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  • 01 Mar 2010
  • News

Faculty Books

financial globalization; and the challenges and policies of large economies. The cases, set in Africa, Asia, Europe, Latin America, and the United States, approach these themes by exploring institutional detail in deep local context,... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management
  • 15 Feb 2012
  • Op-Ed

Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point

failures of education and public health, state capitalism, radical movements and terrorism, and pandemics. The Eleventh Disruptor The business leaders also identified an eleventh disruptor: the inadequacy of existing government and multilateral View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower, Herman B. Leonard & Lynn S. Paine
  • 28 Aug 2012
  • First Look

First Look: August 28

http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/Sociology/EnvironmentTechnology/?view=usa&sf=toc&ci=9780195397840 What Drives Corporate Social Performance? The Role of Nation-level Institutions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Nov 2021
  • News

Weighing Big Tech’s Promise to Black America

cash holdings “in financial institutions and organizations that directly support Black communities.” As part of that effort, Netflix deposited $10 million in Hope Credit Union, a Black-owned bank. The pledge also included a call to... View Details
  • Web

Teaching Resources - Business History

from the past as they build their future careers. Historical Data Visualization The Historical Data Visualization project provides geographic maps of historical data on broad economic, social and political trends both globally and within... View Details
  • 01 Apr 1999
  • News

Time to Vote in University Elections

and to the institutional excellence to which Harvard aspires; to provide advice to the Corporation; to give formal consent to major initiatives as referred by the Corporation and to appointments; and to bring a long-range perspective to... View Details
  • 25 Feb 2020
  • News

Profits and Purpose

through teaching the course that I’ve come to believe that corporations have to think beyond their own boundaries to a broader concern with the health of the institutions on which we all rely. In the second year I taught the course with... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • 04 Oct 2011
  • First Look

First Look: October 4

knowing "who we are" might depend in part on repeatedly remembering to forget "who we were not." The Enabling Role of Social Position in Diverging from the Institutional Status Quo:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • May 2022
  • Article

When Harry Fired Sally: The Double Standard in Punishing Misconduct

By: Mark Egan, Gregor Matvos and Amit Seru
We examine gender differences in misconduct punishment in the financial advisory industry. We find evidence of a “gender punishment gap”: following an incident of misconduct, female advisers are 20% more likely to lose their jobs and 30% less likely to find new jobs... View Details
Keywords: Financial Advisers; Brokers; Gender Discrimination; Consumer Finance; Financial Misconduct And Fraud; FINRA; Financial Institutions; Employees; Crime and Corruption; Gender; Prejudice and Bias; Personal Finance; Financial Services Industry
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  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Prices or Knowledge? What Drives Demand for Financial Services in Emerging Markets?

By: Shawn A. Cole, Thomas Sampson and Bilal Zia
Financial development is critical for growth, but its micro-determinants are not well understood. We test leading theories of low demand for financial services in emerging markets, combining novel survey evidence from Indonesia and India with a field experiment. We... View Details
Keywords: Banks and Banking; Saving; Knowledge Acquisition; Emerging Markets; Motivation and Incentives; Financial Services Industry; India; Indonesia
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  • 16 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 16, 2007

  Working PapersShamed and Able: How Firms Respond to Information Disclosure Authors:Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel. Abstract We apply institutional theory to explain how firms respond to information disclosure. Considering the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jan 2015
  • Op-Ed

The Fall of Greece

Not allowing establishment of private educational institutions on equal footing with public institutions. The best educational institutions in the world are private and I am proud to be a faculty in one of... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
  • 21 Sep 2015
  • News

Funding Progress Back Home

global and sovereign institutional investors Homestrings, launched in 2011, draws on lessons learned in those roles, plus Guichard’s own awareness that “those of us who have found success far from family and friends are looking for... View Details
  • Web

The Route of the Exhibition - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

commercial images as art and offered a prestigious social milieu that brought together photographers, executives, art directors, and socialites. In New York, the mission of the Art Center, a federation of seven societies including the... View Details
  • Web

Introduction - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

Clubs Faculty & Research Business & Environment Business History Christensen Center for Teaching & Learning Entrepreneurship Faculty & Research Global Healthcare HBS Working Knowledge Institute for Strategy & Competitiveness Leadership... View Details
  • 27 Oct 2014
  • Research & Ideas

The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere

another 30 years," says Lurtz, the Harvard-Newcomen Fellow at Harvard Business School. "How do you build these institutions that you need for market agriculture in a place where maybe there are laws on the books, but there's not much... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Agriculture & Agribusiness
  • 11 Aug 2014
  • HBS Case

The Business of Behavioral Economics

couple it with loss aversion, and you put people in a position where they're more likely to go out and exercise." StickK has incorporated another economic principle—the power of social norms—to keep people on track. Users create an online... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage; Health
  • April 2022 (Revised August 2022)
  • Case

Conflicts of Interest at Uptown Bank

By: Jonas Heese
In 2013, two employees debated whether to blow the whistle on their employer, Bell Bank, after completing an internal review that revealed undisclosed conflicts of interest. Bell Bank’s Asset Management business disproportionately invested clients’ money in Bell Bank’s... View Details
Keywords: Whistleblower; Whistleblowing; Mutual Funds; Conflicts Of Interest; Decision Making; Decisions; Judgments; Ethics; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Finance; Financial Institutions; Banks and Banking; Financial Management; Investment; Investment Funds; Governance; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Governance; Governance Compliance; Governance Controls; Policy; Law; Legal Liability; Social Psychology; Motivation and Incentives; Perception; Perspective; Trust; Financial Services Industry; North and Central America; United States
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  • 01 Feb 2002
  • News

The Harvard Clubs of Australia: Networking with a Cause

In establishing new events and traditions, Stern is in frequent contact with his Melbourne counterpart, Patrick G. O'Brien (MBA '94), president of the Harvard Club of Australia- Victoria (HCAV). O'Brien and Stern agree on the clubs' dual objectives: provide View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • Web

Lessons from the 2025 Race, Gender & Equity at Work Symposium - Blog: RGE Report

many institutions and structures, often the very same ones we use our own hope to challenge. Our panelists showed us how hope alone is insufficient for radical change. When hope is expected or demanded of someone struggling against... View Details