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- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
Corporate Debt in Emerging Markets By: Alfaro, Laura, Gonzalo Asis, Anusha Chari, and Ugo Panizza Abstract—This paper documents a set of stylized facts about leverage and financial fragility in the nonfinancial corporate sector in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- August 1984 (Revised June 1985)
- Teaching Note
Great Depression: Causes and Impact, Teaching Note
- August 1984 (Revised January 1986)
- Case
Great Depression: Causes and Impact
Tedlow, Richard S. "Great Depression: Causes and Impact." Harvard Business School Case 385-010, August 1984. (Revised January 1986.)
- 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
- July 28, 2022
- Article
How to Build a Life: How to Be Happy in a Recession
By: Arthur C. Brooks
Brooks, Arthur C. "How to Build a Life: How to Be Happy in a Recession." The Atlantic (July 28, 2022).
- April 1990
- Case
What Is Done Is Dun . . . & Bradstreet
By: Stephen A. Greyser and Norman Klein
Greyser, Stephen A., and Norman Klein. "What Is Done Is Dun . . . & Bradstreet." Harvard Business School Case 590-103, April 1990.
- 07 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 7
This note briefly reviews the financial crisis in central Europe in late 2008 and summarizes how four central European countries—Poland, the Czech Republic, Hungary, and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
HBS Flunks Finance 101 As regards your December Editor’s Note wherein you refer to Dean Jay Light’s remarks to the hastily organized financial crisis panels during the week of September 22: Light attributes... 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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- 2020
- Guest Column
Learning from Lehman: Lessons for Today
By: Laura Comstock, Michael Holland and Peter Tufano
Comstock, Laura, Michael Holland, and Peter Tufano. "Learning from Lehman: Lessons for Today." Analysis Group Forum (2020), 9–14.
- 2014
- Report
An Economy Doing Half Its Job: Findings of Harvard Business School's 2013–14 Survey on U.S. Competitiveness
By: Michael E. Porter and Jan Rivkin
In 2013–14, Harvard Business School (HBS) conducted its third alumni survey on U.S. competitiveness. Our report on the findings focuses on a troubling divergence in the American economy: large and midsize firms have rallied strongly from the Great Recession, and highly... View Details
Porter, Michael E., and Jan Rivkin. "An Economy Doing Half Its Job: Findings of Harvard Business School's 2013–14 Survey on U.S. Competitiveness." Report, Harvard Business School, September 2014. (With contributions from Joseph B. Fuller, Allen S. Grossman, Rosabeth Moss Kanter, and Kevin W. Sharer.)
- June 2010
- Supplement
Blue Man Group: Creativity, Life, and Business (Video)
This video complements the case "Blue Man Group: Creativity, Life and Surviving an Economic Crisis." (810108) With extensive clips from live performances, Blue Man's three co-founders offer their perspective on creativity, life and business; and describe the birth and... View Details
Chakravorti, Bhaskar, and Shirley M. Spence. "Blue Man Group: Creativity, Life, and Business (Video)." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 810-704, June 2010.
- May 2013
- Teaching Plan
High Wire Act: Credit Suisse and Contingent Capital
By: Clayton Rose and David Lane
Late in 2010, Credit Suisse CEO Brady Dougan and his team considered whether or not to issue contingent capital, which Swiss regulators would require by 2019. They faced a number of substantial issues, including: Would contingent capital actually work as conceptualized... View Details
Keywords: Financial Institutions; Capital Markets; Financial Crisis; Decision Choices and Conditions; Leadership; International Finance; Financial Liquidity; Risk and Uncertainty; Competitive Strategy; Financial Services Industry; Switzerland
Rose, Clayton, and David Lane. "High Wire Act: Credit Suisse and Contingent Capital." Harvard Business School Teaching Plan 313-048, May 2013.
- 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
- 26 Jun 2009
- Research Event
Business Summit: Business and the Environment
Editor's Note: This is a summary of an HBS Business Summit presentation. View a full summary and video of the event on the HBS Centennial Web site linked below. Date of Event: October 13, 2008 Moderator: Forest Reinhardt, HBS faculty... View Details
- 11 Apr 2018
- News
Pushing the Next Generation Forward
working on crisis management with city officials. “We are working to end intergenerational poverty within a 100-block radius in central Harlem,” says Owusu-Kesse, who joined HCZ in 2008 and became COO in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
to restructure home mortgages in a manner homeowners can afford is at the heart of our financial crisis. We have paid a terrible price for not addressing the foreclosure crisis at its inception, but it is... View Details
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
structure of financial assets and non-fundamental risk. An asset is fragile if its owners collectively have to buy or sell. Such assets are susceptible to non-fundamental price movements. An asset can be fragile because of concentrated... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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