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  • 21 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Fighting the COVID Blues: Advice from Business Research

and financial distress—a mentally toxic combination for many. In fact, almost half of adults in the United States, 45 percent, say that worry and stress related to the coronavirus and the resulting economic downturn are hurting their... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman and Danielle Kost
  • 04 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 4, 2018

the universal bank had long been disputed. After 2008, the financial crisis and subsequent Great Recession damaged many global and domestic financial services firms. While the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Dec 2008
  • News

Seth Klarman

Klarman Illustration by David Cowles While other money managers scrambled to survive the financial market meltdown, value investor extraordinaire Seth Klarman (MBA ’82), president of The Baupost Group in Boston, cautiously pursued buying... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance
  • May 2015 (Revised March 2016)
  • Supplement

Thomas Cook Group on the Brink (C): Transformation Year 2 Results

By: Benjamin C. Esty
Analyzes the results of the Thomas Cook turnaround plan after the second year under Harriet Green's leadership (November 2014). View Details
Keywords: Turnaround; Corporate Restructuring; Female Ceo; Transformation; Change Management; Communication Strategy; Cost Management; Financial Liquidity; Financial Management; Management Succession; Leading Change; Crisis Management; Value Creation; Leadership; Travel Industry; United Kingdom
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  • 05 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 5, 2010

Financial Crisis Robert C. Pozen and Melissa HammerleHarvard Business School Note 311-014 This note will examine the regulatory framework for hedge funds in the United Kingdom (UK) before and after the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • June 2003 (Revised July 2003)
  • Teaching Note

India on the Move (TN)

By: Richard H.K. Vietor
Teaching Note for (9-703-050). View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Adoption; Foreign Direct Investment; Macroeconomics; Trade; Governance Controls; Competition; Inflation and Deflation; Entrepreneurship; India; Pakistan
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  • 25 Aug 2015
  • First Look

First Look Tuesday

Abstract—U.S. money market mutual funds (MMFs) are an important source of dollar funding for global financial institutions, particularly those headquartered outside the United States. MMFs proved to be a source of considerable instability... View Details
  • 10 Mar 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley

Financial Executives Research Foundation found that 83 percent of large company CFOs agreed that SOX had increased investor confidence, with 33 percent agreeing that it had reduced fraud. And yet—the View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Accounting; Banking
  • January 2011
  • Supplement

ISS A/S (D): Goldman's 2011 Business Standards Report

By: Clayton S. Rose
The (D) case describes aspects of the Jan 2011 report by the Goldman Sach's Business Standards Committee on how the firm might strengthen its practices with respect to clients and other stakeholders. View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Financial Crisis; Corporate Governance; Management; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Core Relationships
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  • Web

Podcast - HBS Online

associate dean for HBS Online and Executive Education, joins host Chris Linnane to uncover how financial statements communicate the essentials of business and why accounting is a universal language connecting companies of all sizes. Nancy... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2009
  • News

Noted & Quoted

“We simply can’t call it capitalism if the biggest financial institutions enjoy a guarantee from the taxpayer that if they go bust, or risk going bust, they’ll be bailed out. That has to change.” — Professor Niall Ferguson, responding to... View Details
  • 04 Nov 2020
  • News

The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises

perspective, we reached out to alumni who had confronted similar challenges—including the OPEC crisis, the Vietnam War, the Financial Crisis of 2008—and we asked them how they made it through those difficult... View Details
  • Profile

Mark Gundersen

experience absolutely made me come alive. I spent most of the summer analyzing financials and modeling loans. Then one afternoon, I got a chance to meet the people we were making loans to. A farmer wearing a 'World's Best Dad' T-shirt... View Details
  • 29 May 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 29, 2018

contrast, we don’t find evidence of a secular shift in the cross-country correlations of stock market volatility shocks, which have remained fairly low through time except during the financial crisis of... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • Web

Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry - Course Catalog

and spawning compelling investment opportunities. Course Content Restaurant Economics. We will do a deep dive into the levers of financial management of restaurants – examining both revenue and cost strategies. Compensation and Workforce... View Details
  • March 2010
  • Case

Target: Responding to the Recession

By: Ranjay Gulati, Rajiv Lal and Cathy Ross
Within 10 months of Gregg Steinhafel's taking over as CEO at Target, the U.S. was mired in the most significant economic downturn in 50 years. Top competitor Wal-Mart had positioned itself well for the crisis, while Target's same store sales began to slide. While... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Strategy; Operations; Brands and Branding; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Competition; Retail Industry; United States
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  • July 2013 (Revised September 2013)
  • Case

New York City: Bloomberg's Strategy for Economic Development

By: Michael E. Porter, Christian H.M. Ketels and Jorge Ramirez-Vallejo
Traces the economic development of New York City from its founding in the 17th century through 2012. Focuses on the decisions made by New York City officials, past and present, highlighting the challenges of economic development at the city level. Enables deep... View Details
Keywords: History; Development Economics; Industry Clusters; Policy; Government Administration; Financial Crisis; Growth and Development Strategy
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  • October 2002 (Revised August 2004)
  • Case

Canary Wharf

By: William J. Poorvu, Arthur I Segel and Camille Douglas
On September 25, 2002, Peter Anderson was due to meet with Morgan Stanley in ten minutes. Anderson had been the finance director of Canary Wharf Group (CWG) since Paul Reichmann and a group of investors had repurchased Canary Wharf in 1995. Anderson had joined Olympia... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Negotiation; Business or Company Management; Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Financing and Loans; Crisis Management; Problems and Challenges; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Success
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  • 20 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 20

long-term contracts based on negotiated "benchmark prices" to contracts based on spot prices, usually forcing mining companies to pay for shipping. Second, for Brazil's charismatic president, Lula, a former union leader, Vale's layoffs during the global View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 19 Oct 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

Smarter Policy” to help provide evidence on matters of small-business financing—looking in particular about whether and how the financial crisis created a credit gap for small businesses. Despite gathering... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding