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- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
expensive natural disasters risk the planet on which we depend, and are already triggering immense geopolitical ramifications and population displacement amid costs to human health, food security, and water availability. Weigh that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Road Work
the Salas brothers are working to help finance entrepreneurs very much like their mother. Founded in 2014 and with offices in Los Angeles and Mexico City, Camino got its start while Kenny and Sean were still students at HBS. In addition... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Breaking News
strategy look like? The financing that we were able to assemble for this acquisition is interim financing, which gives us five years to figure that out. Part of the process we’re engaged in now with our partners is to say, What’s the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Author Charley Ellis on Goldman Sachs
outrageous. Others would argue that these are exceedingly high-skilled talents working brutal hours in an extremely demanding and competitive environment, that the firm was risking its own capital and doing things that the world as a... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Aug 2019
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Investing for Good
“Our mission at Social Finance is to mobilize capital—public capital, private capital—in service of society. The tool that we are most proud of is the social impact bond, which is essentially a public-private partnership that brings... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Seth Klarman
whack, when you can make a high return with very limited risk. My view is that you can target risk versus return. So you can say, I’ll take the very safe 6 percent, I’ll take the somewhat risky 12, or I’ll take the enormously risky 20,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
of Finance and Banking When searching out the causes of the 2008 financial crisis, Professor Robin Greenwood says one needs to look to the root of nearly every crisis: human behavior. With his focus on behavioral finance, Greenwood wears... View Details
- 21 Mar 2025
- News
What We Can Learn From “The Oracle of Wall Street”
led to a memoir of Wien, Stay at Risk and Live Forever: Lessons from a Life of Curiosity, Grit, and Reinvention, which was co-authored by Becker and released in November of last year—a little over a year after Wien’s passing. Taylor... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
and we made believe that the sponsors, the biggest money center banks, had zero risk of loss. They did not fully disclose what was happening, and they did not put up enough capital to cover potential risks. Now, the FASB Financial... View Details
- 24 Feb 2014
- News
A Capital Idea for Small Business
enacting its provisions, partly due to concerns over perceived risks to unsophisticated investors. Moreover, not all of the provisions will be enacted at once. For now, Callaghan and McGee are focusing on building iCrowd's technological,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
Scharfstein: “Whenever you mix government guarantees with private, for-profit entities, those private entities put the government at risk.” Reforming the U.S. housing finance system remains perhaps the largest piece of unfinished business... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
causes and impact of the country’s mortgage meltdown. Serving since 1998 as director of Harvard University’s Joint Center for Housing Studies, Retsinas also teaches at the Graduate School of Design and the Kennedy School of Government. A veteran of several high-level... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Hope for Reform Dims
By contrast, he continued, not enough attention has been paid to improving risk management. Risk models widely used before the crisis relied too heavily on historical data that turned out to be flawed, he... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
apart, put in little subsets, and sold as a whole variety of different securities. And no one knew what they had. At that point government had stepped aside, had genuflected at the altar of the market as it relates to our housing View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
New Economy Notables: Peter C. Wendell
the last decade. First job I was the summer maintenance boy at our local swim club — mowing lawns, cleaning toilets. You probably couldn't start much lower. Inspirations The entrepreneurs who start the companies that we fund. They're the ones who View Details
- 01 Mar 2005
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Venture Capital’s Comeback
companies now find their best customers in China and India, where U.S. technology products are in high demand. More importantly, the free flow of ideas and capital have created entrepreneurial hot spots around the globe, challenging venture firms to follow or View Details
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed
directors, we often discussed the reality that pushing rates up too precipitously would risk cutting off the recovery before we’re at full employment. I think Boston Fed economists would say that it would be great to operate in an economy... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
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Private Equity under Investigation
underwriting public corporate offerings. Nor is this unique to the United States. Britain’s Financial Services Authority has an-nounced that it is increasing its scrutiny of private-equity firms. Among the problems or risks attributed to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Social Investing Pioneers
renowned venture capital firm he cofounded in 1972. In 2007, he cofounded and became a nonexecutive director of Social Finance, a London-based nonprofit social investment advisory that is pioneering ways to apply market principles to solving social problems in the UK.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
risk management on Wall Street and at other major financial centers. The book breaks down the events involved in the 2007–2008 financial collapse, reveals how botched policy responses made a bad situation worse, and focuses on lessons... View Details