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  • 20 Feb 2007
  • First Look

First Look: February 20, 2007

Tata & Sons helped revolutionize business practices in India. From instituting the eight-hour work day and paid leave to providing a retirement gratuity, Tata's policies created a standard to which other companies—and eventually... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2007
  • News

Porter Ranks Competitiveness

The United States and Germany remain at the top of the latest global Business Competitiveness Index produced by University Professor Michael Porter and two colleagues at the Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness. China slipped nine... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 11 Aug 2016
  • Cold Call Podcast

Why College Rankings Keep Deans Awake at Night

the rating system. He said that federal financial aid should go to those schools that perform the best. The President eventually abandoned the idea after hearing from many college presidents that there is simply no way to reliably rate and rank View Details
Keywords: Re: William C. Kirby; Education
  • 01 Dec 2005
  • News

Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper

held real estate services firm, regards this relatively recent change in attitude as a paradigm shift. “People now look to real estate as an alternative to other investments,” she says. Perhaps most telling is that large institutional... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Real Estate
  • February 2010 (Revised September 2011)
  • Case

Lehman Brothers

By: Tom Nicholas and David Chen
In 2008, the U.S. financial system was in a state of crisis and Lehman Brothers went from a major Wall Street investment bank to an insolvent institution. It was a swift end for a firm that had its beginnings over 150 years prior. What would be the firm's legacy? And... View Details
Keywords: History; Business History; Development Economics; Business Exit or Shutdown; Investment Banking; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Economic Growth; Financial Crisis; Financial Services Industry; United States
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  • October 1993
  • Case

Wertheim Schroder/Schroders

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Kalman D. Applbaum, Lisa Gabriel and Pamela A. Yatsko
In 1986, Wertheim & Co. of New York entered into a joint venture with Schroders plc of London to form the investment bank Wertheim Schroder. By 1993, there were numerous successes as the partners pursued joint opportunities, but there were also areas in which... View Details
Keywords: Joint Ventures; Investment Banking; Partners and Partnerships; Alliances; Horizontal Integration; Outcome or Result; Balanced Scorecard; New York (city, NY); London
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    Truman K. Gibson

    African-American communities it served. This sales technique was successful, but expensive, and in 1953, Gibson instituted a number of changes designed to improve the flow of information and centralize company control. View Details
    Keywords: Finance
    • 18 Feb 2016
    • Blog Post

    Honing an Interest in Healthcare at HBS

    classmates after class sitting in Spangler. I even had one class where we convened often enough to call it "The Breakfast Club." It sounds cliche, but the people really make HBS the institution it is. View Details
    • 22 Sep 2015
    • Blog Post

    Reflecting on 24 Years at Harvard

    and HBS.  As a dual professor at HBS and HLS, I love the different perspectives that the two schools offer: the policy-orientation and institutional design perspective of HLS, combined with the practicality and global reach of HBS.  I... View Details
    • Web

    George F. Baker - A Concrete Symbol: The Building of Harvard Business School 1908-1927 – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

    of his youth on his aunt’s farm in Massachusetts. At the age of twenty-three, he invested $3,000 to become an original shareholder in the First National Bank (now Citibank), which under his guidance remained a dependable institution... View Details
    • Web

    Managing the Future of Work - Course Catalog

    leaders in investing in good jobs that improve worker wellbeing? What role do ecosystems and local/regional economic development initiatives play? Demographics. How will companies and labor market institutions need to accommodate... View Details
    • Web

    Diversity, Inclusion & Belonging Questions for Hiring Organizations - Alumni

    recognizes the importance of career development issues that may be associated with membership in a particular identity. Does your organization conduct a recurring culture and climate survey? Institutional cultural and climate surveys have... View Details
    • 01 Dec 2002
    • News

    To Educate Leaders Who Make a Difference in the World

    mission of the University, and we are a far better institution for it,” Harvard University President Lawrence H. Summers observed in his dinner speech. He then declared, “What HBS does in the next twenty years will be more important than... View Details
    • 27 Oct 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere

    another 30 years," says Lurtz, the Harvard-Newcomen Fellow at Harvard Business School. "How do you build these institutions that you need for market agriculture in a place where maybe there are laws on the books, but there's not much... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Agriculture & Agribusiness
    • December 2011
    • Article

    Deposit Insurance and Subsidized Recapitalizations

    By: Lucy White and Alan Morrison
    The 2007–2009 financial crisis saw a vast expansion in deposit insurance guarantees around the world and yet our understanding of the design and consequences of deposit insurance schemes is in its infancy. We provide a new rationale for the provision of deposit... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Crisis; Banks and Banking; Insurance; Taxation; Business and Government Relations; Banking Industry
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    • August 2010 (Revised May 2015)
    • Teaching Note

    Bank of America: Mobile Banking and Bank of America: Mobile Banking (Abridged)

    By: Sunil Gupta
    Teaching Note for 510063 and 512082 View Details
    Keywords: Banks and Banking; Strategy; Customers; Technology Adoption; Decisions; Product Launch; Mobile Technology; Banking Industry
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    • May 2010
    • Article

    Loan Syndication and Credit Cycles

    By: Victoria Ivashina and David Scharfstein
    Cyclicality in the supply of business credit has been the focus of a considerable amount of research. This cyclicality can stem from shocks to borrowers' collateral, which affect firms' ability to raise capital if agency and information problems are significant (Ben S.... View Details
    Keywords: Business Cycles; Capital; Credit; Banks and Banking; Financing and Loans; System Shocks; Financial Services Industry
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      Alfred N. Steele

      Arriving at Pepsi after defecting from an alienating position at Coca-Cola, Steele immediately began a highly involved rehabilitation process at the battered soft drink maker. Steele installed a more autonomous management structure, View Details
      Keywords: Food & Tobacco

        Herbert A. Sklenar

        as crushed stone for concrete, where Vulcan is the nation’s largest and most profitable producer. Coupled with this investment and expansion, Sklenar also instituted an array of cost cutting measures, all of which allowed the firm to... View Details
        Keywords: Construction & Real Estate

          Elizabeth E. Boit

          specialized in the production of women’s undergarments that were eventually sold by Lord & Taylor department stores. Boit was considered a maverick in improving the working conditions for her mostly female employees. She even View Details
          Keywords: Fabric & Apparel