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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
Today's bank offers many of the services of a brokerage firm, and vice versa. Congress's repeal of the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act that separated the activities of commercial and investment View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 29 Jan 2010
- News
Back to Glass-Steagall?
President Obama shocked Wall Street recently with his proposal to cut down to size too-big-to-fail banks by imposing new rules to separate commercial and investment activities. Specifically, Obama would... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Savings and Loam
all millennials park their money at the three largest banks. It’s a disconnect that he finds “viscerally aggravating,” given that those institutions have bankrolled the fossil-fuel industry—and, with it, the carbon emissions that are underpinning climate change. Since... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Harvard Center Shanghai Names New Executive Director
leaders in their respective fields,” said Williams, who has spent most of his career in East Asia, most recently as a private consultant in China. In addition, he has served as the first foreign president of a Chinese commercial View Details
- 13 Jul 2016
- News
From Money to Ministry
Harvard Business School with the hope of returning to his banking career. “Harvard showed me a whole different aspect to banking,” he says. “Professor Charlie Williams, who taught Commercial Banking, was my... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
commercial and investment banking had been torn down, and banks, investment banks, and insurance companies were in each others’ businesses. “As a result of deregulation, the derivatives market and the market... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rx for Too Big to Fail
constraints. A new Glass-Steagall law that segregated commercial banking from other financial activities, or that limited banks’ proprietary trading, would strengthen the financial system, if crafted... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
changes that took root after the last crash. “Everything we do today grew out of the dark days of the early ’90s,” says Slaughter, managing director and head of North American real estate investment banking for Morgan Stanley. Some refer... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
$how Me the Money
organized crime component is about 30 to 35 percent. A whopping 60 to 65 percent is due to the private sector’s illegal and intentional manipulation of taxes and commercial transactions. How can this be? Because the global system lacks... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International
was so successful we had to establish it as a regular commercial bank to accommodate its growth. Today, BancoSol leads the Bolivian banking system in profitability and makes 40... View Details
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
Black-owned banks go to Black people. We know that, Carver Bank in New York, for example, 80 percent of their commercial loans or business loans go to Black people. And we know... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
into the marketplace, including creation of federal deposit insurance, securities regulation, banking supervision, and the separation of commercial and investment banking under... View Details
- 22 Feb 2017
- News
Funding Solar’s Future
War, the pair met at HBS and launched Double Time in 2013. The piece details the firm’s rapid growth: In just over three years, the firm has raised seven funds, totaling $80 million, from investors including Prudential Financial, Burt’s Bees, former View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Charles Stoddard (MBA 1969)
returning home to work in the family bank and, ultimately, found his own — Grand Bank in Grand Rapid. Stoddard sold Grand Bank in 2002, and he has since launched Grand Angels,... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Pearson Hunt Remembered
high distinction in 1933 and received a doctorate of commercial science — the precursor to today's doctorate of business administration (DBA) — from the School in 1939. Named an assistant professor at HBS in 1940, Hunt became a full... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
An Atypical Case — Robin G. Berglund (MBA 1971)
to reach a nurse who has paged him. Then, apologizing for his fatigue after thirty sleepless hours, he settles into a chair in a quiet corner to reflect for a few moments on his decision to enter medical school at the age of 45 after a fulfilling career in View Details
Keywords: Thomas Frick
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
‘Green’ Trailblazers
commercial solar power systems William Rogers (MBA 1985) The Trust for Public Land Multiple US locations Land conservation nonprofit organization Roger Sant (MBA 1960) Sant Associates Co-founder and chairman Emeritus of AES Corporation;... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Four Promoted to Full Professor
environment. He has written on a broad range of restructuring topics, including corporate bankruptcy and debt workouts, tracking stock, equity spin-offs, corporate downsizing, bank mergers, and employee buyouts. Currently, he is studying... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
In Memoriam
expert on commercial banking and a master of case-method teaching, died in November at the age of 94. Williams’s influence on American banking in the post–World War II decades... View Details
- 29 Jun 2016
- News
Women of Wall Street Tell Their Story
about the “glamour” of movie making when they spent a day as extras on set. “It is so damned boring,” says Munger. “That day on set, shooting the scenes over and over, all I could think was, How do they have the patience to do this?” In addition to whatever View Details