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- 01 Dec 2018
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Averting Crisis
A decade ago, the global economy nearly collapsed entirely, bringing down with it some of the biggest banks and the livelihoods of countless individuals in lost jobs, savings, and homes. When the next downturn comes, will we be any better...
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- 09 Apr 2024
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To Serve and Protect the Markets
Every day, in her role as the director of the Atlanta Regional Office of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), Nekia Hackworth Jones (MBA 2004) stands in the breach between the $100 trillion in securities traded on U.S. equity markets and the bad actors who...
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Margie Kelley
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
apart, put in little subsets, and sold as a whole variety of different securities. And no one knew what they had. At that point government had stepped aside, had genuflected at the altar of the market as it relates to our housing financing system,” said Retsinas,...
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- 01 Dec 2017
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2017 in Finance: Helping Consumers Improve Their Financial Life
done on mobile devices, and social media services like WeChat are leading the way. The big question is, how are the banks going to respond? In China, where banks are less regulated, they are starting to...
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- 01 Mar 2010
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Rx for Too Big to Fail
constraints. A new Glass-Steagall law that segregated commercial banking from other financial activities, or that limited banks’ proprietary trading, would strengthen the financial system, if crafted properly. But it could hardly be...
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- 01 Mar 2024
- News
The Exchange: Takeaways from the Takedown
Professors Eugene Soltes and Aiyesha Dey; image by John Ritter When Sam Bankman-Fried was convicted in 2023 of all seven charges against him related to the cryptocurrency exchange FTX, the jury needed less than five hours to deliberate after a months-long trial. The...
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- 01 Jun 2011
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What’s after Fannie and Freddie?
So what we’re saying is, OK, if people are going to buy homes with low down payments, we need to recognize that these sorts of mortgages are riskier. Regulators should limit the use of adjustable-rate mortgages for these loans, which...
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- 01 Mar 2003
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Naina Lal Kidwai
Raised in Mumbai and Delhi, Naina Lal Kidwai (MBA ’82) went away to school in Simla, in the Himalayas, and has conducted her career at similarly lofty heights ever since. A Delhi University alumna and the first Indian woman to graduate from HBS, Kidwai joined ANZ...
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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
INK: Big News for Small Business
relationship banking and maintain that role as the trusted local advisor. What will it take to get us there? Regulation is one of the greatest concerns as we move into this next stage of innovation, but the...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Hope for Reform Dims
THAIN: Regulations failed to keep up with innovations in financial markets. A year after the federal government rushed to rescue Wall Street from its own nearly fatal excesses, former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain (MBA ’79) worries “that...
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- 31 Oct 2018
- News
Pitching In for Female Leaders
her path through international sports and investment banking to becoming a leading advocate for women in sports and business. “I ran and led a leading football club in Turkey for over a decade. Then I joined the governing body in Turkey...
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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Noted & Quoted
also be a statutory cap on leverage, a maximum speed limit, if you will, that regulators can’t loosen.” — HBS professor David Moss commenting on the need for financial reform legislation to place limits on the amount View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Winning Legally
property law to protect their knowledge assets. They also need to practice what I call “strategic compliance management,” which is a proactive approach to regulation that seeks to convert constraints into opportunities. Since managers and...
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Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Where Are They Now?
didn’t fix it and had twelve years of stagnation.” To avoid a similar fate, the Treasury’s support of ailing U.S. banks was inevitable, he says. Now, at 69, Glauber teaches one course a year on regulating...
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- 01 Mar 2014
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Ask the Expert: Taxing Questions
1960), former chief economist, Royal Bank of Canada, Canada The United States has the worst of all worlds: a relatively high marginal tax rate that influences behavior negatively, but a considerably lower average tax rate that precludes...
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- 25 Sep 2008
- News
Been There, Seen That
emeritus Sam Hayes: “The October 19 crash also calls into question the de facto rules and regulations that we’ve been working with for the last fifty years or so and how far we have come from the assumptions underlying the reform...
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- 01 Jun 2010
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M.I.A. Boards
September 2008, just one of its ten non-executive directors had any recent banking experience. He had joined the board five months before Lehman went bust. The backgrounds of Lehman’s independent directors were hardly suited to overseeing...
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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
Franklin H. Coursen (PMD 25, 1973) Harwich Port, MA Regulation Works I am glad that HBS faculty members favor improved regulation to avoid future financial meltdowns. View Details
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Is Market Capitalism Headed for Trouble?
based primarily on data from a 2007 World Bank study of global economic prospects for 2030.* We showed it to important business leaders — some HBS alumni, some not — from around the world and asked them for their views on potential...
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- 13 Jul 2017
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Making Friends with Mother Nature
State Constitution; the remaining 55 percent is privately owned but with usage regulated by the Adirondack Park Agency. “It’s taken up much of my life for the last 18 years, and it’s one of the most satisfying things I’ve ever done,”...
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Ralph Ranalli