Financial Complexity - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Jun 2016
Op-Ed

What Hath the United Kingdom Wrought?

trading block in the world. Financial markets had been complacent and were caught off guard by an early morning earthquake that affected most traded asset classes around the globe. Prime Minister David Cameron announced his resignation,... View Details

Keywords: by Dante Roscini

05 Jan 2009
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles and Working Papers 2008

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel Dean Jay Light and a group of Harvard Business School faculty explored the origins and possible outcomes of the U.S. financial crisis at a recent "Turmoil... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

08 Feb 2011
First Look

First Look: Feb. 8

customers to deliver services in a rapidly changing, uncertain, and complex environment (e.g., hospitals)—play an important role in the economy. Organizational learning studies in these settings have largely investigated autonomous... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2010
News

Eight Join HBS Faculty

Management. After completing his doctorate, Serafeim accepted a teaching position at HBS, one of eight newcomers to join the faculty. Serafeim, an assistant professor in the Accounting & Management Unit, teaches the first-year course View Details

31 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: Jan. 31

colleagues to refocus radically on truly modern phenomena, on anticipating the future, and on altering our theorizing and methods accordingly, or we will never catch up. Marketing Complex Financial Products... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel

30 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 31, 2006

Working PapersHow Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Economic Growth? Exploring the Effects of Financial Markets on Linkages Authors:Laura Alfaro, Areendam Chanda, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Selin Sayek Abstract The empirical... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

decade I believe the research agenda at business schools will be driven by the desire to apply management principles to addressing complex social problems (like balancing energy security with environmental sustainability), whose solutions... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

30 Sep 2019
Book

Book Excerpt: Why a Volume on Race, Work, and Leadership

during financial crises. A handful of black entrepreneurs (e.g., Oprah Winfrey and Robert Smith) are among the wealthiest Americans, and though they represent the exception, their influence is nonetheless widespread as their businesses... View Details

09 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

Fearing Fox News, Democratic-leaning Companies Delayed Negative Announcements

Fox News has influenced how companies disclose financial news. Legal analyst Gregg Jarrett on the set in 2016. Source: Wikipedia Commons, CC 3.0) The United States presidential election of 2000 took place in a simpler time. The internet... View Details

Keywords: by Jen Deaderick; Media & Broadcasting

16 May 2016
HBS Case

Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer

Business School and Professor in Health Policy and Management at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Even though Chipotle’s supply chain is shorter, with fewer intermediaries between supplier and restaurant, the use of local suppliers means that the chain... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

17 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan

forecasted GDP growth rates for Japan by 0.5% for the first quarter of this year, and by more than 1.5% for the second quarter. The financial consequences are equally alarming. The Nikkei 225 Stock Average plunged 6.2% at the market's... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

01 Sep 2017
News

What Fellowships Make Possible

The foundation of Harvard Business School’s MBA Program is need-blind admissions: a commitment to ensuring that every student, regardless of their background or financial means, is able to attend the School through a generous combination... View Details

Keywords: budget; need-blind; Admissions; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Educational Support Services; Educational Services

01 Apr 2008
First Look

First Look: April 1, 2008

Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=308009 Kinyuseisaku: Monetary Policy in Japan Harvard Business School Case 708-017 Toshihiko Fukui, Government of the Bank of Japan, faced a complex... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 May 2015
News

Celebrating and Supporting Leadership

Difference stories of alumni, faculty, and student impact. Also, so far, more than 22,500 alumni and friends have made gifts of all sizes toward the Campaign’s financial goals. Continuing the inspiring and celebratory nature of the... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services

Profile

Carol Lauson

her major in college and worked full-time doing accounting for a small business. But by the time she graduated, "I wanted to do more planning and analysis." Carol's subsequent career took her through a financial rotational... View Details

01 Oct 1998
News

Supplying Demand

When it opens next year, Los Angeles' new state-of-the-art sports complex will bear the name of a $7-billion international retail giant, a newcomer that will join heavyweights such as United Airlines, Anheuser-Busch, and MCI in seeing its... View Details

Keywords: Paul Michelman

01 Sep 2013
News

Faculty Books

must serve "the new invisible hand," powerful, pervasive markets that affect almost every decision leaders make. As a result, struggle has become a central, nagging issue. Badaracco recommends addressing this "good" struggle head-on by tackling several View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

Web

Israel - Global Activities 2020

the bank’s entry into online banking under Russak-Aminoach’s dynamic leadership. In 2017, five years into her tenure as CEO, she took a characteristically bold step and launched Pepper, Israel’s first completely mobile bank, as a stand-alone business with View Details

01 Mar 2014
News

Chances Are

Boston and a hot website fawned over by everyone from the New York Times to NPR. The financial crisis, though, forced Shapiro to shutter the site, transform Book of Odds into a data-consulting group, and put the numbers into book form.... View Details

Keywords: Morrell, Daniel; probability

03 May 2004
What Do You Think?

How Much Is Enough?

respondents helped frame the challenge of "just enough." For example, Saurabh Dwivedy commented, "So long as there is humankind, there will be unfulfilled desires and broken dreams and a longing for 'being there.'" Pointing out the distinction... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

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