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- 01 Mar 2009
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Damon Silvers
required to produce four reports for Congress, the last of which is due on March 11, 2009. Read the reports at www.cop.senate.gov/. In addition to shoring up ailing banks, should TARP funds be used to help homeowners avoid View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
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New Ventures New Gains
can help MBAs no matter what they end up doing. “You’ve got to make sure that you understand the likelihood of failure — no matter how smart or how good the plan is,” says Stig Leschly. “It takes a certain...
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- 01 Mar 2023
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Is AI OK?
creditworthiness on purely financial and operational grounds, omitting the prejudice endemic among loan officers. The team used machine-learning techniques to sift through loan records from the Small Business Administration, identifying and weighting the factors that...
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- 22 Feb 2022
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Research Brief: The Fresh Start Effect
the arrival of spring—it increased the likelihood that an employee would sign on. In fact, those nest-egg contributions increased by 25 percent. Why does this work? We often convince ourselves that our bad...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Dec 2008
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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,...
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- 01 Dec 2015
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Complements to the Case Method
Coleman Professor of Financial Management. “We are surprised by how teams come in and say we talked to the CEO,” laughs Cohen. One of the key lessons in Cohen and Malloy’s field course, Stock Pitching, is...
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- 01 Dec 2020
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Kill Groupthink
or former college lacrosse teammates, you are limiting the likelihood of out-of-the-box ideas, Bouygues says. “What you want to think about is best-practice crossover across industries.” For a retail board,...
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- 01 Sep 2017
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History’s Lessons
Edited by Julia Hanna; illustrations by Eduardo Recife Professor Nancy Koehn uses the perspective of time to tell the stories of ordinary people who, despite the odds, achieved extraordinary things. As these...
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- 01 Dec 2008
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No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
consumer deleveraging. This, in turn, has created defaults among financial institutions.” In this context, Kaplan maintains that the financial rescue plan was necessary but not sufficient by itself. “There has to be a second step, and it...
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- 04 Sep 2019
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Clicks and Mortar
Associate Professor Antonio Moreno and Senior Lecturer Jill Avery (image by John Ritter) While legacy companies like Sears are shuttering their doors, a growing number of online-first companies—from Amazon to Rent the Runway—are opening...
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- 01 Dec 2006
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Enron’s Legacy
today? The answer is yes and no. The no (or probably not) answer reflects the likelihood that executives of private-equity firms do not, on average, possess any more ethical discipline than leaders View Details
- 01 Jun 2014
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3-Minute Briefing: Reza Satchu (MBA 1996)
off going with really smart investors, even if it costs you more, because they're going to increase the probability of success. It's better to own less of a business that has a higher View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
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The Accidental Innovator
Unfortunately, 99 percent of the viewers don’t know what an austerity program is, and 99 percent don’t understand what sovereign debt is or what it means to default on sovereign debt. I think Khan Academy...
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- 01 Dec 2005
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Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
totaling $375 billion. Nine are large enough to be listed in the S&P 500. Wall Street goes shopping. Wall Street surveyed the mountain of defaulted S&L loans taken over by the federal Resolution Trust...
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- 01 Sep 2008
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Negative Ad Power
and independents in the center to cobble together a winning coalition. The default position is big-tent appeals or, especially for the underdog, negative attacks on the opponent’s character, experience, and leadership potential. Also,...
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- 01 Mar 2009
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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...
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- 01 Feb 2000
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Staying Afloat
With revenues of $600 million in 1998, the Szczecin shipyard in Poland is one of that country's most notable post-Cold War economic successes, according to an article in USA Today (November 8, 1999). The...
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- 01 Mar 2014
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The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
in the 1990s, the partial default rate reached as high as 73 percent. By comparison, 99.5 percent of the loans to Babban Gona farmers were repaid last season. "Through this whole system, we've been able to...
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- 01 Sep 2005
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Predictable Surprises
of predictable surprises at the corporate level. United Airlines is one of many companies with serious pension-fund problems. You have to feel a little sorry for a new CEO who came on as part View Details
- 20 Jun 2016
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Having an Impact on Development and Poverty Issues
doesn’t just assess an investment on the basis of whether it will have impact, but also on whether it can generate a return that will make it possible to be self-sustaining. In addition to increasing the View Details
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Constantine von Hoffman