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...week before, says that Oct. 2008 was the most volatile month in the entire history of equity markets. While the markets were already ominous prior to Lehman’s collapse, he says the event exacerbated the crisis by triggering massive risk replacement for the many derivative contracts held by Lehman, increasing potential systemic risk in the markets, and instilling a general lack of investor confidence. “We were well prepared, but we didn’t expect the Lehman failure, and obviously things were terribly difficult in the fall,” Kaplan says, noting that even...
...students of the Harvard Business School yesterday as part of HBS’ Class Day festivities. Both Dimon and student speaker Thomas C. Rajan struck melancholy tones in their remarks, emphasizing the need for greater reflection and responsibility among business executives in the current economic climate. The event was held on Baker Lawn in the afternoon, and light rain periodically fell as students and their families gathered to honor HBS professors, present the class gift, and celebrate the conclusion of their studies. Following brief remarks by Dean Jay O. Light, student Deirdre-Ann L. Perry introduced the concept of Class...
...first-years—members of the American Medical Students Association, a national group that has made waves by rating medical school conflict of interest policies—alleged that a board position held by Professor Paul G. G. Richardson raised concerns because a drug marketed by that company was discussed in class...
...November, Dean of the Medical School Jeffrey S. Flier held a town hall meeting for students that included discussions of current conflict of interest policy. He told the students that the Medical School’s hands were tied and that new conflict of interest policy would be left up to a larger University review...
...company’s appetite for risk.But VaR modeling does not describe events that occur the other 1 percent of the time. In the New York Times best-seller “The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable,” Nassim N. Taleb, who has held positions at Columbia, Wharton, and NYU, argues that these events—which he dubs “black swans”—are the most important determinants of the course of history. Models that fail to account for them are all but useless. Even so, Merton insists...