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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
Street responded by creating commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS), which are similar to, but more complex than, the mortgage-backed securities long used to bundle and... View Details
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
Black-owned banks go to Black people. We know that, Carver Bank in New York, for example, 80 percent of their commercial loans or business loans go to Black people. And we know conversely, that less than half a percent of View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
into the marketplace, including creation of federal deposit insurance, securities regulation, banking supervision, and the separation of commercial and investment banking under the Glass-Steagall Act. As... View Details
- 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 View Details
Keywords: by Christine Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Alumni Books
which you will reach your destination. ‘Start with the answer’ and work your way back to the solution.” More Mortgage Meltdown: 6 Ways to Profit in These Bad Times by Whitney Tilson (MBA ’94) and Glenn... View Details
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
present systemic risks because they have limited sources of short-term liquidity: commercial paper and repurchase agreements. Banks with securities powers can also obtain short-term financing through Fed... View Details
- 07 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Can Brand Trump Win a Presidency?
commercial brand become a political brand? Is the commercial Trump brand extendable into the political arena? Commercial marketing and political marketing differ in two... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Charlie Williams (MBA 1939, DCS 1952)
The son of a small-town banker, Charlie Williams grew up in rural West Virginia, attended Washington and Lee University, and taught for more than 39 years at HBS. The School’s much-revered George Gund Professor of Commercial Banking,... View Details
- Profile
Arjun Goyal
a scientific eye for identifying precise populations in which therapies are effective, with a commercial appetite for successful drugs that need more time and money to prove their potential.” As part of a four-person clinical development... View Details
- 05 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Watching for the Next Economic Downturn? Follow Corporate Debt
3.6 percentage point rise in the probability a financial crisis will ensue. When commercial lending is backed by real estate, the alarm sounds even louder. Each standard deviation increase in real-estate... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
world of possibilities open up. An option is a fundamental security now - whether linked to interest rates, stock indexes, currencies, commodities, or real estate. But that's only part of it. There are other financial things that have the... View Details
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
response, he continues. With the banking system near collapse, the Roosevelt administration engineered sweeping federal intervention into the marketplace, including creation of federal deposit insurance, securities regulation, banking... View Details
- 29 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy
when NASA started investing in the commercial space sector in a more concerted way. It created a program called Commercial Orbital Transportation Services (COTS). It spent $500 million to start seeding... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Flying High
idea that there is an enormous opportunity to make air travel better.” The startup saw space in the market between premium commercial airline options that were increasingly inconvenient and the ever-more expensive choice of private air... View Details
Keywords: April White; aviation; airlines; entrepreneurship; leadership; innovation; Air Transportation; Transportation
- Profile
Arjun Goyal
“marries a scientific eye for identifying precise populations in which therapies are effective, with a commercial appetite for successful drugs that need more time and money to prove their potential.” As part of a four-person clinical... View Details
- 29 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 29
cater to these preferences and beliefs by engineering securities perceived to be safe but exposed to neglected risks. Because the risks are neglected, security issuance is excessive. As investors eventually... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
Where Work Meets Passion: A Summer In Community Development
secure more homeownership, entrepreneurship, and financial security. One of the questions I’ll spend my career answering is: how do you develop for-profit residential and commercial property in an inclusive... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 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
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
to restructure home mortgages in a manner homeowners can afford is at the heart of our financial crisis. We have paid a terrible price for not addressing the foreclosure crisis at its inception, but it is never too late to start. How can... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
reason why private equity partnerships were able to borrow money left, right, and center to finance leveraged buyouts. And Chimerica — or the Asian “savings glut,” as Ben Bernanke called it — was the underlying reason why the U.S. View Details