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• Jared A. Ellias: 'The Credit Markets Go Dark'

  • When
    21 Nov 2024
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    12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
  • Location
    600 Atlantic Avenue, Boston, Paul Connolly Center 4th Fl

  Jared A. Ellias

  Scott C. Collins Professor of Law at Harvard Law School

  

  **Please note that this luncheon will take place on a Thursday, instead of our regular luncheon date of Wednesdays**

  
  

  This presentation delves into the dramatic transformation of corporate finance, focusing on the rise of private credit and its impact on the corporate debt landscape. As private investment funds take on a larger role in lending, corporate debt markets are experiencing trends of privatization and concentration similar to those in corporate equity. This shift offers corporations faster and more flexible financing options but brings concerns about decreased transparency and reduced regulatory oversight. With investment funds influencing everything from company strategy to financial distress, the implications for corporate governance and economic activity are profound and far-reaching.
  

  

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• Professor John Coates: "The Power of Twelve: When a Few Financial Institutions Control Everything"

  • When
    4 Dec 2024
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    12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
  • Location
    600 Atlantic Avenue, Boston, Paul Connolly Center 4th Fl

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  Professor John Coates

  John F. Cogan, Jr. Professor of Law and Economics at

  Harvard Law School

  
  

  John Coates, John F. Cogan, Jr. Professor of Law and Economics at Harvard Law School, has published The Problem of Twelve: When a Few Financial Institutions Control Everything. The book analyzes the Big Four index funds of Vanguard, State Street, Fidelity, and BlackRock as well as the rise of private equity, which Coates calls “a quiet accumulation” in how power and capital is concentrated which “represents a dramatic transformation in how the American economy operates.”
  

  

  John Coates is the John F. Cogan, Jr. Professor of Law and Economics at Harvard Law School, where he also serves as Deputy Dean and Research Director of the Center on the Legal Profession. Professor Coates served as General Counsel and as Acting Director for the Division of Corporation Finance for the SEC. Before joining Harvard, he was a partner at Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz, specializing in financial institutions and M&A. At HLS and at HBS, he teaches corporate governance, M&A, finance, and related topics. He has testified before Congress, advised the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), the U.S. Department of Treasury, and the New York Stock Exchange, and served as the Chair of the Investor-as-Owner Subcommittee of the Investor Advisory Committee of the SEC.

  Professor Coates’s most recent publication is The Problem of Twelve: When a Few Financial Institutions Control Everything

  

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• Scott Clemons, CFA®, Partner & Chief Investment Strategist, Brown Brothers Harriman

  • When
    8 Jan 2025
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    12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
  • Location
    600 Atlantic Avenue, Boston, Paul Connolly Center 4th Fl

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  Scott Clemons, CFA®

  Partner & Chief Investment Strategist at Brown Brothers Harriman

  

  
  

  

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• Professor Bengt Holmström: “The Future of Financial Intermediation”

  • When
    22 Jan 2025
  •  
    12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
  • Location
    600 Atlantic Avenue, Boston, Paul Connolly Center 4th Fl

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  Professor Bengt Holmström

  Nobel Prize Winner for Economics in 2016 and Paul A. Samuelson Professor (Emeritus) at MIT

  

  Financial intermediation has evolved over several centuries, adapting itself

  to the needs of commerce and consumers demands and responding to

  technological developments. Today, the pace of change is accelerating in

  the wake of a massive digital transformation. Electronic payment systems,

  digital currencies, programmable money, smart contracts, instant credit

  based on machine learning, tokenization of assets – the list goes on. Trying

  to assess where we are headed and what the opportunities and risks are,

  involves a lot of uncertainty. In the first instance, this talk is about

  understanding the past – the logic of our old systems – including the recent

  crises they went through. Drawing on this, Professor Holmström will interpret recent developments and make some guesses about future developments.

  
  

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• Ed McLaughlin, President & Chief Technology Officer, Mastercard

  • When
    12 Feb 2025
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    12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
  • Location
    600 Atlantic Avenue, Boston, Paul Connolly Center 4th Fl

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  Ed McLaughlin

  President & Chief Technology Officer at Mastercard

  

   

  

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• The Boston Economic Club Luncheon

  • When
    26 Feb 2025
  •  
    12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
  • Location
    600 Atlantic Avenue, Boston, Paul Connolly Center 4th Fl

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  The Boston Economic Club Luncheon

  

  
  

  

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• James Poterba, Mitsui Professor of Economics, MIT

  • When
    12 Mar 2025
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    12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
  • Location
    600 Atlantic Avenue, Boston, Paul Connolly Center 4th Fl

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  James Poterba

  Mitsui Professor of Economics at MIT

  

   

  

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• Professor Claudia Goldin, Henry Lee Professor of Economics at Harvard University and Nobel Memorial Prize Winner in Economic Sciences

  • When
    26 Mar 2025
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    12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
  • Location
    600 Atlantic Avenue, Boston, Paul Connolly Center 4th Fl

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  Professor Claudia Goldin

  Henry Lee Professor of Economics
  

  Lee and Ezpeleta Professor of Arts and Sciences

  Harvard University

  
  

  Recipient of the 2023 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel

  

  
  

  

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• Professor Andrei Shleifer, John L. Loeb Professor of Economics at Harvard University

  • When
    9 Apr 2025
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    12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
  • Location
    600 Atlantic Avenue, Boston, Paul Connolly Center 4th Fl

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  Professor Andrei Shleifer

  John L. Loeb Professor of Economics at Harvard University

  

   

  

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• The Boston Economic Club Luncheon

  • When
    30 Apr 2025
  •  
    12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
  • Location
    600 Atlantic Avenue, Boston, Paul Connolly Center 4th Fl

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  The Boston Economic Club Luncheon

  

  
  

  

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• The Boston Economic Club Luncheon

  • When
    7 May 2025
  •  
    12:00 PM - 1:30 PM
  • Location
    600 Atlantic Avenue, Boston, Paul Connolly Center 4th Fl

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  The Boston Economic Club Luncheon

  

  
  

  

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• The Boston Economic Club Annual Dinner Meeting

  • When
    21 May 2025
  •  
    5:00 PM - 8:30 PM
  • Location
    600 Atlantic Avenue, Boston, Harborview Dining Room, 31st Floor

  The Boston Economic Club Annual Dinner Meeting

  

  
  

  

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