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  • 01 Sep 2009
  • News

Students Take Aim at Foreclosures

Last spring four HBS students traveled to Minneapolis to visit the nonprofit Homeownership Preservation Foundation (HPF), which counsels people who are facing foreclosure on their homes. Meeting with HPF officials, the students discussed... View Details
Keywords: foreclosures; Real Estate
  • 12 Oct 2010
  • News

Sloppy foreclosure processing may prolong housing crisis

  • Research Summary

Foreclosure with Incomplete Information

In this paper we investigate the robustness of the widely-used new foreclosure doctrine and its associated welfare implications to the introduction of incomplete information. In particular, we make the realistic assumption that the upstream firm’s marginal cost... View Details
  • March 2012
  • Article

Subprime Foreclosures and the 2005 Bankruptcy Reform

By: Donald Morgan, Benjamin Iverson and Matthew Botsch
This article presents arguments and evidence suggesting that the bankruptcy abuse reform (BAR) of 2005 may have been one contributor to the destabilizing surge in subprime foreclosures. Before BAR took effect, overly indebted borrowers could file bankruptcy to free up... View Details
Keywords: Mortgages; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Borrowing and Debt; United States
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  • 17 Feb 2011
  • News

Banks likely face fines over foreclosure mess

  • 01 Nov 2010
  • News

Foreclosure Crisis Provides Opportunity for Bankruptcy Reform

  • Article

Foreclosure with Incomplete Information

By: Lucy White
Keywords: Behavior; Decision Making; Research; Government Legislation; Society
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  • 20 May 2011
  • News

R.I. near top of foreclosure rates

  • 19 Jun 2009
  • News

Foreclosures in Mass. plummet 58.6% in May

  • 28 Jun 2011
  • News

Retsinas Says Jobless, Foreclosures Weighing on Housing

  • 06 May 2009
  • News

HBS Group Helps Fight Foreclosures

  • 30 Nov 2010
  • News

The Foreclosure Pileup: More Bad News for the US Economy

  • 13 Jan 2011
  • News

Increasing numbers of banks are also walking away from foreclosures

  • May 2011 (Revised December 2011)
  • Case

Stuyvesant Town - Peter Cooper Village: America's Largest Foreclosure

By: Arthur I Segel, Gregory S. Feldman, James T. Liu and Elizabeth C. Williamson
In July 2010, William Ackman, the founder of Pershing Square, is considering a potential new opportunity: the acquisition of the distressed Stuyvesant Town and Peter Cooper Village ("ST /PCV") complex. The property had recently been abandoned by its owners and had come... View Details
Keywords: Property; Risk Management; Opportunities; Valuation; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Investment; Outcome or Result; Acquisition; North and Central America
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  • 18 Feb 2011
  • News

R.I. foreclosures rise; fewer behind on payments

  • 14 Jul 2011
  • News

Bank Delays Are Seen Pushing One Million U.S. Foreclosures Into Next Year

  • 27 Apr 2009
  • News

Accused adware purveyor Zango shuttered by bank foreclosure

  • December 2011
  • Teaching Note

Stuyvesant Town - Peter Cooper Village: America's Largest Foreclosure (TN)

By: Arthur I Segel and Nicolas Ibanez
Keywords: Real Estate Industry
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  • 20 Sep 2011
  • News

Rising number of foreclosures in R.I., increase in rents causing hardships

  • May 2022
  • Article

When Does Product Liability Risk Chill Innovation? Evidence from Medical Implants

By: Alberto Galasso and Hong Luo
Liability laws designed to compensate for harms caused by defective products may also affect innovation. We examine this issue by exploiting a major quasi-exogenous increase in liability risk faced by U.S. suppliers of polymers used to manufacture medical implants.... View Details
Keywords: Product Liability; Innovation; Tort; Medical Devices; Vertical Foreclosure; Product; Innovation and Invention; Legal Liability; Laws and Statutes; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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