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- 26 Feb 2019
- News
Building a New Real Estate Investment Model
don’t want people who have been committed to and living in the community for generations to be displaced,” Davis says. “We can prevent that by creating rental opportunities for people who want to stay in their community.” MORE Watch a...
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- 07 Feb 2005
- Research & Ideas
How “Career Imprinting” Shapes Leaders
instrumental assistance, such as loans of cash, to psychosocial assistance, such as friendship and caring. I observed that these helping relationships all shared a similar characteristic: all of these men...
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by Mallory Stark
- January 2005 (Revised April 2006)
- Case
Stonewall Kitchen
By: Myra M. Hart, Victoria Winston, Kristin Lieb, Kenna Wyllie Baudin, Alison Bell and Leslie Simmons
Jonathan King and Jim Stott, the founders of Stonewall Kitchen, started out in 1992 with a simple business selling jams and jellies at local farmers' markets. By 2004, they had grown the company into a $25 million organization with 250 employees. They expanded their...
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Strategic Planning;
Food;
Expansion;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Entrepreneurship;
Financing and Loans;
Business Startups;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Food and Beverage Industry;
Food and Beverage Industry;
United States
Hart, Myra M., Victoria Winston, Kristin Lieb, Kenna Wyllie Baudin, Alison Bell, and Leslie Simmons. "Stonewall Kitchen." Harvard Business School Case 805-006, January 2005. (Revised April 2006.)
- 24 Feb 2014
- News
A Capital Idea for Small Business
Callaghan McGee Photos by Tracy Powell (Editor's Note: Brad McGee passed away in November 2015.) John Callaghan (MBA 1984) and Brad McGee (MBA 1987) became close friends while growing up in the small town of Carmel, NY. Their friendship...
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Business History in the Contemporary Collection | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
include International Financial Statistics, Balance of Payments, Direction of Trade, and Government Finance Statistics. International Historical Statistics: Africa, Asia & Oceania, 1750-2000...
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- Web
Harvard Business School
in his honor. From 1974 to 1976, Dr. Brimmer taught Finance at HBS, where he was the Thomas Henry Carroll Ford Foundation Visiting Professor. Dr. Brimmer authored or co-authored 10 books and published more...
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- January 1987 (Revised March 1989)
- Background Note
Note on the Pricing of Mortgage-Backed Securities
By: Jay O. Light and Jeremy C. Stein
An introduction to mortgage-backed securities, prepayment risk, and their market pricing.
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Light, Jay O., and Jeremy C. Stein. "Note on the Pricing of Mortgage-Backed Securities." Harvard Business School Background Note 287-060, January 1987. (Revised March 1989.)
- March 1998 (Revised July 1998)
- Case
Boston Duck Tours,1996: Has Boston Gone Quackers?
By: Myra M. Hart and Stephanie Dodson
While on vacation in Memphis, former investment manager Andy Wilson discovers a unique "tour bus" that travels over land and through water. He decides to transplant the concept to Boston and to add both historical and theatrical features to the amphibious tour. As he...
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Opportunities;
Creativity;
Entrepreneurship;
Financing and Loans;
Problems and Challenges;
Business Startups;
Tourism Industry;
Tennessee;
Boston
Hart, Myra M., and Stephanie Dodson. "Boston Duck Tours,1996: Has Boston Gone Quackers?" Harvard Business School Case 898-189, March 1998. (Revised July 1998.)
- 2005
- Chapter
Microfinance: The Next Ten Years
By: Michael Chu
A review of the history of commercial microfinance and a view on the key developments in the next decade.
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- 17 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
How ‘Hybrid’ Nonprofits Can Stay on Mission
single-purpose backgrounds made it hard for them to adjust to the hybrid model. Those with social work experience and those with a financial background ended up resenting each other to the point of constant fighting, such that the...
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by Carmen Nobel
- 2009
- Other Unpublished Work
Danatbank
By: David Moss, Cole Bolton and Andrew Novo
In the summer of 1931, Germany was struggling with a deepening economic crisis. Production had fallen, unemployment was high, and bank deposits and gold were being withdrawn from the country at a rapid pace, threatening the value of the German mark. The country's third...
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- May 2020
- Article
How Quantitative Easing Works: Evidence on the Refinancing Channel
By: Marco Di Maggio, Amir Kermani and Christopher Palmer
We document the transmission of large-scale asset purchases by the Federal Reserve to the real economy using rich borrower-linked mortgage-market data and an identification strategy based on mortgage market segmentation. We find that central bank QE1 MBS purchases...
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Monetary Policy;
MBS;
Quantitative Easing;
LSAP;
Refinancing;
Deleveraging;
HARP;
GSE;
Central Banking;
Global Range;
Financing and Loans;
Credit;
United States
Di Maggio, Marco, Amir Kermani, and Christopher Palmer. "How Quantitative Easing Works: Evidence on the Refinancing Channel." Review of Economic Studies 87, no. 3 (May 2020): 1498–1528.
- 18 Dec 2023
- Blog Post
Climate Symposium 2023: Adopting Climate Solutions at Scale
The overarching theme of the 2023 Annual Climate Symposium was “Adopting Climate Solutions at Scale”, exploring not only the existing climate solutions but also the crucial aspects of capital and policy deployment required to accelerate...
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- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
(photo by Jon Enoch) In truth, his business background is central to his work as head of state. Before coming to politics in 2003, Mitsotakis worked in finance at Chase and McKinsey in London. When the...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- January 1999 (Revised March 2004)
- Case
Absolute Sensors
Absolute Sensors is a new spin-off from a scientific consulting firm. Collins and his team must address issues such as: what market(s) to target, how and from whom to raise money, and to what extent they should engage in manufacturing their products.
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Strategic Planning;
Entrepreneurship;
Financing and Loans;
Technology Industry;
Consulting Industry
Kuemmerle, Walter, and Chad S Ellis. "Absolute Sensors." Harvard Business School Case 899-075, January 1999. (Revised March 2004.)
- 28 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit
businesses. But small business credit was hit hard during the recent recession and has been slow to recover. Beginning in early 2009, the federal government acted quickly to unfreeze credit markets with programs ranging from View Details
- spring 2006
- Article
All's Fair in Love, War, & Bankruptcy: Corporate Governance Implications of CEO Turnover in Financial Distress
Prior discussions of management turnover during financial distress have examined bankrupt and non-bankrupt firms as distinct groupings with little overlap. Separately investigating rates of turnover in-bankruptcy and out-of-bankruptcy, without a direct comparison...
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CEO Turnover;
Bankruptcy;
Restructuring;
Shadow Of Bankruptcy;
Borrowing and Debt;
Credit;
Financing and Loans;
Corporate Governance;
Finance;
Theory;
Markets;
United States
Bernstein, Ethan S. "All's Fair in Love, War, & Bankruptcy: Corporate Governance Implications of CEO Turnover in Financial Distress." Stanford Journal of Law, Business & Finance 11, no. 2 (spring 2006): 299–325.
- April 2010
- Case
The Credit Crisis of 2008: An Overview
By: V.G. Narayanan, Fabrizio Ferri and Lisa Brem
This case examines the causes and consequences of the credit crisis of 2008 from a national and global perspective and explores the actions taken and proposed by the U.S. and European governments.
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Keywords:
Credit;
Financial Crisis;
Crisis Management;
Risk Management;
Globalized Economies and Regions;
Global Strategy;
Mortgages;
Performance Effectiveness;
Financial Services Industry;
United States
Narayanan, V.G., Fabrizio Ferri, and Lisa Brem. "The Credit Crisis of 2008: An Overview." Harvard Business School Case 110-048, April 2010.
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
rating. But the issuer would still pay for the fees of the rating agency after it was selected by the third party. You note in your book that loan securitization collapsed at the end of 2008. Has it revived yet, View Details
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel
owned homes or could borrow under such conditions. As a response, the modern housing finance system undergirded by the federal government arose during the New Deal to make credit and liquidity available to...
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