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    Krishna G. Palepu

    KRISHNA G. PALEPU is the Ross Graham Walker Professor of Business Administration, and has served previously as Senior Advisor to the President of Harvard University, and Senior Associate Dean... View Details

    Keywords: financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services
    • 31 Jul 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, July 31, 2018

    and financial technology, the digital health ecosystem is in its nascent stages and has been waiting for a catalyst to seed the system. This National Health Protection Scheme is expected to provide just this impetus for widespread... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

      Martin A. Sinozich

      Martin Sinozich is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in both MBA and Executive Education programs.  For first-year MBAs, Martin teaches in Field Global Immersion, a required course that... View Details

        Dutch Leonard

        Herman B. ("Dutch") Leonard is Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School and the George F. Baker, Jr. Professor of Public Sector Management at Harvard University's John F. Kennedy School of Government. In... View Details

        Keywords: education industry; federal government; health care; nonprofit industry; state government
        • 07 Jul 2008
        • Research & Ideas

        Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

        successful investments—to avoid having to report any declines in their value. The problem was that many of these hedges were not real, because Enron was essentially hedging with itself. To help disguise the company's deteriorating View Details
        Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities
        • December 2020
        • Case

        XP: Dual Track Financing Alternatives

        By: Marco Di Maggio, Pedro Levindo and Carla Larangeira
        XP, an investment platform, was on the verge of defining whether to do an IPO or selling off a majority stake to Itaú Unibanco, Brazil´s largest financial conglomerate. Under the leadership of Guilherme Benchimol, XP´s co-founder and CEO, XP had risen to become the... View Details
        Keywords: Financing Decisions; Expansion; Decision Choices and Conditions; Latin America; Brazil
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        • November 2020 (Revised February 2021)
        • Case

        Wes Hall and the BlackNorth Initiative

        By: Shikhar Ghosh, Marilyn Morgan Westner and Reza Satchu
        Wes Hall founded Kingsdale Advisors and built it into one of Canada’s leading shareholder services and advisory firms. Influenced by the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement and a series of social injustices—specifically the death of George Floyd in police custody—Hall... View Details
        Keywords: Racism; Cultural Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Diversity; Race; Social Issues; Ethics; Canada; North America
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        • 07 Dec 2016
        • HBS Case

        Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing

        replaced financial advisors with robo-advisors, which use big data and algorithms to determine the best places to put clients’ money—and appeal to a whole new generation of investors. Technology replaces the... View Details
        Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
        • September 2016 (Revised August 2018)
        • Case

        State Street—The Development and Growth of SHE

        By: Vikram Gandhi
        State Street Global Advisors was the investment arm of State Street Corporation, one of the largest custodians and asset managers in the world with over $2.3 trillion in assets under management. Inspired by demand from a large pension fund client for better gender... View Details
        Keywords: ETF; Asset Management; Financial Services Industry
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          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
          • March 2009 (Revised April 2011)
          • Course Overview Note

          Growing, Financing, and Managing Family and Closely Held Firms: Overview of the Course

          By: Belen Villalonga
          Most companies around the world are controlled by their founding families, including more than half of all public corporations in the U.S. and Europe and more than two thirds of those in Asia. These companies are the subject of the Financial Management of Family and... View Details
          Keywords: Family Business; Financial Management; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Family Ownership; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Valuation
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            W. Carl Kester

            Carl Kester is a Baker Foundation Professor and the George Fisher Baker Jr. Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at Harvard Business School. He is a member of the Finance Unit. He served as Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs (2006-2010), Chairman of the... View Details

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

              Brian J. Hall

              Brian J. Hall is the Albert H. Gordon Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He served as the Unit Head for the Negotiation, Organizations and Markets (NOM) Unit for 14 years. Previously, he was an assistant professor of economics in the... View Details

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

                Vikram Gandhi

                Vikram S. Gandhi is the Gerald P. Kaminsky Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the General Management Unit. He has developed and teaches two new courses in the Elective Curriculum of the MBA Program. The first is a finance and investing course, Sustainable... View Details

                Keywords: financial services
                • September 2002 (Revised January 2003)
                • Case

                Dimensional Fund Advisors, 2002

                By: Randolph B. Cohen
                Dimensional Fund Advisors (DFA) is an investment management firm that prides itself on basing its investment strategies on sound academic research. Many of the best-known finance research papers of the past two decades (especially those by Eugene Fama and Kenneth... View Details
                Keywords: Knowledge Use and Leverage; Research; Success; Investment; Financial Services Industry
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                  Sunil Gupta

                  Co-Chair, Driving Digital Strategy

                  Sunil Gupta is the Edward W. Carter Professor of Business Administration and  co-chair of the executive program on Driving... View Details

                  Keywords: financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services
                  • March 2021
                  • Case

                  P.F. Chang's

                  By: Ashish Nanda, Nitin Nohria and Margaret Cross
                  Excited yet apprehensive after being named CEO of P.F. Chang’s beginning July 1st, 2020, Damola Adamolekun was well aware of the extraordinary challenges facing the firm. The closure of businesses deemed “nonessential” owing to the COVID-19 pandemic had devastated the... View Details
                  Keywords: Restaurants; COVID-19 Pandemic; Scenario Planning; Scenarios; Health Pandemics; Risk and Uncertainty; Strategy
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                  • 30 May 2017
                  • First Look

                  First Look at New Research and Ideas, May 30

                  ignoring—advice from others. Across six studies, we find that advisors interpersonally penalize those who ignore their advice. This effect stems from both harsher perceptions of the advice seeker as well as a decrease in advisors’ sense... View Details
                  Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

                    William A. Sahlman

                    William Sahlman is a Baker Foundation Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School.

                    Mr. Sahlman received an A.B. degree in Economics from Princeton University (1972), an M.B.A. from Harvard University (1975), and a Ph.D. in Business... View Details

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                      Roberto Verganti

                      Roberto Verganti is in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches Design Theory and Practice for the double degree program MS/MBA conducted jointly by the Harvard Business School and the... View Details

                      Keywords: automotive; computer; consumer products; electronics; fashion; food; furniture; high technology; home appliances; industrial goods; pharmaceuticals; semiconductor; software; telecommunications; textiles