Publications

December 2008 (Revised February 2017)
Case

Olam International

By: David E. Bell and Mary Shelman

In 20 years, Sunny Verghese had built Singapore-based Olam International from a small Nigerian export company into a $5 billion global leader in agricultural commodities with a core competence in Africa. Olam's growth had come by pursuing product and geographic... View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Trade; Growth and Development Strategy; Supply Chain; Expansion; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Africa; Singapore

29 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

Decoding Insider Information and Other Secrets of Old School Chums

the bill that helps me but doesn't affect you, and then I'll vote for the bill that helps you but doesn't affect me." In the paper Friends in High Places Cohen and Malloy studied the congressional voting record from 1989 to 2008 and found... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services

01 Sep 2010
News

The Natural World

TERCEK: A tight strategic focus. Courtesy The Nature Conservancy Two years ago, Mark Tercek (MBA ’84) left his job at Goldman Sachs to become head of The Nature Conservancy (TNC), the habitat-preserving organization that has some 3,700 employees worldwide (as well as... View Details

Keywords: Conservation; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments

11 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

The Future of Boards

people we knew who we thought were experienced members of boards and would tell it like it is. I think we succeeded. They were pretty candid. It was close enough to the 2008 financial View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

August 2009
Teaching Note

U.S. Subprime Mortgage Crisis: Policy Reactions (TN) (A) and (B)

By: Laura Alfaro and Renee Kim

Teaching Note for [708036] and [709045]. View Details

Keywords: Mortgages; Crisis Management; Government and Politics; Financial Services Industry; United States

01 Sep 2016
News

The Big Business of Little Loans

the US Small Business Administration and now on the faculty at HBS. The situation worsened during the 2008 financial crisis, and lending to the sector has never really recovered. Armed with proprietary... View Details

Keywords: Nancy Miller

12 May 2003
Research & Ideas

How Hot is the “Hot Spot” Business?

The same will follow for the next five years, only more so, with more people connected for communication and collaboration. No one had mentioned financial markets, observed Robert Glaser, founder and CEO of RealNetworks. His view of View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne & Martha Lagace; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

09 Jul 2020
Working Paper Summaries

How Should US Bank Regulators Respond to the COVID-19 Crisis?

Keywords: by Michael Blank, Samuel G. Hanson, Jeremy C. Stein, and Adi Sunderam

Web

A Broad Spectrum of Opportunities | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

and 2008 New Orleans Service Immersions at HBS. “The community around Social Enterprise activities at HBS is a large, diverse group of faculty, staff, and students—there are definitely a lot of people here who are actively seeking ways to... View Details

March 2011
Article

Institutional Demand Pressure and the Cost of Corporate Loans

By: Victoria Ivashina and Zheng Sun

Between 2001 and 2007, annual institutional funding in highly leveraged loans went up from $32 billion to $426 billion, accounting for nearly 70% of the jump in total syndicated loan issuance over the same period. Did the inflow of institutional funding in the... View Details

Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Financial Crisis; Credit; Debt Securities; Financing and Loans; Interest Rates; Investment

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25 Feb 2020
News

Why Layoffs are a Losing Strategy

written numerous cases on other companies that have forged a new path for workforce management, such as Honeywell, which chose to institute furloughs during the 2008 recession instead of layoffs, and Nokia, which built its Bridge program... View Details

Keywords: April White; Telecommunications; Information

09 Jan 2019
Research & Ideas

The UK Needs a Bold Strategy Around Competition to Survive Brexit

is that the membership in the European Union has too often been a convenient scapegoat and distracted from the failure of government to mount a credible and actionable economic strategy. Hit hard by the 2008 economic View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

September 1992 (Revised March 1998)
Case

Japan Confronts an Interdependent World

By: George C. Lodge

Traces the evolution of Japan's economic strategy from 1972 to 1992. Describes the collapse of the Japanese stock market in the spring of 1992, raising the question: Is this the end of Japan's miraculous growth? To help students consider that question, the case... View Details

Keywords: Policy; Financial Markets; Information Technology; System Shocks; Borrowing and Debt; Financial Crisis; Government and Politics; Growth and Development; Situation or Environment; Japan; United States

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November 1997
Case

Herbert Hoover (B)

By: Louis T. Wells Jr.

Presents a character sketch of Herbert Hoover, along with Hoover's views on the cause of the Great Depression of the 1930s. Illustrates the political economy of the period and presents different interpretations of the course of the Great Depression. A rewritten version... View Details

Keywords: Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Financial Crisis; Government and Politics; Personal Characteristics

07 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics

Staging the Olympics is a Herculean task. Years of preparation, including budget-busting financial requirements, a panoply of construction projects, world-class logistical and communications challenges, and event-planning needs that... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Sports

April 2022
Article

National Customer Orientation: A Framework, Propositions and Agenda for Future Research

By: Ofer Mintz, Imran S. Currim and Rohit Deshpandé

Purpose: This paper aims to propose a new country-level construct, national customer orientation, to provide a benchmark for global headquartered managers’ decisions and scholars investigating cross-national research.
Design/methodology/approach: A conceptual... View Details

Keywords: International Marketing; Macro-marketing; Marketing; Financial Crisis; Customer Focus and Relationships; Economic Growth; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation

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March 2022 (Revised March 2022)
Case

Transformation at Loyola New Orleans (A)

By: David Fubini and Patrick Sanguineti

In August of 2018, Tania Tetlow is inaugurated as President of Loyola University New Orleans, in the midst of turmoil. Prior to her start, the university was given a final warning to land a balanced budget by year's end by its accreditors or risk facing probation. It... View Details

Keywords: Higher Education; Financial Condition; Crisis Management; Change Management; Trust; Transformation; New Orleans