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  • Program

Succeeding as a Strategic CFO

value Effectively communicate and collaborate with leaders and teams across different functional areas and levels Expand your personal and professional network Extend your network by living and working with accomplished executives from... View Details
  • August 1995 (Revised September 1995)
  • Case

Hutton Branch Manager (A)

By: Lynn S. Paine and Jane Palley Katz
The manager of an E.F. Hutton branch office must decide how best to approach a colleague whose aggressive and ethically problematic cash management practices have cost the branch a major institutional client. These practices had been encouraged by top management at... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Business or Company Management; Decisions; Management Skills; Cash Flow; Financial Management; Investment; Management Teams; Financial Services Industry
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  • 24 Dec 2019
  • News

Why It’s So Hard to Change People’s Commuting Behavior

  • March 2015
  • Background Note

Equity Compensation in Startup Ventures

By: Ramana Nanda, Robert White and Stephanie Puzio
Setting equitable and "market" level compensation for founders and early employees of startups is one of the most important elements of a new venture. It is not only central to attract and retain the best human capital for the startup, but is critical to align... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Finance; Equity; Finance; Entrepreneurship
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  • October 2006 (Revised October 2007)
  • Case

Information Technology and Innovation at Shinsei Bank

Shinsei Bank was rebuilt from the ashes of a failed predecessor, and pioneered new levels of customer service in retail banking in Japan. The bank's information technology, however, was vestigial at best and not well suited to the new service models Shinsei was... View Details
Keywords: Information Technology; Banks and Banking; Innovation and Invention; Banking Industry; Japan
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  • 25 Oct 2013
  • News

Why Hire an MBA When You Can Rent One?

  • 10 Sep 2018
  • News

Get your team to help you to switch off the ‘always on’ culture

    Building Climate-Resilient Cities and Infrastructure

    This episode in our climate adaptation series features HBS Professor John Macomber. John discusses how companies and governments need to incorporate climate resilience as they develop and finance real estate and infrastructure to address the risks of flooding,... View Details

      William E. Fruhan

      Professor WILLIAM E. FRUHAN, JR. is George E. Bates Professor, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. He received his BS degree from Yale University, and his MBA and DBA degrees from Harvard University.  He has served as Senior Associate Dean and Director of... View Details

      Keywords: aircraft; airline; chemical; electronics; grocery; medical supplies; oil ＆ gas; pharmaceuticals; retailing; steel
      • 2014
      • Article

      Unequality: Who Gets What and Why It Matters

      By: Michael I. Norton
      Who should get what, and what are the consequences? Economic inequality in the United States has been rising for decades, yet only recently have behavioral scientists explored two central questions surrounding the optimal level of inequality. First, what are the... View Details
      Keywords: Inequality; Ethics; Productivity; Gambling; Equality and Inequality; Fairness; Income; Performance Productivity; United States
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      • Research Summary

      Can Gambling Increase Savings? Empirical Evidence on Prize-linked Savings Accounts

      This paper studies whether prize-linked savings (PLS) accounts, which offer random, lottery-like payouts to account holders in lieu of risk-free interest, can aid individuals in increasing savings levels by adding the chance to “win big.”  Using micro-level data from... View Details
      Keywords: Lottery; Banking; Saving; Commercial Banking; Africa
      • 2008
      • Working Paper

      Minimally Altruistic Wages and Unemployment in a Matching Model

      By: Julio J. Rotemberg
      This paper presents a model in which firms recruit both unemployed and employed workers by posting vacancies. Firms act monopsonistically and set wages to retain their existing workers as well as to attract new ones. The model differs from Burdett and Mortensen (1998)... View Details
      Keywords: Retention; Selection and Staffing; Employment; Wages; Mathematical Methods
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      • Program

      Authentic Leader Development

      teamwork and helps individuals at all levels of the organization to realize their leadership potential Expand your personal and professional network Extend your network by living and working with accomplished executives from various... View Details
      • 02 Jan 2024
      • Research & Ideas

      10 Trends to Watch in 2024

      The lightning-fast ascent of generative AI isn’t the only sea change on the horizon for businesses in the new year. The global economy is in flux as war, climate change, trade issues, and infrastructure problems demand attention. Many companies continue to struggle to... View Details
      Keywords: by Rachel Layne
      • 29 Apr 2025
      • HBS Seminar

      Magie Cheng & David Huang

      • 17 Aug 2016
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Venture Capital Data: Opportunities and Challenges

      Keywords: by Steven N. Kaplan and Josh Lerner; Financial Services; Banking
      • Teaching Interest

      Driving Organizational Agility - Virtual

      By: Ranjay Gulati
      Today's businesses must be alert to changes in the external environment, develop competitive strategies quickly—and adapt the organization to execute. In this virtual program, you'll explore organizational structures and processes that have enabled businesses to... View Details
      • Article

      Does the Scope of the Sell-Side Analyst Industry Matter? An Examination of Bias, Accuracy, and Information Content of Analyst Reports

      By: Kenneth Merkley, Roni Michaely and Joseph Pacelli
      We examine changes in the scope of the sell-side analyst industry and whether these changes impact information dissemination and the quality of analysts’ reports. Our findings suggest that changes in the number of analysts covering an industry impact analyst... View Details
      Keywords: Analyst Industry; Sell-side Analysts; Analyst Reports; Finance; Analysis; Information; Reports; Quality; Financial Services Industry
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      Physician-Induced Demand for Medical Care

      By: Jerry R. Green
      This paper addresses the theoretical models designed to ascertain the existence of a variable level of physicians' activity in shifting the demand of their patients. Two basic approaches are followed: equilibrium models of the demand for health care, and disequilibrium... View Details
      Keywords: Physicians; Economic Equilibrium; Monopolistic Competition; Economic Competition; Medical Care
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      Entrepreneurial Creativity Through Motivational Synergy

      By: T. M. Amabile
      This paper defines and describes entrepreneurial creativity, which is the generation and implementation of novel, appropriate ideas to establish a new venture. Entrepreneurial creativity can be exhibited in established organizations as well as in start-up firms. The... View Details
      Keywords: Creativity; Motivation and Incentives; Organizational Culture; Entrepreneurship; Innovation and Invention
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