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    David A. Moss

    David Moss is the Paul Whiton Cherington Professor at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the Business, Government, and the International Economy (BGIE) unit. He earned his B.A. from Cornell University and his Ph.D. from Yale.  In 1992-1993, he served as a... View Details

    Keywords: financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services

      Dennis Campbell

      Dennis W. Campbell is currently the Dwight P. Robinson Jr. Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. His research and teaching activities focus broadly on how management control systems can be designed to balance short-term strategy execution... View Details

      Keywords: financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services
      • June 2006 (Revised March 2007)
      • Case

      Jack Carlisle, CIO

      An experienced CIO hired to professionalize IT in a growing financial services firm struggles with the turmoil that follows sudden replacement of the company's CEO. Jack Carlisle must assess the changes, both actual and prospective, in an environment in which IT has... View Details
      Keywords: Change Management; Information Technology; Personal Development and Career; Management Teams; Financial Services Industry
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      • April 1998 (Revised November 1999)
      • Case

      Hambrecht & Quist

      By: Thomas J. DeLong and Nicole Tempest
      Hambrecht & Quist (H&Q), an investment bank headquartered in San Francisco, has a very unique culture relative to its Wall Street counterparts. Firm members and even competitors describe the culture as entrepreneurial, team-driven, non-bureaucratic, and... View Details
      Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Investment Banking; Growth and Development Strategy; Emerging Markets; Organizational Culture; Competitive Advantage; Banking Industry; San Francisco
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      • January 2009 (Revised November 2011)
      • Case

      The Tip of the Iceberg: JP Morgan Chase and Bear Stearns (A)

      By: Clayton S. Rose, Daniel Baird Bergstresser and David Lane
      "Bear Stearns & Co. burned through nearly all of its $18 billion in cash reserves during the week of March 10, 2008, and an unprecedented provision of liquidity support from the Federal Reserve on Friday, March 13 was insufficient to reverse the decline in Bear's... View Details
      Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Financial Crisis; Capital; Financial Liquidity; Financial Strategy; Corporate Governance; Crisis Management; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Competition; Valuation; Financial Services Industry
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      • 2010
      • Working Paper

      Employee Selection as a Control System

      By: Dennis Campbell
      Theories from the economics, management control, and organizational behavior literatures predict that when it is difficult to align incentives by contracting on output, aligning preferences via employee selection may provide a useful alternative. This study... View Details
      Keywords: Accounting; Decision Making; Governance Controls; Employees; Selection and Staffing; Management Systems; Financial Services Industry
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        Clayton S. Rose

        Clayton Rose is Baker Foundation Professor of Management Practice and teaches the course Accountability in the Advanced Management Program. His case writing is focused on the how leaders consider the... View Details

        Keywords: financial services
        • May 2024
        • Case

        Net Protections (A)

        By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Nobuo Sato and Akiko Kanno
        In Case A, set in early 2017, Net Protections (NP) is the largest Buy Now, Pay Later (BNPL) fintech service in Japan and is experiencing a slowdown in growth of its core product, NP Atobarai. Launched in 2002 as non-membership service, the NP Atobarai product has given... View Details
        Keywords: Product Positioning; Demand and Consumers; E-commerce; Customers; Business Model; Financial Services Industry; Japan
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        • June 2015 (Revised November 2015)
        • Case

        Akbank: Options in Digital Banking

        By: Rajiv Lal and Esel Çekin
        This case discusses the digitalization strategies of a leading bank in Turkey, Akbank, and how to position its digital banking products going forward. The Turkish banking industry was undergoing a transformation prompted by the demands of the country's digitally savvy,... View Details
        Keywords: Marketing; Banking; Emerging Market; Regulations; Channels; Digitization; Information Technology; Competition; Brands and Branding; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Emerging Markets; Distribution Channels; Banks and Banking; Digital Transformation; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Turkey
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          Lauren H. Cohen

          Lauren Cohen is the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance & Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an Editor of the Review of Financial... View Details

          Keywords: financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services
          • January 2021 (Revised March 2021)
          • Case

          Jumia's Path to Profitability

          By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell, Pippa Tubman Armerding and Gamze Yucaoglu
          The case opens in September 2019 as Sacha Poignonnec and Jeremy Hodara, co-founders and co-CEOs of Jumia, the leading Pan-African e-commerce platform, are contemplating the company’s path to profitability in the aftermath of a fragile investor sentiment, as the company... View Details
          Keywords: Retail; Business Models; Business Model; Business Startups; Emerging Markets; For-Profit Firms; Strategy; Digital Platforms; Information Technology; Technology Adoption; Value Creation; Globalization; Entrepreneurship; Competition; Expansion; Logistics; Profit; Resource Allocation; Diversification; Corporate Strategy; Retail Industry; Technology Industry; Africa
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            Felix Oberholzer-Gee

            Felix Oberholzer-Gee is the Andreas Andresen Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. An award-winning instructor, his academic work and consulting are focused on competitive strategy and the effects of digital technology on corporate... View Details

            Keywords: professional services; professional services; professional services; professional services
            • 08 Feb 2021
            • Working Paper Summaries

            In the Red: Overdrafts, Payday Lending, and the Underbanked

            Keywords: by Marco Di Maggio, Angela Ma, and Emily Williams; Financial Services

              Stuart C. Gilson

              Professor Stuart Gilson is the Steven R. Fenster Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and former chairman of the Finance Unit.  His research, teaching, and consulting focuses on the financial, business, and legal strategies that companies... View Details

              Keywords: legal services; legal services
              • January 2003 (Revised May 2005)
              • Case

              Zipcar: Refining the Business Model

              By: Myra M. Hart, Michael J. Roberts and Julia Stevens
              Zipcar is a start-up organized around the idea of "sharing" car usage via a membership organization. This case describes several iterations of the Zipcar business model and financial plan. These iterations include a very early version and a version developed just prior... View Details
              Keywords: Service Operations; Renting or Rental; Business Model; Business Plan; Entrepreneurship; Economic Growth; Management Skills; Transportation; Business Startups; Financial Strategy; Corporate Finance; Growth and Development Strategy; Service Industry; Service Industry
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              • 2008
              • Other Unpublished Work

              Accounting, Risk Management and the Aftermath of a Control Debacle

              By: Anette Mikes
              Despite the widespread adoption of risk management systems in the financial services industry, recent control debacles highlight the apparent lack of top managerial attention to risk controls. Yet in order to understand the workings and uses of risk controls (or any... View Details
              Keywords: Risk Management; Governance Controls; Management Systems; Accounting; Conflict and Resolution; Trends; Financial Services Industry
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              • June 2006 (Revised September 2006)
              • Case

              Euronext.liffe and the Over-the-Counter Derivatives Market (A)

              Euronext.liffe, a derivatives trading exchange, had just finished rolling out three new services targeted at the over-the-counter (OTC) market in 2004. The services offered automated confirmation and clearing for OTC equity derivatives. Yet, developments in the... View Details
              Keywords: Value Creation; Product Positioning; Competition; Financial Markets; Network Effects; Cooperation
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              • October 2005 (Revised December 2006)
              • Case

              Bennie Wiley at The Partnership, Inc.

              Benaree Wiley, an African American, female HBS graduate (class of 1972), was appointed CEO and president in 1991 of The Partnership, a Boston-based nonprofit dedicated to developing leadership potential in professionals of color and in increasing their representation... View Details
              Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Mission and Purpose; Leading Change; Nonprofit Organizations; Leadership Style; Growth and Development Strategy; Service Industry; Boston
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              • Mar 2012
              • Article

              How to Make Finance Work

              of the U.S. economy by increasing capital and liquidity requirements, reorienting the discussion around housing finance reform from keeping mortgage credit cheap to ensuring financial stability, and instituting measures that compel asset... View Details
              • April 2010 (Revised April 2010)
              • Case

              Mercadona

              This case presents the predicament of a company trying to do right by its customers and its employees as the economic crisis of 2008 hits home. Fifteen years earlier, this Spanish supermarket chain had adopted its own version of total quality management, called the... View Details
              Keywords: Customer Satisfaction; Compensation and Benefits; Employee Relationship Management; Service Operations; Business Processes; Retail Industry; Spain
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