Skip to Main Content
HBS Home
  • About
  • Academic Programs
  • Alumni
  • Faculty & Research
  • Baker Library
  • Giving
  • Harvard Business Review
  • Initiatives
  • News
  • Recruit
  • Map / Directions
Faculty & Research
  • Faculty
  • Research
  • Featured Topics
  • Academic Units
  • …→
  • Harvard Business School→
  • Faculty & Research→
  • Research
    • Research
    • Publications
    • Global Research Centers
    • Case Development
    • Initiatives & Projects
    • Research Services
    • Seminars & Conferences
    →
  • Publications→

Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (41) Arrow Down
Filter Results: (41) Arrow Down Arrow Up

Show Results For

  • All HBS Web  (270)
    • News  (41)
    • Research  (195)
    • Multimedia  (1)
  • Faculty Publications  (69)

Show Results For

  • All HBS Web  (270)
    • News  (41)
    • Research  (195)
    • Multimedia  (1)
  • Faculty Publications  (69)
Page 1 of 41 Results →
Sort by

Are you looking for?

→Search All HBS Web
  • 01 Jun 2012
  • News

Good as Our Word

For most of the 20th century, three bond ratings agencies—Moody’s, Fitch, and Standard & Poor’s—controlled 97 percent of the credit ratings market. The status quo was... View Details
Keywords: Maggie Starvish; Bond rating; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
  • 27 Aug 2016
  • News

Fed should keep trillions in bonds to provide stability: paper

  • 13 May 2010
  • News

How to keep politics out of rating agency reform

  • 11 Feb 2020
  • News

The Skinny On The Ongoing Morningstar Ratings Squabble

  • 12 Nov 2014
  • News

Whalen: Dow Should Give Money Back to Shareholders

  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

In Harmony

Kim at Seoul’s government-built Hoehyeon “Citizens’ Apartments.” Opened in 1970, it stands as a reminder of a Korea from a very different era. Like so many South Koreans of a certain age, Michael ByungJu Kim (MBA 1990) lives in a country where the past lingers,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographs by Jun Michael Park; private equity; fiction; financial crisis; leadership; Korea
  • 04 Aug 2010
  • News

A Lonely Crusader

municipal bond insurer, MBIA, is the subject of a new book, Confidence Game. MBIA’s stellar financial performance and rock-solid triple-A rating masked the firm’s growing fragility as it ventured deeper and... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; subprime mortgages; Finance; Real Estate
  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

Solving for Z

With nearly 20 years of experience as a senior human resources executive, Matthew Breitfelder (MBA 2002) has seen a lot of change in the corporate talent space. But what’s happening now looks like a tectonic generational shift. From his perch as global head of human... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Illustrations by Doug Chayka; Administration of Human Resource Programs; Government
  • 11 Mar 2024
  • News

In Harmony

inhabitants of Seoul, a sprawling metropolis packed with boutiques, nightclubs, and skyscrapers. Kim left Korea in 1974, at age 11. Educated in the United States, he returned as COO of Asia-Pacific investment banking at Salomon Smith Barney and in 1998 helped... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photograph by Jun Michael Park
  • 12 Nov 2021
  • News

Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge

not-for-profits for environmental science, law, economics, innovation, and advocacy increase at far greater than historical rates. Capital for new clean tech ventures has also increased at a rate commensurate with the resulting needs. To... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2024
  • News

Next Level

culture, including misogyny, racism, and online harassment—she might not always feel welcome. Sarah Bond (MBA 2006) turned to Spencer, her gaze direct, and said, “Phil, my aunt died yesterday. She was a colonel in the Army in the era of... View Details
Keywords: Maggie Mertens; photos by Cameron Karsten; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment
  • 01 Mar 2012
  • News

Social Investing Pioneers

principal and a rate of return with a portion of the savings. If the predefined social outcomes are not met, the government owes nothing. “What the social impact bond does is enable a social organization to... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance
  • 01 Dec 2009
  • News

An Action Plan for Economic Recovery

confidence in credit rating agencies? The first thing Congress did in 2006 was to boost competition. We now have nine approved rating agencies instead of three. However, if you are a View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance
  • 01 Jun 2012
  • News

Ideas

universalities in the decisions that founders faced. He also saw that the “fundamental implications of those decisions were getting the start-ups into trouble down the road.” More Case Study: Good as Our Word For most of the 20th century, three View Details
Keywords: Finance; Manufacturing
  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

Just Keep Our Money

idea of “paying themselves first” by precommitting a portion of their refund to savings. U.S. savings bonds hold particular appeal among low- and middle-income families. Savings rates at tax-preparation... View Details
Keywords: Peter Tufano; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government
  • 01 Mar 2003
  • News

Fighting Back from a Knockout

bit of tarnish. Thanks to years of mismanagement by the administration he was voted to replace, Cranston’s bond rating was reduced to B, the lowest of any municipality in America. In an opinion piece in the... View Details
Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government
  • 01 Dec 2002
  • News

Mary Callahan Erdoes

questions early and often. Are bonds a good bet for those who want to reduce their reliance on equities? I have a lot of sympathy for those who are just getting into bonds now, but I still believe they... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

From venture capitalist to 'compassionate capitalist'

through social impact bonds. “Social impact bonds enable a social organization to raise capital for preventive action, to establish a track record of social performance and to be paid for that social performance at a View Details
  • 01 Dec 2005
  • News

Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper

knowledge that the industry today bears little resemblance to the industry of the late 1980s. In fact, real estate now is widely viewed as a new asset class that competes with stocks and bonds for investment capital. It earned that... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Real Estate
  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion

crucially, by selling billions of dollars of bonds to the People’s Bank of China, the United States has been able to enjoy significantly lower interest rates than would otherwise have been the case. Welcome... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • →

Are you looking for?

→Search All HBS Web
ǁ
Campus Map
Harvard Business School
Soldiers Field
Boston, MA 02163
→Map & Directions
→More Contact Information
  • Make a Gift
  • Site Map
  • Jobs
  • Harvard University
  • Trademarks
  • Policies
  • Accessibility
  • Digital Accessibility
Copyright © President & Fellows of Harvard College.