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- 01 Jun 2009
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Setting the Legislative Agenda
shadow financial system. Create a new system for federal and state regulation of mortgages and other consumer credit products. Create executive pay structures that discourage excessive risk taking. Reform the credit rating system. Make... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
studies that there are many small-business owners who could put capital to very good use, but microfinance has not yet unlocked those potential opportunities. “That paper was very influential and one of the first indications to academics that small changes to the View Details
- 27 Nov 2012
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The Beauty of the Network
Pao: A beauty business veteran leverages the HBS network to launch her own skincare line. Photo courtesy Patti Pao Patti Pao (MBA 1987) describes her two years at HBS as “spectacularly unsuccessful,” thanks in part to a culture clash with the section-enforced View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
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Addressing the housing needs of India’s poor
Rakhi Mehra (MBA 2009) is enabling a growing number of India’s 82 million urban poor households to have structurally safe and well-ventilated homes through the enterprise she cofounded, micro Home Solutions (mHS) City Lab. Winner of the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
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We Rise
founding teams generated less than half as much—just 31 cents. “We don’t want to put up barriers. We’re doing some things structurally to make sure we don’t exclude founders because of where they came from or what their prior experience... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
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Big Bailouts, Little Debate
the product of long, structured deliberation. As for the decision to let AIG pay out its controversial bonuses, regulators simply refused to address the issue until events had moved beyond their control. And going back even further, few... View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
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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 Dec 2011
- News
Alumni Book Briefs
Age of Greed: The Triumph of Finance and the Decline of America, 1970 to the Present by Jeff Madrick (MBA ’71) (Knopf) This is a history of how greed has bred America’s economic ills over the last 40 years, and of the men most responsible... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Beyond the Numbers
by 300 percent in one year by altering the company's profit structure and leveraging its balance sheet. Among other reengineering moves, Robinson reduced fixed costs significantly by centralizing the firm's financial operations. Eager to... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Hope for Reform Dims
excessive consumer and corporate debt. “Regulatory structures failed to keep up” with innovations in the marketplace, he added. Thain took the top spot at Merrill Lynch in December 2007, resigning as CEO of the NYSE Euronext. Previously,... View Details
- 21 Jul 2011
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Social Investing’s Time Has Come
handful more in other locations over the following two years, totaling $100 million in impact investments. Social Finance will work with state and local governments to structure and monitor the funded... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
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Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar
areas of capital markets, financial services, and corporate finance. "New financial product and market designs, improved computer and telecommunications technology, and advances in finance theory during the past quarter century have led... View Details
Keywords: Elizabeth McNair
- 01 Dec 2002
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What You Know Depends on Where You Go
were largely gained in the trenches of a multiyear research project with Professor Tarun Khanna that explores the implications of conglomerate business structures in emerging markets. In the late 1980s and early 1990s, research showed... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
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M.I.A. Boards
directly involved in the recent financial meltdown, as well as many firms outside of finance whose governance-related troubles came home to roost in the recession. On behalf of shareholders, boards’ specific duties are to choose and, when... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
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Financial Services 24/7
Professor of Business Administration. "There are many challenges for firms in figuring out how to position themselves," notes Crane, who has taught finance and banking at HBS for many years. As consumers get more accustomed to using their... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Feb 2001
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Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde
as a means of moving tax-evading money across borders, I conducted a highly structured research project involving 550 business owners and managers in 12 countries. Later, when I came to the Brookings Institution, I traveled to 23... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
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Inside the Partnership
savvy and organizational skills to the man Wall Street loved to hate, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, as detailed in this excerpt from the chapter “The Long Road Back.” Having tasted politics in 1932 by working for Franklin D. Roosevelt as a member of the Democratic... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Jun 2001
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Platforms and Collaborations
would deliver course materials to MBA students in a coordinated way. Not just spreadsheets but audio and video clips, with an eye toward multimedia cases, would be available online, personalized to each student’s courseload. A key element was making the View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
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Faculty Retirements
Publishing, Inc. (SSEP), an organization he cofounded in 1994 that publishes scientific research online (www.ssrn.com). Jensen was named "Scholar of the Year" in 1990 by the Eastern Finance Association and was also cited as one of that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2011
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The Check Is in the Mail
the glimpses into lost business structures and lost lives.” Organized by Baker Library Historical Collections, “Buy Now, Pay Later: A History of Personal Credit” is on display through June 3 and can be viewed online at... View Details