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  • July 2016 (Revised January 2017)
  • Case

Banking on Change: Aligning Culture and Compensation at Morgan Stanley

By: Malcolm S. Salter
This case study was prepared as part of a research project on Culture, Conduct, and Governance in Financial Firms. The objective of this project is to compare and contrast the efforts of U.S. and European banks to induce changes in organization culture in the aftermath... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Corporate Accountability; Ethics; Organizational Culture; Corporate Governance; Banks and Banking; United States; Europe
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  • April 2004 (Revised May 2017)
  • Case

Real Madrid Club de Futbol

By: John Quelch, Jose Luis Nueno and Carin-Isabel Knoop
In June 2004, Florentino Perez, a well-known Spanish businessman, was elected president of Real Madrid, one of the world's top soccer clubs. In his campaign, Perez had promised to turn around the club's finances, bring in world-class talent, and expand the club's brand... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Change Management; Expansion; Marketing Channels; Sports; Management Teams; Trends; Brands and Branding; Sports Industry; Spain
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Marketing Complex Financial Products in Emerging Markets: Evidence from Rainfall Insurance in India

By: Sarthak Gaurav, Shawn A. Cole and Jeremy Tobacman
Recent financial liberalization in emerging economies has led to the rapid introduction of new financial products. Lack of experience with financial products, low levels of education, and low financial literacy may slow adoption of these products. This article reports... View Details
Keywords: Literacy; Insurance; Marketing; Decisions; Demand and Consumers; Financial Instruments; Emerging Markets; Education; Personal Finance; Agribusiness; Developing Countries and Economies; Innovation and Invention; Gujarat
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High Potentials Leadership Program

eligible for the Certificate of Management Excellence. Learn More Key Benefits Focused on developing high potential leaders, this program prepares you to embrace the risks and opportunities that accompany... View Details

    Value Shift

    Today, corporate accountability is as vital to the bottom line as an effective business model.  Value Shift makes a strong case for the merits of corporate responsibility and shows how a value-positive orientation contributes to superior performance through... View Details

      Improving the Rhythm of Your Collaboration

      Winner of the annual MIT Sloan Management Review Richard Beckhard Memorial Prize, for the most outstanding MIT SMR article on planned change and organizational development. Chosen by MIT Sloan faculty judges Deborah Ancona, John Van Maanen, and Cyrus... View Details

      • 14 Jun 2023
      • Research & Ideas

      Four Steps to Building the Psychological Safety That High-Performing Teams Need

      environments where candor is expected and where employees can speak up without fear of retribution. When employees feel psychologically safe, they’re empowered to iterate and take risks—leading to better team performance. “You no longer have the option of leading... View Details
      Keywords: by Kara Baskin

        The Growth of Finance

        The U.S. financial services industry grew from 4.9% of GDP in 1980 to 7.9% of GDP in 2007. A sizeable portion of the growth can be explained by rising asset management fees, which in turn were driven by increases in the valuation of tradable assets, particularly... View Details
        • January 2005 (Revised August 2006)
        • Case

        Lean Forward Media

        By: Teresa M. Amabile and Victoria Winston
        Jeff Norton and Michelle Crames, the co-founders of Lean Forward Media, face several options for producing the world's first interactive DVD film for children. Their vision is to build a company whose products simultaneously entertain children, engage them actively in... View Details
        Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Early Childhood Education; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Management Practices and Processes; Risk Management; Partners and Partnerships; Opportunities; Creativity
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        • Research Summary

        National Innovation Systems in the Life Sciences

        This is an international comparative study of how institutional contexts shape the process by which science is leveraged into commercial technology. The study explores how variance in corporate governance systems, knowledge- and skill-formation systems, and... View Details
        • March 2024 (Revised June 2024)
        • Case

        Kashat: Navigating the Uncertainties of the Egyptian Fintech Market

        By: Paul A. Gompers and Ahmed Dahawy
        Karim Nour, the founder of Kashat, an Egyptian nano-lending fintech company, is contemplating how to manage the growth of his startup. Over the summer of 2022, Kashat's loan disbursements had grown by nearly 40%, fueled by macroeconomic instability in Egypt. However,... View Details
        Keywords: Fintech; Business Model; Developing Countries and Economies; Acquisition; Business Exit or Shutdown; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Financing and Loans; Capital; Financial Services Industry; Banking Industry; Egypt
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        • 18 Feb 2016
        • Working Paper Summaries

