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  • 16 Jan 2008
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Political Economy of “Natural” Disasters

Keywords: by Charles Cohen & Eric D. Werker
  • 28 Aug 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Impact of Private Equity Ownership on Portfolio Firms’ Corporate Tax Planning

Keywords: by Brad Badertscher, Sharon P. Katz & Sonja Olhoft Rego; Financial Services
  • June 2009 (Revised February 2010)
  • Case

Cirque du Soleil -- The High-Wire Act of Building Sustainable Partnerships

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Maxime Aucoin
The case describes the history and business model of Cirque du Soleil (CdS). The case allows for a rich discussion and analysis of Cirque du Soleil's business model with an emphasis on how it interacts with that of MGM Mirage. Le Cirque and MGM's business models... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Investment; Profit; Globalized Markets and Industries; Growth and Development Strategy; Market Entry and Exit; Partners and Partnerships; Trust; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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  • 2012
  • Book

Harder Than I Thought: Adventures of a Twenty-First Century Leader

By: Robert D. Austin, Richard L. Nolan and Shannon O'Donnell
Being a great leader today is much harder than you think—meet Jim Barton. He's a newly minted CEO, rising leader of a firm in transition, and manager of massive complexity—thanks to our incredibly networked and increasingly unpredictable world of business. What if you... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Complexity; Crisis Management; Problems and Challenges; Volatility
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    Robert C. Merton

    Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

    Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

    Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
    • August 2018 (Revised September 2018)
    • Case

    LendingClub (A): Data Analytic Thinking (Abridged)

    By: Srikant M. Datar and Caitlin N. Bowler
    LendingClub was founded in 2006 as an alternative, peer-to-peer lending model to connect individual borrowers to individual investor-lenders through an online platform. Since 2014 the company has worked with institutional investors at scale. While the company assigns... View Details
    Keywords: Data Science; Data Analytics; Investing; Loans; Investment; Financing and Loans; Analytics and Data Science; Analysis; Forecasting and Prediction; Business Model
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    • 16 Feb 2023
    • HBS Case

    ESG Activists Met the Moment at ExxonMobil, But Did They Succeed?

    The impact-investment hedge fund Engine No. 1 made a big splash in May 2021 when it managed to get three nominees elected to the ExxonMobil board of directors. It was an open effort to prod the oil giant toward renewable energy and test whether activist investing could... View Details
    Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Financial Services
    • 2017
    • Working Paper

    Business History, the Great Divergence and the Great Convergence

    By: Geoffrey Jones
    This working paper provides a business history perspective on debates about the Great Divergence, the rise of the income gap between the West and the Rest, and the more recent Great Convergence, which has seen a narrowing of that gap. The literature on the timing and... View Details
    Keywords: Business History; Economics; History; Wealth and Poverty; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth
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    • 29 Jul 2013
    • Research & Ideas

    A Manager’s Moral Obligation to Preserve Capitalism

    Capitalism's moral logic was perhaps most famously articulated by free market champion Milton Friedman when he said that "the social responsibility of business is to increase its profits." That sentiment puts faith in the market to distribute View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • September 12, 2022
    • Article

    Merit or Inherit: How to Approach Succession in a Family Business

    By: Josh Baron
    One of the most critical questions facing family businesses is how to treat the next generation. They are clearly different from other employees, as current or potential owners of the company, whose wealth and reputation are on the line. On the flip side, most parents... View Details
    Keywords: Family Business; Family and Family Relationships; Management Succession
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    • February 2019 (Revised May 2019)
    • Case

    Hot Chicken Takeover

    By: William R. Kerr, Manjari Raman and Olivia Hull
    By December 2018, entrepreneur Joe DeLoss’s fried chicken company, Hot Chicken Takeover, has opened three restaurants in Columbus, Ohio, using an unconventional employment model that helps people with criminal records get back on their feet. DeLoss is proud of the... View Details
    Keywords: Fair Chance Employment; Fair Chance Hiring; Open Hiring; Inclusive Hiring; Criminal Record; Homelessness; Therapeutic Employment; Corporate Culture; Managing The Future Of Work; Food; Entrepreneurship; Social Entrepreneurship; Values and Beliefs; Fairness; Human Resources; Compensation and Benefits; Recruitment; Employees; Retention; Selection and Staffing; Innovation Strategy; Job Offer; Job Interviews; Human Capital; Leadership; Growth Management; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Social Enterprise; Social Issues; Poverty; Welfare; Food and Beverage Industry; Ohio; United States
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    • 2025
    • Chapter

    Sustainability and Green Business in Latin America

    By: Geoffrey Jones
    This chapter argues that since the nineteenth century capitalism has created much wealth, but at the cost of massive ecological destruction, which has been particularly severe in Latin America. During the first global economy before 1929, considerable wealth was... View Details
    Keywords: Environmental Sustainability; Business History; Globalization; Economic Growth; Latin America
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    • September 2024 (Revised November 2024)
    • Case

    Carrie Wang: Choosing Between the Family Firm and the Family Spirit

    By: Lauren Cohen, Fei Wu and Sophia Pan
    Carrie Wang, Investment Head of the Wang’s single-family office, contemplated her next career steps. As one of the first businessmen who had risen from China’s industrial rise, her father had grown his wealth to a considerable level, eventually requesting that his... View Details
    Keywords: Family Office; Interests Of Consumers; Family Business; Business Growth and Maturation; Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Financial Markets; Investment Portfolio; Investment Return; Private Equity; Customer Relationship Management; Interests; Reputation; Work-Life Balance; Real Estate Industry; China
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    • 2008
    • Chapter

    Corporate Honesty and Business Education: A Behavioral Model

    By: Rakesh Khurana and Herbert Gintis
    Since the mid-1970s neoclassical economic theory has dominated business school thinking and teaching in dealing with the nature of human motivation. However valuable in understanding competitive product and financial markets, neoclassical economic theory employs an... View Details
    Keywords: Business Education; Ethics; Managerial Roles; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Organizational Culture; Business and Shareholder Relations; Mathematical Methods; Behavior
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    • 21 Feb 2007
    • Op-Ed

    What a U.N. Partnership with Big Business Could Accomplish

    are the greatest drivers of wealth creation, there needs to be a way to bring their capabilities and resources to those countries and regions where they are now absent. It is also essential to minimize the risk, make their investment... View Details
    Keywords: by George C. Lodge & Craig Wilson
    • July 1991 (Revised October 1995)
    • Case

    KPMG Peat Marwick: The Shadow Partner

    By: Robert G. Eccles Jr.
    KPMG Peat Marwick executives needed to decide whether to fund full development of "The Shadow Partner," the name coined to describe a worldwide information network that would link all KPMG professionals to each other and to a wealth of data bases and information... View Details
    Keywords: Information Management; Data and Data Sets; Knowledge Management; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Networks; Partners and Partnerships; Information Technology
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    • September 2017
    • Case

    Christine Lagarde

    By: Julie Battilana, Carin-Isabel Knoop, Vanessa Ampelas and Noemie Assenat
    The case covers the youth and career trajectory of Christine Lagarde across her time at Baker & McKenzie, as a minister in the government of France and as the head of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The case highlights the challenges and opportunities she faced... View Details
    Keywords: Change; Personal Development and Career; Power and Influence; Leadership; Gender; Leading Change
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    • September 2024
    • Case

    Topaz: Navigating Governance, Legacy, and Change

    By: Christina R. Wing and Carla Larangeira
    Since its founding in 2011, the Garza Sada brothers and their father positioned Topaz among leading family offices in Monterrey, Mexico, with several assets under management. Topaz aspired to have a transformative impact across multiple Mexican industries. An industry... View Details
    Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Family Business; Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Managerial Roles; Management Succession; Family Ownership; Financial Services Industry; Real Estate Industry; Education Industry; Energy Industry; Latin America; Mexico
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    • 2014
    • Working Paper

    Bridging Science and Technology Through Academic-Industry Partnerships

    By: Sen Chai and Willy C. Shih
    Scientific research and its translation into commercialized technology is a driver of wealth creation and economic growth. Partnerships to foster the translational processes from public research organizations, such as universities and hospitals, to private firms are a... View Details
    Keywords: Innovation; Firm Performance; Public-private Partnership Funding; Translational Research; Small And Medium Enterprises; Partners and Partnerships; Public Sector; Private Sector; Performance; Science-Based Business; Innovation and Invention
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    • 29 Jan 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: January 29, 2008

    potential: (1) project complexity, (2) cross-functionality, (3) temporary membership, (4) fluid team boundaries and (5) embeddedness in organizational structures. We argue that effective management of these five attributes allows not only... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace