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New Exhibit at Baker Library Tells Tale of Rise and Fall of Lehman Brothers

Where were you on Monday, September 15, 2008, when Lehman Brothers, the fourth largest investment bank in the United States and one that traced its roots back to 1850, declared bankruptcy as the Dow Jones Industrial Average fell 504 points? These and other cataclysmic events in the financial world led to the perfect storm that resulted in the Great Recession of 2008, putting US and global markets in jeopardy.

2018 marks the tenth anniversary of these events, and today Harvard Business School’s Baker Library opens an extraordinary exhibit from its extensive Lehman Brothers Collection documenting the history of the firm from beginning to end, “Lehman Brothers: A History, 1850-2008.” (Visit the exhibit’s web site to learn more.)

Located in the North Lobby of Baker Library I Bloomberg Center at the center of the Harvard Business School campus in Allston, the exhibit, which will run until July 12, 2019, is open, free of charge, to the general public as well as the Harvard Business School and Harvard University communities. (To help plan your visit, visit this site, which includes a map, directions, and hours of operation).