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Lehman Brothers Timeline | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

and global economic collapse. 1933 Congress passes the Glass-Steagall Act separating commercial banks from investment banks. 1934 Congress establishes the Securities Exchange Commission regulating the... View Details

Charlotte L. Robertson

Charlotte Robertson is an Assistant Professor in the Business, Government, and the International Economy Unit at Harvard Business School. She teaches BGIE in the MBA required curriculum.

Professor Robertson conducts research on the history of financial... View Details

March 2016 (Revised May 2021)
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Michael Milken: The Junk Bond King

By: Tom Nicholas and Matthew G. Preble

Michael Milken, an investment banker who dominated the junk bond market in the 1980s, was sentenced to jail in 1990 after pleading guilty to a number of securities and tax-related felonies. In the preceding decade, Milken had helped usher in a new wave of leveraged buy... View Details

Keywords: Junk Bonds; High-yield Bonds; Financial Innovation; Shareholder Value; Bonds; Capital; Capital Structure; Cost of Capital; Crime and Corruption; Entrepreneurship; Ethics; Finance; Investment Banking; Leveraged Buyouts; Mergers and Acquisitions; Ownership; Private Equity; Restructuring; United States

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01 Apr 2024
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Navigating the Mood of Customers Weary of Price Hikes

balance of consumer adaptation to higher costs, business strategy adjustments, and market dynamics. Additionally, the end of expanded SNAP [the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program previously known as food stamps] benefits View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Retail; Consumer Products

Peter Tufano

Peter Tufano is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and Senior Advisor to the Harvard Salata Institute for Climate and Sustainability. From 2011 to 2021, he served as the Peter Moores Dean at View Details

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Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership

Steel and Alcoa withstand antitrust accusations Personal and corporate tax rates cut Airmail service starts Influence: High 30 1930 19 The New Deal Commercial and investment... View Details

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Giving - Alumni

include your name and intended gift purpose. Receiving Bank: Bank of America, 100 Federal Street, Boston, MA 02110 Beneficiary Legal Account: President & Fellows of Harvard College, ADS Account Account #:... View Details

September 2017 (Revised September 2023)
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Chase Sapphire: Creating a Millennial Cult Brand

By: Shelle Santana, Jill Avery and Christine Snively

The launch of the Chase Sapphire Reserve credit card was enthusiastically received by millennial consumers, a cohort that had previously eluded JPMorgan Chase and its competitors. With the one-year anniversary of the launch approaching, managers are focused on... View Details

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Nitin Nohria served as the tenth dean of Harvard Business School from 2010-2020. He previously served as co-chair of the Leadership Initiative, Senior Associate Dean of Faculty Development, and Head of the Organizational Behavior unit.

As Dean, building on... View Details

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

Sam Walton: Great From the Start

family. Eastman returned to the Rochester Savings Bank as a director after he had made his fortune. Walton never came back to Newport as a resident, but he did as a merchant. This is what he had to say: "Wal-Mart No. 18 … opened... View Details

Keywords: by Richard S. Tedlow; Retail

Ryan W. Buell

Ryan W. Buell is a Professor of Business Administration in the Technology and Operations Management Unit at Harvard Business School. He teaches View Details

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22 May 2019
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Forgiving Student Loan Debt Leads to Better Jobs, Stronger Consumers

borrowers who have fallen behind in an aggressive attempt to collect on the loans. But the company had bought these loans from a series of banks and other financial institutions, View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

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The Panama Canal

The Big Ditch is the first quantitative economic history of the Panama Canal and its effect on Panama, the United States, and the world economy. It makes three general arguments. First, that the Panama Canal was very important to... View Details

Rosabeth M. Kanter

Rosabeth Moss Kanter holds the Ernest L. Arbuckle Professorship at Harvard Business School, specializing in strategy, innovation, and leadership for change. Her strategic and practical insights guide leaders worldwide through teaching, writing, and direct... View Details

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Global Impact of the Collapse | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

default swap contracts. As confidence in the banks eroded, borrowing rates rose and home foreclosures continued to spike. Lawrence McDonald, author and a former vice-president... View Details

07 Jul 2022
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How a Multimillion-Dollar Ice Cream Startup Melted Down (and Bounced Back)

They just can't keep up with it.” The couple turned to venture capitalists with little experience in food and beverage businesses, and with the addition of bank loans, backed... View Details

Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds

Randolph B. Cohen

Randolph B. (Randy) Cohen is the MBA Class of 1975 Senior Lecturer of Entrepreneurial Management in the Finance Unit at Harvard Business School. Cohen’s main research focus has been the identification of top investment managers and the prediction of manager... View Details

Keywords: investment banking industry; investment banking industry

Geoffrey G. Jones

Geoffrey Jones is the Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, and Faculty Chair of the School's Business History Initiative. He holds degrees of BA, MA and PhD from Cambridge University, UK. He has an honorary Doctorate in Economics and Business Administration... View Details

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Agribusiness Seminar

players that shape the food, agriculture, and energy sectors Agribusiness-specialized investment and banking firms Particularly appropriate for: Chairpersons, chief executive... View Details

Keywords: Agriculture; Agriculture

30 Apr 2024
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When Managers Set Unrealistic Expectations, Employees Cut Ethical Corners

Bridgestone/Firestone (2000), related party transactions and accounting fraud at Enron (2001), accounting fraud at WorldCom (2002), corrupt payments at Siemens (2007), mortgage lending abuses at Countrywide Financial (2006) View Details