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- September 2021
- Supplement
Ensuring Your Family’s Future: The Alagil Family Office (B)
By: Lauren Cohen, Esel Çekin and Fares Khrais
Cohen, Lauren, Esel Çekin, and Fares Khrais. "Ensuring Your Family’s Future: The Alagil Family Office (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 222-035, September 2021.
- August 2021
- Supplement
Aligning Mission and Margin at Southern Bancorp
By: Brian Trelstad
Video Supplement for HBS Case No. 321-099. In October 2020, after spending almost a decade to turnaround Southern Bancorp, an Arkansan bank founded with the mission to provide financial services to rural, underserved communities, CEO Darrin Williams is wondering how...
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Keywords:
Racial Wealth Gap;
Banks and Banking;
Growth and Development;
Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact;
Mission and Purpose;
Going Public;
Investment Return;
Social Issues;
Wealth and Poverty;
Financial Services Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
United States;
Arkansas
Trelstad, Brian. "Aligning Mission and Margin at Southern Bancorp." Harvard Business School Multimedia/Video Supplement 322-702, August 2021.
- August 2021
- Case
Yummy: Delivering Value to Venezuela
By: Ayelet Israeli, Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago and Carla Larangeira
By June 2021, Yummy had become Venezuela’s first and largest food delivery app and last-mile logistics company. In Caracas, the nation’s capital, Yummy held a 55% market share, while operations in other cities had already started to take place, including in three of...
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Keywords:
Internet and the Web;
Health Pandemics;
Business Startups;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Expansion
Israeli, Ayelet, Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago, and Carla Larangeira. "Yummy: Delivering Value to Venezuela." Harvard Business School Case 522-034, August 2021.
- August 2021
- Case
Apax Digital
By: Jo Tango and Alys Ferragamo
The Apax Digital team faced important decisions as they contemplated raising a second fund. Apax Digital Fund I was a $1.1 billion vehicle focused on mid-market growth equity and growth buyouts in the technology sector. The fund had performed well, and the Managing...
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Keywords:
Growth and Development Strategy;
Acquisition;
Investment Portfolio;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Venture Capital;
Financial Services Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Tango, Jo, and Alys Ferragamo. "Apax Digital." Harvard Business School Case 822-016, August 2021.
- August 2021
- Article
Don't Take Their Word for It: The Misclassification of Bond Mutual Funds
By: Huaizhi Chen, Lauren Cohen and Umit Gurun
We provide evidence that bond fund managers misclassify their holdings, and that these misclassifications have a real and significant impact on investor capital flows. In particular, many funds report more investment grade assets than are actually held in their...
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Keywords:
Mutual Funds;
Economics;
Finance;
Measurement and Metrics;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Financial Services Industry
Chen, Huaizhi, Lauren Cohen, and Umit Gurun. "Don't Take Their Word for It: The Misclassification of Bond Mutual Funds." Journal of Finance 76, no. 4 (August 2021): 1699–1730. (Winner of the Best Paper Prize at the University of Cambridge Consortium on Asset Management, 2020; Winner of the Financial Management Association Best Paper Prize in Quantitative Investments, 2020.)
- July 2021
- Teaching Plan
Aligning Mission and Margin at Southern Bancorp
By: Rebecca Henderson, Brian Trelstad and Eren Kuzucu
Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 321-099. In October 2020, after spending almost a decade to turnaround Southern Bancorp, an Arkansan bank founded with the mission to provide financial services to rural, underserved communities, CEO Darrin Williams is wondering how...
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- July 2021
- Supplement
CIAM: Home-Grown Shareholder Activism in France (B)
By: Charles C.Y. Wang, Tonia Labruyere and Vincent Dessain
This case is a complement to CIAM: Home-Grown Shareholder Activism in France (A) and describes the events after CIAM learned about a potential misuse of corporate assets at Altice/SFR.
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Keywords:
Corporate Governance;
Valuation;
Investment Activism;
Accounting;
Strategy;
Financial Services Industry;
France
Wang, Charles C.Y., Tonia Labruyere, and Vincent Dessain. "CIAM: Home-Grown Shareholder Activism in France (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 121-078, July 2021.
