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  • 14 Apr 2023
  • Blog Post

New MBA Course Asks Students: What’s More Important—Purpose or Profits?

Institute for the Study of Business in Global Society (BiGS). Over two days, 11 faculty members from across the School taught five new cases involving companies ranging from Microsoft to Sweden’s Northvolt electric battery maker, raising... View Details

    Stefan H. Thomke

    Stefan Thomke (sthomke@hbs.edu), an authority on the management of innovation, is the William Barclay Harding Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. He has worked with firms on product, process, and... View Details

    Keywords: aerospace; automobiles; automotive; banking; biotechnology; chemical; computer; defense; electronics; health care; high technology; home video games; information technology industry; manufacturing; marketing industry; pharmaceuticals; plastics; semiconductor; service industry; telecommunications; video games

      James E. Austin

      Dr. Austin holds the Eliot I. Snider and Family Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. Previously he held the John G. McLean Professorship and the Richard P. Chapman Professorship. He has been a member of the Harvard... View Details

      Keywords: agribusiness

        Reviving and Restructuring the Corporate Sector Post-Covid

        The report commends the broad-based governmental actions initially taken to support the economy, citizens, and the corporate sector during the Covid pandemic. However, structural changes in our economies due to the pandemic, and growing corporate... View Details

        • January 1986 (Revised August 1994)
        • Case

        Citicorp--1985

        Citicorp seeks to raise medium- or long-term funding and is considering floating rate versus fixed rate and domestic versus Eurodollar bonds. Case focuses on advantages/disadvantages of these different markets and discusses many of the innovative Floating Rate Notes... View Details
        Keywords: Capital Markets; Banks and Banking; Corporate Finance; Banking Industry
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        • 2011
        • Chapter

        American Exceptionalism?: A Comparative Analysis of the Origins and Trajectory of U.S. Business Education Development

        By: Rakesh Khurana
        As business education in an academic setting becomes an increasingly global phenomenon, the university-based business school in America remains a unique institution. This holds true despite the fact that the American business school as it evolved in the post-World War... View Details
        Keywords: Values and Beliefs; Business History; Business Education; Power and Influence; Society; United States; Europe
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          Meg Rithmire

          Meg Rithmire is the James E. Robison Professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit. Professor Rithmire holds a PhD in Government from Harvard University, and her primary expertise is in the comparative political economy of development with a... View Details

          Keywords: real estate

            Geoffrey G. Jones

            Geoffrey Jones is the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, and Faculty Chair of the School's Business History Initiative. He holds degrees of BA, MA and PhD from Cambridge University, UK. He has an honorary Doctorate in Economics and Business Administration... View Details

            Keywords: banking; beauty products; construction; consumer products; energy; entertainment; fashion; financial services; food; food processing; green technology; petroleum; service industry

              Satish K. Tadikonda

              Satish Tadikonda is a Senior Lecturer in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School. In the MBA program, Satish teaches The Entrepreneurial Manager, a required first-year MBA course, and Entrepreneurship in Life Sciences, an elective course for... View Details

              • 2016
              • Article

              Cloaked Trading

              By: Lauren Cohen, Dong Lou and Christopher J. Malloy
              Using a novel, proprietary database of micro-level trading activities by asset managers, we show strong evidence of asset managers engaging in strategic trading in order to “cloak” their most valuable trades. This takes the form, for instance, of a manager who sells... View Details
              Keywords: Strategic Trading; Information; Asset Management; Investment
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                Janice H. Hammond

                Janice H. Hammond is the Jesse Philips Professor of Manufacturing. She currently serves as coursehead for the new MBA required course, Data Science for Managers. She serves as program chair for the HBS Executive Education International Women’s Foundation and Women’s... View Details

                Keywords: apparel; distribution; e-commerce industry; manufacturing; retailing; textiles; transportation

                  Reaching for Yield in the Bond Market

                  Reaching-for-yield — the propensity to buy riskier assets in order to achieve higher yields — is believed to be an important factor contributing to the credit cycle. This paper analyses this phenomenon in the corporate bond market. Specifically, we show evidence for... View Details

                  • 04 Feb 2014
                  • Blog Post

                  VCPE Club prepares for their annual conference…20 years and running!

                  The Venture Capital & Private Equity Club, a student club at Harvard Business School, will hold its 20th Annual Venture Capital & Private Equity Conference February 9, 2014, on the Harvard Business School campus in Boston. As one... View Details
                  • May 1994 (Revised November 1995)
                  • Case

                  Shawmut National Corporation's Merger with Bank of Boston Corporation (A)

                  By: Benjamin C. Esty
                  Presents the merger negotiations between Bank of Boston (BOB) and Shawmut National Corp. (SNC), two of the country's largest bank holding companies and requires students to value BOB's current offer for SNC. Provides an overview of recent events and trends in the... View Details
                  Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Banks and Banking; Ethics; Negotiation; Valuation; Management; Banking Industry; United States
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                  • 10 Aug 2009
                  • Research & Ideas

                  High Commitment, High Performance Management

                  and must be able to confront conflict. They see their job as stewards of the institution and want to leave a positive legacy. It is hard work to build a HCHP firm and sustain it over time: Leaders take on the challenge because they see... View Details
                  Keywords: by Martha Lagace
                  • Research Summary

                  Overview

                  ECONOMICS OF THE ADVERTISING AND MARKETING SERVICEC INDUSTRY

                  Professor Silk’s recent research has been focused on the economics of the advertising and marketing services industry. He has conducted econometric studies of the effects of scale and scope on the... View Details

                  • June 2011 (Revised September 2011)
                  • Case

                  Two Key Decisions for China's Sovereign Fund

                  By: Robert C. Pozen and Xiaoyu Gu
                  The China Investment Corporation (CIC) was China's sovereign wealth fund (SWF), established with $200 billion of registered capital in September 2007 to diversify China's foreign exchange holdings and increase risk-adjusted returns on those assets. CIC was unusual in... View Details
                  Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Business Growth and Maturation; Decisions; Capital; Investment Banking; Investment Funds; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Ownership; Business and Shareholder Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Wealth; Expansion; Financial Services Industry; China; United States
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                  • October 1991 (Revised October 1996)
                  • Case

                  Hawkeye Bancorporation

                  By: Krishna G. Palepu
                  Hawkeye, a small bank holding company in Iowa, faces difficulties in the mid 1980s as the local Iowa farm economy is in recession. This case provides an opportunity for students to become familiar with bank financial statements, and introduces some issues in market... View Details
                  Keywords: Financial Statements; Financial Reporting; Financial Crisis; Economic Growth; Market Participation; Banks and Banking; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Private Ownership; Banking Industry
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                  • 2007
                  • Other Unpublished Work

                  Round Numbers and Security Returns

                  By: Edward Johnson, Nicole Bastian Johnson and Devin M. Shanthikumar
                  We document consistent differences in daily stock returns related to round numbers. In particular, we examine returns following previous day closing prices that are just above or just below round number benchmarks. We find, for both one-digit, two-digit and three-digit... View Details
                  Keywords: Stocks; Investment Return; Price; Market Transactions
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                    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