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  • 09 Jul 2024
  • Research & Ideas

Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?

compared to the outsized results of private equity, venture capital, and hedge fund investment banking professionals, consulting partners have asked, “Why not us?” While there was once an acceptance that consulting yielded moderate... View Details
Keywords: by David Fubini; Consulting
  • 01 Dec 2004
  • News

The Future of Stem Cells

cardiovascular disease. In addition, apart from any possible therapeutic benefits, embryonic stem-cell research could play a central role in helping to understand the nature and development of disease generally. Spar, the Spangler Family... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 03 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 3

Institutions Authors:Matthew Hall, Anette Mikes, and Yuval Millo Abstract In this study, we examine transformations in the influence of risk managers in two large U.K. banks over a period of six years. Our analysis highlights that a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 24

perspective that Porter has taken, often as a result of his specific background and prior research interests. The chapter then turns to extensions of these core concepts in Porter's more recent work. A central focus of this work has been... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 28, 2009

http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=809079 Kinyuseisaku: Monetary Policy in Japan (B) Harvard Business School Case 709-056 Toshihiko Fukui, who works for the Government of the Bank of Japan, faced a complex... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • January 2010 (Revised March 2010)
  • Supplement

The Congressional Oversight Panel's Valuation of the TARP Warrants (B)

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
The Congressional Oversight Panel wants to value the warrants issued to the government in connection with the TARP investments of 2008, in order to increase the transparency of options repurchases. The case describes the methodology used to value the warrants. This... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Investment; Public Opinion; Valuation; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; United States
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  • September 2004 (Revised October 2004)
  • Case

Pat Anderson

By: Leslie A. Perlow and Daisy Wademan
Patten Bank's pending sale jeopardizes Pat Anderson's prospect of receiving an expected year-end bonus. What to do now? This problem follows several earlier conflicts that Anderson has confronted during the past four-and-one-half years spent working as an analyst and... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Organizational Culture; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Conflict Management; Power and Influence; Executive Compensation; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; United States
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  • 07 Nov 2007
  • Op-Ed

How Marketing Hype Hurt Boeing and Apple

and brand-building can boost stock prices by raising customer and investor expectations. But the penalties for not delivering on marketing promises are fast becoming as significant as not meeting quarterly earnings targets. Boeing had View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch; Aerospace; Consumer Products
  • 02 Sep 2021
  • News

Back to School

investment banking to become a seventh-grade math teacher at Harlem West Middle School, teaching for three years before taking positions in school leadership at Success Academy Midtown West and Harlem View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 14 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 14

Wellfleet Bank: All That Glisters Is Not Gold Anette MikesHarvard Business School Case 110-011 Inspired by one of the few banks that successfully weathered the 2007-2009 credit crisis, the case illustrates risk management in the world of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2017
  • News

City of Dreams

Mawilmada’s office in Colombo Fort, the city’s central business district. A somewhat hazardous stroll along broken sidewalks, ducking in and out of traffic, took us past the presidential palace, majestic colonial-era buildings, and,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Alice Carfrae; Sri Lanka; Construction of Buildings; Construction; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government
  • December 1995
  • Teaching Note

Millegan Creek Apartments, The TN

By: William J. Poorvu and John H. Vogel Jr.
Teaching Note for (9-395-118). View Details
Keywords: Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Texas
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  • 24 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 24

firms, is to adapt appropriately to market and institutional demands. Central to this challenge are decisions about how best to organize the expertise they marshal to compete. Expertise is organized at two levels: at a micro level through... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 2014 (Revised June 2015)
  • Case

Can Mexico Make Democracy Work?

By: Gunnar Trumbull and Jonathan Schlefer
Enrique Peña Nieto, the presidential candidate of the old Mexican ruling party elected in 2012, passed the most fundamental reforms in at least two decades. They included allowing private competition in the energy sector, including with the state-owned oil company,... View Details
Keywords: Democratization; Economic Development; Competition Policy; Exchange Rates; Comparative Advantage; Growth and Development; Government Legislation; Political Elections; Economic Growth; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Latin America; Mexico
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  • June 1991
  • Teaching Note

Savannah West, Teaching Note

By: William J. Poorvu and Katherine Sweetman
Teaching Note for (9-381-081). View Details
Keywords: Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Georgia (state, US)
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  • 21 Nov 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Geography of Corporate Giving

maintains its focus on the headquarters location, this may have a detrimental effect on areas that are losing headquarters. Our interviewees described how local banks used to be the largest supporters of social programs in one of the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan

ahead for Japan's business leaders and for global companies operating in Japan. Rohit Deshpande, Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing The culture of Japan tends to be outer directed. Thus, taking care of other people becomes much more View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
  • 16 Jul 2024
  • Op-Ed

Corporate Boards Are Failing in Their No. 1 Duty

incident, but then, under the aggressive leadership of John Stumpf and consumer banking head Carrie Tolstedt, the company created 3.3 million fictious consumer accounts. This led to Stumpf’s forced retirement and his replacement by COO... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George
  • 01 Mar 2007
  • News

The Plight of the Global Poor

Indeed, the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Muhammad Yunus and the microcredit Grameen Bank he founded in Bangladesh more than two decades ago. With interest rates ranging from zero to 20 percent, Grameen’s average loan (no... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; bottom of the pyramid (BOP); Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
  • 28 Apr 2011
  • Op-Ed

While Waiting for Japan’s Recovery, Let’s Enhance Supplier Competitiveness at Home

Connection is an example of one step in the right direction. Initiated last spring, IBM has brought together an initial consortium of seven major companies, including Caterpillar, Pfizer, Bank of America, Citibank, and AT&T, to... View Details
Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter