# Prof. Thomas Philippon's research on the financial sector

1 November 1, 2013 Harvard Business Review ![Harvard Business Review logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_032358.jpg?itok=cHztGP4H)>

Excerpt from [Harvard Business Review](http://hbr.org/2013/11/what-weve-learned-from-the-financial-crisis/ar/1) -- "A few finance scholars, most persistently [Thomas Philippon](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/thomas-philippon), of New York University, have also been looking into whether there’s a point at which the financial sector is simply too big and too rich—when it stops fueling economic growth and starts weighing on it."

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