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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
inflated the housing bubble with cheap credit. And it scolds the SEC for allowing the credit rating agencies to operate like a cartel without competition or transparency, which... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Faculty Books
Economics of Crime: Lessons for and from Latin America edited by Rafael Di Tella, Sebastian Edwards, and Ernesto Schargrodsky (University of Chicago Press) Although crime rates in Latin America are among the highest in the world,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
reform should be financial stability. We should not be trying to use government guarantees to lower mortgage interest rates per se. So what we call for is regulated privatization with the government playing the role of guarantor of last... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Subprime Time
there. That’s OK, if they are tightened. A return to common sense is overdue. We need a dramatic retooling of risk management and portfolio selection. The regulatory techniques and the rating agency... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
that up to 2 million people will lose their homes. The good news is that more recent proposals to license mortgage brokers and to require more disclosure by credit rating View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Hope for Reform Dims
reforms.” In a freewheeling Q&A session with some 400 students in Burden Hall on September 30, Thain advocated action on three fronts: consolidating the six federal agencies that regulate financial institutions to eliminate overlapping... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Ideas
Poor’s—controlled 97 percent of the credit ratings market. The status quo was disrupted, however, by the 2008 global economic recession, an event that the Big Three contributed to by giving overly optimistic... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Corruption 101
investment firm seeking a high-impact agribusiness project in rural Africa. A small company in Tanzania seems to fit the bill, but it faces health-safety issues with the potential to spread E. coli throughout the region. Another problem: It's not clear whether the... View Details
- 11 Oct 2022
- News
On Balance
Gender Equality Agency, a position she calls “a very clear practice and policy leadership opportunity, backed by data.” The government organization, established in 1986 as the Affirmative Action Agency, is tasked with promoting and improving gender equality in the... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2015
Airlines. Evolving Ourselves: How Unnatural Selection and Nonrandom Mutation Are Changing Life on Earth by Juan Enriquez (MBA 1986) and Steve Gullans (Current) The authors survey how humans are changing the course of their evolution, seen, for example, in rising View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
One-on-One with Jeff Hicks
HICKS Illustration by Joe Ciardiello Jeff Hicks (MBA ’97) arrived at HBS with ten years of experience as an advertising executive at Leo Burnett in Chicago. Disillusioned with the trend toward “unbundling” agencies into different... View Details
- 09 Jul 2024
- News
On Balance
at 22.8 percent. That figure has consistently fallen since 2013 but, “at the current rate of change, we won’t close the gender pay gap for 25 years,” observes Wooldridge. “We need to speed things up.” Likewise, the proportion of women in... View Details
- 25 Aug 2015
- News
Sunset in the East?
countryside are a good first step, but they are woefully inadequate to meet needs. The poorest people still have to spend the most for inadequate health care and education. With the announcement of lower interest rates on View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
Professors Recognized with New Chair Appointments
in 2001 after teaching at the University of Michigan Business School. His research investigates the structured finance market and how investor reliance on rating agencies and unsound pricing models led to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed
The Fed’s structure The Federal Reserve System is overseen by the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, an independent agency with seven members who are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate. The system is composed of 12... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Emerging Information
offices in 18 countries. The firm's main product, ISI Emerging Markets, is a continually evolving resource of information covering emerging markets in Europe, Latin America, and Asia. Contracting with local information providers - from newspapers and stock exchanges to... View Details
Keywords: Paul Michelman
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964
commissioner who was a professional manager rather than a tax attorney. "I was attracted by the challenge of turning around a huge institution that affects everybody in the country," says Rossotti. "It wasn't acceptable to have an agency... View Details
- 16 Oct 2014
- News
Innovating for International Aid
of San Francisco. Wu is currently chairman of the US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants as well as a Presidential Innovation Fellow working on the Development Innovation Ventures project at the United States Agency for International... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Crash Pad
Proposed legislation known as the Revitalizing Downtowns Act would establish a new tax credit for office conversions, and the General Services Administration, the agency in charge of federal property, is... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Big Business of Little Loans
Funding Circle, among others. It was a wide circle. These startups are part of a new ecosystem filling the void left by traditional banks that don’t want to lend to small businesses because they are too risky or because interest rates are... View Details
Keywords: Nancy Miller