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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
Illustration by David Plunkert Here’s a really scary thought. Now that the federal government has poured hundreds of billions of dollars into saving financial institutions deemed “too big to fail,” hasn’t it implicitly guaranteed similar... View Details
- 01 Dec 2000
- News
Old Meets New: A Dinosaur Named Sue
brain cavity: Big enough to hold a quart of milk Date reassembled: Sue was unveiled at the Field Museum May 17, 2000 Number of visitors that day: Close to 10,000 Most popular item in the Sue gift shop: Kid's T-shirt, $12.95 Field Museum... View Details
- 21 Jul 2010
- News
Mad Men, the Early Era
jaunty hats were the elements of style. An advertisement for Seagram’s whiskey could be a still from a Fred Astaire movie, with two smiling, tuxedoed men and a sleekly coiffed woman gathered around a tray table of cocktail glasses. The fantasy that a new cigarette,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
financial institutions are too big to fail? There are two valid reasons for bailing out a financial institution. First is to protect the system for processing payments, like checks, because that system is critical to the operation of the... View Details
- 09 Nov 2021
- News
Weighing Big Tech’s Promise to Black America
cash holdings “in financial institutions and organizations that directly support Black communities.” As part of that effort, Netflix deposited $10 million in Hope Credit Union, a Black-owned bank. The pledge... View Details
- 25 May 2016
- News
Education Is the Key
engineering and economics,” says Haddad, a native of Brazil who holds a PhD from the University of Chicago. “Participating in the OPM Program in the mid-1980s opened up my understanding to new ways of thinking.” In addition, then-Dean Kim... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Tickling the Ivories
KAO: Out of conflict and apparent mistakes, a beautiful, coherent melody. The Economist magazine has called him “Mr. Creativity” and a “serial innovator.” A former keyboard player for Frank Zappa, John Kao (MBA 1982), an HBS faculty member from 1982 to 1996, View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Broad Range of Interests Among Nine New Faculty
which all technological shifts are.” During the winter term, Henderson will coteach the first-year course Leadership and Corporate Account-ability, which she says has broad relevance to her work. “LCA really looks at the responsibilities of managers — the legal,... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Christian Bjelland
As president and fourth-generation owner of Chr. Bjelland & Company, an industrial holding company headquartered in Oslo, Christian Bjelland has more than enough challenges to fill any given workday. But over the last decade, Bjelland has... View Details
- 01 Mar 2014
- News
Supporting Women in Leadership
"The intention of the fund is to look at women in leadership—in business and in civic life. Among other things, we want to help increase the number of cases featuring women protagonists. Currently, women hold 18–20 percent of senior... View Details
Keywords: W50
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
High Stakes: Springboard 2000 Comes to HBS
women-owned firms participate in only 9 percent of institutional equity deals, receiving just 2.3 percent of venture-capital dollars. Springboard is working to correct that gender disparity. HBS Dean Kim B. Clark, speaking at the opening... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto
respond. When the system is decentralized, there’s no owner, and often not even a central legal institution wrapped around it. If the system somehow decided to take half of my bitcoin holdings and give them... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
Bridging Domains
companies, and for scientists and engineers to better understand how businesses can enhance the impact of their ideas.” Karen, Sanjeev’s classmate at Harvard College, majored in government as an undergraduate and holds a master’s degree... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
pay the government up front for bailing them out. The old system didn’t work too well, and this one wouldn’t either. Wouldn’t the pool of reinsurance money paid by these private institutions shield the government from any losses? Not... View Details
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Outside Voices
In just 15 years, Greece managed to seesaw from one economic extreme to the other, from almost breaking the eurozone at the depth of its debt crisis to becoming one of the fastest growing economies in Europe in 2023, according to the IMF. Now wages are rebounding,... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975
microfinance institutions and banks in developing countries that make small loans to low-income women-and in some instances, men-so that they can build their own business and move beyond poverty. A customer in The Gambia, for example,... View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Thomas A. James, MBA 1966
is a diversified financial services holding company with more than 2,500 offices around the world, 14,000 associates, and a market capitalization of $5.1 billion. James has always had an independent spirit. In college he and Mary... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Shareholders' Value?
many investors are short-termers, and they aren't as good as long-termers at disciplining and guiding managers. Another issue is that big institutions, which hold the lion's share of stock, own shares in hundreds of companies, making it... View Details
- 13 Nov 2018
- News
Building a New Real Estate Investment Model
small mom-and-pop operations, who often feel economic pressure themselves in rapidly gentrifying communities as taxes and other costs rise. Only 2 percent are owned by large institutional investors, and most of those homes are located in... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
No Time Like the Present
Sangu Delle (MBA 2016) Sangu Delle always intended to support the educational institutions he attended, including Harvard College, HBS, and Harvard Law School, but he was planning to wait to give back until he’d achieved a certain level... View Details