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08 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 8, 2008

economic distress, or did it just bail out foreign investors and prepare the way for Wall Street to up buy Korean banks and firms? Had Korea's long move toward democracy helped or hindered government efforts to reform its economic... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Feb 1997
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Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS

Raymond James Financial (RJF) is a diversified, publicly traded financial services holding company, including asset management and investment banking services, with some 800 offices nationwide and revenues close to $725 million for the... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry and Susan Young; profiles by Garry Emmons

15 Dec 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books

By Ken Wilcox (MBA 1983) Wiley The former CEO of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), Ken Wilcox shares the firsthand challenges encountered in his four years of trying to establish a joint venture between SVB and the Chinese government to fund... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

20 Dec 2022
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Singing to the Corn

health through the cultivation of local, fresh food. Outside of Syracuse, New York, Braiding the Sacred includes a refrigerated seed bank of more than 4,000 varieties of corn. When Keen asked if the group had any Omaha Rainbow Flint corn,... View Details

01 Feb 1997
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Doing It Your Way

element comes in," explains Ghosh, "with the software validating the person's credit information through electronic links with banks around the country, while at the same time protecting that card number from being accessed by anyone... View Details

Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso (profiles by Linda Goodspeed, Elaine Gottlieb, Nancy O. Perry, and Judith A. Ross)

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A Message from Dean Srikant Datar | About

individuals like Ken Frazier, the CEO of Merck, Ken Chenault, the former CEO of American Express and currently at General Catalyst, Doug McMillon, the current CEO of Walmart, Brian Moynihan, the current CEO of Bank of America, Lisa Skeete... View Details

01 Jun 1999
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Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

sum that surpasses the nation's bank deposits. As the industry flourished, more and more financial services firms, offering a plethora of products, joined the fray. An expert on competition in the mutual fund industry, HBS professor Peter... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

2011
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Strategic Change and the Jazz Mindset: Exploring Practices That Enhance Dynamic Capabilities for Organizational Improvisation

By: Ethan S. Bernstein and Frank J. Barrett

How can leaders adopt a mindset that maximizes learning, remains responsive to short-term emergent opportunities, and simultaneously strengthens longer-term dynamic capabilities of the organization? This chapter explores the organizational decisions and practices... View Details

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08 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 8

Barclays Bank, 2008 In the midst of the financial crisis, Barclays (the world's 4th largest bank by assets) is forced by UK regulators to raise more capital. Should it take up the UK government's offer to invest or take funding from... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2022
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Your Family, Your Work, Your Way

five continents, with clients ranging from top banks and law firms to Pfizer, Disney, and the US Air Force. A parent to two daughters, Dowling is also the author of Workparent: The Complete Guide to Succeeding on the Job, Staying True to... View Details

15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008

price in one month (European-style derivative). The students are essentially working on an equity derivatives desk at a large bank and are responsible for delivering a derivative payoff to a client. The desk has taken in a premium upfront... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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By: Geoffrey G. Jones

I currently teach the history of global entrepreneurship over the last 200 years. The 28-session course called Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism has become one of the most popular second year electives in the MBA program at the Harvard Business School. The cases,... View Details

04 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

join the European Monetary Union in 1999. With strong unions, weak competitiveness, and a legacy of socialism, it could not compete with north-European countries. After borrowing extensively to fund deficits, Portugal went into debt crisis in 2011 and had to borrow... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

18 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 18

https://hbr.org/product/pfizer-s-centers-for-therapeutic-innovation-cti/615024-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 215-027 Barclays Bank, 2008 In the midst of the financial crisis, Barclays (the world's fourth largest bank by assets) is... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Oct 2010
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First Look: October 13, 2010

education program has modest effects, increasing demand for bank accounts only for those with low levels of education or financial literacy. In contrast, small subsidies greatly increase demand. A follow-up survey confirms these findings,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 29, 2008

508-030 Supplements the (A) case. Purchase this supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=508030 Mayhem on Madison (A) Harvard Business School Case 208-067 In his first project, an aspiring property developer negotiates the development... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 May 2018
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Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area

managing partner of Ironwood Capital Partners; Ajmal Ahmady (MBA 2007), senior adviser on banking and finance to the President of Afghanistan; and Tariq Qureishy (GMP 3, 1998), CEO, futurist, and entrepreneur. The Harvard Crossroads event... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Jun 1997
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Blockbuster Deals

those who were usually called 'raiders' in the eighties - entrepreneurs who were putting their own money and reputations on the line." Jensen believes that most current mergers undertaken to reduce excess capacity and combine related services (such as the recent... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Nancy O. Perry

01 Dec 1998
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Africa's Way

Chris F. Liebenberg (100th AMP), chairman of Nedcor, a major South African banking group, and Michael Levett, chairman of Old Mutual, an insurance firm. Nedcor and Old Mutual are both diamond sponsors of the conference. Finally, an... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young and Garry Emmons

12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007

evidence from two large banking organizations, I argue that systematic variations in ERM practices exist in the financial services industry. The cases illustrate four risk management ideal types and show how they form the 'risk management... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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First Look: July 8, 2008

Shaping the Future of Business: Entrepreneurial Evolution at HBS

Alumni and Faculty Books

Singing to the Corn

Doing It Your Way

A Message from Dean Srikant Datar | About

Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

Strategic Change and the Jazz Mindset: Exploring Practices That Enhance Dynamic Capabilities for Organizational Improvisation

First Look: October 8

Your Family, Your Work, Your Way

First Look: July 15, 2008

Overview

New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

First Look: November 18

First Look: October 13, 2010

First Look: April 29, 2008

Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area

Blockbuster Deals

Africa's Way

First Look: February 12, 2007