Financial System - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Dec 2021
News

Monaco's Digital Transformation

size is its strength.” The substantial financial resources at Monaco’s disposal are also an advantage, enabling major investments in technology and the infrastructure to support it. In 2019, the country had the second highest GDP per... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Mar 2018
News

Realizing The Potential Of One Harvard

curriculum covers topics ranging from programming and data science systems to digital strategy and innovation to data-driven marketing. The course content includes both asynchronous learning sessions and sessions taught by Harvard faculty... View Details

25 Apr 2018
Blog Post

Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree

at Schulze Global Investments in Ethiopia, the country’s first private equity fund. I specifically wanted to see, in a country with a banking system off-limits to foreign investment and where there are no local capital markets, if foreign... View Details

Keywords: Nonprofit / Government

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Early Years at HBS - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

financial world. "You gave, as needed, advice, encouragement, criticism. Always you have urged us into original and constructive thinking upon difficult problems." HBS students to Georges F. Doriot, quoted in a letter from Georges F.... View Details

23 Feb 2011
First Look

First Look: Feb. 23

unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link: http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/title~db=all~content=t927286744 Political Instability: Effects on Financial Development, Roots in the Severity of Economic Inequality Authors:Mark J. Roe and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 1, 2008

of potential funding sources to solve social problems, much of it stemming from an intergenerational transfer of wealth and new wealth from financial and high-tech entrepreneurs. Download the paper:... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

August 2001 (Revised October 2001)
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Shinsei Bank (D)

By: Michael Y. Yoshino and Perry Fagan

One year later, Yashiro and his management team can be proud of the young bank's first-year results, but face a set of difficult implementation issues. View Details

Keywords: Financial Reporting; Restructuring; Management Systems; Management Teams; Success; Banking Industry

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01 Sep 2011
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Alumni Book Briefs

loyalty) into a full-fledged management system that results in extraordinary financial and competitive results. They define the fundamental concept of Net Promoter; explain its connection to a company’s... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Mar 2004
News

Reforming Company Boards

Solutions for Better Corporate Governance (Bloomberg Press) emphasizes accountability, transparency, performance measurement, and a strong system of checks and balances in its practical approach to reform. Why did you write this book?... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Services

05 Feb 2008
First Look

First Look: February 5, 2008

clear differences in investor protections and financial development around the world today (La Porta et al., 1998, 1999 and passim). This paper examines the persistence of the effects of legal origins by examining new estimates of... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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LaToya Marc

"The more I thought about it, the more I wanted to do something about it." Learning to be a better leader LaToya shifted careers, leaping full time into the public-school system in Georgia where she taught middle-school math.... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services; Financial Services

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Value Judgments: Business Ethics Across Borders

much broader setting. "Students would ask me about the possibility of establishing a global system of business ethics," Paine says, "and whether cultural clashes of one degree or another were inevitable. I needed a... View Details

Keywords: by Judith A. Ross

28 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Shareholders Key to Corporate Reform

correct the underlying weaknesses. When it comes to corporate governance, for too long we have relied on the first approach. It's time to take a deeper look, see where the stressors in the system lie, and commit to structural reforms. In... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia A. Montgomery & Rhonda Kaufman

25 Feb 2020
News

Profits and Purpose

in my spare time, and we were trying to find our way. Right from the beginning, the question was: What is the role of business in the broader systemic conversation? My own work has always been focused on climate change, and if I have to... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

24 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

The FDA: What Will the Next 100 Years Bring?

state after an outbreak of illness. Approved the first generic versions of Coreg, a widely used medication for high blood pressure and chronic heart failure. Proposed new standards for formulating, testing, and labeling sunscreen drug products and established a UVA... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology; Consumer Products; Food & Beverage; Health

24 Apr 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

Harvard Business Review Managing Political Misfits By: Bermiss, Y. Sekou, and Rory McDonald Abstract—Not all employees agree with your politics. That's OK. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54406 forthcoming Management Science The ABCs... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 May 2019
News

A More Perfect Union

As wide and fractured as the partisan divide feels right now, the challenges to America’s underlying democratic systems cut deeper still: The productivity of Congress has declined steeply in the past 20 years. The country’s voting rate in... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; illustration by Dan Bejar

04 Jun 2020
Blog Post

What MBAs can do in Defense of Black Lives

Sign the MBA Oath. Created in the wake of the 2008 Financial Crisis, the MBA Oath is a pledge for business school graduates who aspire to be ethical managers and leaders. Consider joining the community of signatories today. Ask your alma... View Details

01 Apr 2025
Blog Post

Alumni in Climate Networking Series: Miami

Are you interested in connecting with other alumni leveraging their careers to confront climate change? BEI invites HBS Alumni to join our Alumni in Climate Networking Series for a chance to connect with local alumni to discuss ideas, trends, opportunities, and... View Details

01 Sep 2009
News

Faculty Books

and skilled people to accomplish what relief agencies could not: an information system and supply chain that managed the flow of relief supplies. IBM’s actions exemplify an emerging business idea: the vanguard company creating synergy... View Details

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

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