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- April 2016 (Revised December 2019)
- Case
Dan Gilbert: Crazy or Crazy Like a Fox?
Keywords:
Detroit;
Rock Ventures;
Dan Gilbert;
Real Estate;
Buildings and Facilities;
Demographics;
Financial Crisis;
Government and Politics;
Housing;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Real Estate Industry;
United States
Lietz, Nori Gerardo. "Dan Gilbert: Crazy or Crazy Like a Fox?" Harvard Business School Case 216-066, April 2016. (Revised December 2019.)
- August 2011
- Teaching Note
Lessons Learned? Brooksley Born & the OTC Derivatives Market (TN) (A) and (B)
By: Clayton Rose and Sally Canter Ganzfried
Teaching Note for 311-044 and 311-070.
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- June 2010 (Revised January 2012)
- Case
Blue Man Group: Creativity, Life and Surviving an Economic Meltdown
In 2008, Blue Man Group's three co-founders are facing the prospect of losing not just a business but a way of life they have built together. The case follows the story of Chris Wink, Matt Goldman, and Phil Stanton as they pursue their creative passion and build the...
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Keywords:
Arts;
Financial Crisis;
Entrepreneurship;
Crisis Management;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Brands and Branding;
Personal Development and Career;
Creativity;
Entertainment and Recreation Industry
Chakravorti, Bhaskar, and Shirley M. Spence. "Blue Man Group: Creativity, Life and Surviving an Economic Meltdown." Harvard Business School Case 810-108, June 2010. (Revised January 2012.)
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Kill Groupthink
field of critical thinking. Just think back to the 2008 financial crisis, when a group of experts ignored the warning signs and arrived at an uncritical consensus. The consequences were disastrous, Bouygues...
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- 01 Jun 2014
- News
Start Me Up
development." Too much financial engineering. Not enough enterprise and value creation. For Akhil Nigam (MBA 2007), that was a big takeaway from the 2008 economic collapse. It got the former software...
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Garry Emmons
- June 2011 (Revised September 2011)
- Case
Tough Choices for the Illinois Pension System
By: Robert C. Pozen and Brij S. Khurana
This case describes the precarious fiscal situation of the Illinois public pension system in the spring of 2009 and the accounting of pension plans by non-federal municipalities more generally. In February 2009, in the midst of a recession, recently-appointed Governor...
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Keywords:
Budgets and Budgeting;
Financial Crisis;
Financial Liquidity;
Annuities;
Financial Management;
Financing and Loans;
Taxation;
Strategic Planning;
Problems and Challenges;
Illinois
Pozen, Robert C., and Brij S. Khurana. "Tough Choices for the Illinois Pension System." Harvard Business School Case 311-139, June 2011. (Revised September 2011.)
- Web
Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy - Course Catalog
the remainder of the course. It investigates the mechanisms underlying recent macroeconomic and financial crises and explores their institutional underpinnings as well as their economic and political consequences. Representative cases...
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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Mexico on the Brink: A Conversation with Juan Enriquez-Cabot (MBA '86)
upheaval - financial collapse, peasant uprisings, and political violence. What's going on? Some people see the repression in Mexico's political system and call the system authoritarian. Others see its freedoms and label it an emerging...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Just Keep Our Money
© politicalcartoons.com The government’s ever-evolving rescue of the financial sector has already demanded enormous sums, and President Obama’s economic stimulus package will require many billions more. While a stimulus plan would lead to...
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- 19 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
Business Research that Makes for Smarter Public Policy
Smarter Policy” to help provide evidence on matters of small-business financing—looking in particular about whether and how the financial crisis created a credit gap for small businesses. Despite gathering...
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by Michael Blanding
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
2006 MBAs Go to Work
$134,438 for the Class of 2005. Another uptick was measured in the number of graduates entering the financial services industry, with a shift from 36 percent to 42 percent. Kierstead observes that the Class of 2006 is the first to...
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- Student-Profile
Yueran Ma
market, which had a big impact on many people’s lives. Then the global financial crisis struck when I was in high school. I felt deeply that finance is hugely important to the efficiency and well-being of a...
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- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Untold Story of the US Auto Bailout
The US automotive industry collapse was one of the most important business stories to come out of the 2008 financial crisis—and like so many events of that time, it was big on headlines but short on nuance....
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- 22 Sep 2014
- Op-Ed
Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business
equipped to perform this role? Reason For Optimism The financial crisis significantly changed the lending landscape in the United States for small businesses, both for owners and entrepreneurs and the...
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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
The Natural World
TERCEK: A tight strategic focus. Courtesy The Nature Conservancy Two years ago, Mark Tercek (MBA ’84) left his job at Goldman Sachs to become head of The Nature Conservancy (TNC), the habitat-preserving organization that has some 3,700 employees worldwide (as well as...
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- Profile
Juan Eyzaguirre
through the earthquake crisis meant mobilizing an entire nation and motivating everyone to work together. "It was really tough," Juan says. "But when you feel that you are part of a national effort, people give the best of...
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- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Devilish Plot
Devilish plot: This year’s HBS Show, The Devil Wears Crimson (here in rehearsal), centered on an anonymous gossip blogger who wreaks havoc at HBS as she tries to uncover who caused the financial crisis. When she learns that her...
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- April 22, 2015
- Editorial
One Way To Help Greece Recover: Help Greek Companies Obtain Financing
By: George Serafeim
Keywords:
Europe;
European Union;
Eurozone;
Politics;
Government;
Government And Business;
Competitiveness;
Country Analysis;
Country Strategy;
Finance;
Competition;
Financing and Loans;
Financial Crisis;
Business and Government Relations;
European Union;
Greece
Serafeim, George. "One Way To Help Greece Recover: Help Greek Companies Obtain Financing." Forbes.com (April 22, 2015).
- March 2001 (Revised February 2004)
- Case
Power to the States: "Fiscal Wars" for FDI in Brazil
By: Laura Alfaro, Yasheng Huang and Marios S. Kalochoritis
On January 6, 1999, Itamar Franco, the governor of the state of Minas Gerais, the second-largest state in Brazil, declared a 90-day moratorium on its debt payment to the federal government. The announcement triggered a run on the Brazilian currency, the Real, and...
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Alfaro, Laura, Yasheng Huang, and Marios S. Kalochoritis. Power to the States: "Fiscal Wars" for FDI in Brazil. Harvard Business School Case 701-079, March 2001. (Revised February 2004.)
- November 1997
- Case
Herbert Hoover (B)
Presents a character sketch of Herbert Hoover, along with Hoover's views on the cause of the Great Depression of the 1930s. Illustrates the political economy of the period and presents different interpretations of the course of the Great Depression. A rewritten version...
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Keywords:
Economic Slowdown and Stagnation;
Financial Crisis;
Government and Politics;
Personal Characteristics
Wells, Louis T., Jr. "Herbert Hoover (B)." Harvard Business School Case 798-042, November 1997.