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  • 22 Jun 2009
  • Research & Ideas

“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms

it fails, that will lead to a systemic problem.' Same with AIG, Fannie and Freddie, and Citibank. But not with Lehman, although I think in retrospect they may believe they made a mistake on that one." To take the guesswork out of such judgments, HBS senior lecturer... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Banking; Financial Services
  • 25 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 25

  Working PapersAnger and Regulation Authors:Rafael Di Tella and Juan DubraNBER Working Paper Series, No. 15201, August 2009 Abstract We propose a model where voters experience an emotional cost when they observe a firm that has displayed insufficient concern for other... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 15, 2008

Theory of Corporate Debt Maturity Choice Authors:Robin Greenwood, Jeremy C. Stein, and Samuel Hanson Abstract We argue that time-series variation in the maturity of aggregate corporate debt issues arises because firms behave as macro... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

    Carliss Y. Baldwin

    Carliss Y. Baldwin is the William L. White Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School. She studies the process of design and its impact of design architecture on firm strategy, platforms, and business ecosystems. With Kim Clark, she authored... View Details

    Keywords: computer; electronics; software
    • 16 Apr 2008
    • Lessons from the Classroom

    Chris Christensen: Legend of the Classroom

    In the opening minutes of the only classroom video ever made of the man widely recognized as the world's leading authority on case-method teaching, Professor C. Roland ("Chris") Christensen carefully arranges desks in an empty... View Details
    Keywords: by Deborah Blagg; Education
    • 08 Feb 2011
    • First Look

    First Look: Feb. 8

    http://www.vcc.columbia.edu/yearbook   Working PapersSustainable Cities: Oxymoron or the Shape of the Future? Authors:Annissa Alusi, Robert G. Eccles, Amy C. Edmondson, and Tiona Zuzul Abstract Two trends... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

      F. Warren McFarlan

      Professor McFarlan earned his AB from Harvard University in 1959, and his MBA and DBA from the Harvard Business School in 1961 and 1965 respectively. He has had a significant role in introducing materials on Management Information Systems to all major programs at... View Details

      Keywords: communications; computer; e-commerce industry; health care; information; information technology industry; nonprofit industry
      • 29 Sep 2009
      • First Look

      First Look: September 29

      http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1471435 Systemic Risk and the Refinancing Ratchet Effect Authors:Amir E. Khandani, Andrew W. Lo, and Robert C. Merton Abstract The confluence of three... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • September–October 2012
      • Article

      Toward a New Culture for Corporate Boards

      By: Robert C. Pozen
      A decade of business scandals and regulatory reforms find corporate America... facing fresh scandals and calls for more reforms. Robert Pozen, former chair of MFS Investment, noted director, and Harvard Business School faculty member, wonders if we have been fixing the... View Details
      Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Ethics; Change; United States
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        Ashish Nanda

        Ashish Nanda is Senior Lecturer and C. Roland Christensen Distinguished Management Educator at Harvard Business School. From 2018 to 2021, he was course head for the MBA Required Curriculum course in Strategy. Beginning in 2022, he is teaching an MBA Elective... View Details

        Keywords: accounting industry; advertising; asset management; banking; brokerage; consulting; e-commerce industry; education industry; executive search; financial services; information technology industry; internet; investment banking industry; legal services; management consulting; professional services; real estate; service industry; sports; tourism
        • November 2009
        • Article

        Is it Fair to Blame Fair Value Accounting for the Financial Crisis?

        By: Robert C. Pozen
        When the credit markets seized up in 2008, many heaped blame on "mark to market" accounting rules, which require banks to write down their troubled assets to the prices they'd fetch if sold on the open market - at the time, next to nothing. Recording those assets below... View Details
        Keywords: Cost Accounting; Fair Value Accounting; Financial Crisis; Assets; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Crisis Management; Standards; Banking Industry
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        • 12 Mar 2011
        • News

        Mortgage deduction under renewed scrutiny

        • 12 Sep 2005
        • Research & Ideas

        The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World

        The world as we know it is about to change in many ways thanks to a "broadband explosion"—the coming together of real-time communication and rich media. Professors Robert Austin and Stephen Bradley discuss their new book by that... View Details
        Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications
        • July–August 2014
        • Article

        The Crisis in Retirement Planning

        By: Robert C. Merton
        Corporate America began to really take notice of the looming retirement crisis in the wake of the dot-com crash, when companies in major industries went bankrupt in large part because of their inability to meet their pension obligations. The result was an acceleration... View Details
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        • 11 Aug 2008
        • Research & Ideas

        Strategy Execution and the Balanced Scorecard

        Companies often manage strategy in fits and starts. Though executives may formulate an excellent strategy, it easily fades from memory as the organization tackles day-to-day operations issues, doing what HBS professor Robert S. Kaplan... View Details
        Keywords: by Martha Lagace
        • 30 Jun 2010
        • News

        The financial reform bill's hidden blunder

        • 24 Apr 2012
        • First Look

        First Look: April 24

          PublicationsBarriers to Household Risk Management: Evidence from India Authors:Shawn A. Cole, Xavier Giné, Jeremy Tobacman, Petia Topalova, Robert M. Townsend, and James Vickery Publication:American Economic Journal: Applied Economics... View Details
        Keywords: Carmen Nobel
        • December 2010
        • Article

        The Case for Professional Boards

        By: Robert C. Pozen
        When the world's largest financial institutions had to be rescued from insolvency in 2008, many experts laid the blame at the feet of corporate boards. But insufficient board oversight is a problem that had supposedly been solved in 2002. As the United States... View Details
        Keywords: Financial Institutions; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Governing and Advisory Boards; Failure; Accounting Audits; Quality; Behavior; Legal Liability; Experience and Expertise; Corporate Governance; Governance Controls; Performance Effectiveness; United States
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        • 13 Oct 2010
        • First Look

        First Look: October 13, 2010

        Management (June 2010) An abstract is unavailable at this time.   Working PapersProsocial Spending and Well-Being: Cross-Cultural Evidence for a Psychological Universal Authors:Lara B. Aknin, Christopher P. Barrington-Leigh, Elizabeth W. Dunn, John F. Helliwell, View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • 09 Nov 2011
        • News

        Despite Critics, Mortgage Deduction Resists Change