Word: hyman
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...Hyman Minsky, an academic economist who died in relative obscurity in 1996 but is now the talk of Wall Street, had a colorful phrase to describe such people: "Ponzi borrowers," he called them, after the early 20th century pyramid-scheme perpetrator Charles Ponzi. Minsky argued that once banks got so sloppy that they handed out Ponzi loans, a financial crisis was inevitable...
...College Benedict H. Gross ’71 to form the student-faculty Committee to Address Alcohol and Health at Harvard. Chaired by Harvard Business School professor Joseph L. Badaracco, the former master of Currier House, the committee delivered its recommendations to Gross and Provost Steven E. Hyman the following fall...
...that he was contacted over the weekend by a “senior person” at another university who asked him about the search. “The Radcliffe dean position really does command the interest of very senior people,” Bhabha said. Provost Steven E. Hyman will chair the panel of 12 scholars. Several committee members contacted yesterday declined to comment for this story, saying they did not want to discuss the search before the committee convenes for the first time, at a date not yet set. Nancy F. Cott, the Trumbull professor of American history...
...Hyman could not be reached for comment...
Stone said that Provost Steven E. Hyman had strongly backed the initiative...