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    Vikram Gandhi

    Vikram S. Gandhi is the Gerald P. Kaminsky Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the General Management Unit. He has developed and teaches two new courses in the Elective Curriculum of the MBA Program. The first is a finance and investing course, Sustainable... View Details

    Keywords: financial services
    • 01 Apr 2013
    • News

    Corporate-Tax Reform Without Tears

      Samuel L. Hayes

      Samuel L. Hayes holds the Jacob H. Schiff Chair in Investment Banking Emeritus, at the Harvard Business School.  He has taught at the School since 1970, prior to which he was a tenured member of the faculty of the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. He... View Details

        Malcolm S. Salter

        Malcolm Salter has been a member of the Harvard Business School faculty since 1967. His teaching and research focus on issues of corporate strategy, organization, and governance.

        In addition to teaching at HBS, he has held faculty positions at the Harvard... View Details

        Keywords: arts; automobiles; energy; investment banking industry; retailing; venture capital industry
        • July 2016 (Revised January 2017)
        • Case

        Banking on Change: Aligning Culture and Compensation at Morgan Stanley

        By: Malcolm S. Salter
        This case study was prepared as part of a research project on Culture, Conduct, and Governance in Financial Firms. The objective of this project is to compare and contrast the efforts of U.S. and European banks to induce changes in organization culture in the aftermath... View Details
        Keywords: Business or Company Management; Corporate Accountability; Ethics; Organizational Culture; Corporate Governance; Banks and Banking; United States; Europe
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        • September 2016
        • Case

        Partners Group: Ain't No Mountain High Enough

        By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Ricardo Andrade
        Partners Group (PG), a Swiss-based PE manager, initiated a series of strategic shifts and evolved from a predominately fund-of-funds manager into a large, multi-asset class PE firm focused on direct investments. PG was the first PE firm to go public in 2006. A number... View Details
        Keywords: Business Model; Management Practices and Processes; Entrepreneurship
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        • 2014
        • Working Paper

        What Courses Should Law Students Take?: Harvard's Largest Employers Weigh In

        By: John C. Coates, Jesse M. Fried and Kathryn E. Spier
        We report the results of an online survey, conducted on behalf of Harvard Law School, of 124 practicing attorneys at major law firms. The survey had two main objectives: (1) to assist students in selecting courses by providing them with data about the relative... View Details
        Keywords: Curriculum and Courses; Law; Higher Education
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        • March 2008
        • Article

        When Growth Stalls

        By: Matthew S. Olson, Derek C. M. van Bever and Seth Verry
        This article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. An abrupt and lasting drop in revenue growth is a crisis that can strike even the... View Details
        Keywords: Growth Strategy; Revenues; Crisis Management; Revenue; Growth and Development Strategy
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        • 10 Mar 2015
        • First Look

        First Look: March 10

        with data about the relative importance of courses and (2) to provide faculty with information about how to improve the curriculum and best advise students. The most salient result is that students were strongly advised to study View Details
        Keywords: Carmen Nobel
        • 09 Nov 2012
        • Working Paper Summaries

        Securities Litigation Risk for Foreign Companies Listed in the US

        Keywords: by Beiting Cheng, Suraj Srinivasan & Gwen Yu

          Christina R. Wing

          Christina Wing is a Senior Lecturer in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at the Harvard Business School. Her research focuses primarily on topics surrounding families in business, and the course she created, titled Demystifying the Family... View Details

          • March 2013 (Revised March 2013)
          • Case

          Rough Justice: Stuart Eizenstat and Holocaust-era Asset Restitution (A)

          By: James K. Sebenius and Laurence A. Green
          Beginning in 1994, a series of articles and public disclosures indicated that Swiss banks may have retained assets belonging to victims of the Holocaust, and also may have engaged in long term attempts to block survivors' ability to recover those assets after World War... View Details
          Keywords: Banking; Banking And Insurance; U.s. History; Germany; Europe; Governance; History; Negotiation; Business and Government Relations; Banking Industry; Insurance Industry; Germany; United States; Switzerland
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          • November 2009 (Revised August 2013)
          • Case

          IFRS in China

          By: Karthik Ramanna, G.A. Donovan and Nancy Dai
          In 2005, China announced plans to "converge with," but not completely adopt, IFRS. China also began to lobby for changes to specific IFRS provisions, such as for related party disclosures by state-owned firms, to bring them more into line with Chinese interests.... View Details
          Keywords: Financial Reporting; International Accounting; Corporate Disclosure; Standards; State Ownership; Business and Government Relations; China
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          • 25 Mar 2013
          • Research & Ideas

          How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy

          accounted for $124 billion corporate assets filing for Chapter 11, including CIT Group, Six Flags, Lear Corp., and Charter Communications," Gilson writes.) In a prenegotiated Chapter 11, firms don't... View Details
          Keywords: by Kim Girard; Financial Services
          • 14 Nov 2011
          • Research & Ideas

          Creating a Global Business Code

          The turn of the 21st century has been laden with high-profile corporate scandals, prompting widespread concern about the standards of conduct followed by big business. Intrigued by the complexity of managing View Details
          Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
          • January 2008 (Revised July 2010)
          • Case

          Wal-Mart's Use of Interest Rate Swaps

          "Wal-Mart's Use of Interest Rate Swaps" recounts Wal-Mart's use of interest rate swaps to hedge the fair value of its fixed-rate debt against changing interest rates. This case provides students with a foundation for understanding the use of and accounting for more... View Details
          Keywords: Fair Value Accounting; Financial Statements; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Financial Strategy; Interest Rates; Corporate Disclosure
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          • November 22, 2022
          • Article

          Why Startups Should Embrace Radical Transparency

          By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang
          After high-profile startup failures like FTX or Theranos, investors, employees, customers, and policymakers all ask what might have been done differently to ensure accountability and prevent mismanagement. But startup founders should join that list: It’s in their... View Details
          Keywords: Start-up; Business Startups; Entrepreneurial Finance; Corporate Accountability
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          • 21 Nov 2006
          • First Look

          First Look: November 21, 2006

          Garry Twite Abstract U.S. corporations hold significant amounts of cash on their balance sheets, and these cash holdings have been justified in the existing empirical literature by transaction costs and precautionary motives. An... View Details
          Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
          • 2020
          • Book

          Think Outside the Building: How Advanced Leaders Can Change the World One Smart Innovation at a Time

          By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter
          Over a decade ago, renowned innovation expert Rosabeth Moss Kanter co-founded and then directed Harvard’s Advanced Leadership Initiative. Her breakthrough work with hundreds of successful professionals and executives, as well as aspiring young entrepreneurs, identifies... View Details
          Keywords: Leaders; Advanced Leadership; Advanced Leadership Initiative; Community; Change Leadership; Innovation; Problem Solving; Cross-sector Collaboration; Institutional Change; Leadership; Change; Leading Change; Communication; Innovation Leadership; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Business and Community Relations; Civil Society or Community
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            Henry W. McGee

            Henry McGee joined the HBS faculty in 2013 after retiring as President of HBO Home Entertainment, the digital and DVD program distribution division of Home Box Office, the pioneering premium television company. A member of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit,... View Details

            Keywords: television; motion pictures; media; e-commerce industry; entertainment; broadcasting; distribution; health care; journalism; wholesale; arts; nonprofit industry