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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
An Economy Undermined
anger, and shifting ideologies. Then, in 1982, the bull market in stocks began. It changed the way companies were managed. CEOs focused on getting the stock price up. There was a takeover movement, then junk bonds, and then leveraged... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
mortgage market work? Our notion is that if government guarantees matter at all, they matter in a time of crisis. If there is a housing bust, it will be amplified by the reluctance of private investors to... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Jerry Shafir: A Simmering Success Story
the six-foot six-inch former Yale basketball player is conducting a whirlwind tour of the facility that houses Kettle Cuisine, Inc., the soup-making company Shafir has painstakingly nurtured since cofounding it in the mid-1980s. With... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Jun 2013
- News
Brick by Brick
as a wood workshop in the small town of Billund, Denmark. Carpenter Ole Kirk Kristiansen eventually shifted the business from making houses and furniture to crafting wooden toys. He based the name of his new venture on "leg godt," the... View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
Escape Hatch
2015 with three tiny houses in the southern New Hampshire woods, Getaway now offers 89 escapes in areas less than two hours from Boston, New York, and Washington, DC, with the goal of expanding to three new View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
and suddenly, there's no doubt it's the 1990s: "Mr. Davis, how much money do you make? What kind of car do you drive? How many houses do you own?" It's a fact of life these days that when kids, or fans of any age, look upon a professional... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 15 Dec 2015
- News
The Year in Ideas 2015
it resists bruising. For consumers, that means increased convenience—potatoes can be prepped in advance—and reduced food waste. The White Russet marketing campaign is unique, too. When the company introduced the potatoes into supermarkets... View Details
- 08 Jun 2018
- News
My First Job: Selling Shoes, Surviving Black Monday, and Shaped by Chicken Lenses
people? The next thing, he came up and he said, well, you know, the firemen are going to get your house quicker. And then the guy said, well, yeah, but also my pizzas will get here quicker. So now he had a new View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Downtime
surmount them or succumb to them. Memorable childhood books? The Laura Ingalls Wilder series that begins with Little House in the Big Woods, for their vivid reconstruction of a world gone by and a child’s place in that world. Those books... View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
John A. Paulson, MBA 1980
globally,” he says. “The infrastructure to source and sell was so massive that volume continued to grow despite rapidly deteriorating credit quality.” Seeing the absurdity of it, Paulson bet against the market at the peak of the View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Imagine an Economy Without Wall Street
out on an entrepreneurial path but was thwarted by the country’s lack of a finance and lending infrastructure. A similar shortcoming in the mortgage and lending industry also delayed his family’s ability to buy a house until his father... View Details
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
Alumni Books
Smith, author of the greatest economics book ever written, Ryan and Tamny make their highly original argument available for all as they reveal the truth about the housing market and homeownership. Building a... View Details
- 12 May 2015
- News
A Flash of Insight
to lose faith in the rationality of the market and closed his fund. Next-step options, such as a CFO or director of corporate development position, filled his head as he left the top-floor co-op of the Brooklyn Heights town View Details
- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Not Your Typical Business Conference
Maxwell House Coffee and Post Cereals president Ann M. Fudge (MBA '77), to a dinner organized by Beatrice ("Bunny") Ellerin (MBA '95), the day's events generated an energy that allowed speakers and participants alike to dispense with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
Depression. As 2,000 alumni convened on campus Monday, October 13, the U.S. stock market soared to its biggest one-day numerical gain since 1933, following on the heels of an 18 percent decline the previous week, the worst such drop in... View Details
- 08 Mar 2017
- News
Helping vets become resident landlords
Reed Benet (MBA 1991) is founder and CEO of HeroHomes.com, an online organization that helps military veterans secure no-money-down VA loans to purchase and live in small multifamily homes for housing themselves and income purposes. In... View Details
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Profiles from the Class of 2005
combination offered by Ford Motor Company’s management training program. While he excelled at leading teams to solve engineering-based manufacturing problems, it was a stint in sales and marketing that changed his life. “I was on the job... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
in European financial markets of any country in the world. Hamilton endured enormous personal abuse during these years, but he also had the satisfaction of seeing most of "my commercial system" put into place. What Hamilton's policies had... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Read All About It!
American life. New technologies, such as the cell phone and BlackBerry, came to be viewed as necessities. Firms selling small luxuries, such as Starbucks, which created an enormous market for specialty coffee, grew to rival the size of... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Lasting Impressions
military social aide assigned to the White House under President Johnson. "While we weren't greatly accepted in Cambridge at that time," he recalls, "it wasn't uncommon to have a military background and to be at the Business School. The... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg