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- 04 Aug 2010
- News
A Lonely Crusader
municipal bond insurer, MBIA, is the subject of a new book, Confidence Game. MBIA’s stellar financial performance and rock-solid triple-A rating masked the firm’s growing fragility as it ventured deeper and...
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- 23 Mar 2023
- News
SVB Crash Analysis
HBS faculty members and other experts across Harvard reflect on the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and the state of the banking industry. How ‘Payment Banks’ Could Prevent the Next Bank Collapse Professor Mihir Desai writes in Harvard Business Review that to shore up...
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- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International
utilizes the one asset that exists in abundance in even the poorest and most fragile social sectors - people's self-initiative. It increases the productivity of the person engaged in economic activity, thereby creating new wealth, rather...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
What Went Wrong?
housing bubble and a new, but untested, financial system,” one that has proven to be unexpectedly fragile in a way that nobody really understood. If, like me, you’re still trying to understand how we got...
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- 03 Apr 2018
- News
Taking Frontier Markets to the Next Level
opportunities for positive social impact. “I came to HBS from the Marine Corps. In my Marine Corps experience, I spent several years in Iraq working in counterinsurgency, and from those experiences I became very interested in economic development in View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Where Conservation Means Business
four-inch-thick volumes of Moody’s financial directories from the early 1900s. And Anderson demonstrated the delicate work of making an almost invisible repair to a torn page in a Dutch commodities price ledger dating from 1719. “If you...
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- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Capitalism’s New Agenda
and the environment. Interestingly (given that we interviewed them in late 2007 and early 2008), they were very concerned about the volatility and fragility of the financial markets. They thought the View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Drive-In Nation
(or maybe the Big 2, after Chrysler’s merger with Daimler) continue to dominate the U.S. market, they are beset by falling sales, staggering financial obligations, and the relentless pressure of globalization and foreign competition. GM,...
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- 15 Jun 2021
- News
June 2021 Books and Podcasts
Hajim (MBA 1964) and Glenn Plaskin Skyhorse On the Road Less Traveled is the story of Edmund Hajim, an American financier and philanthropist who rises from dire childhood circumstances to achieve professional success and personal...
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- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City
and public housing. Although heartening, Grogan and Proscio admit that these positive trends are fragile first steps and "entirely reversible, if treated with indifference." "The point is not that poverty has been abolished, or will be,"...
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- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Letters to the Editor
untested, financial system,’ one that has proven to be unexpectedly fragile in a way that nobody really understood.” This is the Harvard Business School? If the basics of the View Details
- 01 Sep 2018
- News
September 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
forward-thinking companies that have adopted radical new approaches to talent, this book shows leaders how to bring the rigor they apply to financial capital to their human capital, elevating HR to the same level as finance in their...
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- 12 Jul 2021
- News
Alumni Confront the COVID-19 Crisis
conference focused on Nigeria’s response to COVID-19, Ndidi Nwuneli (MBA 1999), cofounder of AACE Foods and Sahel Consulting, noted that the country’s agricultural ecosystem was fragile even before the pandemic. “We already have...
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- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In Review
access by expanding fellowships for those with financial need. It opened new international research centers and offices, launched the Harvard-wide i-Lab ecosystem, completed a $1.4 billion capital campaign, and enhanced the campus through...
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- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
Sunday evening in a Baker Lawn “pavilion” erected for the summit’s general sessions. Nearly everyone failed to understand how much the global financial system had changed in recent years, and how fragile it...
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- 01 Jan 2003
- News
Greylock
quarterly reports, it would be a private partnership that would work quietly with fledgling, sometimes fragile enterprises over the long term. "From the beginning, I believed in collegiality," says Elfers. "That would be a crucial element...
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- 01 Dec 2013
- News
Curing Health Care
knowledge, but working at this edge is inherently risky: Information is fragile until further testing can sift the wheat from the chaff. Building commercial enterprises around such new knowledge has the potential to truly change the...
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