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  • August 2022 (Revised November 2024)
  • Case

Boston Impact Initiative: Investing in Local Change

By: Emily R. McComb, Amy Klopfenstein and Mel Martin
In fall 2021, Aliana Piñeiro, impact director at Boston Impact Initiative (BII) discovered that an entrepreneur the organization was considering for an investment had failed to disclose pre-existing debt with another lender. Although the business scored highly on BII’s... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Finance; Investment; Investment Funds; Investment Portfolio; Relationships; Business and Community Relations; Society; Social Issues; Wealth and Poverty; Wealth; Poverty; Risk Management; Financial Services Industry; North and Central America; United States; Massachusetts; Boston
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  • 23 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Are Great Teams Less Productive?

paper, "When Learning and Performance are at Odds: Confronting the Tension." In this interview, Edmondson discusses her work and practical considerations for organizations looking to sharpen their learning skills, i.e., any... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
  • 14 Oct 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Reversing the Queue: Performance, Legitimacy, and Minority Hiring

Keywords: by Andrew Hill & David Thomas; Sports
  • Research Summary

Public Policy and Markets

By: Willis M. Emmons
William (Willis) M. Emmons III is investigating the interaction of public policy, markets, business strategy, and performance at the levels of firm, industry, and society. Emmons' approach draws heavily on economic theories of industrial organization, market failure,... View Details
  • 2012
  • Working Paper

Reaching for Yield in the Bond Market

By: Bo Becker and Victoria Ivashina
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
Keywords: Fixed Income; Reaching For Yield; Financial Intermediation; Insurance Companies; Insurance; Bonds; Assets; Risk Management; Investment Return; Investment Portfolio; Insurance Industry
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  • November 2003 (Revised February 2011)
  • Case

Sanford C. Bernstein: The Fork in the Road (A)

By: Boris Groysberg and Anahita Hashemi
Soon after the death of the firm's legendary founder, the individuals then serving as chairman and as president--Lewis A. Sanders and Roger Hertog, respectively--talked about the future of their firm. Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., a private investment firm, had grown... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture; Performance Expectations; Competitive Advantage; Valuation
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  • April 2008 (Revised October 2008)
  • Case

TD Canada Trust (A): The Green and the Red

By: Dennis Campbell and Brent Kazan
The case series illustrates the role of performance measurement and analytics in translating TD-Canada Trust's service model of "comfortable banking" into operational terms. In 2000, in a banking market where consumers and regulators were typically hostile to mergers... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Satisfaction; Commercial Banking; Profit; Balanced Scorecard; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Banking Industry; Canada
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  • 23 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 23, 2016

abstract available. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/516092-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 917-004 Disintermediation in Two-Sided Marketplaces Two-sided marketplaces often risk disintermediation: users... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas: June 6, 2017

also identifies criteria that make a decision strategic and derives explanations why strategies often reflect the background of the strategist. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52726 And the Children Shall Lead: Gender Diversity and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset

As a driver of both the overall economy and of individual wealth, real estate is pretty hard to beat. As Harvard Business School professor Arthur Segel says, real estate is the largest asset class in the world—the value of housing in the... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Construction; Real Estate
  • Web

Accounting & Management - Faculty & Research

care delivery processes and how costs could be reduced without adverse impact on patient outcomes. About the Unit The Accounting & Management unit at Harvard Business School strives to be the worldwide leader in research, course... View Details
  • 28 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 28

its accounting practices with a focus on the key risks and opportunities facing the company. The case requires students to put themselves in the shoes of Marc Cohodes to understand the business model and accounting numbers and to identify... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Oct 2023
  • What Do You Think?

Do Leaders Learn More From Success or Failure?

(Jay Yuno/iStock) Harvard Business School Professor Amy Edmondson’s recent thought-provoking book, Right Kind of Wrong, makes a strong case for the notion that we often learn a lot from failure—and in some cases, perhaps even more than we... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 02 Nov 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

Making the Numbers? ‘Short Termism’ & the Puzzle of Only Occasional Disaster

Keywords: by Nelson P. Repenning & Rebecca M. Henderson
  • 30 Nov 2016
  • News

Improving On-the-Fly Teamwork in Health Care

    Management

    The goal of MANAGEMENT: AN INTEGRATED APPROACH, 2nd Edition, is to prepare students for leadership positions in 21st century companies by addressing the many facets involved in answering one key question: How are leaders successfully managing competitive... View Details
    • 11 Apr 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing

    To improve any business, managers need to understand how much it costs to produce a profitable product. It seems a simple task, but the process of securing and analyzing the data can be incredibly complex and organizationally taxing. In Time-Driven Activity-Based... View Details
    Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
    • October 1989 (Revised June 1993)
    • Case

    Texas Eastman Co.

    By: Robert S. Kaplan
    The company as part of a commitment to Total Quality Management has installed a computer system that accumulates 30,000 observations on its processes every 2-4 hours. Operating people have found the monthly summaries of financial performance not too useful in this... View Details
    Keywords: Quality; Information Technology; Reports; Business or Company Management
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    • 13 Aug 2007
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Diasporas and Domestic Entrepreneurs: Evidence from the Indian Software Industry

    Keywords: by Ramana Nanda & Tarun Khanna; Video Game; Web Services
    • 2008
    • Report

    Survey Questionnaire on Environmental Management Practices: Summary of Results by Industry and Practices

    By: Magali Delmas and Michael W. Toffel
    This document provides a summary of the results of a survey on Environmental Management Practices (EMP) conducted by the University of California at Santa Barbara during October and November 2003. The survey was sent to 3255 facilities in 8 industrial sectors: pulp,... View Details
    Keywords: Economic Sectors; Surveys; Management Practices and Processes; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Business and Government Relations; Environmental Sustainability; Non-Governmental Organizations
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