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  • March 2018 (Revised April 2018)
  • Case

Morgan Stanley: Building Long-Term Sustainability

By: Vikram S. Gandhi and Lynn Schenk
This case focuses on the 10-year journey of one of the world's largest global financial institutions developing a sustainability strategy and integrating it across all of its business units. The case provides a deep dive into the challenges and successes of trying to... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Sustainability; Green Bonds; ESG; Environmental Sustainability; Strategy; Business Units; Integration; Financial Institutions
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  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Higher-Ambition CEOs Need Higher-Ambition Boards

By: Edward Ludwig, Elise Walton and Michael Beer
Over the past years, forward-looking CEOs have adopted a higher-ambition approach to strategy and leadership. These "higher-ambition CEOs" are driven by a sense of purpose that goes beyond achieving financial success. They aspire to build organizations that succeed in... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Leadership Style; Management Teams
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    Robert C. Merton

    Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

    Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

    Keywords: financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services
    • November 2015 (Revised August 2016)
    • Case

    Unilever's New Global Strategy: Competing through Sustainability

    By: Christopher A. Bartlett
    In January 2009, when Paul Polman was appointed CEO of Unilever, he inherited a company in long-term decline at the beginning of a major global financial crisis. As the first outsider ever recruited to lead the company, Polman lost little time in challenging the... View Details
    Keywords: Globalized Firms and Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Competitive Strategy; Environmental Sustainability; Consumer Products Industry
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      Cynthia A. Montgomery

      Professor Montgomery's research centers on strategy and corporate governance. Of particular interest are the unique roles leaders play in developing and implementing strategy; the means organizations use to create value across multiple lines of business; and issues... View Details

      • 28 Mar 2023
      • Cold Call Podcast

      BMW’s Decarbonization Strategy: Sustainable for the Environment and the Bottom Line

      Keywords: Re: Shirley Lu; Transportation; Auto; Battery
      • 11 Dec 2023
      • Research & Ideas

      Doing Well by Doing Good? One Industry’s Struggle to Balance Values and Profits

      a few main strategies. “In any organization, you want to make the moral and material coexist,” Ramarajan says. It can be a challenge, no more so than in the media, and the paper offers lessons for building a morally grounded career in any industry amid growing... View Details
      Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
      • March 1988 (Revised July 1990)
      • Case

      Walt Disney Productions: Greenmail

      Considers a firm whose investment strategies have essentially run out. Walt Disney's original visions and goals have all been fulfilled and after his death no new ones are forthcoming. Disney faces repeated takeover attacks and is forced to either set new corporate... View Details
      Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Crisis Management; Acquisition; Financial Strategy; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States
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      • June 2012
      • Article

      Managing Risks: A New Framework

      By: Robert S. Kaplan and Anette Mikes
      Risk management is too often treated as a compliance issue that can be solved by drawing up lots of rules and making sure that all employees follow them. Many such rules, of course, are sensible and do reduce some risks that could severely damage a company. But... View Details
      Keywords: Risk Management; Governance Controls; Corporate Strategy; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Framework
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        Robert S. Kaplan

        Robert S. Kaplan is Senior Fellow and Marvin Bower Professor of Leadership Development, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. He joined the HBS faculty in 1984 after spending 16 years on the faculty of the business school at Carnegie-Mellon University, where he... View Details

        Keywords: health care; nonprofit industry
        • 11 Feb 2015
        • News

        Politicians Received Political Benefit From Supporting Toxic Loans

        • 31 Oct 2019
        • Video

        Dato' Sri Tahir

        Daro’ Sri Tahir, founder of a large financial service group in Indonesia, argues that the whole eco-system of the country is corrupt, with businesses pursuing strategies which make no economic sense, and then... View Details
        • 26 Sep 2023
        • Book

        Digital Strategy: A Handbook for Managing a Moving Target

        While most companies have embarked on some sort of digital transformation, many leaders still feel overwhelmed by the challenges of doing digital right. The new Research Handbook on Digital Strategy not only takes stock of current digital... View Details
        Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Information Technology; Technology
        • September 2016 (Revised March 2021)
        • Case

        DBL Partners: Double Bottom Line Venture Capital

        By: Shawn Cole, Mark Kramer, Tony L. He, Anshul Maudar and T. Robert Zochowski
        This case explores the origins and current practices of DBL, a San Francisco–based venture capital fund and one of the first impact investment funds to achieve significant financial returns to scale. This case allows for a competitive analysis of DBL's investment... View Details
        Keywords: Venture Capital; Investment Funds; Financial Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Tanzania
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        • May 1985 (Revised October 2001)
        • Case

        Comdisco, Inc.

        By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Rita J. Seymour
        Comdisco, the largest independent dealer and lessor of computers and peripheral equipment, needs financing in order to match its market's growth of 20-30% per year. The company has access to two types of risk capital, but there are substantial costs and risks... View Details
        Keywords: Business or Company Management; Strategy; Cost vs Benefits; Capital Structure; Financing and Loans; Financial Strategy; Corporate Finance; Growth and Development Strategy; Computer Industry; Distribution Industry
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        • February 1985 (Revised September 1988)
        • Case

        Komatsu Ltd.

        By: Christopher A. Bartlett
        Reviews and updates the structure and characteristics of the earth-moving equipment industry presented in the companion case, Caterpillar Tractor Co. After revealing that CAT has suffered major financial losses during the period from 1981 through 1984, the case... View Details
        Keywords: Financial Crisis; Machinery and Machining; Price; Growth and Development; Brands and Branding; Product Development; Production; Competitive Strategy; Global Strategy; Manufacturing Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Industrial Products Industry
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        • July 2006 (Revised March 2008)
        • Case

        Changan Automobile Co., Ltd.

        By: Dennis Campbell and Donglin Xia
        Chairman Yin Jiaxu must communicate that the company's extraordinary reported performance in 2002 reflects Changan's unique strategy within the competitive dynamics of China's automobile industry. Changan's 2002 annual report demonstrated an extraordinary level of... View Details
        Keywords: Financial Reporting; Ethics; Corporate Disclosure; Media; Business and Shareholder Relations; Auto Industry; China
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        • October 2013 (Revised November 2013)
        • Case

        Blackstone and the Sale of Citigroup's Loan Portfolio

        By: Victoria Ivashina and David Scharfstein
        The credit boom that preceded the 2007-2009 financial crisis led to several lending practices that exposed banks to large risks. In particular, when the financial crisis unraveled, there were several billion dollars' worth of leveraged buyout (LBO) loans that were... View Details
        Keywords: Restructuring; Private Equity; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Financial Markets; Investment; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry
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        • September 2010 (Revised March 2012)
        • Case

        AQR's Momentum Funds (A)

        By: Daniel Baird Bergstresser, Lauren H. Cohen, Randolph B. Cohen and Christopher J. Malloy
        AQR is a hedge fund based in Greenwich, Connecticut, that is considering offering a wholly new line of product to retail investors, namely the ability to invest in the price phenomenon known as momentum. There is a large body of empirical evidence supporting momentum... View Details
        Keywords: Financial Strategy; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Product Development; Financial Services Industry; Greenwich
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        My research examines internal governance, leadership, and the strategy and performance of organizations. I have published papers on the evolution of corporate structure, financial and non-financial incentives, the allocation of decision rights, innovation and... View Details