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  • December 2006 (Revised February 2009)
  • Case

China Merchants Bank: Here Just For You

By: F. Warren McFarlan, GuoQing Chen, HengYuan Zhu, Bin Yang, Michael Shih-ta Chen, G.A. Donovan, Waishun Lo and Yan Yang
Founded in 1987, China Merchants Bank (CMB) is a pioneer in the use of technical innovation and IT as a competitive tool in the rapidly evolving Chinese banking sector. With a relatively small branch network when compared to its larger competitors, CMB uses an... View Details
Keywords: Credit Cards; Information Technology; Technological Innovation; Innovation Leadership; Competitive Strategy; Initial Public Offering; Emerging Markets; Opportunities; Banking Industry; China; Hong Kong
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McFarlan, F. Warren, GuoQing Chen, HengYuan Zhu, Bin Yang, Michael Shih-ta Chen, G.A. Donovan, Waishun Lo, and Yan Yang. "China Merchants Bank: Here Just For You." Harvard Business School Case 307-081, December 2006. (Revised February 2009.)
  • 16 Sep 2014
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Use Data to Fix the Small Business Lending Gap

  • December 1994 (Revised September 2011)
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The Millegan Creek Apartments

By: William J. Poorvu and John H. Vogel Jr.
Fleet Bank is considering a construction loan for a 390-unit apartment project in Austin, Texas. The case describes the location, market, product, and other real estate factors the bank needs to consider in making this loan. Also discusses the financial and... View Details
Keywords: Property; Financing and Loans; Banks and Banking; Housing; Risk and Uncertainty; Construction; Credit; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Texas
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Poorvu, William J., and John H. Vogel Jr. "The Millegan Creek Apartments." Harvard Business School Case 395-118, December 1994. (Revised September 2011.)
  • January 1991
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Redhook Ale Brewery

A small microbrewer prepares to negotiate a credit facility with its bank to partially fund major expansion. View Details
Keywords: Small Business; Corporate Finance
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Mason, Scott P. "Redhook Ale Brewery." Harvard Business School Case 291-025, January 1991.
  • February 2007 (Revised May 2008)
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Bancaja: Developing Customer Intelligence (B)

In 1996, CEO Fernando Garcia Checa wanted to make customer analytics a part of Bancaja's new strategy. Bancaja, a savings bank based in Valencia, Spain, was expanding and wanted to exploit customer information to increase commercial effectiveness. At the same time, it... View Details
Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Credit Cards; Analytics and Data Science; Knowledge Use and Leverage; Marketing Strategy; Banking Industry; Spain
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Martinez-Jerez, Francisco de Asis, and Katherine Miller. "Bancaja: Developing Customer Intelligence (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 107-066, February 2007. (Revised May 2008.)
  • 16 Mar 2018
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Fundbox Wants to Be Paypal for Small Businesses.

  • March 2017 (Revised March 2019)
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Ant Financial (A)

By: Feng Zhu, Ying Zhang, Krishna G. Palepu, Anthony K. Woo and Nancy Hua Dai
Headquartered in Hangzhou (China), Ant Financial has grown into a fintech “Unicorn.” The fintech empire that the company established spanned verticals such as mobile and online payment (Alipay), money market fund (Yu’e Bao), wealth management (Ant Fortune),... View Details
Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Global Strategy; Finance; Opportunities; Financial Services Industry; Technology Industry
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Zhu, Feng, Ying Zhang, Krishna G. Palepu, Anthony K. Woo, and Nancy Hua Dai. "Ant Financial (A)." Harvard Business School Case 617-060, March 2017. (Revised March 2019.)
  • April 1998
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Citibank Hong Kong--Capital Arbitrage in the Emerging Markets

Describes how a credit derivative may be used to structure a profitable transaction between a bank and its client. Design and risk management issues are discussed in the context of this new class of derivative security. View Details
Keywords: Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Investment Banking; Financial Services Industry; Hong Kong
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Das, Sanjiv R. "Citibank Hong Kong--Capital Arbitrage in the Emerging Markets." Harvard Business School Case 298-029, April 1998.

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    Keywords: Financial Services
    • February 2007 (Revised May 2007)
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    Bancaja: Developing Customer Intelligence (A)

    In 1996, CEO Fernando Garcia Checa wanted to make customer analytics a part of Bancaja's new strategy. Bancaja, a savings bank based in Valencia, Spain, was expanding and wanted to exploit customer information to increase commercial effectiveness. At the same time, it... View Details
    Keywords: Customer Relationship Management; Banking Industry; Spain
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    Martinez-Jerez, Francisco de Asis, and Katherine Miller. "Bancaja: Developing Customer Intelligence (A)." Harvard Business School Case 107-055, February 2007. (Revised May 2007.)
    • February 1995 (Revised June 1999)
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    Chemical Bank: Implementing the Balanced Scorecard

    By: Robert S. Kaplan and Norman Klein
    The retail bank division of Chemical Bank faces declining margins and increased competition in its credit and deposit gathering and processing business. It wishes to implement a new strategy to become a preferred financial service provider to target customer groups.... View Details
    Keywords: Balanced Scorecard; Adoption; Growth and Development Strategy; Communication Strategy; Customer Relationship Management; Management Systems; Performance Evaluation; Banks and Banking; Measurement and Metrics; Banking Industry
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    Kaplan, Robert S., and Norman Klein. "Chemical Bank: Implementing the Balanced Scorecard." Harvard Business School Case 195-210, February 1995. (Revised June 1999.)
    • March 1997 (Revised January 1999)
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    SureCut Shears, Inc.

