Banks - Publications - Faculty & Research

14 Oct 2014
News

Banking on social impact by brokering public-private partnerships

Maureen Harrington (MBA 2001), director of the International Development Group of Standard Bank, describes the role of a traditional bank in providing funding to social impact projects in developing countries, including supporting... View Details

18 Jun 2024
News

Central Banks Missed Inflation Red Flags. This Pricing Model Could Help.

Incentivizing Calculated Risk-Taking: Evidence from an Experiment with Commercial Bank Loan Officers

This paper uses a series of experiments with commercial bank loan officers to test the effect of performance incentives on risk-assessment and lending decisions. We first show that, while high-powered incentives lead to greater screening effort and more... View Details

2000
Chapter

Value Creation and Process Management: Evidence from Retail Banking

By: Frances X. Frei and Patrick T. Harker

Keywords: Value Creation; Business Processes; Business or Company Management; Commercial Banking; Banking Industry

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16 Dec 2019
News

Pnc’s Fight With Venmo Highlights Bigger Issue Over Who Owns Your Banking Data

1991
Book

Banks and Money: International and Comparative Finance in History

By: G. Jones

Keywords: Financial History; Banks and Banking; Money

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28 Jun 2022
News

Charley Cummings Is Building a New Kind of Bank

Keywords: Support Activities for Agriculture and Forestry; Agriculture

2010
Article

Corporate Governance at the World Bank and the Dilemma of Global Governance

By: Ashwin Kaja and Eric Werker

Most major decisions at the World Bank are made by its Board of Executive Directors. While some countries enjoy the opportunity to serve on this powerful body, most countries rarely, if ever, get that chance. This gives rise to the question: does board membership lead... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Decisions; Governing and Advisory Boards; Banks and Banking; Financing and Loans; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Voting; Globalized Economies and Regions

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October 2011 (Revised February 2012)
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The IPO of Agricultural Bank of China (ABC) (A)

By: Li Jin, Aldo Musacchio and Hania Dawood

Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Banking Industry; China

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January 2000 (Revised October 2014)
Exercise

Windham Negotiation: Confidential Information for the Cooperative Savings Bank

By: Michael Wheeler

Six-party negotiation of land use and development. View Details

Keywords: Negotiation Types; Real Estate Industry

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2003
Working Paper

Relationships, Competition, and the Structure of Investment Banking Markets

By: Bharat Anand and Alexander Galetovic

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16 Jun 2021
Podcast

Taking stock of Eastern Bank’s expansive community banking model

Eastern Bank is betting that bigger is better when it comes to serving small businesses and supporting local communities and philanthropic causes. Until recently the oldest and largest mutual bank in the US, Eastern has gone public and is pursuing an aggressive growth... View Details