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  • 12 Jul 2016
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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
  • 21 Jun 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Racial Diversity Pays Off

rather than ignore or suppress them. Comparing 450 bank branches of a single organization, a large commercial bank in the northeast U.S., Ely and Thomas discovered that when... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 28 Jun 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor

poor can pay for what they need, and scale is not a challenge but a friend. In 2003 it had over one million clients, said Chu. Microfinance was not the purview only of ACCION, however. In 1992, Bolivia's Bancosol, he said, became the first View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 22 Jul 2014
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First Look: July 22

traditional commercial banks in the context of their coexistence with shadow banks. While both types of intermediaries create safe "money-like" claims, they go about this in different ways.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 17

banks to roll over their short-term debt. We document that there was a simultaneous run by borrowers who drew down their credit lines, leading to a spike in commercial and industrial loans reported on View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 14

the Twentieth Century, edited by Richard Coopey and Peter Lyth. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009 Abstract This chapter discusses the renaissance of British multinational banking from the 1990s. British View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 31 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 31

Furthermore, a third experiment shows that people tend to discount the wrongness of crossing ethical boundaries to hurt or help others when the action restores equity. The Private Equity Advantage: Leveraged Buyout Firms and Relationship View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 20

committed to a 10-year oil supply to Sinopec in exchange for a $10 billion loan from CDB. The case study describes the deal and its importance to both countries. The case also discusses CDB's evolution from a policy bank to more of a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 11 Apr 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Financial Services 24/7

activities of commercial and investment banks (opening the doors for a "financial free-for-all," as Business Week put it) will only increase this trend. Already, Crane asserts, "you can't talk about View Details
Keywords: by Susan Young
  • 03 May 2011
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First Look: May 3

government at times. Blair balanced multiple roles and expectations. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/411021-PDF-ENG BBVA Compass: Marketing Resource Allocation Sunil Gupta and Joseph Davies-GavinHarvard Business School Case 511-096 BBVA... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 May 2016
  • Op-Ed

World Health Organization Lacks Leadership to Combat Pandemics

making a commercial case for the new funding. The Commission estimates pandemics could cost $60 billion per year and argues that the extra funding recommended is a worthy, preventative investment. However, the WHO's track record hardly... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch; Health
  • 15 Jun 2016
  • Research & Ideas

These VC Partners May Make Your Firm Less Innovative

developed by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA), they were able to tell which companies were competitors in the same patient application areas (such as cardiology, oncology, or urology) and product classes. Then, using commercial... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking; Banking
  • 16 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 16, 2007

and threats to Unilever's global business in 1978 based on the commercial and political challenges faced by three of its subsidiaries, Lever Brothers in the United States, Hindustan Lever in India, and United Africa Company in West... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Jun 2011
  • What Do You Think?

Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?

question this raises is which lenders, nations or commercial institutions? Shann Turnbull, citing some of his own work on the subject, argued that the risks of allowing insolvency "can no longer be reliably managed because they have... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
  • 10 Feb 2015
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First Look: February 10

with pesos in Argentina's banking system. By June 2012, AFIP had removed "saving" as a legitimate explanation. While the official exchange rate was approaching six pesos to the dollar, the black market was demanding almost ten... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jul 2003
  • Research & Ideas

It’s India Above China in New World Order

professor of strategy at HBS. It is also important because the two countries have embraced very different models of development. The biggest source of worry is the state of China's banking sector, which is technically insolvent.—Yasheng... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 29 Jan 2008
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First Look: January 29, 2008

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-048.pdf The Private Equity Advantage: Leveraged Buyout Firms and Relationship Banking Authors:Victoria Ivashina and Anna Kovner Abstract This paper examines the impact of leveraged buyout firms' View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 23 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 23, 2007

Download the paper (purchase from NBER required: $5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13470 Accountability in Complex Organizations: World Bank Responses to Civil Society Authors:Alnoor Ebrahim and Steve Herz Abstract Civil society actors... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 4, 2008

help improve saving and financial decision-making, but much more can be done to improve the effectiveness of these programs. Download the paper from SSRN.com ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13824 Contract Rights and Risk Aversion: Foreign View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 28 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 28, 2010

economic, institutional, and cultural setting of Germany. Publisher's Link: http://www.chbeck.de/productview.aspx?product=795301&toc=3264 Investor Behaviour in a Nascent Capital Market: Scottish Bank Shareholders in the Nineteenth... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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