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01 Mar 2014
News

Social Enterprise Initiative Marks 20th Anniversary

Professors Leonard and Rangan One of the benefits of starting a new initiative within an academic institution is the chance to set transformational ideas into motion. In 1993, when then-Dean John McArthur and View Details

Keywords: SEI

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

over time turn even blue-collar workers into capitalists, and Americans-historically passbook savers-into a nation of investors. "For the general public," notes John J. Brennan (MBA '80), chairman and CEO of the Vanguard Group,... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Financial Services

01 Dec 2019
News

What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?

Image by John Ritter Image by John Ritter An estimated $30 trillion in assets worldwide—including half of all professionally managed assets in Europe—are already evaluated through environmental, social, and... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

29 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 29, 2008

available at this time. When Professionals Have to Lead: A New Model for High Performance Authors:Thomas J. DeLong, John Gabarro, and Robert Lees Publication:Harvard Business School Press, 2007 Abstract For too long, professional services... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Research Resources | Baker Library

Association, 2015. Hitchcock, Barbara P. “Remembering a Grand Experiment: A Personal History of the Polaroid Collection,” in Rebekka Reuter et al., The Polaroid Project: At the Intersection of Art and Technology , 96–102. Oakland:... View Details

June 2023
Case

ByteDance: TikTok and the Trials of Going Viral in 2023

By: William C. Kirby, Noah B. Truwit and John P. McHugh

In March 2023, Chew, with an army of well-paid U.S. lobbyists and TikTok creators, descended on Washington. In his testimony, he planned to highlight the 150 million daily active American users on TikTok and how the platform had benefitted small business owners and... View Details

Keywords: Social Media; International Relations; Government Legislation; China; United States

February 2021
Case

China Rapid Finance: The Collapse of China’s P2P Lending Industry

By: William C. Kirby, Bonnie Yining Cao and John P. McHugh

China’s peer-to-peer (P2P) lending industry had over 3,000 platforms at its height in 2015. China Risk Finance (CRF) was one of the country’s P2P success stories. With over 1 million borrowers using CRF’s platform, it raised $60 million in its 2016 IPO on the New York... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services; P2P Lending; Government And Business; Regulation; Finance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Strategy; Financial Services Industry; China

June 2016 (Revised January 2020)
Case

University of Hong Kong: Bridging East and West

By: William C. Kirby, Joycelyn W. Eby and John P. McHugh

In the early 20th century, the University of Hong Kong (HKU) was established in order to serve as a bridge between mainland China and the British Empire. As an elite institution in the 21st century, HKU continued its role as a bridge, connecting mainland China, Hong... View Details

Keywords: University Administration; University Curriculum; University Faculty; Higher Education; Curriculum and Courses; Education Industry; Hong Kong; China

September 1998 (Revised September 1999)
Supplement

Edmund's-www.edmunds.com (Supplement)

By: Richard L. Nolan, Stephen P. Bradley, John J. Sviokla and Kelley Porter

Supplements the case. View Details

Keywords: Auto Industry; Web Services Industry

02 Jul 2010
What Do You Think?

Is Profit as a “Direct Goal” Overrated?

people? Is profit as a "direct goal" overrated? Why then is it so frequently found among goals? What do you think? To read more: Michael Beer, High Commitment High Performance: How to Build a Resilient Organization for Sustained Advantage (San Francisco:... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

07 Aug 2009
What Do You Think?

Why Can’t Americans Get Health Care Right?

care providers such as doctors and hospitals placing profits before client needs (David Stahl, John Van Slyke, Roger Chen, Jan Fersing, Hugh Quick, among others); the agency problem separating payers such as individuals, businesses, and... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health

September 1983
Supplement

Meeting of the Overhead Reduction Task Force, Video

By: John J. Gabarro, James P. Ware and James G. Clawson

19 Jul 2011
First Look

First Look: July 19

challenges of servicing both internal and external Aladdin clients during a period of rapid growth within BlackRock and significant change in the global financial landscape. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/211082-PDF-ENG Erik Peterson at... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 1999
News

Christensen and Vernon Remembered

version of the School's Business Policy course. Named a full professor in 1958 and the first George F. Baker, Jr., Professor of Business Administration in 1963, Christensen began the second major phase of his career in 1968, when Dean George View Details

January 2007 (Revised May 2009)
Case

Kibera and the Kenya Slum Upgrading Project (A)

By: Nicolas P. Retsinas, Arthur I Segel, Marc Diaz and John Dean Shepherd

Kenya's Minister of Housing faces tremendous pressures in dealing with the pervasive housing troubles in his country. Kibera is the largest slum in Africa and home to more than 800,000 residents, yet only measures two square kilometers, roughly half the size of... View Details

Keywords: Construction; Housing; Urban Development; Poverty; Kenya