Publications

March 2005 (Revised April 2007)
Case

Comergent Technologies Inc.: Enterprise E-Commerce

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Marie Bell

Coming out of the 2001 high-tech industry recession, this venture capital start-up has to come up with a marketing plan to break even and grow. Its innovative e-commerce software provides unique customer relationship management solutions, but it has to convince... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Customer Relationship Management; Financial Crisis; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Business or Company Management; Marketing Strategy; Problems and Challenges; Software; Information Technology Industry

01 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 1, 2007

dramatically underserved for decades? Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=307086 Korea: After the 1997 Financial Crisis Harvard Business School Case 707-042... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Mar 2008
Research & Ideas

Marketing Your Way Through a Recession

Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge. The signs of an imminent recession are all around us. The spillover from... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

21 Mar 2019
News

Helping Veterans Build Careers

program,” he says, “every $516 places a vet in a job.” Goldenberg’s path to the Endowment began in 2008 when he was working at the consulting firm Frost & Sullivan. As the financial crisis hit that year, he... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

06 Dec 2021
News

Rescue & Recovery

need humanitarian aid by the end of this year, an increase of 40 percent over 2020. Meanwhile, much closer to home, Mercy Corps is still recovering from a crisis of its own, after an abuse scandal in 2019 that led to the ouster of its... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; photographed by Stephen Voss; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

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

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

17 Nov 2003
Research & Ideas

The Business Case for Diabetes Disease Management

then the vendor is placed financially at risk for the costs of patient medical care and is responsible for coordinating all aspects of care for those patients. The vendor is often also involved with other chronically ill patients of the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

12 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

Creating Value Across Borders

example, while Korea has a great education system, its industry structure is still rather inefficient. The Asian financial crisis induced a healthy shakeout, and now private equity firms are very active... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

Web

Bankruptcy | Baker Library

derivatives such as credit default swaps. Williams, 152. Viral V. Acharya and Matthew W. Richardson, “How Securitization Concentrated Risk,” in What Caused the Financial Crisis , ed. Jeffrey Friedman... View Details

01 Jun 2011
News

Alumni Books

Alchemists of Loss: How Modern Finance and Government Intervention Crashed the Financial System by Kevin Dowd and Martin Hutchinson (MBA ’73) (Wiley) The authors discuss modern finance as a U.S. invention, the theories and practices... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; National Security and International Affairs; Government

01 Mar 2018
News

March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

Macmillan) This volume offers a snapshot of the resurgent historiography of political economy in the wake of the ongoing global financial crisis and suggests fruitful new agendas for research on the... View Details

20 Jul 2017
News

Pushing the Next Generation Forward

lunching with a student mentee, strategizing with the director of a pre-K education program, or working on crisis management with city officials in the aftermath of a violent neighborhood incident. “Don’t ask me about my typical day,” he... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

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

10 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

How to Look at Globalization Now

adding value by operating across borders is concerned; others can be identified as well. Q: Globalists and global skeptics have had plenty to argue about in recent years: as you write in the same paper, globalists gained confidence from the fall of the Berlin Wall, but... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

23 Apr 2013
First Look

First Look: April 23

financial crisis of 2008 laid bare the hidden network of relationships in corporate governance: who owes what to whom, who will stand by whom in times of crisis, what governs the provision of credit when no... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

January 2002 (Revised June 2003)
Case

Abelli and Saviotti at Banca Commerciale Italiana (A)

By: Tiziana E. Casciaro, Kathleen L. McGinn and Massimiliano Belingheri

In 1999, a powerful struggle amidst complex corporate and interpersonal networks led to the failed merger between Banca Commerciale Italiana and Unicredito Italiano--two of Italy's largest banking groups. This case analyzes the actions of Abelli and Saviotti, co-CEOs... View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Networks; Banks and Banking; Business Strategy; Power and Influence; Crisis Management; Government and Politics; International Finance; Failure; Banking Industry; Italy