Financial Systems - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2017
News

@Soldiers Field

Understanding how the brain’s cognitive system relates to social and economic phenomena—including financial markets—was the focus of an April workshop on Belief Formation and Prediction, sponsored by the... View Details

22 Sep 2009
News

The Case for Regulatory Reform

This is week when the Wall Street chickens come home to roost. In the wake of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, the Obama administration has sent Congress a package of regulatory reforms aimed, in large part, at... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Government

03 Nov 2003
What Do You Think?

Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency?

Summing Up Basic conclusions that can be drawn from responses to this month's column are that it may or may not be useful to try to legislate accounting transparency. But such efforts address symptoms, not causes, of behaviors leading to purposely misleading View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

01 Dec 2000
News

Latin America's Decade

benefited from investor interest in the Internet in Latin America. Through two rounds of funding, they have secured $60 million from foreign investors. Says Oxenford, "In our sector, U.S. financial insti-tutions have been fairly active,... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Latin America; research; infrastructure; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments

04 Apr 2011
Research & Ideas

Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon

that the system isn't set up to incentivize health care workers to do that. "The reason it's never done is that nobody gets paid to do it .there's no incentive to do anything," Cutler said. Services Not Emphasized In terms of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

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BiGS Fellows | Institute for Business in Global Society

nation, Ray plans to advance his research how businesses and other organizations respond to racial disparities, focusing on individual and systemic responses. His work bridges social science with practical recommendations for designing... View Details

23 Dec 2002
Research & Ideas

Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard

financial and non-financial measurements in four perspectives: financial, customer, internal process, and learning and growth. The approach quickly evolved into a new system for describing and managing... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

12 Nov 2014
Op-Ed

A Challenge to the New Congress: Pass Housing Finance Reform

those government guarantees, private financial institutions, recalling the burst housing bubble, would not assume the long term risks associated with these mortgages. (If the private investors were willing to take these risks, they would... View Details

Keywords: by Nicolas Retsinas & Rob Couch; Construction; Real Estate

15 Sep 2016
News

US Competitiveness Report Sees ‘A Nation Divided’

political system risks economic competitiveness, study finds (Financial Times) Harvard Gives the US an ‘F’ (Fortune) US Competitiveness Report Sees "A Nation Divided" (Harvard Gazette) View Details

June 2010
Teaching Note

Sheikh Mohammed and the Making of "Dubai, Inc." (TN)

By: Anthony Mayo and Johnathan Cromwell

Teaching Note for 410063. View Details

Keywords: Balance and Stability; Growth and Development; Identity; Government and Politics; Infrastructure; Financial Crisis; Labor; Economic Systems; Culture; Managerial Roles; Local Range; Dubai

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2022
Working Paper

Distributional Consequences of Monetary Policy Across Races: Evidence from the U.S. Credit Register

By: Laura Alfaro, Ester Faia and Camelia Minoiu

We examine the consequences of monetary policy on racial disparities, focusing on the role of bank lending to firms through collateral and selection channels. Leveraging comprehensive loan-level data from the U.S. credit register (Y-14Q) of the Federal Reserve, we show... View Details

Keywords: Monetary Policy Transmission; Inequity; Credit Registry; Wealth; Collateral Channel; Selection; Racial Disparity; Racial Inequality; Equality and Inequality; Banks and Banking; Credit; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Banking Industry; United States

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01 May 2013
News

Sid Yog, MBA 2004

measure, if I look at my life over the last nine years, I see that the relationship to HBS is always present, directly or indirectly. I founded my company with a professor from HBS; half of my investors have a relationship with HBS. This support View Details

25 Jun 2013
First Look

First Look: June 25

controlled the allocation of financial resources into two new varieties of state capitalism: Leviathan as a majority and as a minority investor. In this book we study the implications of such transformation using detailed data from Brazil... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

11 Feb 2022
Blog Post

Short Intensive Program (SIP): Opportunities in the Plant-Based Economy

from vegan Olympian Seba Johnson to prominent documentary director of Game Changers, Louie Psihoyos. What made you decide to take this SIP? Monika: I’m very passionate about food system sustainability and the plant-based economy is a key... View Details

10 Aug 2010
First Look

First Look: August 10

SheenHarvard Business School Case 210-058 After booming for more than five years, the global shipping (maritime) industry experienced a dramatic crash in late 2008 as the global financial system froze and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 May 2016
News

Can Brian Shortsleeve Fix the MBTA’s Budget Woes?

officials and transit advocates. Shortsleeve said his goal is to balance the agency’s books for the first time in 15 years, even if that means taking on sacred cows. He said any savings will be reinvested in the system to make it run more... View Details

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IT Strategy: Building a Smarter, Scalable Future in the Cloud | Information Technology

technologies and offerings with the broader HBS IT strategy, supporting operational efficiency, cross-team collaboration, and compliance. FinOps Tool Implementation: A new Cloud Financial Operations tool will be implemented to support... View Details

Student-Profile

Olivia Zhao

health has such a universal reach in their life. If you can improve the system in some way then you can have a lot of impact. I just knew I would find interesting problems by focusing my research on health care policy.” To learn more... View Details

Fast Answer

Sustainability in Energy Industry

financial regulators This report identifies so many important recommendations to address the systemic risk that the climate crisis presents. Global Energy Review 2020 The impacts of the Covid-19 crisis on... View Details

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Strategy Execution - Course Catalog

systems and structures, we will teach you how to make the tough choices needed to ensure successful strategy execution. The course is divided into seven modules: Allocating resources to customers: You will learn how to choose a primary... View Details

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