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- 10 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis
ironic, given that in 2008 and 2009, they were given a hard time for issuing excessively positive ratings of structured products based on home mortgages that turned sour. Whatever they do, someone gets mad. That said, the mistakes on...
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by Staff
- 26 Aug 2008
- First Look
First Look: August 26, 2008
a government, were gaining prominence across the globe, especially with their recent investments in troubled U.S. financial firms that had suffered significant losses from the subprime mortgage crisis. Yet SWFs were viewed with suspicions...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2011
- News
Coming Full Circle
Consumer Financial Protection Bureau and wanted his help. “It was one of those calls you don’t say no to,” says Bernstein, now serving as the bureau’s deputy assistant director of mortgage and home equity markets. “The CFPB is the largest...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
to restructure home mortgages in a manner homeowners can afford is at the heart of our financial crisis. We have paid a terrible price for not addressing the foreclosure crisis at its inception, but it is never too late to start. How can...
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- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
Countrywide Financial, its collapse, the role it played in the mortgage financial crisis, and the excessive compensation of its CEO. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=109009 Purchase the...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 9, 2016
magnitude in subsequent years. Furthermore, we show that the increase in the supply of credit reduced mortgage delinquency rates during the boom years but increased them in bust years. Finally, these effects are stronger for subprime and...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
Mortgage Backed Security (CMBS) Loan, which involves multiple parties, ambiguous relationships, and bifurcated responsibilities. Purchase this case: http://hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=209154 Cincinnati Children's...
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Martha Lagace
- 09 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 9
against price gouging and laws regulating the terms of mortgages may have support because consumers recognize that many people do not optimize their consumption effectively and because they are angry at firms that take advantage of this....
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Martha Lagace
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
investing in agency securities, launched its IPO just before the collapse of the subprime mortgage market. The IPO failed. In June 2009, an IPO window seemed to be opening. Should the company try again? CEO Kevin Grant knew that his...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2014
School’s year-end fiscal 2014 building debt-to-asset ratio decreased to 2.0 percent, from 2.5 percent in the prior year. Other University debt—mainly consisting of repayment obligations to the University for mortgage loans made by HBS as...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Back to the Future
$4 a gallon, stunning American motorists. The results were predictable: Prices for everything skyrocketed, and an already recessionary U.S. economy, soon to be slammed by the mortgage and credit crises, began slouching toward the 1930s....
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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2017
debt in fiscal 2017, compared with $7 million a year earlier. As a result, the School’s year-end fiscal 2017 building debt-to-asset ratio decreased to 1.4 percent, from 1.7 percent in the prior year. Other university debt—mainly consisting of repayment obligations to...
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- 07 Apr 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits
to Cummins. One way to analogize this is to imagine if a fraction of your mortgage interest deduction was disallowed, and that fraction reflected the number of days you spent abroad. Such a disallowance would increase your taxes and...
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by Sean Silverthorne
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Supplemental Financial Information II - Annual Report 2020
mainly consists of repayment obligations to the University for mortgage loans made by HBS as a faculty recruiting incentive, which remained unchanged from fiscal 2019. The School’s debt service expense consists of interest payments to the...
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- 16 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 16, 2016
funds' holdings of securitizations to examine which investors are susceptible to such boom-time thinking. We show that firsthand experience plays a key role in shaping investors' beliefs. During the 2003–2007 mortgage boom, inexperienced...
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Sean Silverthorne
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Supplemental Financial Information - Financial Report 2015
2015, an increase of $1 million from the prior year. As a result, the School’s year-end fiscal 2015 building debt-to-asset ratio decreased to 1.8 percent, from 2 percent in the prior year. Other University debt—mainly consisting of repayment obligations to the...
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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2016
debt-to-asset ratio decreased to 1.7 percent, from 1.8 percent in the prior year. Other university debt—mainly consisting of repayment obligations to the University for mortgage loans made by HBS as a faculty recruiting...
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- 05 Oct 2010
- First Look
First Look: October 5, 2010
case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/811004-PDF-ENG Freddie Mac: Managing in Conservatorship Robert Steven Kaplan, Nitin Nohria, and Ben CreoHarvard Business School Case 411-048 Ed Haldeman has recently become CEO of Freddie Mac, one of three major government...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 30
Surveys of Consumer Finances Authors:Daniel Bergstresser and John Beshears Abstract We find evidence that households selecting adjustable-rate mortgages (ARMs) during the recent decade were disproportionately those who were less...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
of this ratchet effect, we simulate the U.S. housing market with and without equity extractions, and estimate the losses absorbed by mortgage lenders by valuing the embedded put-option in non-recourse mortgages. Our simulations generate...
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Martha Lagace