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    Stuart C. Gilson

    Professor Stuart Gilson is the Steven R. Fenster Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, and former chairman of the Finance Unit.  His research, teaching, and consulting focuses on the financial, business, and legal strategies that companies... View Details

    Keywords: investment banking industry; legal services

      Lynn S. Paine

      Lynn Sharp Paine is a Baker Foundation Professor and John G. McLean Professor of Business Administration, Emerita, at Harvard Business School. A member and former chair of the General Management unit, she has served in numerous leadership positions including Senior... View Details

        Shai Benjamin Bernstein

        Shai Bernstein is the Marvin Bower Associate Professor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) in both the Corporate Finance group and the Productivity,... View Details

        • 03 Jan 2022
        • News

        A Green Light for Corruption

          David S. Scharfstein

          David Scharfstein is the Edmund Cogswell Converse Professor of Finance and Banking at Harvard Business School, where he has taught since 2003. He currently teaches a course on financial intermediation in the MBA program. Scharfstein has written on a wide range of... View Details

          Keywords: banking
          • April 1990
          • Case

          Philip Morris Companies' ""Bill of Rights"" Sponsorship Program

          By: Stephen A. Greyser and Norman Klein
          Describes the new policy of the National Archives of inviting corporate cosponsorship of historic exhibits and commemorations. In November 1989, Philip Morris Companies (PM) became the first cosponsor of the bicentennial commemoration of the Bill of Rights, and used... View Details
          Keywords: Policy; Brands and Branding; Decisions; Advertising; Marketing Strategy; Risk and Uncertainty; Financing and Loans; Reputation; Nonprofit Organizations
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          • August 2015 (Revised February 2017)
          • Background Note

          The Whys and Hows of Feedback

          By: Boris Groysberg and Robin Abrahams
          Performance feedback is crucial to a career in the information-rich global economy. However, feedback is psychologically stressful to both give, and hear. This teaching note explains why feedback is both valuable and difficult, and goes on to summarize research on... View Details
          Keywords: Feedback; Performance Evaluation; Organizational Culture
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            Victoria Ivashina

            Victoria Ivashina is the Lovett-Learned Professor of Finance and Head of the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School. She also serves as a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER), a Research Fellow at the Center for Economic Policy... View Details

            Keywords: banking; federal government; financial services; investment banking industry; private equity (LBO funds); private equity (other)
            • September 2002
            • Case

            KaBOOM!

            By: James E. Austin and Jose Miguel Porraz
            KaBOOM! is a nonprofit organization developing playgrounds in partnership with corporations and communities. It has grown since 1995 to a national organization that has built 338 playgrounds in partnerships with over 40 companies. This case deals with the nature of... View Details
            Keywords: Business Ventures; Strategy; Nonprofit Organizations; Business and Community Relations; Growth and Development
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            • November 2003 (Revised September 2021)
            • Case

            Ivar Kreuger and the Swedish Match Empire

            By: Geoffrey Jones and Ingrid Vargas
            Taught in Evolution of Global Business. Globalization and corporate fraud are the central themes of this case on the international growth of Swedish Match in the interwar years. Between 1913 and 1932, Ivar Kreuger, known as the "Swedish Match King," built a small,... View Details
            Keywords: History; International Finance; Globalized Firms and Management; Crime and Corruption; Ethics; Monopoly; Business and Government Relations; Sweden
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              Paul A. Gompers

              Paul Gompers, Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, specializes in research on financial issues related to start-up, high growth, and newly public companies. Professor Gompers has an appointment in both the View Details
              Keywords: electronics; health care; high technology; information technology industry; investment banking industry; pharmaceuticals; semiconductor; venture capital industry
              • November 2012
              • Article

              Does Management Really Work?

              By: Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun and John Van Reenen
              HBR's 90th anniversary is a sensible time to revisit a basic question: Are organizations more likely to succeed if they adopt good management practices? The answer may seem obvious to most HBR readers, but these three economists cast their net much wider than that. In... View Details
              Keywords: Best Practices; Consulting Firms; Corporations; Cost Control; Employee Training; Executive Ability (Management); Executives—training Of; Hospitals—administration; Industrial Management—research; Productivity Incentives; School Management Teams; Work Environment; Management; Research
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              • February 2019 (Revised September 2019)
              • Case

              Theranos: The Unicorn That Wasn't

              By: Joseph B. Fuller and John Masko
              In 2003, 19-year-old Elizabeth Holmes founded a startup dedicated to making blood testing easier and more affordable. By 2015, her company, Theranos, was worth $9 billion. It boasted a star-studded board and contracts with national pharmacy and supermarket chains... View Details
              Keywords: Theranos; Blood; Lab Testing; Fraud; Holmes; Balwani; Shultz; Carreyrou; Securities And Exchange Commission; Food And Drug Administration; FDA; SEC; Health Testing and Trials; Corporate Accountability; Organizational Culture; Misleading and Fraudulent Advertising; Crime and Corruption; Entrepreneurship; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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                Krishna G. Palepu

                KRISHNA G. PALEPU is the Ross Graham Walker Professor of Business Administration, and has served previously as Senior Advisor to the President of Harvard University, and Senior Associate Dean at the... View Details

                Keywords: accounting industry; banking; financial services; information technology industry; pharmaceuticals; retailing

                  Malcolm P. Baker

                  Malcolm Baker is the Robert G. Kirby Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, where he teaches the required course in finance and a short immersive program on investing in life sciences.

                  His research is in the... View Details

                  Keywords: asset management; biotechnology; financial services; high technology; investment banking industry; pharmaceuticals; private equity (LBO funds); shipping; transportation

                    Profits You Can Trust

                    “This comprehensive layman's guide is a must-read for senior management, boards, committees, and their advisors. Writing in largely non-technical language, the expert authors provide the most concise and complete road map to understanding, preventing,... View Details

                      Louis E. Caldera

                      Louis Caldera is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He teaches Leadership and Corporate Accountability, a required first-year course in the MBA program. He has previously taught law school courses on corporate... View Details

                        Elisabeth Kempf

                        Elisabeth Kempf is an Associate Professor in the Finance Unit, teaching Finance 1 to MBA students. She is also a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) and a Research Affiliate at the Centre for Economic Policy and Research... View Details

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                        Customer-Centric Marketing Strategy

                        By: Rohit Deshpande
                        Rohit Deshpandé's research program focuses on Customer-Centricity. A stream of projects examines the interaction between corporate and national culture as they influence the development and implementation of global marketing strategies in high performance firms. This... View Details
                        • January 2008 (Revised July 2009)
                        • Case

                        Microfinance International Corporation: No, Not Another Microfinance Case

                        CEO and founder Atsumasa Tochisako (52) sat in his Washington D.C. headquarters, looking with pride at the copy of a press release that would announce the latest in a broadening line of financial services that Washington D.C.-based Microfinance International... View Details
                        Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Social Entrepreneurship; Microfinance; Globalized Firms and Management; Financial Services Industry
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