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Howard F. Ahmanson
In 1947, Ahmanson bought Home Savings of America, a modest Savings & Loan with less than $1 million in assets. By 1961, Home Savings became the first Savings & Loan with more than $1 billion in assets. Ahmanson's Home Savings provided more View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
New Executive Education Programs
and the economy. Among the new offerings are Building Businesses in Turbulent Times, Opportunities in Mortgage Markets, the Global Energy Seminar, Business Strategy for Partners in Law Firms, and The Global Economic Crisis. For a list of... View Details
James R. Kuse
Mortgaging his home in 1984, Kuse, along with a few other executives from Georgia Pacific, financed a leveraged buy-out to create Georgia Gulf Corporation, a major producer of specialty chemical products. Under his leadership, Kuse not... View Details
Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Manuscript Collections
are crossed out, indicating that the money was repaid and the pledge reclaime New England Bond & Mortgage Company Records, 1922-1934 Collection Guide These company records contain rare materials illuminating the workings of home finance... View Details
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Securitization process and credit rating agencies
What resources are available on the securitization process, credit rating agencies and European covered bonds? Databases Bloomberg - Use Mortgages function to get information on various forms of secured loans Standard &... View Details
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
much more complicated due in part to the development of mortgage brokers. The new system fueled a bevy of mortgage backed securities and derivatives that were terribly difficult for experts to comprehend, he... View Details
- December 2008
- Article
The Credit Crisis of 2008: Causes, Consequences and Implications for India
By: V.G. Narayanan and Lisa Brem
This article gives a brief overview of the causes and consequences of the current global credit crisis. The article then discusses the benefits and potential drawbacks of real estate loan securitization in India, and what India can do to realize those benefits while... View Details
Narayanan, V.G., and Lisa Brem. "The Credit Crisis of 2008: Causes, Consequences and Implications for India." Chartered Accountant 57, no. 6 (December 2008).
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Agenda: Stacy Sonnenberg (MBA 2003)
SUPERFAN When Sonnenberg attends a game, she often doesn’t watch the court or field. “I’m always intrigued by stuff that the public doesn’t necessarily think about—like the width of concourses and the mix of seating types,” she says. (Photo: Benjamin Norman) “In... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
causes and impact of the country’s mortgage meltdown. Serving since 1998 as director of Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, Retsinas also teaches at the Graduate School of Design and the Kennedy School of Government. A... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Faculty Books
Mortgage Finance edited by Nicolas P. Retsinas and Eric S. Belsky (Brookings Institution Press) This book explores what caused the mortgage crisis and focuses on the future. The challenge remains the same:... View Details
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Home sales (existing)
prices, broken out by type of housing (single home, condominium, etc.) and region. Mortgage News Daily provides news and data on the topic National Association of Home Builders provides report on the topic. You may conduct a keyword... View Details
Maggie L. Walker
that, though their savings were small, blacks could still create financial stability for themselves. The bank served not only as a depository of funds and a discount mortgage lender, particularly for women, but also as an employer of a... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 23 Aug 2011
- News
New Kid in School
effects of the HBS case-method on his approach to secondary education, Ellison said, “I often frame new concepts around a useful real-world problem in need of a solution. For many years, while teaching students about mortgages in... View Details
- 03 Dec 2008
- What Do You Think?
Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?
harmed by our own worst instincts." Dan Wallace proposed: "I like 'nudge' solutions, and one approach here might be to provide a 100 percent mortgage interest deduction for people who put 20 percent down on a home, and ratchet... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Subprime Time
With markets reeling in the wake of the subprime mortgage fiasco, BusinessWeek (September 3, 2007) turned to Wall Street eminence and Lazard CEO Bruce Wasserstein (MBA ’71) for “much needed perspective on the current turmoil.” Asked about... View Details
- Spring 2013
- Article
The Growth of Finance
By: Robin Greenwood and David S. Scharfstein
The U.S. financial services industry grew from 4.9% of GDP in 1980 to 7.9% of GDP in 2007. A sizeable portion of the growth can be explained by rising asset management fees, which in turn were driven by increases in the valuation of tradable assets, particularly... View Details
Greenwood, Robin, and David S. Scharfstein. "The Growth of Finance." Journal of Economic Perspectives 27, no. 2 (Spring 2013): 3–28.
- April 1996
- Case
Silver Lane Apartments
By: William J. Poorvu and John H. Vogel Jr.
Scott Johnson is a successful developer of single-family and multi-family housing who specializes in renovating and turning around poorly performing apartments in good locations. He plans to sell a 506-unit property for portfolio and estate planning purposes. This case... View Details
Poorvu, William J., and John H. Vogel Jr. "Silver Lane Apartments." Harvard Business School Case 396-330, April 1996.
- 20 Dec 2006
- Op-Ed
Investors Hurt by Dual-Track Tax Reporting
developments. Imagine if you were allowed to represent your income on your tax forms and on your mortgage application differently. In a moment of weakness, you might portray your economic situation in two distinct ways. Unlike... View Details
Keywords: by Mihir Desai
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Faculty Books
institutions. These institutions represent powerful constraints on the ability of the government to fund reforms, of firms to write contracts, and of citizens to enforce their basic rights. Borrowing to Live: Consumer and Mortgage Credit... View Details
- Mar 2012
- Article
How to Make Finance Work
of the U.S. economy by increasing capital and liquidity requirements, reorienting the discussion around housing finance reform from keeping mortgage credit cheap to ensuring financial stability, and instituting measures that compel asset... View Details