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wealth in urban communities. Frank S. Jones MBA 1957 In 1971, Frank Jones was named Ford Professor of Urban Affairs and Planning and became the first African American tenured professor at the Massachusetts View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Step Change
London School of Economics. After stints as a researcher and analyst at investment bank EFG Hermes and the International Finance Corporation, she was recommended for a role at Egypt’s Ministry View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Generation Next
done at Godrej. (Earlier consultants, she notes, often operated as yes-men for her father.) They didn't disappoint: Vivek Gambhir (MBA 1997), the Bain partner who headed the project, notably challenged the status quo, and Nisa went on to hire him as head View Details
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Power and Influence for Positive Impact | HBS Online
Entrenched Power Explain how power hierarchies develop and perpetuate themselves and understand and apply organizational and cultural strategies for overcoming the impact of stereotypes. Highlights What Are Power Hierarchies? View Details
- 06 May 2021
- HBS Case
How Four Women Made Miami More Equitable for Startups
their work, Kanter says. For instance, Lipsey lobbied to get a young educator appointed to the Florida State Board of Education and ended up stepping into the role herself, while she was already busy growing... View Details
Keywords: by Carolyn DiPaolo
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
focus on entrepreneurial actors trying to deliver better health and education outcomes at a lower cost and requiring less time to more people. He also will discuss the role of ventures in addressing climate... View Details
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
Research Brief: As the Wind Blows
While bold, innovative public policy played an important role in fostering success, the level of policy consistency was just as important, Jones discovers. “There’s a Janus face View Details
- September 2002 (Revised June 2003)
- Case
Ian Woods at Wellington Peterson & Co.
By: John J. Gabarro and Leslie Freeman
Ian Woods, the head of an IT systems group in an investment bank, us facing a dilemma. Though the group is meeting its technical goals, Woods is encountering a series of managerial and leadership-related problems. View Details
Keywords: Investment Banking; Leadership; Managerial Roles; Problems and Challenges; Information Technology
Gabarro, John J., and Leslie Freeman. "Ian Woods at Wellington Peterson & Co." Harvard Business School Case 403-071, September 2002. (Revised June 2003.)
- 05 Jul 2017
- Research & Ideas
Are Stockbrokers Illegally Leaking Confidential Information to Favored Clients?
investors, which in turn is acquired thanks to the brokers’ ability to observe order flow before the rest of the market.” Stockbrokers are intermediaries who buy and sell stocks for retail and institutional... View Details
- March 1974 (Revised June 1996)
- Case
First National City Bank Operating Group (A)
By: Jay W. Lorsch
Growth in the banking field has produced new demands on the "back office." Traditional management practices in check processing and paper handling operations have resulted in ten years of cost increases and quality loss. New manager of the operating group faces an... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Transition; Banks and Banking; Management Practices and Processes; Managerial Roles; Production; Banking Industry
Lorsch, Jay W. "First National City Bank Operating Group (A)." Harvard Business School Case 474-165, March 1974. (Revised June 1996.)
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Groundswells
Executive Education needs while increasing the vitality of the southern part of campus. BLOOMBERG COMES ONLINE Completed in 2005 under the stewardship View Details
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From Counting Risk to Making Risk Count: Boundary-Work in Risk Management
By: Anette Mikes
For two decades, risk management has been gaining ground in banking. In light of the recent financial crisis, several commentators concluded that the continuing expansion of risk measurement is dysfunctional (Power, 2009; Taleb, 2007). This paper asks whether the... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Banks and Banking; Financial Crisis; Expansion; Organizational Culture; Management Teams; Managerial Roles
Mikes, Anette. "From Counting Risk to Making Risk Count: Boundary-Work in Risk Management." Accounting, Organizations and Society 36, nos. 4-5 (May–July 2011): 226–245.
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Q&A: Andrew Kendall
geared to inner-city Boston youth. In his current role as executive director of The Trustees of Reservations, he oversees a revered, 109-year-old Massachusetts View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises
- 23 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Brand Power from Wedgwood to Dell: Part Two
talents. But the stories in Brand New would not have been written if these entrepreneurs had not also been institution builders, if they had not figured out how to organize the production of top-quality... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2006
- News
One-on-One with Carter Roberts
got to be able to engage institutions at that level because any kind of strictly local solution is going to fail. Third, we need to tell our stories better than we have. Instead View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson
- March 1974 (Revised June 1995)
- Case
First National City Bank Operating Group (B)
By: Jay W. Lorsch
Growth in demands on the bank's "back office" required a totally new approach to management. New stress on systems orientation, objectives, measurement, process design and control has resulted in lower costs, fewer people, and higher quality. Also resulted in fear,... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Transition; Banks and Banking; Management Practices and Processes; Managerial Roles; Production; Outcome or Result; Banking Industry
Lorsch, Jay W. "First National City Bank Operating Group (B)." Harvard Business School Case 474-166, March 1974. (Revised June 1995.)
- 11 Oct 2012
- News
Answering the Doctor's Call
key advisory and stewardship role at Downing Enterprises. “But,” he adds, “I can definitely see the synergistic advantages of having both business and medical training.... View Details
- November 2001 (Revised August 2005)
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BigEast Bank (A): Credit Card Approval
By: Frances X. Frei and Dennis Campbell
BigEast is considering adopting a relationship-centric view in its credit card approval process. This would shift the bank's current practice of analyzing applications based on the merits of a single product to one where the customer's existing relationship is... View Details
Keywords: Customers; Forecasting and Prediction; Banks and Banking; Analytics and Data Science; Managerial Roles; Relationships; Adoption; Banking Industry
Frei, Frances X., and Dennis Campbell. "BigEast Bank (A): Credit Card Approval." Harvard Business School Case 602-098, November 2001. (Revised August 2005.)
- 04 Apr 2017
- Blog Post
Why I Love My Job: Jerry Murphy at The Davis Companies
Why I Love My Job is a series of interviews with HBS students and alumni on what drives their satisfaction at work. Current Position: Vice President - Investments, The Davis Companies Current Location: Boston, MA Describe your View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
- 29 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Global Change in the Built Environment
itself in recent years among institutional investors, partly because of the collapse of the stock market in 2001 and partly because of the high... View Details