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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
financial institutions are too big to fail? There are two valid reasons for bailing out a financial institution. First is to protect the system for processing payments, like checks, because that system is critical to the operation of the...
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- 01 Jun 2011
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What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
Scharfstein: “Whenever you mix government guarantees with private, for-profit entities, those private entities put the government at risk.” Reforming the U.S. housing finance system remains perhaps the largest piece of unfinished business...
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- 11 May 2016
- News
World Bank Vice President and Treasurer: Negative Rates Not the Answer
markets and her zero tolerance for improper acts earned her the nickname "Iron Lady." The reform efforts she champions have been hugely successful, as the country’s stock market has almost tripled in size. A vibrant domestic fixed-income...
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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
The Long View
strategic research questions in four main areas: government and markets, institutions of democracy, economic inequality, and national security. Does the organization contribute to policymaking? Our primary goal is to support scholars in...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Rethinking the MBA
David Garvin and research associate Patrick Cullen. The title isn’t just a rhetorical flourish. Deans and executives alike take issue with what and how students are taught, revealing a number of shortcomings that the authors argue point the way to a View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
New Awards Recognize Teaching Excellence
Lecturer and Senior Researcher Stacey Childress for her Entrepreneurship in Education Reform course Senior Lecturer Stephen Kaufman for his Building and Sustaining a Successful Enterprise course Professor Rakesh Khurana for his Management...
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- 31 Mar 2017
- News
Turning Teachers into Leaders
achievement gap, to improve outcomes for students, particularly those of low-income neighborhoods and families, so they have a better chance of life and career success. We work towards that mission by helping state agencies of education, public school districts, View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
been addressed, investors return to the markets, and the cycle continues. In light of this poor regulatory track record, we believe government-mandated reforms and more regulation alone cannot solve the current crisis of corporate...
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- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
learning to ask the right questions and learning to understand yourself. Political Standards: Corporate Interest, Ideology, and Leadership in the Shaping of Accounting Rules for the Market Economy by Karthik Ramanna (Univ. of Chicago Press) Some View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
and, as he puts it, "get reality on the table." Since 1996, as a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution and, currently, as a senior fellow at the Center for International Policy in Washington, D.C., Baker has conducted research on and...
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- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Lesson Plans
honest." —Michael Horn (MBA 2006) Education Executive Director, The Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, San Mateo, California Carl Christopher (MBA 2006) Director of School Operations, Partnership for LA Schools...
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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Eileen M. Rudden
unless it saves a lot of money, just doesn't cut it. Pro bono work I'm on the board of Lesley University, which educates more teachers than any other institution in the United States, and I'm about to join the board of Brown. I really...
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- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Student Conferences, at a Glance
Bhusri, general partner, Greylock “After 9/11, do we want or need an ID card? From a technology stand-point, that’s a no-brainer. We need to get our act together first on policy and cultural issues.” — Mark Cleverley, senior consultant, IBM’s View Details
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964
systems and glitches galore. But given his extensive experience helping international corporate clients solve IT and management problems, he was in a perfect position to help. "I was attracted by the challenge of turning around a huge View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Books
of each affected the actions of others, culminating in the “mass hysteria” (another chapter title) leading to the crash. Buy, Lie, and Sell High provides specific suggestions for reforms to the regulation process in the United States that...
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Nancy O. Perry
- 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 Dec 1997
- News
Banking on HBS
Stanford Business School, INSEAD in France, IESE in Spain, and Harvard's Kennedy School of Government. "EDP has helped create a working relationship between institutions with a truly global point of view," says Clark. "The Bank and the...
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Garry Emmons
- 18 Aug 2014
- News
Closing the Education Gap
Anne Dias Griffin (MBA 1997) “Everyone deserves a fair start regardless of their zip code,” says Anne Dias Griffin (MBA 1997). Reforming that start is what motivates her. “The effects of income disparity start early in our society, and...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
A Finger on the Pulse of the Financial System
to meet with BFFS faculty to promote the productive exchange of ideas. “We began by mobilizing Harvard research around the realities of how markets, individuals, and institutions behave ,” says Greenwood. “Ultimately though, we want the...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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Faculty Books
Business Press) Professors Khanna and Palepu argue that the main exploitable characteristic of emerging markets is the lack of institutions (credit-card systems, intellectualproperty adjudication, data research firms) that facilitate...
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