China's Financial System - Publications - Faculty & Research

27 Oct 2008
Lessons from the Classroom

Achieving Excellence in Nonprofits

a bit more tumultuous than usual, but what nonprofits need to do is what they always need to do: learn and adapt. Q: The issue of financial oversight for nonprofits seems to be facing increasing regulatory (Sarbanes-Oxley-like) and media... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

24 Apr 2014
News

A bold experiment in education

A former corporate financier with Boeing, Ben Kleban (MBA 2005) planned to open a charter school in New York after HBS, but in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, he was inspired to found New Orleans College Prep (NOCP). NOCP now operates... View Details

06 Aug 2020
News

Defining Flex Work

United Way, and Warner Music Group. Another client is Credigy, an Atlanta-based financial services firm with 170 employees. A Werk assessment at Credigy revealed that while the leadership believed they were running a flexible workplace,... View Details

March 2005 (Revised June 2005)
Case

Capital Controls in Chile in the 1990s (B)

By: Laura Alfaro, Rafael M. Di Tella and Ingrid Vogel

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Governance Controls; Financial Crisis; Foreign Direct Investment; Currency Exchange Rate; Inflation and Deflation; Demand and Consumers; Interest Rates; Capital; System; Central Banking; Chile

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Field Course: Private Equity Projects and Ecosystems: Company, Industry, Market and Transaction Research

trend and forecast coverage across 10 major commercial real estate sectors, 275+ markets, and 3,000+ submarkets. Includes market transactions and performance trends. FactSet
A comprehensive platform used to analyze financial data... View Details

31 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

You’re Wasting Your Employees! What You Can Do About It

That means that a first-class human-resources executive must be at the CEO's right hand. Eventually, traditional strategic-planning processes will need to be overhauled and the financially calibrated measurement and reward View Details

Keywords: by Christopher A. Bartlett & Sumantra Ghoshal

12 Jan 2016
First Look

January 12, 2016

medical devices after they are approved by the appropriate regulatory authorities. Historically, such surveillance was based on voluntary reports by medical practitioners, but with the widespread adoption of electronic medical records and comprehensive patient... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Tools & Services | Information Technology

centralize and streamline event planning, management, publishing, and more. Student Information Systems Explore the platforms that support key student activities like admissions, financial aid, and... View Details

08 Oct 2020
News

JPMorgan Chase Commits $30 Billion to Advance Racial Equity

America’s history,” Chairman and CEO Jamie Dimon (MBA 1982) said in a release. “We can do more and do better to break down systems that have propagated racism and widespread economic inequality, especially for Black and Latinx people.... View Details

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

New Paths to Success in Asia

with developing China's first all-fiber-optic broadband Internet infrastructure. "The region is rich with research opportunities," McFarlan notes. And the growing number of HBS faculty members who are studying companies... View Details

Keywords: by Alejandro Reyes & Deborah Blagg

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Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

Journal of Banking and Finance 19, nos. 3-4 (June 1995): 461-481. Merton, Robert C. "The Financial System and Economic Performance." Journal of Financial Services Research 4... View Details

13 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

Can AI Save Physicians from Burnout?

term. AI automations of clinical documentation offer significant benefits for physician productivity and well-being. However, to ensure AI does more good than harm, complementary changes to financial incentive View Details

Keywords: by Susanna Gallani, Lidia Moura, and Katie Sonnefeldt; Health

07 Oct 2002
Research & Ideas

What Leaders Need to Do To Restore Investor Confidence

to go outside them in terms of conduct or operations or strategy"; and also the belief systems, which don't simply set forth a list of Thou shalt nots, but which address what the organization positively stands for in terms of mission, purpose, and principle. A... View Details

Keywords: by Harvard Management Update

01 Oct 1999
News

Four Promoted to Full Professor

president of Ceramics Process Systems Corporation (CPS), a firm he cofounded with several MIT professors in 1984. A former Boston Consulting Group project manager, he was instrumental in founding the firm's manufacturing strategy... View Details

12 Oct 2006
First Look

First Look: October 12, 2006

Environmental Strengths, in contrast, do not accurately predict the outcomes. We discuss the implications of our findings for advocates and opponents of corporate social responsibility, as well as for studies relating social responsibility ratings with View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

September 1989 (Revised June 1993)
Case

Depreciation at Delta and Pan Am

By: William J. Bruns Jr.

Depreciation policies of Delta Air Lines and Pan Am Corp. are compared and contrasted against a summary of operating data from each airline. Questions with the case require projection of future depreciation on a new aircraft using the policies of each company. View Details

Keywords: Cost Accounting; Management Systems; Economic Growth; Policy; Cost; Financial Strategy; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Activity Based Costing and Management; Air Transportation Industry

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06 Jun 2005
Research & Ideas

Microsoft vs. Open Source: Who Will Win?

superior product, adding to the probability of success. However, OSS has disadvantages too. Most importantly, it comes from behind in terms of market share (installed base). Because the value of an operating system depends critically on... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Technology

08 Apr 2009
Research & Ideas

Clayton Christensen on Disrupting Health Care

reactor" in accelerating the rise in health-care costs. Why is this system such a problem? A: By some estimates, 50 percent of all health care is driven by physician and hospital supply, not by patients' needs. Today's doctors work in a... View Details

Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Health

01 Sep 2011
News

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

12 Aug 2002
Op-Ed

Using Big Business to Fight Poverty

conflict—that could be revived with an influx of financial resources, and that would ensure fair distribution of the fruits of the resulting growth. Today the poorest regions of the world benefit from no such infrastructure. And what... View Details

Keywords: by George C. Lodge

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