Harvard Business Review

APRIL 5, 2012

Stock Market Conditions and Monetary Policy in a DSGE Model for the U.S. ". " All of these are attempts to model how financial bubbles, crashes, and other fluctuations affect the real economy. They tend to pick and choose their financial influences: one focuses on bank capital, another on real estate prices, another on stock prices.

Banking 12

Banking Real Estate Crisis Policies 12

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 26, 2014

This is one of those stories, which looks at the devastating Ebola crisis through the lens of both history and risk management, with lessons that go beyond what''s happening in Africa. For example, one of eHarmony’s competitive advantages in the matchmaking market is that it limits competition on both sides of the match.

Management 8

Management Risk Management Finance Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 8, 2018

Impact investors over the past decade largely focused on proving that impact investments could achieve a “market rate” or above return profile. Making something wildly profitable will of course attract the attention of financial markets, and thus increase the chances it will scale effectively. By 2010, they had succeeded.

Microfinance 8

Microfinance IPO Real Estate Industry 8

Harvard Business Review

MAY 16, 2017

And she wrote her summary headline — a prime piece of résumé real estate — to immediately show that she had the experience these new positions require. This was Sasha’s summary: Department Administrator – Efficiency Expert – Staff Manager - Crisis Handler. into multiple global markets.

COO 11

COO Chief Operating Officer Transportation Real Estate 11

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 11, 2014

Small business sales were hit hard during the crisis and may still be soft, undermining firms demand for loan capital. Financial crises hit sources of collateral like real estate particularly hard, and this has negatively impacted smaller firms credit scores. Banks remain relatively risk-averse amid the tepid recovery.

Technology 8

Technology Banking Class Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

JULY 9, 2012

The latest Euro crisis summit was different from the 19 others that preceded it in one very important respect: The PR department of the EU played this one very well. And market participants were initially thrilled. And yet hopes are now slowly deflating once again, even as the Eurogroup works out the final details.

GDP 12

GDP Banking Bond Real Estate 12

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 7, 2011

From the start we asked: What are the complexities of financing these homes? And David Smith's entry on the financial challenge shows that flexibility can be born out of financing options as well. Much of the economy consists of hardware shops, carpenters, plumbers, concrete makers, masons, even real-estate agents.

Suri 13

Suri Godin Real Estate Construction 13

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

With interest rates at historic lows, market volatility, political uncertainty, the European crisis, severe commodity price fluctuations, and other unpredictable market conditions, corporate brands and executives have been understandably inclined to sit on the sidelines. But history shows that cash cannot sit idle indefinitely.

Intangible Assets 8

Intangible Assets Venture Capitalist White Paper Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 28, 2014

Concerns that it wouldn’t have enough cash to finance its holiday stock has apparently led to the company to sell real estate, spin off its Lands’ End brand, and raise $625 million in unsecured loans and equity warrants. In 1922, Sears’s rural mail-order catalogue business was already facing an existential crisis.

Retail 8

Retail Quinn Real Estate Apparel 8

N2Growth Blog

JANUARY 18, 2011

Barbers, plumbers, real estate agents, and almost all trade personnel are required to meet established levels of trade skills and be licensed; none will have as bad an impact on a customer as a bad manager or supervisor will!

Leadership 420

Leadership CEO Blog Learning-by-Doing 420

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 7, 2014

Not long after Alan Greenspan stepped down as Federal Reserve chairman in 2006, global financial markets began to unravel. I tried to get Greenspan to talk me for my November HBR article on economics and finance since the crisis , but he said he’d promised his publisher to keep mum until the book was out, which was too late for my purposes.

Long-term 10

Long-term Banking Short-term Finance 10

Harvard Business Review

JULY 13, 2017

banks exploded in the years leading up to the 2008 financial crisis, with disastrous consequences for American firms, markets, and households. Neither did a bank’s prior derivatives activity nor a host of other factors known to predict movement into riskier domains of finance. Risk taking by big U.S.

Banking 8

Banking Risk Management Crisis Real Estate 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 29, 2011

Such a settlement must be carefully crafted if it is to avoid making the housing markets worse. As explained in a recent article in the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta Real Estate Research, in the face of pending principal reductions, the borrower "who intends to repay has a strong incentive to make [him] look like a borrower who won't."

Banking 13

Banking Proposal Cost-Benefit Analysis Real Estate 13

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

The then-sainted Alan Greenspan had given them ample cover, by expressing concerns that surpluses might eventually kill the bond market. Deficits started ballooning again, and really blew up after the financial crisis of 2008. Plus, it turned out there was a recession in the works. So can pre-commitment work again now? Well, maybe.

Budgeting 8

Budgeting Bond Committee Commitment 8