by Mark Mortensen - Publications - Faculty & Research

November 2019 (Revised December 2019)
Case

Marcus by Goldman Sachs

By: Rory McDonald, Samir Junnarkar and David Lane

Five years on from the 2008 financial crisis, Goldman Sachs remained wounded. Revenues at the global investment bank had stagnated below pre-crisis levels, and the firm had yet to rebound from a substantial decline in securities-trading revenues. Marcus by Goldman... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Entrepreneurship; Banks and Banking; Innovation Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Organizational Culture; Financial Services Industry; United Kingdom

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01 Oct 2021
News

Marking 10-Year Connection with Japanese Earthquake Region

With the help of HBS’s Japan Research Center, Professor Hirotaka Takeuchi hosted a virtual reunion to mark the 10-year anniversary of an annual Immersive Field Course in Japan. A decade ago, a group of 22 MBA students from Japan asked... View Details

09 Mar 2023
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Four Alumni Clubs Mark Milestone Year

alumni can reach out to the club's admin, Jason Schrank, at jason@hbsab.org. HBS Club of Dallas Marks 75th Anniversary Members of the HBS Club of Dallas visit the Silos at Magnolia After a full year of activities and events View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

02 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Managing the Open Source vs. Proprietary Decision

Editor's note: In their new book, The Comingled Code: Open Source and Economic Development, HBS professor Josh Lerner and London School of Economics professor Mark Schankerman look at the impact of open source software on economic... View Details

Keywords: by Josh Lerner & Mark Schankerman; Technology

18 Jan 2018
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Making a Mark in Multicultural Marketing

Sheila Marmon (MBA 1999) has built her career by breaking down barriers. The founder and CEO of Mirror Digital, a technology-enabled media and advertising company, Marmon has executed more than 350 interactive campaigns, connecting... View Details

01 Mar 2003
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California Research Center Marks Fifth Year

steering committee chairman Arthur Rock (MBA ’51), CRC executive director Christina L. Darwall (MBA ’75) and her staff wrote a mock case about Rock, a legendary founding father of the venture capital industry. Rock, who was presented with the framed case View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

March 2002
Book Review

Book Review of 'Cooperative Strategy: Economic, Business, and Organizational Issues,' edited by David Faulkner and Mark de Rond

By: Gautam Ahuja

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27 Mar 2018
News

In The Wake Of The Cambridge Analytica Scandal, Should Mark Zuckerberg Resign?

02 Dec 2014
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Did 2014 Mark The End Of Black Friday?

06 Nov 2014
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Harvard Business School Marks Completion of First Cohort of HBX CORe

01 Dec 2007
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Exhibit at Baker Library Marks HBS Centennial

Business School got a big break in 1928. That story is revealed in “The Human Relations Movement: Harvard Business School and the Hawthorne Experiments (1924–1933),” the first of several exhibitions in Baker Library marking the Centennial... View Details

Keywords: Elton Mayo; Fritz J. Roethlisberger; Telecommunications; Information

22 Aug 2005
Research & Ideas

The Hard Work of Failure Analysis

personal responsibility. Evidence of this problem is provided by a study of a large European telecoms company, which revealed that very little learning occurred from a set of large and small failures over a period of twenty years. Instead... View Details

Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon

27 Jun 2016
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Ulf Mark Schneider Has Plans to Make Nestlé Healthy

(photo: Associated Press) (photo: Associated Press) The appointment of Ulf Mark Schneider (MBA 1993) as CEO of Nestlé was a surprise, with a Swiss equities trader telling the Wall Street Journal that “an insider was expected.” Indeed, the... View Details

01 Sep 2009
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Class Day, Commencement Mark New Beginning for Newest Alumni

Class Day speaker Jamie Dimon (MBA ’82) Photos by Stuart Cahill Overcast skies, but no stormy washout: That bad news/good news scenario for last June’s Class Day ceremonies seemed to reflect the uncertain economy awaiting the School’s... View Details

Keywords: commencement; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

22 Mar 2022
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Clubs Mark a Milestone and the Lunar New Year

Clubs News Clubs News Houston Alumni celebrate 75 Years of Connection, Learning and Service The HBS Club of Houston marked its 75th anniversary on February 26 with a cocktail party at the River Oaks Country Club in Houston. More than 65... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

20 Dec 2006
Op-Ed

Investors Hurt by Dual-Track Tax Reporting

Since when do the taxman and the shareholder agree? IRS Commissioner Mark Everson and SEC Chairman Christopher Cox (HBS MBA '76) have advanced a simple, but controversial proposal. Companies would be required to disclose how much they pay... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir Desai

01 Sep 2011
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MBA 101: HBS Commencements Pass the Century Mark

Malhotra. Pictured at lower right are this year’s Leadership Fellows. Photographs by Russ Campbell Every new day is a good day for Kathy Giusti (MBA ’85) since that morning in 1996 when her oncologist took her hand, looked her in the eye,... View Details