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- 01 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 1, 2008
http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=808110 Subprime Meltdown: American Housing and Global Financial Turmoil Harvard Business School Case 708-042 This case focuses on the financial difficulties faced in the U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
Affect Credit Ratings? Authors:Bo Becker and Todd Milbourn Abstract The credit rating industry has historically been dominated by just two agencies, Moody's and S&P, leading to longstanding legislative and regulatory calls for increased competition. The material... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2007
- Research & Ideas
Is Health Care Making You Better—or Dead?
the current mode of innovation, the MinuteClinic, the Ready Care Clinic, feasible today? They've got very powerful protectors. They're housed in Wal-Mart. They're housed in Target. These guys have got very... View Details
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
materiality of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors in credit ratings' methodologies and introduce the concept of "layered materiality." In the third paper, we will evaluate current and potential credit rating View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 10
involved. Its success would depend on land acquisition and unprecedented levels of coordination across various government agencies. This case examines whether Amitabh Kant, CEO, Delhi-Mumbai Industrial Corridor Development Corporation (DMICDC), the nodal View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jan 2021
- In Practice
Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm
literally a 50-50 proposition." In terms of leadership advice, first of all, we should all acknowledge that the country today is almost literally a 50-50 proposition. The Senate will be 50-50, and the Democratic majority in the House will... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
The New Deal: Negotiauctions
complex deals. Take buying a house, which for many people is the most important transaction in their lives. In the United States, a house purchase is a very "tight" deal—once the seller commits to a particular buyer, the seller... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger
automobiles that once cost more than a house are now cheaper, better, and available to all income classes. Indeed, the word "Toyota" is now used as shorthand to identify low-cost, high-quality goods and services. Q: Your article... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 19 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?
poorly suited," explains Froot. “Why can't they produce enough of this coverage at a lower price?” A local property-casualty insurance agency can easily hold enough capital to cover losses from house... View Details
- 11 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Future of Boards
be in incentives? Plus, the overall approach (thanks in part to the use of compensation consultants) has moved from an individual, situational negotiation to one that is market-based. Yet no one goes back to ask the fundamental question: Is the premise that underlies... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
former chairman Alan Greenspan for holding interest rates too low for too long, which inflated the housing bubble with cheap credit. And it scolds the SEC for allowing the credit rating agencies to operate... View Details
- 06 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 6, 2015
demonstrated how influence derives from instrumental agency as well as structural influence, but it has taken an unnecessarily restrictive view of politics and an overly materialist theory of power. Politics are about much more than... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
Default and Recovery Rates By: Bonsall, Samuel B., IV, Kevin Koharki, Karl A. Muller III, and Anywhere Sikochi Abstract—This study investigates whether rating agencies apply more stringent rating adjustments leading up to issuer defaults... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel