Risk Sharing - Publications - Faculty & Research

September 2023 (Revised September 2024)
Case

IBJ, Inc. (A): Seeking Matrimony in Japan

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Akiko Saito

In March 2020, Shigeru Ishizaka, founder and CEO of IBJ, Inc., Japan's largest marriage matching service provider, faced a critical decision regarding the company’s planned ¥3.5 billion (US$32.8 million) acquisition of competitor ZWEI Co., Ltd. IBJ, founded in 2006,... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Risk and Uncertainty; Business Model; Corporate Strategy; Value

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09 May 2017
What Do You Think?

Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?

it) creates undue risk of moral hazard, simply because boards and senior management are often significant shareholders. If it is true that the average tenure of a CEO today is 3 years, how could any sane CEO not seek to maximize View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

08 Sep 2022
Book

Gen Xers and Millennials, It’s Time To Lead. Are You Ready?

True North: who they really are, deep down, and what their fundamental purpose is. Only then, he says, will they be prepared to work with a team, rather than issue top-down directives. Finding yourself and your leadership values George offers practical steps for... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert

Research Summary

The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building

The Institutional Foundations of Lending: Indirect Regulation and State-Building makes two main theoretical contributions to the scholarship on credit markets and institutional development. First, the book demonstrates that opportunistic lenders can take... View Details

19 Oct 2022
Op-Ed

Cofounder Courtship: How to Find the Right Mate—for Your Startup

is highly dependent on the chemistry, the experience each brings into the relationship, leadership styles and many other internal and external factors. While having cofounders can reduce business risk and/or bring complementary skills,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Austin

02 Jan 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

opinion and policies? What are its risks and rewards? And what is the playbook for leaders considering speaking out? The authors of this article examine those questions and explain the takeaways of their own research. One finding:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 21, 2009

businesses outperform both single-unit firms and multi-unit firms composed of unrelated businesses. Explanations for this relationship between focus and firm performance have largely centered on economies of scope achieved by sharing... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 Dec 2010
First Look

First Look: Dec. 14

of shared beliefs resulting in similar and concurrent firm behavior; second, that firms notice and imitate the behaviors of firms from the same prior industry; and third, that as firms gain experience with particular features, the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Web

Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

U.S. checks appear to have increased retail buying and share prices of retail-dominated portfolios. The Hong Kong payments increased overall market turnover and share prices in Hong Kong and mainland Chinese... View Details

09 Jun 2022
Blog Post

The MBA Class of 2022 Looks Back

truly one of the most transformational experiences that inspires you to be authentic and vulnerable in every aspect of your life. From attending student-run MyTake events and listening to my classmates bravely share stories of their... View Details

05 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Six Ways to Build Trust in Negotiations

in good faith, yet talks sometimes collapse because each side lacks trust in the other's competence and good intentions. One party might want to make a concession or share sensitive information in the hope of inspiring disclosures and... View Details

Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra

03 Mar 2009
First Look

First Look: March 3, 2009

The Fall of Enron Harvard Business School Case 109-039 The case traces the rise of Enron, covering the company's business innovations, personnel management, and risk management processes. It then examines the company's dramatic fall... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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HBR Classics - Alumni

Landscape Cause Your Firms Decline CSR or Share Holder Value How to Uncover Hidden Shareholder Value , Brian Hagen, Raymond L. Manganelli Shareholder Value Must Top CEOs Agenda , Gregory T. Carrott, Stuart E. Jackson Ten Ways to Create... View Details

31 Mar 2022
Op-Ed

Navigating the ‘Bermuda Triangle’ in Professional Services

particularly valued Linklaters’ ability to work on cross-jurisdictional matters. Learning economies. Major strategy consulting firms, such as McKinsey and Boston Consulting Group, tout the benefits of having a broad universe of clients, effective internal knowledge... View Details

Keywords: by Ashish Nanda

09 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

It’s Time to Reset Decision-Making in Your Organization

decisions? Each team member is responsible for research within their area: talking to big customers, participating in supplier forums and webinars, scouring competitor websites. At the meeting, team members share their findings and... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

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About - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

measure investor sentiment or risk neglect and understand its influence on security prices? Do credit market conditions reveal bubbles? How are credit market bubbles different from equity market bubbles? Regulation and Monetary Policy... View Details

24 May 2021
Op-Ed

Can Fabric Waste Become Fashion’s Resource?

COVID-19 has broken fashion’s supply chain. As a result, an already wasteful industry has become more wasteful. Even before the pandemic, the global apparel industry was producing about 92 million tons of textile waste a year. That’s about one garbage truck’s worth of... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones and Shelly Xu; Fashion

26 May 2022
HBS Case

Apple vs. Feds: Is iPhone Privacy a Basic Human Right?

would embroil the company in an ugly fight—one that risked alienating some shareholders—but he felt strongly that Apple should champion its customers’ basic human right to privacy. “We believe that a company that has values and acts on... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

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Alumni - Business & Environment

PHDIT PHDOB PHDSTM PHSM SEPME SEPSA SM VC VIS HBS Class* Work with Current MBA Students Student-Alumni Mentorship Program Help guide HBS students toward a career that addresses environmental risks and opportunities. Our Mentorship Program... View Details

12 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Using the Law to Strategic Advantage

Constance Bagley: Yes, I'd be happy to. The law offers a variety of tools managers can use to manage the firm more effectively. They range from contracts, which can be used to strengthen business relationships, allocate risk and reward,... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Legal Services

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