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- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
booming. Banks and companies, eager for a piece of the action, invest heavily in production capability. Not surprisingly, a market can soon become saturated with too much product; consequently, demand drops, revenues slow to a trickle, loans and View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
historic emergence of credit and debt was as important in the rise of civilization as technological invention. In the excerpt that follows, he explains the recently developed symbiotic financial relationship between the United States and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
What Went Wrong?
from securing mortgages to saving for kids’ college tuition and retirement. But the country’s current financial crisis really threw me for a loop. Beginning last spring, with the demise of Bear Stearns, the steady drip, drip, drip of bad... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Greek Drama
Samaras: Enough pain. Photo AFP/Getty Images The debt drama unfolding in Greece is made even more gripping by the long relationship between two of the country’s leaders, former Socialist Prime Minister George Papandreou and the head of... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Big Bailouts, Little Debate
almost casual choices made during this crisis have spawned disastrous consequences. Take Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, for example. When I began covering the companies in early 2008, it was an unquestioned assumption they had grown too... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Subprime Time
modesty for all concerned: the rating agencies, the banks, asset managers. And certainly the masters of the debt universe and the Ph.D.’s with their black boxes turned out to be fallible. You can look at this as a shakedown cruise of our... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Hope for Reform Dims
THAIN: Regulations failed to keep up with innovations in financial markets. A year after the federal government rushed to rescue Wall Street from its own nearly fatal excesses, former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain (MBA ’79) worries “that we aren’t using the 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
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
assets—which Greece has had a wealth of in recent years. Indeed the last decade has been rough on the country, to vastly understate the impact of a sovereign debt crisis that... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Expertise From The Front Lines Of The Eurozone
Roscini As news headlines continue to validate uncertainty about the European debt crisis, HBS students have a direct line to an expert in the field. Senior Lecturer Dante Roscini (MBA 1988), the L.E. Simmons Faculty Fellow, left a... View Details
- 29 Jan 2010
- News
Back to Glass-Steagall?
collateralized debt obligations or derivatives, that contributed mightily to the financial market meltdown in 2008. So the question arises, would the Volker Rule really prevent another financial crisis? HBS professor David Moss argues... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Case for Studying Financial History
HISTORY LESSONS: Ferguson shares his views on the global financial crisis with an attentive crowd at the Harvard Book Store in Cambridge. Professor Niall Ferguson, born in Glasgow and educated at Oxford and Cambridge universities, argues... View Details
- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
mention for 30 seconds that Greece might have to do an austerity program, and they’ll repeat it 100 times over the next week. Unfortunately, 99 percent of the viewers don’t know what an austerity program is, and 99 percent don’t understand what View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
The Accidental Innovator
Unfortunately, 99 percent of the viewers don’t know what an austerity program is, and 99 percent don’t understand what sovereign debt is or what it means to default on View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
A Modest Tax Proposal
"How about 'No new taxes after these new taxes'?" © James Stevenson/The New Yorker Collection/www.cartoonbank.com As Congress starts the next round of debt ceiling negotiations, the US Chamber of Commerce and other business groups are... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
which we launched last January. This substantive example of intra-University collaboration also dovetailed nicely with my role as senior associate dean for Planning and University Affairs. It would seem that the timing was perfect given the many consumer credit and... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now By John Doerr (MBA 1976) Portfolio In 2006, John Doerr was moved by Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth and a challenge from his teenage daughter: “Dad, your generation created this problem. You better fix... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
even when that is costly or difficult or unpopular. It’s a choice to leverage up your company to the hilt, to pile on nonrecourse debt to pay special dividends to the owners and then walk away if the business falters and the View Details
Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
non-executive Merrill directors even attended the meeting. Stories of boards and CEOs failing to do their jobs on behalf of shareholders can also be told about AIG, Bank of America, Bear Stearns, Citigroup, Countrywide, Fannie Mae, View Details
- 05 May 2023
- News
Fail Better
country's history. Greece was three years into a debt crisis, with the Samaras government implementing unpopular tax increases and spending cuts and leading intense negotiations with the IMF, the European Central Bank, and Eurozone... View Details