Central Bank Independence - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS

School is at an inflection point, an insight that meant different things to different people. Some focused on the fact that HBS is beginning its second century. Ironically, it's also a moment similar to when the School was founded in 1908, with a View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Education

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Entrepreneurship Outside the Valley - Course Catalog

inclusivity through fintech startups. Mobile payments, saving, and lending are sectors in which we see startups flourishing. Startups in the fintech sector are often either hindered or helped by the responsiveness of government regulators like View Details

01 Dec 2003
News

Business Answers the Call

students, some 80,000 teachers, and an annual budget of more than $12 billion. Bloomberg’s commitment to change helped convince Shannon D. Kete (MBA 2000) to make the leap from investment banking into the public sector last February.... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

05 Dec 2017
Research & Ideas

What We've Learned from 101 Entrepreneurs in Emerging Markets

countries? Khanna: Geoff and I, with Cheng Gao and Tiona Zuzul, wrote a piece on reputation as being central to how these iconic leaders have built country-reshaping enterprises. It’s a fun piece, now published in a leading academic... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

15 Nov 2004
Research & Ideas

Solving the Health Care Conundrum

competition increase health care value for patients. Health Plans: Plans will continue to have an important role, but that role will change. Competition among plans is desired (as opposed to a single-plan system) and independence between... View Details

Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health

20 Jul 2020
Op-Ed

It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees

valid, pay-as-you-go basis would avoiding worsening Medicare’s mammoth unfunded liabilities and could even help address them. The Public Option should also avoid government accounting; independent accountants should verify that the Public... View Details

Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger and Richard J. Boxer; Health; Insurance

05 Dec 2016
News

The Dragon’s Tale

capital for midsized companies. Because capital raising is controlled by the state, it tends to go to state-owned enterprises. That is a big problem for a lot of privately owned businesses and has created the shadow banking sector. What... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg

09 Nov 2006
Research & Ideas

Andy Grove: A Biographer’s Tale

memory business. Now another very important decision that was taken at the same time was to sole source the 386. Intel had a series of microprocessors. The microprocessor is the central processing unit. It is the most important piece of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer

02 Jan 2001
Research & Ideas

Gurus in the Garage

the individual but eventually brought ruin to all. The culture of Silicon Valley turns that system on its head. The bank of expertise in Silicon Valley represents a triumph of the commons: resources are extracted and replenished in a... View Details

Keywords: by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap

24 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

What’s Government’s Role in Regulating Home Purchase Financing?

going to be easy, but it's critical to privatization. As we increase our regulation of banks and require them to hold more capital, we'll be driving more activity into the less-regulated securitization markets. Our paper identifies a... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

August 2014 (Revised May 2016)
Case

Husk Power

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and Sid Misra

In late 2013, Husk Power Systems found itself falling further and further behind plan. The founding CEO had decided to resign. His co-founder is faced with the decision of quitting his corporate job in the US to head to India and help form a new management team. Husk... View Details

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06 Mar 2018
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First Look at Research and Ideas, March 6, 2018

whose demographic characteristics, and in turn needs, diverge more starkly from those of their bank’s average customers report significantly lower levels of satisfaction on a broad range of operating dimensions. Consistently, we find that View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Nov 2019
Book

Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History

corruption per se does not prevent rapid economic development, although it does distort it. Modern Turkey has achieved great economic progress whatever the prevalence of corruption. World Bank data shows that Turkey’s per capita income... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

03 Mar 2015
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First Look: March 3

Abstract—Improving the way we pay for health care must be a central component in health care reform. Payment reform must link provider reimbursement and accountability to improving patient value: better health outcomes delivered at lower... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 24

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-021.pdf How Do Risk Managers Become Influential? A Field Study of Toolmaking and Expertise in Two Financial Institutions Authors:Matthew Hall, Anette Mikes, and Yuval Millo Abstract In this study, we examine transformations in the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

14 Dec 2011
Research & Ideas

The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance

worked in our favor was that we had developed multiyear financial forecast models. We were dealing with bank workout teams, which is very rugged. But because we had that information, we stunned them. They didn't expect that coming from a... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

05 Mar 2020
News

Green Light

retailers’ distribution center network,” says Lo, meaning they’d build a farm at these centralized locations—23 of them to be exact. “We see a minimum of 23 megafarms.” A megafarm? “Somewhere between 1 and 10 tons [of production] a day,”... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell; photographed by Scott Nobles

15 Mar 2016
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March 15, 2016

Path and having been awarded a major World Bank grant, several challenges nonetheless remain including regional war and turmoil, sustainable funding, tensions over the Path's activities in Israel, and possible next steps for the... View Details

06 Dec 2021
News

December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books

responsibilities of Christians who are serious about following Jesus. Capitalist West Germany and Socialist East Germany: A Country Divided By James Glenn (MBA 1965) Independently published In the years following the end of World War II,... View Details

02 Oct 2015
News

The ‘F’ Word

had many different stories as to why they divorced, but there was always a central theme: Their husbands, like me, did not care for and nurture their marriage. Marriage is a commitment. Both parties must be willing to care for their... View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

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