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March 2003 (Revised January 2004)
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CDC Capital Partners: December 2002

By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon

Paul Fletcher, CEO of CDC Capital Partners, a private equity group investing in the world's poorest countries, is wrestling with questions raised by the imminent reorganization of the firm. Previously an arm of the United Kingdom's international aid agency, CDC is... View Details

Keywords: Private Equity; Investment Portfolio; Privatization; Venture Capital; Business and Government Relations; Emerging Markets; Infrastructure; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; United Kingdom

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August 2002 (Revised February 2018)
Teaching Note

Customer Profitability and Customer Relationship Management at RBC Financial Group

By: V.G. Narayanan

Teaching Note for 102-043 and 102-072. View Details

Keywords: Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Canada

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February 2001 (Revised March 2003)
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ICICI (A)

By: Bharat N. Anand, Nitin Nohria and John Pegg

ICICI was the first Indian company to be listed on the New York Stock Exchange. This case is set in 1998, when the company had to decide whether to enter the retail credit segment of the Indian financial market. Although the retail credit sector presents attractive... View Details

Keywords: Growth and Development Strategy; Diversification; Expansion; Strategic Planning; Competition; Competitive Strategy; Growth Management; Markets; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; India

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December 1995
Teaching Note

Millegan Creek Apartments, The TN

By: William J. Poorvu and John H. Vogel Jr.

Teaching Note for (9-395-118). View Details

Keywords: Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Texas

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14 Dec 2010
Op-Ed

Tax US Companies to Spur Spending

would also help enormously in directing these cash hoards toward investment. But even cash disgorged through dividends, share repurchases or mergers would have a potentially stimulative effect compared with corporations banking the funds.... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai

06 Jan 2003
What Do You Think?

China: The Next Big Market Opportunity or the Next Big Bubble?

other hand, Joshua Kurlantzick, writing from Shanghai in The New Republic three weeks ago, paints another picture. His is of a China with a failed banking system with 50 percent of non-performing loans made to state-owned enterprises to... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

24 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 24

provides an introduction to the process of loan syndication and the evolution of the leveraged loan market. The note emphasizes the role of banks as loan originators and the evolution of the institutional investors' entry into the... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

27 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 27

case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/210041-PDF-ENG Merger Integration at Bank of America: The TrustWeb Project Gary P. Pisano and Bradley R. StaatsHarvard Business School Case 610-054 This case explores project management in a... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 23

lost market share. However, in recent years, concerns about investor protection has increased financial sector regulatory oversight specifically in the asset management and life insurance space and changed the rules of the game. Additionally, the central View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

03 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 3, 2008

electoral redistribution yields a compelling framework to test for the presence of capture. I find that government-owned banks are subject to substantial capture: the growth rate of agricultural credit lent by public View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Feb 2010
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First Look: Feb. 2

shocks to borrowers' collateral, which affect firms' ability to raise capital if agency and information problems are significant (Ben S. Bernanke and Mark Gertler, 1989). Or it can stem from shocks to bank capital, which affects the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

14 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 14

assuring price transparency so advertisers know what they're buying. I explain the need for these rights by presenting specific practices causing particular concern. The Decline and Renewal of British Multinational Banking... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

18 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

The Bias of Wall Street Analysts

time, but somehow the cost of keeping them on board has been justified. The existence of an analyst who provides research on a particular company is attractive on several grounds. The primary source of revenue that is arguably related to the sell-side research is... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

30 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 30

hypothesis that the happiness gains they have experienced from the past 45 years of growth have been the same as the gains that they experienced from growth prior to the 1960s. Central Banks Maximize Happiness? Happiness, Contentment and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 16, 2007

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 the contrary, related lending often exists... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

28 Apr 2011
Op-Ed

While Waiting for Japan’s Recovery, Let’s Enhance Supplier Competitiveness at Home

Connection is an example of one step in the right direction. Initiated last spring, IBM has brought together an initial consortium of seven major companies, including Caterpillar, Pfizer, Bank of America, Citibank, and AT&T, to... View Details

Keywords: by Rosabeth Moss Kanter

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 banks or foreign aid agencies... View Details

Keywords: by George C. Lodge & Craig Wilson

February 2024 (Revised April 2024)
Case

Finberg: Corporate Venture Capital in Türkiye

By: Paul A. Gompers and Namrata Arora

In December 2021, Murat Özyeğin, Chairman of Fiba Holding, along with Ömer Mert and İhsan Elgin, engaged in discussions about the future of United Payment, a fintech company in which Finberg, a subsidiary of Fibabanka, held a 20% stake. Finberg, established in 2018 as... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Venture Capital; Technology; Return On Investment; Venture Capital; Investment; Strategy; Technological Innovation; Competition; Valuation; Acquisition; Business Startups; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Middle East; North Africa; Turkey; Ukraine; Romania; Poland

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March 2024 (Revised June 2024)
Case

Kashat: Navigating the Uncertainties of the Egyptian Fintech Market

By: Paul A. Gompers and Ahmed Dahawy

Karim Nour, the founder of Kashat, an Egyptian nano-lending fintech company, is contemplating how to manage the growth of his startup. Over the summer of 2022, Kashat's loan disbursements had grown by nearly 40%, fueled by macroeconomic instability in Egypt. However,... View Details