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- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Subprime Time
With markets reeling in the wake of the subprime mortgage fiasco, BusinessWeek (September 3, 2007) turned to Wall Street eminence and Lazard CEO Bruce Wasserstein (MBA ’71) for “much needed perspective on the current turmoil.” Asked about... View Details
- 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 deeper into insuring collateralized debt obligations brimming... View Details
- 03 Apr 2011
- News
Why Red Flags Can Go Unnoticed
- 03 Oct 2008
- News
Wall Street's Latest Crisis of Leadership
- 22 Feb 2010
- News
Lowering The Boom On Financial Leverage
- 26 May 2010
- News
The Greek Crisis and the Limits of Arbitrage
- 06 Feb 2009
- News
Keynes can't help us now
- 24 Feb 2009
- News
Seven Lessons for Leading in Crisis
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
subprime crisis. “It’s hard to overstate the dramatic buildup in subprime lending by mid-decade,” he said. “Subprime lending represented a minimal share of home mortgages in the 1990s. As recently as 2001,... View Details
- 01 Dec 2007
- News
Faculty Research Online
negative publicity. What should the country do to polish its image? Visit http://hbswk.hbs.edu/item/5777.html. Building Sandcastles: The Subprime Adventure The early days of the subprime industry seemed to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sunshine State
implications of his audacious $800 million bet against subprime mortgages, Jeff Greene was to remember that distant day when his father took him to discover vending machines.” Indeed, Greene never forgot when he was 14 and living in... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
Washington, D.C., Retsinas believes all parties in the housing mess were coconspirators — from lenders that hawked subprime finance deals with microprint caveats, to brokers that turned a blind eye to borrowers’ long-term solvency, to... View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
John A. Paulson, MBA 1980
1984 Joins Bear Stearns, M&A Managing Director 1988 Named Partner, Gruss Partners 1994 Launches Paulson & Co. 2007 Makes what many call the “greatest trade ever” on subprime mortgage market 2012 Contributes historic donation to Central... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
Ten years ago, the global financial system teetered dangerously on the edge of total collapse. What began as a subprime mortgage crisis in the United States developed into a full-blown meltdown, causing the collapse of major banks... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
What Went Wrong?
myself straining to understand not just what was happening but the strange vocabulary used to describe it. I’d never heard of a subprime mortgage. Likewise securitization in all its exotic flavors: collateralized debt obligations,... View Details
- 25 Mar 2008
- News
Whistling Past the Graveyard
police itself. More “ham-handed” government regulation and oversight, not less, might be just what we need (http://financialservices.house.gov). As HBS professor emeritus Sam Hayes said recently of Wall Street and the subprime fiasco,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
An Economy Undermined
negotiable CDs, and so on. Across Wall Street, with takeovers, LBOs, S&Ls, over-the-counter derivatives, high-tech stocks, telecoms, subprime mortgages, and of course mortgage securitization, innovation was too often accompanied by abuse.... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Faculty Responds to Financial Crisis
assignments and class discussions to incorporate the crisis, and they are encouraged to continue, says Badaracco. Several new cases already are in use, including “New Century Financial Corporation,” focusing on a subprime mortgage... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
percent mortgage with no income, no job or assets. The subprime mortgage crisis of 2007 was not so difficult to predict. What was much harder to predict was the way a tremor caused by a spate of mortgage defaults in America’s very own,... View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
the minority response argues. As a result, Washington, not Wall Street, is the villain in the bursting of the subprime mortgage bubble. The minority response also faults the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy under former chairman Alan... View Details