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- 12 Sep 2007
- Op-Ed
Building Sandcastles: The Subprime Adventure
relied on mortgage brokers to find the loans. The brokers made money when borrowers signed on the bottom line—regardless of the long-term prospects of owners' solvency. If the borrower defaulted, the View Details
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Lehman Brothers Deal Books | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s... View Details
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Video-Coverage of the Financial Crisis | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2016
- News
Credit, Decoded
A page from one of 63 credit volumes covering business in Louisiana State. This annotated entry details the success of two “free men of color” (identified by scholars as light-skinned men of mixed race) who worked as exchange brokers in... View Details
John M. Regan, Jr.
Regan helped build Marsh & McLennan into the largest U.S. insurance broker and the first US company to buy its way into the world’s only major insurance underwriting exchange, Lloyd’s of London. Regan has played an instrumental role... View Details
Keywords: Finance
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Related Archival Collections | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s... View Details
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Baker Library Collections | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s... View Details
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Corporate Reports Collection | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s... View Details
- 16 Jul 2014
- HBS Case
Marketing Obamacare
important first step. But AHCT's executives also knew if they were going to really be effective, they'd have to make it as easy as possible to sign up. The federal law allowed for commissions for brokers who signed up new healthcare... View Details
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Lehman Brothers Archives | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s... View Details
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Baker Old Class Collection | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s... View Details
Charles E. Merrill
the first established broker to predict the Great Crash of 1929 and the only one that liquidated his firm’s stock portfolio. At his death, his firm boasted 115 offices with 400,000 clients and had become the largest brokerage firm in the... View Details
Keywords: Finance
John P. Morgan
Morgan was a major financier and power broker at the beginning of the 20th century. Through his elaborate financing programs, he controlled numerous corporations including General Electric, AT&T and International Harvester –... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 17 Feb 2016
- News
The Power of Art
The New York Times checked in with for-profit art broker Artlifting. The young company, which represents homeless and disabled artists, now has seven employees and works with more than 70 artists in eight cities. It has sold artwork for... View Details
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R. G. Dun & Co. Credit Reports | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Flying High
customer experience,” explaining that Fidelity plans to woo youthful investors and retain them as customers as their wealth grows over the years. On the brokerage side, she will work to secure the firm’s place as a mutual fund giant. “It’s a volume game,” she said.... View Details
- 12 PM – 1 PM EST, 13 Dec 2016
- Webinars: Trending@HBS
Buying a Small Business: How to Take Advantage of Big Opportunities
There are over 1 million smaller firms in North America and each year thousands and thousands come up for sale, principally as founders retire. Acquiring the right kind of smaller firm offers very compelling economic rewards, and you can become CEO of one of these... View Details
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Investment management: industry resources
& Poor’s NetAdvantage- Capital Markets Industry Survey IBISWorld- Portfolio Management, Securities Brokering Company Overviews Create lists of competitors, potential employers, and people based on industry, geography, size,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2005
- News
Fixer Upper
Real estate broker Sharon Enloe Baum (MBA ’65) cruises the streets of Manhattan in a chauffeured black Rolls-Royce that sports the license plate SOLD 1. Actually, in terms of co-ops and houses, she’s sold a lot more than one during her... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
- 06 Dec 2021
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In My Humble Opinion: Come Clean
Twenty years ago, when a broker called to tell Jon Simon (MBA 1980) about the possibility of acquiring Parkway Custom Drycleaning, the broker didn’t initially reveal what it was—a high-end dry-cleaning... View Details