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- 24 May 2017
- News
John H. McArthur, MBA 1959, DBA 1963
Founding Cochair, Partners HealthCare 1995 Retires from HBS 1995 Named Senior Advisor to the President of The World Bank 1997 John and Natty McArthur University Professorship established at Harvard 1999 McArthur Hall dedicated at HBS 2002...
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Susan Young
- 07 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 7
Holding (BBH) and invest in the former USSR by buying Estonia's biggest brewery, Saku. Purchase this supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/710471-PDF-ENG Central Europe after the Crash: Between Europe and the Euro Diego Comin,...
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Martha Lagace
- 27 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Charting 'Cheapflation': How Budget Brands Got So Pricey
may help explain why some consumers may think that prices are ‘too high’: not just relative to the past, but also relative to more expensive varieties,” the authors write. You Might Also Like: Central Banks...
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by Ana Elena Azpúrua
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
4%. In reaction to these dismal economic conditions, the Federal Reserve had steadily cut interest rates over a seven-month period, most recently lowering its key rate to 2.25% on March18. In sharp contrast to the Fed, the European View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Time that Government Reopens for Business
beneficiary was European banks that had big operations here. The globalization of the top end of the financial services industry means that the Fed is everyone's central banker. The reactions we've seen in...
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by Jim Aisner
- 23 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 23, 2007
attempting to grow its customer base by increasing the number of new checking accounts. Like many banks, Central saw checking accounts as an important tool for customer acquisition and loyalty-building. However, the View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
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Fanele Mashwama
Fanele Mashwama (he/him) first arrived at Harvard as an undergraduate. While earning his philosophy degree, he simultaneously worked in the central bank of his home country of eSwatini, where he became more...
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- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
he says. “It’s a growth industry. We’re going to need more of these places, and I have some ideas on how to make them better. Like me, people who come here don’t want to be burdens to their families, but they still want to remain View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
Raised in Mumbai and Delhi, Naina Lal Kidwai (MBA ’82) went away to school in Simla, in the Himalayas, and has conducted her career at similarly lofty heights ever since. A Delhi University alumna and the first Indian woman to graduate from HBS, Kidwai joined ANZ...
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- 13 Oct 2010
- Working Paper Summaries
Employee Selection as a Control System
- 13 Oct 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Government can Discourage Private Sector Reliance on Short-Term Debt
that financial institutions in the past ten years have relied excessively on short-term financing. The investment bank Lehman Brothers, for example, collapsed because it could not roll over its short-term financing. More broadly, if we...
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- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
crossed with small financial incentives (ranging from U.S. $3 to $14) to open bank savings accounts. We find that the financial literacy program has no effect on the likelihood of opening a bank savings...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Manuscript Collections - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
English and German contain information on the crises of 1873 and 1893. Firms mentioned frequently include the Kansas & Pacific, Northern Pacific, and Wisconsin Central Railroads, and a number of Oregon firms. Deutsch Bank, Siemens &...
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- 02 Oct 2012
- News
Green Pioneer
passions have spurred him, among other accomplishments, to spearhead the creation of a 250-acre nature preserve (with a 10-mile walking trail) in Pound Ridge, New York; initiate and finance the identification of, and publish a brochure about, all trees, shrubs, and...
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- 20 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
Leadership In Challenging Times: Thierry Ibri (MBA 1997)
in 5 kids, were food insecure. At Second Harvest Heartland, one of the country’s largest and most efficient food banks, we distributed more than 105 million meals to our network community partners and programs last year. We refer to that segment of our work – food...
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- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
information is a central determinant of a firm's demand function, even for purchases as large as college attendance. When Do User Innovators Start Firms? A Theory of User Entrepreneurship Authors:Sonali Shah and Mary Tripsas...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
competitiveness? That’s a central question, and key challenge, posed by the School’s US Competitiveness Project. Professors Michael Porter and Jan Rivkin, the project’s cochairs, contend there’s reason for optimism. Almost 2,000 of the...
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- 09 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Are Management Consulting Firms Failing to Manage Themselves?
distributed, independent partners with the centralized oversight needed to manage growth, ensure risk compliance, and maintain firm cultures. Embrace the return to meritocracy while (re)building internal...
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- 30 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 30
hypothesis that the happiness gains they have experienced from the past 45 years of growth have been the same as the gains that they experienced from growth prior to the 1960s. Central Banks Maximize...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Mar 2006
- Research & Ideas
Global Poverty Needs a Global Answer
project's early stages. It would organize the interface with supporting institutions such as the World Bank and the UNDP, and with local business partners. And since the WDC would have NGO representation on its board, it would assure NGO...
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by Cynthia Churchwell