Corporate Services - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2007
News

HBS Faculty Member Honored

Between Competitive Advantage and Corporate Social Responsibility,” the coauthors propose a way for firms to contribute to social welfare without sacrificing corporate success. Porter was also honored (with... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services

02 Dec 2015
Blog Post

Alumni: Where Are They Now? Featuring: Laura Mackay...

career with NeoCare Solutions – a mobile engagement platform that helps parents of NICU babies navigate the NICU and transition home. Interestingly, the business was incubated and is run as a start-up within Healthagen, the innovative technology and View Details

Keywords: Technology; Health Care; Entrepreneurship

01 Apr 2002
News

John Mulroney: Center Stage at the Opera

training, and dramatically lower compensation. (Mulroney provides his services pro bono.) "The nonprofit world can be difficult for executives who are accustomed to efficiency and large-company, big-budget solutions to problems," Mulroney... View Details

01 Sep 2006
News

East to West

Issues surrounding corporate governance are a source of ongoing debate in the boardrooms of companies around the world — not just the United States. A new case, “Governing Sumida Corporation,” takes readers inside a Japanese manufacturer... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services

September 2025
Article

Public Disclosure of Private Meetings: Does Observing Peers’ Information Acquisition Affect Analysts’ Attention Allocation?

By: Yi Ru, Ronghuo Zheng and Yuan Zou

We investigate the impact of observing peers’ information acquisition on financial analysts’ allocation of attention. Using the timely disclosure mandate by the Shenzhen Stock Exchange as a setting, we find that, shortly after analysts observe that a firm has been... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Disclosure; Information; Financial Institutions; Accounting; Financial Markets; Financial Services Industry; China

May 2008 (Revised March 2009)
Case

SKS Microfinance

By: Shawn A. Cole and Theresa Chen

Vikram Akula, CEO of SKS Microfinance, seeks a venture capital investment to fund his firm. SKS, one of the largest and fastest growing microfinance institutions in India, is a profitable, for-profit institution with a social mission. In what is one of the first... View Details

Keywords: For-Profit Firms; Venture Capital; Microfinance; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Valuation; Financial Services Industry; India

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Gerald Chertavian

his new wife, Kate, where he ran marketing for a financial services firm before cofounding Conduit Communications, a consulting firm focused on the nascent field of Internet marketing. He spent several years building Conduit into one of... View Details

Keywords: Services; Services; Services

03 May 2021
What Do You Think?

Where Does CEO Activism Go From Here?

(Image credit: iStockphoto/adamkaz) CEO activism entered a new chapter with the decision by more than 200 leaders of large corporations last month to publicly declare their support for voting rights for Americans and, by extension, their... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Jun 2005
News

Stephen Fuller Remembered

Executive Education courses ranging from organizational behavior and collective bargaining, to corporate responsibility and business policy. An associate dean from 1963 to 1969, he helped strengthen the School’s financial resources,... View Details

18 Mar 2009
Research & Ideas

Marketing After the Recession

such a brand, dust off your CV and move on. But bad behavior in the financial services sector has bruised trust in all corporate brands. Confirm that your target customers still trust you but plan to add... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch; Retail

01 Oct 2001
News

A Janus-Faced Reflection

as editorial director and senior vice president in charge of its publishing division. Kiechel's joint MBA/JD degree reflects, in part, a bit of "career confusion." A Phi Beta Kappa Harvard College graduate, he enrolled in Harvard Law School in 1973, after five years of... View Details

Keywords: Walter Kiechel; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services; Educational Services

20 Nov 2019
News

Lifting Fallen Families

some 20,000 dependents over the past 35 years. With those kinds of numbers, Children of Fallen Patriots figures that, after government help, the gap is half a billion dollars. “So that’s the total we’re going after,” Kim says. Through fundraising with individuals and... View Details

Keywords: Maureen Harmon

30 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Retirement Planning

claim." When the global stock market and interest rates began to decline in 2000, many corporations faced a double whammy when returns on pension assets were well below expectations and pension liabilities rose by much more than... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services; Financial Services

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Morse and Polaroid’s Creative Ethos | Baker Library

Morse and Polaroid’s Creative Ethos Photo: Meroe Morse, test photograph by Laurie Seamans, Type 42, ca. 1950s. Polaroid Corporation Records, Photographs of Polaroid Consultant Photographers, b. XI.9, f. 1. In 1968, Smith College presented... View Details

28 Jun 2022
Cold Call Podcast

Scaling a Fintech Startup for the Greater Good

Keywords: Financial Services

February 2024 (Revised February 2024)
Case

CLSA: Integrating ESG in Stock Valuation

By: Shirley Lu, Aaron Yoon and Billy Chan

In 2023, a senior financial analyst at the Hong Kong-based stock brokerage firm CLSA was surprised to see that, based on his calculations, the financial impact from climate risks on a major Indian cement manufacturing company’s projected earnings could be massive.... View Details

Keywords: Accounting; Corporate Governance; Analysis; Stocks; Valuation; Environmental Sustainability; Financial Services Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Hong Kong; China; India; Asia

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01 Dec 2018
News

From Das’s Desk

lives and careers. It is, perhaps, the greatest proof of the power of HBS lifelong learning that these alumni now say they want the experience to continue throughout their lives and careers. Women on Boards: Succeeding as a Corporate... View Details

Keywords: Das Narayandas

01 Dec 2004
News

A Case of Achievement

Enterprises, an international trade consulting and investment firm, Franklin has worked in government with five U.S. presidents, including service as secretary of commerce in the administration of President George H.W. Bush. A.G. Lafley... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services; Educational Services

April 2012 (Revised July 2012)
Supplement

Man Group (B)

By: Robert C. Pozen and Thomas M. Clay

The Man Group was a huge and successful UK-based hedge fund and fund of funds manager. Through acquisitions, the company had consciously diversified its portfolio of investment products. In 2007 Man had to decide whether or not to spin off its brokerage business. Man... View Details

Keywords: Hedge Funds; Asset Management; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Investment Funds; Corporate Strategy; Growth and Development Strategy; Financial Services Industry; United Kingdom

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