Market Reform - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2008
News

New Awards Recognize Teaching Excellence

Lecturer and Senior Researcher Stacey Childress for her Entrepreneurship in Education Reform course Senior Lecturer Stephen Kaufman for his Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise course Professor Rakesh Khurana for his Management... View Details

01 Jun 2013
News

Can Business Smarts Save the Charter School Revolution?

Much of the movement's inspiration can be traced back to education reformers like free-market economist Milton Friedman, who argued as early as 1955 that education aid should follow students to the school of their choice, thereby forcing... View Details

Keywords: David McKay Wilson; charter schools; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services

01 Jun 2009
News

Too Big To Fail

Capitol Hill. The Case for More Regulation Looking at the historical record, Moss makes a strong case that targeted government regulation of financial markets has worked in the past to lower risk and instill consumer confidence. “From the... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance

23 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 23

telecommunications industry, we address the following questions: What factors contribute to a firm's ability to learn by supplying and building technological and market capabilities? Does it matter to whom the firm supplies? Is... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

14 Sep 2010
First Look

First Look: September 14, 2010

of lighter labor market regulations and more human capital specialize relatively more in people management. There is evidence for complementarities between information and communication technology, decentralization, and management, but... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

05 Jun 2019
Research & Ideas

If Your Customers Don't Care What You Charge, What Should You Charge?

effects of competition have an advantage within their markets, says Alexander J. MacKay, assistant professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, who coauthored the study Consumer Inertia and Market Power with Marc... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Energy

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Buy Now, Pay Later: The Usurer's Grip (1912)

The Rise of Installment Selling Home Finance Cars on Time The Secondary Credit Market The Usurer's Grip Research Links Credits In addition to its print publications, the Russell Sage Foundation also harnessed the new medium of film to... View Details

01 Jun 2024
News

Outside Voices

motion, bringing Greeks back home to further strengthen the labor market and create new economic opportunities. “After 12 years of training in Greece, these talented individuals immigrate primarily to the United States or Europe, where... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Pete Ryan; immigration; repatriation; innovation; public policy; Greece

10 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

Why a Federal Rule on CEO Pay Disclosure May Get You In Trouble With Customers

Lower CEO-to-Worker Pay Ratios. “The perception of wage fairness affects purchasing intentions” "The perception of wage fairness affects purchasing intentions," says Bhavya Mohan, a doctoral student in the Marketing unit at HBS, who... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

01 Jun 2002
News

Books

of each affected the actions of others, culminating in the “mass hysteria” (another chapter title) leading to the crash. Buy, Lie, and Sell High provides specific suggestions for reforms to the regulation process in the United States that... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

10 Jan 2005
What Do You Think?

Public Pension Reform: Does Mexico Have the Answer?

Summing Up Judging from responses to the January column, the debate concerning reform of the social security system in the U.S. will take many directions before the question can even be framed adequately. If the responses are an... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Financial Services

01 Dec 2007
News

Subprime Time

With markets reeling in the wake of the subprime mortgage fiasco, BusinessWeek (September 3, 2007) turned to Wall Street eminence and Lazard CEO Bruce Wasserstein (MBA ’71) for “much needed perspective on the current turmoil.” Asked about... View Details

Keywords: Bruce Wasserstein, MBA '71; Finance

07 Mar 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, March 7

way without compromising the ability of conventional monetary policy to focus on its traditional dual mandate of promoting maximum employment and stable prices. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52330 December 2016 International Journal... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

21 Dec 2009
Research & Ideas

Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer

the primary regulator of every systemically risky institution is just not practical. That means it would need to be an expert on money market funds, hedge funds, and life insurance companies as well as banks. Second, if you identify an... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services

11 May 2010
First Look

First Look: May 11

Standard theories of corporate ownership assume that because markets are efficient, insiders ultimately bear agency costs and therefore have a strong incentive to minimize conflicts of interest with outside investors. We show that if... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 May 2010
Research & Ideas

What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection

development agencies toward reforming the legal system or improving the court system. There is nothing wrong with that, but what if the real agents of change were the corporations themselves—their founders or their current shareholders?... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Banking; Financial Services

03 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling

of employer-sponsored insurance—$4,500 in 2011. Absent the requirement that healthy people buy insurance, it is likely that the individual insurance market will consist primarily of sick people. They will have $ 4,500 to buy a policy with... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Health

01 Jun 2013
News

Lesson Plans

communities desperately need and want." —Marc Sternberg Photeine Anagnostopoulos (MBA 1985) Senior Adviser, New Jersey Department of Education FROM RESEARCH TO THE REAL WORLD "Essentially, the past decade has been devoted to R&D in education reform, and now is the time... View Details

Keywords: Educational Support Services; Educational Services; Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services