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  • 24 Sep 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Financial Meltdowns Are More Predictable Than We Thought

passed since risky mortgage lending, excessive borrowing, and soaring housing prices collided in 2008 to trigger one of the more severe financial crises in American history. Since then, economists have been studying the factors that led... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services
  • 01 Sep 2009
  • News

Alumni Books

tsunami of credit problems isn’t over, for the second wave has yet to come. They break down the complex mortgage products and securities that Wall Street created and show how to find investment opportunities... View Details
  • 01 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 1, 2008

Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=308009 Kinyuseisaku: Monetary Policy in Japan Harvard Business School Case 708-017 Toshihiko Fukui, Government of the Bank of Japan, faced a complex... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 21 Jan 2009
  • First Look

First Look: January 21, 2009

recommendations for change. Purchase this note: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/ b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209056 Rosetree Mortgage Opportunity Fund Harvard Business School Case 209-088 In December 2008, in the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 1997
  • News

"Economists are puzzle solvers..."

same way. A home mortgage is a simple example of how our work is commonly applied. Most mortgages allow the homeowner the option to prepay the mortgage before its term is up.... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2009
  • News

Too Big To Fail

mortgage brokers, hedge funds, private-equity funds, off-balance sheet structured-investment vehicles, and a booming market in opaque derivatives, especially credit-default swaps, he continues. By the summer of 2007, the Treasury... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance
  • Web

The True Costs of Gig Work | Working Knowledge

also save less, reflecting their potentially complex financial needs or the fact that they’re students trying to work around their classes. These workers also shoulder higher transportation expenses. “One view of the world is that income... View Details
  • 22 Jun 2009
  • Research & Ideas

“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms

regulated and transparent markets and institutions and into the lightly regulated or unregulated shadow markets encompassing mortgage brokers, hedge funds, private-equity funds, off-balance sheet structured-investment vehicles, and a... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services
  • Web

Alumni in Climate Networking Series: San Francisco - Addressing Extreme Weather, Climate Risk, and Resilience - Blog - Business & Environment

communities to respond to the early warnings already embedded in pricing data. Together, the panel painted a challenging picture of the climate risk landscape—from growing disaster frequency and financial volatility to insurance market withdrawal and View Details
  • 08 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 8, 2008

today innovating in a complex intellectual property environment in fields where there is a high amount of cumulativeness. The case highlights the leverage that good strategic thinking can bring to influencing the outcome. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 7

to the special role reinsurers have played in the capitalist system. As the industry developed, it had a vested interest in preventing excessive risks, while also providing complex societies with a mechanism to limit the damage that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Dec 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer

funds, Pozen writes with authority and unusual clarity about complex issues in Too Big to Save? How to Fix the U.S. Financial System (John Wiley & Sons). Roger Thompson: How does the government figure out which financial institutions... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services
  • 01 Sep 2018
  • News

After the Fall

Ten years ago, the global financial system teetered dangerously on the edge of total collapse. What began as a subprime mortgage crisis in the United States developed into a full-blown meltdown, causing the collapse of major banks... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers; illustration by Dan Bejar; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government
  • 31 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 31

colleagues to refocus radically on truly modern phenomena, on anticipating the future, and on altering our theorizing and methods accordingly, or we will never catch up. Marketing Complex Financial Products in Emerging Markets: Evidence... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
  • 05 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 5, 2007

their first private equity fund. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207067 Bankinter: Deploying the Mortgage Simulator to the Branches Harvard Business School Case 107-070 Describes how... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

How Bank of America Turned Branches into Service-Development Laboratories

experiment required the involvement of a specialist—a mortgage underwriter, say—the team would enlist an actual specialist from the bank's staff and have him or her perform the required task. By the time an experiment was rolled out in... View Details
Keywords: by Stefan Thomke; Banking; Financial Services
  • 07 Aug 2009
  • What Do You Think?

Why Can’t Americans Get Health Care Right?

provided excellent comparative data of the kind that we have seen all too little in the public debate on the matter. And nearly everyone admirably avoided the political rhetoric that has clouded rational thought about a truly complex... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Health
  • 08 Sep 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Height Tax, and Other New Ways to Think about Taxation

over time. For half a century, tax analysts have noted that taxes averaged over a span of years (or even a lifetime), or taxes that depend on income histories and age, would be substantially more efficient and equitable. People are already so concerned about the View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 25 Mar 2013
  • Research & Ideas

How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy

companies." Chapter 11's Evolution Despite much criticism of Chapter 11 as too costly, slow, or inequitable, Gilson says managers and financiers working with distressed companies in Chapter 11 have "evolved and adapted to deal with large, View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Financial Services
  • 17 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 17

reference points or anchors to simplify the complex tasks of valuation and negotiation. Read the paper: http://people.hbs.edu/mbaker/cv/papers/refpt.pdf The Four Habits of High-Value Health Care Organizations Author:Richard M.J. Bohmer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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