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- 01 Dec 2009
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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 we aren’t using the crisis to...
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- 12 Dec 2018
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Lesson Plan
the district’s solicitor and financial consultant waive fees for refinancing debt from 2014 was rebuffed as agenda-driven by a 20-year veteran of the board. Cognetti’s response: “My agenda is to get us through this crisis and stop any...
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- 01 Oct 2002
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Andrew H. Tisch
after he graduated from HBS, when Loews bought Bulova in 1979. “Although Bulova had a strong brand name,” he explains, “we soon realized it was losing out to its Japanese competitors in technology, styling, quality, marketing, and service.” With View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
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Again in a Great City
thousands of abandoned homes, needs more housing The Detroit economy was already wavering when the Cummings family arrived. By early 1992, Detroit’s debt rating would be cut to junk bond status. From an investor’s point of view, the city...
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April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 01 Mar 2011
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Local Hero
charge of the team’s bottom line. “The skeptics in town predicted that even if we raised enough private funds to build the park, we’d still fall on our faces, because we’d have $20 million in debt that no other team in baseball has,”...
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- 01 Dec 2013
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Case Study: Citizen Buffett
throughout the industry. By the end of 2011, Media General, which also owned interests in TV broadcasting and digital media, was carrying high levels of debt despite deep workforce and capital expenditure cuts. It was a situation that led...
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- 01 Dec 2010
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The Transformers
Bridgespan’s founders readily acknowledge their intellectual debt to the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative, an innovator for the past seventeen years in applying business skills to the challenges of running social sector organizations....
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- 01 Dec 2011
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A Modest Tax Proposal
"How about 'No new taxes after these new taxes'?" © James Stevenson/The New Yorker Collection/www.cartoonbank.com As Congress starts the next round of debt ceiling negotiations, the US Chamber of Commerce and other business groups are...
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- 01 Jun 2009
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Big Bailouts, Little Debate
Duhigg Photo Courtesy Charles Duhigg As a business writer for the New York Times, I often bump into HBS classmates and alumni who ask me, in a whisper, “What’s the real story behind the economic crisis? There’s some hidden tale that explains everything, right?” The...
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- 01 Sep 2009
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Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
which we launched last January. This substantive example of intra-University collaboration also dovetailed nicely with my role as senior associate dean for Planning and University Affairs. It would seem that the timing was perfect given the many consumer credit and...
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- 01 Jun 2022
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Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
In 1947, Professor Myles Mace, a pioneer in the study of entrepreneurship and corporate governance, introduced a unique offering into the MBA curriculum called The Management of New Enterprises. Believed to be the first entrepreneurship course taught at any school in...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Dec 2018
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018
the author’s debt to Belvedere College and the Jesuits as the great influence on his life philosophy and life choices. McEvoy also reflects on how Irish banks morphed from being customer oriented, conservative, dull, and profoundly honest...
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- 01 Jun 2015
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Higher Ground
that it raised more than $2 million as part of a capital campaign, thereby erasing a debt accrued in a period that included not only the post-Katrina flooding but also an economy that cratered in 2008. On the way back to the French...
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- 01 Dec 2001
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September 11: A Community Reflects
significant contribution to the relief effort. After committing $10 million in support, Paulson praised the efforts of others. "We owe a huge debt to our firemen, policemen, rescue workers, doctors, nurses, and others who have done so...
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Susan Young;Deborah Blagg