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23 Jan 2008
Op-Ed

A House Divided: Investment or Shelter?

country, they yearned for shelter, a sanctuary in a new land. That shelter could be a tenement, a farmstead, a ramshackle cottage. For families, home had a connotation of safety and stability. Banks did not lend with 30-year amortizing... View Details

Keywords: by Nicolas P. Retsinas; Banking; Banking; Banking

October 2011 (Revised February 2018)
Teaching Note

Mike Mayo Takes on Citigroup (A) and (B)

By: Suraj Srinivasan

Keywords: Banks and Banking

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October 2007 (Revised August 2013)
Supplement

Bohemian Crowns: Ceskoslovenska Obchodni Banka (C)

By: Rawi Abdelal, Daniela Beyersdorfer and Ane Damgaard Jensen

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Czech Republic

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03 Mar 2014
News

A Life Transformed

final exams, received a scholarship, and left for college." Parija attended BJB College, a state school with low fees, where he majored in economics and political science, graduating in 1974. He took a clerical job at a local Indian bank... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Finance; Transportation

09 Nov 2017
News

A Chance to Lead

John Brennan (MBA 1980) is chairman emeritus, the Vanguard Group. In this interview he recalls his early time at the business and the opportunity presented to him to lead. “In the summer of 1982, I moved out to Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, to work for Vanguard, a small,... View Details

April 2009
Article

Drawing Links Between Corporate Governance and Networks: Bankers in the Corporate Networks of Brazil, Mexico, and The United States Circa 1910

By: Aldo Musacchio

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Networks; Banks and Banking; