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  • 21 Sep 2021
  • Cold Call Podcast

Why JPMorgan Chase Is Committed to Improving Racial Equity in Banking

Keywords: Re: Joseph L. Bower; Financial Services; Financial Services
  • Research Summary

Overview

Professor Sherman's research has long focused on financial reporting, performance measurement/management, and financial literacy issues facing corporate management and Boards of Directors in global businesses. He also actively studies methods to improve productivity in... View Details

    Shawn A. Cole

    Shawn Cole is the John G. McLean Professor in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches and conducts research on financial services, impact investing, and Social Enterprise. He serves as faculty chair of the Social Enterprise... View Details

    Keywords: financial services; financial services; financial services
    • 2003
    • Book

    Profits You Can Trust: Spotting and Surviving Accounting Landmines

    By: H. David Sherman, S. David Young and Harris Collingwood
    Profits You Can Trust gives managers, directors, lenders, audit partners and analysts a clear framework to demystify global financial reporting in a market fraught with danger. Filled with provocative and enlightening examples, it offers a fresh perspective and clear... View Details
    Keywords: Accounting; Corporate Finance; Economics; Financial Reporting
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    • November 2009 (Revised October 2010)
    • Case

    AME Learning Inc.

    By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Ann Leamon
    Justin Joffe is about to graduate from HBS in Spring 2009. He must decide whether to join his father's company, Toronto-based AME Learning, as president working alongside his father who will be CEO. AME has been in business for 12 years, mostly as a small consulting... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Family Business; Age; Private Equity; Financing and Loans; Growth and Development Strategy; Family and Family Relationships
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    • 03 Aug 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    Corporate Social Responsibility in a Downturn

    business sense? A: PNC [a financial services organization based in Pittsburgh] is an excellent example of how a business has focused on a cause that the company, its employees, and its customers deeply care about: early childhood... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • 10 Nov 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: Nov. 10

    http://hbr.harvardbusiness.org/2009/11/teach-workers-about-the-perils-of-debt/ar/1 Is It Fair to Blame Fair Value Accounting for the Financial Crisis? Author:Robert C. Pozen Publication:Harvard Business Review 87, no. 11 (November 2009)... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 2012
    • Working Paper

    Colonial Institutions, Trade Shocks, and the Diffusion of Elementary Education in Brazil, 1889–1930

    By: Aldo Musacchio, Andre Martinez-Fritscher and Martina Viarengo
    In this paper, we examine the role of trade shocks in promoting the diffusion of elementary education in subnational units in Brazil during a period (1889–1930) in which they had relative financial autonomy to collect export taxes and spend on public goods. The... View Details
    Keywords: History; Literacy; Voting; Education; Spending; Performance Improvement; Government and Politics; Brazil
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    • 07 Apr 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: April 7, 2009

    Debt literacy is measured by questions testing knowledge of fundamental concepts related to debt and by self-assessed financial knowledge. Financial experiences are the... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 24 Nov 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: Nov. 24

    and in contrast, such indirect costs appear relatively fixed in the face of sales declines in this industry. We discuss potential sources of these cost-structure patterns and their implications for cost management efforts as asset management firms move forward from the... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • Research Summary

    The Role of Institutions in Overcoming Imperfect Monitoring in Relational Contracting (with Carmit Segal)

    In a world in which firms can be hit by transitory adverse shocks it may be too costly for any single worker to verify the true state of the world. In this case, it may not be possible for firms to lower wages in response to adverse shocks and still have the workers... View Details
    • 23 Jun 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings

    consequences and likely future implications of their current decisions. Finally, my colleagues at D2D Fund are very excited about financial education initiatives where we are working with commercial video game developers to embed View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
    • 03 Mar 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: March 4, 2008

    financial advisors to make saving and investment decisions. Low literacy and lack of information affect the ability to save and to secure a comfortable retirement; ignorance about basic View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • Web

    Giving - Alumni

    Fund Help support student financial aid, faculty research, and other HBS priorities. Learn More Advancing the HBS Mission Learn how giving to HBS makes an impact through stories about two alumni who are improving View Details
    • Web

    Curriculum - Case Method Project

    Congressional investigation into the banking sector that took place in the depths of the Great Depression, amid intense public suspicion and anger toward leading financial institutions. It covers the first two years of Franklin Delano... View Details
    • 16 May 2023
    • HBS Case

    How KKR Got More by Giving Ownership to the Factory Floor: ‘My Kids Are Going to College!’

    company set up financial literacy workshops and tied dividends to ongoing financial performance. What makes an ownership mindset? But the payout seemed far off for many, and... View Details
    Keywords: by Avery Forman
    • 22 Apr 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: April 22

    Finance and Mathematics Courses By: Cole, Shawn, Anna Paulson, and Gauri Kartini Shastry Abstract—Financial literacy and cognitive capabilities are convincingly linked to the quality of financial... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    About - Business & Environment

    has led several successful finance projects that brought together the private and public sectors, large financial institutions, and multilateral organizations. In previous roles at HBS she wrote case studies on impact investing and... View Details
    • 07 Feb 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Digital Transformation: A New Roadmap for Success

    reported that digital transformation takes significant financial investment and time. Of those who reported making significant progress on their journey, 60 percent had been at it for at least five years. In calculating the resources,... View Details
    Keywords: by Linda A. Hill, Ann Le Cam, Sunand Menon, and Emily Tedards
    • Web

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