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- 01 Dec 2002
- News
Mary Callahan Erdoes
for her analytical skills and sound judgment, Erdoes is particularly sought out for her expertise in assessing complicated financial instruments, such as derivatives. The Chicago native and Georgetown University graduate says that during... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Q&A: Wrestling with the Unthinkable
to businesses about what can happen when a crisis hits and they're not ready. A crisis could be triggered by terrorism but also by an earthquake, a product recall, or anything that constitutes a serious risk... View Details
- 20 Oct 2022
- News
Lebanon Alumni Host US Ambassador for Dinner and Discussion
explored a number of economic, political, and business issues the country is facing. “Lebanon is at a crucial stage in its history,” says Ingea. “We have presidential elections this month, we have an economic crisis like we’ve never seen... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990)
the underserved. “I’ve been blessed, and I believe very strongly in the importance of giving.” Smart money: The Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility, a new World Bank financial program that provides surge funding to prevent a disease... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Setting the Legislative Agenda
The Congressional Oversight Panel identified eight specific areas most urgently in need of reform and addressed each with recommendations: Identify and regulate financial institutions that pose systemic risk. Limit excessive leverage in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
in the economic crisis that hit last fall. Howell and I have been working on these issues for a decade. With the economic crisis, the issues of household debt, retail financial services, and regulation in... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Alumni Books
Finance and Government Intervention Crashed the Financial System by Kevin Dowd and Martin Hutchinson (MBA ’73) (Wiley) The authors show how modern finance combined with easy money threatened to cripple the world View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
An Economy Undermined
fact, stocks on average did not rise at all in the 1970s. Productivity grew more slowly in the ensuing thirty years than it had for any prolonged period since the 1800s. My class’s first decade out from HBS was marked by economic and View Details
- 10 Mar 2021
- News
Vision: A Unicorn Evolves
product sped up the process of creating and following up on sales pitches, which resulted in 10 times more meetings for GroupTalent’s two sales reps, Medina says. But the influx of interest overwhelmed the small startup, and they were unable to effectively convert the... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
School gave me the ability to have a broad overview that focused not only on the financial dimension of a business but on its many other facets, including management, strategy, manufacturing, and marketing. I began to rely increasingly on... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Sam Hayes
musician, Hayes plays the pipe organ and cello, “but only with family” — a select group that consists of his wife, Barbara, and their three daughters and two grandchildren. What's behind the current crisis in U.S. View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books
Bujalski (MBA 1976) Independently published Very few of us get through life without experiencing a major personal crisis or devastating loss. These crises and losses can come with great pain and often with almost unbearable inner turmoil.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
Illustration by Vahram Muradyan Illustration by Vahram Muradyan With one quarter of all renters spending more than half their income on housing in the United States, as Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies found in 2017, about 11 million Americans are one View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
economists, and financiers who declared a moral battle for freedom but instead gave rise to an age of greed, Madrick traces the lineage of some of our nation’s most pressing economic problems. Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
context of this crisis underscores a big limitation of our current system of health insurance, which is based on covering a predictable set of needs for surgical procedures, office visits, and hospitalizations across a given population.... View Details
- 18 Mar 2021
- News
Authentically Leading with Blind Ambition
career in the technology industry where he has directed financial strategies and decisions resulting in more than $45 billion in contracts. Determination, ambition, and resilience are the key drivers to his incredible journey. The Atlanta... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sizing Up Social Impact
challenges in creative ways: "The Robin Hood Foundation" (with Catherine Ross). Created by hedge fund and investment managers, the Robin Hood Foundation fights poverty through grants to nonprofit organizations in New York City. As the global View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Book Review: The Old West
Pinto calls on his experience as a financial advisor to governments, corporations, and entrepreneurs in the East and the West to explain why. It's not a result of globalization, he says, or even the 2008 economic implosion. Instead, Pinto... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
- 14 Feb 2019
- News
Plotting a Path Forward on Climate Change
for change, but is not particularly optimistic. “It is the number one social, economic, and financial crisis facing the world, and you’d never know it ,” he said, noting that it is the obligation of these... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
reasonable view of home ownership will return, Retsinas predicts, but if the pendulum swings too far, he is concerned that worthy borrowers with modest incomes could be shut out of the market. Could you place the U.S. mortgage crisis in... View Details