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Creating the Modern Financial System - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Creating the Modern Financial System Course Number 1160 Professor David Moss Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits 27 Sessions (with some reserved for paper preparation), 2-hour class sessions... View Details

01 Sep 2007
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Letters to the Editor

Rosabeth Moss Kanter, would reduce the discussion to a nonproductive, ideological exercise when she observed, “We’ve had 25 years of right-wing ideology saying that the only way to get elected is to run against government.” But I... View Details

Keywords: Educational Services

01 Jun 2009
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Too Big To Fail

Illustration by David Plunkert Here’s a really scary thought. Now that the federal government has poured hundreds of billions of dollars into saving financial institutions deemed “too big to fail,” hasn’t it implicitly guaranteed similar... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance

01 Mar 2010
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Faculty Books

stakeholders detailed results and improve the level of dialogue and engagement with them. Senior Lecturer Eccles and his coauthor show how integrated reporting adds value to a company and contributes to a sustainable society. New Perspectives on Regulation edited by... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management

01 Jun 2002
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Faculty Debates Lessons from Enron's Collapse

the company's collapse — faculty members spoke off the record. There were four sessions: “Was the Failure of Enron the Result of a Flawed Strategy?,” led by Professors Joseph Bower, David Garvin, and Michael Roberto; “Why Did Investors... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Enron; faculty; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

13 Dec 2011
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Harvard Business School Launches US Competitiveness Project

Charnovitz, George Washington University; Stacey M. Childress, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; Mihir A. Desai, HBS; Daniel C. Esty, Connecticut Department of Energy and Environmental Protection and Yale Law School; Robin Greenwood, HBS; Rosabeth View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Apr 1999
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WSA Conference Focuses on Reaching Goals

Judy Haberkorn (111th AMP), president of Public and Operator Services at Bell Atlantic, to Pamela A. Thomas-Graham (MBA '88/JD '89), a partner at McKinsey & Company, to Joan Helpern, president and CEO of Joan & David Shoes, the conference... View Details

Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey

2020
Other Unpublished Work

The U.S. Secession Crisis as a Breakdown of Democracy

By: David Moss and Dean Grodzins

Keywords: United States

2013
Other Unpublished Work

Battle Over a Bank: Defining the Limits of Federal Power Under a New Constitution

By: David Moss and Marc Campasano

2013
Other Unpublished Work

Debt and Democracy: The New York Constitutional Convention of 1846

By: David Moss and Dean Grodzins

2013
Other Unpublished Work

Race, Justice, and the Jury System in Postbellum Virginia

By: David Moss and Dean Grodzins

2013
Other Unpublished Work

Leadership and Independence at the Federal Reserve

By: David Moss and Marc Campasano

June 2011
Case

Steering Monetary Policy Through Unprecedented Crises

By: David Moss and Cole Bolton

In early April 2008, economic conditions in Europe appeared to be deteriorating on almost all fronts: sales figures were falling, business and consumer confidence were slumping, forecasts for European growth were being revised downward, and inflation was rising. In... View Details

Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Financial Crisis; Inflation and Deflation; Financial Institutions; Interest Rates; Policy

January 2008 (Revised September 2009)
Case

Financing American Housing Construction in the Aftermath of War

By: David Moss and Cole Bolton

At the start of WWI, the United States faced a significant housing shortage. Public officials feared the spread of disease—and even communism—in the nation's cramped urban centers where vacancy rates held near zero and families often "doubled up" in single-housing... View Details

Keywords: Central Banking; Bonds; Mortgages; Government Legislation; Business History; Housing; Banking Industry; United States

2024
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The U.S. Secession Crisis as a Breakdown of Democracy

By: Dean Grodzins and David Moss

This chapter examines the U.S. secession crisis of 1860–1861 as a case of democratic breakdown. From December 1860 to early June 1861, eleven of the fifteen slaveholding states in the U.S. South declared secession from the Union. The trigger for the crisis was Abraham... View Details

Keywords: War; History; Political Elections; United States

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February 2016
Case

Debt and Democracy: The New York Constitutional Convention of 1846

By: David Moss and Dean Grodzins

On September 23, 1846, delegates to New York State's constitutional convention prepared to vote on a proposal that its principal proponent, Michael Hoffman, conceded would be “a serious change in our form of government.” The proposal would place tight restrictions on... View Details

Keywords: Sovereign Finance; Governance; Laws and Statutes; Government and Politics; History; New York (state, US)