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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
national banks from state laws against predatory lending by the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) as a quasi-experiment to study the effect of deregulation and its interaction with competition on the supply of complex mortgages. More Info The Relevance of... View Details
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Global Impact of the Collapse | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s... View Details
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Lehman Brothers: 1850 - 2008 | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s... View Details
- 14 Aug 2023
- Blog Post
Crossing the Bridge: A Reflection on the HKS/HBS Joint Degree Program
Business Administration and Political Science. Prior to my return to academia at Harvard, I was a management consultant advising clients in the financial services industry and a residential real estate broker primarily serving first-time... View Details
- February 2022
- Case
NFX Capital and Moov Technologies
By: Scott Duke Kominers and Nicole Tempest Keller
In July 2019, James Currier, a general partner at San Francisco-based NFX Ventures, was considering a seed stage investment of $1.5 million in Moov Technologies, a B2B marketplace for used industrial equipment. NFX was a venture capital firm focused on seed-stage... View Details
- 19 Dec 2023
- Research & Ideas
15 Podcast Episodes That Grabbed Listeners in 2023
after the US began to shut down in order to prevent the spread of the COVID-19 virus, Serhant had time to reflect on his career as a real estate broker in New York City, wondering if the period of selling real estate at record highs was... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
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Bankruptcy | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s... View Details
When Should a Social Platform Give People Fewer Choices and Charge More for Them?
Existing economic wisdom offers unequivocal advice to managers seeking to establish new platform businesses: Invest to acquire users as quickly as possible and make sure that they have ... View Details
- 24 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Bernie Madoff Explains Himself
students that Madoff was once best known for pioneering the controversial but legal practice of payment for order flow, in which he would pay brokerage firms a couple of cents per share to send orders through his firm. This made him popular among investors, who... View Details
- 07 Jul 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron
sums up Enron's history and its enduring legacy. Q: Can an Enron-type calamity happen again? Why or why not? A: Perverse incentives are legion throughout our system today. For example, perverse incentives for both mortgage brokers and... View Details
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Building the On-Demand Workforce - Managing the Future of Work
FREELANCERS PLAY IN THE "ON-DEMAND" WORKFORCE? Joseph Fuller Podcast Factoring high-skills freelancers into the enterprise equation Joseph Fuller & Allison Bailey 24 FEB 2021 | Managing the Future of Work Digital platforms for highly skilled freelancers are set to... View Details
- 09 Nov 2023
- News
From the Brink
Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994), Adam Chepenik (MBA 2010), Sebastián Negrón-Reichard (JD/MBA 2024) As the senior top official in the US Treasury Department on domestic finance issues, Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994) could see Puerto Rico’s financial meltdown coming, like watching a... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
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Lehman Brothers Family Partners | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s... View Details
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Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s... View Details
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Site Credits | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s... View Details
- 07 Apr 2023
- Research & Ideas
When Celebrity ‘Crypto-Influencers’ Rake in Cash, Investors Lose Big
The research findings are consistent with widespread suspicions about so-called “pump-and-dump” schemes, in which digital asset developers or brokers allegedly boost values through online promotion, then quickly sell, producing outsized... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 12 Aug 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Investors Often Lose When They Sue Their Financial Adviser
customers can access public information about brokers through Finra, they generally lack the time, resources, and expertise to harness the data. And even though most claimants hire lawyers to represent them in arbitration, brokerages... View Details
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Past Issues - Alumni
edge of China—one of the few remaining “blank areas of the map.” His objective: to scale the great Minya Konka, height unknown Big Blue’s Big Bet IBM Watson is redefining the legendary tech company—and every industry it touches The Middle Way How Wally Eamer helped... View Details
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Investing in Emerging Industries | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s... View Details
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Leadership Transitions | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s... View Details