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- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
After more than a decade of nearly can’t-miss growth, China’s stock market began a precipitous summer slide that has spooked investors worldwide. In July, the Shanghai composite index dropped 15 percent from June, prompting the People’s View Details
- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
In September 2008, Lehman Brothers went under—the largest bankruptcy in American history. But that was just the beginning of the story. What followed was the Great Recession, a gargantuan financial crisis that affected the entire world... View Details
- 13 Jun 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants
including several instances where the highest rated securities (AAA) defaulted. The resulting financial meltdown pushed the US and the rest of the world economy into recession. In the recent case "Kroll Bond Rating Agency," Bo... View Details
- 02 Jul 2015
- Op-Ed
The Future of the Greek Economy
pay wages? Why pay loans? With what? What does a "no" mean? What does a "yes" guarantee? These weeks have been a nightmare, with no medium of exchange and banks facing growing lines of depositors who want to withdraw... View Details
- 08 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Will the Japan Disaster Remake the Landscape for Green Energy in Asia?
outsiders as a monolithic whole, but is in fact just the opposite. There are huge differences in the ways Asian countries approach renewables, said Han-koo Yeo, senior investment officer at the World Bank... View Details
- 06 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything
The world is. on. fire. The Earth is burning. We only have a little time to arrest climate change, and if we fail to do so the consequences will be both dire and irreversible. We have the technology and the resources to fix things, if we want to. We even have a... 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
- 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... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
use loan-level data to study how the organizational structure of banks impacts small business lending. We find that decentralized banks—where branch managers have greater autonomy over lending decisions—give larger loans to small firms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Chasing Stars: Why the Mighty Red Sox Struck Out
have studied the issue in multiple industries, including the equally competitive fields of sports and investment banking. After examining the careers of more than 1,000 Wall Street analysts, for instance, they found that analysts who were star performers at any given... View Details
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
characterizes the financial world. They also overlook the role of natural selection. To be sure, natural selection in the financial world is not exactly analogous to the processes first described by Darwin and elaborated on by modern... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
control over the use of remittances. In partnership with a Salvadoran bank, we offered U.S.-based migrants from El Salvador bank accounts in their home country into which they could send remittances. We randomly varied migrant control... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
around the world who want to study its practices. The Clinic's journey also holds lessons for organizations outside health care that must suddenly compete by creating a superior customer experience. The authors, one of whom was critical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 28, 2007
Merchants Bank Harvard Business School Case 307-081 Founded in 1987, China Merchants Bank (CMB) is a pioneer in the use of technical innovation and IT as a competitive tool in the rapidly evolving Chinese... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
Nation Israel enjoyed the highest concentration of technology start-ups in the world per capita. Despite regional instability, the country maintained strong economic growth and was considered a high-tech powerhouse. But not all Israelis... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
major investment bank to investigate factors associated with analysts' annual compensation. We find compensation to be positively related to "All-Star" recognition, investment-banking contributions, the size of analysts'... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 27 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 27
make clear, business education is at a major crossroads. For decades, MBA graduates from top-tier schools set the standard for cutting-edge business knowledge and skills. Now the business world has changed, say the authors of Rethinking... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2008
- Op-Ed
A House Divided: Investment or Shelter?
country, they yearned for shelter, a sanctuary in a new land. That shelter could be a tenement, a farmstead, a ramshackle cottage. For families, home had a connotation of safety and stability. Banks did not lend with 30-year amortizing... View Details
- 22 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism
companies operate and how government invests in them. And yet, the business world has been slow to catch up to these changes, says Associate Professor Aldo Musacchio, a member of the Business, Government, and the International Economy... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 08 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System
of the early banking system was also an eye-opener. I didn't quite appreciate how opposed Thomas Jefferson was to the idea of banks. A: I think for Jefferson, the part of his brain that was labeled "finance" or "money"... View Details