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  • January 2011 (Revised May 2011)
  • Case

Paydiant

By: Jose B. Alvarez, Elizabeth C. Williamson and James Weber
Kevin Laracey, founder of Paydiant, needed to figure out how to launch a payment processing company with a new technology based on smart phones. Consumers had increasingly turned to electronic payment methods such as credit cards and debit cards to make purchases.... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Credit Cards; Product Marketing; Product Launch; Market Entry and Exit; Industry Structures; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Cooperation; Technology Adoption; Retail Industry
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  • 10 Oct 2018
  • HBS Seminar

Michael Bordo, Rutgers School of Arts and Sciences

  • 2013
  • Working Paper

These Are the Good Old Days: Foreign Entry and the Mexican Banking System

By: Stephen Haber and Aldo Musacchio
In 1997, the Mexican government reversed long-standing policies and allowed foreign banks to purchase Mexico's largest commercial banks and relaxed restrictions on the founding of new, foreign-owned banks. The result has been a dramatic shift in the ownership structure... View Details
Keywords: Market Entry and Exit; Balance and Stability; Foreign Direct Investment; Banks and Banking; Society; Economics; Banking Industry; Mexico
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  • 22 Aug 2006
  • First Look

First Look: August 22, 2006

authors describe how organizational biases arise from the different incentives, agendas, and blind spots of the various functional areas of a business, and how they compromise forecast accuracy and disrupt the supply chain process. They... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace

    John C. Mulliken

    Strategy consultant, former CTO & CPO, public & private company board member, retail & climatetech entrepreneur, early stage investor.  Father of two, husband, sailor, hiker, and aspirational road biker.

    John is a senior lecturer in the... View Details
    • Research Summary

    Overview

    By: Reshmaan N. Hussam

    Engaged with field work in South Asia and East Africa, Professor Hussam places a focus on exploring questions with strong theoretical motivation in the economics literature as well as relevant downstream policy implications. Her research spans four broad interests.... View Details

      Rajiv Lal

      Rajiv Lal, is the Stanley Roth, Sr. Professor of Retailing at Harvard Business School. He is currently teaching an elective MBA course on the Business of Smart Connected Products/IOT. He has been responsible for the retailing curriculum and has served as the course... View Details

      • August 2002 (Revised July 2003)
      • Case

      LAE Enterprises Corp.

      Jay Entrepreneur had to decide whether it was worth his time to plow through a 12-page term sheet for a Series A round of preferred stock prepared by HBS Investors, a well-established venture capital firm that did seed, early-round, and mezzanine financings. He could... View Details
      Keywords: Venture Capital; Contracts; Decision Choices and Conditions; Business Startups; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry
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        W. Earl Sasser

        Earl Sasser is a Baker Foundation Professor at Harvard Business School and has been a member of the faculty there since 1969. He received a B.A. in Mathematics from Duke University in 1965, an MBA from the University of North Carolina in 1967, and a Ph.D. in... View Details

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        • 17 Jun 2008
        • First Look

        First Look: June 17, 2008

        loans to small firms and those with more "soft information"—particularly in states with weak legal enforcement of financial contracts. However, decentralized banks are also more responsive to the competitive environment when setting loan terms. They are more... View Details
        Keywords: Martha Lagace
        • 31 Oct 2013
        • Working Paper Summaries

        Do Measures of Financial Constraints Measure Financial Constraints?

        Keywords: by Joan Farre-Mensa & Alexander Ljungqvist
        • 2011
        • Article

        Too Big to Live: Why We Must Stamp Out State Monopoly Capitalism

        The problems of excessive economic concentration, so lucidly and incisively analysed here, are not limited to the financial services industry. For the problem is now widespread: while five firms control 80% of the banking industry, a similar or greater concentration is... View Details
        Keywords: Economic Systems; Monopoly
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        • 17 Aug 2023
        • Research & Ideas

        ‘Not a Bunch of Weirdos’: Why Mainstream Investors Buy Crypto

        wild ride. That is, until now. A new study by Harvard Business School professor Marco Di Maggio shows that on average, cryptocurrency investors have higher household incomes, live in wealthier and more educated ZIP codes, like to gamble, frequently use View Details
        Keywords: by Ben Rand
        • Web

        Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

        research here . More Info Large banks and small firm lending By: Victoria Ivashina & Vitaly Bord OCT 2021 The contraction in bank credit supply was a core propagation mechanism of the Great Financial Crisis... View Details
        • 14 Apr 2015
        • First Look

        First Look: April 14

        management and continuous improvement, as well as the dynamics of service competition in a rapidly growing market. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/615043-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 315-027 CreditEase: Providing View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • 07 Apr 2009
        • First Look

        First Look: April 7, 2009

        a self-reported measure. Overall, we find that debt literacy is low: only about one-third of the population seems to comprehend interest compounding or the workings of credit cards. Even after controlling for demographics, we find a... View Details
        Keywords: Martha Lagace
        • 23 Dec 2008
        • First Look

        First Look: December 23, 2008

        they experienced from growth prior to the 1960s. Download the working paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14539 The Supply Side of Innovation: H-1B Visa Reforms and U.S. Ethnic Invention Authors:William R. Kerr and... View Details
        Keywords: Martha Lagace
        • Web

        Podcast - Business & Environment

        everything from supply chains to climate resilience. Rich suggests ways businesses can step up to create meaningful changes and concludes with his advice for those looking to enter the climate space. Joel Makower @ Greenbiz 09 OCT 2024 |... View Details
        • 16 Jul 2012
        • Working Paper Summaries

        Selection, Reallocation, and Spillover: Identifying the Sources of Gains from Multinational Production

        Keywords: by Laura Alfaro & Maggie X. Chen
        • Web

        Risks, Opportunities, And Investments In The Era Of Climate Change (ROICC) - Course Catalog

        HBS Course Catalog Risks, Opportunities, And Investments In The Era Of Climate Change (ROICC) Course Number 1324 Professor George Serafeim Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits 27 Sessions Paper Course Description The MBA course on "Risks, Opportunities, and Investments in an Era... View Details