Central Bank Independence - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 7

Holding (BBH) and invest in the former USSR by buying Estonia's biggest brewery, Saku. Purchase this supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/710471-PDF-ENG Central Europe after the Crash: Between Europe and the Euro Diego Comin,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 Apr 2022
Blog Post

Trust the Process, and Trust Yourself Even More: Interview with Wellness and Empowerment Leader, Dilan Gomih (MBA 2019)

her comfort zone, going straight from her Political Science undergraduate degree to Wall Street. When she accepted the Foreign Exchange Sales Analyst role at Bank of America, Gomih’s friends and family were a bit perplexed, but as Gomih... View Details

01 Dec 2004
News

One-on-One with William H. Donaldson

called upon Wall Street and corporate executives “to create a new environment of integrity and accountability.” He seemed uniquely suited to lead that effort. Donaldson was cofounder, with two HBS colleagues, chairman and CEO of the investment View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

01 Mar 2024
News

What is Web3?

chain, the harder it is to alter. Blockchains’ transparent and tamper-proof architecture enables anyone to verify and audit transactions independently without needing to trust a third party. INDIVIDUAL BLOCKS LINKED TOGETHER TO FORM A... View Details

April 2009
Article

Drawing Links Between Corporate Governance and Networks: Bankers in the Corporate Networks of Brazil, Mexico, and The United States Circa 1910

By: Aldo Musacchio

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Networks; Banks and Banking; Business History; Brazil; Mexico

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15 Oct 2019
News

Advancing China’s Impact Investing Ecosystem

decades, $3.4 trillion of wealth in China will pass to a new generation of high-net-worth families, many of whom want to do well by doing good. “At the conference we saw many young social entrepreneurs who, instead of taking high-paying investment View Details

14 Oct 2013
Research & Ideas

Time that Government Reopens for Business

beneficiary was European banks that had big operations here. The globalization of the top end of the financial services industry means that the Fed is everyone's central banker. The reactions we've seen in... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

16 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 16, 2007

recommendations to guide family employee compensation practices. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808021 Grand Central Publishing (A) Harvard Business School Case 508-036 In April 2007,... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Career Outcomes | Research Associates

RAs work proactively and independently while collaborating with leading experts, honing their abilities to manage projects and think critically about complex problems. Because these skills are required across industries, working as an RA... View Details

20 Apr 2021
Blog Post

Leadership In Challenging Times: Thierry Ibri (MBA 1997)

in 5 kids, were food insecure. At Second Harvest Heartland, one of the country’s largest and most efficient food banks, we distributed more than 105 million meals to our network community partners and programs last year. We refer to that segment of our work – food... View Details

01 Mar 2003
News

Naina Lal Kidwai

Raised in Mumbai and Delhi, Naina Lal Kidwai (MBA ’82) went away to school in Simla, in the Himalayas, and has conducted her career at similarly lofty heights ever since. A Delhi University alumna and the first Indian woman to graduate from HBS, Kidwai joined ANZ... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

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Ildi Nielsen

Coach at Boston Consulting Group; Executive Search Consultant for Investment Banks, Asset Management and Hedge Funds; Independent Career and Job Search Coach for post-MBA professionals Work Experience: Career Coach at Boston Consulting... View Details

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01 Dec 2008
News

Where Are They Now?

Glauber As the nation’s financial crisis unfolded in late September, Bob Glauber (DBA ’65) and his wife were exploring the old Silk Road in remote Central Asia. But that didn’t deter intrepid reporters from trying to track him down for... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

02 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

George C. Lodge

the new Dean, George P. Baker. He then turned his energies to teaching and launching the Central American Institute of Business Administration (INCAE), a project driven by the missionary idealism of the time. Lodge solicited support from... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

March 2023 (Revised May 2023)
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Tribal Councils Investment Group of Manitoba Ltd.

By: David L. Ager

In the Fall of 2014, Heather Berthelette, the recently appointed COO of Tribal Councils Investment Group of Manitoba Ltd. (TCIG), was preparing a recommendation to the Board of Directors about whether to dissolve the company and return any remaining funds to the seven... View Details

Keywords: Indigenous Communities; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Social Enterprise; Economic Growth; Investment Banking; Canada

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21 Feb 2012
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First Look: Feb. 21

information is a central determinant of a firm's demand function, even for purchases as large as college attendance. When Do User Innovators Start Firms? A Theory of User Entrepreneurship Authors:Sonali Shah and Mary Tripsas... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 Oct 2016
Research & Ideas

Quantitative Easing Didn’t Ease the Housing Crisis for the Neediest

Another tool to stimulate a distressed economy has made its way into the playbooks of central banks across the world. With quantitative easing, known as QE for short, a central... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Nabihah Sachedina

program director of the London Health Commission, an independent review panel backed by the city's mayor, to "look at care in the capital, and how to improve the health of Londoners." "It broadened my perspective,"... View Details

18 Apr 2012
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Who Controls Water?

over the next 40 years. “The basic problem from the farmers' point of view is that the water is in the wrong place at the wrong time.” The 2009 case "Woolf Farming & Processing" illustrates many of these challenges through the eyes of Stuart Wolf, a View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Agriculture & Agribusiness

02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2

will correspond to the technical patterns of dependency in the system under development. Thus the hypothesis predicts that developers with few or no organizational linkages will design independent system components, while developers with... View Details