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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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- 21 Apr 2014
- News
A lifetime of quiet leadership
Social Enterprise Initiative, to his work with the United Nations Association, the International Rescue Committee, and the Brookings Institute. (Published April 2014)
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- 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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- 07 Dec 2015
- News
Easing the Costs of Adoption
education, and advocacy to assist children’s adoptions. “There are 10-14 million voiceless children trapped in these hell holes around the world. We knew we would only be one arrow in the quiver to rescue the Christinas of the world, but...
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- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Around the World of Entrepreneurial Ventures
complexity that is astonishing, said Sahlman. The International Context According to Kuemmerle, there is one central question guiding his IEF research: how do entrepreneurial managers, and those who finance them, make sensible resource...
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by Martha Lagace
- 23 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
This Crisis Loan Program Preserved Jobs—and Made Money
As the US Congress prepares to replenish its Paycheck Protection Program for small businesses, questions still linger: Do guaranteed loans for small businesses work in the long term? Who wins? Employees? Businesses? Taxpayers? The answer appears to be yes for all...
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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Five Honored for Missions Accomplished
helped create Citigroup; and rescued Bank One. As a manager, you are known for cost cutting. Would you say that’s a fair assessment? I never call it cost cutting because that implies it is indiscriminate. I cut wasteful expenses, but I...
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- 01 Jun 2006
- News
A Capital Asset
collaborating with local preservation groups. “I loved going to different parts of the country and learning how important a sense of local place and culture is to people,” Cohen says. Cohen had served on the finance team for former...
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Impact Measurement Inclusive Finance International Development K-12 Education Leadership Fellows Leadership in Challenging Times MBA Programs Microfinance Non Profit Management Nonprofit Supportive Services Public Sector Public-Private...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
(MBA ’69), a founding partner of Apax Partners and a social-venture entrepreneur, and HBS senior lecturer Thierry Breton, former finance minister of France. With University Professor Michael Porter moderating, the conversation about the...
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- 12 Sep 2007
- Op-Ed
Building Sandcastles: The Subprime Adventure
economy, must be leery of rescuing Wild West investor/risk-takers. As this empire crumbles, the people at the base—the waitress in Detroit, the laborer in Sacramento, the daycare worker in Boston—will lose not just the dream and security...
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- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
retirees' medical benefits. And the CEO, CFO, and many board members were shown the door. The concessions from all sides were remarkable, given that the powers of the task force were limited. Compared with the rescue of the financial...
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- 02 Jun 2011
- What Do You Think?
Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?
seek bankruptcy, nevertheless suggested that the situation might require forcing lenders to "absorb the losses," suggesting a fine line between formal and de facto bankruptcy. Sudheer Thaakur was among those suggesting that national bankruptcy might well be...
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by Jim Heskett
- 21 Dec 2009
- Research & Ideas
Good Banks, Bad Banks, and Government’s Role as Fixer
not Lehman Brothers? Ironically, Congress in 1991 passed a statute establishing specific procedures (including stating a rationale) to be followed before a bank could be rescued and mandating an after-the-fact audit by the Comptroller...
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- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Rich Wilson
On the company side, with an assist from classmate Michael Hintze, financing for the boat was done mostly by me, at about 10 percent of what the new boats spent. For our nonprofit, the school program, sectionmates Bob and Kate Niehaus...
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- 23 May 2019
- Book
These Entrepreneurs Take a Pragmatic Approach to Solving Social Problems
In 1908, Harvard Business School’s first dean, Edwin Francis Gay, welcomed the School’s inaugural class of 59 students by saying that HBS was challenged with encouraging its students to have the “intellectual respect for business as a profession, with the social...
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- 15 Nov 2013
- News
Helping Bright Ideas Shine Again
company, Zetta Research, is dedicated to rescuing those patents and reselling them to companies that wish to unlock their potential. Of course, the CEO's goal also is to make money, but he also sees his company's efforts as serving a...
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Robert S. Benchley
- 15 Sep 2015
- News
Easing the Costs of Saving a Child
providing interest-free loans, education, and advocacy. “There are 10-14 million voiceless children trapped in these hell holes around the world. We knew we would only be one arrow in the quiver to rescue the Andrews of the world, but we...
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Jill Radsken
- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
corporate executives, government officials, and journalists, for allegedly spreading false rumors online about the market’s stability. And in a turnabout, authorities also announced they will not institute more interventions to rescue the...
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- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to...
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by Dina Gerdeman