Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets

"We've wanted to learn about the challenges of the process and the challenges of companies in those markets trying to compete on a global platform. We are also curious how... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

14 Jun 2016
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June 14, 2016

evidence. NPEs on average behave as "patent trolls." Indeed, NPEs hold and frequently litigate patents that are likely to be at least partially invalidated; moreover, NPEs target cash irrespective View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

06 Jun 2011
Research & Ideas

Why Leaders Lose Their Way

(R-NV) resigned after covering up an extramarital affair with monetary payoffs. Lee B. Farkas, former chairman of giant mortgage lender Taylor, Bean & Whitaker, in April was found guilty for his role in one View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

13 Jan 2020
Research & Ideas

Do Private Equity Buyouts Get a Bad Rap?

private companies. The work had to be done by Census personnel to maintain the proper anonymity. Once the researchers had job and performance data on different companies, however, they also had to match them across time. “When one has a buyout, one gets a whole series... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking; Banking

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General Merchants to Commodities Brokers | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s... View Details

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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship

invests in and helps to build early-stage companies in the information technology, biomedical, and service industries. Prior to entering the venture capital industry in 2004, Mr. Meakem was the founding Chairman and Chief Executive View Details

01 Sep 2023
News

Made in Italy

HBS faculty members and students visited Lamborghini’s headquarters in Bologna during the immersion to learn how the company became experts in electric car technology. Photo courtesy Lamborghini IMMERSIVE FIELD COURSES OFFERED AS ELECTIVES IN 2023 Denmark and... View Details

Keywords: April White

12 May 2021
Book

The Hard Truth About Being a CEO

they get there." Not only do CEOs struggle to learn how to run a company from a lonely role at the top, but they often quickly find that the network of coworkers they relied on for years are no longer... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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