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- 13 Jun 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants
For most of the 20th century, three bond ratings agencies—Moody's, Fitch, and Standard & Poor's—dominated the credit ratings industry, recently controlling 97 percent of the market. But the status quo was disrupted by the 2008 global... View Details
Making Sense of Past and Present
the Entrepreneurship and Global Capitalism course. Since graduating from high school, I had missed learning about the rich content of the past and its “wow” moments of surprise, especially when history reveals the darkest realities of... View Details
- December 2009 (Revised February 2010)
- Case
The Investment Fund for Foundations (TIFF) in 2009
By: Luis M. Viceira and Brendon Christopher Parry
In late June 2009, management at The Investment Fund for Foundations (TIFF) was considering expanding the footprint of the TIFF Diversified Fund (TDF), the first truly comprehensive endowment management vehicle offered under the TIFF banner. The recent large capital... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Asset Management; Financial Strategy; Investment Funds; Risk Management; Product Marketing; Financial Services Industry; United States
Viceira, Luis M., and Brendon Christopher Parry. "The Investment Fund for Foundations (TIFF) in 2009." Harvard Business School Case 210-008, December 2009. (Revised February 2010.)
- 2010
- Article
M@n@gement in Times of Economic Crisis: Insights Into Organizational Ambidexterity
By: Achim Schmitt, Gilbert Probst and Michael Tushman
Schmitt, Achim, Gilbert Probst, and Michael Tushman. "M@n@gement in Times of Economic Crisis: Insights Into Organizational Ambidexterity." M@n@gement 13, no. 3 (2010): 128–150.
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Faculty Books
Global Capital and National Institutions: Crisis and Choice in the International Financial Architecture by Laura Alfaro (World Scientific) This casebook has three main topics:... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Putting on the Wheels
As head of General Motors's international division - which last year invested $2.45 billion worldwide - Louis Hughes brings a rock-steady philosophy to the auto giant's global operations: "Wherever possible, invest where you sell." Hughes... View Details
Keywords: Mary Ellen Gardner
- Web
R. G. Dun & Co. Credit Reports | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s Leadership Transitions 2008 Bankruptcy Global Impact of the Collapse Lehman Brothers Timeline... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Capturing Human Capital
Confronted with the fundamental changes that are transforming today's global business environment, a number of firms are finding it necessary to reevaluate their organizational priorities. "These are turbulent times for business as many... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
March 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
Macmillan) This volume offers a snapshot of the resurgent historiography of political economy in the wake of the ongoing global financial crisis and suggests fruitful new... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A Focus on Latinx Entrepreneurs
of the Treasury Janet Yellen also recognizes the role of Latinx businesses in the US economy. In her remarks at the US Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Virtual Legislative Summit in 2020, she said: “If someone tried to design an economic View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Mark Mason (MBA 1995)
health crisis that has produced severe economic shocks and has shined a light on the longstanding issues around racial equality. Citi too is a very different firm than we were during the financial View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
How to Fix Wall Street
including a renewed commitment to responsible behavior by those individuals and (surviving) firms whose actions created excessive risk in the first place. The crisis is often discussed as purely a technical mishap involving housing... View Details
- June 2002 (Revised October 2002)
- Background Note
Argentina: Data Supplement, 1990-2002
By: Huw Pill and Ingrid Vogel
Provides basic macroeconomic data for Argentina for the period 1990 through 2002. Covers the period from the adoption of Argentina's currency board to its ultimate demise and beyond. View Details
Pill, Huw, and Ingrid Vogel. "Argentina: Data Supplement, 1990-2002." Harvard Business School Background Note 702-094, June 2002. (Revised October 2002.)
- January 1999 (Revised March 1999)
- Background Note
Note on Currency Crises
Introduces students to theories about why currency crises occur. Discusses whether crises can be predicted. View Details
Kennedy, Robert E., and Brian Irwin. "Note on Currency Crises." Harvard Business School Background Note 799-089, January 1999. (Revised March 1999.)
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Career Services Shifts into High Gear
Many members of the Class of 2008 were just settling into new jobs as reverberations from the financial crisis were felt around the world. While employment figures for the class remain strong, MBA Career... View Details
- 02 May 2008
- What Do You Think?
What is the Future of State Capitalism?
Gupta comments, "Countries like India ... need investments in infrastructure .... Where does it get the money it needs? From the money owners. How does it matter who they are?" Could global View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- Profile
Naeill Leigh
yourself? I’ve always been most comfortable with technology and engineering. Just by having great interactions with my finance professor has pushed me toward going into finance, which I wouldn’t have considered before coming to HBS. In my free time, I’m learning about... View Details
- 05 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 5
(A): U.S. Treasuries in November 2008 Ryan D. Taliaferro and Stephen BlythHarvard Business School Case 211-049 Investment manager James Franey confronts an apparent arbitrage opportunity during the global View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Value Added
Now in the midst of his second three-year term as managing director of McKinsey & Company, Rajat Gupta sits in a corner office on the 29th floor of a Chicago skyscraper, overlooking Lake Michigan and the Windy City's financial district.... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
- 26 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Transparency Improves For Foreign Firms in U.S. Markets
that research. Srinivasan's work with Tarun Khanna and Krishna Palepu furthers the debate regarding the effect of globalization on corporate governance systems. –Ed.Churchwell: How do you define corporate and country transparency? Why are... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell