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Understanding Entrepreneurial Opportunity in Kazakhstan - Global Activities 2020

Kazakhstan is the largest economy in Central Asia, and a quickly changing one; the GDP in the former Soviet republic has grown six-fold since 2002 and the country serves as a transportation link between China and Western Europe. The case... View Details

09 Aug 2018
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Two Million Fake Accounts: Sales Misconduct at Wells Fargo

Keywords: Re: Suraj Srinivasan; Banking; Banking

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Harvard Business School

of Boston who served in World War II, Herb Lyken became a professor of Finance and Accounting at the University of Massachusetts, Boston and taught for 15 years. He was also a founder and board member of the Unity Bank and Trust in... View Details

31 Oct 2013
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Do Measures of Financial Constraints Measure Financial Constraints?

Keywords: by Joan Farre-Mensa & Alexander Ljungqvist

16 May 2005
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Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow

different: Her research suggests that a more powerful lever to increase a nonprofit's social impact might be to focus on building network relationships like-minded groups—even competitors. Organizations as unique as Guide Dogs for the Blind Association and Women's... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

02 Sep 2015
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Explaining China's Crash

intervene in the currency market. Finally, the Chinese central bank has room for further monetary stimulus; they can lower the reserve requirement for banks from the current 18... View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese; Financial Services

2021
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The Changing Role of Business in Society

By: Michael E. Porter

Business interaction with the U.S. government, historically based on securing industry or company special interests at the expense of the public good, has enabled and furthered government dysfunction. Gridlock within the American political system has precluded the... View Details

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14 Jul 2020
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Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

played a central role: many firms proactively shared new safety protocols, gave feedback to each other, and worked hard to make their industry safer. These interactions involved not only suppliers and clients, but sometimes even... View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

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Cheap Talk about Monetary Policy

Keywords: Central Banking; Policy; Money; Banking Industry

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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

: Winner of the 2021 John L. Weinberg/IRRCI Research Paper Award Competition for “The ESG-Innovation Disconnect: Evidence from Green Patenting” with Umit Gurun and Quoc Nguyen. Lauren H. Cohen : Invited to give a keynote address at the launch of the eNaira, Nigeria’s... View Details

26 Oct 2015
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What’s the Value of a Win in College Athletics?

school’s piggy bank in his paper, How Much Is a Win Worth? An Application to Intercollegiate Athletics, forthcoming in Management Science. “Some of the top schools make enormous amounts of money—just extraordinary, close to $200 million,”... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Sports; Education

04 Oct 2018
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Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms

yuri_arcurs Recent research shows for the first time that diversity in venture capital firms not only spawns creativity and alternative viewpoints, but also improves financial performance. Paul Gompers, Eugene Holman Professor of Business Administration at Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking; Banking

September 2013 (Revised August 2015)
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Leadership and Teaming

By: Ethan Bernstein

Small differences in the leadership of teams can have large consequences for the success of their efforts. Many initiatives fail not because of a fatal error in judgment or insufficient ideas, knowledge, motivation, or capabilities to deliver a solution. They fail... View Details

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What Should the Federal Reserve Do? Thoughts of Greenspan and Bernanke

By: Lakshmi Iyer and Noel Maurer

Presents remarks by Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke on monetary policy, explicit inflation targets, and the relative merits of asset price targeting. View Details

Keywords: Inflation and Deflation; Asset Pricing; Central Banking; Financial Strategy; Policy; Banking Industry

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Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

details on the grant application process, eligibility criteria, and grant amounts, please refer to the Payment & Financial Aid page . What are my payment options? We accept payments via credit card, wire transfer, Western Union, and (when available) View Details

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The Federal Reserve's Balance Sheet as a Financial-Stability Tool

By: Robin Greenwood, Samuel Gregory Hanson and Jeremy C. Stein

We argue that the Federal Reserve should use its balance sheet to help reduce a key threat to financial stability: the tendency for private-sector financial intermediaries to engage in excessive amounts of maturity transformation—i.e., to finance risky assets using... View Details

Keywords: Central Banking; Policy; Risk Management; Public Administration Industry; United States

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22 Aug 2024
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Reading the Financial Crisis Warning Signs: Credit Markets and the 'Red-Zone'

credit market dynamics—and investor behavior. HBS Working Knowledge spoke with Robin Greenwood, the George Gund Professor of Finance and Banking at Harvard Business School, about the role markets may play in shaping economic conditions.... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Banking

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

economic research has examined the influence of policy movements on bank lending behavior, capital flows, and market responses in the public sector, the private equity industry—despite its substantial size and pervasive presence—has not... View Details

03 Apr 2019
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Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business

Artificial intelligence, machine learning, and big data will transform financial services and small-business lending long before they impact driverless cars, predicts Harvard Business School Senior Fellow Karen G. Mills. “As we speak, large View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Banking; Banking

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Globalization and Emerging Markets (Elective Course) The world order has changed significantly in the last two decades. The influence of western-style varieties of capitalism has been challenged by new forms of capitalism that rely less on private enterprise and on the... View Details

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Understanding Entrepreneurial Opportunity in Kazakhstan - Global Activities 2020

Two Million Fake Accounts: Sales Misconduct at Wells Fargo

Harvard Business School

Do Measures of Financial Constraints Measure Financial Constraints?

Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow

Explaining China's Crash

The Changing Role of Business in Society

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

Cheap Talk about Monetary Policy

Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

What’s the Value of a Win in College Athletics?

Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms

Leadership and Teaming

What Should the Federal Reserve Do? Thoughts of Greenspan and Bernanke

Frequently Asked Questions | HBS Online

The Federal Reserve's Balance Sheet as a Financial-Stability Tool

Reading the Financial Crisis Warning Signs: Credit Markets and the 'Red-Zone'

2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business

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