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- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
banking panics roughly every fifteen to twenty years,” explains Moss. When the Great Depression struck, it was “in a league of its own” in severity and governmental response, he continues. With the banking system near collapse, the...
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- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
written himself. He oversaw the conversion of an economy that had long been in depression to one of booming prosperity, and he knew that he himself had been the major contributor to the change. As the historian Richard Sylla has pointed...
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- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
C. Stein Abstract—Small business lending by the four largest banks fell sharply relative to others in 2008 and remained depressed through 2014. We explore the dynamic adjustment process following this credit supply shock. In counties...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 21
declared bankruptcy, leaving the building 38% occupied and significantly overleveraged. In a depressed suburban Chicago office market, Marisa Sanchez, the leasing agent, has to negotiate lease proposals with three prospective tenants to...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Inside the Partnership
the 1929 stock market crash revealed disastrous investments made by his superiors, Weinberg, who became head of the firm in 1930, worked tirelessly throughout the Great Depression and World War II to keep the firm alive. At the same time,...
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Garry Emmons
- 02 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Why People Don’t Vote--and How a Good Ground Game Helps
percent French.” “We thought that perhaps a way to fix this [distrust] is to have politicians speak directly to voters” Hypothesizing that this lack of personal investment in the country depressed their tendency to vote on issues, the...
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- 14 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 14, 2009
contemplates whether or not to get involved with other investors in trying to replace the board of directors at Take-Two Interactive. The company has been encountering a number of problems with its accounting methods and in the design of its products, etc. All of this...
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Martha Lagace
- 19 Jul 2004
- Research & Ideas
Why Innovations Sit on the Shelf
excess inventory was a perennial problem for the company. The inventory could be sold off only via heavy discounting, which tended to depress margins for all sales. Since the warehouse was close to a major Canadian city, a group of...
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- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Eric Schiffer
when the economy comes back? I think people’s mindsets have been changed by this recession. How long it will last, I don’t know. People who grew up during the Great Depression were frugal throughout their lives. We don’t know how that...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
capitalism “survived the Great Depression.” But did it get out of the Depression on its own or through the help of the state, in the form of the New Deal? If market capitalism gets through the present crisis, as it probably will, will it...
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- 13 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 13
business model. A leader in trade analytics and execution for institutional equity investors, ITG had grown since its establishment in 1987 in step with the dramatic rise in equity trading volumes. During 2009, however, investors curbed their equities trading, View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 26 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn
Finally, performance pricers relentlessly communicate their value. An example is PACCAR, producer of Kenworth and Peterbilt trucks in a market viewed as a commodity by others. Throughout 70 consecutive years of profitability—a period from dirt roads to superhighways,...
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- 08 May 2020
- In Practice
Nonprofits Hurt by COVID-19 Must Hoard Cash to Hold On
(like 2008) but a depression (like the 1930s.) Accordingly, we must be prepared to act in ways we’ve never done before. Second, just as doctors in overburdened hospitals, we need to triage with iron discipline. Our support must go to...
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by Danielle Kost
- 08 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 8, 2010
serves as a vehicle to explore the devastating economic and political impact of the Great Depression on the countries of the South, such as Chile, which had specialized in primary commodities, and on mining and financial capitalists such...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Oct 2004
- Research & Ideas
Bypass Marketing: Are Docs Influenced?
doctor recommendations, tests, or prescriptions." This is illustrated by the fact that some of the most common conditions such as high cholesterol, diabetes, and depression addressed by DTCA are often under-diagnosed or under-treated...
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by Manda Salls
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2014
The period before the Great Depression saw the rise of economic forecasters, pioneers who used the tools of science to predict the future, with the aim of profiting from their forecasts. Friedman, director of HBS’s Business History...
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- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The Boxer of Quirinal By John Barr (MBA 1972) Red Hen Press All animals struggle to survive. In John Barr’s poems, the success of the heron hunting, the albatross breeding, the inchworm spinning give proof of life. But for us that...
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- 05 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 5
independent predictor of mental and physical health-such as decreased depression and doctor's visits-over and above mean levels of positive and negative emotion. These results remained robust after controlling for gender, age, and the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2013
- First Look
First Look: March 19
the Great Depression had a significant negative impact on the level, quality, and trajectory of firm-level innovation, particularly for R&D firms operating in capital intensive industries. However, because a sufficient number of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Dec 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Leaders Create Winning Streaks
because the organization is depressed and skeptical because previously promised changes have not come to fruition. And there are problems under the surface that haven't even been discussed. Leaders have to combine "bold strokes"...
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by Rosabeth Moss Kanter & Walter Kiechel