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  • 01 Dec 2005
  • News

Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper

well-heeled clients. Savings and loans, desperate for high returns, made risky loans a business staple. And the Japanese, buoyed by a strong economy and low interest rates at home, swept in to buy up trophy... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Real Estate
  • 01 Dec 2009
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An Action Plan for Economic Recovery

confidence in credit rating agencies? The first thing Congress did in 2006 was to boost competition. We now have nine approved rating agencies instead of three. However, if you are a bond issuer and you... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance
  • 05 Mar 2025
  • News

Uncertain Terms

After Amar Bhidé (MBA 1979/DBA 1988) became an HBS assistant professor in 1988, then-dean John H. McArthur (MBA 1959/DBA 1963) gave him a copy of economist Frank Knight’s 1921 book Risk, Uncertainty and Profit. Knight’s idea that “uncertainty” must be distinguished... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2009
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Too Big To Fail

the need to identify and regulate financial institutions that pose systemic risks at the top of its list of critical problems in need of legislative repair, along with limiting leverage and reforming the credit View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance
  • 01 Dec 2002
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Mary Callahan Erdoes

questions early and often. Are bonds a good bet for those who want to reduce their reliance on equities? I have a lot of sympathy for those who are just getting into bonds now, but I still believe they should have a position in investors' portfolios in every business... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • 01 Mar 2015
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Faculty Q&A: Less Risk, More Reward

more likely to have an entrepreneur in the family. There are a couple of reasons why that might be, but most of the evidence seems to point to the fact that it’s not about people having the funds to start a business, it’s about the risk... View Details
Keywords: April White; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Private Households; Personal Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
  • 01 Dec 2007
  • News

Subprime Time

there. That’s OK, if they are tightened. A return to common sense is overdue. We need a dramatic retooling of risk management and portfolio selection. The regulatory techniques and the rating agency... View Details
Keywords: Bruce Wasserstein, MBA '71; Finance
  • 01 Jun 2011
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What’s after Fannie and Freddie?

reform should be financial stability. We should not be trying to use government guarantees to lower mortgage interest rates per se. So what we call for is regulated privatization with the government playing... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance
  • 01 Mar 2015
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Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed

Board of Governors to formulate monetary policy, ensuring that its policies take into account conditions in every state and across all economic sectors. Each Reserve Bank is supervised by a nine-member board of directors. With the Federal Reserve potentially poised to... View Details
Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance
  • 01 Dec 2018
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Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter

buyers to take on the risks and responsibilities of owning a home without any financial upside. The covenants that limit an owner’s resale price allow them to benefit from a modest rate of appreciation when... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • 11 Oct 2022
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Righting the Ship

following year, interest free. Both divisions win, and we improve execution rates at the enterprise level.” The new plan went into effect in 2019, and change came fast. Within the first year of... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
  • 01 Jun 2008
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Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism

And the investor was lured into thinking that if the underlying asset was appreciating so quickly, any mistake would be camouflaged by that increase in value. What is your view of proposed remedies, such as freezing interest View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Finance; Management; Real Estate
  • 25 Jan 2012
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Is Tax Reform Viable?

write to the government, and that started me thinking about America’s tax policy. Specifically, I recalled Warren Buffett’s observation that his secretary paid a higher tax rate than he did and that it was hard for him to justify that... View Details
Keywords: Administration of Economic Programs; Government
  • 08 May 2015
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A new view of the cost of equity and capital requirements for banks

lending rates and economic activity. Prevailing economic theory holds that the cost-of-capital effect is negligible in an ideal market. Malcolm P. Baker, the Robert G. Kirby Professor of Business Administration, has investigated this... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2005
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Faculty Books

Smarter Risks in Business by Eileen C. Shapiro and Howard H. Stevenson (Portfolio/Penguin Putnam) Professor Stevenson and Shapiro (MBA ’81) show how to increase the odds on the business and life bets you choose to take, using a quick... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 01 Dec 2009
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Hope for Reform Dims

requirements — the cushion against losses — for all financial institutions creating a mechanism to deal with those institutions regarded as too big to fail Thain characterized the crisis as a classic bubble “fundamentally fueled by monetary policy” that held View Details
Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government
  • 01 Dec 2011
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A Modest Tax Proposal

corporations from using their foreign profits to build facilities in the United States. Business interests are calling for a so-called tax holiday, in which American corporations would be allowed to transfer their foreign profits to their... View Details
Keywords: Robert C. Pozen; tax holidays
  • 01 Jun 2002
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Books

Buy, Lie, and Sell High by D. Quinn Mills Prentice Hall Any investor or person involved in America's financial-services industry will be interested in Buy, Lie, and Sell High: How Investors Lost Out on Enron and the Internet Bubble. In... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
  • 01 Dec 2013
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Batteries and Chocolates

striptease parties; male faculty would occasionally and good-naturedly attribute female faculty members' teaching ratings to their physical features. It didn't really bother me, to be honest, and I settled quite happily into my own female... View Details
Keywords: Spar, Debora; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Sep 2024
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3-Minute Briefing: Kruti Patel Goyal (MBA 2004)

My parents were in the hospitality business. They owned a motel, so we grew up working at the business as well as living at the business. I remember vividly some moments of really intense stress. And it was because my parents took a lot of risk to build the business.... View Details
Keywords: Sarah Wyman
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