Wealth Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Aug 2008
First Look

First Look: August 26, 2008

working on finding a bed for Dugar's patient on the Coronary Care Unit (CCU) while at the same time, the TSICU attending, Dr. Fred Moran, was debating with the nurse manager about whether they should accept Dugar's patient. Ultimately,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Apr 2021
News

Equal Partner

working in the fashion and retail industry—as the director of Global Strategy at Donna Karan (a division of LVMH), the general manager of Shop Your Way and the founder of Mintbox, a flash sale and loyalty startup—she helped to organize... View Details

Keywords: Diversity; Inclusion

04 Oct 2007
What Do You Think?

Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?

that "firm performance and top management compensation are inversely related." And this may not have taken into account the large severance payments made to those being asked to leave their leadership jobs because of mediocre... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age

management systems used by direct marketers; software for creating and managing graphics, video, and sound; and convergence technologies such as broadband that provide simultaneous, high-speed transmission... View Details

Keywords: by Peter K. Jacobs; Advertising

13 Jun 2017
Research & Ideas

Why Global Investments Are Still a Good Bet

the wealth around, investors should put their money in places that are familiar—usually their own country. “There is a very well-known phenomenon called home bias,” continues Viceira. “People think they know their own stock market and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

08 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”

reasoning. But, argues the wise chorus, "from death alone he still cannot escape . . . Limitation is built in to the human condition. You need to bend to higher laws." Limits? Tell that to today's college graduates, more in debt than ever before and with the... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson

01 Dec 2019
News

What’s Behind the Explosive Growth of Sustainable Investing?

Image by John Ritter Image by John Ritter An estimated $30 trillion in assets worldwide—including half of all professionally managed assets in Europe—are already evaluated through environmental, social, and governance (ESG) or impact... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

16 Nov 2010
First Look

First Look: November 16, 2010

PublicationsKeiei no Ryugi (The Management Ritual) Authors:Mitsuaki Shimaguchi and Hirotaka Takeuchi Publication:Nihon Keizai Shimbun Publishing, 2010 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Joint Evaluation as a Real World Tool for... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Aug 2017
Blog Post

From Germany to HBS

corporate governance or redistribution of wealth in society, a European and German perspective was incredibly valuable in the classroom. I would like to share three pieces of advice specifically for prospective German students. 1) Don’t... View Details

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS

Rohit Daniel Wadhwani's research and teaching interests lie in business and financial history and public policy. He received his B.A. with honors from Yale College in 1991. From 1991 to 1995 he worked as a management consultant with APM... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Linard; Banking; Financial Services

Research Summary

Overview

My research is at the intersection of organizational strategy, global sustainability governance, and social change. It explores the diffusion of sustainability standards to non-traditional sectors (e.g. jewelry, cannabis, plastics, pets) and the relationship between... View Details

September 2010
Teaching Note

Acumen Fund: Measurement in Impact Investing (TN) (A) and (B)

By: Alnoor Ebrahim

Teaching Note for 310011 and 310017. View Details

Keywords: Projects; For-Profit Firms; Networks; Health Care and Treatment; Performance Evaluation; Investment Portfolio; Asset Pricing; Competition; Multinational Firms and Management; Venture Capital; Investment Return; Poverty; Financial Services Industry; Kenya

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05 Aug 2008
First Look

First Look: August 5, 2008

Rebalancing by Individual Investors Authors:Laurent E. Calvet, John Y. Campbell, and Paolo Sodini Abstract This paper investigates the dynamics of individual portfolios in a unique dataset containing the disaggregated wealth of all... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

November 2014
Case

BRAC in 2014

By: Tarun Khanna, Rachna Tahilyani, Reeti Roy and Aldo Sesia

In the early 1970s BRAC was a startup nongovernmental organization (NGO) working in Bangladesh. By 2014, it was the world's largest NGO. It had a strong presence in Bangladesh and had begun to deliver social development programs in nine other countries. Its founder and... View Details

Keywords: BRAC; Bangladesh; NGO; Strategy; Business Model; Business Organization; Social Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Social Enterprise; Social Issues; Poverty; Bangladesh

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25 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

Adjusting the Fit for Government

pointed out. Panelist Dean Donovan, managing partner of Bain & Company in South Africa, said the imperatives for African governments are many, and are all intertwined. The key underpinnings include a health policy that deals with... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

20 Jun 2012
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching Leadership: What We Know

"Leadership" in their titles. And yet, if you were charged with teaching a course on leadership today, where would you start? Where would you turn to learn about the incredible array of approaches to teaching this ill-defined, yet important topic? How would... View Details

Keywords: by Scott A. Snook, Rakesh Khurana & Nitin Nohria; Education

02 Oct 2000
Research & Ideas

Networked Incubators: Hothouses of the New Economy

important and lasting way of creating value and wealth in the new economy? Morten Hansen, Henry Chesbrough, Nitin Nohria, and Donald Sull argue that one type of incubator, called a networked incubator, represents a fundamentally new and... View Details

Keywords: by Morten T. Hansen, Henry W. Chesbrough, Nitin Nohria & Donald N. Sull

26 Feb 2020
News

Phoenix Rising

of fresh orange juice. For the last 18 years, Arhodidis worked for Eurobank, one of the country’s four systemic banks. When he left last July, he was a member of the executive board and a general manager in charge of global markets,... View Details