Publications

December 2009 (Revised June 2010)
Case

Goldman Sachs: A Bank for All Seasons (A)

By: Lena G. Goldberg and Tiffany Lynne Obenchain

Facing the worldwide financial crisis, Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein considered his options including whether his company could avoid a forced marriage and what steps Goldman Sachs should take to try to restore confidence in financial services companies. View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Crisis; Commercial Banking; Investment Banking; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Crisis Management; Business Strategy; Banking Industry

Educators

January 12, 2010
Comment

A Mistake That Will Make Banks Riskier

By: Robert C. Pozen

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Risk and Uncertainty

June 2006
Article

Governance-linked D&O: Market-based Governance: Leveraging D&O Insurance to Drive Corporate Governance

By: Srikant M. Datar and J. H. Friedland

Keywords: Governance; Markets; Insurance; Corporate Governance

November–December 2019
Article

Making Sense of Soft Information: Interpretation Bias and Loan Quality

By: Dennis Campbell, Maria Loumioti and Regina Wittenberg Moerman

We explore whether behavioral biases impede the effective processing and interpretation of soft information in private lending. Taking advantage of the internal reporting system of a large federal credit union, we delineate three important biases likely to affect the... View Details

Keywords: Soft Information; Lending; Banking; Information; Financing and Loans; Banks and Banking; Decision Making

November 2013
Teaching Note

Choosing Health Insurance Coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA)

By: Robert C. Pozen, Katherine Brooks and Iwan Djanali

Keywords: Health Care; Health Care Industry; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry

2000
Conference Presentation

The Effect of IPO Team Ties on Investment Bank Affiliation and IPO Success

By: Ranjay Gulati

20 Mar 2019
News

A Proposed Megadeal Exposes the Grim Outlook for Europe’s Banks

2010
Book

A Call for Judgment: Sensible Finance for a Dynamic Economy

By: Amar Bhide

Our prosperity requires the enterprise of innumerable individuals and businesses who exercise their imagination and judgment—and bear responsibility for outcomes. And it is through dialogue and relationships that widespread enterprise is fostered, not merely prices in... View Details

Keywords: Recession; Banking; Banks; Finance; Economics; Macroeconomics; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; Banking Industry

June 1988 (Revised July 1989)
Case

John Hancock Mutual Life Insurance Co.: The Inflation Strategy Task Force (A)

1980 was a critical time for John Hancock with high inflation, high interest rates, increased competition, and the desertion of policy holders seeking new investment opportunities. A new lower level (of vice presidents) task force was set up by the executive committee... View Details

Keywords: Strategic Planning; Insurance; Inflation and Deflation; Insurance Industry; United States

Educators

2000
Working Paper

Does Competition Kill Relationships? Inside Investment Banking

By: Bharat Anand and A. Galetovic

Read Now

1990
Book

Investment Banking A Tale of Three Cities

By: Samuel Hayes and Philip M. Hubbard

July 2022
Supplement

TravelBank (B): Finalizing the U.S. Bank Acquisition

By: Laura Huang and Katie LaMattina

October 2012
Article

The Impact of Tort Reform on Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance Premiums

By: Ronen Avraham, Leemore S. Dafny and Max Schanzenbach

Read Now

March 2018
Teaching Note

Sales Misconduct at Wells Fargo Community Bank

By: Suraj Srinivasan, Dennis W. Campbell, Susanna Gallani and Amram Migdal

Teaching Note for HBS No. 118-009. View Details