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  • 27 Feb 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Podcast: Revisiting Rental Housing

Podcast with: Nicolas Retsinas Interviewer: Sean Silverthorne Running Time: 13 min., 22 sec. Renters are the forgotten underclass of American policymakers. Although a third of all U.S. citizens rent their dwelling, rental stock is in poor shape, short supply, and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Construction; Real Estate
  • October 2008 (Revised October 2009)
  • Case

New Century Financial Corporation

By: Krishna G. Palepu, Suraj Srinivasan and Aldo Sesia
After years of rapid growth and stock price appreciation, New Century Financial Corporation, one of the largest subprime loan originators in the U.S., reported accounting problems in early 2007. The resulting liquidity crisis forced the company to file for Chapter 11... View Details
Keywords: Accounting Audits; Financial Reporting; Business Model; Financial Crisis; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Mortgages; Financial Services Industry; United States
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  • 03 Apr 2011
  • News

Why Red Flags Can Go Unnoticed

  • 03 Oct 2008
  • News

Wall Street's Latest Crisis of Leadership

  • 22 Feb 2010
  • News

Lowering The Boom On Financial Leverage

  • 06 Feb 2009
  • News

Keynes can't help us now

  • 26 May 2010
  • News

The Greek Crisis and the Limits of Arbitrage

  • June 2010
  • Case

Cypress Sharpridge: Raising Capital in a Time of Crisis

By: Lena G. Goldberg and Adam Benjamin Nebesar
Cypress Sharpridge, a REIT investing in agency securities, launched its IPO just before the collapse of the subprime mortgage market. The IPO failed. In June 2009, an IPO window seemed to be opening. Should the company try again? CEO Kevin Grant knew that his company's... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Capital; Financial Strategy; Initial Public Offering; Investment; Leadership; Crisis Management; Financial Services Industry; Real Estate Industry
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  • January 2009 (Revised March 2012)
  • Case

Spain: Can the House Resist the Storm?

By: Diego A. Comin
On September 16, 2008, President Rodriguez Zapatero recognized the severity of Spain's macroeconomic situation and clearly pointed to the culprit in front of the Spanish Congress: "Let nobody doubt it; there is already a wide consensus about the origin of the crisis:... View Details
Keywords: Business Cycles; Economy; Financial Crisis; Macroeconomics; System Shocks; Spain
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  • May 2008 (Revised July 2009)
  • Case

Sovereign Wealth Funds: For Profits or Politics?

By: Laura Alfaro and Renee Kim
On March 21, 2008, the U.S. government secured an agreement from two leading sovereign wealth funds (SWFs) to adopt a new set of investment principles to govern the Funds' activities. SWFs, broadly defined as an investment fund owned by a national or a government, were... View Details
Keywords: Foreign Direct Investment; Investment Funds; Sovereign Finance; Corporate Disclosure; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; International Relations; State Ownership; United States
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  • 24 Feb 2009
  • News

Seven Lessons for Leading in Crisis

  • April 2009
  • Case

The First Global Financial Crisis of the 21st Century

By: Laura Alfaro and Renee Kim
The global economy was expected to suffer from negative growth for the full year in 2009, a phenomenon not seen since World War II. While the U.S. subprime mortgage disaster was blamed as the original instigator, it was noted that the "global imbalances" of the U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Mortgages; Globalized Economies and Regions; Policy; International Relations; Business and Government Relations; Conflict and Resolution
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    Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring: Case Studies in Bankruptcies, Buyouts, and Breakups

    From the publisher:  Stuart Gilson is one of the leading corporate restructuring experts in the United States, teaching thousands of students and consulting with numerous companies. Now, in the second edition of this bestselling book, Gilson returns to... View Details

    • 03 Mar 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: March 3, 2009

    but they must also think about how to manage the entire firm's portfolio. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=809072 Necessity and Invention: Monetary Policy Innovation and the Subprime... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 27 Jan 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    A Brief Postwar History of US Consumer Finance

    Keywords: by Andrea Ryan, Gunnar Trumbull & Peter Tufano; Banking

      Borrowing to Live: Consumer and Mortgage Credit Revisited

      Americans are awash in debt. Credit undergirds daily life more than ever before—it is one of the defining aspects of life in the United States today. The damage from a depressed housing market is exacerbated by the subprime lender implosion, sending shock waves... View Details

        Fintech Borrowers: Lax-Screening or Cream-Skimming?

        Financial markets have recently witnessed a disruptive force: the rise of online intermediaries and, more generally, fintech companies, i.e., firms that apply technology to improve financial activities. Fintech companies have targeted the consumer credit market,... View Details

        • 08 Dec 2011
        • Working Paper Summaries

        Are There Too Many Safe Securities? Securitization and the Incentives for Information Production

        Keywords: by Samuel G. Hanson & Adi Sunderam; Financial Services
        • 28 May 2013
        • First Look

        First Look: May 28

        widespread fraud in mortgage lender NovaStar Financial. The case is set in the time period from 2001 to 2007 and tracks the growth of the subprime industry and its collapse leading to the financial crisis. The case describes the business... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • 18 Aug 2009
        • First Look

        First Look: August 18

        macroeconomic situation and clearly pointed to the culprit in front of the Spanish Congress: "Let nobody doubt it; there is already a wide consensus about the origin of the crisis: [It is] in the U.S. and its subprime... View Details
        Keywords: Martha Lagace