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  • 04 Aug 2014
  • Op-Ed

Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering

because of a perfect storm of their falling sales and weakened collateral, and growing risk aversion among lenders. Those days are not over. While lingering cyclical factors from the crisis may still be constraining access to bank credit, there are also View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking; Financial Services
  • 01 Feb 1997
  • News

Leading the Way In Negotiation and Decision Making

other alternatives. Sebenius specializes in multiparty negotiations, especially in international, financial, and public-private contexts. With Professor Jay O. Light of the Finance unit and Professor Richard F. Meyer, he is exploring ways that broader principles for... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
  • 01 Apr 2002
  • News

Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms

from the majority of corporate executives in two important ways. First, they necessarily have highly developed knowledge in their profession, be it investment banking, consulting, or another area. And second, they tend to think and act... View Details
Keywords: professional service firms; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • May 1997 (Revised May 2008)
  • Case

Intel Corporation: 1968-1997

By: Gary P. Pisano, David J. Collis and Peter K. Botticelli
Traces Intel's history and strategy from 1968 to 1997. Examines the company's decision to exit DRAMS and its entry into microprocessors. Focuses on how the company managed to achieve and sustain its competitive advantage in microprocessors, and the threats it faces in... View Details
Keywords: Market Entry and Exit; Competitive Strategy; Competitive Advantage; Information Infrastructure; Corporate Strategy; Industry Structures; Technology Industry
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  • August 1988 (Revised April 1998)
  • Case

IBM 360: Giant as Entrepreneur

By: Joseph L. Bower
Presents the ingredients that went into a major entrepreneurial shift by IBM--investing $5 billion into a new product line that would obsolete any existing computer product line offered by the competition, or by IBM itself. The economic and technical challenges of this... View Details
Keywords: Change Management; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Financial Management; Investment; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Structure; Problems and Challenges; Competitive Strategy; Information Technology Industry
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  • 28 Jan 2014
  • First Look

First Look: January 28

the Public Corporation, and Greater Commitments to Sustainability: Signals from the Corporate Board By: Eccles, Robert G., J. Herron, and George Serafeim Abstract—This book is a comprehensive reference work exploring recent changes and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Mar 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Steer Clear of the Blind Spots That Derail Experiments

significant reputational and legal costs. Aiming for too short a time horizon. Managers sometimes need to run experiments for weeks or months to fully understand both their short- and long-term results, Luca says. That was the experience... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
  • 16 Sep 2020
  • Blog Post

Turning a Moment into a Movement: How the Anti-Racism Fund Co-Founders are Fighting Racism and Encouraging Other Companies to Do Their Part

Legal Defense and Educational Fund, The Loveland Foundation, Reclaim the Block, and The Bail Project.” The GoFundMe page for the newly formed Anti-Racism Fund raised $40,000 in less than 12 hours, with donations quickly reaching over... View Details
Keywords: All Industries
  • 15 Sep 2020
  • News

How To Make Diversity a Reality

levels of players, right? So when you think about the investors, there's foundations that have a different organizational structure and different culture and a different way of thinking. There is corporate... View Details
  • Blog

HBS Online and Executive Education Leadership: Q+A with Patrick Mullane and Luis Viceira

the organizational structures will likely morph and become more integrated, but not in some single, huge change and not in all areas. We will also look to be opportunistic. For example, when the tech lead for ExecEd left, we asked the... View Details
  • 30 Apr 2024
  • Blog Post

IFC India: Urban Adaptation in a Changing World

expand urban green spaces, such as the Marol Park project that we visited with WRI, can help mitigate urban heat island effects and build resiliency for vulnerable populations living in informal settlements. Governance Structures Can... View Details
  • Profile

Arjun Goyal

and business responsibilities, including the review of scientific literature and therapeutic guidelines, the analysis of compound licensing opportunities, the structuring of efficient clinical trials, and the creation of viable financial... View Details
  • 03 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 3

structure of financial assets and non-fundamental risk. An asset is fragile if its owners collectively have to buy or sell. Such assets are susceptible to non-fundamental price movements. An asset can be fragile because of concentrated... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Dec 2024
  • News

The Golden Thread

Teresa Amabile grew up near Buffalo, New York, the third of seven children. Her parents were first-generation Americans who used their childhood Italian language when they didn’t want the kids to understand what they were saying. Her father and his brothers were... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Illustration by Nigel Buchanan; retirement; careers; psychology
  • 21 Nov 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

platforms. We explore this "rating aggregation problem" and offer a structural approach to solving it, allowing for (1) reviewers to vary in stringency and accuracy, (2) reviewers to be influenced by existing reviews, and (3)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • April 2022 (Revised August 2022)
  • Case

Conflicts of Interest at Uptown Bank

By: Jonas Heese
In 2013, two employees debated whether to blow the whistle on their employer, Bell Bank, after completing an internal review that revealed undisclosed conflicts of interest. Bell Bank’s Asset Management business disproportionately invested clients’ money in Bell Bank’s... View Details
Keywords: Whistleblower; Whistleblowing; Mutual Funds; Conflicts Of Interest; Decision Making; Decisions; Judgments; Ethics; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Finance; Financial Institutions; Banks and Banking; Financial Management; Investment; Investment Funds; Governance; Corporate Accountability; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Governance; Governance Compliance; Governance Controls; Policy; Law; Legal Liability; Social Psychology; Motivation and Incentives; Perception; Perspective; Trust; Financial Services Industry; North and Central America; United States
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  • 03 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 3, 2007

group had generated. These ranged from stabilizing the company's current carbon emissions to complete carbon neutrality. The UBS Corporate Responsibility Committee would meet early next week. Suter wondered which option he should support.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • October 2019
  • Supplement

Impax Laboratories: Executing Accretive Transactions (A)

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher
Impax Laboratories was a technology-based pharmaceutical company that used a “dual platform” strategy to sell both generic and branded treatments. While Impax had grown organically for most of its history, it was beginning to use major acquisitions for growth. In the... View Details
Keywords: Financial Reporting; Financial Statements; Mergers and Acquisitions; Capital Structure; Financial Strategy; Competition; Competitive Advantage; Corporate Strategy; Pharmaceutical Industry; United States
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  • 24 Jul 2019
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Can These Business Students Motivate Londoners to Do the Right Thing?

millions of extra pounds in tax revenue collected. "I’ve seen behavioral economics come into play in a variety of contexts, ranging from employee compensation and investment decisions to corporate strategy." The letter is an... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 16 Dec 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Reintroducing Intellectual Ambition to the Study of Business History

patent pools has questioned conventional thinking about the need for strong patent laws to encourage innovation. Other studies have shown that independent inventors continued to play a major role in innovation in the early twentieth century, despite the rise of View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones & Walter Friedman