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- 04 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering
Editor's note: This is the second in a series of articles based on a Harvard Business School working paper by Karen Mills that analyzes the current state of availability of bank capital for small business. During the 2008 financial... View Details
Amadeo Peter Giannini
Giannini set up a holding company called Transamerica and purchased banks throughout New York, Washington, Arizona, Oregon and Nevada. Giannini was a pioneer in offering... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Jun 2003
- News
Alumni Bookshelf
How to Grow When Markets Don't by Adrian Slywotzky (MBA '80) and Richard Wise (Warner Books) Slywotzky brings his expertise in global strategy consulting to his sixth book, which examines the difficulties of sustainable growth and offers insights on what View Details
- 25 Oct 2019
- News
Jane Fraser Named President of Citigroup
Jane Fraser (MBA 1994) was named president of Citigroup this week, also taking on the role of CEO of Global Consumer Banking at the bank. The position, notes CNN, makes her second-in-command at the country’s third-largest bank, as well as... View Details
- 12 Sep 2007
- Op-Ed
Building Sandcastles: The Subprime Adventure
Banks were saddled with homes they could not easily sell. The subprime mortgage company, faced with too many unpaid loans, went under. And the hedge fund—the party holding thousands of these mortgages—... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Savings and Loam
distributes grass-fed beef and other sustainably produced meats to customers across New York and New England. “And by that, I mean companies that have anything interesting to say about social and environmental impacts.” Cummings has a few... View Details
- 01 Aug 2001
- News
Bert W.M. Twaalfhoven (MBA '54)
before forming Indivers, a holding company that included Europe's first independent maker of extrusion dies. When a fire forced him to rebuild his facility in 1966, he discovered that he could also use his... View Details
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Unlocking mobile money in emerging markets
Monique Maddy (MBA 1993) is focusing her entrepreneurial energies on connecting the world's poor to global commerce through their cell phones. In 2007 she launched Ezuza, a Mexico City–based mobile money company that focuses on the... View Details
- 08 Nov 2021
- Blog Post
Building an Internship Program at Your Startup: An Interview with Facily’s Diego Dzodan (MBA 1999)
the idea of a potential internship program began to grow. So, when Westphal read about Facily and was connected with Dzodan, the timing and pairing was ideal. As the first intern in Facily’s history, Westphal utilized his experience from investment View Details
Dee Ward Hock
In 1970, Hock created a reverse holding company tying together thousands of independent banks to create the Visa Network. His aggressive marketing and sharp negotiation skills... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 02 Sep 2015
- Research & Ideas
Explaining China's Crash
After more than a decade of nearly can’t-miss growth, China’s stock market began a precipitous summer slide that has spooked investors worldwide. In July, the Shanghai composite index dropped 15 percent from June, prompting the People’s View Details
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Leveraging Female Talent
Organizations, offered this winter. Related Links Opening the Door The Accidental Pioneers 50 Years & Counting From Where We Stand How did you become interested in this topic? About five years ago I was invited to address a conference that a major View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Breaking Down Barriers: The Electronic Wallet
startups taking advantage of this new opportunity, with the traditional giants - American Express, IBM, and Microsoft, for instance - also getting into the act. Brodia, an e-commerce company dedicated to simplifying online shopping for... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 22 Mar 2018
- Blog Post
“Mission + Profit: What’s the Balance?” asks SECON 2018
Sheryl started her career in investment banking with Goldman Sachs before moving into journalism and most recently, a founder of an anti-trafficking non-profit organization. Her latest book, A Path Appear, spoke about altruism and the... View Details
- 02 Jul 2015
- Op-Ed
The Future of the Greek Economy
pay wages? Why pay loans? With what? What does a "no" mean? What does a "yes" guarantee? These weeks have been a nightmare, with no medium of exchange and banks facing growing lines of depositors who want to withdraw... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Four-Letter Word
lot of sound and fury that, it turns out, really doesn’t signify much at all. That’s because David Miller (MBA ’03), the Treasury Department’s former chief investment officer for TARP, helped preside over “a steady and, so far, profitable unwinding of taxpayers’ View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
Avoiding a Succession Crisis
The rapid changes at Merrill Lynch and Citigroup highlight the problem many firms face as they consider succession. What we are seeing should be surprising and disturbing to us all: At investment banks of great importance, the board of... View Details
Kenneth Salas
experience includes co-founding Camino Financial, a fintech lender he successfully scaled and exited, leading to the acquisition of a competitor and doubling the company's size. His prior experience in investment banking and private... View Details
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
for the first time, define and limit. Second, companies that create systemic risk should bear the cost of insuring against it, just as commercial banks pay into an FDIC insurance pool. And the government... View Details