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- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
from some additional equity (assuming incomes rise). And unlike paying rent to a landlord, each time the owner pays their mortgage they are paying down principal and building equity, just like a market-rate owner. Taken together, these...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 03 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Your Way Through a Recession
Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge. The signs of an imminent recession are all around us. The spillover from...
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by John Quelch
- 29 Apr 2015
- Lessons from the Classroom
Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks
would trade on their ideas," says Cohen. "They put their money where their mouth is." One of them, Alice Newcombe (MBA 2013), used her background in private equity to forensically investigate a mortgage insurance firm that...
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- 18 May 2017
- News
Pioneer Spirit
out on his own, and he and Fern bought ZAX, Inc., a struggling company that produced custom-designed wood and laminate office fixtures, because, well, he thought he’d give that a shot. “We basically had to mortgage everything, including...
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Constantine von Hoffman
- 21 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 21
competition intensity need not improve consumer privacy when consumers exhibit low willingness to pay. Our findings are particularly relevant to the business models of Internet firms and contribute to inform the regulatory debate on consumer privacy. August 2013...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 7
equities given recent reforms and to evaluate the investment approach of Misaki Capital. Purchase this case:https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/117007-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 417-049 Canada Mortgage and Housing...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2007
- What Do You Think?
Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?
while abandoning any semblance of "professionalism." As readers, we are left to speculate how, if at all, this might have led to such phenomena as Enron, the management revolving door, and even today's subprime mortgage mess....
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by Jim Heskett
- 12 May 2008
- Research & Ideas
Accounting Information as Political Currency
Relations with oil companies can also be a liability for politicians in some districts. Perhaps, contributions from financial institutions perceived to have benefited from the mortgage crisis will also be sensitive. Q: In layman’s terms,...
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by Martha Lagace
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
relations. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/mnorton/norton mason vandello biga dyer.pdf Toward a Three-Tier Market for U.S. Home Mortgages Authors:Robert C. Pozen Publication:Chap. 3 in The Future of Housing Finance:...
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Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
the Economy Is Wrong by Edward Conard (MBA 1982) (Portfolio/Penguin) To explain the causes of the US financial crisis, conventional wisdom blames Wall Street and the mortgage industry for using predatory tactics to seduce homeowners into...
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- May 2008
- Teaching Note
Subprime Meltdown: American Housing and Global Financial Turmoil
By: Julio J. Rotemberg
Teaching Note for [708042].
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- 28 May 2019
- News
INK: Maker’s Manual
the toughest person I know—except for my cofounder. I had a mortgage and three sons, and I was the primary earner in my family during the economic crisis. But building a company also means being tough in a good way. I have always believed...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 18 Jun 2007
- Op-Ed
Leveling the Executive Options Playing Field
one way and on your credit application to your mortgage lender in another way. In a moment of weakness, you might account for your income favorably to your prospective lender and not so favorably to the IRS. You might find yourself coming...
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by Mihir Desai
- 08 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
The Return of the Salesman
downturn will mean for salespeople? A: Well, if the impression of salespeople was low before the financial crisis, it has only gotten worse. Realtors, mortgage brokers, investment advisors, and telephone solicitors offering credit cards...
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- 26 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 26, 2008
a government, were gaining prominence across the globe, especially with their recent investments in troubled U.S. financial firms that had suffered significant losses from the subprime mortgage crisis. Yet SWFs were viewed with suspicions...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and wanted his help. “It was one of those calls you don’t say no to,” says Bernstein, now serving as the bureau’s deputy assistant director of mortgage and home equity markets. “The CFPB is the largest...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
to restructure home mortgages in a manner homeowners can afford is at the heart of our financial crisis. We have paid a terrible price for not addressing the foreclosure crisis at its inception, but it is never too late to start. How can...
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- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
PublicationsForward: The Future of Consumer Credit and Mortgage Finance Authors:Nicolas P. Retsinas and Eric Belsky, eds. Publication:Brookings Institution Press and Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University, 2011 Abstract...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
Black American World War II veterans. People like my grandfather Samuel Brown, who served with distinction through D-Day at Normandy, the Rhineland campaign, and the Battle of the Bulge. After returning from the war he was denied access to cash stipends for schooling,...
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- 10 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis
ironic, given that in 2008 and 2009, they were given a hard time for issuing excessively positive ratings of structured products based on home mortgages that turned sour. Whatever they do, someone gets mad. That said, the mistakes on...
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