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  • 01 May 2020
  • Blog Post

5 Reasons to Join a Club at HBS

summer and introducing RCs (first-year students). Connected by our identities, PRIDE became more than a community on campus for me: it became my family. PRIDE members often lean on each other for help with everything from navigating relationships to building View Details
  • April 2021 (Revised July 2021)
  • Case

Public Equities Impact Investing at BlackRock

By: Shawn A. Cole, Vikram S. Gandhi, Michael Norris and John Masko
In early 2021, BlackRock—the world’s largest asset manager with $9 trillion in assets under management (AUM)—sought to become a leader in promoting environmental and social sustainability. Over the previous ten years, CEO Larry Fink had written an annual open letter to... View Details
Keywords: Impact Investing; Renewable Energy; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Equity; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Financial Management; Investment Funds; Investment Return; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Financial Services Industry; United States
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  • December 2007
  • Case

The Campaign for Bank Insurance in Antebellum New York

By: David A. Moss and Cole Bolton
The New York State Legislature had come to a standstill in 1829 as lawmakers refused to charter any new banks or recharter any existing banks. Four of New York's forty banks had failed since 1825, and many legislatures believed that a significant change in the banking... View Details
Keywords: History; Risk Management; Government Legislation; Insurance; Decision Choices and Conditions; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry
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  • 06 Jan 2021
  • Blog Post

My HBS Student Loan Story: Gorick Ng (MBA 2018)

MBA, you are likely thinking about what repayment might look like post-graduation. HBS graduates pursue careers in a variety of industries and positions around the world. With a median starting salary of $148,750, and median signing bonus... View Details
  • Web

Clubs & Consulting | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

recommendations for review. Projects run from October to April. If you think your organization could benefit from the services of our club, please see our FAQ for more info and complete the interest form by September 2. Created by Harbus... View Details
  • Profile

Cait Haught

finance." Yet Cait didn't neglect her desire for social impact. She created a partnership with Citizen Schools, a Boston afterschool program, to bring in outside experts who "spoke to the students on topics they wouldn't learn in the classroom, like View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
  • Research Summary

Reinventing State Capitalism: Leviathan in Business, Brazil and Beyond

Part of the fear and misunderstanding of state capitalism in the post-Berlin Wall era stems from the fact that most observers see state-owned enterprises (SOEs) as inefficient soviet companies. In Reinventing State Capitalism: Leviathan in Business, Brazil and... View Details

Keywords: State Capitalism; State-owned Enterprises; Development Banks; State Ownership; Development Economics; Management; Energy Industry; Energy Industry; Brazil; China; Europe; Latin America; Asia
  • March 2011
  • Case

Terror at the Taj Bombay: Customer-Centric Leadership

By: Rohit Deshpande
On November 26, 2008, heavily armed terrorists launched a series of attacks throughout the western-Indian city of Mumbai (formerly Bombay). One of the locations attacked was the Taj Mahal Palace and Tower, which was occupied by the terrorists for over three days,... View Details
Keywords: Safety; Leadership; National Security; Service Delivery; Organizational Culture; Crisis Management; Customer Focus and Relationships; Brands and Branding; Accommodations Industry; Mumbai
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  • Web

Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Received the Robert F. Greenhill Award for Outstanding Service to the HBS Community in 2020. Lauren H. Cohen : Winner of the 2020 Best Paper Prize in Quantitative Investments at the Annual Meeting of the 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 the very same articles. Without... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 8, 2015

forward. The Turkish banking industry was undergoing a transformation prompted by the demands of the country's digitally savvy, young population, and by new regulations on consumer banking that threatened banks' profitability. Akbank had... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Feb 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How To Do Business in Islamic Countries

"For instance, if you invested in an Islamic mutual fund, among those industries which would be barred from representation as funds would be the gambling industry. But gambling also relates to futures; it relates to currency hedging;... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • April 2005 (Revised January 2006)
  • Case

Protege Partners: The Capacity Challenge

By: Randolph B. Cohen
In February 2005, Jeffrey Tarrant (HBS '85) and Ted Seides (HBS '99) considered their strategy for Protege Partners, founded in July 2002 as a fund of hedge funds (FOHF) specializing in small hedge funds. Protege's assets under management had grown to $1.1 billion, and... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business Growth and Maturation; Investment Funds; Financial Services Industry
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  • 11 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Why Budgeting Kills Your Company

of contract. "And there are usually financial incentives attached: Career prospects and bonuses ride on this contract—incentives for hitting the targets amount to as much as 97 percent of a U.S. manager's annual salary. "There's... View Details
Keywords: by Loren Gary
  • February 1993 (Revised November 1998)
  • Case

Statements of Cash Flows: Three Examples

By: William J. Bruns Jr. and Julie H. Hertenstein
This case introduces the statement of cash flow through three examples of multi-year statements of cash flows from three unidentified companies. View Details
Keywords: History; Venture Capital; Financial Management; Activity Based Costing and Management; Investment; Financial Statements; Cash Flow; Financing and Loans; Accounting Industry; Accounting Industry; United States
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  • 30 May 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Six Steps for Making Your Threat Credible

threat lack credibility, but you also have no way of changing course if the situation becomes dire. 3. Visibly incur sunk costs Suppose you are negotiating with a consulting firm to renew its contract to provide information technology (IT) View Details
Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra
  • 01 Dec 2019
  • News

Remix

community after their respective accusations against Clarence Thomas and Mike Tyson. It’s one of the factors that helps explain why women of color report sexual assault at rates far below that of white women and a major force behind Dixon’s decision to leave the View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Chris Sorensen; #MeToo; DefJam; Arts, Entertainment
  • 07 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 7

tracks the performance of the 10 highest yielding stocks of the 30 stocks that make up the Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA). The case provides share price data, dividend data, and financial statement data... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Leadership - Health Care

school board. Krys Mroczkowski Associate Director, Health Care Initiative Krys is responsible for programming and content related to health care delivery and services for MBAs, alumni and faculty. He is passionate about reforming health... View Details
  • 09 Jan 2020
  • Book

Rethinking Business Strategy in the Age of AI

control specialists. A lot of people think of this as disruption, like the taxi industry is being disrupted by Uber. It’s not disruption. Rather, it’s a completely different kind of firm. This hasn’t happened in more than 100 years. Firms... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman