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  • May 2003
  • Case

Renault-Nissan Alliance, The

By: Michael Y. Yoshino and Perry Fagan
On Wednesday, May 29, 2002, the board of directors of Renault-Nissan BV (RNBV) met for the first time to discuss the state of the alliance between Renault SA and Nissan Motors-two of the world's largest automakers. RNBV was a 50/50 joint venture company established in... View Details
Keywords: Joint Ventures; Global Strategy; Organizational Culture; Alliances; Business or Company Management; Mergers and Acquisitions; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Auto Industry
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  • 21 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 21

by 5%-7% per year in risk-adjusted stock returns. In sum, our results document a surprisingly large impact of immigrants' economic role as conduits of information for firms in their new countries. Download... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 15 Nov 2018
  • News

HBS's Rock Center for Entrepreneurship Announces Rock Venture Capital Partners

  • May 2016 (Revised August 2022)
  • Case

RegionFly: Cutting Costs in the Airline Industry

By: Susanna Gallani and Eva Labro
RegionFly is a small, private airline specializing in ultra-premium services. Founded shortly after the "Golden Age of airline travel," RegionFly's financial performance had been strong for several decades. More recently, however, the results have taken a downward... View Details
Keywords: Recession; Downsizing; Profitability; Cost Management; Profit; Luxury; Competitive Strategy; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Divisions; Logistics; Decision Making; Strategic Planning; Air Transportation Industry
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  • 08 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 8, 2010

by overseas Chinese in China. Our paper takes advantage of a large dataset—over 50,000 firms over a period of eight years—that is comprised of two types of foreign firms with investments in China—those owned... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

    Managing Human Assets

    The time has come for American managers to rethink the traditional relationship between management and workers. The personnel practices of the past are an obstacle today, blocking the higher productivity and quality levels your firm will need to succeed in the... View Details

      Jim Matheson

      Jim joined the HBS Faculty in 2019 and teaches the EC courses Entrepreneurial Finance and Tough Tech Ventures and is a faculty affiliate of the Business & Environment Initiative.  He is an active investor, and Board director & advisor for... View Details

        Benjamin C. Esty

        Benjamin Esty is the Roy and Elizabeth Simmons Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Over the years, he has taught a variety of courses ranging from advanced corporate finance and project finance to competitive strategy and leadership. He... View Details

        Keywords: banking; asset management; investment banking industry; consumer products; shipping; wine; financial services
        • Editorial

        Why ESG Funds Fail to Scale

        By: Gabriel Karageorgiou and George Serafeim
        You’ve seen the headlines about the growth in environmental, social, and governance funds. Many investment professionals might read these and believe that launching a new ESG investment firm or ESG offering will be an automatic success. Our analysis of the data shows... View Details
        Keywords: ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; ESG Disclosure; ESG Disclosure Metrics; ESG Ratings; ESG Reporting; Investment Management; Investment Strategy; Investments; Investment Fund; Sustainability; Sustainable Finance; Sustainable Investing; Investment; Management; Strategy; Investment Portfolio; Finance; Growth and Development; Failure
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        • May 2022 (Revised June 2022)
        • Case

        Proposing to Redesign a Global Investment Bank

        By: David G. Fubini
        A major, NYC-based, global investment bank is looking to rethink its Systems strategy amid a rapidly evolving digital landscape. Your firm has served the client across most of its major geographies on a range of substantial Systems and IT efforts, but is facing... View Details
        Keywords: Consulting; Professional Services; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Digital Strategy; Presentations; Competitive Strategy; Consulting Industry; New York (city, NY)
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          Roy D. Shapiro

          Roy D. Shapiro is the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.  He is currently the faculty co-chair of the School's Technology and Operations Management Unit... View Details

          • 18 Oct 2022
          • Research & Ideas

          When Bias Creeps into AI, Managers Can Stop It by Asking the Right Questions

          that Uber was charging people in poor neighborhoods systematically higher prices than those in richer areas. Whether it's purposeful or not, we don't know for every company, obviously, but we believe that it’s likely not intended. That said, the problem for the View Details
          Keywords: by Rachel Layne
          • Research Summary

          Managing Innovation in the Emerging Industrial Research System

          The second track of Chesbrough's research looks at issues of how firms manage technology in an environment where research capability is increasingly distributed across the globe. Chesbrough sees the research system in the United States undergoing significant change,... View Details
          • August 2024 (Revised February 2025)
          • Case

          Novo Nordisk Foundation

          By: Debora L. Spar and Julia M. Comeau
          In 2024, Novo Nordisk A/S was one of the most profitable firms in the world, thanks largely to just two GLP-1-based drugs, Ozempic and Wegovy. Unusually, this incredibly profitable firm was controlled not by individual private shareholders, but by a non-profit... View Details
          Keywords: Pharmaceutical Companies; Diabetes; Obesity; Foundation; Non-profit Management; Profit; Corporate Governance; Business or Company Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Expansion; Philanthropy and Charitable Giving; Nonprofit Organizations; Pharmaceutical Industry; Denmark; Europe
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          • May 2022
          • Article

          When Harry Fired Sally: The Double Standard in Punishing Misconduct

          By: Mark Egan, Gregor Matvos and Amit Seru
          We examine gender differences in misconduct punishment in the financial advisory industry. We find evidence of a “gender punishment gap”: following an incident of misconduct, female advisers are 20% more likely to lose their jobs and 30% less likely to find new jobs... View Details
          Keywords: Financial Advisers; Brokers; Gender Discrimination; Consumer Finance; Financial Misconduct And Fraud; FINRA; Financial Institutions; Employees; Crime and Corruption; Gender; Prejudice and Bias; Personal Finance; Financial Services Industry
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          • 30 Mar 2003
          • Research & Ideas

          The Future of IT Consulting

          say, a product firm. Consequently, a product firm may not be attractive to various knowledge workers who prefer to work in the consulting environment. A fourth driver is the demand for process and behavior change that IT implementation... View Details
          Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Consulting
          • Winter 2023
          • Article

          Moral Firms?

          By: Rebecca Henderson
          Building a new political economy requires transforming our markets, our institutions, and our policy and regulatory regimes. In this essay, I argue that it also requires transforming the purpose of the firm: from a singular focus on maximizing financial returns to the... View Details
          Keywords: Transformation; Mission and Purpose; Economy
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          • February–March 2013
          • Article

          The Mobile Banking and Payment Revolution

          By: Sunil Gupta
          Mobile technology is revolutionizing the global banking and payment industry. It offers new opportunities for banks to provide added convenience to their existing customers in developed countries and reach a large population of unbanked customers in emerging markets.... View Details
          Keywords: Emerging Markets; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry
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          • March 1992
          • Case

          Merv Griffin's Resorts

          Discusses a management team that used computer-based information to micro market and provide superior products and service in a highly competitive market. The company is a leading firm in the gaming industry, and their extensive internal systems allowed them to track... View Details
          Keywords: Information Technology; Marketing
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          • 12 Apr 2013
          • HBS Seminar

          Gary Frazier, USC Marshall School of Business