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four children and eleven grandchildren. Heather, a successful entrepreneur, is the founder, chair and CEO of Indigo Books & Music, Canada’s leading book and lifestyle retailer. She is a former Governor of McGill University, her alma mater, and the Toronto View Details
- 04 Nov 2013
- Research & Ideas
The Real Cost of Bribery
employee morale was by far more significantly affected by bribery than any other factor. That's important because studies have shown that employee morale is directly related to a firm's performance, including stock market returns. For... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
to the underlying belief structure. Kusin uses a broad range of analytic tools enhanced and supplemented by 20 years of data collection, polling, and anecdotes from the highest level of access to deconstruct what actually exists. The Compound Code: An Expert Guide to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Home Base
Take stock of the impressions you’ve gotten about working parenthood, and then step back and ask, What’s going to work for me? Define this for yourself.” Daily routine: A good long walk. “I’m not trying to outpace anybody. I don’t count... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 28 Apr 2014
- Working Paper Summaries
Payout Policy
- September 2019
- Case
JTC: Stronger Together with Shared Ownership
By: Ethan Bernstein and Daniela Beyersdorfer
Nigel Le Quesne, CEO of Jersey-based financial services firm JTC, firmly believed that "shared ownership" was at the heart of his company’s successful track record. The firm had seen its revenues, profits, and number of clients and staff grow steadily throughout its... View Details
Keywords: Ownership; Employee Ownership; Leadership Style; Compensation and Benefits; Organizational Culture; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Going Public; Mission and Purpose; Management Practices and Processes; Human Resources; Financial Services Industry; Channel Islands; Europe; United States
Bernstein, Ethan, and Daniela Beyersdorfer. "JTC: Stronger Together with Shared Ownership." Harvard Business School Case 420-008, September 2019.
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What are the best finance interview prep resources?
href="https://inside.hbs.edu/Departments/mba/prematric/default.aspx?page=prematric-wall-street-prep">Wall Street Prep on the HBS Career and Professional Development site Equity research Data and background information for stock... View Details
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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Fama-DFA Second Place Prize for the Best Paper Published in the Journal of Financial Economics in the Areas of Capital Markets and Asset Pricing for "Legislating Stock Prices" (with Karl Diether and Christopher Malloy, December 2013).... View Details
- 11 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
The IT Leader’s Hero Quest
company badly needs a jolt of energy and expertise to grow and to resuscitate its declining stock price. The chief executive who promoted Barton is hopeful but hard-nosed; and Barton's IT group—while talented and tech-savvy—is impatient,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 23 Jun 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
The Role of Institutional Development in the Prevalence and Value of Family Firms
- August 2021 (Revised November 2021)
- Case
The NCB Capital Turnaround: Waking the Sleeping Giant
By: Sandra J. Sucher, Gamze Yucaoglu, Shalene Gupta and Fares Khrais
The case opens in 2019, five years after, Sarah Al Suhaimi, CEO of NCB Capital (NCBC), the investment arm of Saudi’s largest bank, NCB, took the helm. Having successfully turned the business to make it the market leader, she was contemplating her next steps as... View Details
Keywords: Turnaround; Investment Banking; Financial Institutions; Change Management; Leadership; Business Model; Strategy; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Management Teams; Asset Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Saudi Arabia
Sucher, Sandra J., Gamze Yucaoglu, Shalene Gupta, and Fares Khrais. "The NCB Capital Turnaround: Waking the Sleeping Giant." Harvard Business School Case 322-043, August 2021. (Revised November 2021.)
- 22 Oct 2014
- HBS Seminar
Koleman Strumpf, University of Kansas School of Business
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Joseph J. O'Donnell, MBA 1971
bought the rest of the stock and changed the name to Boston Concessions Group. From the beginning, O'Donnell's vision of the company's future went far beyond the traditional parameters. "The way I looked at it," he says, "we were in the... View Details
- 16 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business
intermediate term, we will see companies that rely on global supply chains be hurt. Once companies run through their existing safety stocks of raw materials or parts provided by a far-flung supplier base, they may face challenges filling... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Apr 2001
- Research & Ideas
Not All M&As Are Alike—and That Matters
We know surprisingly little about mergers and acquisitions, despite the buckets of ink spilled on the topic. In fact, our collective wisdom could be summed up in a few short sentences: Acquirers usually pay too much. Friendly deals done using View Details
Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Dwight Raiford
national Little League board of directors, stresses “building big-league citizens, not big-league ballplayers.” But winning has its thrills, such as being invited to Wall Street with the team last year. Says Raiford, “After 25 years in financial services, how do I get... View Details
- 18 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?
non-fungible tokens. This article originally appeared in the Harvard Gazette. You Might Also Like: Are Banks the ‘Bad Guys’? Overdraft Fees Are Crushing Low-Income Customers Why Companies Raise Their Prices: Because They Can The Popular View Details
- 12 Mar 2014
- Lessons from the Classroom
Managing the Family Business: Firing the CEO
Even the stock market moves with changes in the leadership of a company. When the Japanese camera maker Olympus fired its CEO in 2011, its stock fell; when Air France-KLM indicated it would let its CEO go... View Details
- 20 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Riddle of How Companies Grow Over Time
getting bigger or richer; “growth involves changes to the internal ‘machinery’ of the firm itself,” according to the paper. The researchers used Compustat, a dataset of all United States companies listed on the stock exchange from 1959 to... View Details
- 08 Oct 2008
- Research & Ideas
Book Excerpt: A Sense of Urgency
mounted, the stock tanked, people were laid off, and some good employees jumped ship. The platform burned for all but the most complacent. Yet the economic collapse meant there was little or no funding left for new plant equipment, a new... View Details
Keywords: by John P. Kotter