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- 2021
- Working Paper
Accounting for Product Impact in the Interactive Media and Services Industry
By: DG Park, George Serafeim and Katie Trinh
We apply the product impact measurement framework of the Impact-Weighted Accounts Initiative (IWAI) in two competitor companies within the interactive media and services industry. We design a monetization methodology that allows us to calculate monetary impact...
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Keywords:
Product Innovation;
Impact;
Impact Investing;
Impact Measurement;
ESG;
ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance;
ESG Ratings;
Social Corporate Responsibility;
Corporate Social Responsibility;
Social Impact;
Product Design;
Product Positioning;
Society;
Product;
Environmental Sustainability;
Measurement and Metrics;
Framework;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Social Media;
Technology Industry
Park, DG, George Serafeim, and Katie Trinh. "Accounting for Product Impact in the Interactive Media and Services Industry." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-134, June 2021.
- 2008
- Working Paper
International Financial Integration and Entrepreneurial Firm Activity
By: Laura Alfaro and Andrew Charlton
We explore the relation between international financial integration and the level of entrepreneurial activity in a country. We use a unique firm-level data set in a broad sample of developed and developing countries, which enables us to present both cross-country and...
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Keywords:
International Financial Integration;
Capital Mobility;
Firm Entry;
Capital Controls;
Finance;
Integration;
Global Range;
Capital;
Entrepreneurship;
Foreign Direct Investment;
Developing Countries and Economies
Alfaro, Laura, and Andrew Charlton. "International Financial Integration and Entrepreneurial Firm Activity." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 07-012, August 2006. (Also NBER Working Paper No. 13118. NBER Working Paper Series, No. 13118, May 2007)
- March 2009
- Teaching Note
Motilal Oswal Financial Services Ltd.: An IPO in India (TN)
By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
Teaching Note for [807095].
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Global Industry Bubble Watch - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
Data Global Industry Bubble Watch Download Data Set in Excel View Sector: Industrials Consumer Discretionary Consumer Staples Energy Financials Healthcare View Details
- Web
Global Industry Bubble Watch - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
Data Global Industry Bubble Watch Download Data Set in Excel View Sector: Utilities Consumer Discretionary Consumer Staples Energy Financials Healthcare Industrials Information...
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Global Industry Bubble Watch - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
Data Global Industry Bubble Watch Download Data Set in Excel View Sector: Consumer Staples Consumer Discretionary Consumer Staples Energy Financials Healthcare Industrials...
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Global Industry Bubble Watch - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
Data Global Industry Bubble Watch Download Data Set in Excel View Sector: Consumer Discretionary Consumer Discretionary Consumer Staples Energy Financials Healthcare View Details
- Web
Global Industry Bubble Watch - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
Data Global Industry Bubble Watch Download Data Set in Excel View Sector: Real Estate Consumer Discretionary Consumer Staples Energy Financials Healthcare Industrials...
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Global Industry Bubble Watch - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
Data Global Industry Bubble Watch Download Data Set in Excel View Sector: Information Technology Consumer Discretionary Consumer Staples Energy Financials Healthcare View Details
- Web
Global Industry Bubble Watch - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
Data Global Industry Bubble Watch Download Data Set in Excel View Sector: Telecommunication Services Consumer Discretionary Consumer Staples Energy Financials Healthcare View Details
- Web
Global Industry Bubble Watch - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
Data Global Industry Bubble Watch Download Data Set in Excel View Sector: Healthcare Consumer Discretionary Consumer Staples Energy Financials Healthcare Industrials...
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- February 2021 (Revised May 2021)
- Case
SafeGraph: Selling Data as a Service
By: Ramana Nanda, Abhishek Nagaraj and Allison Ciechanover
Set in January 2021, the CEO of SafeGraph, a four-year-old startup that sold Data as a Service, looked to the future. His aim was to become the most trusted source for data about a physical place. The company provided points of interest (POI) and foot traffic data on...
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Keywords:
Data As A Service;
Monetization;
Pricing;
Business Startups;
Analytics and Data Science;
Consumer Behavior;
Analysis;
Business Model;
Health Pandemics;
Information Industry;
United States
Nanda, Ramana, Abhishek Nagaraj, and Allison Ciechanover. "SafeGraph: Selling Data as a Service." Harvard Business School Case 821-082, February 2021. (Revised May 2021.)