- 2021
- Working Paper
The Changing Role of Business in Society
Business interaction with the U.S. government, historically based on securing industry or company special interests at the expense of the public good, has enabled and furthered government dysfunction. Gridlock within the American political system has precluded the...
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Keywords:
Politics;
Shared Value;
Social Progress Index;
Competitiveness;
Walmart;
BlackRock;
ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance;
ESG;
Transparency;
Campaign Contributions;
Campaign Finance;
Lobbying;
Revolving Door;
Political Ideology;
Political Parties;
Political Partisanship;
Government And Business;
Government Innovation;
Elections;
Democracy;
Capitalism;
Stakeholder Capitalism;
Shareholder Engagement;
Competition;
Strategy;
Government and Politics;
Society;
Social Issues;
Human Needs;
Wealth and Poverty;
Business and Community Relations;
Business and Government Relations;
Corporate Accountability;
Financial Services Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Porter, Michael E. "The Changing Role of Business in Society." Working Paper, July 2021.
- July 2021 (Revised February 2022)
- Technical Note
RegTech: A New Way to Manage Risks
By: Aiyesha Dey, Jonas Heese and James Barnett
A note on regulatory technology (RegTech) describing its evolution, use cases, and the competitive environment in 2021.
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Keywords:
Regulatory Technology;
Change;
Financial Management;
Governance Compliance;
Governance Controls;
Technology;
Financial Services Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
Financial Services Industry
Dey, Aiyesha, Jonas Heese, and James Barnett. "RegTech: A New Way to Manage Risks." Harvard Business School Technical Note 122-004, July 2021. (Revised February 2022.)
- July 2021
- Teaching Plan
Scale and Scope at Drake Real Estate Partners
By: Christina R. Wing and David Lane
Teaching Plan for HBS Case No. 621-065.
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- June 2021
- Case
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments): April 2021
By: Josh Lerner, Reza Satchu and Alys Ferragamo
The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB) is one of the largest pools of investment capital in the world and follows a rigorous “Total Portfolio Framework” in its approach to investment management. In April of 2021, John Graham was just two months into his role...
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Keywords:
Pension Funds;
Investment Strategy;
Capital Markets;
Financial Strategy;
Investment;
Asset Management;
Financial Institutions;
Private Equity;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Investment Portfolio;
Assets;
Financial Markets;
Financial Services Industry;
Canada
Lerner, Josh, Reza Satchu, and Alys Ferragamo. "The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPP Investments): April 2021." Harvard Business School Case 821-125, June 2021.
- June 2021
- Case
Building the Governance to Take Capital SAFI to the Next Level
By: V.G. Narayanan, Asis Martinez Jerez and Mariana Cal
Asset management firm Capital SAFI wanted to attract new strategic investors and expand to other countries. Having the right corporate governance in place was critical to achieve this goal.
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Keywords:
Board Of Directors;
Transparency;
Sustainable Finance;
South America;
Latin America;
Corporate Governance;
Governance Controls;
Governing and Advisory Boards;
Business Organization;
Corporate Strategy;
Transformation;
Investment Funds;
Financial Services Industry;
Bolivia;
South America;
Latin America
Narayanan, V.G., Asis Martinez Jerez, and Mariana Cal. "Building the Governance to Take Capital SAFI to the Next Level." Harvard Business School Case 121-088, June 2021.
- June 10, 2021
- Article
Preparing Hospitals for the Next Pandemic
By: Regina E. Herzlinger and Barak D. Richman
The COVID-19 epidemic response has shown that the U.S. is blessed with heroic physicians and other health care providers, researchers, and facilities. But it has also revealed a health care system that was woefully unprepared for the surge of pandemic patients. In the...
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Keywords:
Hospital;
Hospital Management;
Hospitals—administration;
Health Care;
Health Care Industry;
Health Care Investment;
Health Care Operations;
Health Pandemics;
Health Care and Treatment;
Operations;
Performance Improvement;
Investment;
Health Industry;
United States
Herzlinger, Regina E., and Barak D. Richman. "Preparing Hospitals for the Next Pandemic." Harvard Business Review Digital Articles (June 10, 2021).
