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Is AI Coming for Your Job?

AI has fundamentally shifted the nature of Wall Street trading. It determines credit scores for existing and potential customers, screens applicants, assists in hiring, responds in real-time to queries, and... View Details

15 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

GM: What Went Wrong and What’s Next

Publications: GM and the World We Have Lost June 3, 2009 - Boston Globe Richard Tedlow and David Ruben comment on the profound American loss that is the collapse of General Motors. How GM Wasted 'a Good Crisis' June 2, 2009 - Wall View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Auto

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

25 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy

Financial Times, the Wall Street Journal, and The Economist much more effectively than they could before. Those publications integrate macroeconomics with what we know about business and markets, often in... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

20 Feb 2017
Research & Ideas

Having No Life is the New Aspirational Lifestyle

costs Bill Gates $300 a second. What is your time worth?" And an ad campaign for The Wall Street Journal features celebrities including Tory Burch and Will.i.am reading the paper with the tagline,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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

11 Mar 2024
News

In Harmony

Whitehead (MBA 1947) and got the nod for an interview. “The VP who interviewed me kept asking about topics that had appeared in the Wall Street Journal,” says Kim, who assumed “journal” referred to a more... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photograph by Jun Michael Park

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Sustainable Business Strategy Course | HBS Online

leader or company wrestling with the same issues that we discussed in class on the front-page of the Wall Street Journal . These issues are more relevant than ever and top of mind for many of the companies I... 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