by Nick Morgan - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Mar 2024
News

In Harmony

Kim at Seoul’s government-built Hoehyeon “Citizens’ Apartments.” Opened in 1970, it stands as a reminder of a Korea from a very different era. Like so many South Koreans of a certain age, Michael ByungJu Kim (MBA 1990) lives in a country where the past lingers,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographs by Jun Michael Park; private equity; fiction; financial crisis; leadership; Korea

15 Oct 2001
Op-Ed

Lessons from the Rubble

have been obvious even without the devastation we have just witnessed. First is that the new economy never was all that different from the old. In the ancient, heady days of the Internet boom, it became fashionable to declare that the physical bonds of commerce had... View Details

Keywords: by Debora L. Spar

01 Dec 2019
News

Bridging the Gap

brought an extra white shirt for the afternoon; the first would be gray by the time they got back to the office. A manufacturing hub for everything from Buster Brown socks to Chris-Craft boats—with plenty of steel and coal foundries to... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; illustration by Josh Cochran; photographed by Melissa Golden; cross sector collaboration; local government; nonprofits; education; leadership; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

17 Feb 2003
Research & Ideas

Building Communities as Well as Companies

Morgan Roberts at a recent conference. But what are the nuts-and-bolts details of starting and sustaining a minority-owned business in today's tough economy? Panelists at the 2003 H. Naylor Fitzhugh Conference emphasized the well known... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

02 Mar 2020
What Do You Think?

Are Candor, Humility, and Trust Making a Comeback?

report to you succeed, I think it’s pretty hard to lead with anything other than humility and vulnerability.” Dfallah said, “I believe candor, humility and trust are core values for visionary companies ” Michael H. added, “For several years, I’ve been advocating a... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Apr 1996
News

Technology for Learning's Sake

Officer Susan Rogers, an accomplished HBS administrator with a wealth of experience in technology and other projects, including total responsibility for the recent reconstruction of Morgan Hall. Ground Wires As Upton and others involved... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; photo by David Zadig

02 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Explaining China's Crash

After more than a decade of nearly can’t-miss growth, China’s stock market began a precipitous summer slide that has spooked investors worldwide. In July, the Shanghai composite index dropped 15 percent from June, prompting the People’s Bank of China to devalue the... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese; Financial Services

22 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles, Papers of the Decade

HBS Working Knowledge readers want it all, judging by our all-time most popular articles. Here you'll find stories on everything from maintaining a professional image to writing a business plan, from how to market on social media to why... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Jun 1998
News

John (“Bo”) Kemp

"That grew into a desire to save, invest, and make more" - a predilection that eventually led to an interest in private-equity investing. Kemp attended Yale, where he continued his entrepreneurial efforts by creating The Greek Shop, a... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry; photograph by Webb Chappell

23 Jun 2016
Op-Ed

Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?

Multinational Banking 1830-1990, and Professor of Management Practice Dante Roscini, who held top leadership roles in the capital markets units of Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, and Morgan Stanley before coming to HBS, where he teaches the... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini

16 Sep 2014
First Look

First Look: September 16

http://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199694945.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199694945-e-026 September 2014 Journal of Financial Economics The Disintermediation of Financial Markets: Direct Investing in Private Equity By: Fang, Lily H., Victoria Ivashina,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Nov 2017
News

Happy Meals (Are Here Again)

Above: Chris Kempczinski is one of the alumni working to modernize McDonald’s. Nick Karavites owns 24 McDonald’s restaurants in the Chicago area and the surrounding suburbs, and when he visits them, he always keeps his eye out for a... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Saverio Truglia

01 Jun 2025
News

Forward Thinking

The tallest animal to roam the land, giraffes cast long shadows on the dry savannas and woodlands of sub-Saharan Africa where they live. But their lands are vanishing, with estimates suggesting that 90 percent of their habitat has already been lost; giraffe populations... View Details

Keywords: Jen Mcfarland Flint; Illustrations by Maria Jesus Contreras; Animal Production and Aquaculture; Agriculture

30 Nov 2016
Op-Ed

Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending.

experience. Not to be outdone, incumbents like JPMorgan Chase and Wells Fargo are also moving into online lending, in some cases partnering with emergent fintech players. Taken together, Morgan Stanley estimates online lending to small... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills and Brayden McCarthy; Financial Services

Jill J. Avery

Dr. Jill Avery is a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration and C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator in the marketing unit at Harvard Business School. She is a respected authority on branding and brand management, customer relationship... View Details

Keywords: consumer products; arts; advertising; automobiles; retailing; fashion; hotels ＆ motels; food; beverage

05 Nov 2001
Research & Ideas

Venture Capital Goes Boom—or Bust?

market timing was critical to the success of the new venture. In addition to providing financing and advice on product development, marketing, and finance, Kleiner introduced Netscape to key Silicon Valley players, as well as the investment banking teams at View Details

Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner

13 May 2002
Book

Bringing the Master Passions to Work

accounts is also the telltale sign of the desire to impress by expressing—to control other minds through erudition, wit, and eloquence. We can seize others "by their minds" with our justificatory strategies. We get them to see... View Details

Keywords: by Mihnea C. Moldoveanu & Nitin Nohria

May 2016 (Revised January 2018)
Case

Airbnb, Etsy, Uber: Acquiring the First Thousand Customers

By: Thales S. Teixeira and Morgan Brown

By 2016, two-sided online platforms (or marketplaces) were pervasive among the highest growing internet startups around. These marketplaces sought to match suppliers of assets for rent, physical products or services with customers demanding them. Among the most notable... View Details

Keywords: Airbnb; Etsy; Uber; Growth Hacking; Two-sided Market; Internet and the Web; Marketing Strategy; Digital Platforms; Digital Marketing; Business Startups; Transportation Industry; Accommodations Industry

Citation

Educators

Purchase

Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services

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