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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Hope for Reform Dims
THAIN: Regulations failed to keep up with innovations in financial markets. A year after the federal government rushed to rescue Wall Street from its own nearly fatal excesses, former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain (MBA ’79) worries “that we aren’t using the View Details
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Five Honored for Missions Accomplished
conveyed than with the task itself; I’ve used that knowledge again and again. What opportunities do you see as the economy emerges from crisis mode? When it comes to technology, we all have the same core desires to do things smarter,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
Praise for March Cover Congratulations on cracking the mold of a one-subject cover for the March issue. I found the four of your financial crisis articles extremely interesting, especially Niall Ferguson’s book excerpt on “Chimerica”!... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
What Went Wrong?
from securing mortgages to saving for kids’ college tuition and retirement. But the country’s current financial crisis really threw me for a loop. Beginning last spring, with the demise of Bear Stearns, the steady drip, drip, drip of bad... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Big Bailouts, Little Debate
almost casual choices made during this crisis have spawned disastrous consequences. Take Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, for example. When I began covering the companies in early 2008, it was an unquestioned assumption they had grown too... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
recruited Moss, an expert in risk management, to provide historical context to the financial crisis and a framework for reform. For his efforts, the panel acknowledged his key role “in conceptualizing and drafting” significant parts of... View Details
- 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 the financial View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
Glauber As the nation’s financial crisis unfolded in late September, Bob Glauber (DBA ’65) and his wife were exploring the old Silk Road in remote Central Asia. But that didn’t deter intrepid reporters from trying to track him down for... View Details
- 08 Aug 2016
- Lessons from the Classroom
Panic Management: Keep Your Eyes on the Road
rejiggering to compete in our ever-more-mobile, Internet-dependent society. Recovering from crisis requires more than a push-button response. Source: Olivier Le Moal Margolis, who co-wrote a Harvard Business Review article called How to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 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
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
A Quiet Force: Remembering Jay Light
course developer. As Dean, he led HBS through some of the most momentous and challenging times in its history. In 2008, as the global economic crisis unfolded, Light acted swiftly to strengthen the School’s financial structure and... View Details
- 09 Mar 2021
- News
Addressing education inequities exacerbated by the pandemic
- 09 Jun 2020
- Podcast
Covid-19 Dispatch: Dan Springer
As Covid-19 has made remote work the norm, DocuSign and other e-signature companies have provided the digital architecture within which parties can seal agreements and process documents. This has allowed business transactions and official business to proceed while much... View Details
- 20 May 2020
- Podcast
Covid-19 Dispatch: People + Work Connect
Covid-19 has brought Great Depression-level unemployment to many economies and triggered imbalances of supply and demand as some businesses have needed to staff-up quickly. One private sector response, People + Work Connect, is a business-to-business personnel exchange... View Details
- 18 May 2020
- Podcast
Covid-19 Dispatch: Craig Malloy
What happens when a video conferencing company has to rely on its own products for its day-to-day operations? The pandemic turned Austin, Texas-based Lifesize’s commute-to-work culture into a virtual organization overnight. As its customers’ videoconferencing volumes... View Details
- 20 Apr 2020
- Podcast
Covid-19 Dispatch: Irfhan Rawji
Canadian entrepreneur Irfhan Rawji has insight into the pandemic’s influence on a wide range of sectors, from US companies working with global tech specialists, to startups in a variety of markets, the organic food business, and healthcare. He shares his observations... View Details
- 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 endorse this notion, promising to... View Details
- November 2007 (Revised April 2008)
- Supplement
Antegren: A Beacon of Hope (D)
By: Joshua D. Margolis, Thomas J. DeLong and Terence Heymann
Keywords: Crisis Management
Margolis, Joshua D., Thomas J. DeLong, and Terence Heymann. "Antegren: A Beacon of Hope (D)." Harvard Business School Supplement 408-028, November 2007. (Revised April 2008.)
- 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.