Central Bank Independence - Publications - Faculty & Research

September 2019
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Starling Trust Sciences: Measuring Trust in Organizations

By: Aiyesha Dey, Jonas Heese and James Weber

Stephen Scott needed to decide whether to keep his behavioral analytics startup in the people analytics sector or shift his company into the RegTech sector. Starling had develop technology that enabled its customers to anticipate and shape the behavior of their... View Details

Keywords: Behavioral Analytics; Financial Institutions; Banks and Banking; Entrepreneurship; Strategy; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; United States; United Kingdom

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September 1992 (Revised November 1993)
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Germany in the 1990s: Managing Reunification, Supplement Two

By: George C. Lodge

Designed to be handed out after discussion of Germany in the 1990s: Managing Reunification and its Supplement. View Details

Keywords: Political Elections; Economy; Situation or Environment; Inflation and Deflation; Interest Rates; Central Banking; Integration; Germany; Italy; United Kingdom; Europe

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March 2005 (Revised June 2005)
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Capital Controls in Chile in the 1990s (B)

By: Laura Alfaro, Rafael M. Di Tella and Ingrid Vogel

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Governance Controls; Financial Crisis; Foreign Direct Investment; Currency Exchange Rate; Inflation and Deflation; Demand and Consumers; Interest Rates; Capital; System; Central Banking; Chile

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February 1980
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Profiles of Selected U.S. Securities Firms in 1979

By: Michael E. Porter

Keywords: Investment Banking; Financial Services Industry; United States

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18 Dec 2007
First Look

First Look: December 18, 2007

Working PapersHappiness, Contentment and Other Emotions for Central Banks Authors:Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch Abstract We show that data on satisfaction with life from over 600,000 Europeans are... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Mar 2010
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Sole Mates

defining a shared ambition for the various components of its population. We shall work on it. MIZO: A peaceful and newly independent country of proud people, looking to the future. At A Glance Total Area: 25,713 sq. km. Population:... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank

22 Sep 2016
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The Competitiveness of Lost Causes

“My work is about making competitive businesses out of ‘lost causes,’” wrote Emiliano Duch (MBA 1991) in a Class Notes post announcing his 2013 career move, from private development consultant to lead financial and private-sector development specialist at the World... View Details

Theodore N. Vail

Securing over $100 million in financing, Vail first set up a more unified operating structure for AT&T, the Bell companies and the so-called “Bell-Connected” independent firms, and then went on to form an affiliation with competitor... View Details

Keywords: Communications

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Annette Rodriguez-Ferrer

private-equity backed and high-growth companies. Work Experience: Private Equity (Warburg Pincus, JPMorgan Partners, founded MKH Capital Partners), Investment Banking (Goldman Sachs), Independent Consulting. View Details

Keywords: Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking

28 Mar 2016
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The Alum Building a Brand New City in Panama

experience—bought the base and began building a new city. “It was a white canvas to develop from the beginning,” Gilinski told Forbes. Today, nearly 1,000 buildings stand in Panama Pacifico—a property five times the size of Central Park,... View Details

22 Jun 2009
Research & Ideas

“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms

the past to lower risk and instill consumer confidence. "From the founding of the republic until 1933, the United States experienced banking panics roughly every fifteen to twenty years," explains Moss. When the Great Depression struck,... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Banking

29 Sep 2015
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September 29, 2015

policy with two key features: (i) the central bank has private information about its long-run target for the policy rate and (ii) the central View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2016
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HBS Alumni Contribute to Business and Society

Josh Lerner, Head of the Entrepreneurial Management Unit and the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at HBS, recently led a research study aimed at quantifying the economic and social contributions of Harvard University... View Details

November 1994 (Revised November 1995)
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SweetWater

By: H. Kent Bowen and Thomas D. Everett

Focuses on developing a promising idea into a viable product design by considering customer needs early in the design process. Following an Alaskan fishing trip, Sandy Platter, a computer peripherals engineer, has a new idea for a portable water-filter device for use... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Independent Innovation and Invention; Product Design; Customers; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Consumer Products Industry; Colorado

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2002
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Institutional Change and Economic Growth: Banks, Financial Markets, and Mexican Industrialization, 1878-1913

By: Noel Maurer and Stephen Haber

Keywords: History; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Financial Markets; Economic Growth; Developing Countries and Economies; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Mexico

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18 Nov 2014
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Helping foreign countries invest wisely

Dora Vardis (MBA 1994), managing director in the foreign exchange division of Citigroup, works with sovereign wealth funds and central banks to create successful investments for their countries. (Published... View Details

25 Aug 2022
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Clean Slate

For the Massachusetts Port Authority (Massport), the pandemic opened up the rare opportunity to rethink “everything we do and how we do it,” says CEO Lisa Wieland (MBA 2001). The independent public authority that owns and operates the... View Details

01 Jun 2006
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Utopian Vision

(The New Yorker, March 20, 2006). At the moment, his would-be utopia is an undeveloped 2,200-acre tract — nearly three times the size of Central Park — acquired for $50 million. Aiming for a highbrow clientele, Curry wrote in one pitch... View Details

Keywords: Finance; Real Estate

03 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?

was a source of stress for the system's stability. Today, banks are better capitalized, rely less on short-term wholesale funding, and make available much more detailed information about their portfolios, while the amount of "shadow... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Banking; Banking; Banking; Banking