- June 2021 (Revised November 2021)
- Case
Asian Corporate Governance Association: Stemming a 'Race to the Bottom' by Stock Exchanges?
By: Charles C.Y. Wang and Billy Chan
This case describes the movement towards dual-class listings on Asian stock exchanges and the efforts of the Asian Corporate Governance Association (ACGA), a not-for-profit shareholder advocacy group, to discourage this trend. As a not-for-profit organization with no...
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Keywords:
Corporate Governance;
Governance Controls;
Nonprofit Organizations;
Stocks;
Financial Markets;
Financial Services Industry;
Hong Kong;
China;
Asia
Wang, Charles C.Y., and Billy Chan. "Asian Corporate Governance Association: Stemming a 'Race to the Bottom' by Stock Exchanges?" Harvard Business School Case 121-073, June 2021. (Revised November 2021.)
- 2023
- Working Paper
Data Governance, Interoperability and Standardization: Organizational Adaptation to Privacy Regulation
By: Sam (Ruiqing) Cao and Marco Iansiti
The increasing availability of data can afford dynamic competitive advantages among data-intensive
corporations, but governance bottlenecks hinder data-driven value creation and increase regulatory risks.
We analyze the role of two technological features of data...
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Keywords:
Organizations;
Information Technology;
Performance Productivity;
Growth and Development;
Transformation
Cao, Sam (Ruiqing), and Marco Iansiti. "Data Governance, Interoperability and Standardization: Organizational Adaptation to Privacy Regulation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 21-122, May 2021. (Revised November 2023.)
- May 2021
- Case
Endeavor Kenya: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem
By: Lynda M. Applegate, Shikhar Ghosh and Christian Godwin
In 2016, Fiona Mungai became Endeavor Kenya’s first managing director. In this role, she helped the organization build its inaugural board and select its first Endeavor entrepreneur, a fintech company called Cellulant. Throughout this process, Mungai observed the power...
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Keywords:
Business Ventures;
Entrepreneurship;
Human Resources;
Leadership;
Leading Change;
Management;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Negotiation;
Economy;
Markets;
Emerging Markets;
Network Effects;
Relationships;
Strategy;
Financial Services Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
Africa;
Kenya
Applegate, Lynda M., Shikhar Ghosh, and Christian Godwin. "Endeavor Kenya: Building an Entrepreneurial Ecosystem." Harvard Business School Case 821-038, May 2021.
- May 2021 (Revised June 2021)
- Supplement
'GEnron'? Markopolos versus General Electric (B)
By: Jonas Heese and David Lane
Supplement to the (A) case that offers an assessment of the August 2019 Markopolos report on General Electric.
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Keywords:
Financial Statements;
Communication;
Energy;
Financial Condition;
Insurance;
Performance;
Planning;
Business and Shareholder Relations;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Value;
Financial Services Industry;
Financial Services Industry;
Financial Services Industry
Heese, Jonas, and David Lane. "'GEnron'? Markopolos versus General Electric (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 121-033, May 2021. (Revised June 2021.)
- May 2021
- Teaching Note
BlackRock: Linking Purpose to Profit
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 120-042
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- April 2021
- Supplement
Exercise for Revlon: Surviving Covid-19
By: Kristin Mugford and Sarah Gulick
Exercise for Revlon: Surviving Covid-19
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- April 2021
- Case
Buy Online, Pickup in Store: Evaluating an Omnichannel Intervention in Retail
By: Antonio Moreno, Santiago Gallino and Amy Klopfenstein
In October 2018, fashion, wellness, and beauty retailer Sylvarella implemented a Buy Online, Pickup in Store (BOPS) program in an attempt to counteract a sales decline. While BOPS had the potential to meet customer expectations for a seamless order and fulfillment...
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Keywords:
Operations;
Service Delivery;
Logistics;
Infrastructure;
Distribution Channels;
Order Taking and Fulfillment;
Analysis;
Retail Industry;
Apparel and Accessories Industry;
United States;
Canada
Moreno, Antonio, Santiago Gallino, and Amy Klopfenstein. "Buy Online, Pickup in Store: Evaluating an Omnichannel Intervention in Retail." Harvard Business School Case 621-103, April 2021.