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- 07 Apr 2011
- What Do You Think?
When Should the Public Sector Take Over in a Meltdown?
superior," noting that this may be the case only when there is a "threat of widespread panic" or "when a crisis breaks down an entire system (like the banking system)." Elaine Scheye would limit intervention only... View Details
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Wired and Black: Focus on Careers
much an alternative as investment banks has led to students asking more fundamental questions." Thomas said students are finding new ways to use their expertise as the workplace changes and the definition of business expands.... View Details
Keywords: by Carrie Levine
- 01 Aug 2008
- Research & Ideas
Does Market Capitalism Have a Future?
largely or completely unrelated to capitalism, might challenge it from the outside. And if capitalism is threatened, what can be done to protect it, and by whom? For the colloquium, we compiled a briefing book based primarily on data from a 2007 World View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 12 Sep 2006
- First Look
First Look: September 12, 2006
1957-1966, the World Bank and IMF-led structural reforms of the 1980s, and the continuation of reforms after the first democratic elections in 1992. Details Ghana's economic and political context and cluster performance in 2001 and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase
hours reduce electricity bills? Perhaps for the first time, small-business owners accustomed to monthly accounting might need to track day-to-day spending so they can react quickly to changing economic conditions. Free and low-cost tools from View Details
- 07 Sep 2016
- What Do You Think?
How Can the Threat of Networks Be Reduced?
thousands of hackers who flock to the cracks found in existing network architecture daily. Results may include leaked emails, drained bank accounts, and the destruction of production facilities (as Iranian nuclear scientists found out).... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 13 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
5 Weight Loss Tips From Behavioral Economists
double-or-nothing on a diet bet. A group of obese hospital patients agreed to a "deposit contract," banking a small amount of their own money into a pot each day during a 32-week weight-loss trial. The research team agreed to match the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 19 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding Innovation: Is Your Firm Doing it Wrong?
common struggle for firms to get innovation investments right, says Josh Lerner, the Jacob H. Schiff Professor of Investment Banking at Harvard Business School. On one hand, firms large enough to house their own research labs too often... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 28 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance
MBA programs in America and the top five in Europe. While some offer banking courses, and others offer behavioral courses, none had a course that was specifically about consumer finance. Here at HBS, we have a rich set of finance... View Details
- 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 banks that are... View Details
- January 2025
- Case
Untapped Global: Financing Africa's Missing Middle
By: Raymond Kluender and Emanuele Colonnelli
In November 2024, Jim Chu, founder and CEO of Untapped Global, faced mounting internal tensions over the company’s strategic direction. Untapped had developed a data-driven revenue-based financing (RBF) model to address the “missing middle” problem—the $5.2 trillion... View Details
Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Working Capital; Private Equity; Financial Strategy; Microfinance; International Finance; Currency Exchange Rate; Profit Sharing; Revenue; Developing Countries and Economies; Economic Growth; Emerging Markets; Mission and Purpose; Small Business; Entrepreneurial Finance; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Africa; Nigeria; South Africa; Kenya; Uganda; California; San Francisco
Kluender, Raymond, and Emanuele Colonnelli. "Untapped Global: Financing Africa's Missing Middle." Harvard Business School Case 825-056, January 2025.
- 07 Jul 2009
- First Look
First Look: July 7
press, one certainly gets the impression that there is a return of "state capitalism," as if state intervention in industrial activity actually went away for a significant period of time. Moreover, many observers of the recent wave of nationalizations and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Sep 2013
- First Look
First Look: September 17
Paul Healy, George Serafeim, and Devin Shanthikumar Abstract—Prior research on equity analysts focuses almost exclusively on those employed by sell-side investment banks and brokerage houses. Yet investment firms undertake their own... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
of Wall Street rather than developing nations. And the crisis raises questions about the development policies of Asian nations: Did too-close "crony" relations between politicians and owners of major banks or firms pave the way... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Small Businesses Can Survive the Coronavirus Outbreak
and Fundbox, which specialize in loans to small businesses, are also considering ways to support the sector. Renegotiate terms of contracts and debt. Owners should ask landlords for more time to pay their rent, for example. They should also ask View Details
- 16 Jan 2014
- Research & Ideas
Resolving Patent Disputes that Impede Innovation
prompted a new research paper that starts to investigate ways to make these patents less volatile and more efficient—and makes the case for increased government involvement. "Standards are ubiquitous and necessary," says Josh Lerner, the Jacob H. Schiff... View Details
- 25 Jan 2013
- Research & Ideas
Why a Harvard Finance Instructor Went to the Kumbh Mela
how many hectares each Akhara required. (The Juna Akhara, the biggest, has four separate quadrants.) They had to figure out how to provide on the order of 30 MVa of power to 22,000 temporary poles (provided by a bank of diesel generators... View Details
- 08 Jun 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Twenty-first Century Skill: Trading Carbon Credits
Cap and trade has become an increasingly popular mechanism used by governments to induce green behavior among corporate polluters, with news emerging almost daily. Just recently New Jersey Governor Chris Christie withdrew his state from the Regional Greenhouse Gas... View Details
- 02 Dec 2009
- What Do You Think?
Should Immigration Policies Be More Welcoming to Low-Skilled Workers?
work." He would address the issue by: (1) (greeting) "all immigrants with a social security card" (implying payment of taxes, Medicare, etc.) and (2) requiring employers to "pay immigrants with check or automatic bank... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
and develop a construction budget and financing plan. Students are asked to evaluate the prospective financials for this development and assess the viability of the development plan and its prospective returns. The case then ends with a change in the fundamental... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace