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- December 2007 (Revised September 2009)
- Case
Wall Street's First Panic (A)
By: David A. Moss and Cole Bolton
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 the center of the city's securities trade. One of the many... View Details
Keywords: History; Financial Instruments; Auctions; Financial Crisis; Business and Government Relations; Financial Services Industry
Moss, David A., and Cole Bolton. "Wall Street's First Panic (A)." Harvard Business School Case 708-002, December 2007. (Revised September 2009.)
- 23 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 23
year gains. We evaluate the performance of all policies under consideration using the same statistical and simulation tools and data as the U.S. policymakers use. Other case studies perform View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
fully extended attraction models (Cooper and Nakanishi 1988). Utilizing a database of store-level scanner data for 25 categories and 127 brands of frequently purchased branded consumer goods, we find that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Jean Luo
After two years with Goldman Sachs, Jean Luo landed the kind of job millions dream of: developing games as a product manager at Zynga. “I really enjoyed being a PM; it's like... View Details
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
avoidable ways. This article is based on the analysis of hundreds of work diaries from professionals describing everyday events that involved high-level managers in their companies. The analysis uncovered four major types of actions that reduce meaningfulness in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 13 Mar 2023
- Op-Ed
How Leaders Should Leave
never know when they’ll enter your career path again as prospective bosses, peers, or subordinates. Here is a recommended roadmap for how to resign with grace and class—without burning bridges along the way:... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 20 Jul 2021
- Research & Ideas
Bankruptcy Spells Death for Too Many Businesses
Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection is supposed to allow companies to shed debt and get a fresh start. Ideally, creditors recover most of what they’re owed as the restructured firm begins turning View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 02 Nov 2023
- News
Seeding Startups
really good, we’ll mentor them with the hope they’ll actually do it.” He also invests in and advises promising Seattle-area startups, such as Bloomz, a parent-teacher communication app used in 25,000 schools... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 13 Jan 2023
- Research & Ideas
Are Companies Actually Greener—or Are They All Talk?
Most companies now account for social good in their financial reports in some way, but with regulation scattershot and evolving, it’s complicated for investors to assess so-called ESG reports. The disclosures, known as Environmental, Social, and Governance reports,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- Web
Loan Reduction - Entrepreneurship
reserve the right to restructure or discontinue the Program as necessary. ELIGIBILITY You may be eligible for one-time loan reduction based on your application if you: Are a second-year MBA student... View Details
- 27 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Working to Change the Food System
living in San Francisco working at a data science startup as a product manager. I have always gravitated toward technology and science throughout... View Details
- 31 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 31
analyze all questions and answers from the inception of the Google Answers service through November 2003, and I find notable trends in answerer behavior: more experienced answerers provide answers with the characteristics askers most... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life
Norton as a Short Intensive Program. What role does word choice play in the business world? Words matter! But words are just one of three important buckets that fill our conversations with meaningful... View Details
- 17 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 17, 2006
influence facility managers' decisions. As a result, managers of facilities that are subjected to comparable institutional pressures adopt distinct sets of management practices that appease different... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2019
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Riddle of How Companies Grow Over Time
leaders answer such important questions as: Why do some companies grow while others stagnate? Why do some firms grow in spurts while others grow steadily over time? Does a lack of growth mean failure? Should View Details
- 28 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Profit Power of Corporate Culture
Danish-based facility services provider ISS; or as some combination of the two—typically in a holding company like US-based marketing services... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 27
literacy stifle demand. A second view argues that demand is rationally low, because formal financial services are expensive and of relatively low value to the poor. This paper uses original surveys and View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
subnational regions have gained increasing attention both as a level of analysis and as a level for policy making. This chapter aims to explore... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Mar 2023
- In Practice
What Does the Failure of Silicon Valley Bank Say About the State of Finance?
crisis—and was the second-biggest to fail ever. Analysts say SVB was largely unprepared for the Federal Reserve’s aggressive interest rate increases, which shrank the value of its investments. As word spread quickly online that the bank... View Details
- 03 May 2022
- Research & Ideas
Desperate for Talent? Consider Advancing Your Own Employees First
Job openings in the United States continue to hover at record high levels, exacerbated by the Great Resignation and a sputtering emergence from the pandemic. Competition remains fierce among companies struggling to find qualified workers. Yet many employers,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne