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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
Ten years ago, the global financial system teetered dangerously on the edge of total collapse. What began as a subprime mortgage crisis in the United States developed into a full-blown meltdown, causing the collapse of major banks... View Details
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Lehman Brothers - Introduction | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
derivatives and subprime mortgages; losses on these instruments contributed to the firm’s filing for bankruptcy in 2008. Drawing from the extensive Lehman Brothers Collection in Baker Library’s Special Collections, Lehman Brothers: A... View Details
- 24 Feb 2011
- Research & Ideas
What’s Government’s Role in Regulating Home Purchase Financing?
The collapse of the US housing finance system, the subprime mortgage crisis, was a key contributor to the international economic crisis ignited in 2008. What should government do to prevent such an economic short-circuit in the future? On... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
What Went Wrong?
myself straining to understand not just what was happening but the strange vocabulary used to describe it. I’d never heard of a subprime mortgage. Likewise securitization in all its exotic flavors: collateralized debt obligations,... View Details
- 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
- 22 Feb 2022
- Research & Ideas
When Will the Hot Housing Market Finally Start to Cool?
There were a whole lot of risk factors in the Great Recession that contributed to the collapse: It was availability of credit to subprime borrowers, the syndication of these mortgages in the residential mortgage-backed securities market,... View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 15 Aug 2007
- Op-Ed
3 Steps to Reduce Financial System Risk
products has kept up with the massive growth in the volume and complexity of these products. The recent experience with U.S. subprime products adds to such concerns. Worries center on the "correlation modeling" that underpins... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
An Economy Undermined
negotiable CDs, and so on. Across Wall Street, with takeovers, LBOs, S&Ls, over-the-counter derivatives, high-tech stocks, telecoms, subprime mortgages, and of course mortgage securitization, innovation was too often accompanied by abuse.... View Details
- 21 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 21
Srinivasan, and Ian CornellHarvard Business School Case 113-002 The case introduces students to the subprime mortgage industry and helps to understand the business model and how economics transactions of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Mar 2009
- Op-Ed
Credit is Not the Bogey
to loan Americans money. In the housing sector, an explosion of subprime lenders gave borrowers deals that were truly too good to be true, trapping them in impossible loans. In the retail sector, credit card agencies flooded mailboxes,... View Details
- 02 Nov 2009
- Research & Ideas
Shareholders Need a Say on Pay
objective function from government in that sense." Ferri points out that when the economy was doing well, for example, shareholders had a healthy appetite for the sort of risk-taking that contributed to the subprime mortgage crisis.... View Details
- 03 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
Marketing Your Way Through a Recession
Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge. The signs of an imminent recession are all around us. The spillover from... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 04 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
What’s Next for the Big Financial Brands
company? So long as they are not triumphalist, large banks like JP Morgan Chase and Wells Fargo that were less involved in chasing too-good-to-be-true subprime returns have a differentiating advantage. But it's hard to rebuild consumer... View Details
- 11 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Politicians Benefited From Using Toxic Loans
leading bank in the market as of December 31, 2009. (Shortly thereafter, Dexia fell apart in the European debt crisis.) The data showed that so-called structured loans accounted for 20.1 percent of the 52 billion euros in total debt for the municipal sample. Similar to... View Details
- 07 Sep 2007
- What Do You Think?
Are Elite Business Schools Fostering the Deprofessionalization of Management?
while abandoning any semblance of "professionalism." As readers, we are left to speculate how, if at all, this might have led to such phenomena as Enron, the management revolving door, and even today's subprime mortgage mess.... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=108055 U.S. Subprime Mortgage Crisis: Policy Reactions Harvard Business School Case 708-036 By March 2008, the U.S. Government and the U.S. Federal Reserve Board had taken various policy measures over... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
percent mortgage with no income, no job or assets. The subprime mortgage crisis of 2007 was not so difficult to predict. What was much harder to predict was the way a tremor caused by a spate of mortgage defaults in America’s very own,... View Details
- 20 Jan 2009
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business with Structured Finance
CDO²s. That, coupled with the increase in subprime mortgages—from $96.8 billion in 1996 to approximately $600 billion in 2006—created a recipe for economic disaster. The exercise clearly shows how the sensitivity of tranches to error in... View Details
- 05 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 5, 2009
http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209144 U.S. Subprime Mortgage Crisis: Policy Reactions (B) Harvard Business School Case 709-045 In March 2009, the U.S. economy was in a severe recession not seen since the Great... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 26, 2008
a government, were gaining prominence across the globe, especially with their recent investments in troubled U.S. financial firms that had suffered significant losses from the subprime mortgage crisis. Yet SWFs were viewed with suspicions... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne