Institutional Development - Publications - Faculty & Research

October 2006 (Revised October 2007)
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Information Technology and Innovation at Shinsei Bank

Shinsei Bank was rebuilt from the ashes of a failed predecessor, and pioneered new levels of customer service in retail banking in Japan. The bank's information technology, however, was vestigial at best and not well suited to the new service models Shinsei was... View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Banks and Banking; Innovation and Invention; Banking Industry; Japan

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22 Mar 2016
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March 22, 2016

countries at different stages of development and institutional capacity is needed to surface the role of local conditions and absorptive capacities; micro-level work, that is firm-level data in View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Professor Sawyer’s research focuses on U.S. political economy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, concentrating on the development of competition policy and the administrative state. While the conventional history of U.S. competition policy portrays the... View Details

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Principal Research Interests

My research is principally focused on nineteenth- and twentieth-century subjects, with an emphasis on economic and especially financial history. I am interested in the role of banks and capital markets in the process of economic development as well as in the political... View Details

Angela Q. Crispi

Angela is the Executive Dean for Administration at Harvard Business School, leading an organization of nearly 2,000 staff with an operating budget of $1 billion. She oversees the execution of the School’s strategy ranging from academic programs to research, and the... View Details

14 Jun 2021
Op-Ed

When Your Nerves Get the Best of You, Change the Narrative

focusing on the class I was about to lead, my mind turned to all the ways I fell short: my lack of consulting experience, my greenness as a teacher, my weird accent, my degree from an institution that was not well known, and how... View Details

Keywords: by Francesca Gino

16 Oct 2015
Blog Post

HBS and the Arts

experiences. Coming from a business development background, I had never thought about working on the operational side of a business. But my Technology and Operations Management (TOM) Class – taught by the amazing Feng Zhu – inspired me to... View Details

02 Nov 2023
News

Seeding Startups

Shirish Nadkarni (MBA 1987) was the director of product planning for Microsoft’s MSN when he decided he was ready to become an entrepreneur. He had recently led the growing internet portal’s 1997 acquisition of Hotmail, the first free, web-based email solution, and the... View Details

Keywords: April White

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Bankruptcy | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

22, 2008. Barclays Group Archives. View as PDF Barclays Group. Press Release, September 22, 2008. Barclays Group Archives. View as PDF In the mortgage securitization process, a borrower takes out a loan from a lending institution. The lending View Details

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Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online

exam Self-Paced with regular deadlines This course earns you a Credential of Readiness from HBS Online. What you earn . Overview Syllabus Enrollment Stories FAQs Apply Now Key Concepts Analyze and interpret data to inform business decisions Implement analytical... View Details

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HBS Alumni Conference: Accelerating Climate Solutions - Alumni

perspective of collaboration. But this becomes a delicate balance between anti-competitive legal territory and the benefits of the collective development of standards and crystallization of emerging demand signals, all paving the way for... View Details

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Globalization - Faculty & Research

heterogeneous effects of globalization on the interest rate setting by microfinance institutions (MFIs) around the world. We consider MFIs as a mechanism to overcome the institutional void of credit for... View Details

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People - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Senior Associate Dean, Faculty development and research Robin is the George Gund Professor of Finance and Banking at Harvard Business School and the Anne and James F. Rothenberg Faculty Fellow. He is the past chair of the Business... View Details

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Community | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

and develop the project scope, develop key deliverables, conduct necessary analysis, and ultimately prepare recommendations for review. Projects run from October through April. Education Club The club aims... View Details

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Recognizing Our Donors - Alumni

Advancing business as a force for good in the world by helping HBS develop new insights and tools to address key societal challenges Digital Data Design Institute Donors Positioning HBS and Harvard overall... View Details

13 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 13

of leadership in political, economic, and symbolic institutions as a result of one of three types of leadership: good leadership, misguided leadership, and evil leadership. This innovative book outlines a framework of human behavior that... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

September–October 2022
Article

Seeking Purity, Avoiding Pollution: Strategies for Moral Career Building

By: Erin Reid and Lakshmi Ramarajan

This study builds theory on how people construct moral careers. Analyzing interviews with 102 journalists, we show how people build moral careers by seeking jobs that allow them to fulfill both the institution’s moral obligations and their own material aims. We... View Details

Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Moral Sensibility

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24 Jan 2023
Blog Post

Dispelling Myths About HBS Through My Summer Venture in Management Program Experience

institution given some of the negative stereotypes I had heard about them. It also did not help that as a woman of color, I did not feel I had the right support system coaching me throughout my adulthood. I was constantly told to "settle... View Details

09 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 9, 2007

standard. We also develop and test two extensions of the earlier model: the presence of provisions mandating royalty-free licensing is negatively associated with disclosure requirements, and when there are only a limited number of SSOs,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

2016
Working Paper

Capital Requirements, Risk Choice, and Liquidity Provision in a Business Cycle Model

By: Juliane Begenau

This paper develops a quantitative dynamic general equilibrium model in which households' preferences for safe and liquid assets constitute a violation of Modigliani and Miller. I show that the scarcity of these coveted assets created by increased bank capital... View Details