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- 01 Dec 1999
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Covering the Issues
of all professions." A few years later, in 1929, General Electric chairman Owen D. Young ad-dressed the complexities of achieving that goal: "[I]f you ask me to apply the golden rule to a bank rate, I find it amazingly difficult to do."... View Details
- 01 Sep 2011
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‘Green’ Trailblazers
to clean oil spills Bickley Stevens II (MBA 1969) Stevens Capital Advisors Cambridge, Massachusetts Advisory and investment banking services to clean-technology companies and investors Alexander Taussig (MBA 2009) Highland Capital... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Four Promoted to Full Professor
environment. He has written on a broad range of restructuring topics, including corporate bankruptcy and debt workouts, tracking stock, equity spin-offs, corporate downsizing, bank mergers, and employee buyouts. Currently, he is studying... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Get Ready for Saudi Oil Shock
Houston-based investment bank that specializes in the energy industry. The future oil shortage, he says, is a problem we should address right now. Based on your research, how soon will we feel the effects of the diminished Saudi oil... View Details
- 26 Nov 2019
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Predicting Financial Market Bubbles and Crises in Real-time
creation of the Behavioral and Financial Stability Project. Researchers have conducted groundbreaking research on bank capital and liquidity management, the nature of bank runs in the modern financial... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
What You Know Depends on Where You Go
HBS associate professor Robert Kennedy and LARC executive director Gustavo Herrero interview customers of BancoSol at a market in La Paz. The bank specializes in microloans and has the second-largest number of customers of any If you're... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Additional alumni books for your consideration.
Resisting the impulse for drastic change, Bhidé offers a blueprint for correcting the historic misalignment between the numbers-driven financial sector and the innovation-driven “real economy.” He advocates tough, straightforward limits on the activities of commercial... View Details
- 01 Jun 2007
- News
Profiles from the class of 2007
people’s lives.” — GE Forsan Hussein The Business of Peace Hussein In the summer of 1998, while working as a fellow with an Israeli human-rights organization, Brandeis student Forsan Hussein interviewed a young Palestinian whose West Bank... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons;Julia Hanna;Lewis I. Rice
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti
the effect we have on the people who pay the tax, as well as the tax they pay. Both are important. What are the dimensions of this turnaround challenge? Every system, top to bottom, has to be reengineered. Our most fundamental problem is that we don't have accurate... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Private Equity under Investigation
the taking of calculated risks based on limited information. Washington must understand that the many benefits private equity provides by facilitating economic growth are unlikely to be sustained if the heavy hand of government intrudes, whether through litigation or... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
An Eye to the East
demonstrates "the depth of the School's commitment to building intellectual capital in the region," says Yeh. The former investment banker and longtime Hong Kong resident has already welcomed several faculty members to this "home away from home" in the View Details
Keywords: Alejandro Reyes
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Case Study: Let’s Dance
board chairman role to begin working on a related venture, a mutual bank to support lending to local food and farming businesses.) The changes slashed errors in half and doubled their packing speed. Operations have increased six-fold in... View Details
- 01 Jan 2004
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Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977
depended on bank loans instead of equity, creating the illusion that money was in infinite supply. That led Mitsubishi and other Japanese companies to make bad investments. I decided we should do something about them immediately." As a... View Details
- 21 Jul 2014
- News
Is a Gap in Small-Business Credit Holding Back the American Economy?
- 01 Sep 2012
- News
Alumni Books
Green (MBA 1976) and Andrea P. Howe (Wiley) Twilight Reflections: Where the Elderly Find God by Greg Hadley (OPM 5, 1981), helped by Kimi Tomaszek (CreateSpace) Swan Wait by Gwen Keane (PMD 50, 1985) (Keane Writers Publishing LLC) The Best Book On Investment View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
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Winning Legally
Greenspan’s tacit approval, used previously unexploited provisions in the Glass-Steagall and Bank Holding Company acts to push through a merger that ultimately changed the regula-tory environment for the entire U.S. financial services... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Charles O. Rossotti, MBA 1964
computers loaded with out-of-date information sat amid rows of overflowing filing cabinets. "Our most fundamental problem was that we didn't have accurate, up-to-date taxpayer records," he says. "We were like a bank that couldn't tell you... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
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The Producers
article see a project through from start to finish. They find a story and package it with any combination of a writer, director, or star before pitching it to investors or one of the big studios. If they’re successful in assembling financing (through equity, presales... View Details
- 18 Nov 2014
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Helping foreign countries invest wisely
Dora Vardis (MBA 1994), managing director in the foreign exchange division of Citigroup, works with sovereign wealth funds and central banks to create successful investments for their countries. (Published November 2014) View Details