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    Robert C. Merton

    Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

    Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

    Keywords: banking; banking; banking; banking; banking; banking
    • 23 Feb 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: Feb. 23

    even when we control for factors prominent in the last decade's cross-country studies of financial development. The findings indicate that inequality-perpetuating conditions that result in political instability are fundamental roadblocks for international organizations... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 15 Jan 2019
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

    faster-growing companies to raise more capital. These results highlight the importance of institutions in enabling the provision of entrepreneurial capital to young companies. In Search of Organizational Alignment Using a 360-Degree Assessment System: A Field... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • 05 Jun 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: June 5, 2007

    http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=107070 Beijing Hualian Harvard Business School Case 906-403 China's fifth largest domestic retailer faced intensifying competition from Wal-Mart and Carrefour with the opening... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 05 Oct 2021
    • Blog Post

    First-Gen Voices: Eric Westphal on Tapping into the Global Alumni Network & Making a Difference across Borders

    continued to engage with HBS students and drive career opportunities across the globe – including the connection between Eric Westphal (MBA 2021) and Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999). Westphal grew up helping out in his family’s small retail... View Details
    • 31 May 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: May 31

    make purchases. Retailers, however, felt that major credit and debit card issuers had too much market power which was leading to higher costs for retailers to accept such payment forms. Consumers were increasingly adopting smart phones... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 20 Jan 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: January 20

    http://ssrn.com/abstract=2545972 Match Your Own Price? Self-Matching as a Retailer's Multichannel Pricing Strategy By: Kireyev, Pavel, Vineet Kumar, and Elie Ofek Abstract—Multichannel retailing has created several new strategic choices... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 04 May 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    What’s Next for the Big Financial Brands

    consumer trust is no longer a brand; it is merely a name. The Merrill Lynch brand is unlikely to ever recover and Bank of America should drop it. Merrill Lynch is no longer a brand. Both before and after the collapse of the Internet... View Details
    Keywords: by John Quelch; Banking; Banking
    • 18 Sep 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: September 18, 2007

    Andrew Banks and Royce Yudkoff were considering raising a 5th fund for their media-focused private equity firm, ABRY Partners. ABRY had a strong track record that the co-founders attributed to their group's deep knowledge of the media... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • May 2020 (Revised March 2022)
    • Case

    The Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic and the Global Economy (A)

    By: Alberto Cavallo and Christian Godwin
    In April 2020, the world struggled to contain the exponential escalation of the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. Dozens of countries had imposed restrictions on travel, work, and social gatherings. A large share of the global population was under lockdowns and... View Details
    Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Demand and Consumers; Supply and Industry; Finance; Central Banking; Financial Markets; International Finance; Globalization; Government and Politics; Health Pandemics; Decision Making; Macroeconomics; Employment; Crisis Management; Supply Chain; Risk and Uncertainty; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Asia; China; Europe; Latin America; Africa; United States
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    • 30 Nov 2016
    • Blog Post

    Why I Didn’t Think I’d Get in to HBS

    Let’s face it, folks, when you’re an upper middle class white male from suburban New Jersey who worked at a bulge bracket bank following your college graduation, only speaks one language, has no patents to your name, and hasn’t even... View Details
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    Faculty & Research

    examines the short-run impact of the 2025 U.S. tariffs on consumer prices using a unique integration of high-frequency retail pricing data, product-level country-of-origin information, and detailed tariff classifications. By linking daily... View Details
    • August 2015 (Revised December 2016)
    • Case

    Apple Pay

    By: Sunil Gupta, Shelle Santana and Margaret L. Rodriguez
    On September 9, 2014, in front of a packed audience in Cupertino, CA, Tim Cook, the chief executive officer of Apple, announced the much anticipated launch of Apple Pay. "Our vision is to replace this [wallet] and we are going to start with payments." Cook then invited... View Details
    Keywords: Technology; Digital Services And Strategy; Launch; Mobile; Mobile Payments; Apple; Payments; Smartphone; Apple Pay; Eddy Cue; Jennifer Bailey; iOS; Iphone; Marketing; Product; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Product Launch; Finance; Credit Cards; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; United States; United Kingdom
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    Employment Data

    3% Entertainment / Media 3% Health Care 6% Investment Banking 5% Investment Management / Hedge Fund 6% Manufacturing 5% Nonprofit / Government 5% Other Financial Services 4% Private Equity 19% Retail 2%... View Details
    • 21 Dec 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer

    present systemic risks because they have limited sources of short-term liquidity: commercial paper and repurchase agreements. Banks with securities powers can also obtain short-term financing through Fed loans and View Details
    Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Banking
    • 19 Sep 2017
    • First Look

    First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

    out the effect of an increasingly important retail phenomenon (channel integration) on a key factor for inventory management (sales dispersion). Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53103 forthcoming Brookings... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 06 Oct 2015
    • First Look

    October 6, 2015

    retailer aims to maximize revenue from multiple products with limited inventory. As common in practice, the retailer does not know the expected demand at each price and must learn the demand information from... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 10 Feb 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: February 10, 2009

    insurance and bank supervision) worked to stabilize the financial system; (2) that the financial catastrophe of 2007-2009 was not an accident, but rather a mistake, driven by a deregulatory mindset that took 50 years of post-New Deal... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 10 Jul 2018
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018

    Teixeira Abstract—Online retail accounts for a rapidly growing proportion of revenues in many industries. While selling online broadens firms’ access to consumers, operating margins are often lower in online stores than in physical... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • September 1994
    • Case

    BayFunds

    By: Alvin J. Silk, Lisa Klein Pearo and Jamie Harper
    In June, 1994, the Senior Vice President of BayBank's Investment Management Group is preparing a strategic plan for her organization's line of mutual funds. Sixteen months earlier, BayBank, Massachusetts's leading retail bank, had entered the mutual fund business by... View Details
    Keywords: Banks and Banking; Marketing Strategy; Brands and Branding; Investment Funds; Product Marketing; Integration; Financial Services Industry
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