Publications

Educators

29 Nov 2023
News

To Earn Trust, Climate Alliances Need to Improve Transparency

10 Nov 2022
News

The Looming Legal Showdown on Climate Justice

17 Oct 2022
News

When Climate Collaboration Is Treated as an Antitrust Violation

02 Aug 2021
News

Missing Voices in the Child Tax Credit Frenzy — Parents

01 Dec 2013
News

Christensen Awarded Kim Clark Fellowship

of the newly established Kim B. Clark Fellowship in Responsible Leadership at Oxford's Saïd Business School. In explaining why he named the initiative after Clark, Saïd Dean Peter Tufano (MBA 1984, PhDBE... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

23 Aug 2011
News

New Kid in School

Perold, and Peter Tufano — which he said had a lot to do with his initial career decision to go to Wall Street. “Also, in my first year,” he says, “I was fortunate to have Nitin Nohria as my Organizational... View Details

Keywords: Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

01 Dec 2000
News

Faculty News

Eisenmann (Assistant Professor and MBA Class of 1961 Fellow); Allen Grossman (Bloomberg Professor of Management Practice in Philanthropy); Peter Tufano (Sylvan C. Coleman Professor of Financial Management);... View Details

Keywords: H. Naylor Fitzhugh (MBA '33); Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services

07 Dec 2014
News

Connecting Low-Income Households with Financial Services

01 Jun 1999
News

Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

sum that surpasses the nation's bank deposits. As the industry flourished, more and more financial services firms, offering a plethora of products, joined the fray. An expert on competition in the mutual fund industry, HBS professor Peter... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

01 Jul 2008
News

Bear market freak out

01 Oct 1999
News

Finance Conference Explores Research Methodologies

than 2 percent of all research published in the leading finance journals. Accordingly, in early July, HBS finance professor Peter Tufano organized a conference for eighty researchers from the United States... View Details

April 1993 (Revised February 1996)
Supplement

ALZA and Bio-Electro Systems (B1): Rights Offering Strategy

By: Josh Lerner and Peter Tufano

Supplements the (A) case. Describes the CEO's decision. View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Intellectual Property

2025
Working Paper

An Empirical Examination of Business Climate Alliances: Effective and/or Harmful?

By: Matteo Gasparini and Peter Tufano

This research studies business alliances that seek to address climate change, offering empirical evidence to address claims advanced by alliance supporters and critics. We study eleven major alliances mostly focused on financial services firms and 424 major... View Details

Keywords: Antitrust; Climate Change; Financial Institutions; Competition; Network Effects; Alliances

SSRN

May 14, 2024
Article

One Way to Help Employees Build Emergency Savings

By: Timothy Flacke and Peter Tufano

Intentional cooperation between two organizations — BlackRock, a major asset management firm, and national non-profit, Commonwealth — created the conditions for the nation’s largest payroll processor, multiple U.S. employers, retirement record keepers, and others to... View Details

Keywords: Saving; Personal Finance; Income; Nonprofit Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Partners and Partnerships

September 2023 (Revised October 2024)
Case

Forecasting Climate Risks: Aviva’s Climate Calculus

By: Mark Egan and Peter Tufano

In late 2021, Ben Carr, Director of Analytics and Capital Modeling at Aviva Plc (Aviva)—a leading insurer with core operations in the UK, Ireland and Canada,—was preparing for an upcoming presentation before the company's board which included its CEO, Amanda Blanc,... View Details

Keywords: Climate Risk; Climate Finance; Forecasting; Insurance; Risk Measurement; Climate Change; Risk Management; Forecasting and Prediction; Insurance Industry; United States

Educators

August 17, 2020
Guest Column

The Case for Stakeholder Dividends: Why It’s Time for the Financial Sector to Put Its Money Where Its Mouth Is

By: Peter Tufano and Timothy Flacke

Keywords: Disruption; Financial Crisis; Financial Services Industry

August 2, 2021
Other Article

Missing Voices in the Child Tax Credit Frenzy—Parents

By: Peter Tufano and Daniel Schneider

October 2015
Article

Debt Literacy, Financial Experiences, and Overindebtedness

By: Annamaria Lusardi and Peter Tufano

Find at Harvard

Fall 2011
Article

A Brief Postwar History of U.S. Consumer Finance

By: Gunnar Trumbull and Peter Tufano

In this brief history of U.S. consumer finance since World War II, the sector is defined based on the functions delivered by firms in the form of payments, savings and investing, borrowing, managing risk, and providing advice. Evidence of major trends in consumption,... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Finance; Consumer Credit; U.s. History; Consumer Behavior; Personal Finance; Credit; Trends; History; United States