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01 Jun 2004
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Charlie Rose Interviews Goldman CEO Paulson

When public television’s Charlie Rose asked Goldman Sachs chairman and CEO Henry M. (“Hank”) Paulson Jr. (MBA ’70) whether his firm, a pure investment bank, could survive in a world dominated by consolidations, Paulson didn’t miss a beat: “You bet we can.” Rose’s... View Details

Keywords: Goldman Sachs; Finance

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Robin Greenwood | Working Knowledge

Reserve Bank of New York and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economics Research. Robin's research is in behavioral and institutional finance, with a particular focus on "macro-level" market inefficiencies such as stock... View Details

25 May 2016
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Education Is the Key

nonprofit business and economics institution in Brazil. The Insper Institute of Education and Research, he says, aims to address the shortage of prepared leaders. “Many of our problems [in Brazil] stem from... View Details

Sewell L. Avery

At Montgomery Ward, Avery hired top merchandising men from other fields and instituted numerous reforms. Montgomery Ward was very successful under Avery’s management, doing an annual mail order business of $700 million and boasting 575... View Details

Keywords: Retail

17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17

create institutional pressure to spur performance improvement. By examining how organizational characteristics moderate establishments' responses to a prominent environmental information disclosure program, we provide among the first... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 21

across medicine. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52286 forthcoming Strategic Management Journal Overcoming Institutional Voids: A Reputation-Based View of Long-Run Survival By: Gao, Cheng, Tiona Zuzul,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

27 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Creating Leaders for Science-Based Businesses

manage investors' expectations, and how you manage partners. The competitive advantage of the U.S. economy lies in our great science institutions and university infrastructure. —Gary Pisano "I see a lot of great research going on... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Biotechnology; Health

08 Aug 2016
Working Paper Summaries

The Unintended Consequences of the Zero Lower Bound Policy

Keywords: by Marco Di Maggio and Marcin Kacperczyk; Banking

19 Nov 2018
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Acts of Kindness

about. The professors we had here really forced us to think about what was important. I have a program called the Love Kindness Program, in which love is a verb. We need to elevate kindness as being essential. My wife Emily and I have a Love Kindness Award at Piedmont... View Details

01 Dec 2009
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El-Hage Takes Alumni Post

of the reason we are such a great institution today is the generous support of alumni,” he continues. “It is precisely because of their support that we have been able to accomplish so much. We don’t expect, and we never have expected,... View Details

01 Sep 2015
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Research Brief: Bankruptcy as a Better—Not Bitter—End

Are big banks using bankruptcy as a bullying tactic? A recent report by the American Bankruptcy Institute suggested that a longtime—and increasingly popular—mechanism in the US code that allows for expedited, less-democratic asset sales... View Details

Keywords: Erin Peterson

17 Jul 2019

Future Leadership MBA + Engineering Multi-School Webinar

Join Cornell University, Kellogg School of Management, University of Michigan Tauber Institute for Global Operations, Harvard MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program, and MIT Leaders for Global Operations to learn more about specialized MBA... View Details

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International land development resources

initiative Land Deal Politics Initiative: The International Institute of Social... View Details

16 Sep 2002
Research & Ideas

The Irrational Quest for Charismatic CEOs

evidence was overwhelming and not pretty. The rise in the power of institutional investors has led to the creation of an "external" market for CEOs that is wracked with irrational decision making. Increasingly, the emphasis was... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

Richard K. Mellon

Mellon was responsible for the reorganization of the financial structure of Mellon enterprises. He consolidated several family-managed companies, the most significant of which was the merger of two competing Mellon institutions – the... View Details

Keywords: Finance

2011
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What Do Development Banks Do? Evidence from Brazil, 2002-2009

By: Sergio G. Lazzarini, Aldo Musacchio, Rodrigo Bandeira-de-Mello and Rosilene Marcon

While some authors view development banks as an important tool to alleviate capital constraints in scarce credit markets and unlock productive investments, others see those banks as conduits of cheap loans to politically connected firms that could obtain capital... View Details

Keywords: Cost of Capital; Credit; Equity; Banks and Banking; Financing and Loans; Investment; Government and Politics; Data and Data Sets; Resource Allocation; Markets; Performance; Banking Industry; Brazil

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June 1987 (Revised August 1988)
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American Bank

By: Robert S. Kaplan

American Bank is developing a new system to compute product costs. The deregulated, more competitive environment for commercial banks has created both problems and opportunities for banking operations. In order to price existing products and assess the desirability of... View Details

Keywords: System; Consolidation; Commercial Banking; SWOT Analysis; Fair Value Accounting; Cost Management; Price; Banking Industry; North and Central America; United States

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2006
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Democratizing Entry: Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints, and Entrepreneurship

By: William R. Kerr and Ramana Nanda

We examine entrepreneurship and creative destruction following US banking deregulations using Census Bureau data. US banking reforms brought about exceptional growth in both entrepreneurship and business closures. The vast majority of closures, however, were the new... View Details

Keywords: Business Exit or Shutdown; Market Entry and Exit; Capital Markets; Entrepreneurship; Outcome or Result; Business Startups; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; United States

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September 1989 (Revised April 1990)
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Banc One Corp.--1989

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter

Banc One Corp., an innovative and financially successful super-regional bank holding company, has a track record of upgrading performance of acquisitions while retaining previous management--doing better with the same people. In June 1989 Banc One made its first... View Details

Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Banks and Banking; Private Ownership; Human Resources; Mergers and Acquisitions; Performance Evaluation; Management Teams; Banking Industry; United States

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September 2019
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The Dollar, Bank Leverage and Deviations from Covered Interest Parity

By: Stefan Advjiev, Wenxin Du, Catherine Koch and Hyun Song Shin

We document a triangular relationship in that a stronger dollar goes hand in hand with larger deviations from covered interest parity (CIP) and contractions of cross-border bank lending in dollars. We argue that underpinning the triangle is the role of the dollar as a... View Details

Keywords: International Finance; Currency; Financial Markets; Banks and Banking

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