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- 01 Apr 1997
- News
HBS Duo Offers Personalized Career Assessment
careers. "We wanted to provide an effective self-assessment tool," notes Butler, who describes the BCII as "an extremely sophisticated instrument derived from a ten-year study of over 650 business professionals." Together, the text and... View Details
Keywords: Bob Binstock
- 07 Jul 2020
- Blog Post
The JD/MBA Seminar: The Perfect Practice Ground
also found it to be one that stimulates deep reflection. On one end, the seminar is a rigorous academic capstone, pushing us to think deeply about and integrate what we have learned across our HBS and HLS educations. When people present, they use analytical frameworks... View Details
- 01 Oct 1997
- News
Short Takes
businesses. Such companies gain advantage because regulators tend to look to the most technologically advanced operations when setting industry standards. On the whole, larger and more prominent firms are most likely to need, want, and be able to View Details
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Lehman Brothers - Introduction | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
derivatives and subprime mortgages; losses on these instruments contributed to the firm’s filing for bankruptcy in 2008. Drawing from the extensive Lehman Brothers Collection in Baker Library’s Special Collections, Lehman Brothers: A... View Details
- October 1994
- Case
Bankers Trust: Global Investment Bank
By: Andre F. Perold and Kuljot Singh
In October 1992, Eugene Shanks, president of Bankers Trust New York Corp., and Brian Walsh, head of the Global Investment Bank (GIB) business unit, are considering a proposal for a large and complex financing involving the North Sea Oil Co. (NSOC). The financing... View Details
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Risk Management; Value Creation; Business History; Capital Markets; Financing and Loans; Financial Markets; Corporate Finance; Banking Industry; Energy Industry
Perold, Andre F., and Kuljot Singh. "Bankers Trust: Global Investment Bank." Harvard Business School Case 295-010, October 1994.
- 03 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Can Increase Market Rewards for Sustainability Efforts
flavijus For the first time, a link has been drawn between public sentiment about a company’s sustainability practices and how that company is valued in the market. The results are important both for investors searching for under-valued, socially responsible companies,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading
ongoing sources of geographic and social mobility. Because individuals derived most of their meaning from institutions grounded in enduring social relations—institutions like family, community, and religion—the leading social thinkers of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
3:1). The recommendations of traditional asset allocation models derive mostly from the fact that these models usually adopt a short-term view of risk and return. This view is rather innocuous when annualized risk does not change across... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
switching to a business model with high inventory and long lead times. The company must consider what the change will mean for operations, risk, and measuring profitability. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/108032-PDF-ENG Delphi Corp. and the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Industrial Production & Materials - Business & Environment
most cement plants. Alternative fuels and low-carbon cement made with recovered fly ash offer significant potential. Plastic Globally, 310 million tons of plastic are produced each year, almost all made from fossil fuels. Experts estimate that 90% of current plastics... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
How Do I Get Your Job?
a better water bottle I could use that product as a way to tell people about the billion people in the world who didn’t have access to that water. So it took a long time, and then it was actually quite sudden. OW: What do you want your customers to View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
commercial and investment banking had been torn down, and banks, investment banks, and insurance companies were in each others’ businesses. “As a result of deregulation, the derivatives market and the market for mortgage-related... View Details
- 13 Jul 2022
- Book
Reimagining the Economy: What Would It Take to Put People First?
interests of shareholders. Since power derives from control over access to valued resources, this disparity in control over strategic decisions results in a great power imbalance among workers, top executives, and capital investors,... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
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1.4.1 HBS Learning Model | MBA
Case Method relies on the active intellectual and emotional involvement of every student. Students derive and test generalizations across multiple analyses, using evidence from specific cases. This method strengthens each student's... View Details
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
emphasize and vice versa, an effect we label compensatory fit. We illustrate the concept of compensatory fit by drawing upon qualitative data from a re-organization at Cisco Systems. We also derive formal boundary conditions for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Jan 2008
- What Do You Think?
Does Judgment Trump Experience?
Jennifer Davis recalled the "quip that states that some people have 20 years experience and others have had the 1 year of experience 20 times." Stan Heard pointed out, "It is possible to get experience without deriving... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Class of 1974: Timed for a Change
his greeting: "A general manager has a social responsibility that requires a professional response. I hope that your two years at the Harvard Business School will enable you to contribute an effective response to this serious challenge and that you View Details
Keywords: Charles B. ("Chuck") Mercer
- 01 Jun 1999
- News
Short Takes
only the costs for capital, labor, and traded goods but also social costs like the effect of air pollution on health or even the value people derive from the continued survival of an endangered species. At the same time, managers are... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Books
While Enron made the headlines, Mills says, these other actors were culpable as well. The title of Mills' book derives from a comment made by former SEC chairman Arthur Levitt regarding the actions of teenager Jonathan Lebed who broke... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 02 Dec 2010
- News
Ten Rules for Entrepreneurs
entrepreneurs from the late 1990s and winnowed the lot down to three: Marla Malcolm Beck, Chris Michel, and Marc Cenedella. From their stories, he derived key lessons learned, often the hard way, as they built successful businesses,... View Details