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- 27 Feb 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
In Strange Company: The Puzzle of Private Investment in State-Controlled Firms
- 22 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 22, 2008
approach is the assumption that teams are stable in their membership and internal organization. In practice, however, such stability is rare, as the composition and structure of teams often changes over time or between projects. In this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Asia Pacific - Global
leveling the playing field between retail investors and institutional investors. In addition, he also explored the implications of misinformation for managers and discussed ways in which managers could play a more proactive role in... View Details
- 09 Oct 2020
- HBS Seminar
Jeffrey L. Furman, BU, Questrom Sch of Business
- Web
About the Project - Managing the Future of Work
tap opportunities to attract, retain, and improve the productivity of their human assets. And they must do so in partnership with policymakers, educators, and nonprofits as well as in collaboration with other companies. Tackling the View Details
- 2001
- Working Paper
Bank Capital and Risk Management: Issues for Banks and Regulators
By: Kenneth A. Froot
Banks and financial firms are in the process of evolving away from primary warehousers of risk to diversified originators and distributors of financial services. These changes are important for the way that financial firms think about their needs for economic... View Details
Keywords: Bank Capital And Risk Management; Issues For Banks And Regulators; Risk Management; Governance Compliance; Capital; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry
Froot, Kenneth A. "Bank Capital and Risk Management: Issues for Banks and Regulators." IFCI Geneva Research Paper, No. 8, April 2001. (International Financial Risk Institute.)
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company
objective. Combining the two banks created opportunities to eliminate overlaps in such areas as back-office staff, branch offices, and computing infrastructure. Management of both banks also believed that larger and more diversified financial View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
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Middle East & North Africa - Global
Strategy Unit. Professor Sadun presented key findings from a joint research effort between the Digital Data Design Institute at Harvard’s Digital Reskilling Lab and the Boston Consulting Group’s Henderson Institute. Based on interviews... View Details
- 07 Aug 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, August 8, 2018
agents for social change in the emerging markets grappling with institutional voids. How should they work with the government in this endeavor? How do they ensure an alignment of these efforts to the group... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
Charlotte L. Robertson
Charlotte Robertson is an Assistant Professor in the Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches BGIE in the MBA required curriculum.
Professor Robertson conducts research on the history of financial... View Details
- March 2014
- Teaching Note
Barclays Bank and Contingent Capital Notes, 2012
By: Lucy White
In 2012, regulatory changes following the financial crisis mean that Barclays Bank is faced with the need to raise large amounts of capital in order to comply with increased capital requirements, tightening rules as to the "quality of capital," and increased risk... View Details
- 15 Aug 2006
- First Look
First Look: August 15, 2006
financial markets change the interaction between banks and corporations? This paper compares the importance of interlocking boards of directors between corporations and banks in Brazil, Mexico, and the United States circa 1909. The... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jan 2024
- Research & Ideas
Could Clean Hydrogen Become Affordable at Scale by 2030?
Hydrogen is poised to move from the sidelines of global clean energy as the industry learns to produce it more efficiently and at lower cost, according to newly published research led by Gunther Glenk, a climate fellow with Harvard Business School's Institute for the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Wide Horizon
There were three critical events that led John Rodakis (MBA 1997) to form the nonprofit N of One in 2014 and ultimately dedicate his life to surfacing breakthrough autism research. The first occurred on Thanksgiving of 2012. He had driven about four hours with his wife... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell; Photos by Sarah Wilson
- January 2017 (Revised January 2017)
- Case
Sesame Workshop: Bringing Big Bird Back to Health
By: Rosabeth M. Kanter, Ryan Raffaelli and Jonathan Cohen
Sesame Workshop was transforming in 2016. CEO Jeff Dunn had reorganized and shifted the iconic institution to respond to digital disruption and a consensus culture. This case examines his efforts to turn Sesame Workshop around. It notes Sesame's storied history and the... View Details
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Fellowships - Business History
to pursue my upcoming projects on cities and India-America transnational connections. ” Chinmay Tumbe Indian Institute of Management Ahmedabad (IIMA), India, 2018 Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. International Visiting Scholar “ My view of... View Details
- August 2023 (Revised January 2024)
- Supplement
Arla Foods: Data-Driven Decarbonization (B)
By: Michael Parzen, Michael W. Toffel, Susan Pinckney and Amram Migdal
The case describes Arla’s history, in particular its climate change mitigation efforts, and how it implemented a price incentive system to motivate individual farms to implement scope 1 greenhouse gas emissions mitigation measures and receive a higher milk price. The... View Details
Keywords: Dairy Industry; Earnings Management; Environmental Accounting; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Mergers and Acquisitions; Decisions; Voting; Climate Change; Environmental Regulation; Environmental Sustainability; Green Technology; Pollution; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Financial Strategy; Price; Profit; Revenue; Food; Geopolitical Units; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Global Strategy; Cooperative Ownership; Performance Efficiency; Performance Evaluation; Problems and Challenges; Natural Environment; Science-Based Business; Business Strategy; Commercial Banking; Cooperation; Corporate Strategy; Motivation and Incentives; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Europe; United Kingdom; European Union; Denmark; Sweden; Luxembourg; Belgium
Parzen, Michael, Michael W. Toffel, Susan Pinckney, and Amram Migdal. "Arla Foods: Data-Driven Decarbonization (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 624-036, August 2023. (Revised January 2024.)
- 2023
- Working Paper
Deglobalization and Entrepreneurial Investment: The Natural Experiment of Brexit
By: Elisa Alvarez-Garrido and Juan Alcácer
We seek to gain insight into the consequences of deglobalization on entrepreneurial investment by
analyzing an instance of economic disintegration: the United Kingdom’s exit from the European Union.
Brexit is not only a unique empirical opportunity, a natural... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; International Relations; Trade; Disruption; Globalized Economies and Regions; United Kingdom
Alvarez-Garrido, Elisa, and Juan Alcácer. "Deglobalization and Entrepreneurial Investment: The Natural Experiment of Brexit." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-017, August 2023.
- 24 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Value Maximization and Stakeholder Theory
how to seek it, that is how to institute changes and strategies that cause value to rise. To navigate in such a world in anything close to a purposeful way, we have to have a notion of "better,"... View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
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Executive Education | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
rapidly changing world. This program is a collaboration between the Harvard Business School Social Enterprise Initiative and the Hauser Institute for Civil Society at Harvard University. Strategic... View Details