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01 Jun 2009
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Too Big To Fail

banking panics roughly every fifteen to twenty years,” explains Moss. When the Great Depression struck, it was “in a league of its own” in severity and governmental response, he continues. With the banking... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance

20 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 20, 2007

Working PapersNone this week PublicationsFinancial Development, Bank Ownership, and Growth. Or, Does Quantity Imply Quality? Author:Shawn Cole Periodical:Review of Economics and Statistics (forthcoming) Abstract In 1980, India... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2016
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The Big Business of Little Loans

Funding Circle, among others. It was a wide circle. These startups are part of a new ecosystem filling the void left by traditional banks that don’t want to lend to small businesses because they are too risky or because interest rates are... View Details

Keywords: Nancy Miller

01 Oct 1999
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The Same the World Over: Focusing on Customers and Innovation Brings Success

Do successful firms in different countries share cultural traits? HBS professor Rohit Deshpandé's long-standing interest in this and related research has led him, with Professor John U. Farley of Dartmouth's Amos Tuck School, to examine the forces at work in View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs

01 Sep 2009
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Robert McNamara Dies at 93

Motor Company as a“whiz kid,” eventually becoming its president briefly before the Kennedy administration tapped him to be Secretary of Defense. He became known as the architect of the Vietnam War, a conflict that marked him forever.... View Details

19 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?

he's seen improvements in the way reinsurers distribute risk over the last two decades, he still questions whether reinsurers in their current form can survive a major catastrophic event. "Reinsurers assume the risk of, and hold the... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Financial Services

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Stock ownership: statistics

Where can I find data on institutional vs. individual ownership of equities in the U.S.? Institutional holding information going back to 1980 is available by using Thomson Reuters Ownership Databases in View Details

01 Dec 2018
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Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders

profile for Republic-listed companies different, but the platform is also selling products and services less likely to resonate with what Hofmann calls the “traditional white-male VC.” She holds up the... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg

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Harvard Business School

Organization of a Bank; a Study of Selected New Banks R. Roosevelt Thomas Jr. (DBA) 1974 The Management of the Liberal Arts College: A Case Study Rudolph Winston Jr. (DBA) 1975 A Study to Determine How Personnel Managers' Perceptions of... View Details

01 Mar 2009
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Just Keep Our Money

idea of “paying themselves first” by precommitting a portion of their refund to savings. U.S. savings bonds hold particular appeal among low- and middle-income families. Savings rates at tax-preparation sites that offer bonds are 8.5... View Details

Keywords: Peter Tufano; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government

10 Mar 2014
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Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley

approach when considering SOX," explains Srinivasan. The most worrisome part of the act on the business side was the mandate that required public companies to obtain an independent audit of their internal control practices. The cost... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Banking

01 Dec 2019
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Capitalizing the Corner Shop

photo by Getty Images photo by Getty Images When Samuel Ejeh decides to open a new location for his Lagos-based supermarket chain Grocery Bazaar, he likes to move quickly. But expansion is capital-intensive, constraining his cash flow, and View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

01 Sep 2004
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Clay Christensen (MBA 1979)

Clayton M. Christensen is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at HBS, where he holds a joint appointment in the Technology and Operations Management and General Management units. He is the author or coauthor of... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

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Research Links | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

holds more than 50,000 retired cases used for teaching at HBS from the 1920s to the current day. These cases offer insight into the challenges facing companies and include historic and statistical data.... View Details

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Politics and War - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections

the suspension of gold payments by the Bank of England. Prime minister William Pitt was forced to implement the issue of paper money when the Bank announced a gold shortage, due to loans it had made to... View Details

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Layla A. Ramirez

leaders get unstuck. Layla takes pride in helping her clients define success on their own terms and then helping them stay accountable to achieving that success. Presently, Layla is a DEIB practitioner at Justworks, a company on a mission... View Details

Keywords: Education; Entrepreneurship; Financial Services (All); Social Enterprise; Technology

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Lehman Brothers Archives | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s... View Details

Arthur Reynolds

Reynolds shepherded Continental and Commercial through a series of expansionary acquisitions, growing the company into the United States’ third largest commercial bank with resources of $1.1 billion in 1929. View Details

Keywords: Finance

15 Apr 2013
Research & Ideas

Solving the Search vs. Display Advertising Quandary

In fact, the researchers found that in the long run the cost for each bank account application for search ads was $38. But the cost per application for display ads was actually $57. "Once you look at those numbers, I saw that the View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Advertising

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Contemporary Corporate Archives | Baker Library

of Venrock Associates, a venture capital company founded by members of the Rockefeller family. Lehman Brothers Records Records the history of the investment banking firm from 1868 until 2007, the bulk of the... View Details

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