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- 13 Dec 2011
- News
Carry It On
responsibility. That commitment is also part and parcel of his business success. As he told the HBS Bulletin on the occasion of his 25th Reunion, “There’s an interface between our business [Wainwright Bank & Trust Company] and my... View Details
- 06 Dec 2011
- Op-Ed
Greater Fiscal Integration Best Solution for Euro Crisis
unelected, "technocratic" national emergency governments. If after Greece, Portugal and Ireland, Italy were to fall into the debt spiral, it might be the domino piece that could bring down the entire European Monetary Union... View Details
Keywords: by Dante Roscini
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
truly multinational countries in Europe, where all religions and ethnicities can feel they belong. Macedonians can now travel visa free to all of Europe except for the UK and Ireland. People study English starting in primary school, so it is widely spoken here. We are... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
A Finger on the Pulse of the Financial System
scholars from HBS, Harvard Kennedy School, Harvard Law School, and the Department of Economics, the BFFS Project is led by Robin Greenwood, the George Gund Professor of Finance and Banking at HBS. “There has long been a significant... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Averting Crisis
A decade ago, the global economy nearly collapsed entirely, bringing down with it some of the biggest banks and the livelihoods of countless individuals in lost jobs, savings, and homes. When the next downturn comes, will we be any better... View Details
- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
intervene in the currency market. Finally, the Chinese central bank has room for further monetary stimulus; they can lower the reserve requirement for banks from the current 18... View Details
- 02 Jul 2015
- Op-Ed
The Future of the Greek Economy
out of the brinkmanship of the past weeks, but not after payments to the International Monetary Fund have been missed, and European funding has ended. These tactics have created high and unnecessary uncertainty that has brought the Greek... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
A Helping Hand
security and opportunities to give back to society. It brought to mind the words of his father, a World Bank economist and governor of the Federal Reserve System. Recalled Rice, “He wanted to change the world, and he thought he could do... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
It Happened on the Way to War: A Marine’s Path to Peace by Rye Barcott (MPA/MBA ’09) (Bloomsbury USA) Barcott relates how as a college student he lived in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya, for part of a summer, seeing poverty he’d never imagined. Wanting to help, he... View Details
- 02 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017
patent boosts a start-up’s subsequent growth and innovation by facilitating access to funding from VCs, banks, and public investors. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50292 Monetary Policy and Global... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Hope for Reform Dims
requirements — the cushion against losses — for all financial institutions creating a mechanism to deal with those institutions regarded as too big to fail Thain characterized the crisis as a classic bubble “fundamentally fueled by View Details
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
The Power of National Identity
Soviet states and Russia is the result of each state’s unique sense of national identity and historical relationship with Russia. The countries’ distinctive approaches to monetary policy and trade relations have placed them roughly in... View Details
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
dollars. This creates a direct connection between U.S. monetary policy and EME credit cycles. We estimate that over a typical U.S. monetary easing cycle, EME borrowers experience a 32-percentage-point... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
World Bank's Wolfensohn Highlights Challenges, Increased Role for Private Sector
fifty-year history, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund were the big guys on the block. We had the money. We were helping to reform a world after World War II and gradually mutated into an... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Professors Fox, Mace Remembered
In March, the School lost two of its most distinguished and loyal professors, Bertrand Fox and Myles Mace. The following profiles recall their contributions to HBS. Professor emeritus Bertrand Fox, an economist and investment banking... View Details
- 22 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 22, 2008
Working PapersThe 'Thin Film of Gold': Monetary Rules and Policy Credibility In Developing Countries Authors:Niall Ferguson and Moritz Schularick Abstract This paper asks whether developing countries can reap credibility gains from... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
behavior of the banking system (in terms of issuance) and the monetary authority (in terms of open market operations). Consistent with the model, the empirical evidence suggests that the shadow View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Charting 'Cheapflation': How Budget Brands Got So Pricey
of the costliest, according to an analysis of microdata from large retailers by Harvard Business School Professor Alberto Cavallo. In a forthcoming article in the Journal of Monetary Economics, Cavallo and coauthor Oleksiy Kryvtsov,... View Details
Keywords: by Ana Elena Azpúrua
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
the past to lower risk and instill consumer confidence. "From the founding of the republic until 1933, the United States experienced banking panics roughly every fifteen to twenty years," explains Moss. When the Great Depression struck,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
renovation. And although Fouraker had stopped the School’s runaway growth and shored up its finances, there were no guarantees that times would remain good, especially as the deep recession of 1980 set in. The new Dean would have to keep his eye on the View Details
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