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  • 30 Nov 2016
  • News

'Fintech' fast-cash loans are like 'wild west' for small businesses

  • 28 Jan 2025
  • Video

Leading with transparency in a distrustful era

  • Research Summary

Professor Pill's current research has two dimensions. On the one hand, he is investigating the formulation and conduct of monetary policy in advanced economies, with a focus on the implementation of the single monetary policy in the euro area. On the other hand, he is... View Details
  • 03 Mar 2008
  • First Look

First Look: March 4, 2008

banks had failed since 1825, and many legislatures believed that a significant change in the banking regime was needed to shore up the state's financial systems. Others, however, feared that a major change... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Jul 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

or fail to analyze the utter breakdown in board governance and Enron's internal controls, and the failure of credit rating agencies to blow the whistle," he says. "They also overlook the collusion of investment banks in misrepresenting the true View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities
  • 09 May 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Should Management Be Primarily Responsible to Shareholders?

changing the tax laws to render tax-free those capital gains earned on stock held for ten years or more. Shann Turnbull suggested the need for education in “new organizational forms” such as “Network... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • Second Quarter 2014
  • Article

Dynamics of the Board Interview

By: Blythe McGarvie
You want candidates who meet the requirements of cultural fit, the right skill set, and meaningful diversity. No one expects the candidate to know everything about the company during the interview process. Research shows that companies with more women on their boards... View Details
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    Deborah M. Winshel

    Deborah Winshel is a member of the Faculty of the Harvard Business School where she teaches Leadership and Corporate Accountability to first year MBAs and executives.

    Most recently, Deborah was a Managing Director and Global Head of Social Impact at... View Details

      Jaime Augusto Zobel de Ayala

      Keywords: Real Estate, Infrastructure, Insurance, Banking
      • 30 Jun 2009
      • First Look

      First Look: June 30

      Although China has emerged as one of the fastest growing economies in the world, it still suffers from a weak financial system dominated by state-controlled banks and severely limited access to capital for... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • April 1976 (Revised April 2002)
      • Background Note

      Learning by the Case Method

      Helps students fully capitalize on the case method. Succinctly introduces the benefits, format, and process while offering lots of "how-to" advice. Widely used as an introductory handout for executive, MBA, and undergraduate courses. Describes how case discussion... View Details
      Keywords: Cases; Learning
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      • Teaching Interest

      Finance Reporting and Control

      Financial Reporting and Control (FRC) is a course about how leaders can design and use performance measurement systems to build more effective organizations. Throughout their careers, business leaders are required to... View Details

        Paul Hamilton

        Paul studies the economic complements needed for firms to realize productivity gains from machine learning and artificial intelligence. These complements include data, human capital & skills, organizational processes, and business models. 
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        • 25 Feb 2019
        • News

        Impact investing: a new way to fund cures for cancer

        • February 2018 (Revised August 2018)
        • Case

        OpenInvest

        By: Shawn Cole, Boris Vallée and Nicole Tempest Keller
        Founded by a team of hedge fund and NGO alumni, OpenInvest launched its platform in 2015 to enable retail investors to tailor their portfolios to their personal values in an automated way, for instance by screening out weapons manufacturers stocks or overweighting... View Details
        Keywords: Fintech; Impact Investing; Investment Portfolio; Customization and Personalization; Technological Innovation; Social Issues; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Model; Financial Services Industry
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        • October 2022
        • Case

        Beam Dental (A)

        By: Rembrand Koning and Alicia Dadlani
        In May 2014, Alex Frommeyer, cofounder and CEO of Kentucky-based Beam Dental, a seed-stage startup that developed connected toothbrushes that tracked brushing habits, needed to decide which strategy to pitch to a venture capital firm. The first pitch deck played to the... View Details
        Keywords: Business Startups; Business Strategy; Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Presentations; Product Development; Insurance Industry; United States; Kentucky; Ohio
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        • March 2011 (Revised January 2015)
        • Case

        H Partners and Six Flags

        By: Robin Greenwood and Michael Gorzynski
        Rehan Jaffer, the founder of hedge fund H Partners, is considering what to do with his investment in Six Flags. H Partners had invested a significant amount of the firm's capital in the senior bonds of U.S.-based Six Flags, following that company's bankruptcy filing. View Details
        Keywords: Behavioral Finance; Private Equity; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Debt Securities; Bonds; Investment; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States
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        • April 2003 (Revised October 2003)
        • Case

        Banking on Germany?

        Explores the causes and consequences of transforming Germany's bank-oriented financial system into one more oriented to capital markets. The economics of globalization, international accords such as Basel II, EU financial policies, and Germany's own regulatory reforms... View Details
        Keywords: Corporate Governance; Financial Crisis; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; Germany
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        • November 2007 (Revised August 2014)
        • Case

        D2Hawkeye: Growing the Medical IT Enterprise

        By: Robert F. Higgins, Rosie O'Donnell, Sophie LaMontagne and Brent Kazan
        In mid-March 2007, Chris Kryder sat in his office and thought about how to best finance his company's growth. Over the previous five years as founder and CEO of D2Hawkeye, a Waltham, Massachusetts-based healthcare analytics company, Kryder had grown the firm from a... View Details
        Keywords: Strategy Development; Strategic Positioning; Strategic Vision; Venture Capital; Small Business; Investment; Growth Management; Expansion; Business Growth and Maturation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financing and Loans; Business Startups; Financial Strategy; Business Strategy; Service Industry; Health Industry; Waltham
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        • July 2008 (Revised January 2012)
        • Case

        Enterprise Risk Management at Hydro One (A)

        By: Anette Mikes
        An early adopter of Enterprise Risk Management, energy giant Hydro One anticipated new threats and opportunities in an industry that faced climate change and carbon legislation, the deregulation of electricity markets, and the greater adoption of renewable... View Details
        Keywords: Capital Budgeting; Knowledge Sharing; Managerial Roles; Risk Management; Strategic Planning; Situation or Environment; Environmental Sustainability; Renewable Energy; Energy Industry
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