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  • August 2021 (Revised September 2022)
  • Case

Patch Technology: Making It Easy to Do the Right Thing

By: Tomomichi Amano, Robert J. Dolan and Carol Zhang
In 2021, the growing threat of climate change pushed companies around the world to understand that significant behavioral change was necessary. While many recognized that decreasing emissions was critical, more sophisticated players such as Microsoft began to recognize... View Details
Keywords: Environmental Management; Marketing; Digital Platforms; Climate Change
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  • 30 May 2019
  • Working Paper Summaries

US Antitrust Law and Policy in Historical Perspective

Keywords: by Laura Phillips Sawyer; Education
  • Article

What Professional Service Firms Must Do to Thrive

By: Ashish Nanda and Das Narayandas
When the going gets tough, professional service firms (PSFs) often get desperate and chase all kinds of business just to keep the lights on. Consultancies, financial services firms, VC/PE firms, and the like offer services and sign up clients they should never have... View Details
Keywords: Professional Service Firms; Client Mix; Strategic Positioning; Organizations; Performance Effectiveness; Decision Making; Framework
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  • March 2014
  • Teaching Note

Barclays Bank and Contingent Capital Notes, 2012

By: Lucy White
In 2012, regulatory changes following the financial crisis mean that Barclays Bank is faced with the need to raise large amounts of capital in order to comply with increased capital requirements, tightening rules as to the "quality of capital," and increased risk... View Details
Keywords: Capital; Financial Crisis; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry
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  • November 2003 (Revised March 2004)
  • Case

Marv Tseu at Active Reasoning

By: William A. Sahlman and Christina Darwall
Describes a set of decisions confronting the management team of an early-stage software company. The company has made considerable progress in developing its software but will need additional capital to move forward. Unfortunately, conditions in the capital market are... View Details
Keywords: Applications and Software; Financing and Loans; Capital; Business Startups; Information Technology Industry
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  • 08 Apr 2015
  • News

Online Lenders Offer a Faster Lifeline for Small Businesses

  • 19 Jun 2018
  • News

The Other Diversity Dividend

    Lauren H. Cohen

    Lauren Cohen is the L.E. Simmons Professor in the Finance & Entrepreneurial Management Units at Harvard Business School and a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is an Editor of the Review of Financial... View Details

    Keywords: financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services
    • 17 Oct 2007
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Global Brands Work

    bureaucracy in which regional managers exaggerate the need for local adaptations to defend their turf; and a deteriorating market share, financial performance, and stock price. Fords worldwide should have a... View Details
    Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Auto
    • June 1994 (Revised December 1997)
    • Case

    Safeway, Inc.'s Leveraged Buyout (A)

    After years of deteriorating financial performance and eroding market position, Safeway, Inc., the largest public grocery store chain in the United States, found itself the target of a hostile takeover offer. Management decided to take the company private in a $4.3... View Details
    Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Restructuring; Retail Industry; United States
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    • 2010
    • Working Paper

    Reversing the Null: Regulation, Deregulation, and the Power of Ideas

    By: David Moss
    It has been said that deregulation was an important source of the recent financial crisis. It may be more accurate, however, to say that a deregulatory mindset was an important source of the crisis—a mindset that, to a very significant extent, grew out of profound... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Crisis; Financial Markets; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government and Politics; Failure; Business and Government Relations; Financial Services Industry; United States
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    • February 2006 (Revised August 2006)
    • Case

    Investment Banking at Thomas Weisel Partners

    By: Malcolm P. Baker and Lauren Barley
    Thomas Weisel Partners (TWP), a San Francisco-based bank focusing on emerging growth companies, is considering its strategy in the context of regulatory, competitive, and legal changes. Blake Jorgensen, the chief operating officer and co-director of investment banking,... View Details
    Keywords: Strategy; Business or Company Management; Conflict of Interests; Change Management; Investment Banking; Financing and Loans; Laws and Statutes; Financial Strategy; Corporate Finance; Banking Industry; San Francisco
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    • June 2014
    • Article

    The Price of Wall Street's Power

    By: Gautam Mukunda
    Over and over again, executives make decisions that aren't in their companies' best interests, in response to pressure from Wall Street. Though many believe this happens because firms have a "fiduciary duty" to maximize shareholder returns, U.S. executives do not, as a... View Details
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    • December 2011
    • Article

    Deposit Insurance and Subsidized Recapitalizations

    By: Lucy White and Alan Morrison
    The 2007–2009 financial crisis saw a vast expansion in deposit insurance guarantees around the world and yet our understanding of the design and consequences of deposit insurance schemes is in its infancy. We provide a new rationale for the provision of deposit... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Crisis; Banks and Banking; Insurance; Taxation; Business and Government Relations; Banking Industry
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    • September 2017 (Revised September 2023)
    • Case

    Chase Sapphire: Creating a Millennial Cult Brand

    By: Shelle Santana, Jill Avery and Christine Snively
    The launch of the Chase Sapphire Reserve credit card was enthusiastically received by millennial consumers, a cohort that had previously eluded JPMorgan Chase and its competitors. With the one-year anniversary of the launch approaching, managers are focused on... View Details
    Keywords: Brand ＆ Product Management; Product Strategy; New Product Development; Credit Card; Customer Acquisition; CRM; Millennials; Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Brands and Branding; Credit Cards; Product Development; Product Launch; Customer Relationship Management; Consumer Behavior; Demographics; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States; North America
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    • September 2011
    • Article

    Global Capitalism at Risk: What Are You Doing About It?

    By: Joseph L. Bower, Herman B. Leonard and Lynn S. Paine
    Market capitalism, a system that has proven to be a remarkable engine of wealth creation, is poised for a breakdown. That sounds dire, and it is. Increasing income inequality, migration, weaknesses in the global financial system, environmental degradation, and... View Details
    Keywords: Disruption; Economic Systems; Globalization; Corporate Governance; Markets; Risk and Uncertainty
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    • October 1990 (Revised March 1998)
    • Case

    De Beers Consolidated Mines Ltd. (A)

    Describes the problems facing De Beers at the start of 1983. De Beers had, since its formation in 1888, exercised a large measure of control over the world supply of diamonds. In 1983, the company itself mined over 40% of the world's natural diamonds and, through... View Details
    Keywords: Industry Structures; Crisis Management; Business Strategy; Mining; Mining Industry
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      Robert J. Dolan

      Robert J. Dolan is the Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Rochester and began his academic career in 1976 as a faculty member at the Graduate School of Business of the University of Chicago. He joined... View Details

        How to Make Climate Risk Good Business

        The risk profiles of many real estate markets are rapidly increasing globally. Insurers and mortgage brokers are taking note and adjusting their offering based on widely available climate data and predictive analytics. John Macomber suggests that consumers and... View Details
        • 13 Oct 2010
        • Research & Ideas

        How Government can Discourage Private Sector Reliance on Short-Term Debt

        financing of large financial intermediaries put the larger financial system at risk. Once you recognize this, it's easy to argue for more regulation, but regulation is... View Details
        Keywords: by Staff; Financial Services