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- 17 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Reserve Bank Governor Discusses India’s Financial Opportunities
And new road construction is promising. "Increasingly, rural areas are becoming more and more central to growth," he said. "Build a road into a village and increasingly that road becomes connected to the Indian economy." Business View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 15 Aug 2007
- Op-Ed
3 Steps to Reduce Financial System Risk
best equipped to handle such a complex task. Especially when compared with bank regulators and boards, bodies overseeing insurance companies and pension funds have had limited exposure to the structured products that increasingly populate... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
An Economy Undermined
that maximizing profits is wrong, or that self-interest is morally repugnant. But things got out of hand. Consider, for example, the case of Wriston, who was really the father of financialization. As a top executive and later head of Citibank, he had been circumventing... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Alumni Are Integral to HBS
during HBS’s four-day Wintersession, and will be offered again in 2019. Through case discussions and interactions with 15 alumni guest speakers, most of whom traveled from Africa, students explored multinationals, regulation and... View Details
- 17 Aug 2022
- News
To Serve and Protect the Markets
really hard to earn and to keep the public’s trust.” Beyond regulating the region’s financial industry, Jones and her team are engaged with educating the public to increase financial literacy. They do this with online resources,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
of telemedicine. At MGH these virtual visits skyrocketed, allowing patients and doctors to reduce the risk of spreading the virus. How did that change come about so suddenly, after years of existing on the fringes? Robert Huckman: What we’ve seen is at least a... View Details
- 10 Nov 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
Research News and Tips: Innovating Across Time Zones
informal deadlines are associated with significantly more adverse effects, including more hospitalizations, life-threatening incidents, and deaths—particularly, drugs most rushed through the approval process." What's going on here? The patterns are "consistent with a... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2002
- Op-Ed
A Cure for Enron-Style Audit Failures
If companies and regulators are ever to learn from the collapse of Enron—and prevent similar corporate debacles in the future—they must look more closely at the relationship between auditors, managers and the company audit committee. The... View Details
- 13 Dec 2018
- Blog Post
Working at the Intersection of Business and Environment
likely to be affected by climate change or related regulation and recommend steps it should take to address related risks while simultaneously seizing emerging opportunities for investment or innovation. On the engagement front, BEI... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Lisa Churchville (MBA 1979)
hand, some technologies have come and gone: Witness the VHS tape, which killed the Beta format, only to succumb to the DVD. And I would never have guessed that managing in a regulated environment and process engineering would be so... View Details
- Profile
Hiroshi Mikitani
richest person in Japan. His skills as an entrepreneur became legend in his home country and around the world. Given the challenges entrepreneurs face in Japan—a dearth of venture capital, daunting government regulations and the... View Details
- 06 Sep 2004
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Prepare for a World Without Cheap Oil?
consumption. As John Friedery put it, "I believe that markets will regulate consumption ...." Suman Das opines that "The world is a very resilient place." "Relatively minor lifestyle changes can lead to huge... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 08 Apr 2011
- Research & Ideas
Will the Japan Disaster Remake the Landscape for Green Energy in Asia?
comprehensive set of policies and regulations in place and the climate for investment is favorable." The flip side of that coin is that in some countries the government exerts such a large influence on the energy sector that it can... View Details
- 14 Feb 2019
- News
Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change
need new technology, Perry said—we need to apply capitalism and government regulation to these problems to provide incentives to farmers or convince consumers they should pay for this change either through higher prices or by providing... View Details
- 05 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 5
global supply chains, but little is known about the factors that predict when supplier factories will comply with them. Regulation and governance scholarship suggests that factories' compliance with global labor standards depends on the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2017
- Research & Ideas
Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency
different needs from small business. Small businesses have a more difficult time accessing capital, providing health care to their employees, navigating complex regulations at every level of government, and much more. His promises to cut... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
Publications August 2013 Modernizing Insurance Regulation Comparative Regulation of Market Intermediaries: Insights from the Indian Life Insurance Market By: Anagol, Santosh, Shawn A. Cole, and Shayak... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
clubby," says the native New Yorker and parent of two with HBS classmate Nicolas Bornozis. "Between changes in regulation and changes in technology, it's been completely revolutionized since I left HBS." Now at Bloomberg, Konstance's... View Details
- Profile
Thomas Grenier
yourself." The program has also opened up cultural perspectives. Thomas says, "In classes, we talk a great deal about the European emphasis on government regulation and the American belief in free trade. But the United States is... View Details
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Patch Work
The week before the November 2024 US elections was like so many that came before at Winning Connections, with John Jameson (MBA 1991) padding around his firm’s Capitol Hill town house in athletic shorts, trying to demonstrate that the telephone still has a role to play... View Details