Publications

08 Nov 2018
Working Paper Summaries

When Harry Fired Sally: The Double Standard in Punishing Misconduct

Keywords: by Mark Egan, Gregor Matvos, and Amit Seru; Financial Services

November 8, 2013
Article

What Men Can Do to Help Women Advance Their Careers

By: Debora Spar

Today, most major corporations—along with hospitals, law firms, universities, and banks—have entire units devoted to helping women and minorities succeed. There are diversity officers and work/family offices and gender-sensitivity training courses in all tiers of... View Details

Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Gender

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March 2020 (Revised March 2024)
Case

CIAM: Home-Grown Shareholder Activism in France

By: Charles C.Y. Wang, Tonia Labruyere and Vincent Dessain

The case discusses the strategy of CIAM, a French activist investment firm, involved in a case of a buy-out of minority shareholders in the telecommunications sector. Altice NV, an international telecommunications company based in the Netherlands that owned more than... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Private Equity; Strategy; Valuation; Investment Activism; Financial Services Industry; France

14 May 2011
News

How Inclusivity Can Save the American Economy

15 Jul 2019
News

People Make It So Hard to Ditch Plastic Straws

2012
Working Paper

Leviathan in Business: Varieties of State Capitalism and Their Implications for Economic Performance

By: Aldo Musacchio and Sergio G. Lazzarini

In this paper we document the extent and reach of state capitalism around the world and explore its economic implications. We focus on governmental provision of capital to corporations—either equity or debt—as a defining feature of state capitalism. We present a... View Details

Keywords: State Capitalism; State-owned Enterprises; Development Banks; Sovereign Wealth Funds; Economic Systems; State Ownership; Sovereign Finance; Business and Government Relations; Investment

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14 Oct 2021
Blog Post

Making the MBA Degree More Accessible

commitments aimed at reducing financial barriers that often prevent students from underrepresented minority groups from applying to and attending HBS: Launch a need-based waiver of the application fee for all prospective students in all... View Details

July 2000 (Revised October 2000)
Case

Cisco Systems: Are You Ready? (A)

By: James L. Heskett and John P. Morgridge

An Internet service provider, INS, in which Cisco Systems has a minority ownership stake, receives an offer of $3.1 billion from Cisco's rival Lucent. Cisco's management has to decide whether to act on a request from INS management that Cisco make a counteroffer. The... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Ownership Stake; Strategic Planning; Innovation and Management; Technology; Information Technology Industry; Web Services Industry

25 Jan 2022
News

Rising Power Plant Emissions Threaten New England Climate Goals

March 2016 (Revised January 2023)
Teaching Note

Carla Ann Harris at Morgan Stanley

By: Lakshmi Ramarajan

This case follows Carla Ann Harris, an African-American executive on Wall Street, from her childhood to the eve of her 20th year at Morgan Stanley. In addition to her professional identity as an investment banker, Harris is also an accomplished gospel singer, an... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Identity; Personal Development and Career; Success; Values and Beliefs; Social Entrepreneurship; Financial Services Industry

21 Feb 2019
News

A new study finds voter ID laws don’t reduce voter fraud — or voter turnout

13 May 2013
Blog Post

"I never thought I would be a business person until…”

minored in Media Studies at Korea University. I never thought I would be a business person until I interned at The Boston Consulting Group. I worked on a technology incubation project for a Korean heavy industries conglomerate. I was... View Details

Keywords: Manufacturing

September 2014 (Revised November 2014)
Case

Marketing Marijuana in Colorado

By: John A. Quelch and David Lane

Colorado's 2014 legalization of marijuana for adult recreational (not just medical) use created a new market that entrepreneurs rushed to enter, channeled by regulations that aimed to minimize marijuana's access to minors while not stifling the emergent new industry.... View Details

Keywords: Public Health; Regulation; Marijuana; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Public Sector; Entrepreneurship; Health Care and Treatment; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Health Industry; Colorado

05 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Reinventing the Dowdy Savings Bond

In the family of investment products, a U.S. savings bond might be cast as boring old Uncle Ned, snoozing away in the corner after dinner. There's nothing wrong with that—but HBS professor Peter Tufano envisions a more meaningful role for savings bonds in the financial... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Financial Services

April 2001 (Revised March 2002)
Case

Seagate Technology Buyout

By: Gregor M. Andrade, Stuart C. Gilson and Todd C. Pulvino

In March 2000, a group of private investors and senior managers were negotiating a deal to acquire the disk drive operations of Seagate Technology. The motivating factor for the buyout was the apparently anomalous market value of Seagate's equity: Seagate's equity... View Details

Keywords: Valuation; Leveraged Buyouts; Financial Strategy; Computer Industry

30 Sep 2022
Blog Post

Latina Women in Leadership: Jacqueline Burgos (MBA 2014)

Jacqueline Burgos (MBA 2014) grew up in Brooklyn, New York and received a BBA from Pace University’s Pforzheimer Honors College with a concentration in Accounting and minors in Economics and Latin American Studies. During her time at HBS... View Details

November 1981
Case

Questionable Payments Abroad: Gulf in Italy

By: Christopher A. Bartlett

Gulf Oil in Italy was confronted by the need to increase the authorized capacity at a refinery in the face of substantial opposition. Raises the issue of their use of "facilitating gratuities" to minor officials, payments to influence news reports, and the employment... View Details

Keywords: Ethics; Energy Industry; Mining Industry; Italy

08 Sep 2015
First Look

September 8, 2015

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49543 Misconduct in Financial Services: Differences Across Organizations By: Brown, Jennifer, and Dylan Minor Abstract—We examine misconduct in financial services. We propose a theory in... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

September 2021
Article

Shaking Things Up: Disruptive Events and Inequality

By: Letian Zhang

This paper develops a theory of how disruptive events could reduce racial and gender inequality in organizations. Despite pressure from regulators and advocates, racial and gender inequality in the workplace remains high. I theorize that because such inequality is... View Details

Keywords: Inequality; Equality and Inequality; Diversity; Race; Gender; Restructuring; Mergers and Acquisitions; Disruption