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- 01 Sep 2006
- News
Street Singer
apparent, however, is her passion and drive, whether she’s describing a recent IPO, her work with the Food Bank for New York City, or her relationship with God. Whatever the topic, her words come thick and fast, demonstrating the... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Launch Codes
Pak (MBA 2015) founding member and CMO at Blueland; Alumni track winner, 2019 Forget the Past Sebastian Monroy (MBA 2018) and I launched Zubale as a marketplace to connect independent contractors to consumer goods companies in need of merchandising help. And while we... View Details
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
managed. Firms in developing countries, such as Brazil, China, and India tend to be poorly managed. American retail firms and hospitals are also well managed by international standards, although American schools are more poorly managed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
are the best managed. Firms in developing countries, such as Brazil, China, and India, tend to be poorly managed. American retail firms and hospitals are also well managed by international standards, although American schools are more... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Career Coach
Annette Rodriguez-Ferrer
private-equity backed and high-growth companies. Work Experience: Private Equity (Warburg Pincus, JPMorgan Partners, founded MKH Capital Partners), Investment Banking (Goldman Sachs), Independent Consulting. View Details
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- 10 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 10
through the intermediary. We show that this leads to inflated retail prices, excessive adoption of the intermediaries' services, over-investment in benefits to buyers, and a reduction in consumer surplus and sometimes welfare. Competition... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
30-year customer of Filene's Basement, a retailer offering fashion goods at discounted prices, who was eventually fired by the firm. The case traces how company actions taken in the name of customer relationship management (CRM)... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
High Honors
a few hundred case studies, a lightbulb lit up. “It was in an HBS classroom that I first considered starting my own company,” says Mikitani, who, at 47, is one of Japan’s youngest and most successful entrepreneurs. In 1997, after considerable success at the Industrial... View Details
- Research Summary
Overview
Allie's research focuses on diversity, gender, and knowledge within organizations. View Details
- 18 Feb 2014
- First Look
First Look: February 18
market funds, we show that funds with large exposures to risky Eurozone banks suffered significant outflows between June and August 2011. Due to credit market frictions, these outflows have significant spillover effects on other firms:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
first of a series of highly successful projects that established GE Money Bank as a leader in the Swiss credit card market. The business concept was to cooperate with the country's leading retailer MIGROS to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 24 Jul 2019
- Lessons from the Classroom
Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?
policymaking. Companies have long used behavioral economics but have more recently begun to create these types of teams to be more systematic about it. Banks around the world, including Fidelity, Lloyds in the UK, Commonwealth View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 30 Jun 2009
- First Look
First Look: June 30
(July-August 2009) Abstract What if the current recession turns out to be like the Great Depression of 1929-1933? Four years from now, the United States might find itself with a still-shrinking economy, half as many banks as in 2009, a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Seven Honored with Alumni Achievement Award
have been primary figures in Brazil’s economic development for more than thirty years. In 1971, Lemann founded Banco de Investimentos Garantia and soon recruited Sicupira and Telles to join what would become the most successful investment View Details
Keywords: Susan Young; awards; fishing; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade; Retail Trade
- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
the banking sector, which is one reason for the disproportionately high impact on America’s small businesses, which tend to be heavily credit dependent. While some aspects of the economy have recovered in the years since, small businesses... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 29 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Merging the Worlds of Finance, Investing, and Environmental Impact
energy investment group. Those two seemingly separate worlds coalesced into one; I was able to use the tool kit I’d built over the years from my private sector experience in consulting and traditional banking in a space where I felt I was... View Details
- 16 Jul 2024
- Op-Ed
Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty
incident, but then, under the aggressive leadership of John Stumpf and consumer banking head Carrie Tolstedt, the company created 3.3 million fictious consumer accounts. This led to Stumpf’s forced retirement and his replacement by COO... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
- 25 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy
financing, new lenders are given priority in the capital structure. This is a critical incentive because it spurs banks and other creditors to lend to companies in Chapter 11 by giving them senior status, effectively letting them stand in... View Details
- July 2024
- Case
Jacqueline Cook at Vendasta: Debating an IPO
By: Reza Satchu, Tom Quinn and Andrew Kosc
In May 2021, after a surge in demand for digital services that prompted high valuations for startups across the Canadian tech sector, Saskatchewan-based Vendasta entered the final stages of the initial public offering (IPO) process. COO Jacqueline Cook had invested her... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Interpersonal Communication; Cost vs Benefits; Forecasting and Prediction; Business Cycles; Entrepreneurship; Fairness; Capital Markets; Private Equity; Investment Banking; Stock Options; Financial Markets; Initial Public Offering; Institutional Investing; Price Bubble; Digital Platforms; Digital Transformation; Internet and the Web; Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Managerial Roles; Agreements and Arrangements; Going Public; Ownership Stake; Performance Expectations; Work-Life Balance; Strategic Planning; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Rank and Position; Risk and Uncertainty; Opportunities; Happiness; Reputation; Status and Position; Well-being; Retail Industry; Retail Industry; Canada
Satchu, Reza, Tom Quinn, and Andrew Kosc. "Jacqueline Cook at Vendasta: Debating an IPO." Harvard Business School Case 825-037, July 2024.
- 15 Nov 2020
- News
Global Outposts Expand HBS’s Intellectual Footprint
collection, a unique research and teaching resource that comprises more than 140 videos of HBS faculty interviewing business leaders from Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. The five new videos feature South African business leaders in the View Details