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Mortgages: data

Where can I find data on mortgages (rates, originations, sub-prime)? Federal Housing Finance Agency: data on current and historical average mortgage rates. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: data from the Home Mortgage Disclosure Act.... View Details

    Vincent C. Ziegler

    Zeigler presided over Gillette’s strongest financial performance in its 73-year history. He helped Gillette reach the $1 billion mark in revenues in 1973 – up from $340 million when he assumed the CEO position. Under Zeigler, Gillette... View Details
    Keywords: Personal Care & Home Products

      Henry Taub

      Taub took a back-office, manual operation and turned it into a successful business proposition. In starting ADP, he concentrated on providing payroll services for small businesses and for financial service firms on Wall Street. The... View Details
      Keywords: Services

        Harvey H. Lamm

        his tenure, Subaru was rated as one of the best financially managed automobile companies in the United States, regularly achieving 55%+ return on equity ratios. View Details
        Keywords: Automotive & Aerospace
        • 17 Dec 2001
        • Research & Ideas

        Risks and Rewards of the Intrapreneur

        the company, tap into management skills, leverage existing technologies, and use existing compensation and HR functions. But while you are protected from failure, your upside—especially financial reward—is also usually less than what you... View Details
        Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
        • 13 Jul 2016
        • Blog Post

        How To Hire A Millennial

        business “should be measured by something more than just its financial success.” So if a company’s dominant message is that it revolves solely around its financial performance, that organization may wow... View Details
        Keywords: All Industries
        • 09 Apr 2020
        • Research & Ideas

        How Social Entrepreneurs Can Increase Their Investment Impact

        revenue toward high impact opportunities, then an investment may allow the financier to reallocate funds to other purposes. Does the company have opportunities to expand its profitability at little cost to its social mission? If yes, an... View Details
        Keywords: by Rachel Layne
        • 24 May 2017
        • News

        John H. McArthur, MBA 1959, DBA 1963

        he successfully implemented his ideas. When McArthur became Dean, the School was on tenuous financial footing, relying heavily on the MBA Program for revenue. He grew the publishing division and executive education offerings, both of... View Details
        Keywords: Susan Young
        • 15 Sep 2015
        • News

        Easing the Costs of Saving a Child

        our background check and credit review, and gets approval by an adoption agency, we will help them close the financial gap. It’s not a grant. It’s a loan based on the do-unto-others belief system,” he says. To date, Pathways has funded... View Details
        Keywords: Jill Radsken
        • June 2001 (Revised July 2001)
        • Case

        Amazon.com in the Year 2000

        By: Krishna G. Palepu and Jeremy Cott
        An analyst's critique of Amazon's prospectus from the perspective of its bond holders. View Details
        Keywords: Bonds; Accounting Audits; Financial Reporting; Governing and Advisory Boards; Internet and the Web; Forecasting and Prediction; Retail Industry
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        • September 1992 (Revised March 1998)
        • Case

        Japan Confronts an Interdependent World

        By: George C. Lodge
        Traces the evolution of Japan's economic strategy from 1972 to 1992. Describes the collapse of the Japanese stock market in the spring of 1992, raising the question: Is this the end of Japan's miraculous growth? To help students consider that question, the case... View Details
        Keywords: Policy; Financial Markets; Information Technology; System Shocks; Borrowing and Debt; Financial Crisis; Government and Politics; Growth and Development; Situation or Environment; Japan; United States
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        • 28 Aug 2014
        • Op-Ed

        Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit

        immediate impact of the financial crisis on small business and, second, driving economic recovery in the years following. Together, the three-the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act), the Small Business Jobs Act... View Details
        Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking
        • 11 Jul 2012
        • Research & Ideas

        Book Excerpt: ’The Future of Boards’

        Editor's note: The credit crisis and subsequent recession has thrown many financial and business institutions into, if not chaos, then at least a sense that the landscape underneath has shifted significantly. One institution undergoing... View Details
        Keywords: by Jay Lorsch
        • 24 Apr 2007
        • First Look

        First Look: April 24, 2007

        CEO must decide where to cut costs and how to convince creditors to give the company the time it needs to turn around. A bankruptcy reorganization is one option open to the company. Describes the audit recovery industry, the company's history, the CEO, the View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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        IFC India 2025: Decarbonizing Rice Paddy Farming - Pioneering Sustainability in Indian Agriculture - Blog - Business & Environment

        environmental impact of rice farming while safeguarding farmer livelihoods is a monumental challenge. Through our research and site visits, we explored innovative strategies to decarbonize rice farming, focusing on sustainable practices, viable crop alternatives, and... View Details
        • 01 Dec 2008
        • News

        Lesson from the Fall

        opportunities for executives to reap enormous personal gains from gaming accounting and SEC rules. If Enron-type breakdowns are to be avoided in the future, corporate boards need to keep in mind seven propositions that collectively address the potentially perverse... View Details
        Keywords: Malcolm S. Salter; Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities

          Samuel F. Hinkle

          non-chocolate lines and opening new vending businesses. His leadership of Hershey was marked by almost 10 years of top level financial performance (one of the top 50 performers of all U.S. firms). View Details
          Keywords: Food & Tobacco

            Owsley Brown II

            embracing bold new marketing programs. It has paid off. Brown-Forman, through its Jack Daniels, Southern Comfort, and Fetzer Wine brands, has produced stellar financial returns and double-digit revenue growth for the last decade despite... View Details
            Keywords: Food & Tobacco
            • 06 Nov 2018
            • First Look

            New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018

            financial crisis. Despite this offsetting expansion, the net effect of the contraction in credit was negative, with lower aggregate credit and deposits growth as well as lower entrepreneurial activity through 2015. Download working paper:... View Details
            Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
            • 21 Jan 2013
            • Research & Ideas

            Altruistic Capital: Harnessing Your Employees’ Intrinsic Goodwill

            "Work done in the spirit of service is the highest form of worship." —Abdu'l-Bahá The field of economics is rife with the concept of "capital." There's financial capital—cold hard cash or cashable assets. There's fixed capital—the... View Details
            Keywords: by Carmen Nobel