- March 2022 (Revised January 2024)
- Case
Moksha Data: Delivering Insights for Public Service
By: Ashish Nanda and Zack Kurtovich
Moksha Data, a boutique consulting firm specializing in public sector work, started in January 2017 with a handshake between friends and a shared commitment to the principles of egalitarianism, ownership, and collaboration. The Houston-based firm had built momentum...
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Keywords:
Professional Service Firms;
Professional Service Firm;
Strategy Formulation;
Data;
Data As A Service;
Government Contracting;
Consulting;
Consulting Firms;
Consulting Services;
Entrepreneurship;
Public Sector;
Analytics and Data Science;
Growth and Development;
Strategy;
Consulting Industry;
Texas
Nanda, Ashish, and Zack Kurtovich. "Moksha Data: Delivering Insights for Public Service." Harvard Business School Case 722-397, March 2022. (Revised January 2024.)
- 2007
- Article
Convictions, Conventions and the Operational Risk Maze—The Cases of Three Financial Services Institutions
By: Anette Mikes
Making sense of operational risk practices in the financial services sector is a challenge. There is a temptation to explain the wide variety of approaches as a characteristic of the early stage of development in which the genre resides.Based on the evidence of...
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Keywords:
Management Practices and Processes;
Risk Management;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Conflict and Resolution;
Organizations;
Financial Services Industry
Mikes, Anette. "Convictions, Conventions and the Operational Risk Maze—The Cases of Three Financial Services Institutions." International Journal of Risk Assessment and Management 7, no. 8 (2007): 1027–1056.
- July 2012
- Case
New Century Financial Corporation (Abridged)
By: Krishna G. Palepu, Suraj Srinivasan and Ian Cornell
After years of rapid growth and stock price appreciation, New Century Financial Corporation, one of the largest subprime loan originators in the U.S., reported accounting problems in early 2007. The resulting liquidity crisis forced the company to file for Chapter 11...
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Keywords:
Audit Committees;
Financial Management;
Control Systems;
Securities;
Loan Evaluation;
Accounting;
Value;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Palepu, Krishna G., Suraj Srinivasan, and Ian Cornell. "New Century Financial Corporation (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 113-002, July 2012.
- TeachingInterests
Managing Service Operations
By: Frances X. Frei
Managing Service Operations (MSO) focuses on how firms can deliver excellent service while achieving business success. This involves a deep understanding of customers, competitors, and the firm's internal mechanisms.
Career Focus
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- October 1998 (Revised May 1999)
- Case
Commercial Financial Services, Inc.: Securitization of Charged-off Credit Card Receivables
By: Kenneth A. Froot and Ivan G. Farman
Commercial Financial Services (CFS) is a company that buys charged-off credit card receivables, securitizes them, and then attempts to collect on the receivables. The case deals with how the firm makes money and the limits of securitization as an efficient financing...
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Keywords:
Financing;
Asset-back Finance;
Financial Policy;
Securitization;
Credit;
Financial Strategy;
Business Strategy;
Policy;
Financial Services Industry
Froot, Kenneth A., and Ivan G. Farman. "Commercial Financial Services, Inc.: Securitization of Charged-off Credit Card Receivables." Harvard Business School Case 299-023, October 1998. (Revised May 1999.)
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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Charting the Luminary Leadership in Professional Service Firms
of the factors that drive success in an industry that attracts 65 percent of MBA graduates from leading business schools — many of whom eventually leave to run organizations of their own. With revenues approaching a trillion dollars,...
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- March 1996 (Revised July 1996)
- Case
Service Corporation International
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Craig F Schreiber
The CFO of a high-growth company in the low-growth and fragmented funeral services industry must decide how to optimize capital structure and earnings growth while maximizing the company's market value.
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Keywords:
Financial Management;
Value Creation;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Consolidation;
Industry Growth;
Capital Structure;
Expansion;
Service Industry;
United States;
North and Central America
Esty, Benjamin C., and Craig F Schreiber. "Service Corporation International." Harvard Business School Case 296-080, March 1996. (Revised July 1996.)