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  • 26 Mar 2018
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Impact of CEOs in the Public Sector: Evidence from the English NHS

Keywords: by Katharina Janke, Carol Propper, and Raffaella Sadun; Health
  • December 2023
  • Article

What Can Stockouts Tell Us About Inflation? Evidence from Online Micro Data

By: Alberto Cavallo and Oleksiy Kryvtsov
We use a detailed micro dataset on product availability and stockouts to construct a direct high-frequency measure of consumer product shortages during the 2020-2022 pandemic. We document a widespread multi-fold rise in stockouts in nearly all sectors early in the... View Details
Keywords: Prices; Stockouts; Inventories; Supply Disruptions; COVID-19 Pandemic; Supply Chain; Product; Demand and Consumers
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  • March 1998
  • Article

An Assessment of the Performance of Indian State-Owned Enterprises

By: Gautam Ahuja and Sumit K. Majumdar
We examine the determinants of performance of 68 Indian state-owned enterprises in the manufacturing sector for a five-year period: 1987 to 1991. Relative performance is determined using data envelopment analysis, with variations in performance patterns subsequently... View Details
Keywords: State-owned Enterprises; Economic Reform; Efficiency Analysis; Performance Efficiency; Privatization; Microeconomics; State Ownership; Manufacturing Industry; India
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  • Profile

March Bishop

social value simultaneously and even symbiotically. HBS has opened my eyes to the whole world of Shared Value and Social Enterprise and in this I have found what looks to be the beginning of a career. I'm excited to pursue economic development through the private View Details
Keywords: Services; Retail
  • 07 Jan 2009
  • News

Czar Power

  • 29 Aug 2022
  • News

Harvard Business School Announces 2022 Goldsmith Fellows

  • March 2007 (Revised December 2007)
  • Background Note

Alleviating Poverty and Malnutrition: Successful Models

By: Ray A. Goldberg, Laura Winig and Kerry Herman
Provides successful models of private-public sector cooperatives in alleviating poverty and malnutrition. View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Nutrition; Cooperative Ownership; Business and Government Relations; Non-Governmental Organizations; Poverty; Welfare
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  • 29 Oct 2014
  • Video

Real Students Webinar: Surprising Paths to an MBA

    The Unlikely Environmentalists, Foreign Affairs, April 2020

    The Private sector can combat climate change. Mobilizing so called “universal investors” will be key. View Details
    • Jan 08 2019
    • Testimonial

    Keep Moving Forward

    • March 2006 (Revised November 2006)
    • Case

    China: To Float or Not To Float? (D)- Bank of America's Strategic Investment in China Construction Bank

    By: Laura Alfaro, Rafael M. Di Tella and Ingrid Vogel
    With its $3 billion investment in Chinese state bank China Construction Bank, Bank of America--the second U.S. bank behind Citigroup in terms of assets and market capitalization--was one of several foreign banks directly participating in China's banking sector reform.... View Details
    Keywords: Currency Exchange Rate; Banks and Banking; Foreign Direct Investment; International Relations; Banking Industry; China; United States
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      How Quantitative Easing Works: Evidence on the Refinancing Channel

      When LSAPs are needed the most, simply bending the yield curve through purchasing government debt is not effective for stimulating the mortgage market (a key sector of the economy for the transmission of monetary policy). Purchasing mortgage-backed... View Details

      • Career Coach

      Lia Turrini

      Environment club, and for her summer internship she deepened her experience in the climate tech sector while working at Clean Energy Ventures. As an advisor, she can assist students who: 1) are still unsure on what their path might be and... View Details
      • 05 Sep 2017
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Structural Transformation: A Competitiveness-based View

      Keywords: by Christian Ketels
      • 27 May 2020
      • News

      Why the SpaceX manned mission is critical to the private space race

        Sizing Up Social Impact

        Quantifying results in the social sector comes down to the tricky work of measuring social good. View Details
        • 2020
        • Working Paper

        The Impact of CEOs in the Public Sector: Evidence from the English NHS

        By: Katharina Janke, Carol Propper and Raffaella Sadun
        Abstract Governments worldwide have sought to reform the delivery of public services by mimicking private sector governance models that grant CEOs greater autonomy and give them responsibility for meeting key government targets. We examine the effectiveness of this... View Details
        Keywords: CEOs; Management; Performance; Public Sector; Measurement and Metrics; Health Industry
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        • 01 Feb 2017
        • What Do You Think?

        Is the Next Jobs Crisis Just Ahead?

        Summing Up: Should We Be Addressing the Next Jobs Crisis Now? An unusual proportion of respondents to this month’s column agreed either explicitly or implicitly on one thing: a looming service sector jobs crisis would dwarf anything we’ve... View Details
        Keywords: by James Heskett; Service
        • 2016
        • Working Paper

        Bias in Official Fiscal Forecasts: Can Private Forecasts Help?

        By: Jeffrey A. Frankel and Jesse Schreger
        Government forecasts of GDP growth and budget balances are generally more over optimistic than private sector forecasts. When official forecasts are especially optimistic relative to private forecasts ex ante, they are more likely also to be over optimistic relative to... View Details
        Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Macroeconomics
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        • 02 May 2009
        • News

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