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  • 20 Feb 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

American tradition of a well-regulated society with the legacy of Gilded Age laissez-faire capitalism produced the modern American regulatory state. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=48304 forthcoming Review of Finance View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • September 2010
  • Case

Aaron's: Household Goods for the U.S. Base of the Pyramid

By: Michael Chu and Charles Augustus Smithgall IV
With $2.5 billion system-wide revenues, Aaron's, a major rent-to-own supplier to the U.S. base of the pyramid, continues to grow in the recession, but CEO R.C. Loudermilk, Jr. wonders how long the company can sustain the fast growth rate of its past. Founded in 1955,... View Details
Keywords: Fairness; For-Profit Firms; Renting or Rental; Financial Crisis; Demand and Consumers; Social Enterprise; Income; Goods and Commodities; Competitive Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; United States
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  • 21 Dec 2022
  • News

HBS Community Comes Together in Wake of Ukraine Invasion

the broader messages they send to the world Ukraine Crisis: Analysis by HBS Professor Deepak Malhotra and Jonathan Powell At an event held on March 2, 2022, Prof. Deepak Malhotra and Jonathan Powell provide a strategic analysis of the Ukraine View Details
  • 11 Aug 2020
  • Blog Post

Supporting Independent Workers During COVID-19: One Phone Call at a Time

financially underserved. Chrys and his parents in Aldrich early in the spring semester At the start of their first spring semester at HBS, Shrey and Chrys would meet almost daily after class to chat with HBS alumni and professors,... View Details
  • 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 crisis because of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 01 Dec 2002
  • News

Mary Callahan Erdoes

for her analytical skills and sound judgment, Erdoes is particularly sought out for her expertise in assessing complicated financial instruments, such as derivatives. The Chicago native and Georgetown University graduate says that during... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • 16 Mar 2010
  • First Look

First Look: March 16

banking" experience. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/110049-PDF-ENG Ben Bernanke: Person of the Year? Lakshmi Iyer and Matthew C. WeinzierlHarvard Business School Case 710-051 In response to the economic and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Feb 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 26

determine whether they think the company is ready to scale those efforts or whether it is premature to do so. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/813107-PDF-ENG Longtop Financial Technologies (D) Hawkins, David F. Harvard Business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Jun 2013
  • First Look

First Look: June 18

account for horizontal peer comparison when designing executive wage contracts and that this comparison has productivity consequences for firms. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=43633 How Do Risk Managers Become Influential? A Field Study in... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 01 Dec 2011
  • News

Alumni Book Briefs

economists, and financiers who declared a moral battle for freedom but instead gave rise to an age of greed, Madrick traces the lineage of some of our nation’s most pressing economic problems. Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World... View Details
Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • 21 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 21

traces the consequences of these differences. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=44781 How Do Risk Managers Become Influential? A Field Study in Two Financial Institutions By: Hall, Matthew, Anette Mikes, and Yuval... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 29

Rio Doce. But again, the company runs into problems with obtaining regulatory approvals. This is compounded by the global financial crisis that seriously impacts the global steel industry. How will Baosteel... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2013
  • News

Sizing Up Social Impact

challenges in creative ways: "The Robin Hood Foundation" (with Catherine Ross). Created by hedge fund and investment managers, the Robin Hood Foundation fights poverty through grants to nonprofit organizations in New York City. As the global View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Crop Production; Agriculture; Administration of Economic Programs; Government; Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government; Water, Sewage and Supply Systems; Utilities
  • 16 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 16, 2007

costs. Whether it encourages looting depends on other institutions, particularly those that create incentives to monitor directors. We examine Mexico's banking system, 1888-1913, in which there was widespread related lending. We find little evidence of credit... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Aug 2011
  • First Look

First Look: August 23

Course MaterialsBANEX and the ,,No Pago" Movement (A) Shawn Cole and Baily Blair KempnerHarvard Business School Case 211-092 This case examines Grassroots Capital's decision of whether or not to continue investing in a Bolivian microfinance bank that is suffering... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Feb 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World

research how theavailability of capital at various stages of an organization's evolutionaffects growth. "If we don't start thinking differently there'sa potential for crisis in the nonprofit sector," Grossman says.... View Details
Keywords: by Anne Kavanagh
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Courses by Faculty - Course Catalog

Course Title Area Term Quarter Credits Kris Ferreira Supply Chain Management Technology & Operations Management Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Sara Fleiss Field Course: Public Markets Investing Seminar Finance Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 C. Fritz Foley Corporate Finance: Corporate View Details
  • January 2011 (Revised July 2011)
  • Case

Accounting for Catastrophes: BP PLC and Union Carbide Corporation (A)

By: David F. Hawkins
The IASB and FASB propose new contingency loss recognition, measurement, and disclosure rules (A case). The B and C cases apply these proposals to British Petroleum's Mexican Gulf oil spill and Union Carbide's Bhophal gas discharge. View Details
Keywords: Financial Reporting; International Accounting; Trade; International Finance; Standards; Strength and Weakness; Natural Disasters; Crisis Management; Governance Controls; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Energy Industry; India
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  • 20 Jan 2015
  • First Look

First Look: January 20

Business School Case 715-006 Europe, Russia, and the Age of Gas Revolution The 2014 Ukraine crisis once again exposed the mutually limiting knot-a web of commercial relationships and oil and gas pipelines-that historically tied the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 23, 2008

Both offered equal levels of financial support to donating parties. Eighty donations and 120 specimen shipping invoices from 2005 were analyzed in each program. Donations to the two programs did not significantly differ in terms of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace