Economic Reform - Publications - Faculty & Research

November 2009
Article

Is it Fair to Blame Fair Value Accounting for the Financial Crisis?

By: Robert C. Pozen

When the credit markets seized up in 2008, many heaped blame on "mark to market" accounting rules, which require banks to write down their troubled assets to the prices they'd fetch if sold on the open market - at the time, next to nothing. Recording those assets below... View Details

Keywords: Cost Accounting; Fair Value Accounting; Financial Crisis; Assets; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Crisis Management; Standards; Banking Industry

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01 Dec 2018
News

Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter

come with moving. Do we need comprehensive reform to address issues related to land values? —Dick Carlson (MBA 1961) OAKES: It’s essential. “Exclusionary” zoning policies result in segregated communities (both View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

21 Jun 2011
First Look

First Look: June 21

economic and political risks remained. Purchase this supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/711107-PDF-ENG Stock Reform of Shenzhen Development Bank Li Jin, Li Liao, Aldo Sesia, and Jianyi... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Aug 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 14, 2018

government intervention, two of the principal forces that influence variation in firm profitability. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54835 forthcoming Journal of Economics & Management Strategy... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

January 2012
Teaching Note

California's Budget Crises, Tax Reform, and Domestic and International Tax Competition (TN)

By: Matthew Weinzierl

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Budgets and Budgeting; Taxation; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; California

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February 2011 (Revised April 2011)
Background Note

Note on the Reinsurance Industry

By: Robert C. Pozen and Henoch Senbetta

This note begins with an overview of reinsurance contacts - their mechanics, types and pricing. It then discusses the structure of the reinsurance industry and the impact of recent crises on this industry. View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Insurance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Industry Structures; Insurance Industry

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Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

Economic Sciences Chicago Board of Options Exchange Exhibit Home Prelude to the Option Pricing Model Bachelier, Louis. " Théorie de la Spéculation. " Annales Science de l'Ecole Normale Supérieure , No.1018. Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1900.... View Details

November 2008 (Revised March 2009)
Case

South Pole Carbon Asset Management-Going for Gold?

By: Forest L. Reinhardt, Jost Hamschmidt and Mikell Hyman

In late 2008, Christoph Sutter, CEO of South Pole Carbon Asset Management, reflects on his firm's early success at originating carbon credits in developing nations and selling them to governments and firms that seek to offset their greenhouse gas emissions voluntarily... View Details

Keywords: Developing Countries and Economies; Non-Renewable Energy; Entrepreneurship; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Strategy

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2007
Book

Perspectives on Risk and Regulation: The FDA at 100

By: Arthur A. Daemmrich and Joanna Radin

Perspectives on Risk and Regulation: The FDA at 100 brings together the viewpoints of Food and Drug Administration officials and industry leaders on the future of regulating food, drugs, medical devices, and dietary supplements. In a period of rapid scientific... View Details

Keywords: Private Sector; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Health Care and Treatment; Business and Government Relations; Risk and Uncertainty; Cooperation

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25 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017

unintentionally undermined the intended admissions policy—led to the elimination of Boston’s walk zones. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52937 May 2017 American Economic Review Stable and Strategy-Proof... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

19 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

Ginger Jin, of the Maryland Center for Economics and Policy, is just one example. They invited regulatory officials from several leading federal agencies, including the Department of Agriculture (USDA), Environmental Protection Agency... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

13 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018

scholarship that has documented how important, fundamental ideas can emerge from “use-inspired” research (see Pasteur’s Quadrant (Stokes, 1997)). The paper concludes by suggesting reforms to overcome the dysfunctional fixation on... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Dec 2009
News

Alumni Books

key to economic progress lies in unleashing women’s potential. For example, China has prospered because it emancipated women and brought them into the formal economy. Unleashing that process globally is the the best strategy for fighting... View Details

01 Jan 2005
News

Louis V. Gerstner, Jr., MBA 1965

reforming a hierarchical, bureaucratic culture that fostered competing fiefdoms in the corporation. In addition, IBM's reputation as a paternal organization that guaranteed lifetime employment and benefits ignored View Details

21 Jul 2014
Research & Ideas

Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?

(Editor's note: This first in a series of articles based on a Harvard Business School working paper by Karen Mills that analyzes the current state of availability of bank capital for small business.) Small businesses are core to America's View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Manufacturing

08 Apr 2011
News

Management Matters In Health Care, Too

figure them out,” he said. “We’re going to have a revolution in coordinating care,” observed David Cutler, a Harvard professor of applied economics and a nationally recognized expert in the economics of... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance

12 Dec 2018
News

Lesson Plan

students in the Scranton School District improved or held steady in 12 out of 15 academic categories in the most recently completed academic year. “That is a real bright spot when you consider that 83 percent of students in the district have some level of View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Chris Sorensen

08 Nov 2016
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November 8, 2016

Successful Change: Ten Insights from the Private Sector By: Henderson, Rebecca Abstract—The aim of this book is to catalyze global interest in the pursuit of transformational changes in natural resource and environmental management. It is shown that transformational... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2013
News

Beantown as a Beacon

Facilitating private-sector progress while benefiting the taxpayers "Governments need to think more like partners, not order-givers," said Massachusetts Secretary of Housing and Economic Development Greg Bialecki. "Government can play an... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services