Commercial Mortgage Backed Securities - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 26

April 2002, started providing its branch managers with customer lifetime value (CLV) information about mortgage applicants. The data allow us to gauge the effects of enriching the information set of these employees in an environment where... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Feb 2020
Research & Ideas

The Hidden Vulnerabilities of Open Source Software

hundreds of the most used open source software projects—20 of which are detailed in the report. Call to action Tim Mackey, principal security strategist for SCRC, says commercial organizations can contribute... View Details

Keywords: by Frank Nagle and Jenny Hoffman; Computer

Shikhar Ghosh

Shikhar Ghosh is a Professor of Management Practice in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. He currently teaches in the elective curriculum and is the course head for 3 Technologies that will Change the World. Shikhar received the Apgar Award for innovation in... View Details

23 Jun 2003
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Psychology, Pathology, and the CEO

organization. Its funding was secure through 2006 because of a government-collected licensing fee, but it had lost audience share, experienced declining ratings, and was being outpaced by commercial... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

21 Jul 2010
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HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation

At the same time, shareholders and some debt holders will suffer losses, since their securities will no longer have value. Second, Congress dramatically reduced the risk of trading financial derivatives by requiring most of them to go... View Details

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Lehman Brothers Timeline | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

and global economic collapse. 1933 Congress passes the Glass-Steagall Act separating commercial banks from investment banks. 1934 Congress establishes the Securities Exchange Commission regulating the View Details

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Bankruptcy | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

investment banks, that package the mortgages into mortgage-backed securities (MBS). MBSs were divided into tranches (levels of risk) and bundled with other kinds of securities... View Details

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Global Impact of the Collapse | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s... View Details

03 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 4, 2008

In the early 1790s, a flood of newly issued public and private securities sparked an investment boom in the nascent United States. In New York, the bustling commercial district along Wall Street emerged as... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

Competition: Effects on Risky Mortgage Origination By: Marco Di Maggio , Amir Kermani & Sanket Korgaonkar FEB 2019 How does financial deregulation affect the use of complex loans features? How do regulated intermediaries react to the... View Details

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MBA Experience - Health Care

by faculty and includes the latest facts and figures about where students are securing internships and full-time positions. Health Care Career Days Offers panels and presentations designed to introduce students to diverse health care... View Details

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Help - Alumni

alumni community) Individuals in the MBA Class of 2006 or earlier having completed one year of the HBS MBA program Central and Eastern European Teachers' Program (ETP) Doctor of Commercial Science (DCS) The General Manager Program (TGMP)... View Details

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Finance - Faculty & Research

Mortgage Convexity By: Samuel G. Hanson Most home mortgages in the United States are fixed-rate loans with an embedded prepayment option. When long-term rates decline, the effective duration of... View Details

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Leadership Transitions | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

the year Lehman Brothers was ranked by Fortune Magazine as the #1 “Most Admired Securities Firm.” From the early 2000s leading up to the financial crisis of 2008, however, Lehman Brothers’ high amount of borrowing in proportion to its... View Details

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Podcast - Business & Environment

addressing food security with satellite data, to leading NASA Acres, which focuses on U.S. agriculture. She explains how AI and satellite technology are changing the agricultural sector, offering solutions ranging from crop yield... View Details

22 Mar 2024
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Open Source Software: The $9 Trillion Resource Companies Take for Granted

What does it take to put a price tag on open source software (OSS), a resource so critical to the global economy that some 96 percent of commercial programs include some code created, tinkered with, or distributed for free by... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Computer; Information Technology; Technology

16 Nov 2021
HBS Case

How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves

start, the company encouraged additional voluntary departures and offered to help people find new jobs, but got few takers. Many workers were civil servants who expected job security for life. And, at the time, unemployment was also high... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Entrepreneurship - Faculty & Research

external individuals, and the firms they back are less likely to secure institutional financing or achieve a successful exit. These startups also follow more conservative strategies. Instrumental variable... View Details

07 Jul 2008
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Innovation Corrupted: How Managers Can Avoid Another Enron

"reserve requirement" to back up supply commitments. Enron had a major advantage over competitors as a middleman between producers and consumers because it operated one of the nation's largest natural gas pipeline networks.... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Energy; Utilities

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General Merchants to Commodities Brokers | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School