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  • 28 Jul 2009
  • First Look

First Look: July 28

are deciding whether to refinance their home less than two years after taking out an initial mortgage and a subsequent home equity line of credit. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/209043-PDF-ENG How Institutional... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 30 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 30

Surveys of Consumer Finances Authors:Daniel Bergstresser and John Beshears Abstract We find evidence that households selecting adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) during the recent decade were disproportionately those who were less... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Mar 2011
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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... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Sep 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Many Small-Business Employees May Be Close to Losing Health Insurance

business owner to do as the clock keeps ticking? At some point, absent some major policy change, landlord patience will run out, and small businesses will have to make rent or mortgage payments. “Respondents overwhelmingly reported they... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Health
  • 21 Dec 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer

incentives at each stage of the process. We need to ensure that mortgages are appropriate for the resources of borrowers, and that mortgage brokers have skin in the game when they sell loans. We need to... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services
  • 25 Mar 2013
  • Research & Ideas

How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy

struggling to manage its $6 billion debt load. As the housing and mortgage market collapsed, Realogy scrapped to pay more than $600 million in annual interest. With a total debt of $6.6 billion in 2010, the company decided to restructure... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Financial Services
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Network Effects in the Governance of Strategic Alliances

We argue that the stock of prior alliances between participants in the biotechnology sector forms a network that serves as a governance mechanism in interfirm transactions. To test how this network substitutes for other governance mechanisms, we examine how equity... View Details
Keywords: Network Effects; Governance; Strategy; Alliances; Stocks; Market Transactions; Equity; Mortgages; Biotechnology Industry
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  • 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... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai
  • 30 Nov 2016
  • Op-Ed

Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending.

all loans at some of the larger online small business lenders, in part because finding creditworthy borrowers can be tough. The subprime crisis illuminated the dangers of letting loan brokers go unchecked. As with mortgage brokers in many... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills and Brayden McCarthy; Financial Services
  • 19 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?

chance of a Greek or Italian default today or the risks in the mortgage market in the United States viewed from the perspective of 2006." A Peek To The Future What fate befalls policyholders should reinsurers default after the next... View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Financial Services
  • 28 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 28, 2009

in its mortgage portfolio. Following investment bank Lehman Brother's Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection filing in mid-September, the price of Washington Mutual's covered bonds has fallen to 75 per 100 of face value. As these bonds are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 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.... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009

Countrywide Financial, its collapse, the role it played in the mortgage financial crisis, and the excessive compensation of its CEO. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=109009 Purchase the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 21

Mortgage Backed Security (CMBS) Loan, which involves multiple parties, ambiguous relationships, and bifurcated responsibilities. Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209154 Cincinnati Children's... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 9, 2016

magnitude in subsequent years. Furthermore, we show that the increase in the supply of credit reduced mortgage delinquency rates during the boom years but increased them in bust years. Finally, these effects are stronger for subprime and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Feb 2016
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February 16, 2016

funds' holdings of securitizations to examine which investors are susceptible to such boom-time thinking. We show that firsthand experience plays a key role in shaping investors' beliefs. During the 2003–2007 mortgage boom, inexperienced... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 May 2009
  • Research & Ideas

What’s Next for the Big Financial Brands

United Kingdom. Signed by the head of retail banking, the ad itemized four ways in which NatWest aims to help property owners, mortgage holders, and all customers, with an invitation to "talk to us" and a practical promise of... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch; Banking; Financial Services
  • 26 Aug 2008
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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... View Details
Keywords: 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... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 9

against price gouging and laws regulating the terms of mortgages may have support because consumers recognize that many people do not optimize their consumption effectively and because they are angry at firms that take advantage of this.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

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