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December 2010 (Revised June 2018)
Case

The Pecora Hearings

By: David Moss, Cole Bolton and Eugene Kintgen

In 1932, in the depths of the Great Depression, the Senate Banking Committee began a much-publicized investigation of the nation's financial sector. The hearings, which came to be known as the Pecora hearings after the Banking Committee's lead counsel Ferdinand Pecora,... View Details

Keywords: Financial Crisis; Fairness; Borrowing and Debt; Financial Institutions; Debt Securities; Stocks; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Government Legislation; History; Financial Services Industry; United States

Citation

Educators

Purchase

06 Dec 2022
Research & Ideas

Latest Isn’t Always Greatest: Why Product Updates Capture Consumers

necessarily better,” says Ximena Garcia-Rada, a former Harvard Business School doctoral student who is now an assistant professor at Texas A&M University. “We see a significant proportion of participants shift to the objectively... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Consumer Products; Retail

19 Sep 2017
News

New Census Report Shows Highest Median Income Since Great Recession

Pedro Moreira Salles

Keywords: Financial Services

José Alejandro Cortés

Keywords: Diversified

23 Apr 2015
News

Higher than the sky

17 Jun 2015
News

Target 'cut wheat from the chaff'

02 Nov 2022
News

It’s Fall on Campus!

28 May 2020
Video

2020 Class Day Student Speaker Claire Wagner

04 Feb 2015
Video

Who Needs Palm Trees? Enjoying Winter at HBS

22 May 2024
Video

2024 Class Day Student Speaker Erik Roberts

18 Mar 2014
News

Success Outside the Dress Code

29 Apr 2013
News

The fragrance series – Part 3

20 Jul 2022
News

Might Elon Musk Be Forced to Buy Twitter?

18 Dec 2019
News

Heads in the Sand

17 Jan 2018
Research & Ideas

If the CEO’s High Salary Isn't Justified to Employees, Firm Performance May Suffer

kutaytanir It’s no surprise that business executives make more money than lower-level employees. But when that pay disparity between a CEO and the average worker is perceived as unfair, the result may be more than unhappy workers: A... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

20 Mar 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018

the duration and size of price changes using scraped data collected from 181 retailers in 31 countries. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52241 March–April 2018 Harvard Business Review Why Compliance... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

September 1997 (Revised March 2000)
Case

Circles

By: William A. Sahlman and Jon Biotti

Janet Kraus and Kathy Sherbrooke started a resource and referral company specializing in helping busy people get things done. Issues include financing and product and marketing strategy. View Details

Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Resource Allocation; Financing and Loans; Business Startups; Service Industry; United States