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- 03 Apr 2013
- News
Need A Business Loan? Impress The Algorithm, Not The Loan Officer
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Big Business of Little Loans
Ensuring that quality, Teo says, means focusing not only on growing fast but also on growing well. For Funding Societies, that means a borrower must have at least $250,000 in revenue and meet with a loan View Details
Keywords: Nancy Miller
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Turning a Profit by Helping the Poor
- 12 Jan 2023
- News
‘Debiasing’ Debt with Data
institutions, he says, and small-business lending is one of the least automated parts of the U.S. banking system. That means it relies mostly on commercial bankers making personal judgments about borrowers. Ballard says when his father went to those banks, he was... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
been forthcoming. Commercial lenders have also shunned her, even though much of the financial risk associated with the project ultimately stems from discriminatory practices such as redlining, which for decades denied residents of the area access to mortgages and other... View Details
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
dynamic socially conscious entrepreneurs is stepping in to fill gaps that governments have been unable to address. Whether it is solving deficiencies and injustice in healthcare, education, jobs, housing, food security, or simply having access to a bank View Details
Keywords: podcasts
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)
McCann-Erickson, Inc., 1956-59 With a student loan to repay after HBS, Zehnder jumped at the advertising agency's starting salary of $7,500-the highest offer he received-plus the prospect of an international posting. By 1959, aged 29, he... View Details
- 15 Sep 2015
- News
Easing the Costs of Saving a Child
Taylor is heartened every Wednesday, the day when Pathways’ partners meet to approve loan requests. The magic happens on the 10th floor in an office across from Rowland Taylor’s headquarters in Houston. One... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 03 Aug 2021
- News
Leading Maryland’s Only Black-Owned and -Managed Commercial Bank to Be a Pandemic Resource
The Baltimore Sun recently highlighted the work of John Lewis (MBA 2004), President and Chief Operating Officer of Harbor Bank of Maryland, which the newspaper notes became a vital pandemic-era resource for businesses looking to obtain... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Road Work
the Salas brothers are working to help finance entrepreneurs very much like their mother. Founded in 2014 and with offices in Los Angeles and Mexico City, Camino got its start while Kenny and Sean were still students at HBS. In addition... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
One Student’s HBS Journey
though she wore the same black skirt for over a decade,” Wallace recalled. Similarly, she added, “two years ago someone in the Admissions Office saw potential in me,” despite her untraditional background as a performer and arts... View Details
- 11 Jul 2017
- News
The Right Thing to Do
Whistleblower,” tells the story of Sherry Hunt, Citibank, and the frauds that caused the Great Recession. Hunt started at Citi as a mortgage quality control officer in 2004, just as the housing bubble was swelling up. She saw the company... View Details
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Savings and Loam
Cummings is staying on as board chair.) On the lending side, Walden Mutual will offer commercial loans to sustainable food and farming businesses across New England. That means not only production farms but also retailers, processors,... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
One-on-One with Robert McNamara
McNamara Illustration by Zak Pullen For a man who once commanded huge organizations and made decisions affecting the lives of millions, Robert S. McNamara (MBA 1939) is mostly on his own these days. Dressed casually in khakis and a button-down shirt, he operates out of... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
have a business background.” How to Measure Social Good Back at the office, Oakes reheats some leftovers for lunch before meeting with Investor Relations Manager Jessica Brooks and Junior Loan Officer Peter... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Truth in Lending
Illustration by Jon Krause What percentage of managers do you think steal from their companies? Your answer to that question can tell a financial institution a lot about your creditworthiness, says DJ DiDonna (MBA 2010), cofounder and chief strategy View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
executive with 25 years of experience, Viana (PGL 4, 2001) was tired of implementing strategies focused on short-term profit. He had been looking for a small technology company to purchase and run on his own terms. Curiosity had brought him here, far from the sleek,... View Details
- 10 Aug 2021
- News
Moving Education Within Reach
supporting scores of students in his native Malaysia both academically and financially—and in many cases through graduate school. The project started in 1996, in the midst of Ramalingam’s career in manufacturing and consulting, when a woman who cleaned his View Details