Banks And Banking - Publications - Faculty & Research

March 1995 (Revised June 1997)
Teaching Note

Citibank: Launching the Credit Card in Asia Pacific (A) TN

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Marie Bell

Teaching Note for (9-595-026). View Details

Keywords: Credit Cards; Banking Industry; Asia; Oceania

Citation

Purchase

21 Jan 2009
First Look

First Look: January 21, 2009

Case 709-017 Despite a tradition of high household savings, Japan has supported a dynamic and technically sophisticated consumer-lending sector. The high profitability of the sector has periodically attracted interest from domestic View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

October 1999
Case

Credit Suisse (C)

By: W. Earl Sasser and William E. Fulmer

Supplements either Credit Suisse (A) or Credit Suisse (A) (Abridged). View Details

Keywords: Banking Industry

Citation

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October 1999
Case

Credit Suisse (D)

By: W. Earl Sasser and William E. Fulmer

Supplements either Credit Suisse (A) or Credit Suisse (A) (Abridged). View Details

Keywords: Banking Industry

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02 Feb 2012
Op-Ed

Once a Castle, Home is Now a Debtors’ Prison

We have created a housing hybrid in America, refashioning the single-family home into a mini debtors' prison. Almost 11 million dot the landscape. In Las Vegas and Phoenix, over 50 percent of homeowners live in one. “Understandably, most... View Details

Keywords: by Nicolas P. Retsinas; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate

August 2004 (Revised July 2005)
Case

Allianz (D2): The Dresdner Transformation

By: Joseph L. Bower, Anders Sjoman and Sonja Ellingson Hout

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Banking Industry; Germany

Citation

Educators

Purchase

08 Nov 2010
Research & Ideas

How to Fix a Broken Marketplace

An economic handyman of sorts, Alvin E. Roth fixes broken markets. As a Nobel Prize-winning pioneer in the field of market design, the Harvard Business School professor cofounded a kidney donation matching system for New England, corrected public school choice programs... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Health

21 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 21, 2008

banking industry and Garanti Bank's position within it, and asks students to consider whether partnership makes sense for Garanti and, if so, which bidder it should select.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

How Europe Wrote the Rules of Global Finance

would empower international organizations. The U.S. Treasury already effectively governs global finance. U.S. banks and financial firms are interested not in worldwide capital mobility, but in access to a... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

05 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Watching for the Next Economic Downturn? Follow Corporate Debt

than households. Once banks are forced to cope with that load of unpaid debt, historically, the consequences amplify, says Ivashina, the Lovett-Learned Professor of Business Administration and Finance Unit... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

July 1992 (Revised May 1995)
Teaching Note

Hawkeye Bancorporation TN

By: Krishna G. Palepu, G. Peter Wilson and Jane Palley Katz

Teaching Note for (9-192-064). View Details

Keywords: Banking Industry

Citation

10 May 2011
First Look

First Look: May 10

prices (values?) fell, ship owners began to default on loans and new purchase contracts while banks holding loans secured by ships faced the possibility of increasing defaults (violations of loan-to-value... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Sep 2020
Research & Ideas

Financial Meltdowns Are More Predictable Than We Thought

research by Harvard Business School Professors Robin Greenwood and Samuel G. Hanson begs to differ. Financial crises, even ones as calamitous as the 2007-2008 banking meltdown, are surprisingly predictable... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services

13 Dec 2006
Research & Ideas

Improving Public Health for the Poor

response people had with microfinance. The concept of giving a loan that could start as low as $125 to someone who is poor and then think of that as a viable business was once inconceivable. But today in Latin America, the View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

07 Apr 2009
First Look

First Look: April 7, 2009

multinational firms requires a similar fortitude. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-107.pdf Corporate Misgovernance at the World Bank Authors:Ashwin Kaja and Eric Werker Abstract We test... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

19 Apr 2004
Research & Ideas

Ground-Floor Opportunities for Retail in India

spending. Real estate costs are high. The taxation and legislation system is complex and difficult to navigate. Vijay Jain said he left a "cushy" job in investment View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Consumer Products; Retail

19 May 2009
First Look

First Look: May 19, 2009

integrated services. While Barge's new organization is not yet fully in place, he is determined to win the Bank of America business and moves quickly to hire a senior account manager View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

29 Jun 2007
First Look

First Look: June 29, 2007

(CRM) project would require, the bank decided to explore its benefits with a smaller pilot project. It appointed a CRM project team to design and implement a project focused on credit cards. Describes the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace