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  • August 2012
  • Case

William Jeffrey at Bay Colony: On-Boarding (A)

By: Lena G. Goldberg
The decision-making process, policies and procedures, and legal obligations of the Board, the company's inside counsel and the company's outside counsel are explored in connection with on-boarding, investigating alleged misconduct of, and terminating a company's CEO,... View Details
Keywords: Leadership And Managing People; Employment Law; Business or Company Management; Law; Leadership; Governing and Advisory Boards; Employment; Corporate Governance; Financial Services Industry; Massachusetts
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  • August 2012
  • Supplement

William Jeffrey: Departing Bay Colony (C)

By: Lena G. Goldberg
The decision-making process, policies and procedures, and legal obligations of the Board, the company's inside counsel and the company's outside counsel are explored in connection with on-boarding, investigating alleged misconduct of, and terminating a company's CEO,... View Details
Keywords: Leadership And Managing People; Employment Law; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Resignation and Termination; Governance Compliance; Leadership; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States
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  • 12 Oct 1999
  • Research & Ideas

Women Leading Business: A New Kind of Conversation

financial planning, recognizing that most of our participants are in their 40s and 50s. Obviously, many of them already have personal financial managers, but we will talk about some broader issues and the... View Details
Keywords: Re: Myra M. Hart & Cynthia A. Montgomery
  • Article

Nudging: Progress to Date and Future Directions

By: John Beshears and Harry Kosowsky
Nudges influence behavior by changing the environment in which decisions are made, without restricting the menu of options and without altering financial incentives. This paper assesses past empirical research on nudging and provides recommendations for future work in... View Details
Keywords: Nudge; Choice Architecture; Behavioral Economics; Behavioral Science; Behavior; Change; Situation or Environment; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decision Making
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  • TeachingInterests

Executive Education - Owner/President Management Program

By: Martin A. Sinozich

Delivered in three units that span 24 months over three calendar years, the Owner/President Management (OPM) program is a transformative learning experience that boosts leadership skills and the value of participants’ enterprises.  Sinozich teaches the Finance... View Details

    David A. Moss

    David Moss is the Paul Whiton Cherington Professor at Harvard Business School, where he teaches in the Business, Government, and the International Economy (BGIE) unit. He earned his B.A. from Cornell University and his Ph.D. from Yale.  In 1992-1993, he served as a... View Details

    Keywords: financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services
    • August 2012
    • Supplement

    William Jeffrey: Performance at Bay Colony (B)

    By: Lena G. Goldberg
    The decision-making process, policies and procedures, and legal obligations of the Board, the company's inside counsel and the company's outside counsel are explored in connection with on-boarding, investigating alleged misconduct of, and terminating a company's CEO,... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership And Managing People; Employment Law; Business or Company Management; Law; Leadership; Governing and Advisory Boards; Employment; Corporate Governance; Financial Services Industry; Massachusetts
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    • November 2021 (Revised January 2022)
    • Case

    Scott Tucker (A): Race to the Top

    By: Aiyesha Dey and Amram Migdal
    The case tells the story of the rise and fall of Scott Tucker, an entrepreneur, businessman, passionate race car driver, competitor, and owner of a professional racing team. From 1997 to 2012, Tucker built a nationwide network of payday lending businesses, becoming a... View Details
    Keywords: Business Ventures; Crime and Corruption; Ethics; Fairness; Financing and Loans; Personal Finance; Governance; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Governance Compliance; Governance Controls; Financial Services Industry; United States
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      Reza R. Satchu

      Reza Satchu is a Senior Lecturer in... View Details

      • May 1993 (Revised May 1994)
      • Case

      Managing for Integrity: Three Vignettes

      By: Lynn S. Paine
      Three situations are described. A branch manager for a retail brokerage firm must decide whether to change the branch's cash management techniques to increase interest earnings. An auto mechanic must decide whether to oversell parts and repairs to meet sales and... View Details
      Keywords: Growth Management; Ethics; Decision Making; Organizational Culture; Financial Management; Sales; Organizational Change and Adaptation
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        Lauren H. Cohen

        Lauren Cohen is the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance & Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an Editor of the Review of Financial... View Details

        Keywords: financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services
        • 02 Apr 2013
        • Working Paper Summaries

        Monitoring and the Portability of Soft Information

        Keywords: by Dennis Campbell & Maria Loumioti; Banking
        • Article

        Democratizing Work: Redistributing Power in Organizations for a Democratic and Sustainable Future

        By: Julie Battilana, Julie Yen, Isabelle Ferreras and Lakshmi Ramarajan
        Environmental destruction and social inequalities are increasingly urgent challenges. How can corporations, which have played a key role in creating and reproducing these problems, be part of the solution? In this paper, we advance that a shift to more democratic forms... View Details
        Keywords: Corporate Citizenship; Corporate Social Responsibility; CSP; CSR; Domination; Industrial Relations; Power; Resistance; Work; Corporate Governance; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Governance; Power and Influence; Environmental Management; Social Issues
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        • 07 Jul 2009
        • First Look

        First Look: July 7

        effectiveness of these roles in actual organizational settings. The Return of State-Owned Enterprises: Should We Be Afraid? Authors:Aldo Musacchio and Francisco Flores-Macias Publication:Online Edition. Harvard International Review (March 2009) Abstract The global... View Details
        Keywords: Martha Lagace
        • 23 May 2017
        • First Look

        First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

        Corporate Debt in Emerging Markets By: Alfaro, Laura, Gonzalo Asis, Anusha Chari, and Ugo Panizza Abstract—This paper documents a set of stylized facts about leverage and financial fragility in the nonfinancial corporate sector in... View Details
        Keywords: Carmen Nobel
        • November 2003 (Revised April 2004)
        • Case

        Internal Governance and Control at Goldman Sachs: Block Trading

        By: Malcolm S. Salter and Ratna Sarkar
        Although the explicit problem presented in the case concerns pricing a block trade, the real issue involves the decision-making and oversight processes used to arrive at a price that is appropriate for both the client and Goldman Sachs. Asks students in assignment... View Details
        Keywords: Price; Governance Controls; Trust; Organizational Culture; Decision Making; Financial Services Industry
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          Lynn S. Paine

          Lynn Sharp Paine is a Baker Foundation Professor and John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration, Emerita, at Harvard Business School. A member and former chair of the General Management unit, she has served in numerous leadership positions including Senior... View Details

          • August 15, 2014
          • Article

          Can an Outside CEO Run a Family-Owned Business?

          By: Josh Baron and Rob Lachenauer
          This article explores the intricate dynamics that often characterize family-owned businesses, shedding light on key archetypes that play prominent roles within these organizations. Using a narrative approach, the article illustrates the challenges faced by leaders... View Details
          Keywords: Family Ownership; Personal Characteristics; Family and Family Relationships; Management Practices and Processes
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          • January 2001
          • Case

          Valuing Project Achieve

          By: Mihir A. Desai and Kathleen Luchs
          Project Achieve is a start-up providing information management solutions for schools. Its founders see a need for software both to manage the volumes of information necessary to administer a school and to connect parents, teachers, and students in a more effective way.... View Details
          Keywords: Business Startups; Valuation; Venture Capital; Cost of Capital; Cash Flow; Forecasting and Prediction
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          • 1989
          • Book

          Planning and Power in Iran: Ebtehaj and Economic Development under the Shah

          By: Geoffrey Jones
          This book provides a biography of Abol Hassan Ebtehaj, who headed Iran's central bank and Plan Organization during the 1940s and 1950s. It provides a wide-ranging survey of the problems of modernization and economic planning in Iran. Ebtehaj was at the center of... View Details
          Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Decision Making; Economics; Central Banking; Policy; Political History; Resignation and Termination; Biography; Books; Surveys; Growth and Development Strategy; Planning; Iran
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