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- October 1984 (Revised July 1988)
- Case
Mark Twain Bancshares, Inc.
Describes the history, management, and organization of an extremely successful bank holding company. The company has had a very charismatic chairman, has made MBAs bank presidents at very early ages, and has a long record of innovation. Now deregulation and a coming... View Details
Badaracco, Joseph L., Jr. "Mark Twain Bancshares, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 385-178, October 1984. (Revised July 1988.)
- 14 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Thriving in the Turbulence of Emerging Markets
that the company survived the "license raj" era through a commitment to legitimacy and strong family values. "You could expand, but a lot of things were required, bribes, and we would never give a bribe, so... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Of Value and Values
trillion in assets in 2008. One such member of PRI is Generation Investment Management, a company founded by David Blood (MBA ’85) and former U.S. Vice President Al Gore, with View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Ink: The Habit of Innovation
Habit Inside Your Organization. The book, co-authored by Innosight partners Andy Parker and Natalie Painchaud, as well as Paul Cobban of DBS Bank in Singapore, suggests there is a better way. The authors... View Details
- 05 Feb 2009
- Research & Ideas
In Praise of Marketing
Marketing and innovation produce results; all the rest are costs." Warren Buffett, America's most celebrated investor, has religiously invested in companies with strong brand names such as Coca-Cola and American Express. To this day,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Golden State of Mind
commit to any single venture. “In my heart, I knew that I had to spread myself around a little bit more,” he recalls. The venture capital industry made that possible. In those first few years, he bummed an office from Technology Venture... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The Prophet of Start-Ups
government regulators, who repeatedly threatened to put ARD out of business. The Securities & Exchange Commission, to cite one example, ruled that ARD officers could not hold... View Details
- Web
The Art of "Posting" - The Art of American Advertising
art and advertising. As the Railroad Advocate observed in 1856, “The various locomotive builders are getting up very handsome colored lithographs of their machines. . . . They are the appropriate adornments for the View Details
- October 2017 (Revised April 2019)
- Case
Eastern Bank: Innovating Through Eastern Labs
By: Karen Mills, Dennis Campbell and Aaron Mukerjee
Eastern Bank is a 200-year-old New England mutual bank with a community focus. Eastern specializes in small business lending, having made strategic investments to become the top SBA lender in New England in the midst of the Great Recession, when other banks were... View Details
Mills, Karen, Dennis Campbell, and Aaron Mukerjee. "Eastern Bank: Innovating Through Eastern Labs." Harvard Business School Case 318-068, October 2017. (Revised April 2019.)
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
The Class of 1977
companies do business in China to stay competitive in a global economy. He has been Class Secretary for the Class of 1977 since 1981. Twenty-five years ago, members of the... View Details
Keywords: Desmond Wong
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Work of Failure Analysis
real organizations, we review a few case study examples below. Examples Of Systematically Analyzing Failure Edmondson et al. report how Julie Morath, the Chief Operating Officer at the Minneapolis Children's... View Details
Keywords: by Amy Edmondson & Mark D. Cannon
- 25 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Harvard Business School Class of 2021 Student Profiles
I have created opportunities for others? HBS shows me that living my values is my true north.” HOME REGION Cambridge, MA & North Carolina UNDERGRAD EDUCATION University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill PREVIOUS EXPERIENCE... View Details
- 30 Dec 2013
- Research & Ideas
Most Popular Articles of 2013
Best Employees Many companies hand out awards such as "employee of the month," but do they work to motivate performance? Not really, says Ian Larkin. In fact, they may turn off your best employees... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 01 Jun 1996
- News
Keepers of the Flame
Weights and Hurdles This is the sort of heavy lifting that has occupied A.D. Frazier, Jr. (85th AMP), COO of ACOG, for the last five years. Asked how he's enjoying the workout, the gruff but amiable Frazier... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- November 2013
- Supplement
Arch Wireless, Inc. (B): Food for Vultures
By: Stuart C. Gilson
In 2002, a hedge fund investor acquires the distressed bank debt of a bankrupt wireless paging company and converts his holding into common stock of the reorganized entity. Determining his likely return from this investment is challenging, given that the entire... View Details
- 03 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Is the Future of MBA Education?
changed, and with it the security that used to come almost automatically with an MBA degree. [ ] High-paying jobs are no longer guaranteed to graduates, and the opportunity costs of two years of... View Details
- 01 Nov 2017
- What Do You Think?
What Are the Real Lessons of the Wells Fargo Case?
If that’s the case, there must be an educational treasure trove in the recent experiences at Wells Fargo, regarded as one of the best-managed banks in the world. A case about Wells Fargo might well contain... View Details
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
The State of the Markets
to pay the IOUs coming due." Financial markets can help that happen by offering mechanisms that enable capital to be allocated to companies and industries where it can be the most productive. The result is structural changes in the... View Details
Keywords: by James E. Aisner
- 14 Mar 2019
- News
The Merchant of Osaka
country where women hold only 5 percent of senior leadership roles. Her strategy is radically simple: fix the system by designing for the patient. She’s leading a quiet shift, not a noisy revolution, but in... View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
- 11 Jan 2019
- Blog Post
The ABCs of Recruiting at HBS
EC? RC? Aldrich? What’s an Aldrich? Every organization has their own acronyms and jargon and HBS is no exception. Here are some of the terms used at HBS that relate to on-campus company recruiting.... View Details