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  • 25 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 25

significant, misstep by Dimon who had successfully steered Morgan through the financial crisis and was regarded as one of the financial industry's best leaders and risk... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 1999
  • News

Banking on Success

of change. The unprecedented flood of mergers and acquisitions, the advent of the global marketplace, the stock market's dizzying rise, and the capricious fortunes of technology-based companies have made financial services a fascinating... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
  • Web

Bibliography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World. New York: Viking, 2018. Williams, Mark T. Uncontrolled Risk: The Lessons of Lehman Brothers and How Systemic Risk Can Still Bring Down the View Details
  • November 29, 2011
  • Article

The Role of The Board in Creating a Sustainable Strategy

By: Robert G. Eccles, Ioannis Ioannou and George Serafeim
While conceptually elegant, the belief that a corporation's role is to maximize value for shareholders is under increasing challenge as society's expectations for companies change. An equally elegant new concept that takes account of these dual pressures has yet to... View Details
Keywords: Value Creation; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Corporate Strategy; Business and Shareholder Relations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Performance Expectations; Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Practices and Processes; Decisions; Risk and Uncertainty; Cost vs Benefits; Information
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  • June 2011
  • Article

Segmenting the Base of the Pyramid

By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Michael Chu and Djorjiji Petkoski
The bottom of the economic pyramid is a risky place for business, but decent profits can be made there if companies link their financial success with their constituencies' well-being. To do that effectively, you must understand the nuances of people's daily lives, say... View Details
Keywords: International Finance; Risk and Uncertainty; Value Creation; Human Needs; Income; Poverty; Profit; Relationships; Economics; Segmentation
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  • 30 Aug 2018
  • Blog Post

My Difficult Decision to Leave Google for HBS

get accepted into HBS and decided to attend. Even though I was already on a great track and well-compensated at Google, I determined that attending would be a long-term investment that would likely pay off during the twilight of my career. It turns out I was right... View Details
  • Web

HBS - Key Metrics

2022 Annual Report From The Dean Key Metrics Financials PDF Downloads Key Metrics Financials (in millions) 2022 2021 2020 2019 Revenues $966 $805 $861 $925 Expenses 908 779 831 821 Cash from Operations 58 26... View Details
  • 06 Oct 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Problem with Hedge Funds

particularly tough time. During the 1990s small investors lost out to professional financial firms that manipulated the market; this time they're likely to lose out—if they're not careful—to other sophisticated investors as well. The Next... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

share, murdering her new lover to increase the pressure. To end her nightmare, Anulka initiates a second round of embezzlement. Its success depends upon her involving Felix Hofmaier, a Frankfurt management consultant facing possible criminal charges—and View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 26 Sep 2011
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: Lady Gaga

such large halls, jumping headfirst into a solo tour would be a huge challenge. On the other hand, with ticket prices averaging $100 to $125 each, the prospect of a sold-out 20,000-seat arena was tempting. By developing a smaller schedule for smaller venues, the View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Entertainment & Recreation; Music
  • 18 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 18

anticorruption ratings are domiciled in countries with low corruption risk ratings and strong anticorruption enforcement, operate in high corruption risk industries, have recently faced a corruption... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Sep 2022
  • Blog Post

Student Spotlight: Summer Internships in Business & Environment

joining HBS. Omar Al Mulhem (MBA 2023, Section A), Summer Internship: Summer Associate, Sustainable Investing Team at BlackRock BlackRock is one of the world’s leading providers of investment, advisory and risk management solutions.... View Details
  • 28 Nov 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Unilever: Transformation and Tradition

or local companies. It was also the sheer spread of businesses it owned beyond packaged consumer products, including African trading, plantations, specialty chemicals, paper and packaging, transport, advertising, and market research companies. It was not surprising... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones; Consumer Products
  • 22 Dec 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 22

take advantage of factor cost differences. Instead, multinationals tend to own the stages of production proximate to their final production, giving rise to a class of high-skill, intra-industry vertical FDI. Measuring and Managing Macrofinancial View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 30

people believe the risk decreases (negative recency) but at the same time exhibit more cautious behavior (positive recency). The rest of the difference is consistent with two well established mechanisms: judgment error and the use of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 28

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/12-071.pdf Short-Termism, Investor Clientele, and Firm Risk Authors:Francois Brochet, Maria Loumioti, and George Serafeim Abstract Using conference call transcripts, we measure the time horizon that senior... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Aug 2009
  • Research & Ideas

High Commitment, High Performance Management

Merrill Lynch can in part be explained by the pursuit of profits for their own sake. HCHP firms, by contrast, grow by using their distinctive capabilities to move into adjacent markets, products and services, and geographies. Risk: HCHP firms avoid undue View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 04 Feb 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?

the risks of failure. Adding to this concern is that even as the number of mega audit firms has contracted from eight in the 1980s to four today, their combined market share remains formidable, especially in the United States. The... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Accounting
  • July 2024
  • Case

Roja Garimella: Developing a Founder's Judgment

By: Reza Satchu and Patrick Sanguineti
Roja Garimella’s path to becoming a founder was anything but straight. Setting her sights on a career in medicine since childhood, she committed to medical school with her acceptance to college. And yet, throughout her studies, she continually explored alternative... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Personal Development and Career; Entrepreneurial Finance; Business Startups; Judgments; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry
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  • 30 Oct 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 30, 2018

2018 Northamption, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing Varieties of Green Business: Industries, Nations and Time By: Jones, G. Abstract—Published at a time of ever-increasing warnings that the pace of climate change and other environmental changes View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman