Central Bank Independence - Publications - Faculty & Research

January 2009
Supplement

The Tip of the Iceberg: JP Morgan Chase and Bear Stearns (B1)

By: Clayton S. Rose, Daniel Baird Bergstresser and David Lane

Bear Stearns & Co burned through nearly all of its $18 billion in cash reserves during the week of March 10, 2008, and an unprecedented provision of liquidity support from the Federal Reserve on Friday March 13 was insufficient to reverse the decline in Bear's... View Details

Keywords: Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Capital; Financial Liquidity; Banks and Banking; Governance; Crisis Management; Failure; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Balance and Stability; Valuation; New York (state, US)

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Purchase

24 Jan 2012
First Look

First Look: Jan. 24

firms, is to adapt appropriately to market and institutional demands. Central to this challenge are decisions about how best to organize the expertise they marshal to compete. Expertise is organized at two levels: at a micro level through... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 16

measurement and analytics in translating TD-Canada Trust's service model of "comfortable banking" into operational terms. In 2000, in a banking market where consumers and regulators were typically hostile to mergers and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2006
News

MBA vs. MBA

Chamber of Commerce and the National Federation of Independent Business. “Chet Edwards has not always had a great record with us on pro-enterprise votes,” notes Pete Hovel, regional director of congressional and public affairs in the U.S.... View Details

Keywords: Kathryn Jones; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

20 Sep 2021
Research & Ideas

How Much Is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.

Uber and Lyft to classify their drivers as employees, rather than independent contractors, since driving is central to their work. Drivers would get minimum wage, overtime, paid sick leave, and unemployment... View Details

Keywords: by Lane Lambert; Technology

18 Oct 2021
Blog Post

How Much is Freedom Worth? For Gig Workers, a Lot.

Uber and Lyft to classify their drivers as employees, rather than independent contractors, since driving is central to their work. Drivers would get minimum wage, overtime, paid sick leave, and unemployment... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Products

21 May 2024
Blog Post

IFC India: From Trash to Treasure: Inside a Waste Management Site in Mumbai

amounts of recyclable plastic available in that huge stockpile is an operational marathon (1). Dalmia is doing this with a hub and spoke model, consisting of centralized sorting facilities (hubs) connected to various recycling facilities... View Details

28 Nov 2018
Blog Post

Making the Switch from Finance to Fitness

“Fitness is your hobby. Finance is your career.” - Words so false that they changed my life. Finance After graduating from Yale University, I joined the fast-paced world of Foreign Exchange (FX) at a large US-based investment bank in New... View Details

Keywords: Entertainment / Media / Sports

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Secondary Resources

Mortgage Debt on Homes Other Than Farm Homes at the Fourteenth Census, 1920 (Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1923). Ham, Arthur H. A Credit Union Primer; an Elementary Treatise on Cooperative Banking (New York City: Division... View Details

26 Oct 2009
Lessons from the Classroom

The New Deal: Negotiauctions

course called Deal Setup, Design & Implementation, first at the Law School and then across HLS and HBS with my HBS colleague Jim Sebenius. In each class, we studied a different real-world deal in considerable detail, and brought in a practitioner who was View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

27 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments

$38 trillion. Once again, the inexorable shift in demographics, combined with high and increasing healthcare costs, will result in a widening gap between tax intake and payment outflow for Medicare. On another front, the government is also on the hook for insuring... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

30 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Germany’s Pioneering Corporate Managers

intervened ruthlessly (and sometimes unfairly) when he saw profits suffer. After thirty years, when his little seventy-person firm became one of the largest industrial operations and employers in Germany, he again established a central... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2006
News

The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could

friend persuaded him to apply to HBS, where he arrived in the fall of 1966, newly married and with a razor-thin bank account. “When the oilman came to the door with the bill after filling the tank, we’d hide in the closet,” he recalls.... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

15 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 15, 2008

Publication:American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract The central insight of asset pricing is that a security's value depends on both its distribution of payoffs across economic states and state prices. In fixed-income markets, many... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

Teaching Interest

Overview

By: V.G. Narayanan

I teach accounting to MBA students, executives, and Harvard Extension School students. I teach topics from both financial and managerial accounting. I also train professors in teaching by the case method. View Details

Keywords: Financial Accounting; Management Accounting; Case Method Teaching; Corporate Governance; Customer Relationship Management; AI and Machine Learning; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; India; North America

22 Feb 2016
Research & Ideas

The ‘Mother of Fair Trade’ was an Unabashed Price Protectionist

pharmacists did, their cut-rate prices on popular brand-name packaged goods posed a major threat to mom-and-pop businesses like Gleason’s. So she and other traditional retailers began arguing that pineboards practiced predatory pricing, selling products below cost in... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail; Health; Legal Services

23 Nov 1999
Research & Ideas

The Future of the Venture Capital Cycle

familiarity with the venture capital process has itself made the long-term prospects for venture investment more attractive than they have ever been before, in this country or abroad. A corollary to this argument is perhaps even more important. These changes appear not... View Details

Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner; Financial Services

02 Feb 2012
Op-Ed

Once a Castle, Home is Now a Debtors’ Prison

textbooks. First, lenders can recognize the wisdom of short sales, accepting less than the face value of the mortgage. Currently banks do accept short sales but only after protracted negotiations. One advice columnist recently advised... View Details

Keywords: by Nicolas P. Retsinas; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate

04 Feb 2014
First Look

First Look: February 4

approaches. This can explain why the Fed stopped basing monetary policy on the quality of new bank loans, why it stopped being willing to cause recessions to deal with inflation, and why it was temporarily unwilling to maintain stable... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne

01 Jun 1996
News

1996 Global Alumni Conference Probes "Information Revolution"

ago, how central concepts such as interconnectivity and the Internet would be by the time we gathered here in 1996." "Nobody on the organizing committee had any idea, when the planning for this conference began years ago, how View Details

Keywords: Daniel Penrice

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