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  • March 2007
  • Case

JCPenney: An Historical Shift toward Centralization

By: Rajiv Lal and Laura Winig
In September 2006, Michael Taxter knew that JCPenney Company, the nation's 3rd largest department store retailer, with $18 billion in sales and more than 1,000 department stores throughout the United States, had survived the greatest challenge of its 100-year history. View Details
Keywords: Transformation; Sales; Retail Industry; United States
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  • May 1993
  • Case

Patient Transfusion Services Lab of Central Blood Bank

By: James L. Heskett
The vice president of the Lab and Clinical Services at Central Blood Bank is faced with the challenge of convincing a hospital to use economical shared patient transfusion testing services. View Details
Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Quality; Service Operations; Mathematical Methods; Customer Satisfaction; Health Industry
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  • 24 Jan 2018
  • News

Economics in Central Banking Award 2018: BPP and PriceStats

  • 2011
  • Other Unpublished Work

Functional Centralization and the Division of Labor in Management

By: Julie Wulf, Maria Guadalupe and Hongyi Li
This paper shows that the trend towards flatter hierarchies in large US firms since the mid-80's has been accompanied by increased centralization of activities at the top of the organization. In particular, the number of functional managers (e.g., Chief Financial... View Details
Keywords: Executive Compensation; Management Teams; Organizational Structure; Business Strategy; Diversification; Information Technology; United States
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  • April 2010
  • Background Note

Central Europe after the Crash: Between Europe and the Euro

By: Diego A. Comin, Dante Roscini and Elisa Farri
This note briefly reviews the financial crisis in central Europe in late 2008, and summarizes how four central European countries—Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Slovakia—have coped with the economic downturn. View Details
Keywords: Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Financial Crisis; Financial Strategy; Czech Republic; Hungary; Poland; Slovakia
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  • October 1986
  • Background Note

Central Office Switch Industry in 1985

By: Elon Kohlberg
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  • October 1984 (Revised October 1985)
  • Teaching Note

China: Central Economic Planning, Teaching Note

By: David B. Yoffie
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  • May 2021
  • Article

Fifty Shades of QE: Comparing Findings of Central Bankers and Academics

By: Brian Fabo, Marina Jančoková, Elisabeth Kempf and Ľuboš Pástor
We compare the findings of central bank researchers and academic economists regarding the macroeconomic effects of quantitative easing (QE). We find that central bank papers find QE to be more effective than academic papers do. Central bank papers report larger effects... View Details
Keywords: Quantitative Easing; Career Concerns; Economic Research; Central Banking; Macroeconomics; Economic Growth
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  • 17 Oct 2013

Central & Eastern Europe Prospective Student Webinar

This online information session is designed for prospective students from Central & Eastern European countries to learn more about HBS and the community of students from that region. The session will include a Q&A with a panel of current... View Details
  • March 2021
  • Article

Bayesian Signatures of Confidence and Central Tendency in Perceptual Judgment

By: Yang Xiang, Thomas Graeber, Benjamin Enke and Samuel Gershman
This paper theoretically and empirically investigates the role of Bayesian noisy cognition in perceptual judgment, focusing on the central tendency effect: the well-known empirical regularity that perceptual judgments are biased towards the center of the... View Details
Keywords: Visual Perception; Bayesian Modeling; Perception; Judgments
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  • October 2012
  • Article

Central Bank Balance Sheets as Policy Tools

By: Alain Durré and Huw Pill
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  • April 2008
  • Teaching Note

Central Bank: The ChexSystemsSM QualiFile® Decision (TN)

By: Dennis Campbell and Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez
Teaching Note for [208029]. View Details
Keywords: Banks and Banking; Banking Industry
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  • 10 May 2023
  • Video

How Climate Is Central to Every Business

  • 10 May 2023

How Climate Is Central to Every Business

  • 01 Oct 2020
  • News

Central Bankers Inflate the Numbers on QE

  • 28 Feb 2023

HBS Tabling at North Carolina Central University

Do you know where an MBA can take you? Open your mind to the breadth of career opportunities available in business and feel the flexibility of the MBA degree. Stop by the HBS Admissions table to learn more about the MBA program at HBS including the 2+2 Program, a... View Details
  • December 2010 (Revised March 2011)
  • Case

The Euro in Crisis: Decision Time at the European Central Bank

By: J. Gunnar Trumbull, Dante Roscini and Diane Choi
This case traces the origins and evolution of the European Central Bank, with attention to its 2010 decision concerning the purchase of Greek sovereign debt. View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Borrowing and Debt; Currency; Central Banking; Financial Management; Sovereign Finance; Policy; Crisis Management; Europe; Greece
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  • Web

Central & Eastern European Club | MBA

Central & Eastern European Club The primary mission of the Emerging Europe Association is to facilitate professional, cultural and social activities aimed at HBS students interested in Emerging Europe. We aspire to increase awareness of... View Details
  • 29 Apr 2015

Central and Eastern Europe Prospective Student Webinar

This webinar will include a brief presentation from MBA Admissions and the Career & Professional Development Office targeted to prospective students from Central and Eastern Europe. It will also feature a Q&A with current students. View Details

    Launch of Nigeria's Central Bank Digital Currency (CBDC) - the eNaira

    Stakeholders including the Lagos Chamber of Commerce and Industry (LCCI) and Prof. Lauren Cohen, L. E Simmons, a Professor of Business Administration, Harvard Business School, United States of America, among others, yesterday, listed recommendations for the... View Details