    By: W. Carl Kester
    A bank loan officer must determine whether to waive convenants and extend terms on a line of credit granted to SureCut Shears. At issue is whether the inability of SureCut to pay down its line of credit is due to a temporary cyclical downturn or other long-term... View Details
    Keywords: Business Cycles; Finance; Performance; Problems and Challenges
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    Kester, W. Carl. "SureCut Shears, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 297-013, March 1997. (Revised January 1999.)
    • September 2007
    • Article

    Related Lending and Economic Performance: Evidence from Mexico

    By: Noel Maurer and Stephen Haber
    Related lending, a widespread practice in LDCs, is widely held to encourage bankers to loot their banks at the expense of minority shareholders and depositors. We argue that neither looting nor credit misallocation are necessary outcomes of related lending. On... View Details
    Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Developing Countries and Economies; Financial Crisis; Financing and Loans; History; Business and Shareholder Relations; Banking Industry; Mexico
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    Maurer, Noel, and Stephen Haber. "Related Lending and Economic Performance: Evidence from Mexico." Journal of Economic History 67, no. 3 (September 2007): 551–581.
    • September 2004 (Revised May 2006)
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    Bohemian Crowns: Ceskoslovenska Obchodni Banka (A)

    By: Rawi E. Abdelal, Vincent Dessain and Monika Stachowiak
    Tells the story of the Czech transition from a centrally planned to a free market economy, describing the first economic reforms, the fixed-exchange rate regime, and the voucher privatization. Also explains why, in the middle of the 1990s, the Czech Republic... View Details
    Keywords: History; Currency Exchange Rate; Credit; Government Administration; Decisions; Economic Systems; Expansion; Mergers and Acquisitions; Developing Countries and Economies; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; Czech Republic
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    Abdelal, Rawi E., Vincent Dessain, and Monika Stachowiak. "Bohemian Crowns: Ceskoslovenska Obchodni Banka (A)." Harvard Business School Case 705-007, September 2004. (Revised May 2006.)
    • July 2009
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    Spreadsheet Supplement to Blue Ocean or Stormy Waters? Buying Nix Check Cashing (CW)

    By: Peter Tufano
    These spreadsheets will allow students to analyze financials for Kinecta Federal Credit Union and Nix Check Cashing. They also provide insight into the banking and AFS markets in which both organizations operate. View Details
    Keywords: Financial Statements; Financial Institutions; Banking Industry; Banking Industry
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    Tufano, Peter, and Andrea Ryan. "Spreadsheet Supplement to Blue Ocean or Stormy Waters? Buying Nix Check Cashing (CW)." Harvard Business School Spreadsheet Supplement 210-701, July 2009.
    • September 2018 (Revised March 2019)
    • Case

    National Australia Bank: Looking Out for the Customer

    By: Mark R. Kramer and Hugh Foley
    After learning that most defaults were due to health, job or marital problems, National Australia Bank revised its debt collection department to shift from penalizing people in default to assisting them in developing a work-out plan, enabling more than 90% to meet... View Details
    Keywords: Banks and Banking; Borrowing and Debt; Customer Focus and Relationships; Success; Australia
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    Kramer, Mark R., and Hugh Foley. "National Australia Bank: Looking Out for the Customer." Harvard Business School Case 719-417, September 2018. (Revised March 2019.)
    • 2015
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    Banks' Risk Exposures

    By: Juliane Begenau, Monika Piazzesi and Martin Schneider
    This paper studies U.S. banks' exposure to interest rate and credit risk. We exploit the factor structure in interest rates to represent many bank positions in terms of simple factor portfolios. This approach delivers time varying measures of exposure that are... View Details
    Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Interest Rates; Credit; Banks and Banking; United States
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    Begenau, Juliane, Monika Piazzesi, and Martin Schneider. "Banks' Risk Exposures." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 21334, July 2015.
    • 2012
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    Friends with Money

    By: Christopher Parsons, J. Engelberg and P. Gao
    When banks and firms are connected through interpersonal linkages—such as their respective management having attended college or previously worked together—interest rates are markedly reduced, comparable with single shifts in credit ratings. These rate concessions do... View Details
    Keywords: Social and Collaborative Networks; Interest Rates; Banking Industry
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    Parsons, Christopher, J. Engelberg, and P. Gao. "Friends with Money." Journal of Financial Economics 103, no. 1 (January 2012): 169–188.
    • September 2012 (Revised July 2013)
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    Can the Eurozone Survive?

    By: Dante Roscini and Jonathan Schlefer
    The sovereign debt crisis that took Greece by storm in 2010 began to spread to other European markets. Within a few months Ireland and Portugal had also lost access to the sovereign debt markets and had to rely on supranational loans for their financing. The risk of... View Details
    Keywords: Sovereign Debt Crisis; Currency Areas; Financial Crisis; Borrowing and Debt; Currency Exchange Rate; International Relations; Banking Industry; European Union; Germany; France; Italy; Spain; Greece; Portugal
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    Roscini, Dante, and Jonathan Schlefer. "Can the Eurozone Survive?" Harvard Business School Case 713-034, September 2012. (Revised July 2013.)
    • November 1994 (Revised February 1996)
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    Toy World, Inc.

    By: W. Carl Kester
    A shift from seasonal to level production of toys will change the seasonal cycle of Toy World's working capital needs and necessitate new bank credit arrangements. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details
    Keywords: Working Capital; Business Cycles; Cash Flow; Forecasting and Prediction; Investment Funds; Financial Statements
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    Kester, W. Carl. "Toy World, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 295-073, November 1994. (Revised February 1996.)
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