Wall Street - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

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

01 Jun 2024
News

Firm Foundation

Courtesy Tracy Britt Cool Courtesy Tracy Britt Cool Tracy Britt Cool (MBA 2009) has been playing the long game as long as she can remember. The former Berkshire Hathaway executive grew up in a family business: Her father was a third-generation farmer in Manhattan,... View Details

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

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

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

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

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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

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

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

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

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

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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

10 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

Globalization: The Strategy of Differences

Unfortunately, "local" didn't seem to be any better a description of Coke's market space than "global." On March 7, 2002, the Asian Wall Street Journal announced: "After two years of... View Details

Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat

04 Dec 2008
News

Auto CEOs Aren't Making Their Case

23 Mar 2009
News

The Myth of the Lone Star: Why One Top Performer May Not Shine as Brightly as You Hope

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

01 Aug 1998
News

High Honors

funds to support them. As these students search for role models, they would do well to look to their benefactor, who worked his way up from the streets of Brooklyn to the top of the business world. Ann M. Fudge (MBA '77) Executive Vice... View Details

13 Oct 2009
Research & Ideas

7 Lessons for Navigating the Storm

results—the next quarterly report and the rewards that come from short-term success—while ignoring their responsibilities to sustaining and building the company's long-term fiscal health. Ironically, it was the Wall View Details