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  • March 2025
  • Case

The Changing Climate on Wall Street

By: Clayton S. Rose, Maxim Pike Harrell and Michael Norris
Increasing and conflicting regulatory requirements and political pressures regarding climate change tested the leaders of U.S. financial institutions, as they struggled to determine how best to comply while managing their business and its risks.
In October 2024,... View Details
Keywords: Competency and Skills; Decision Making; Cost vs Benefits; Ethics; Corporate Accountability; Leadership; Management; Risk Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Civil Society or Community; Social Issues; Adaptation; Risk and Uncertainty; Insurance; Climate Change; Change Management; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Insurance Industry; United States; Europe
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    Regina E. Herzlinger

    Regina E. Herzlinger is the Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. She was the first woman to be tenured and chaired at Harvard Business School and serve on many established and start-up corporate health care/medical... View Details

    Keywords: health care; insurance industry; medical devices; retailing; digital health
    • 07 May 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: May 7

    Economics Fear of Rejection? Tiered Certification and Transparency By: Farhi, Emmanuel, Josh Lerner, and Jean Tirole Abstract—The sub-prime crisis has shown a harsh spotlight on the practices of View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 07 Apr 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: April 7

    commissions hurt sales. If managers must retain a cap, they should set it as high as possible to avoid reducing reps' incentives. Although overly complicated compensation systems have their downsides, research has found that a system... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 02 Nov 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: November 2, 2010

    We find clear evidence that (1) bonuses enhance productivity, (2) overachievement commissions help sustain the high productivity of the best performers even after attaining quotas, and (3) sales people... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 22 May 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: May 22, 2007

    existing products as well as exploring into architectural and/or discontinuous innovation. Based on in-depth, longitudinal data on 13 business units and 22 innovations, we investigate the consequences of... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 03 Mar 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: March 4, 2008

    Information, and Financial Education Programs Author:Annamaria Lusardi Abstract Individuals are increasingly in charge of their own financial security after retirement. But how well-equipped are individuals... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 17 Jan 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Are Companies Getting Away with 'Cheap Talk' on Climate Goals?

    Companies regularly set ambitious climate goals, but these plans often end up like many people’s New Year’s resolutions: unmet aspirations that quietly fizzle out. While companies often gain positive media attention by trumpeting plans for reducing greenhouse gas... View Details
    Keywords: by Tim Gray
    • 10 Dec 2021
    • Research & Ideas

    Truth Be Told: Unpacking the Risks of Whistleblowing

    In 2018, HBS associate professors Aiyesha Dey and Jonas Heese wrote a case about a whistleblower at a multi-national gambling company who exposed financial misstatements, first to his manager and later to... View Details
    Keywords: by April White
    • 07 Apr 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    When Celebrity ‘Crypto-Influencers’ Rake in Cash, Investors Lose Big

    and Exchange Commission. The SEC has been slow to issue the regulatory clarification requested by crypto companies, but has charged more than a dozen influencers with violating... View Details
    Keywords: by Kristen Senz
    • Web

    Lehman Brothers Timeline | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

    and global economic collapse. 1933 Congress passes the Glass-Steagall Act separating commercial banks from investment banks. 1934 Congress establishes the Securities Exchange... View Details
    • Web

    Curriculum - Case Method Project

    Act in 1933, and culminates in a decision of whether to adopt the National Securities Exchange Act in 1934. Coverage: 1910s – 1934; stock market crash of 1929; President... View Details
    • 07 Jul 2008
    • Research & Ideas

    Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

    building on intense lobbying to encourage further domestic deregulation and limit federal oversight of the energy industry, Skilling encouraged Enron executives to exploit to the hilt recent Securities View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities
    • Web

    1929: The Great Crash - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

    securities legislation of 1933–1934 and subsequent founding of the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) have been... View Details
    • 27 Jan 2023
    • Op-Ed

    Have We Lost Sight of Integrity?

    investigators cited MCAS as the cause. Still, Boeing did not ground the 737 MAX, forcing the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) to do so. FAA took 20 months and numerous changes before the 737 MAX was... View Details
    Keywords: by Bill George
    • 04 Aug 2010
    • News

    A Lonely Crusader

    and distort” campaign allegedly motivated by his quest for a big profit if the company faltered. At the firm’s urging, New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer launched an investigation, and the View Details
    Keywords: Roger Thompson; subprime mortgages; Finance; Real Estate
    • 24 Oct 2016
    • Research & Ideas

    Bernie Madoff Explains Himself

    service of buying shares; now Madoff had turned the practice upside down and was paying them to trade. That innovation diverted trading away from the New York Stock Exchange floor, View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
    • 08 Feb 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: Feb. 8

    2) to compensate CEOs for bearing the additional risk and responsibility associated with exposure to foreign securities laws and legal environments (proxied by both U.S. View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Shad Hall | About

    daughter Leslie and son Rees at Hall dedication Shad Hall is named for the Honorable John S.R. Shad (1923-1994), an extraordinarily active and generous supporter of HBS, a respected investment banker, former... View Details
    • 13 Jan 2023
    • Research & Ideas

    Are Companies Actually Greener—or Are They All Talk?

    Most companies now account for social good in their financial reports in some way, but with regulation scattershot and evolving, it’s complicated for investors to assess so-called ESG reports. The disclosures, known as Environmental, Social, and Governance reports,... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne