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  • April 2014
  • Supplement

Ingrid Johnson: Reflections on Leading Change

By: Michael Tushman
This case discusses the issue of leading change at the business banking division of Nedbank, a prominent South African bank, between 2005 and 2009. (This timeframe, beginning just 11 years after Apartheid's end, covers Ingrid Johnson's leadership of this division... View Details
Keywords: Leading Change; Restructuring; Personal Development and Career; Commercial Banking; Banking Industry; South Africa
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  • Web

Buy Now, Pay Later: Introduction

instruments and institutions of twenty-first century credit—the installment plan, the credit card, and the home finance industry—are less than a century old. Yet credit itself is as old as commerce. “Buy Now, Pay Later: A History of View Details
  • 25 Oct 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The Dark Side of Fintech Borrowing

you're using the fintech personal loan for the right reason,” Di Maggio says. “This type of loan needs to be used as a consolidation tool or as a bridge loan to meet a specific, temporary need.” The loans should not be used to View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services; Banking
  • November 2020
  • Case

Truebird—An AlleyCorp Venture

By: Shikhar Ghosh and Shweta Bagai
In December 2018, Kevin Ryan and Wendy Tsu faced an important decision – to finalize the CEO candidate for Truebird, an innovative, automated coffee café concept. Like many of AlleyCorp and Ryan’s companies, Truebird started with the observation of an unmet need – an... View Details
Keywords: Startup; Hiring; Staffing; Recruiting; Business Startups; Finance; Leadership; Management Skills; Management Teams; Jobs and Positions; Job Interviews; Human Resources; Recruitment; Selection and Staffing; Technology Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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  • September 2017
  • Case

Blackstone's Julia Kahr at the Summit

By: Paul A. Gompers, John D. Dionne and Amram Migdal
In 2009, Blackstone, the New York-based alternative asset and financial services firm, committed to invest up to $750 million into Summit Materials, a new company in the aggregates sector (i.e., construction materials, such as crushed stone, sand, gravel, cement,... View Details
Keywords: Roll Up; Private Equity Roll Up; Aggregates; Aggregates Materials; Construction Materials; Business Ventures; Acquisition; Leveraged Buyouts; Business Growth and Maturation; Engineering; Construction; Finance; Capital; Equity; Private Equity; Financial Instruments; Investment; Housing; Management; Goals and Objectives; Growth and Development Strategy; Growth Management; Personal Development and Career; Management Teams; Planning; Problems and Challenges; Value; Valuation; Value Creation; Construction Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States
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  • 01 Oct 1999
  • News

Banking on Success

of 1974, "but we anticipated that the majority of our work would be relatively small-scale and client-oriented. I don't think anyone was ready for the amazing ride we've had." Ready or not, those 1974 classmates who entered the world of View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
  • 09 Jan 2024
  • Blog Post

Insights From Harvard Business School’s Peek Program

professional and personal lives, we often have to make decisions under uncertainty and constraints. The Case Method helped me to learn how to make difficult choices and resolve crises. Second, I enjoyed listening to the opinions of my... View Details
  • 25 Jan 2016
  • Research & Ideas

When Negotiating a Price, Never Bid with a Round Number

amount so specific. A round number, on the other hand, suggests that a person is just ballparking it—offering an approximate valuation based on vague knowledge. In one 2013 study, for example, participants played an online game based on... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 16 Feb 2023
  • HBS Case

ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?

The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could... View Details
Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Financial Services
  • 13 Mar 2023
  • Research & Ideas

What Would It Take to Unlock Microfinance's Full Potential?

very well. We do a variety of formal and informal interviews to understand who they’d feel comfortable taking a bet on, and then we do a lot of work with the borrower to come up with a personalized repayment schedule that matches their... View Details
Keywords: by Jen McFarland Flint; Financial Services
  • 01 Aug 2001
  • News

Richard B. Fisher (MBA '62)

at Eastman Dillon, Union Securities and Company, where he was drawn to the finer points of finance. "I think I was the only person in the office who enjoyed reading company prospectuses," he laughs. "At that point it became clear that... View Details
Keywords: Richard B. Fisher; Warren A. Law; Alumni Achievement Award; Finance; Finance; Finance
  • 25 Apr 2023
  • Blog Post

How Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) Transform Your MBA Learning Journey

students. We interviewed two students about their experiences with SIPs, taking a closer look at their time in the Spiritual Lives of Leaders and Personal Finance courses. Tricia Peralta (MBA 2024) -... View Details
  • April 2012
  • Article

Bouncing Out of the Banking System: An Empirical Analysis of Involuntary Bank Account Closures

By: Dennis Campbell, F. Asis Martinez-Jerez and Peter Tufano
Using a new database, we document the factors that relate to the extent of involuntary consumer bank account closure resulting from excessive overdraft activity. Consumers who have accounts involuntarily closed for overdraft activity may have limited or no access to... View Details
Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Customers; Social Issues; Outcome or Result; Budgets and Budgeting; Forecasting and Prediction; Competition; Banks and Banking; Policy; Personal Characteristics; Credit; Employment; United States
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  • 26 Jan 2022
  • News

Making Peace with Anger

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Willy Walker (MBA 1995) is the chairman and CEO of Walker and Dunlop, a commercial real estate finance firm founded in 1937 by his grandfather and his great... View Details
  • 26 Jul 2016
  • First Look

July 26, 2016

less competent than employees who do not. Across five experiments, we explore how reframing a socially inappropriate emotional expression (distress) by publicly attributing it to an appropriate source (passion) can shape perceptions of, and decisions about, the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Jun 2013
  • First Look

First Look: June 4

regressions should be complemented by realized-returns regressions. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1967706   Cases & Course Materials Harvard Business School Case 713-074 Currency Wars In February 2013, the G-20 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 May 2019
  • News

Tracy P. Palandjian, MBA 1997

Parthenon Group 2008 Named Managing Director, Parthenon Group 2011 Cofounds Social Finance 2011 Named Board Chair, Facing History and Ourselves 2013 Social Finance launches first Social Impact Bond 2017... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 18 May 2023
  • News

India's New Money Managers

finance piece was completely missing," says Gupta. "So for two years, I went to his office and I worked on our personal portfolios." As she pursued finance in college and as a... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
  • 24 May 2017
  • News

Adebayo O. Ogunlesi, JD/MBA 1979

says with a laugh. Upon graduating, Ogunlesi moved to Washington, DC, where he landed a position clerking for US Supreme Court Associate Justice Thurgood Marshall. “That was one of the high points of my career,” he says. “Justice Marshall was a fantastic View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • 12 Aug 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Why Investors Often Lose When They Sue Their Financial Adviser

assistant professor of finance at Harvard Business School. When they do find out, they often want to sue, but they can’t. Financial services companies require customers to waive their right to litigate and instead resolve their disputes... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services