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  • 24 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 24

"hot" financial markets to get through the initial period of diffusion. Our work underscores that financial markets may play a much larger and under-studied role in creating and magnifying bubbles... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    Leslie K. John

    Leslie K. John is a Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Currently, she teaches on the topics of Negotiation, Marketing and Behavioral Economics in various Executive Education courses, including in the Program for Leadership Development.... View Details

    Keywords: diet services; health care; internet; marketing industry

      Moving Forward: The Future of Consumer Credit and Mortgage Finance

      The recent collapse of the mortgage market revealed fractures in the credit... View Details

      • 07 Dec 2016
      • HBS Case

      Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing

      asset accumulators of the future” A new breed of financial technology companies, known collectively as fintech, has taken advantage of these traits to disrupt an unexpected industry: personal investing. Just as manufacturing companies... View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
      • May–June 2021
      • Article

      Eliminate Strategic Overload

      By: Felix Oberholzer-Gee
      As companies respond to intensifying competitive pressures and challenges, they ask more and more of their employees. But organizations often have very little to show for the efforts of their talented and engaged workers. By selecting fewer initiatives with greater... View Details
      Keywords: Strategic Initiatives; Value-based Strategy; Organizational Effectiveness; Strategy; Value Creation
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      • August 2012
      • Case

      Polar Sports, Inc.

      By: W. Carl Kester and Wei Wang
      Polar Sports, Inc. is a fashion skiwear manufacturing company in Littleton, Colorado. The company has a unique design for skiwear using a special synthetic material that improves insulation and durability. The ski apparel industry is highly competitive and the best way... View Details
      Keywords: Production; Decision Choices and Conditions; Competitive Strategy; Corporate Finance; Manufacturing Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Sports Industry; Colorado
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      • 11 Jun 2013
      • First Look

      First Look: June 11

      alternative explanations for some important empirical observations in IB, such as bunching and second-mover advantage in market entries. 2006 Journal of Financial Economics How Do Staggered Boards Affect Shareholder Value? Evidence from a... View Details
      Keywords: Carmen Nobel
      • August 2014
      • Background Note

      The Structure and Functioning of Art Markets

      By: Mukti Khaire and Eleanor Kenyon
      The production, valuation, and consumption of contemporary art are guided by cultural and economic forces that play out in primary and secondary markets. Artists seek the attention of art dealers, who, along with auction houses, play a large role in determining what is... View Details
      Keywords: Art Dealer; Art Market; Arts; New York (city, NY)
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      • January 2012 (Revised March 2012)
      • Case

      Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA)'s Entry into the Retirement Market

      By: Lauren Cohen and Christopher Malloy
      This case examines Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA)'s decision to enter the retirement market with their new "Dimensional Managed DC" product, a complete retirement solution that aimed to provide investors with what they really wanted: the same standard of living in... View Details
      Keywords: Retirement; Asset Management
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        Lynn S. Paine

        Lynn Sharp Paine is a Baker Foundation Professor and John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration, Emerita, at Harvard Business School. A member and former chair of the General Management unit, she has served in numerous leadership positions including Senior... View Details

        • 02 Aug 2022
        • Research & Ideas

        6 Strategies for Building Socially Responsible—and Profitable—Companies

        A dozen years ago, Harvard Business School Professor George Serafeim wondered why some companies operated with an eye toward the greater good, while most did not. Back then, he always got the same response: Corporate leaders thought social and environmental practices... View Details
        Keywords: by Lane Lambert
        • October 2021 (Revised December 2021)
        • Case

        Customer-Centric Design with Artificial Intelligence: Commonwealth Bank

        By: Karim R. Lakhani, Yael Grushka-Cockayne, Jin Hyun Paik and Steven Randazzo
        As Commonwealth Bank (CommBank) CEO Matt Comyn delivered the full financial year results in August 2021 over videoconference, it took less than two minutes for him to make his first mention of the organization's Customer Engagement Engine (CEE), the AI-driven customer... View Details
        Keywords: Artificial Intelligence; Customer-centricity; Banks and Banking; Customer Focus and Relationships; Technological Innovation; Transformation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance; AI and Machine Learning; Financial Services Industry; Australia
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        • June 2022
        • Article

        The Use and Misuse of Patent Data: Issues for Finance and Beyond

        By: Josh Lerner and Amit Seru
        Patents and citations are powerful tools for understanding innovation increasingly used in financial economics (and management research more broadly). Biases may result, however, from the interactions between the truncation of patents and citations and the changing... View Details
        Keywords: Patents; Analytics and Data Science; Corporate Finance; Research
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        • 25 Feb 2013
        • Research & Ideas

        Lean Strategy Not Just for Start-Ups

        Lean start-up strategies aren't just for start-ups anymore. That was the key message that Intuit cofounder Scott Cook (HBS MBA '76) shared in a small seminar with Harvard Business School faculty recently. Since its launch in 1983, the View Details
        Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
        • 29 Aug 2006
        • First Look

        First Look: August 29, 2006

          Working PapersInternational Financial Integration and Entrepreneurship Authors:Laura Alfaro and Andrew Charlton Abstract We explore the relation between international financial integration and the level of... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • July 2016
        • Article

        Kicking Off Social Entrepreneurship: How A Sustainability Orientation Influences Crowdfunding Success

        By: Goran Calic and Elaine Mosakowski
        Research generally suggests that, relative to commercial entrepreneurs, social entrepreneurs stand at a disadvantage at acquiring resources through traditional financial institutions. Yet interest in social entrepreneurship appears to be at an all-time high. The... View Details
        Keywords: Crowdfunding; Entrepreneurial Finance; Social Entrepreneurship; Capital; Environmental Sustainability
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          Allison H. Mnookin

          Allison Mnookin is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Management (TOM) Unit at the Harvard Business School.  She currently is the co-chair of the first-year MBA Technology and Operations Management course. In addition, she... View Details

          • November 2023
          • Case

          Will Fintechs and Central Banks Play in Emtech's Sandbox?

          By: Daniel Isenberg and William R. Kerr
          In February 2023, Emtech’s founder Carmelle Cadet is facing a dilemma. Rapidly running out of cash, Cadet has a term sheet from a leading VC but has a choice of how to structure the investment. The decision will have significant implications for Cadet’s own stake, as... View Details
          Keywords: Cryptocurrency; Business Startups; Venture Capital; Cash Flow; Currency; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Digital Platforms
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          • November 2006 (Revised June 2007)
          • Case

          Centre Partners - American Seafoods 2003

          Centre Partners, a leading private equity firm, is contemplating ways to realize liquidity from its successful investment in American Seafoods Corp., Inc. An apparently innovative solution is developed, which calls for issuing Income Deposit Securities. Does this... View Details
          Keywords: Private Equity; Financial Liquidity; Capital Structure; Financial Services Industry
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          • 2020
          • Book

          Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments

          By: Stefan Thomke
          Don’t fly blind. See how the power of experiments works for you. When it comes to improving customer experiences, trying out new business models, or developing new products, even the most experienced managers often get it wrong. They discover that intuition,... View Details
          Keywords: Experimentation; Experiments; Market Research; Innovation and Invention; Innovation and Management; Customers; Research
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