2008 Financial Crisis - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Feb 2011
First Look

First Look: Feb. 15

financial crisis saw a vast expansion in deposit insurance guarantees around the world, and yet our understanding of the design and consequences of deposit insurance schemes is in its infancy. We provide a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2018
News

Hard Choices

regulation are essential to limit the harm, as well as the reputational and financial damage. But governance and regulation exist on pendulums that swing to and fro, and may overshoot in one direction and then in the other. One of... View Details

Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)

26 Jun 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

measures of constraints. These findings imply a high degree of market segmentation and suggest that frictions within specialized financial institutions prevent capital from flowing into the market at shorter horizons. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

17 Jan 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: January 17

around a first wave of globalization from the mid-nineteenth century until the 1920s and a second wave that started after World War 2, intensified from the 1980s until around the 2008 global financial... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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Eli Lilly Canada, the Controller and Treasurer at Eli Lilly and Company and Chief Financial Officer at Cardinal Health. Lara Hodgson MBA ’98, Harvard University; BS, Aerospace Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology Lara is the... View Details

01 Jun 2010
News

MBAs on a Mission

NGOs. For Naidoo, borders are meant to be crossed. — JH Virtuous Circle: As director of capital expansion and financial services at Habitat for Humanity, Cindy Song manages a $34 million loan portfolio that funds construction and... View Details

Keywords: Sarah Auerbach;Deborah Blagg;Julia Hanna; Corporate Services; Management; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

22 Feb 2022
News

March 2022 Alumni and Faculty Books

charisma, negotiate comfortably and creatively, and spot manipulators before it’s too late. HBR Guide to Crafting Your Purpose By John Coleman (MBA 2009) Harvard Business Review Press We’re living through a crisis of purpose. Surveys... View Details

May 2022
Supplement

Maestro Pizza (C): Taking the Fight Outside

By: Ramon Casadesus-Masanell and Fares Khrais

Maestro pizza opened its first store in 2013 after its founder, Khalid Al Omran, recognized an opportunity in Saudi Arabia to offer high quality pizza at affordable prices. The business grew rapidly and under the radar at first, but soon enough caught the attention of... View Details

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10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

ownership is concentrated in a few individuals. In contrast, those multinational corporations surveyed, where ownership is diversified and anonymous, had no misgivings about the link between social policy and financial return. According... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team

01 Dec 1999
News

Covering the Issues

almost every facet of business," stated HBS professor Joseph L. Badaracco, Jr., in a 1991 article. "You can't really understand some of them unless you understand the marketing issues, financial issues, and production issues in the... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young, Deborah Blagg, and Garry Emmons

01 Jun 2019
News

City on a Hill

and cultural heritage of eastern Kentucky. By the turn of the millennium, however, financial instability, lack of a strategic plan, and leadership churn had begun to eat away at what had once been a vibrant institution with deep ties to... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; photographed by Clay Cook

08 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 8, 2007

is invested and aid has a small but insignificant effect on growth. Aid has no effect on the financial account, but does raise holdings of foreign reserves. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-074.pdf Cases &... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: December 4

Vikram Sunderam Publication:Journal of Financial Economics (forthcoming) Abstract We present a model that helps explain several past collapses of securitization markets. Originators issue too many informationally insensitive securities in... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Jun 2009
News

Dispatches from the Global Classroom

deep experience across the private, nonprofit, and public sectors who is the founder and chairman of FOMEPADE, a financial institution that offers consumer and housing credit. “The fact that we could actually talk to the people and look... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

01 Dec 2012
News

From Where We Stand

my goals. The financial services industry was just opening up to women, and I was on a mission to be one of the first to participate. I loved being a pioneer. I had my goals and was determined to achieve them. They were, and still are, to... View Details

02 Oct 2015
News

The ‘F’ Word

aren’t that clear.” Despite the pain of Quincy’s failure, Wallace doesn’t regret the experience. “I’m more fulfilled when I’m scrappy and building something, so I’m grateful to have been ripped away from the notion that I need financial... View Details

Keywords: Walt Disney Studios

10 Mar 2021
Blog Post

COVID Killed the Traditional Workplace

opposite effect when depended upon as a substitute. While not apparent yet, a permanent work-from-home model may well start a slow-rolling mental health crisis in the American workforce and a resulting HR nightmare. What might look like... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

01 Sep 2018
News

September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books

leaving their survival uncertain. Minorities are falling prey to an Islamist ideology that conveys values and customs diametrically opposed to European ones. Terrorist acts have become the “new normal,” part of daily life. The North-South cleavage brought about by the... View Details

01 Dec 2013
News

Curing Health Care

their coauthored article, "How to Solve the Cost Crisis in Health Care" (Harvard Business Review, September 2011). Their work on a pilot study at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center shows that more accurate measurement of... View Details

Keywords: Ambulatory Health Care Services; Health, Social Assistance; Management; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

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