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    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
    • 2022
    • Working Paper

    House Prices, Home Equity and Entrepreneurship: Evidence from U.S. Census Micro Data

    By: Sari Pekkala Kerr, William R. Kerr and Ramana Nanda
    During 1992-2007, house price growth is strongly correlated with local entrepreneurship. We show with Census Bureau data that most of this entry is related to construction and real estate; these entrants tend to be small and short-lived. Using a 1998 Texas reform that... View Details
    Keywords: House Prices; Collateral Channel; Entry; Demography; Mortgages; Entrepreneurship
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    • 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
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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
    • 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
    Keywords: Financial Crisis; Credit; Mortgages; Real Estate Industry; India
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    • 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
    • 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
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
    • 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
    Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Finance; Management; Real Estate
    • 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
    Keywords: Finance; Asset Management; Research; Mortgages; Financial Services Industry
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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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    Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Secondary Resources

    Manuscript Collections Printed Collections Visual Collections Secondary Resources Credits Bacheller, Irving. Keeping up with Lizzie; Charge It (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1911 and 1912). Full text available as a networked resource. Darrow, Edward N. A Treatise on... View Details
    • 01 Apr 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: April 1, 2008

    briefly discussing how mortgages were structured and traded in the pre-1990 period, it describes subprime mortgage lending, as well as other innovative mortgages issued in the... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 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
    Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
    • 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 Mar 2010
    • News

    Noted & Quoted

    afford to pay their mortgages but walk away from the property instead. (Boston Globe, December 22, 2009) “How predictable was it five years ago that probably well over 90 percent of pictures are taken off smartphones?” — Jim Balsillie... View Details
    Keywords: Educational Services; Information
    • 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
    Keywords: Elementary and Secondary Schools; Educational Services
    • 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
    Keywords: Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
    • Portrait Project

    Cordelia Shackleton

    “Please come up to the fifteenth floor” said my boss. “OK” I said, and I hung up. I had survived many mornings of lay-offs. But 30 minutes later, I was standing on the street. Unemployed. At first, I felt shame. Shame that I didn’t care that I had lost my job. I didn’t... 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
      • 19 Aug 2021
      • News

      A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues

      am asking whites to make deposits up to $250,000 in Black-owned banks. At that level, it is completely insured by the federal government, so there's no risk. The reason is because Black-owned banks send money to the Black community. What we know, statistically, is that... View Details