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  • 17 Aug 2015
  • News

Robert Steven Kaplan Named President and CEO of Dallas Fed

  • 27 May 2011
  • News

Buyout exits boost fund-raising hopes

    Edward B. Berk

    Ted Berk is the Barry and Teri Volpert Fellow and a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches Private Equity Finance in the elective curriculum and Finance I & II in the required curriculum.

    Ted... View Details

    • February 2016 (Revised October 2017)
    • Case

    The Jungle and the Debate over Federal Meat Inspection in 1906

    By: David Moss and Marc Campasano
    In early June 1906, the House Committee on Agriculture heard testimony from two investigators appointed by President Theodore Roosevelt to verify allegations of unsanitary conditions at Chicago slaughterhouses that had appeared in Upton Sinclair's recent novel, The... View Details
    Keywords: Safety; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Governance Compliance; Laws and Statutes; Business and Government Relations; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; United States
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    • March 2004 (Revised August 2004)
    • Case

    Strategic Review at Egon Zehnder International (A)

    By: Ashish Nanda
    The case describes the history of the executive search firm Egon Zehnder International (EZI) from its inception through 2000. Internal and environmental changes lead EZI leaders to question whether the firm might be at an inflection point in its history. The EZI... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Strategy; Service Industry
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    • October 2008 (Revised June 2010)
    • Case

    Executive Pay and the Credit Crisis of 2008 (A)

    By: V.G. Narayanan, Fabrizio Ferri and Lisa Brem
    The credit crisis of 2008 placed compensation practices at publicly traded firms in the United States under scrutiny. This case examines perceived excessive pay and severance packages at several firms implicated in the credit crisis of 2008, the executive compensation... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Crisis; Governing and Advisory Boards; Government Legislation; Executive Compensation; United States
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    • April 1999 (Revised August 2004)
    • Case

    Tarnished Rings? Olympic Games Sponsorship Issues

    By: John A. Clendenin and Stephen A. Greyser
    Focuses on the impacts for Olympic sponsor companies of the bribery allegations related to the Salt Lake City Olympic Committee's successful bid for the 2002 Winter Games. The spread of the scandal to the International Olympic Committee board members and the recent... View Details
    Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Crisis Management; Marketing Channels; Consumer Behavior; Value Creation; Sports Industry
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    • 20 May 2025
    • News

    Get to Know Class Day Student Speaker Chris Hood

      John D. Dionne

      John D. Dionne has been a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School since 2014 and is a recently retired Senior Managing Director and Senior Advisor to Blackstone. He is also Managing Partner of Franconia Capital, a... View Details

      • 02 Apr 2020
      • Video

      Incorporating Climate Risk into Financial Models: Bob Litterman on Transition Risk

      • January 2010 (Revised April 2010)
      • Case

      Greenbriar Growth Partners and Microsurgery Devices

      Greenbriar Growth Partners (GGP), a venture capital (VC) firm, has been an investor in Microsurgery Devices (MSD) for four-plus years and has come into conflict with the company's founder. Should the Board's nominating committee re-nominate the VC investor, and should... View Details
      Keywords: Financial Crisis; Venture Capital; Private Equity; Initial Public Offering; Governing and Advisory Boards; Conflict of Interests; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; United States
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      • February 2005
      • Case

      Nomura Holdings

      By: Tarun Khanna, Masako Egawa and Atsuko Nakajima
      Nomura Holdings, Japan's largest investment bank, faced with intensifying competition in the global financial markets, was trying to decide how global its operations should be despite its Japan-centered business. Was the question of how global Nomura should be related... View Details
      Keywords: Global Range; Corporate Governance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Corporate Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Japan
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      • January 1995 (Revised November 1996)
      • Case

      Avalon Information Services, Inc.

      By: Lynn S. Paine and Wilda White
      The Privacy Review Committee of Avalon Information Services must decide how to deal with concerns voiced by its retail supermarket customers about the privacy of consumer data collected through Avalon's point-of-sale data collection program. One customer is proposing... View Details
      Keywords: Mission and Purpose; Safety; Demand and Consumers; Rights; Analytics and Data Science; Information Technology; Ethics; Information Industry
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      • 10 Jul 2015
      • News

      Entrepreneurship: Getting the basics right and the road ahead

        Laura Alfaro

        Laura Alfaro is the Warren Alpert Professor of Business Administration. At Harvard since 1999, she served as Minister of National Planning and Economic Policy in Costa Rica from 2010-2012, taking a leave from HBS. She is Co-Editor of the Journal of International... View Details

        • December 2020 (Revised September 2023)
        • Case

        PG&E and the First Climate Change Bankruptcy

        By: Stuart C. Gilson and Sarah L. Abbott
        In early 2020, the California-based utility PG&E filed a second amended plan of reorganization. PG&E had filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the face of more than $30 billion of legal claims brought against it for its alleged role in causing California wildfires. The... View Details
        Keywords: Chapter 11; Utilities; Liabilities; Restructuring; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Debt Securities; Legal Liability; Climate Change; Utilities Industry; United States
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        • June 2009
        • Supplement

        Executive Remuneration at Royal Dutch Shell (B)

        By: Jay W. Lorsch and Kaitlyn Simpson
        At the 2009 Shell annual meeting, the majority of shareholders vote against the exclusive pay package. The B case compares the remuneration committee perspective (and their rationale for using discretion to award the bonuses) as well as the shareholder perspective (and... View Details
        Keywords: Voting; Corporate Governance; Governance Controls; Executive Compensation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Perspective; Energy Industry
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        • 16 Sep 2024
        • Video

        Recommendation Letters

        • January 2004
        • Case

        Macroeconomic Policy and the State of the U.S. Economy, 2003

        By: David A. Moss
        Based on excerpts from Federal Reserve Chairman Alan Greenspan's testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs on July 16, 2003, as well as economic data that were available to Chairman Greenspan at the time. Taken together, the text... View Details
        Keywords: Macroeconomics; Banks and Banking; Policy; Housing; Analytics and Data Science; Problems and Challenges; Urban Development; United States
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          Meg Rithmire

          Meg Rithmire is the James E. Robison Professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit. Professor Rithmire holds a PhD in Government from Harvard University, and her primary expertise is in the comparative political economy of development with a... View Details

          Keywords: real estate