        Urbanization with Chinese Characteristics? China’s Gamble for Modernization

        Keywords: by Kristen Looney and Meg Rithmire; Public Administration; Real Estate
        • September 2009
        • Article

        Hidden Roadblocks in Cross-Border Talks

        By: James K. Sebenius
        While most analysts and dealmakers are aware of "cultural" differences in negotiations that cross national borders--different protocol and process expectations, differences in the role of the individual versus the group, differences in attitudes toward risk and time,... View Details
        Keywords: Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Negotiation Tactics; Risk Management; Time Management; Strategy; Governance; Performance Expectations; Attitudes; Culture; Decision Making
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        • 09 Mar 2012
        • Working Paper Summaries

        Causes and Consequences of Firm Disclosures of Anticorruption Efforts

        Keywords: by Paul Healy & George Serafeim
        • June 2011 (Revised October 2012)
        • Case

        Patagonia Sur: For-Profit Land Conservation in Chile

        By: Arthur I Segel, Nicolas Ibanez and Jay Verjee
        Warren Adams founded Patagonia Sur in 2007 as one of the world's first for-profit land conservation businesses. His goal was to purchase over 100,000 acres of land in southern Chile and to run a variety of sustainable businesses to generate annual returns for... View Details
        Keywords: Business Model; Environmental Sustainability; Profit; Investment; For-Profit Firms; Entrepreneurship; Investment Return; Revenue; Risk and Uncertainty; Capital; SWOT Analysis; Real Estate Industry; Chile
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        • 2024
        • Working Paper

        How Do Global Portfolio Investors Hedge Currency Risk?

        By: Robin Greenwood and Alex Cheema-Fox
        We use monthly portfolio data from one of the world’s largest custodian banks, with over $40 trillion assets under custody, to study how global portfolio investors hedge foreign exchange risk in their equity and fixed income portfolios over the past 25 years. The data... View Details
        Keywords: Investment Portfolio; Investment Funds; Currency; Risk and Uncertainty
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        • February 2008 (Revised May 2012)
        • Case

        The Big Easy, Not So Easy

        By: Nicolas P. Retsinas, Arthur I Segel and Ben Creo
        Enterprise Community Partners must determine whether to rebuild the Lafitte housing projects in hurricane-ravaged New Orleans and, if so, how to mitigate the risks. Set in January 2007, more than a year after Hurricane Katrina made landfall, the case examines how... View Details
        Keywords: Natural Disasters; Housing; Projects; Risk Management; Urban Development; Reputation; New Orleans
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        • September 2022
        • Case

        BancoSol: Financial Inclusion in the Perfect Storm

        By: Michael Chu and Carla Larangeira
        In the pandemic, financial inclusion icon BancoSol faces a government-mandated year-long deferral of all loan payments, followed by the sudden Covid death of its CEO. In a Bolivia mired in political turmoil following a failed presidential election, with clients not... View Details
        Keywords: Decision Making; Crisis Management; Management Succession; Business Strategy; Innovation Leadership; Risk and Uncertainty; Financing and Loans; Restructuring; Financial Services Industry; Latin America; Bolivia
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          Bank Capital and the Growth of Private Credit

          We show that business development companies (BDCs)—closed-end funds that provide a significant share of nonbank loans to middle market firms—are very well capitalized according to bank capital frameworks. They have median risk-based capital ratios of about 36% and,... View Details
          • December 2019
          • Case

          CME Group in 2019

          By: José B. Alvarez, Forest Reinhardt and Natalie Kindred
          Chicago-based CME Group is the world’s largest futures and options marketplace, with annual trading volume of over 4.8 billion contracts in 2018. This case is set in late 2019, as heightened perceptions of risk stemming from the U.S.-China trade war are driving record... View Details
          Keywords: Financial Markets; Risk Management; Futures and Commodity Futures; Trade; Price; Competition; Risk and Uncertainty; Competitive Strategy; United States; China; Brazil
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