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- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
compensation is a sign of poor governance. It also discusses the union's "Say on Pay" proposals that sought to allow shareholders an advisory vote on executive compensation. Finally, the case provides details on the rise of Countrywide Financial, its...
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Martha Lagace
- 28 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 28
are deciding whether to refinance their home less than two years after taking out an initial mortgage and a subsequent home equity line of credit. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/209043-PDF-ENG How Institutional...
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business with Structured Finance
become all too clear. The pooling and repackaging of economic assets such as loans, bonds, and mortgages resulted in enormous yields for many investors—until, one day, they didn't. "The Economics of Structured Finance," a...
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- October 2008 (Revised October 2009)
- Case
New Century Financial Corporation
By: Krishna G. Palepu, Suraj Srinivasan and Aldo Sesia
After years of rapid growth and stock price appreciation, New Century Financial Corporation, one of the largest subprime loan originators in the U.S., reported accounting problems in early 2007. The resulting liquidity crisis forced the company to file for Chapter 11...
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Accounting Audits;
Financial Reporting;
Business Model;
Financial Crisis;
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
Mortgages;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Palepu, Krishna G., Suraj Srinivasan, and Aldo Sesia. "New Century Financial Corporation." Harvard Business School Case 109-034, October 2008. (Revised October 2009.)
- 2010
- Working Paper
A Brief Postwar History of U.S. Consumer Finance
By: Andrea Ryan, Gunnar Trumbull and Peter Tufano
This article describes the consumer finance sector in the US since World War II. We first define the sector in terms of the functions delivered by firms (payments, savings/investing, borrowing, managing risk, and providing advice.) We provide time series evidence on...
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Decision Choices and Conditions;
Borrowing and Debt;
Mortgages;
Personal Finance;
Business History;
Innovation and Invention;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Ryan, Andrea, Gunnar Trumbull, and Peter Tufano. "A Brief Postwar History of U.S. Consumer Finance." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 11-058, December 2010.
- 01 Mar 2010
- Op-Ed
A Golden Opportunity for Ford and GM
too few consumers. Mulally's first act was to borrow $23.5 billion by mortgaging the entire company to give Ford the runway necessary to retool its aging lineup. Mulally moved fast, trimming unpopular lines, cutting management layers, and...
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- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?
tax obligations. Q: You mentioned the dual-book system. Why are firms allowed to report their profits in two different ways to capital markets and tax authorities? A: It is a curious system. Imagine if you were allowed to report income to the IRS in one way and on your...
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by Ann Cullen
- Article
Network Effects in the Governance of Strategic Alliances
We argue that the stock of prior alliances between participants in the biotechnology sector forms a network that serves as a governance mechanism in interfirm transactions. To test how this network substitutes for other governance mechanisms, we examine how equity...
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Network Effects;
Governance;
Strategy;
Alliances;
Stocks;
Market Transactions;
Equity;
Mortgages;
Biotechnology Industry
Robinson, David, and Toby E. Stuart. "Network Effects in the Governance of Strategic Alliances." Journal of Law, Economics & Organization 23, no. 1 (April 2007): 242–273.
- June 2011
- Teaching Note
Freddie Mac: Managing in Conservatorship (TN)
By: Robert Steven Kaplan
Teaching Note for 411048.
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- 03 Oct 2013
- Research & Ideas
Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?
share of mortgages through Fannie Mae, Freddie Mac, and the Federal Housing Administration, and the Federal Reserve buys most of the securities guaranteed by these entities. Congress has not yet agreed on a system with a better balance of...
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- 21 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 21
Srinivasan, and Ian CornellHarvard Business School Case 113-002 The case introduces students to the subprime mortgage industry and helps to understand the business model and how economics transactions of subprime View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 15, 2007
the industry and dominated it for nearly 20 years, the well-respected company faces a bevy of new entrants from the banking, mortgage finance, and insurance sectors. In particular, management must decide how to respond to an aggressive...
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Martha Lagace
- 04 Oct 2016
- First Look
October 4, 2016
depends on the assets purchased and the degree of segmentation in the market. For example, QE1, which involved significant purchases of GSE-guaranteed mortgages, increased GSE-eligible mortgage originations significantly more than the...
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- 17 May 2010
- Research & Ideas
What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection
regulations should focus on. Repressing too much would be a problem. Obviously, Brazilian bankers at the turn of the 20th century were relatively conservative. They had mortgages on their balance sheets, but monitored them closely. At the...
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- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
of this ratchet effect, we simulate the U.S. housing market with and without equity extractions, and estimate the losses absorbed by mortgage lenders by valuing the embedded put-option in non-recourse mortgages. Our simulations generate...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
U.S. Home Mortgages Author:Robert C. Pozen Publication:Chap. 3 in The Future of Housing Finance, 26-65. Brookings Institution Press, 2011 Abstract This chapter analyzes the various forms of federal programs to support home mortgages-both...
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Sean Silverthorne
- April 2010
- Case
The Credit Crisis of 2008: An Overview
By: V.G. Narayanan, Fabrizio Ferri and Lisa Brem
This case examines the causes and consequences of the credit crisis of 2008 from a national and global perspective and explores the actions taken and proposed by the U.S. and European governments.
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Credit;
Financial Crisis;
Crisis Management;
Risk Management;
Globalized Economies and Regions;
Global Strategy;
Mortgages;
Performance Effectiveness;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Narayanan, V.G., Fabrizio Ferri, and Lisa Brem. "The Credit Crisis of 2008: An Overview." Harvard Business School Case 110-048, April 2010.
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
How Bank of America Turned Branches into Service-Development Laboratories
experiment required the involvement of a specialist—a mortgage underwriter, say—the team would enlist an actual specialist from the bank's staff and have him or her perform the required task. By the time an experiment was rolled out in...
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- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
begin this inquiry? Michael Porter: There was a clear feeling at Harvard Business School that something different was happening in the US economy—this was not just a deep recession caused by the housing mortgage crisis and so forth. The...
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Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 07 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 7, 2008
Financially Constrained Authors:Shawn A. Cole, Peter Tufano, and John Thompson Publication:Chap. 2 in Borrowing to Live: Consumer and Mortgage Credit Revisited, 65-91. Washington: Brookings Institution Press, 2008 Abstract In this paper,...
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Martha Lagace