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- 20 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business with Structured Finance
securities are pooled and tranched. Their simulation uses pools consisting of 100 bonds with a five-year default probability of 5 percent and a recovery rate of 50 percent of face value conditional on default. Within each pool, the... View Details
- 21 Aug 2014
- Blog Post
HBS Social Enterprise Initiative Visits NYC
Transit Authority, he often finds himself going between on-the-ground construction sites and strategic planning meetings at the central office with the Recovery and Resiliency group – a team that started in 2013 in response to the effects... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- Web
2021 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
developing the Feminist Economic Recovery Plan for Canada . In 2020, she launched a 5-course Specialization on Coursera: Gender Analytics: Gender Equity Through Inclusive Design which is aimed at building skills to do intersectional... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
Marking 10-Year Connection with Japanese Earthquake Region
organizations, and local towns), garnering unforgettable lessons in crisis leadership, entrepreneurship, and economic revival. Some of their projects are documented in HBS cases written by Takeuchi in collaboration with students—such as Google Japan’s response and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Alumni Books
investors, or other members of development teams. Firing Back by Jeffrey Sonnenfeld (MBA ’78, DBA ’81) and Andrew Ward (HBS Press) The authors lay out a novel five-step recovery process to rescue a career: “Fight, not flight” (face the... View Details
- 23 Oct 2024
- News
Running Man
There aren’t many people on this planet—let alone septuagenarians—who can contemplate running 50 or 100 miles at a time. But for 77-year-old Eric Spector (MBA 1972), a retired entrepreneur and CEO in the tech, consumer retail, and media sectors, running long (long,... View Details
- 15 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience
team. They will be responsible for designing and maintaining the business continuity and disaster recovery management plan, ensuring a robust and effective response to potential disasters. Process: Maintaining the plan iteratively and... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
One-on-One with Tom Oreck
New Orleans, but more importantly, there was no access and no housing. Within five days of the storm, we were operating in an IBM business recovery center in Dallas, where we sent about 120 employees and their families. We had 100... View Details
- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
innovation was the introduction of user fees, an idea sparked in part by a spate of climbing mishaps on Mount McKinley in Alaska’s Denali National Park that had sent rescue and recovery costs soaring. (Recalls Cohen: “Hard-core climbers... View Details
- 03 Jun 2020
- News
Keeping a Community Connected
600 people daily in East Boston and other neighborhoods, he has watched the COVID-19 pandemic hit his community particularly hard. In response, EBSC—whose programming includes everything from STEM education for teens to offering recovery... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 29 Mar 2023
- News
Supporting Earthquake Victims in Turkey and Syria
recovery workforce across a large geographical region prone to high risks,” he notes. “This product is not available in our sales system, and it is marked with ‘not for sale.’ It is only provided by our logistics system, which is highly... View Details
- 25 Jun 2020
- News
Global Centers Broaden Understanding of Business and the Pandemic
North Africa. In addition, Professor Felix Oberholzer-Gee spoke with Fiba Group leaders Hüsnü Özyeğin (MBA 1969), founder and honorary chair, and Murat Özyeğin (MBA 2003), chair, about the speed of recovery in the aftermath of the... View Details
- 16 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
European Private Equity—Still a Teenager?
with a lot of turbulence: "a very dramatic run off" of activity in the 1980s, followed by a decline in activity that led to a depression for much of the early 1990s, followed by a gradual recovery during the mid-1990s. "The... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Wide Angle
Illustration by David Plunkert Illustration by David Plunkert Edited by Dan Morrell What can historical economic recoveries teach us about our current crisis? One of the things that makes the pandemic so tricky is that there is no... View Details
- 02 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Once a Castle, Home is Now a Debtors’ Prison
market: people offered jobs far afield stay put, reluctant (and unable) to leave their underwater homes. Since the recovery of the housing market will undergird any broader recovery, we must address these debtors' prisons. Novel Solutions... View Details
- 13 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13
Abdulkadiroglu, Atila, Yeon-Koo Che, Parag A. Pathak, Alvin E. Roth, and Oliver Tercieux Abstract—In 2012, New Orleans Recovery School District (RSD) became the first U.S. district to unify charter and traditional public school admissions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Jul 2017
- News
Seeing a Way Forward
patch from her eye in the recovery room, just for a second. “Soledad turned toward me and said, ‘I can see you! Normally I wouldn’t be able to see you. Now I can, with colors and all!” Excited about her new lease on life, Soledad began... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
- 05 Oct 2016
- What Do You Think?
Can the US Economy Regain the Growth and Prosperity of the Past?
scenario is. The fact is that the US appears to have settled into a 2 percent growth rate at most, even in a recovery where higher rates of growth might be expected. An important examination of long-term US growth rates by a respected... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Good Odds
pounds of food that had been prepared for customers in the catering, hotel, travel, and restaurant industries got stuck in the supply chain when the world seized up. That’s when Philip Behn (MBA 2005), CEO of Imperfect Foods, jumped into View Details
- 19 Jun 2014
- News
Turning "Black Gold" to Green
on a common extraction method known as Enhanced Oil Recovery (EOR). C12 Energy owns two "mature" oil fields in North Dakota and Kansas. Fields like these still hold oil, even after conventional drillers pull out—often more than 35 percent... View Details