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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rx for Too Big to Fail
In the wake of the financial crisis and the massive federal response, it has become fashionable to declare that “too big to fail is too big to exist.” Powerful lawmakers and popular commentators regularly... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Q&A: The Post-Pandemic Path
associate dean for Faculty Development and Research and faculty director of the Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability Project. “The national unemployment rate early in the pandemic had jumped to over 13 percent; the standard prediction... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 22 Sep 2009
- News
The Case for Regulatory Reform
This is week when the Wall Street chickens come home to roost. In the wake of the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression, the Obama administration has sent Congress a package of regulatory reforms... View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Five Honored for Missions Accomplished
organizational health. Has the recent financial crisis permanently changed Wall Street? There were many fundamental causes and contributors to the crisis, and we all learned or relearned lessons. Some... View Details
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- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Faculty Books
Mortgage Finance edited by Nicolas P. Retsinas and Eric S. Belsky (Brookings Institution Press) This book explores what caused the mortgage crisis and focuses on the future. The challenge remains the same: protect consumers, ensure... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Career Services Shifts into High Gear
Many members of the Class of 2008 were just settling into new jobs as reverberations from the financial crisis were felt around the world. While employment figures for the class remain strong, MBA Career... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
government guarantees, and (3) privatization backstopped in times of financial crisis by federal government guarantees only for new loans. The third option reflects a middle-ground position advocated by HBS... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
recruited Moss, an expert in risk management, to provide historical context to the financial crisis and a framework for reform. For his efforts, the panel acknowledged his key role “in conceptualizing and... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
percent mortgage with no income, no job or assets. The subprime mortgage crisis of 2007 was not so difficult to predict. What was much harder to predict was the way a tremor caused by a spate of mortgage defaults in America’s very own,... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Finance and the Economic Recovery
Meanwhile, many HBS alumni, in addition to helping their own organizations manage through the pandemic, have been leading initiatives to assist businesses and individuals that have been disproportionally impacted, especially women and minority communities, move past... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
on performance pay before the U.S. Senate and served as a consultant to many international companies. The issue of to what extent the financial crisis was driven by misaligned pay incentives is one of the... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
Praise for March Cover Congratulations on cracking the mold of a one-subject cover for the March issue. I found the four of your financial crisis articles extremely interesting, especially Niall Ferguson’s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
It’s the Economy
If you hadn’t already noticed, we did something different with this issue’s cover. We typically pick one story for cover treatment. But this time, we picked a topic — the global financial crisis — to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2016
- News
Imagine an Economy Without Wall Street
Photography by Bryce Vickmark In a recent opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal, HBS Dean Nitin Nohria made a strong statement in defense of Wall Street and the financial system. Recalling his youth in India, Nohria related the story... View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Faculty Research Online
Survive — Thrive: Leading Innovation in Good Times and Bad Cost cutting and restructuring are just the first steps in coping with the current global financial crisis and defining how business will be... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
A Focus on Latinx Entrepreneurs
of the Treasury Janet Yellen also recognizes the role of Latinx businesses in the US economy. In her remarks at the US Hispanic Chamber of Commerce Virtual Legislative Summit in 2020, she said: “If someone tried to design an economic View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
How to Fix Wall Street
including a renewed commitment to responsible behavior by those individuals and (surviving) firms whose actions created excessive risk in the first place. The crisis is often discussed as purely a technical mishap involving housing... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Mark Mason (MBA 1995)
health crisis that has produced severe economic shocks and has shined a light on the longstanding issues around racial equality. Citi too is a very different firm than we were during the financial View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Paulson Advocates Regulatory Reform
PAULSON: “We were staving off economic Armageddon.” Hank Paulson (MBA ’70) is on a mission. As Treasury Secretary, the former Goldman Sachs CEO found himself in the distasteful position of championing massive taxpayer-funded bailouts for the nation’s leading View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Four-Letter Word
lot of sound and fury that, it turns out, really doesn’t signify much at all. That’s because David Miller (MBA ’03), the Treasury Department’s former chief investment officer for TARP, helped preside over “a steady and, so far, profitable unwinding of taxpayers’... View Details