Publications

30 Mar 2015
News

An education reformer and social entrepreneur

Institute for Foreign Study (AIFS), a cultural exchange organization that has served 1.5 million students worldwide. In 1987 he began working with the British government to establish charter-type schools that specialized in technology.... View Details

20 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Misgovernance at the World Bank

Indeed, a majority of the Bank's 185-member countries never receive a chance to sit at the table, suffering in tangible and less-tangible ways in terms of continued poverty for their people. In 2008 the World Bank's two main development View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

07 Jul 2009
Research Event

Business Summit: Historical Roots of Globalization

this breakout session, panelists shared insights, informed by history, of the convergence that globalization promotes. Each focused on convergence from a different reference point: institutional convergence (in financial systems), policy... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

01 Apr 1999
News

Time to Vote in University Elections

and to the institutional excellence to which Harvard aspires; to provide advice to the Corporation; to give formal consent to major initiatives as referred by the Corporation and to appointments; and to bring a long-range perspective to... View Details

Profile

Triston Francis

View Video Even in an institution famous for attracting determined people, Triston Francis stands out as a “man with a plan.” As early as the summer between his freshman and sophomore years of college, Triston had made attending HBS his... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services; Consulting

Fast Answer

Sustainability Resources for HBS MBAs

(Hart) Strategies for the Green Economy (Makower) Cradle to Cradle (McDonough and Braungart) Business and think-tank resources McKinsey Featured Insights / Climate Change Carbon Commentary Newsletter World Economic Forum Platforms Rocky Mountain View Details

07 Nov 2024
Blog Post

Exploring California’s Climate Frontier: E&E Club’s Bay Area Trek

companies; the group also met Stanford students and alumni equally passionate about the climate crisis. This experience underscored the potential for collaboration across institutions and regions, reminding us that the scale of the... View Details

August 2020
Case

Mary Guerrero and the Advancement of Latinx Talent: Developing an Employee Resource Group at a Top Tier Bank (A)

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Amy Hernandez Turcios

Mary Guerrero was a first-generation Latina and an investment banking analyst at a top tier bank on Wall Street—Bulge Bracket Bank (BBB). She was committed to increasing representation of Latinx talent at her firm. She was already doing a lot of individual work to make... View Details

Keywords: Latin America; Bank; Representation; Scale; Inclusion; Coalition; Resources; Latinx; Talent and Talent Management; Diversity; Ethnicity; Banks and Banking; Leadership

September 2010 (Revised January 2012)
Case

Mobile Banking for the Unbanked

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Katharine Lee

The case describes in detail the workings of two mobile banking operators in Africa—WIZZIT in South Africa and M-PESA in Kenya. It explores the dimensions of strategy that make for success in the market for the unbanked. It raises questions regarding the portability of... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Financial Institutions; Disruptive Innovation; Marketing Strategy; Corporate Strategy; Banking Industry; Kenya; South Africa

August 2003 (Revised June 2005)
Case

Royal Bank of Scotland, The: Masters of Integration

By: Nitin Nohria and James Weber

Describes the acquisition of Nat West by Royal Bank of Scotland. Describes the strategic rationale for the acquisition and the process by which the integration of the two banks was accomplished. The acquisition is remarkable for how successful it was, given the typical... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Integration; Banks and Banking; Success; Banking Industry; Scotland

01 Mar 2012
News

Faculty Research Online

Rethinking the Fairness of Organ Transplants Because of an organ shortage, thousands of people miss out on needed organ transplants each year. Business researchers at Harvard and MIT are rethinking how kidney transplants are allocated to give patients longer lives. An... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

03 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance

consequence of these developments, these firms now face a wide variety of governmental regulations and institutional environments around the world. In short, tightly integrated global operations with a rising reliance on foreign... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

01 Jun 2024
News

Outside Voices

Afroditi Xydi (MBA 2022), especially considering that 67 percent of those who left hold advanced degrees. Xydi, who earned a master’s in engineering from MIT, cofounded the nonpartisan Deon Policy Institute in 2022 with the aim of... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Pete Ryan; immigration; repatriation; innovation; public policy; Greece

01 Jun 2017
Cold Call Podcast

Building India’s First $100 Billion Company

Keywords: Re: Sunil Gupta; Banking; Financial Services

12 Nov 2015
Working Paper Summaries

Catering to Investors Through Product Complexity

Keywords: by Boris Vallee & Claire Célérier; Financial Services; Banking

2022
Working Paper

On the Estimation of Demand-Based Asset Pricing Models

By: Philippe van der Beck

A growing literature uses portfolio holdings data to quantify the impact of investor demand on equilibrium prices via counterfactual experiments. The key parameter in relating demand and equilibrium prices is investors’ elasticity of demand with respect to the price.... View Details

Keywords: Price; Investment Portfolio; Institutional Investing; Financial Instruments

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January 1986 (Revised August 1994)
Case

Citicorp--1985

Citicorp seeks to raise medium- or long-term funding and is considering floating rate versus fixed rate and domestic versus Eurodollar bonds. Case focuses on advantages/disadvantages of these different markets and discusses many of the innovative Floating Rate Notes... View Details

Keywords: Capital Markets; Banks and Banking; Corporate Finance; Banking Industry

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April 2017 (Revised May 2017)
Case

GE Capital After the Crisis

By: John C. Coates, John D. Dionne and David S. Scharfstein

Keith Sherin, CEO of GE Capital, faced a decision on which hinged billions of dollars and the fate of one of America’s most storied companies. On his desk sat two secret analyses: Project Beacon, a proposal to spin off most of GE Capital to GE shareholders, and... View Details

Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Institutions; Strategy