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  • 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
  • 22 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 22

  PublicationsForward: The Future of Consumer Credit and Mortgage Finance Authors:Nicolas P. Retsinas and Eric Belsky, eds. Publication:Brookings Institution Press and Joint Center for Housing Studies at Harvard University, 2011 Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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
  • 13 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 13

of this ratchet effect, we simulate the U.S. housing market with and without equity extractions, and estimate the losses absorbed by mortgage lenders by valuing the embedded put-option in non-recourse mortgages. Our simulations generate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 7, 2008

Lawrence Summers had presided over the final interviews of world-renowned architects being considered for the science complex planned for Harvard's expanded campus in Allston. The selection process had absorbed nine months in 2005 and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 5, 2010

BrochetHarvard Business School Case 110-029 This case illustrates the tension/balance that firms with complex and risky business models must consider in designing their internal controls. It describes the environment in which a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 16, 2016

funds' holdings of securitizations to examine which investors are susceptible to such boom-time thinking. We show that firsthand experience plays a key role in shaping investors' beliefs. During the 2003–2007 mortgage boom, inexperienced... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Sep 2012
  • Research & Ideas

US Competitiveness at Risk

begin this inquiry? Michael Porter: There was a clear feeling at Harvard Business School that something different was happening in the US economy—this was not just a deep recession caused by the housing mortgage crisis and so forth. The... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
  • 09 Sep 2024
  • News

Basket Chase

Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. On this episode, we’re featuring an excerpt from a new HBS podcast called Think Big, Buy Small. The show is hosted by Professors Richard Ruback and Royce Yudkoff... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2008
  • News

Business at the Summit

chairman and CEO, Ayala Corporation in the Philippines. Dimon offered an unvarnished critique of both the corporate and the political worlds. He conceded that the mortgage business “was basically underregulated,” leading to the spread of... View Details
Keywords: leadership; alumni events; Centennial; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Finance; Management
  • 19 May 2022
  • News

Leading to Salvation

Services cut the ribbon on its new, modern complex at the corner of Penn and Plymouth Avenues in the predominantly Black neighborhood of North Minneapolis. It was a high point in a journey that began five years earlier, following the... View Details
  • 28 Apr 2009
  • First Look

First Look: April 28, 2009

http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=809079 Kinyuseisaku: Monetary Policy in Japan (B) Harvard Business School Case 709-056 Toshihiko Fukui, who works for the Government of the Bank of Japan, faced a complex... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Mar 2012
  • First Look

First Look: March 6

requirements, reorienting the discussion around housing finance reform from keeping mortgage credit cheap to ensuring financial stability, and instituting measures that compel asset managers to compete on the true value of the services... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Feb 2008
  • First Look

First Look: February 20, 2008

price gouging and laws regulating the terms of mortgages may have support because consumers recognize that many people do not optimize their consumption effectively and because they are angry at firms that take advantage of this. These... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace