Publications

01 Jun 2010
News

Admit It: You’re in Denial

potentially ruinous obstacles that managers face. From Ford to General Motors, Sears to Lehman Brothers, it has torpedoed many good businesses. Why would any sane, smart executive deny a fact of critical importance to his or her business?... View Details

Keywords: Richard S. Tedlow; Management; Management; Management; Management; Management

November 7, 2007
Editorial

Wall Street Must Learn from the Boss's Downfall

By: A. Zelleke

Keywords: Stocks; Financial Institutions; Learning; Management

Keywords: Admissions; fellowship; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

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16 Jul 2024
Op-Ed

Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty

Boeing CEO has focused on short-term earnings, increasingly at the expense of franchise value and safety. Will the company’s new CEO have the courage to return Boeing to its former position as the world leader in aviation? Wells Fargo: Wells Fargo sailed through the... View Details

Keywords: by Bill George

01 Mar 2003
News

Naina Lal Kidwai

Chartered Bank) in India in 1982, rising through the ranks in a variety of merchant, retail, and investment banking assignments before moving to Morgan Stanley’s India operation in 1994. Through a joint venture with the investment bank JM View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles

01 Jun 2008
News

HBS Creates Life Sciences Fellowship Fund

the MD/MBA joint degree program with Harvard Medical School in 2005. “We’re proud of this new fellowship program and its focus on students interested in science-related careers,” says Deirdre Leopold (MBA ’80), managing director of MBA... View Details

2013
Working Paper

Did Bank Distress Stifle Innovation During the Great Depression?

By: Ramana Nanda and Tom Nicholas

We find a negative relationship between bank distress and the level, quality and trajectory of firm-level innovation during the Great Depression, particularly for R&D firms operating in capital intensive industries. However, we also show that because a sufficient... View Details

Keywords: Great Depression; R＆D; Bank Distress; Patents; Research and Development; Financial Crisis; Innovation and Invention; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; United States

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December 1998
Case

Origins of National Income Accounting

By: David A. Moss and Joseph P Gownder

Set in the Great Depression, this case explores the origins of national income accounting in the United States. Highlights Senator La Follette's 1932 proposal for the federal government to begin collecting national income statistics. View Details

Keywords: Accounting; Financial Crisis; Analytics and Data Science; Mathematical Methods; United States

January 2000
Supplement

Basic Statistics from the World Bank's World Development Report 1998/1999

By: Julio J. Rotemberg

Supplements National Income Accounting and The Origins of National Income Accounting. View Details

Keywords: Business Organization; History; Earnings Management; Financial Institutions; International Finance; International Accounting; Business Earnings; Mathematical Methods; Reports; Economic Growth; Commercial Banking; Financial Services Industry

September 1992 (Revised October 1995)
Case

Exxon: Communications After Valdez

By: Stephen A. Greyser and Nancy Langford

Focuses on the communications in the period immediately following the March 24, 1989 Alaska oil spill caused by the Exxon Valdez. Includes the text of Exxon Chairman Rawl's "open letter" in an April 3 newspaper advertisment. Addresses the timing and content of... View Details

Keywords: Advertising; Communication; Crisis Management; Marketing Communications

October 1989
Case

Exxon Corp.: Trouble at Valdez

Discusses the events leading to and repercussions following the 11 million gallon oil spill in Prince William Sound off the Alaskan coast. This was the largest spill in U.S. history. Examines the response to the spill by Exxon management, government agencies, and... View Details

Keywords: Natural Environment; Crisis Management; Energy Sources; Shipping Industry; Energy Industry; Alaska

December 2010
Teaching Note

Organization and Strategy at Millennium (TN) (A) & (B)

By: Julie M. Wulf

Teaching Note for 710-415 and 710-418. View Details

Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Crisis Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Pharmaceutical Industry

01 Dec 2008
News

Seth Klarman

Klarman Illustration by David Cowles While other money managers scrambled to survive the financial market meltdown, value investor extraordinaire Seth Klarman (MBA ’82), president of The Baupost Group in... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

October 2005 (Revised July 2009)
Case

MD Beauty, Inc.

By: William A. Sahlman and Elizabeth Kind

Describes some of the issues confronting the entrepreneurial team responsible for creating a highly successful natural beauty and skin care company. They are considering selling all or some portion of the company's stock. View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Stocks; Financial Strategy; Management Teams; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry

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01 Sep 2004
News

Hollywood Story

based on Goldman Sachs, The Deal tells the story of Tom Grover (Christian Slater), a young investment banker who agrees to manage a Russian oil company deal that promises to alleviate a severe energy crisis... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information

20 Nov 2007
First Look

First Look: November 20, 2007

ownership patterns across different towns, allowing credible identification of the effects of bank ownership on financial development, lending rates, and the quality of intermediation, as well as employment and investment. Credit markets... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

2011
Working Paper

Why Fears about Municipal Credit Are Overblown

Highly publicized predictions of 50-100 municipal defaults have caused anxiety among municipal bond investors. While there is some chance that negative investor sentiment will lead to further spread widening, the probability of the kind of widespread default that would... View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Borrowing and Debt; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Bonds; Investment Return; City