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  • 08 Oct 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Knowing What Your Boss Earns Can Make You Work Harder

experiment with 2,060 workers at a large, multibillion dollar commercial bank with thousands of employees. The researchers examined a variety of information, including the number of emails sent and received... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 04 Oct 2018
  • Research & Ideas

Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms

began gathering demographic information on individual VCs to better understand if their gender or race influenced a firm’s performance. “It was a real guerilla research effort,” he says. Starting with commercial data on 14,000 VC... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking; Banking
  • 04 Mar 2020
  • Research & Ideas

How Schmoozing with the Boss Helps Men Get Promoted

unnamed commercial bank in Asia between 2015 and 2018, Cullen and Perez-Truglia found that male employees advanced further and faster when they reported to male managers. [div class=infogram-embed... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 23 Dec 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS

University of Pennsylvania? Wadhwani: My research focuses on the historical development of banking services for ordinary Americans. In the early nineteenth century, banks primarily served the View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard; Banking; Banking
  • 12 Sep 2007
  • Op-Ed

Building Sandcastles: The Subprime Adventure

market that seemed to promise endless double-digit returns. Typically, an investor bought a bundle of subprime loans from a mortgage bank. Investment banking houses such as Bear Sterns organized hedge funds. The Industrial and View Details
Keywords: by Nicolas P. Retsinas; Banking; Banking; Banking
  • 10 Oct 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink

dramatically as well—retail square footage in the United States grew from 18.45 square feet per capita in 1999 to 23.06 square feet per capita in 2009. The hope among retailers (and commercial real-estate developers) was that as the... View Details
Keywords: by Rajiv Lal & Jose B. Alvarez; Retail
  • February 2015 (Revised April 2017)
  • Case

Edyficar and Mibanco: The Emergence of M&A in Microfinance

By: Michael Chu
Mibanco, a microfinance icon, is for sale, and Edyficar, owned by Banco del Credito (BCP), Peru's largest bank, is evaluating its acquisition. Until recently, such a transaction would have been fanciful given Mibanco's preeminent role in Peruvian microfinance, which... View Details
Keywords: Base Of The Pyramid; Peru; Latin America; Microfinance; Commercial Banking; Mergers and Acquisitions; Banking Industry; Latin America; Peru
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  • 17 May 2010
  • Research & Ideas

What Brazil Teaches About Investor Protection

happened in Brazil; the credit system is still dominated by government-owned banks. I don't think the U.S. government will want to keep its shares in the largest mortgage and commercial banks for long. Q:... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Banking; Banking
  • 12 Jul 2016
  • First Look

July 12, 2016

Landvoigt Abstract—How does the shadow banking system respond to changes in the capital regulation of commercial banks? This paper builds a quantitative general equilibrium model with View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2001
  • Casebook

Dos Casos Colombianos de Gerencia Social: La Corporacion de Accion Solidaria Corposol y La Compania de Financiamiento Comercial Finansol

By: James Austin, Enrique Ogliastri and Roberto Gutierrez
Keywords: Commercial Banking; Colombia
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  • 29 Sep 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

his insights to set the stage. Senior Lecturer Clayton S. Rose, who for 20 years worked at JP Morgan & Company and headed global investment banking and global equity there, discussed the implications of change in View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • July 2018 (Revised January 2019)
  • Teaching Note

Next Street, LLC

By: Richard S. Ruback, Royce Yudkoff and Ahron Rosenfeld
Teaching Note for HBS Nos. 211-094 and 219-723. View Details
Keywords: Small ＆ Medium-sized Enterprises; Small Business; Capital; Development Economics; Urban Scope; Commercial Banking; Growth and Development; Banking Industry; Banking Industry
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  • 22 Apr 2014
  • First Look

First Look: April 22

marketing pitch made to study participants by our project staff. Publisher's link: http://www.people.hbs.edu/nashraf/aamy_SavingsinTransnationalHouseholds.pdf August 2013 Journal of Finance Incentivizing Calculated Risk-Taking: Evidence from an Experiment with View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Dec 2007
  • First Look

First Look: December 18, 2007

  Working PapersHappiness, Contentment and Other Emotions for Central Banks Authors:Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch Abstract We show that data on satisfaction with life from over 600,000 Europeans are negatively correlated with the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 28, 2007

uses an IT-driven strategy to introduce an "all-in-one" card, which integrates a suite of financial products to drive its personal banking business enabling CMB to be ranked 6th among China's View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 08 Apr 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Will the Japan Disaster Remake the Landscape for Green Energy in Asia?

director and chief investment officer at Peony Capital, which operates in China. "They're in a new era of the green race, and it's all about the companies understanding the huge amount of commercial benefits in being green. It's not... View Details
Keywords: by Dennis Fisher; Energy; Utilities
  • 21 Feb 2007
  • Op-Ed

What a U.N. Partnership with Big Business Could Accomplish

mechanism to do well with minimum risk and maximum efficiency. In its early stages, a typical project would have to be commercially oriented and driven by private funds, though public funding from development View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge & Craig Wilson
  • 20 Sep 2016
  • First Look

September 20, 2016

Benjamin, and Damien Geradin Abstract—Since its launch in 2007, Android has become the dominant mobile device operating system worldwide. In light of this commercial success and certain disputed business practices, Android has come under... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Business of Global Poverty

Bank he founded in Bangladesh more than two decades ago. With interest rates ranging from zero to 20 percent, Grameen's average loan (no collateral required) is $200. Its repayment rate is about 98 percent. Some 7 million poor people,... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 23 Apr 2008
  • Op-Ed

The Gap in the U.S. Treasury Recommendations

not just what are known now as commercial banks. Like the current bank regulators, however, the new prudential regulator would protect its own territory, trying to make sure disaster does not strike on its... View Details
Keywords: by Dwight Crane; Banking; Banking; Banking; Banking

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