Financial Innovation - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

What Happens When Business Owners Turn to ChatBots for Advice

of the study. "Already we’re seeing how generative AI can change people's lives." Businesses that were already financially stable used the AI-generated advice to produce measurable improvements, while struggling businesses ran into... View Details

Keywords: by Ben Rand

14 Feb 2023
News

Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in San Francisco

featured a reception and speaking program. The Dean was introduced by Andreas Stavropoulos (MBA 1997), president of the HBS Alumni Board. During his remarks, Dean Datar talked about several innovative initiatives that he anticipates will... View Details

01 Dec 2011
News

Faculty Books

Accelerating Energy Innovation: Insights from Multiple Sectors edited by Rebecca M. Henderson and Richard G. Newell (University of Chicago Press for the National Bureau of Economic Research) Studies have suggested that significantly increasing the rate of View Details

Keywords: Utilities

01 Jun 2003
News

Books

innovative business units to attack the problem. Others prescribe the more radical and risky measure of throwing out old success formulas in order to remake the company from scratch. Sull favors a third approach. “Managers can... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Laura Singleton; Donald; Sull; Henry; Chesbrough; Rob; Austin; Leslie; Perlow; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

25 Aug 2022
News

Open Market

participate in their own financial future. If I think about the people who make up Robinhood, it’s people who are humble, people who want to have an impact, and people who have a passion for the customers we are serving. We have scaled... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; illustration by Keith Negley; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments

July 1994 (Revised October 1995)
Case

Coca-Cola Harmless Warrants

By: Scott P. Mason and Mihir A. Desai

Underscores the arbitrage implicit in the pricing of a complex unit of debt and warrants issued by the Coca-Cola Co. View Details

Keywords: Bonds; Price; Innovation and Invention; Food and Beverage Industry

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Educators

Purchase

13 Dec 2016
First Look

December 13, 2016

which the inflow of elite talent into the financial industry affects the supply of innovators in science and engineering (S&E). I first show that finance does not systematically attract those who are... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Sep 2009
News

Faculty Research Online

Survive — Thrive: Leading Innovation in Good Times and Bad Cost cutting and restructuring are just the first steps in coping with the current global financial crisis and defining how business will be... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information

01 Sep 2012
News

Alumni Books

the Economy Is Wrong by Edward Conard (MBA 1982) (Portfolio/Penguin) To explain the causes of the US financial crisis, conventional wisdom blames Wall Street and the mortgage industry for using predatory tactics to seduce homeowners into... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

Dr. Elizabeth Mary Okelo

Keywords: Financial services; Education

David Duffield

After failing to convince Larry Ellison that Oracle should invest in the development of human resource management software, Duffield decided to create his own business. PeopleSoft with its innovative software for managing human resource... View Details

Keywords: Computers & Electronics

Hemendra Kothari

Keywords: Financial Services

01 Dec 2018
News

Averting Crisis

courtesy of James Allworth “The financial markets put pressure on you to generate the type of returns they’re looking for: quarterly results. It makes no sense to let such finance-oriented, short-term pressures seep into the economy’s... View Details

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Courses by Faculty - Course Catalog

Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Reza Satchu Founder Launch Entrepreneurial Management Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 The Founder Mindset Entrepreneurial Management Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 David Scharfstein Managing and Innovating in View Details

01 Jun 2018
News

Sustaining HBS’s Unique Economic Model

initiatives such as field learning, the Harvard Innovation Labs ecosystem, HBX, and joint degree programs with other Harvard schools,” says Melnick. Philanthropy is essential to the School’s financial... View Details

Max De Pree

De Pree grew the small family-owned business into the second largest furniture maker in the world. Under De Pree’s leadership, Herman Miller had the unique distinction of being named to three Fortune Top 10 lists – most admired companies, most View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

01 Mar 2014
News

Everything Old Is a New Opportunity

global organization whose mission is accelerating innovation to improve the lives of older adults. Much of their early work has been nurturing promising entrepreneurs through the aptly named Aging2.0 GENerator—which provides strategic... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Health, Social Assistance; Personal Services

March 2001 (Revised July 2002)
Case

WingspanBank.com (B): Should This Bird Still Fly?

By: Sandra J. Sucher and Stacy McManus

WingspanBank.com is launched to critical acclaim, but its fate is hardly certain. Bank One's new CEO, Jamie Dimon, must decide what to do with what is now a second Web site for the bank's current and prospective customers. View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Business Startups; Customers; Innovation and Management; Organizations; Complexity; Web Sites; Financial Services Industry