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  • 01 Sep 2011
  • News

Extraordinary People

financial institutions in his native land. He then risked all his fortune to launch his own bank. “Entrepreneurship really means taking risks,” says Özyeğin, whose start-up eventually became one of Turkey’s largest private banks. Today,... View Details
Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • December 2009 (Revised June 2010)
  • Case

Goldman Sachs: A Bank for All Seasons (A)

By: Lena G. Goldberg and Tiffany Lynne Obenchain
Facing the worldwide financial crisis, Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankfein considered his options including whether his company could avoid a forced marriage and what steps Goldman Sachs should take to try to restore confidence in financial services companies. View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Financial Crisis; Commercial Banking; Investment Banking; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Crisis Management; Business Strategy; Banking Industry
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  • March 2025
  • Case

Silicon Valley Bank: Gone in 36 Hours

By: Jung Koo Kang, Krishna G. Palepu, Charles C.Y. Wang and David Lane
This case examines factors contributing to the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in March 2023, an event as unpredicted as it was quick. SVB funded nearly half of all U.S. venture-backed startups and at the end of 2022 held $173 billion in deposits, largely... View Details
Keywords: Accounting Standards; Bank Runs; Financial Accounting; Financial Reporting; Social Media; Banks and Banking; Financing and Loans; Investment Portfolio; Interest Rates; Debt Securities; Risk and Uncertainty; Financial Statements; Risk Management; Failure; Fair Value Accounting; Credit; Corporate Governance; Financial Services Industry; Banking Industry; United States
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Financials | Annual Report 2024

Financials From the Chief Financial Officer Harvard Business School’s economic model performed well in fiscal 2024, delivering a healthy operating surplus on investments in our core programs, strategic priorities, faculty initiatives, and... View Details
  • Portrait Project

Mardie Oakes

apartment at Peabody Terrace four years ago, and see my plans coming true. Out of school, I immersed myself in community development lending, investing $20 million in affordable housing and community facilities throughout the Bay Area.... View Details
  • Student-Profile

Rowan Clarke

randomly assigned to receive development funding and others that served as controls,” he explains. By analyzing the impact of investment on both the recipient business and the surrounding economy, researchers hope to better understand how... View Details
  • 02 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Explaining China's Crash

corporate executives, government officials, and journalists, for allegedly spreading false rumors online about the market’s stability. And in a turnabout, authorities also announced they will not institute more interventions to rescue the... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese; Financial Services
  • March 2021 (Revised October 2021)
  • Case

Aligning Mission and Margin at Southern Bancorp

By: Rebecca M. Henderson, Brian Trelstad and Eren Kuzucu
In October 2020, after spending almost a decade to turnaround Southern Bancorp, an Arkansan bank founded with the mission to provide financial services to rural, underserved communities, CEO Darrin Williams is wondering how Southern Bancorp should continue to grow.... View Details
Keywords: Racial Wealth Gap; Banks and Banking; Growth and Development; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Going Public; Investment Return; Social Issues; Wealth and Poverty; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States; Arkansas
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  • March 2008
  • Supplement

Carlyle Japan (C)

By: David B. Godes, Masako Egawa and Mayuka Yamazaki
This is a supplement to the (A) and (B) cases. It documents the shift in Carlyle's networking strategy. The firm decreased its focus on building contacts in commercial banking an increased instead the focus on building more contacts with industry directly. View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Banks and Banking; Investment; Growth and Development Strategy; Supply and Industry; Networks; Japan
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    Herbert A. Sklenar

    as crushed stone for concrete, where Vulcan is the nation’s largest and most profitable producer. Coupled with this investment and expansion, Sklenar also instituted an array of cost cutting measures, all of... View Details
    Keywords: Construction & Real Estate
    • Web

    Gabriel Handel | About

    alumni relations. Gabe holds governance roles with the Harvard Innovation Lab and the Advanced Leadership Initiative. He serves on the HBS Tech Board, the Harvard University Electronic Communications Policy Oversight Committee, the MBA Student View Details
    • 2025
    • Working Paper

    An Empirical Examination of Business Climate Alliances: Effective and/or Harmful?

    By: Matteo Gasparini and Peter Tufano
    This research studies business alliances that seek to address climate change, offering empirical evidence to address claims advanced by alliance supporters and critics. We study eleven major alliances mostly focused on financial services firms and 424 major... View Details
    Keywords: Antitrust; Climate Change; Financial Institutions; Competition; Network Effects; Alliances
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    Israel - Global Activities 2021

    Agribusiness Seminar as well as to students in his Food and Agribusiness MBA elective. “The goal of the case discussion is to help course participants and students understand how economic institutions and corporate strategy interact in a... View Details
    • 08 May 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: May 8

    that egalitarianism distance has a negative causal impact on FDI flows. This effect is robust to a broad set of competing accounts, including the effects of other cultural dimensions, various features of the prevailing legal and regulatory regimes, other features of... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 09 Apr 2019
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

    Spring, and years of weak oil prices. Leveraging deep local knowledge, strong relations in the region, and a “PE investment approach in public equity markets,” Ajeej had outperformed its benchmark regional stock indices and attracted... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 2012
    • Working Paper

    Mexico's Financial Crisis of 1994-1995

    By: Aldo Musacchio
    This paper explains the causes leading to the Mexican crisis of 1994-1995 (known as "The Tequila Crisis"), and its short- and long-term consequences. It argues that excessive enthusiasm on the part of foreign investors, not based on Mexico's fundamentals, and weak... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Crisis; Foreign Direct Investment; Banks and Banking; Government and Politics; Currency Exchange Rate; Banking Industry; Mexico
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    • 01 Apr 2002
    • News

    Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City

    of successful investment in the inner city that Porter has written about are Sprint and Walgreens. In Missouri, Sprint decided to locate a new call center in a struggling section of downtown Kansas City and provide job training for nearby... View Details
    Keywords: Paul Grogan; Peter Tufano; David Crockett; Diana Barrett; Real Estate
    • 29 May 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Global Change in the Built Environment

    itself in recent years among institutional investors, partly because of the collapse of the stock market in 2001 and partly because of the high returns for over a decade relative to stocks and bonds. Because of graying populations in the... View Details
    Keywords: by Arthur Segel; Construction; Real Estate
    • Web

    Globalization and Emerging Markets - Course Catalog

    the developing world. GEM provides frameworks to understand the processes of economic growth and development; to develop contextual intelligence regarding emerging markets; to manage within a weaker or less formalized institutional... View Details
    • 01 Mar 2009
    • News

    Faculty Books

    economy to foreign trade and investment not result in sustained economic growth? Why has electoral democracy not produced the rule of law? The answers to these questions lie in the ways in which Mexico’s long history with authoritarian... View Details
    Keywords: Telecommunications; Information; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services