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    Stephen P. Bradley

    Professor Bradley is the William Ziegler Professor of Business Administration Emeritus at the Harvard Business School. In addition to teaching Management and Strategy in the Owner President Management Program and leading an... View Details

    Keywords: financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services; financial services
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    Hiring Organizations

    Partners AllWin Alpaca Real Estate Alphabroder Alpine Investors Alterra Capital Partners Altitude AI Altos Ventures Alumni Ventures Amazon Amazon Web Services - AWS Ambit Partners American Express American Industrial Partners Amex... View Details
    • 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; Governing and Advisory Boards; Managerial Roles; Management Succession; Family Ownership; Corporate Governance; Organizational Structure; Adoption; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; Latin America; Mexico
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    • 04 Dec 2012
    • First Look

    First Look: December 4

    find that patents applied for by firms in private equity transactions are more cited (a proxy for economic importance), show no significant shifts in the fundamental nature of the research, and are more concentrated in the most important... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • 31 Oct 2023
    • HBS Case

    Checking Your Ethics: Would You Speak Up in These 3 Sticky Situations?

    skill-building topics he covers in his new HBS course entitled “Mastering Consulting and Advisory Skills” for MBA students. “There are few bright lines on these ethical and moral issues; the lines are often blurred as to what is... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consulting
    • 18 Jul 2023
    • Interview

    Jeffrey Rayport on Product Market Fit, Profit Market Fit and Whiplash, and More

    By: Jeffrey F. Rayport and Doug Levin
    This episode of "Lessons from Startup Life" podcast features Jeffrey Rayport, Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. Jeffrey specializes in teaching and researching growth-stage technology ventures and their scalability. Prior to... View Details
    Keywords: Scaling And Growth; Start-up; Diversity; Equity; Inclusion; Technology; Business Startups; Product Marketing; Business Growth and Maturation
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    • September 2008 (Revised October 2008)
    • Case

    Shareholder Activists at Friendly Ice Cream (A1)

    By: Fabrizio Ferri, V.G. Narayanan and James Weber
    Two activist investors, one a founder and one a hedge fund manager, seek to improve board oversight at a chain restaurant company. Prestley Blake founded Friendly Ice Cream in 1935 with his brother, and the two created a chain of full-service restaurants. In 1979, they... View Details
    Keywords: Investment Activism; Governing and Advisory Boards; Lawsuits and Litigation; Business or Company Management; Business and Shareholder Relations; Conflict of Interests; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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    • February 2019
    • Article

    The Market for Financial Adviser Misconduct

    By: Mark Egan, Gregor Matvos and Amit Seru
    We construct a novel database containing the universe of financial advisers in the United States from 2005 to 2015, representing approximately 10% of employment of the finance and insurance sector. We provide the first large-scale study that documents the economy-wide... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Advisors; Brokers; Consumer Finance; Financial Misconduct And Fraud; FINRA; Financial Institutions; Crime and Corruption; Organizational Culture; Personal Finance; Financial Services Industry
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    • August 2019 (Revised August 2022)
    • Case

    Baroo (A): Pet Concierge

    By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Susie L. Ma
    Baroo CEO Lindsay Hyde was facing unrest from the board of her pet services startup in August 2017. One board member (and lead investor) was alarmed that Baroo’s growth was slowing while its appetite for funding was accelerating. Hyde wanted to hit the gas and continue... View Details
    Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Outcome or Result; Failure; Business and Shareholder Relations; Venture Capital; Governing and Advisory Boards; Opportunities; Strategy; Service Industry; United States; Massachusetts
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    • 2019
    • Working Paper

    Bank Boards: What Has Changed Since the Financial Crisis?

    By: Shiva Rajgopal, Suraj Srinivasan and Forester Wong
    Several government-mandated committees investigating the financial crisis highlighted four key deficiencies in the composition of bank boards before the crisis: (i) group think among bank board members; (ii) absence of prior banking experience of board members; (iii)... View Details
    Keywords: Banks and Banking; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Governance; Financial Crisis; Change; Diversity
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    Accounting & Management - Faculty & Research

    board refreshment and audit committees to shareholder activism, cybersecurity, and global governance trends. Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards Citation Read Now Related Srinivasan, Suraj, and Lynn S. Paine. "Critical Choices in... View Details
    • September 2008 (Revised October 2008)
    • Supplement

    Shareholder Activists at Friendly Ice Cream (A2)

    By: V.G. Narayanan, Fabrizio Ferri and James Weber
    The A1 and A2 versions of the “Shareholder Activists at Friendly Ice Cream (A)” split the original A case into two parts. The A1 case ends as activists Sardar Biglari and Phil Cooley prepare to meet with CEO Don Smith at Friendly's headquarters in September 2006. The... View Details
    Keywords: Investment Activism; Business and Shareholder Relations; Governing and Advisory Boards; Conflict and Resolution; Lawsuits and Litigation; Business or Company Management; Food and Beverage Industry; United States
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    South Asia - Global

    Cole , Tomoko Harigaya, Grady Killeen and Aparna Krishna This paper evaluates a low-cost, customized soil nutrient management advisory service in India. As a methodological contribution, we examine whether... View Details
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    Finance - Faculty & Research

    Aparna Krishna This paper evaluates a low-cost, customized soil nutrient management advisory service in India. As a methodological contribution, we examine whether and in which settings satellite... View Details
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    Finance - Faculty & Research

    Management ; Borrowing and Debt ; Corporate Finance ; Capital Markets ; Equity ; Public Equity ; Private Equity ; Financial Liquidity ; Financial Instruments ; Debt Securities ; Credit Derivatives and Swaps ; Bonds ; Stocks ; Financial Strategy ; Interest Rates ;... View Details
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    Leadership Initiative - Leadership

    strategic priorities, including applied research, new executive course development, and key convenings with stakeholders in the leadership development space. Her insights from the LI inform her service on non-profit boards, allowing her... View Details
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    Podcast - Business & Environment

    Climate Resilient 24 APR 2024 | Climate Rising In this episode in our adaptation series, Peter Hall, Managing Director at Resonance Impact Advisory, draws upon his experience in global engineering and professional services firms to share... View Details
    • 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
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    Faculty & Research - Global

    Krishna This paper evaluates a low-cost, customized soil nutrient management advisory service in India. As a methodological contribution, we examine whether and in which settings satellite measurements may... View Details
    • 18 Nov 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    Who Really Determines CEO Salary Packages?

    compensation consultants. “Many of them stated that the design of the CEO compensation package was heavily reliant on the proposals produced by the compensation consultant,” she says. Gallani then analyzed the proxy statements of... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Consulting