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The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Financial Regulation for the Twenty-First Century
By: Leonard J. Kennedy, Patricia A. McCoy and Ethan S. Bernstein
After existing regulatory systems failed to prevent the recent financial crisis, Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, a sweeping reform designed to alleviate the crisis and prevent its recurrence. Out of this Act, the Consumer...
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Consumer Financial Protection Bureau;
Dodd-Frank;
CFPB;
Financial Crisis;
Reform;
New Agency;
Market-based Approach;
Evidence-based Analysis;
Innovative Technologies And Transparency Policies;
BEST Practices;
Government and Politics;
Government Administration;
Finance;
Financial History;
Law;
Markets;
Organizations;
Organizational Design;
Business and Government Relations;
Balance and Stability;
Strategy;
Banking Industry;
Banking Industry;
United States
Kennedy, Leonard J., Patricia A. McCoy, and Ethan S. Bernstein. "The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau: Financial Regulation for the Twenty-First Century." Cornell Law Review 97, no. 5 (July 2012): 1141–1176.
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
Abstract—Improving the way we pay for health care must be a central component in health care reform. Payment reform must link provider reimbursement and accountability to improving patient value: better health outcomes delivered at lower...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-021.pdf How Do Risk Managers Become Influential? A Field Study of Toolmaking and Expertise in Two Financial Institutions Authors:Matthew Hall, Anette Mikes, and Yuval Millo Abstract In this study, we examine transformations in the...
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Carmen Nobel
- 05 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 5
current state of access to bank capital for small business from the best available sources. We explore both the cyclical impact of the recession on small business and access to credit and several structural issues in that impede the full...
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Sean Silverthorne
- June 2004
- Teaching Note
First Commonwealth Financial Corporation (TN)
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Teaching Note to (9-104-042).
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- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
corruption per se does not prevent rapid economic development, although it does distort it. Modern Turkey has achieved great economic progress whatever the prevalence of corruption. World Bank data shows that Turkey’s per capita income...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Video: Harvard Business School at the Kumbh Mela
opportunity, to get engaged. At the Kumbh Mela there was a central administration for the festival, much as there would be for a big state fair in the United States. It worked in coordination with the smaller religious groups as well as...
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- 18 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Want to Be an Entrepreneur? [Part I]
down from the semicircular banks of seats in Aldrich 9. Price tags (retailers wouldn't have to re-mark them for discounted sales). Billboards. Sheet music (self-turning scores). Eyeglasses with news headlines projected inside the lens...
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by John S. Rosenberg
- 08 Mar 2016
- First Look
March 8, 2016
March 2016 Harvard Business Review Lean Strategy By: Collis, David J. Abstract—Strategy and entrepreneurship are often seen as polar opposites. Yet the two desperately need each other: strategy without entrepreneurship is central...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
international institutions, a bank and a museum, adds value to both in terms of interaction with customers and breadth of audiences. The paper further points to key aspects of resource integration in a co-marketing partnership. Design /...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 15, 2008
Publication:American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract The central insight of asset pricing is that a security's value depends on both its distribution of payoffs across economic states and state prices. In fixed-income markets, many...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?
Froot, "all this is interesting and useful because it's a microcosm for the larger financial sector, made up of banks and shadow banks. We have a huge institutional setup for bearing these sorts of 'out-of-the-money' risks—very...
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- 14 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 14
Wellfleet Bank: All That Glisters Is Not Gold Anette MikesHarvard Business School Case 110-011 Inspired by one of the few banks that successfully weathered the 2007-2009 credit crisis, the case illustrates risk management in the world of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
and develop a construction budget and financing plan. Students are asked to evaluate the prospective financials for this development and assess the viability of the development plan and its prospective returns. The case then ends with a change in the fundamental...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan
ahead for Japan's business leaders and for global companies operating in Japan. Rohit Deshpande, Sebastian S. Kresge Professor of Marketing The culture of Japan tends to be outer directed. Thus, taking care of other people becomes much more View Details
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Re: Multiple Faculty
- 21 Apr 2015
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First Look: April 21
Abstract—A central prediction of information economics is that market forces can lead businesses to voluntarily provide information about the quality of their products, yet little voluntary disclosure is observed in the field. In this...
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Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 2013
- Book
Entrepreneurship and Multinationals: Global Business and the Making of the Modern World
By: Geoffrey Jones
This book examines the history of entrepreneurship and multinationals in the making of the modern world. In recent years economists, historians, and political scientists have written extensively on the history of globalization and patterns of global wealth and poverty,...
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FDI;
Economic History;
Business History;
Industrial Organization;
Chinitz;
Agglomeration;
Clusters;
Cities;
Mines;
Globalization;
Entrepreneurship;
Government and Politics;
Banking Industry;
Banking Industry;
Banking Industry;
Banking Industry;
Banking Industry;
Africa;
Asia;
Europe;
Latin America;
Middle East;
North and Central America;
South America
Jones, Geoffrey. Entrepreneurship and Multinationals: Global Business and the Making of the Modern World. Northampton, MA: Edward Elgar Publishing, 2013.
- Research Summary
Overview
By: Michael Chu
Chu's research is focused on business and low income sectors, particularly in the use of commercial platforms to deliver what has traditionally been considered public responsibilities. In the last three decades, business models have emerged to meet the underserved...
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Impact Investing;
Microfinance;
Base Of The Pyramid;
Role Of Profit And Social Impact;
Private Sector Development;
Emerging Markets;
Business Ventures;
Health Care and Treatment;
Management;
Social Enterprise;
Strategy;
Banking Industry;
Banking Industry;
Banking Industry;
Latin America;
North and Central America;
Asia;
Africa
- 06 Feb 2007
- First Look
First Look: February 6, 2007
and economist Warren Persons, gained international renown for its three-curve A-B-C chart, which rendered business fluctuations as the ebb and flow of speculation (A), business (B), and banking (C). The service was directed by C. J....
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Martha Lagace
- October 2018 (Revised January 2019)
- Case
The Financial Crisis: Timothy Geithner and the Stress Tests
In February and March 2009, the U.S. economy was in the midst of a terrifying financial and economic crisis. Between the beginning of 2008 and early 2009, four of the 25 largest U.S. financial institutions had failed, and nine of these 25 institutions had taken...
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Bailout;
Regulation;
Stress Test;
Financial Crisis;
History;
Economy;
Policy;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Decision Making;
Banking Industry;
Banking Industry;
Banking Industry;
United States
Hanson, Samuel G., Robin Greenwood, David Scharfstein, and Adi Sunderam. "The Financial Crisis: Timothy Geithner and the Stress Tests." Harvard Business School Case 219-038, October 2018. (Revised January 2019.)