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  • 22 Sep 2014
  • Op-Ed

Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business

tested if incumbent players decide to target the market gaps and new approaches themselves. Traditional large banks and credit card companies have access to three types of... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking; Banking
  • January 2025
  • Case

North Forty: Managing Liquidity Through Change

By: Luis M. Viceira and Brad Towne
This case explores the interaction between spending and investment decisions at a family office, specifically the family office of Jeff and Tricia Raikes, with special emphasis on the management of spending, portfolio investments, and asset liquidity in the presence of... View Details
Keywords: Family Office; Forecasting and Prediction; Asset Management; Financial Liquidity; Financial Strategy; Investment Portfolio; Spending; Planning
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Viceira, Luis M., and Brad Towne. "North Forty: Managing Liquidity Through Change." Harvard Business School Case 225-061, January 2025.
  • 02 Jan 2014
  • Blog Post

Preparing for a career in investment banking

terms of sharing each other’s concerns and giving feedback. I am also very lucky because there is a good troop of people in Section F who are going through what I am going through. After all, it’s always the... View Details
  • 11 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Why Budgeting Kills Your Company

The average billion-dollar company spends as many as 25,000 person-days per year putting together the budget. If this all paid off in shareholder return, that would be fine. But few organizations can make that claim. In fact, many firms... View Details
Keywords: by Loren Gary
  • 21 Jun 2022
  • HBS Case

Free Isn’t Always Better: How Slack Holds Its Own Against Microsoft Teams

When COVID-19 forced companies to send employees home two years ago, newly remote workers largely reconnected on two collaboration apps: Slack and Microsoft Teams. The pandemic propelled Slack beyond its core following in the technology... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Information Technology; Technology
  • 28 Aug 2019
  • Blog Post

Know Your Audience: Recruiting HBS Students for Investment Banking

the presentation includes engaging speakers and rich content that can’t be found on the company website, presentations can still be a great way to connect with students. If you would like to hold a... View Details
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Banking System - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Source: Flow of Funds Banking Sector Balance Sheet Source: Bank Holding Company Y9C Data Source: View Details
  • 08 Mar 2021
  • In Practice

COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace. What Should Companies Do Now?

A year ago, COVID-19 forced many companies to send employees home—often with a laptop and a prayer. Now, with COVID cases subsiding and vaccinations rising, the prospect of returning to old office routines appears more possible. But will employees want to flock back to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 02 Aug 2021
  • What Do You Think?

Can Companies with Remote Management Succeed?

in the office together.” "Just how large an organization can get while still being managed remotely in an effective way is a question." I assume that Matt Mullenweg, founder of Automattic, the parent View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 22 Sep 2008
  • Research & Ideas

The Silo Lives! Analyzing Coordination and Communication in Multiunit Companies

Although many companies aspire to promote easy interaction and coordination across departments, office locations, and pay scales, the "boundaryless" organization—like the paperless office—hasn't... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 30 Oct 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Tuning Jobs to Fit Your Company

Executives must adjust the span of control for each key position and unit on the basis of how the company delivers value to customers. Consider Wal-Mart, which has configured... View Details
Keywords: by Robert Simons
  • 05 May 2022
  • HBS Case

College Degrees: The Job Requirement Companies Seek, but Don't Really Need

than 70 percent of Black, Latinx, and rural workers from landing jobs, even though they may have the actual skills to do the required work. Many companies rely on machine learning algorithms that... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
  • 01 Mar 2006
  • News

The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could

friend persuaded him to apply to HBS, where he arrived in the fall of 1966, newly married and with a razor-thin bank account. “When the oilman came to the door with the bill after filling the tank, we’d hide... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 01 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

Taken together, they suggest there are three critical hurdles or challenges that management faces in any restructuring program: 1. Design. What type of restructuring is appropriate for dealing with the specific challenge, problem, or... View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
  • 14 Dec 2010
  • Op-Ed

Tax US Companies to Spur Spending

holdings--estimates of the amount held by US public corporations easily exceed $1 trillion; several technology companies alone are sitting on cash balances in excess of $20... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai
  • 02 Apr 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Digital Initiative Summit: Companies Must Forget—and Borrow

established organizations are wise to consider radically new approaches that address changing needs of consumers in today's digital age. Yet companies should be wary of the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education; Advertising
  • 16 Nov 2021
  • HBS Case

How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves

year, a 49-year-old technician at the same company stabbed himself in front of his colleagues after learning he had been demoted. Between 2006 and 2009, at least 19 France Télécom employees took their own... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 21 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Gender and Competition: What Companies Need to Know

trouble being promoted in certain work environments, and hold a tiny percentage of top corporate management positions. According to a 2010 report from research firm Catalyst, among Fortune 500 companies,... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • 23 Jun 2023
  • HBS Case

This Company Lets Employees Take Charge—Even with Life and Death Decisions

co-author of the case, asks his students whether other companies could export Buurtzorg’s lessons to their industries. “In our case discussions, the students—whether MBAs or executives—don’t write-off... View Details
Keywords: by Annelena Lobb; Health
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Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s... View Details
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