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  • 2011
  • Working Paper

Do Not Trash the Incentive! Monetary Incentives and Waste Sorting

By: Alessandro Bucciol, Natalia Montinari and Marco Piovesan
This paper examines whether monetary incentives are an effective tool for increasing domestic waste sorting. We exploit the exogenous variation in the pricing systems experienced during the 1999-2008 decade by the 95 municipalities in the district of Treviso (Italy).... View Details
Keywords: Household; Cost Management; Consumer Behavior; Wastes and Waste Processing; Motivation and Incentives; Public Administration Industry; Italy
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  • June 2011 (Revised September 2011)
  • Case

Tough Choices for the Illinois Pension System

By: Robert C. Pozen and Brij S. Khurana
This case describes the precarious fiscal situation of the Illinois public pension system in the spring of 2009 and the accounting of pension plans by non-federal municipalities more generally. In February 2009, in the midst of a recession, recently-appointed Governor... View Details
Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Financial Crisis; Financial Liquidity; Annuities; Financial Management; Financing and Loans; Taxation; Strategic Planning; Problems and Challenges; Illinois
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    Paul W. Marshall

    MBA Class of 1960 Professor of Management, Paul W. Marshall, is affiliated with the Entrepreneurial Management Unit and teaches The Entrepreneurial Manager in the Turnaround Environment. This Elective Curriculum course focuses on the role of... View Details

    Keywords: aerospace; banking; brokerage; computer; consulting; defense; management consulting; manufacturing; metals; professional services; retail financial services; retailing; steel
    • 2022
    • Article

    Regulatory Treatment of Changes in Fair Value and the Composition of Banks' Investment Portfolios

    By: Michael Iselin, Jung Koo Kang and Joshua Madsen
    In their implementation of Basel III, U.S. bank regulators are again including changes in the fair value of available-for-sale (AFS) debt securities in Tier 1 capital, but only for the largest U.S. banks. This paper investigates a potential impact of expanding this... View Details
    Keywords: Fair Value Accounting; SFAS 115; Basel III; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Banks and Banking; Debt Securities; Credit; Risk and Uncertainty; Investment Portfolio; Decision Making; Banking Industry; United States
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    • 22 Dec 2015
    • First Look

    December 22, 2015

    analysis suggests a need for caution: while information facilitates transactions, it also facilitates discrimination. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50258 Financial Patent Quality: Finance Patents... View Details
    Keywords: Carmen Nobel
    • February 2020
    • Case

    Rotoplas: Bringing More and Better Water

    By: John D. Macomber and Carla Larangeira
    Private companies were being turned to for potable water in the world’s megacities due to impacts of climate change including droughts and flooding. Mexico City had endured several water-related crises, with its population suffering from floods, droughts, water... View Details
    Keywords: Water Supply; Water Management; Finance; Infrastructure; Urban Development; Business and Government Relations; Latin America; Mexico
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    • 12 Oct 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: October 12

    generally takes one of two approaches. The market timing and catering approach views managerial financing and investment decisions as rational managerial responses to securities mispricing. The managerial biases approach studies the... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Curriculum - Case Method Project

    Progressive Era reformers convinced numerous states and municipalities to adopt the initiative and referendum, and how these reforms changed the landscape of American democracy. It focuses on the particular example of Massachusetts, where... View Details
    • Web

    Podcast - Business & Environment

    Resilient Future: Shalini Vajjhala and Jamie Rhodes, re:focus partners 22 APR 2021 | Climate Rising Shalini Vajjhala and Jamie Rhodes of re:focus partners share new thinking on how they are helping communities design and finance climate... View Details
    • Web

    Named Fellowship Funds - Alumni

    principal investment area in Asia, head of the principal investment area in Japan, and head of the global leveraged finance group. He also headed the firm's workout, advisory, and restructuring business. He is a director of Select Energy... View Details
    • 04 Aug 2010
    • News

    A Lonely Crusader

    municipal bond insurer, MBIA, is the subject of a new book, Confidence Game. MBIA’s stellar financial performance and rock-solid triple-A rating masked the firm’s growing fragility as it ventured deeper and deeper into insuring... View Details
    Keywords: Roger Thompson; subprime mortgages; Finance; Finance
    • 09 Nov 2023
    • News

    From the Brink

    Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994), Adam Chepenik (MBA 2010), Sebastián Negrón-Reichard (JD/MBA 2024) As the senior top official in the US Treasury Department on domestic finance issues, Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994) could see Puerto Rico’s financial... View Details
    Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
    • July 2019 (Revised May 2021)
    • Case

    Acelerex

    By: John R. Wells and Benjamin Weinstock
    In early 2019, Randell Johnson, Founder and Chief Executive of Acelerex, was reflecting on the company’s first year of rapid growth and the challenges of scaling the business that lay ahead. Acelerex was riding the waves of change taking place in electrical power grids... View Details
    Keywords: Energy; Energy Sources; Growth Management; Expansion; Global Strategy; Cash Flow; Energy Industry; Web Services Industry; Consulting Industry
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    Past Issues - Alumni

    when finance becomes a common language Happy Returns HBS celebrates reunions on a grand scale Complete Table of Contents June 2022 Alumni Achievement Awards 2022 This year’s recipients of the School’s highest honor demonstrate how family,... View Details
    • 01 Jun 1998
    • News

    Simmons Family Endows Professorship

    he became the youngest state banking commissioner in the United States when he was appointed to that position in Utah. He left this post in 1952 to organize the Bank of Utah in Ogden. A year later, he became president of the Lockhart Company, a consumer View Details
    • 28 May 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'

    companies to be sure, but also small- and medium-sized businesses, individual households, and cities and states. And all of these entities (with the exception of US states) can in principle file for bankruptcy protection. But all such cases, whether corporate,... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking
    • 01 Jun 2003
    • News

    Portraits from the Class of 2003

    services, NYC Department of Parks and Recreation Duties Included: taking care of Yankee and Shea stadiums Description of Her Employees: carpenters, plumbers, electricians, blacksmiths; 111 men, 9 women; average age: 45 Enjoys: international cooking, theater, baseball... View Details
    Keywords: Finance

      Albert H. Gordon

      Gordon, with the financial assistance of Stone and Webster, acquired the venerable investment firm in 1931 when it was on the brink of collapse. Gordon helped rebuild the firm by focusing on specific niche markets including utility View Details
      Keywords: Finance
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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
      • 24 Jul 2013
      • Op-Ed

      Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In

      and new construction. On the other hand, well-managed public-private partnerships, where the private sector funds, builds, and operates key public infrastructure, can shift the capital requirement from municipalities to the private... View Details
      Keywords: by John Macomber, Robert C. Pozen, Eric D. Werker & Benjamin Kennedy; Auto