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- 01 Jun 2012
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Good as Our Word
For most of the 20th century, three bond ratings agencies—Moody’s, Fitch, and Standard & Poor’s—controlled 97 percent of the credit ratings market. The status quo was...
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- 13 May 2010
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How to keep politics out of rating agency reform
- 27 Aug 2016
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Fed should keep trillions in bonds to provide stability: paper
- 11 Feb 2020
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The Skinny On The Ongoing Morningstar Ratings Squabble
- 12 Nov 2014
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Whalen: Dow Should Give Money Back to Shareholders
- 01 Mar 2024
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In Harmony
States from Seoul at age 12 and returns to his home country in his late 20s, MBA in hand, to help underwrite the sovereign bond offering that will save South Korea from financial ruin. It’s a novel of many elements, somehow managing to...
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- 04 Aug 2010
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A Lonely Crusader
municipal bond insurer, MBIA, is the subject of a new book, Confidence Game. MBIA’s stellar financial performance and rock-solid triple-A rating masked the firm’s growing fragility as it ventured deeper and...
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- 01 Sep 2023
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Solving for Z
With nearly 20 years of experience as a senior human resources executive, Matthew Breitfelder (MBA 2002) has seen a lot of change in the corporate talent space. But what’s happening now looks like a tectonic generational shift. From his perch as global head of human...
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- 11 Mar 2024
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In Harmony
inhabitants of Seoul, a sprawling metropolis packed with boutiques, nightclubs, and skyscrapers. Kim left Korea in 1974, at age 11. Educated in the United States, he returned as COO of Asia-Pacific investment banking at Salomon Smith Barney and in 1998 helped...
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- 12 Nov 2021
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Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
not-for-profits for environmental science, law, economics, innovation, and advocacy increase at far greater than historical rates. Capital for new clean tech ventures has also increased at a rate commensurate with the resulting needs. To...
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- 01 Sep 2024
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Next Level
In 2017, Sarah Bond’s boss, Phil Spencer, the head of Xbox Gaming, warned her that working in the industry would be very difficult. Not just for the usual reasons that corporate America can be tough, but also because, as a Black woman in gaming—an industry with a...
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- 01 Mar 2012
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Social Investing Pioneers
principal and a rate of return with a portion of the savings. If the predefined social outcomes are not met, the government owes nothing. “What the social impact bond does is enable a social organization to...
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- 01 Dec 2009
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An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
confidence in credit rating agencies? The first thing Congress did in 2006 was to boost competition. We now have nine approved rating agencies instead of three. However, if you are a View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
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Ideas
universalities in the decisions that founders faced. He also saw that the “fundamental implications of those decisions were getting the start-ups into trouble down the road.” More Case Study: Good as Our Word For most of the 20th century, three View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
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Just Keep Our Money
idea of “paying themselves first” by precommitting a portion of their refund to savings. U.S. savings bonds hold particular appeal among low- and middle-income families. Savings rates at tax-preparation...
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- 01 Mar 2003
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Fighting Back from a Knockout
bit of tarnish. Thanks to years of mismanagement by the administration he was voted to replace, Cranston’s bond rating was reduced to B, the lowest of any municipality in America. In an opinion piece in the...
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- 01 Dec 2002
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Mary Callahan Erdoes
questions early and often. Are bonds a good bet for those who want to reduce their reliance on equities? I have a lot of sympathy for those who are just getting into bonds now, but I still believe they...
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Deborah Blagg
- 24 Apr 2014
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From venture capitalist to 'compassionate capitalist'
through social impact bonds. “Social impact bonds enable a social organization to raise capital for preventive action, to establish a track record of social performance and to be paid for that social performance at a View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
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Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
knowledge that the industry today bears little resemblance to the industry of the late 1980s. In fact, real estate now is widely viewed as a new asset class that competes with stocks and bonds for investment capital. It earned that...
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- 04 Nov 2014
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Fundación México en Harvard Celebrates 25 Years
Fundación with a first-of-its-kind transaction, allowing to purchase Mexican bonds in the market below face value and then redeem the bonds immediately at face value. The transaction almost doubled the $2.6...
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April White