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  • January 2009
  • Supplement

The Tip of the Iceberg: JP Morgan Chase and Bear Stearns (B1)

By: Clayton S. Rose, Daniel Baird Bergstresser and David Lane
Bear Stearns & Co burned through nearly all of its $18 billion in cash reserves during the week of March 10, 2008, and an unprecedented provision of liquidity support from the Federal Reserve on Friday March 13 was insufficient to reverse the decline in Bear's... View Details
Keywords: Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Capital; Financial Liquidity; Banks and Banking; Governance; Crisis Management; Failure; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Balance and Stability; Valuation; New York (state, US)
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  • 26 Apr 2023
  • In Practice

Is AI Coming for Your Job?

III: Skillsets will shift As far as the doomsday scenario in which AI replaces everyone’s jobs, I don’t see that playing out anytime soon. As new technologies penetrate markets, they often change how organizations in those markets... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Technology
  • Article

Resilience vs. Vulnerability: Psychological Safety and Reporting of Near Misses with Varying Proximity to Harm in Radiation Oncology

By: Palak Kundu, Olivia Jung, Amy C. Edmondson, Nzhde Agazaryan, John Hegde, Michael Steinberg and Ann Raldow
Background
Psychological safety, a shared belief that interpersonal risk taking is safe, is an important determinant of incident reporting. However, how psychological safety affects near-miss reporting is unclear, as near misses contain contrasting cues that... View Details
Keywords: Psychological Safety; Near-miss Reporting; Health Care and Treatment; Safety
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    Bank Capital and the Growth of Private Credit

    We show that business development companies (BDCs)—closed-end funds that provide a significant share of nonbank loans to middle market firms—are very well capitalized according to bank capital frameworks. They have median risk-based capital ratios of about 36% and,... View Details
    • 22 Feb 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    How to Make AI 'Forget' All the Private Data It Shouldn't Have

    There’s a virtual elephant in AI’s room: It’s nearly impossible to make the technology forget. And there are an increasing number of scenarios where consumers and programmers may not only want to remove data from a machine learning... View Details
    Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Technology; Information Technology
    • 21 Jun 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: June 21

    Publications Civilization: The Six Ways the West Beat the Rest Author: Niall Ferguson Publication: Allen Lane/Penguin Press, 2011 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Review the book:... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 05 Aug 2022
    • Research & Ideas

    Why People Crave Feedback—and Why We’re Afraid to Give It

    another survey found only 5 percent believe managers provide such feedback. What gets in the way of providing constructive feedback? In an attempt to understand this gap, the researchers presented a series of situations in which feedback could help to survey... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • Article

    Are All Certified EHRs Created Equal? Assessing the Relationship between EHR Vendor and Hospital Meaningful Use Performance

    By: A Jay Holmgren, Julia Adler-Milstein and Jeffrey McCullough
    Objective
    The federal electronic health record (EHR) certification process was intended to ensure a baseline level of system quality and the ability to support meaningful use criteria. We sought to assess whether there was variation across EHR vendors in the... View Details
    Keywords: Hospitals; Electronic Health Records; Digital Health; Health Care and Treatment; Information Technology; Service Delivery; Performance Evaluation
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    • 2024
    • Report

    Overcoming Barriers to Resolving Gaza and Beyond

    By: James K. Sebenius
    As of early January 2024, discussion of the Gaza war heavily focuses on its humanitarian costs, cease fire possibilities, hostage prospects, and “day after” options. Yet what longer-term strategy guides actions on these vital issues while offering a more positive... View Details
    Keywords: Negotiation; War; International Relations; Israel; Middle East
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    • January 2009
    • Supplement

    The Tip of the Iceberg: JP Morgan Chase and Bear Stearns (B2)

    By: Clayton S. Rose, Daniel Baird Bergstresser and David Lane
    Bear Stearns & Co burned through nearly all of its $18 billion in cash reserves during the week of March 10, 2008, and an unprecedented provision of liquidity support from the Federal Reserve on Friday March 13 was insufficient to reverse the decline in Bear's... View Details
    Keywords: Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Capital; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financial Liquidity; Banks and Banking; Governance; Crisis Management; Goals and Objectives; System; Valuation; New York (state, US)
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    • Web

    Podcast - Business & Environment

    corporate net zero programs, we’re sharing an episode on airline decarbonization from the Climate Vision 2050 podcast produced by the consulting firm Boston Consulting Group. This episode sets up a scenario in 2050 where the industry... View Details
    • 27 Feb 2024
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Companies Should Share Their DEI Data (Even When It’s Unflattering)

    get a boost over the competition—especially if they take care to point out that everyone collects this data. In a scenario in which a competitor chooses not to disclose, a company will gain an edge by pointing that out. Nam warns that... View Details
    Keywords: by Shalene Gupta
    • 30 Sep 2002
    • Research & Ideas

    Your Crisis Response Plan: The Ten Effective Elements

    organization's crisis response plans. Effective crisis response plans include the following ten elements: 1. A representative set of planning scenarios. It's essential to create a set of crisis scenarios that serve to guide planning. This... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Watkins
    • Web

    Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

    their model under multiple scenarios depending on whether a government can directly internalize these monetary benefits and on the presence of private sector competition in the production of riskless, money-like claims. See Robin’s other... View Details
    • 08 Feb 2017
    • HBS Seminar

    Andrew Mao, Microsoft Research

    • Fast Answer

    Bloomberg: options

    of functions. Select OSA for Option Scenario Analysis that allows "what-if" analyses by changing assumptions in amber fields.    View Details
    • 24 Oct 2018
    • Sharpening Your Skills

    Startup or Established Company? Which Is Best for You?

    executive teams can be world class or “legacy” leaders who can’t move with the times. There are many tradeoffs when factoring leadership into the decision process of startup versus mature. Startup founded by serial entrepreneurs. This can often be the best case View Details
    Keywords: by Julia B. Austin
    • 04 Oct 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    Introverts: The Best Leaders for Proactive Employees

    study in their paper, the researchers devised a scenario in which 163 college students participated in a T-shirt folding contest. The students were divided into fifty-six groups, all tasked with folding as many T-shirts as possible in ten... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
    • 12 Apr 2017
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Productivity Suffers When Employees Are Allowed to Schedule Their Own Tasks

    time for other vital tasks. “Chains should weight these costs of exercising discretion against the benefits of local customization and potential increase in customer engagement,” Ibáñez says. Question for readers: In your experience, what are the View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

      Overcrowded – Designing Meaningful Products in a World Awash with Ideas

      We live in a world awash with ideas. Thanks to the web and to powerful ideation approaches such as open innovation, design thinking, or crowdsourcing, organizations have today easy access to an unprecedented amount of novel concepts. In this context, what... View Details