IMF and World Bank Group - Publications - Faculty & Research

24 May 2011
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First Look: May 24

gaining ground in banking. In light of the recent financial crisis, several commentators concluded that the continuing expansion of risk measurement is dysfunctional (Power, 2009; Taleb, 2007). This paper asks whether the expansion of measurement-based risk management... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Jan 2010
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First Look: January 5

Founding Institutions in the U.S. Commercial Banking Industry Authors:Christopher Marquis and Zhi Huang Publication:Academy of Management Journal (forthcoming) Abstract This study focuses on the imprinting... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016

securities to retail investors. We focus on a large market of investment products targeted exclusively at households: retail-structured products in Europe. We hypothesize that banks strategically use product complexity to cater to... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

05 Feb 2014
Research & Ideas

Can Putin Score Olympic Gold?

world. Countries have long used the spotlight the Olympics provide to celebrate their national pride and improve their international image. The first of these was in 1936, when Adolf Hitler used the Olympics in Berlin to try to show that... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Sports; Advertising

07 Sep 2016
What Do You Think?

How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?

Leveraging Natural Groups to Build a Thriving Organization (New York: Harper Business, 2008) Joshua Cooper Ramo, The Seventh Sense: Power, Fortune, and Survival in the Age of Networks (New York: Little Brown... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18

CEO, rising leader of a firm in transition, and manager of massive complexity-thanks to our incredibly networked and increasingly unpredictable world of business. What if you... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

14 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Blockbuster! Why Star Power Works

makes huge investments to acquire, develop, and market concepts with strong hit potential, and then banks on the sales of those titles to make up for the middling performance... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation

07 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 7

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-030.pdf Incentivizing Calculated Risk-Taking: Evidence from an Experiment with Commercial Bank Loan Officers Authors:Shawn Cole, Martin Kanz, and Leora Klapper Abstract... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Studying Japan from the Inside

The same group of people who had been working for an under-performing company can produce outstanding results if they have the right leader. Japan may be the first country in the world where companies can... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

29 Apr 2020
Book

The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages

Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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