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  • 08 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 8

Entrepreneurs in U.S. Financial History, 1775-1914 Author:T.K. McCraw Publication:Capitalism and Society 5, no. 1 (2010) Abstract Throughout its history, the U.S. has been the beneficiary of a worldwide in-migration of entrepreneurial... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Feb 2018
  • Book

The New History of American Capitalism

Desan look to how scholars in history, law, and political science are redefining capitalism in light of the American experience. Essayists write on such diverse subjects as markets, selling of slave clothing, the Gilded Age, women’s rights, money and finance, View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
  • April 2023
  • Case

Strive Asset Management

By: Suraj Srinivasan, Lynn S. Paine and Aldo Sesia
Strive Asset Management, which launched in 2022, was actively targeting several leading U.S. companies in the upcoming 2023 proxy voting season to stop acquiescing to those large asset managers and other institutional shareholders who were pressing those companies to... View Details
Keywords: ESG; Shareholder Activism; Asset Management; Investment Funds; Corporate Governance; Risk Management; Climate Change; Diversity; Equity; Financial Services Industry; United States
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  • Web

2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

transition to renewables without sacrificing financial performance or putting off investors? Over what time horizon? In this session, we will discuss how setting ambitious net-zero energy goals means taking calculated View Details
  • June 2011 (Revised September 2011)
  • Case

Two Key Decisions for China's Sovereign Fund

By: Robert C. Pozen and Xiaoyu Gu
The China Investment Corporation (CIC) was China's sovereign wealth fund (SWF), established with $200 billion of registered capital in September 2007 to diversify China's foreign exchange holdings and increase risk-adjusted returns on those assets. CIC was unusual in... View Details
Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Business Growth and Maturation; Decisions; Capital; Investment Banking; Investment Funds; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Ownership; Business and Shareholder Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Wealth; Expansion; Financial Services Industry; China; United States
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  • March 2021
  • Case

P.F. Chang's

By: Ashish Nanda, Nitin Nohria and Margaret Cross
Excited yet apprehensive after being named CEO of P.F. Chang’s beginning July 1st, 2020, Damola Adamolekun was well aware of the extraordinary challenges facing the firm. The closure of businesses deemed “nonessential” owing to the COVID-19 pandemic had devastated the... View Details
Keywords: Restaurants; COVID-19 Pandemic; Scenario Planning; Scenarios; Health Pandemics; Risk and Uncertainty; Strategy
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  • 20 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 20, 2008

2008): 19 Abstract Research over 35 years shows only a weak link between socially responsible corporate behavior and good financial performance. However, there's no evidence of risk in doing good, only in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Emerson Collective - Recruiting

experience because it enables students to quickly build credibility with founders and truly have empathy for what they are going through.” Ideal candidates for the growth stage teams will often have previous financial experience. The HBS... View Details
  • Web

My Summer of Joy with the National Parks Service - Recruiting

Colorado, I got to work with the absolute coolest group of researchers, passionate about shipwrecks, diving technology, underwater photography, history, and climate change. I ended up focusing a lot on financial analysis for the team and... View Details
  • Web

Increasing Value in Care Delivery - Health Care

focus of Professor Robert Kaplan’s research and Executive Education teaching. He focuses on two topics: measuring and managing organizational risk and, in a joint project with Michael Porter , measuring the cost of delivering health care... View Details
  • 13 May 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Just Say No to Wall Street: Putting A Stop to the Earnings Game

Keywords: by Joseph Fuller & Michael C. Jensen; Financial Services
  • 26 Apr 2011
  • First Look

First Look: April 26

only when publicly disclosed fundamental signals have high precision; fundamentals are thus the sole driver of crises in low-precision settings. We affirm this proposition on 39 currency crises by exploiting a key publicly disclosed fundamental driving View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • April 2010 (Revised October 2010)
  • Case

Vale: Global Expansion in the Challenging World of Mining

By: Tarun Khanna, Aldo Musacchio and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho
In 2009 the management of Vale, a Brazilian diversified mining company and the largest iron ore producer in the world, was under pressure from at least two fronts. First, the emergence of China as the most important consumer of iron ore in the last few years had... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Investment; Global Strategy; Risk Management; Market Entry and Exit; Business and Government Relations; Competitive Strategy; Mining Industry; Brazil
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  • 21 Oct 2015
  • Research & Ideas

How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good

In 2008, entrepreneur Brian Chesky and his two San Francisco roommates made the rounds of Silicon Valley VC firms with what they thought was a great idea: a website and mobile app that would allow homeowners to open their homes to strangers to sleep on their floor... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services; Financial Services
  • 18 Jun 2013
  • First Look

First Look: June 18

account for horizontal peer comparison when designing executive wage contracts and that this comparison has productivity consequences for firms. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=43633 How Do Risk Managers Become... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 01 Jan 2010
  • News

James Dimon, MBA 1982

and management practices are legendary — as a strategist who can integrate fractured businesses; as a dealmaker who bought two failing banks during the extraordinary circumstances of the past two years; as a relentless risk manager who... View Details
  • 27 Jan 2015
  • First Look

First Look: January 27

  Publications January 2015 American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Do Strict Capital Requirements Raise the Cost of Capital? Bank Regulation, Capital Structure, and the Low Risk Anomaly By: Baker, Malcolm, and Jeffrey Wurgler... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

unlocking ESG value. Key Themes: ESG and activism may in fact be a source of financial and impact alpha; however, the path from theory to implementation is still being tested. Investing in Nature: The Nature Conservancy and NatureVest... View Details
  • 03 Nov 2014
  • Working Paper Summaries

Adding Value Through Venture Capital in Latin America and the Caribbean

Keywords: by Josh Lerner, Ann Leamon, James Tighe & Susana Garcia-Robles; Financial Services
  • 05 Feb 2018
  • What Do You Think?

Should Companies Disclose Employee Compensation?

believes in a practice he calls “radical transparency.” That means “giving most everyone the ability to see most everything (to reduce) harmful office politics and the risks of bad behavior more likely to take place behind closed doors... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services