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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
September 2008, just one of its ten non-executive directors had any recent banking experience. He had joined the board five months before Lehman went bust. The backgrounds of Lehman’s independent directors were hardly suited to overseeing a complicated View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 1
of capital within an economy. The theory predicts that GAAP's principal focus, as shaped by the demand for and supply of financial information, is on the use of the income statement and balance sheet for performance measurement and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match
you are an $8 billion health system and you have 2 percent more appointments scheduled, that’s $160 million of downstream revenue.” While the financial savings are significant, equally important—to both... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 26 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 26, 2008
decided to evaluate strategic alternatives due to financial difficulties. Parks Capital must now decide whether to acquire U.S. Retail, to fund ACCM so it acquires U.S. Retail, or to sit on the sidelines. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Q&A: Camille Tang Yeh of the Asia-Pacific Research Office
[see sidebar] further reflects the wide range of issues covered by our faculty. What can we learn from this region? The Asia Pacific, where 2,000 languages are spoken, is home to 60 percent of the world's population. The region's diverse economic, cultural, legal, and... View Details
- Web
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
- 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
Alfaro, Laura, Rafael M. Di Tella, and Ingrid Vogel. "Capital Controls in Chile in the 1990s (B)." Harvard Business School Case 705-032, March 2005. (Revised June 2005.)
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
eight major North American and European financial services companies as well as an international internet survey in collaboration with journals and organizations. The present paper gives an overview of the initial findings of 61... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
good results a factor in this scandal? The focus on the short term has been a chronic plague on our financial system for years. It's partly tied to the cadre of security analysts on Wall Street who are... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 09 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 9
Many organizations have implemented incident reporting systems to highlight actual and potential operational failures in order to encourage problem solving and prevent subsequent failures. Our study is among the first to develop and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
The U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It
When lawyers fare better than inventors and entrepreneurs where U.S. patents are concerned, you know injustice is being done. The current system makes patents easier to acquire, sure, but renders them less prestigious as well, and less... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Alumni Books
Finance and Government Intervention Crashed the Financial System by Kevin Dowd and Martin Hutchinson (MBA ’73) (Wiley) The authors show how modern finance combined with easy money threatened to cripple the... View Details
- 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
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Lesson from the Fall
opportunities for executives to reap enormous personal gains from gaming accounting and SEC rules. If Enron-type breakdowns are to be avoided in the future, corporate boards need to keep in mind seven propositions that collectively address the potentially perverse... View Details
- Web
Gender Backlash: Does Exposure to Female Labor Market Participation Fuel Gender Conservatism? - Blog: RGE Report
labor force contingent. But in recent years, waves of far-right beliefs systems have emerged from the margins and captured large segments of mainstream thought. In the United States and around the world, media geared toward both men and... View Details
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
Paul M. Healy, and Yang Gui Periodical:Journal of Financial Transformation (forthcoming) Abstract Since 1949 Lehman Brothers has used an investment committee to select the top ten recommendations made by its analysts each year. We examine... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
January 2017 Journal of Financial Economics The Unintended Consequences of the Zero Lower Bound Policy By: Di Maggio, Marco, and Marcin Kacperczyk Abstract—We study the impact of the zero lower bound interest rate policy on the industrial... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
underlying your strategy and analyze how it's implemented through your business processes and structures. Drawing on decades of research into performance management systems and organization design, Seven Strategy Questions is a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 17
lasting changes in the lives of people and their societies. Rather, some organizations would be better off measuring shorter-term outputs or individual outcomes. Funders such as foundations and impact investors are better positioned to measure View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne