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  • 07 Dec 2016
  • HBS Case

Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing

competitive with someone who is personally advising you, and at a fraction of the cost,” says Luis Viceira, George E. Bates Professor and Senior Associate Dean for International Development at Harvard Business School. Viceira explores... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • 02 Jul 2014
  • What Do You Think?

Are Today’s Business Heroes Challenging Our Ideas About Leadership?

Waterman), Level 5 Leadership (described by Jim Collins as centered around personal humility and professional will), servant leadership (defined by Robert Greenleaf in terms of service to others as a... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 2023
  • Book

Deeply Responsible Business.: A Global History of Values-Driven Leadership

By: Geoffrey Jones
Corporate social responsibility has entered the mainstream, but what does it take to run a successful purpose-driven business? This book examines leaders who put values alongside profits to showcase the challenges and upside of deeply responsible business. Should... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Responsibility; Business Ecuation; Socially Responsible Investing; Business Education; Ethics; Leadership; Business History; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Religion; Social Enterprise; Social Issues; Wealth and Poverty; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Banking Industry; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Computer Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Education Industry; Fashion Industry; Financial Services Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; Green Technology Industry; Manufacturing Industry; Electronics Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; United Kingdom; Germany; United States; Japan; India; Latin America
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  • January 2009 (Revised October 2011)
  • Case

Barack Obama and the Bush Tax Cuts (A)

By: Matthew C. Weinzierl and Eric D. Werker
As his inauguration approached, President-elect Obama faced a financial sector meltdown, a costly bailout, and massive government deficits. With the economy in recession, interest rates near zero, and joblessness on the rise, Obama needed to decide whether, and how... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Crisis; Borrowing and Debt; Financial Management; Policy; Government Administration; Taxation; United States
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  • 26 Jul 2004
  • Research & Ideas

A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward

Here's another bit of conventional wisdom on proper sequencing: "Get your own house in order first." Yet this was not the path that President George H. W. Bush followed in preparing for the first Gulf War. Instead of approaching... View Details
Keywords: by James K. Sebenius
  • 16 Jun 2015
  • First Look

First Look: June 16, 2015

  Publications June 2015 Review of Accounting Studies Speaking of the Short-Term: Disclosure Horizon and Managerial Myopia By: Brochet, Francois, Maria Loumioti, and George Serafeim Abstract—We study conference calls as a voluntary... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 May 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Intellectual History of Harvard Business School

created, developed, and refined at HBS during the past century. The second was to illustrate the variety of ways in which those ideas have influenced students, the business world, and the academy. And the third was to encourage future innovation View Details
Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow; Education
  • 20 Aug 2019
  • News

Should a Pension Fund Try to Change the World?

    Ranjay Gulati

    Ranjay Gulati is the Paul R. Lawrence MBA Class of 1942 Professor of Business Administration and the former Unit Head of the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School. He is an expert on leadership, strategy, and organizational issues... View Details

    Keywords: biotechnology; computer; financial services; industrial goods; information technology industry; pharmaceuticals; professional services; retailing

      DISCOVER YOUR TRUE NORTH

      The Leadership Classic, Discover Your True North, expanded for today's leaders

      Discover Your True North is the best-selling leadership classic that enables you to become an authentic leader by discovering your True North.... View Details

      • 12 Oct 1999
      • Research & Ideas

      Paid for Success: Options for Compensating CEOs

      When large public companies perform poorly, do the CEOs running them share the financial pain? That question, according to HBS associate professor Brian Hall, is not answered by looking at their salary and bonus but rather View Details
      Keywords: by Judith A. Ross
      • 23 Jul 2001
      • Research & Ideas

      How the Giants of Enterprise Seized the Future

      want to congratulate you on being the richest man in the world." He had come a long way from $1.20 a week. Not every giant of enterprise started life with a clear idea of where he was heading. When George Eastman was forced to enter... View Details
      Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow
      • 24 Jul 2000
      • Research & Ideas

      Something Ventured, Something Gained: A European View of Venture Capital

      1946, when the late Georges Doriot, a long-time and legendary member of the HBS faculty, founded American Research and Development as a willing and able source of financing for the new ventures that were coming to life just after World... View Details
      Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Financial Services
      • 15 Apr 2014
      • First Look

      First Look: April 15

      Firm Competitiveness and Detection of Bribery By: Serafeim, George Abstract—Using survey data from firms around the world I analyze how detection of bribery has impacted a firm's competitiveness over the past year. Managers report that... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • March 2022 (Revised November 2022)
      • Case

      When Should CEOs Speak Out Publicly? The 2021 Georgia Voting Law

      By: William W. George, Hubert Joly and Amram Migdal
      This case describes the March 2021 passage of a voting and elections law in the U.S. state of Georgia and reactions by corporations and corporate leaders to the law. Included are a brief history of voting rights in the United States and Georgia and an overview of the... View Details
      Keywords: Voting Rights; CEO Activism; Communication; Communication Intention and Meaning; Communication Strategy; Forms of Communication; Announcements; Spoken Communication; Decision Making; Judgments; Voting; Demographics; Nationality; Race; Geography; Geographic Location; Geopolitical Units; Country; Government and Politics; Government Administration; Government Legislation; Political Elections; History; Law; Laws and Statutes; Rights; Leadership; Leadership Style; Management; Management Skills; Relationships; Business and Community Relations; Business and Government Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Social Psychology; Status and Position; Society; Civil Society or Community; Culture; Public Opinion; Social Issues; Societal Protocols; United States; Georgia (state, US)
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      • 12 Apr 2011
      • First Look

      First Look: April 12

      Handbook for Banking and Governance, edited by James Barth, Chen Lin, and Clas Wihlborg. Cheltenham, U.K.: Edward Elgar Publishing, forthcoming Abstract In this chapter, we examine the characteristics of acquisition of private firms View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • February 2017 (Revised March 2017)
      • Case

      Link REIT

      By: Siddharth Yog
      Publicly listed in November 2005, Link REIT was the first real estate investment trust (REIT) in Hong Kong after the Hong Kong government decided to privatize a portfolio of community shopping malls, car parks, and fresh produce markets. Run by CEO George Hongchoy, the... View Details
      Keywords: Hong Kong; REIT; Real Estate; Retail; Government; China; Housing; Public Company; Strategic Planning; Expansion; Public Equity; Real Estate Industry; Hong Kong; China
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      • 02 Oct 2012
      • First Look

      First Look: October 2

      Publications Corporate Social Responsibility and Access to Finance Authors: Beiting Cheng, Ioannis Ioannou, and George Serafeim Publication: Strategic Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract In this paper, we investigate whether... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 19 May 2015
      • First Look

      First Look: May 19

      virtual currency including electronic payments. Since its inception in 2009 by an anonymous group of developers, Bitcoin has served tens of millions of transactions with total dollar value in the billions. Users have been drawn to Bitcoin... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 06 Aug 2020
      • Blog Post

      WHY WE STARTED THE HBS BLACK INVESTMENT CLUB

      INSPIRED BY RECENT EVENTS The protests against the unjust murders of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, Breonna Taylor, and countless others since have mobilized the nation to take a stand in support of the Black... View Details
      Keywords: All Industries