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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Over the Top
pay for poor performance wasn’t just an AIG phenomenon. On Wall Street, it was endemic. Bankers gave themselves nearly $20 billion in 2008 bonuses, even as the economy was spiraling downward and the government was spending billions on... View Details
- 25 Apr 2018
- Blog Post
Policy, Practice, Leadership & Impact: Making a Difference with the HBS/HKS Joint Degree
used my first summer internship to put my newly acquired skills to use. That summer, I worked at the Rwanda Development Board, a government agency whose mandate is to facilitate private investment into the country. While there I analyzed... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Making History, Starting Over
British government to declare a state of emergency and place businesses on a three-day workweek to conserve electricity. It would take more than luck to grow a business in such conditions. By 1977, two of the founding partners had moved... View Details
- 07 Nov 2018
- News
A Market-Based Approach to Solving the World’s Water Crisis
Jennifer Tisdel Schorsch (MBA 1992) is president of Water.org, a Kansas City–based nonprofit dedicated to bringing safe water and sanitation to the world through market-driven initiatives. In this interview she discusses the way the organization approaches View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Big Bailouts, Little Debate
Duhigg Photo Courtesy Charles Duhigg As a business writer for the New York Times, I often bump into HBS classmates and alumni who ask me, in a whisper, “What’s the real story behind the economic crisis? There’s some hidden tale that explains everything, right?” The... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Private Equity under Investigation
Fifty-three years ago, Judge Harold Medina dismissed charges brought by the Justice Department against seventeen leading investment banks. A case built up over a decade of investigations and almost three years of trial collapsed when the View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
Illustration by David Plunkert Here’s a really scary thought. Now that the federal government has poured hundreds of billions of dollars into saving financial institutions deemed “too big to fail,” hasn’t it implicitly guaranteed similar... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
The $4 Billion Question
students consider topics such as deal sourcing, due diligence, deal structuring, governance issues, and the all-important question of how private equity firms create value. And in a mini-module on fundraising, “ABRY Fund V” examines a... View Details
- 29 Jan 2010
- News
Back to Glass-Steagall?
Financial System, warns that “reinstatement of Glass-Steagall would increase the likelihood that the government would bail out a large financial institution in the future.” Meanwhile, the proposed Volker Rule has its weaknesses. Chiefly,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Speaking for the Airlines
When the airlines sought government financial help in the wake of September's terrorist attacks, Delta Airlines chairman and CEO Leo Mullin (MBA '67) emerged as a powerful advocate for the industry, the Los Angeles Times (September 21,... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Money Matters
both partners write personal finance columns for Reuters’ India Web site and for the Wall Street Journal’s Indian partner, livemint.com. They appear on two TV shows every weekend: Bloomberg UTV’s Smart Money and ET Now’s Investor’s Guide.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Brazil Banks on Experience
Ranked among the world’s largest economies, Brazil and the left-leaning government of newly elected President Lu íz In ácio Lula da Silva soothed wary financial markets by selecting Henrique Meirelles (93rd AMP), former head of global... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Paulson Advocates Regulatory Reform
will look not at the trees, but at the whole forest.” He also called for new government power to impose an orderly liquidation of any failing financial institution. Lacking that authority, Paulson said he had to use “duct tape and baling... View Details
- 16 Apr 2013
- News
A Walkabout to the Ocean
understand how the world works, I'd better get a crash education in management and finance." HBS professor Jonathan Tiemann's class in finance changed everything. "I was a total idiot, with absolutely no experience in finance," says... View Details
- 05 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Should Not Do in the Next Banking Crisis
When banks failed across the globe in 2008, the resulting financial crisis sent businesses into a tailspin. As lenders cut back dramatically, companies trying to recover had to scramble for financing required to generate new business and... View Details
- 21 Jul 2011
- News
Social Investing’s Time Has Come
meeting measurable targets, governments save money, a portion of which is used to repay the bondholders with interest. If the programs fail to meet targets, the bondholders, not the government, suffer the loss. The first SIB was launched... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
Africa; its importance to the country is as great as the threat to its existence. Illegal logging fueled Liberia’s recent civil war: “Blood timber” financed the violence, just as blood diamonds have in other African conflicts. The civil... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Will He or Won’t He?
There’s another guessing game going on in Washington, and it doesn’t involve the direction of the Supreme Court. Give up? It’s all about how Christopher Cox (MBA ’76), chosen by President George W. Bush (MBA ’75) to head the SEC, will rule with regard to key issues... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rx for Too Big to Fail
the scourge of too big to fail. One is to break up the largest financial institutions, possibly with a new and improved Glass-Steagall law. The other is to perfect a bankruptcy process for super-sized financial firms so they can fail safely without the need for View Details