Occupy Wall Street - Publications - Faculty & Research

11 Aug 2021
Blog Post

The Equity Network: How HBS Helped Me Launch a Tech-Enabled Social Enterprise

open doors and set me up for success. Networks are critical in providing exposure and access to opportunities — and without them, I would never have broken into or thrived in Wall Street or Silicon Valley as... View Details

08 Oct 2008
Research & Ideas

Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency

create the sense of urgency needed to perform better. An example. At a major European retailer, margins were shrinking year after year because fashionable boutiques were taking its top-of-the-line business, and discounters were taking away its low-end business. Then... View Details

Keywords: by John P. Kotter

22 Aug 2022
Research & Ideas

Can Amazon Remake Health Care?

At a time when health care providers have gone all in on telemedicine, Amazon, the world’s biggest online retailer, surprised Wall Street in late July when it announced it would acquire 1Life Healthcare... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette; Health

12 Mar 2021
News

My Favorite Case

entrepreneurial culture relative to its Wall Street counterparts, but competition in the investment banking industry is intensifying in 1997 due to a wave of mega-mergers. The new combined banking entities... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

10 Aug 2009
Research & Ideas

High Commitment, High Performance Management

employees. They know who they will not serve, businesses they will not be in, and activities they will not engage. They do not pursue profit for its own sake if it means getting into areas that are outside their defined distinctive capabilities. The disaster on View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

Companies’ Response to Covid-19 (Harvard Business Review) What Quarantine Can Teach You About Spending and Happiness (Wall Street Journal) Read COVID-19 coverage from Working Knowledge [In terms of the businesses most impacted by... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

21 Feb 2005
Op-Ed

Is Business Management a Profession?

individuals. In response to the recent scandals, politicians and government officials have stepped in to pass new laws and create new regulations, while prominent persons on Wall Street and elsewhere in the... View Details

Keywords: by Rakesh Khurana, Nitin Nohria & Daniel Penrice

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Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

We Fail to Do What's Right and What to Do about It with Ann E. Tenbrunsel (Princeton University Press, 2011). Deepak Malhotra : Chosen by students in both 2011 and 2012 to give the Harvard Business School "Best of EC Year" speech to graduating MBA students. Deepak... View Details

Profile

Sebastian Velasco

pursuing capital, debt management. She took me on business trips to New York City; I got to know what the business world was like." The combination of his mother's influence and their business trips together led to Sebastian's first big ambition: to work on View Details

Keywords: Financial Services

01 Jun 2024
News

Firm Foundation

as reported in the Wall Street Journal. Kanbrick took a majority stake in the patented boat-covering system Marine Concepts and established a dealer network across the Southeast. Since acquiring JM Test... View Details

Keywords: Janelle Nanos; private equity; Warren Buffett; career path; investment strategy; family business; Finance

01 Jul 2015
Research & Ideas

A Bank That Takes Parmesan as Collateral: The Cheese Stands a Loan

used his soybean oil inventory as collateral for huge loans from several Wall Street banks. Inspectors regularly conducted inventory checks, but the tanks contained mostly water, with just enough oil... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Food & Beverage

02 Aug 2021
Research & Ideas

What If Closing the Wage Gap Means Everyone Earns Less?

bargaining power, the paper finds. Takeaways for executives and employees The Wall Street Journal reported in June that Johnson & Johnson, McKesson, and CBRE stated in job postings for remote workers... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman

05 Jul 2021
What Do You Think?

Do Companies Really Need Chief Experience Officers to Know Their Customers?

School Press, 2003), p. 74. Katie Deighton, “Some Chief Experience Officers Want to Make Their Jobs Disappear,” The Wall Street Journal, June 23, 2021. James L. Heskett, W. Earl Sasser, Jr., and Leonard A.... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

30 May 2023
News

Finding PRIDE

environment, which was almost suffocating. Some of it may have been misperceived, because it was a fairly conservative, Wall Street crowd, and I didn’t see anyone out and proud. It felt like we were an... View Details

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

26 Nov 2001
Op-Ed

Why Corporate Budgeting Needs To Be Fixed

board members and Wall Street analysts. Even boards of directors are drawn into the fray, as they end up endorsing deceptive reports to shareholders. Sometimes, outright fraud ensues, as we've seen recently... View Details

Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen

01 Aug 1998
News

High Honors

Business Administration, Emeritus Alumni Achievement Awards Ralph M. Barford (MBA '52) President, Valleydene Corporation Limited Chairman, GSW Inc. Despite occupying diverse industry sectors, several of Canada's best-known blue-chip... View Details

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Commercialization of the Polarizer - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

for an enterprise dedicated to the intersection of science and art. Public and professional recognition propelled the work of Land-Wheelwright Laboratories to the attention of Wall Street. In 1937, with major investments from James P.... View Details

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Harvard Business School

joining MLB, Mariner served as executive vice president and CFO of the Florida Marlins. Stan O'Neal MBA 1978 Stan O'Neal rose through the ranks of corporate America to become the first African American to head a major firm on Wall View Details

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Sustainable Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

the Wall Street Journal . These issues are more relevant than ever and top of mind for many of the companies I work for as a consultant. They continue to inform my own personal worldview of capitalism, and... View Details

15 Oct 2007
Research & Ideas

Businesses Beware: The World Is Not Flat

Thomas Friedman, author of "The World Is Flat: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century", opines that a number of events ranging from the fall of the Berlin Wall to the rise of the Internet have flattened the competitive... View Details