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20 May 2013
Op-Ed

Making America an Industrial Powerhouse Again

industries. Research funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) sowed the seeds for the internet and advanced computer graphics. And massive investments by the National Institutes of... View Details

Keywords: by Gary Pisano; Manufacturing

25 Aug 2022
News

Open Market

first focusing on scaling operations and then becoming a partner at Google Capital (now CapitalG), investing in late-stage tech companies and helping founders grow their businesses. The experience at Google was revelatory, with Howard... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Keith Negley; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments

01 Feb 1997
News

Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar

education may be able to buy a "contract" with a financial institution that will lock in the cost of tuition at today's rates. By making payments to such a contract rather than investing in growth funds,... View Details

Keywords: Elizabeth McNair

05 Sep 2006
First Look

First Look: September 5, 2006

Organization 13, no. 5 (September 2006): 653-676 Abstract While early neo-institutional studies did not explicitly tackle the issue of agency, more recent studies about institutional entrepreneurship have brought it to the forefront.... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

May 1998 (Revised October 1998)
Case

Teleswitch (C)

Supplements the (A) case. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details

Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Investment Banking; Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Wireless Technology; Manufacturing Industry; Telecommunications Industry

May 1998 (Revised October 1998)
Case

Teleswitch (B)

Supplements the (A) case. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details

Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Investment Banking; Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Wireless Technology; Manufacturing Industry; Telecommunications Industry

01 Dec 1998
News

A Journey to Leadership: Luke O'Neill

Stamford. "The headquarters was a dilapidated, pest-infested building in the heart of the local projects," he recalls. In 1988, O'Neill left the law firm to devote his full-time energy to mobilizing community support for reestablishing the Stamford facility as an View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

01 Jun 2006
News

Jay Light Named New HBS Dean

initiatives. He also was chair of the Finance unit (1986–88) and senior associate dean, director of Faculty Planning (1988–94). He took a leave of absence in 1977–79 to serve as director of investment and financial policies for the Ford... View Details

Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

01 Jun 2018
News

Floor It

draw people in, using more social media, employing jargon-free language, and “making everything simple and straightforward, from our registration process to the questions we ask,” says Giusti. Better Data Crunching The investment required... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Mengxin Li

July 2021
Teaching Plan

Aligning Mission and Margin at Southern Bancorp

By: Rebecca Henderson, Brian Trelstad and Eren Kuzucu

Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 321-099. In October 2020, after spending almost a decade to turnaround Southern Bancorp, an Arkansan bank founded with the mission to provide financial services to rural, underserved communities, CEO Darrin Williams is wondering how... View Details

Keywords: Racial Wealth Gap; Banks and Banking; Growth and Development; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Going Public; Investment Return; Social Issues; Wealth and Poverty; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States; Arkansas

February 2001 (Revised April 2001)
Case

Merrill Lynch: Integrated Choice (Abridged)

By: F. Warren McFarlan and James Weber

Merrill Lynch, a full-service brokerage firm with $1.5 trillion in client assets, is under attack from both discount and electronic brokerage firms. It responds with Integrated Choice, a suite of products designed to capture clients, from the do-it-yourself investor... View Details

Keywords: Investment Banking; Marketing Strategy; Distribution Channels; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Risk and Uncertainty; Financial Services Industry

2018
Working Paper

Bank Risk-Taking and the Real Economy: Evidence from the Housing Boom and Its Aftermath

By: Antonio Falato, Giovanni Favara and David Scharfstein

We present evidence that pressure to maximize short-term stock prices and earnings leads banks to increase risk. We start by showing that banks increase risk when they transition from private to public ownership through a public listing or an acquisition. The increase... View Details

Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Financial Markets; Investment; Corporate Finance; Banks and Banking

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HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer

Consolidated Balance Sheet Supplemental Financial Information From the Chief Financial Officer For Harvard Business School, fiscal 2023 marked a year of innovation and strong financial performance. As part of Dean Datar’s ambitious agenda, HBS launched the Digital,... View Details

Herbert A. Sklenar

as crushed stone for concrete, where Vulcan is the nation’s largest and most profitable producer. Coupled with this investment and expansion, Sklenar also instituted an array of cost cutting measures, all of... View Details

Keywords: Construction & Real Estate

24 Apr 2014
News

For African farmers looking to escape poverty, honey brings sweet success

Yusuf Keshavjee (OPM 17, 1991) helps African farmers and their families escape poverty through beekeeping. He cofounded Honey Care Africa (HCA), a private-sector enterprise in Kenya that partners with local NGOs and international development and financial View Details

March 2010
Teaching Note

Disruptive IPOs? WR Hambrecht & Co. (TN)

By: Willy C. Shih

Teaching Note for 610065. View Details

Keywords: Auctions; Financing and Loans; Theory; Disruptive Innovation; Initial Public Offering; Investment Banking; Financial Services Industry; Service Industry

November 2006
Case

Selling Biovail Short

By: Malcolm P. Baker, Chris Lombardi and Aldo Sesia

Hedge fund SAC Capital and analysts from Gradient Analytics and Banc of America face charges of stock price manipulation from Biovail, a Canadian pharmaceutical company. Gradient and BofA produced negative reports on Biovail's earnings quality. At the same time, SAC... View Details

Keywords: Stock Shares; Investment Banking; Asset Pricing; Financial Strategy; Crime and Corruption; Pharmaceutical Industry; Financial Services Industry; Canada