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  • 13 May 2011
  • News

Something for the weekend

  • 01 Apr 2022
  • Blog Post

The Africa Business Conference at HBS: Reimagining the Road Ahead

Business School. This past weekend, the Africa Business Club had the immense privilege of hosting 1,000 participants at our annual Conference. Co-organizing the Conference in the capacity of CFO and Conference Lead was a huge labor of... View Details

    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: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
    • June 1994 (Revised December 1997)
    • Case

    Safeway, Inc.'s Leveraged Buyout (A)

    After years of deteriorating financial performance and eroding market position, Safeway, Inc., the largest public grocery store chain in the United States, found itself the target of a hostile takeover offer. Management decided to take the company private in a $4.3... View Details
    Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Restructuring; Retail Industry; United States
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    • 25 Jul 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Could a Business Model Help Big Pharma Save Lives and Profit?

    advocates from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, recently discussed the approach at a seminar hosted by the Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS). COVID-19 heightened urgency for global action After... View Details
    Keywords: by Esther Schrader; Pharmaceutical; Health
    • September 1997 (Revised October 1997)
    • Case

    French Pension System, The: On the Verge of Retirement?

    By: David A. Moss, Anne Dias and Bertrand O. Stephann
    Surveys the French pension system, its particular institutional characteristics, and some of the critical challenges and opportunities facing French reformers. Like almost every other industrialized country, France has a large pay-as-you-go public pension system that... View Details
    Keywords: Retirement; Compensation and Benefits; Capital Markets; Economic Growth; Labor; Problems and Challenges; Opportunities; Welfare; Investment; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Public Administration Industry; France
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    • December 2006 (Revised January 2009)
    • Case

    METRO Cash & Carry

    By: Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu, Carin-Isabel Knoop and David Lane
    Analyzes the globalization of Metro Case & Carry, a German wholesaler, which has flourished in many foreign markets but struggled to gain traction in India. Considers Metro's experience in Russia and China to put the company's challenges in India in comparative... View Details
    Keywords: Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Global Strategy; Multinational Firms and Management; Emerging Markets; Market Entry and Exit; China; India; Russia; Germany
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    • Research Summary

    Dawn Matsumoto's research investigates managers' financial reporting decisions including the incentives driving these decisions and the impact of these decisions on capital market participants. She is interested in the role of financial intermediaries (such as... View Details
    • Research Summary

    By: Boris Groysberg

    Professor Groysberg's research focuses on the challenges of managing professional service firms. In particular, his work investigates how a firm can be systematic in achieving a sustainable competitive advantage by leveraging its employees. In a number of related... View Details

    • 04 Apr 2016
    • HBS Seminar

    Ariel Stern, Harvard Business School

    • April 2009 (Revised November 2018)
    • Case

    Sanctuary Soft: International Expansion Strategies

    By: Boris Groysberg, Geoff Marietta, Tim Marshall and Adam Hartley
    Sanctuary Soft CEO Elizabeth Smalley faced increasing pressure from her primary investor to expand operations internationally. If successful, the expansion could enlarge Sanctuary’s customer base and enable the firm to better serve existing clients’ overseas offices.... View Details
    Keywords: Global Strategy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Labor; Laws and Statutes; Market Entry and Exit; Information Technology Industry; Technology Industry; Web Services Industry; Banking Industry; China; India; Germany; United Kingdom; United States
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    • 27 Sep 2019
    • HBS Seminar

    Kevin Boudreau (D'Amore-McKim Sch of Business, Northeastern U), raemarie.copan@harvardbusiness.org

    • April 2025
    • Article

    The Impact of Minority Representation at Mortgage Lenders

    By: W. Scott Frame, Ruidi Huang, Erica Jiang, Yeonjoon Lee, Will Liu, Erik J. Mayer and Adi Sunderam
    We study links between the labor market for loan officers and access to mortgage credit. Using novel data matching the (near) universe of mortgage applications to loan officers, we find that minorities are significantly underrepresented among loan officers. Minority... View Details
    Keywords: Household Finance; Demographic Economics; Financial Institutions; Diversity; Prejudice and Bias; Mortgages; Personal Finance
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    • 30 Sep 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: September 30, 2008

    http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14302 The Effect of Labor on Profitability: The Role of Quality Author:Zeynep Ton Abstract Determining staffing levels is an important decision in retail operations. While the costs of increasing View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • September 2017 (Revised March 2018)
    • Case

    Chai Point: Disrupting Chai

    By: Shikhar Ghosh, Ramana Nanda and Rachna Tahilyani
    Chai Point is India’s largest organized chai retailer. It has missed its target for retail store openings by approximately 25%, goals that are very important to its investors who are also board members. However, it has developed an exciting new internet-based tea... View Details
    Keywords: Strategy; Venture Capital; Stock; Business Model; Mobile Technology; Technological Innovation; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Internet and the Web; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Food; Selection and Staffing; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Resignation and Termination; Compensation and Benefits; Resource Allocation; Product Positioning; Distribution Channels; Product Design; Supply Chain; Governing and Advisory Boards; Food and Beverage Industry; Retail Industry; Asia; India; Karnataka; Bangalore
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    • 29 Aug 2017
    • News

    How to Successfully Work Across Countries, Languages, and Cultures

    • March 2009 (Revised February 2011)
    • Background Note

    Note: Fair Value Accounting for Investments in Debt Securities

    By: William E. Fruhan
    The note describes how fair value accounting applies to debt securities that are classified by financial institutions as (1) "trading" securities, (2) "available for sale" securities, or (3) "hold to maturity" securities. It explains the hierarchy for inputs used in... View Details
    Keywords: Fair Value Accounting; Financial Reporting; Assets; Debt Securities; Investment
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    • June 1994 (Revised September 1995)
    • Case

    Leland O'Brien Rubinstein Associates, Inc.: SuperTrust

    By: Peter Tufano
    Leland O'Brien Rubinstein Associates, Inc. (LOR), which profited by selling portfolio insurance to institutional investors, attempts to rebuild itself after the 1987 stock market crash by creating new products to meet the unsatisfied needs of equity investors. LOR... View Details
    Keywords: Product Development; Financial Services Industry; United States
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      Luis M. Viceira

      Luis M. Viceira is the George E. Bates Professor in the Finance Unit  and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. His research, course development, and teaching focus on the areas of investment management... View Details

      Keywords: banking; education industry; financial services; nonprofit industry; retail financial services
      • 2022
      • Working Paper

      Politics at Work

      By: Emanuele Colonnelli, Valdemar Pinho Neto and Edoardo Teso
      We study how individual political views shape firm behavior and labor market outcomes. Using new micro-data on the political affiliation of business owners and private-sector workers in Brazil over the 2002–2019 period, we first document the presence of political... View Details
      Keywords: Private Sector; Employees; Prejudice and Bias; Brazil
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