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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
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Noted & Quoted
“We simply can’t call it capitalism if the biggest financial institutions enjoy a guarantee from the taxpayer that if they go bust, or risk going bust, they’ll be bailed out. That has to change.” — Professor Niall Ferguson, responding to... 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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- 25 Mar 2008
- News
Whistling Past the Graveyard
with, and research inside the corporate and financial sectors, know firms’ operations and industry practices well. They have a pretty good hunch where the corporate O-Rings are located — those potential pressure points that could explode... View Details
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Money and Markets Dominate New Course Offerings
the Financial Crisis is for those who plan to work in the financial services industry, since it is dominated by a variety of intermediaries that channel savings and... View Details
Keywords: curriculum
- 19 Feb 2010
- News
The MBA Oath Debate
misplaced response to the financial crisis. It assumes that the financial crisis was caused by unethical MBAs gambling with other people’s money,” a point Vermaelen contests.... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
Q&A: Wrestling with the Unthinkable
to businesses about what can happen when a crisis hits and they're not ready. A crisis could be triggered by terrorism but also by an earthquake, a product recall, or anything that constitutes a serious risk... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Sunny's MBA
In 1986, as a 26-year-old with a degree in agricultural management and little business experience, Sunny Verghese (AMP 115, 1994) was newly employed by a venerable Indian conglomerate to oversee a textile mill in Nigeria. A foreign exchange View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
in the economic crisis that hit last fall. Howell and I have been working on these issues for a decade. With the economic crisis, the issues of household debt, retail financial services, and regulation in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
All Hands on Deck
enabling the School to support students, the HBS Fund is fueling the faculty’s efforts to deepen or pivot their research in light of the pandemic and financial crisis and to share their findings and... View Details
Keywords: Jen Mele
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Reunited and It Feels So Good
available to them at the School. Wide-ranging faculty presentations included Professor Regina E. Herzlinger's "Market-Driven Health Care," Professor Bruce R. Scott's "The Asian Financial Crisis Goes Global,"... View Details
- 30 Jul 2010
- News
Notes from a Hammock
best-selling trilogy of mysteries. The Girl was published in 2005, but it sometimes seems Larsson is writing after the meltdown of 2008, and with the benefit of hindsight. His hero, Mikael, an investigative business journalist, speaks contemptuously of View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Hollywood Story
Ruth Epstein (MBA ’88) never went to film school, but nine years at Goldman Sachs proved to be great training for her new career in Hollywood. With fifteen-hour workdays filled with legal and financial negotiations, and the uncertainty of... View Details
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter
Illustration by Vahram Muradyan Illustration by Vahram Muradyan With one quarter of all renters spending more than half their income on housing in the United States, as Harvard’s Joint Center for Housing Studies found in 2017, about 11 million Americans are one View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Righting the Ship
very quickly from mistakes. Third, you’re going to need very serious, courageous leaders with worthy missions, and if you don’t have them, you need to change out your people. This crisis calls for leaders who are able to rise above the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
HBS Posts Strong Results in 2008
’92) took a cautious view of the current fiscal year, noting the dramatic economic decline that began last fall. “Given the exposure of the HBS business model to the economic environment, our operational and financial plans for fiscal... View Details
- 13 Nov 2020
- News
Faculty Focus Their Research on COVID-19 Issues
Professor of Business Administration. His interest in expanding the reach of this work drove the launch of the COVID-19 Business Impact Center, an online hub for the School’s intellectual capital related to the pandemic. Research is categorized under six broad areas:... View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Sea of Dreams
he wasn't given the proper safety equipment. But Heinandez was unable to complain or find alternative employment because of his legal status: He was an undocumented worker. The financial crisis of 2008 added... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
September 2008, just one of its ten non-executive directors had any recent banking experience. He had joined the board five months before Lehman went bust. The backgrounds of Lehman’s independent directors were hardly suited to overseeing a complicated View Details
- 07 May 2020
- News
Ensuring Student Equity
volunteers who pick up materials from NCCP’s office to assemble learning packets at home, then bring back the completed packets for the nonprofit to distribute to families. “We created a Volunteer from Home program that allows individuals to lend a hand during this... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie