financial crisis - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Oct 2015
Research & Ideas

Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy

Smarter Policy” to help provide evidence on matters of small-business financing—looking in particular about whether and how the financial crisis created a credit gap for small businesses. Despite gathering... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

09 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Moving From Bean Counter to Game Changer

and consumer lending. The researchers chose to study risk-management experts because their role has risen in importance with demands for improved corporate governance and the need for better forecasting and modeling. After the financial... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Banking

01 Jun 2011
News

An Economy Undermined

fact, stocks on average did not rise at all in the 1970s. Productivity grew more slowly in the ensuing thirty years than it had for any prolonged period since the 1800s. My class’s first decade out from HBS was marked by economic and View Details

Keywords: Jeff Madrick; Finance

26 Jan 2010
First Look

First Look: Jan. 26

Yet there is a real danger that regulatory reforms will be rooted in outdated ideas. As the financial crisis has shown, neither traditional market-failure models nor public-choice theory, by themselves,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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

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Turnarounds and Transformation - Course Catalog

business executives, investors, and/or consultants. First, it would be of interest to those who at some point in their career see themselves as a CEO or senior manager potentially leading a troubled enterprise (small, medium, or large) through a View Details

01 Mar 2011
News

Decision Points

have done things better,” as he spoke about many aspects and issues of his presidency (USA Today, November 9, 2010). Regarding the financial crisis, Bush said that Congress ignored his administration’s urgings to regulate Fannie Mae and... View Details

Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government

20 Oct 2022
News

Lebanon Alumni Host US Ambassador for Dinner and Discussion

explored a number of economic, political, and business issues the country is facing. “Lebanon is at a crucial stage in its history,” says Ingea. “We have presidential elections this month, we have an economic crisis like we’ve never seen... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Mar 2017
News

In My Humble Opinion: Arunma Oteh (MBA 1990)

the underserved. “I’ve been blessed, and I believe very strongly in the importance of giving.” Smart money: The Pandemic Emergency Financing Facility, a new World Bank financial program that provides surge funding to prevent a disease... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

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Manuscript Collections - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

HBS Quick Links MBA Executive Education Doctoral Programs Faculty and Research Alumni HBS Publishing Site Index HBS Home Contact Us Map/Directions Introduction 1837: The Hard Times 1873: Off the Rails 1907: The Banker's Panic 1929: The Great Crash View Details

17 Jun 2014
First Look

First Look: June 17

http://hbr.org/product/ge-and-the-industrial-internet/an/614032-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 514-020 Goldman Sachs: Anchoring Standards After the Financial Crisis Goldman Sachs, a longtime venerable... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Sep 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

stylized facts about leverage and financial fragility for emerging market firms following the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). Corporate debt vulnerability indicators during the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Nov 2014
First Look

First Look: November 18

Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/15-033_d218ec59-b694-4f4f-ba4e-0e64b54e4c34.pdf Financial Development and Technology Diffusion By: Comin, Diego, and Ramana Nanda Abstract—We examine the extent to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Nov 2015
First Look

November 17, 2015

April 5–6, 2013 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In its call for the submission of theoretical and empirical papers for the symposium, the NBER noted that the global financial crisis of 2007–2008 and its... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Feb 2011
First Look

First Look: Feb. 8

prices. Implications for research on the substantive and symbolic effects of inter-organizational affiliations are discussed. Management and the Financial Crisis (We Have Met the Enemy and He Is Us.)... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Oct 2002
News

Sam Hayes

musician, Hayes plays the pipe organ and cello, “but only with family” — a select group that consists of his wife, Barbara, and their three daughters and two grandchildren. What's behind the current crisis in U.S. View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons

06 May 2014
First Look

First Look: May 6

accounting performance. Publisher's link: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1964011 August 2013 Journal of Financial Intermediation Good Cop, Bad Cop: Complementarities Between Debt and Equity in Disciplining Management... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2020
News

New Releases: Alumni and Faculty Books

Bujalski (MBA 1976) Independently published Very few of us get through life without experiencing a major personal crisis or devastating loss. These crises and losses can come with great pain and often with almost unbearable inner turmoil.... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

November 2010
Supplement

Dow's Bid for Rohm and Haas (CW)

By: Benjamin C. Esty

Spreadsheet Supplement for 211020. View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Performance; Joint Ventures; Financial Crisis; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Financial Markets; Sales; Lawsuits and Litigation; Negotiation Deal; Governing and Advisory Boards; Cash Flow; Decisions; Chemical Industry; Kuwait

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February 2008 (Revised September 2010)
Case

Enterprise Culture in Chinese History: Zhang Jian and the Dasheng Cotton Mills

By: Elisabeth Koll

This case focuses on the legal and managerial evolution of limited-liability firms in China, using the example of the Dasheng cotton mills in Nantong near Shanghai. Dasheng, one of the earliest and most successful industrial enterprises in pre-war China, was founded by... View Details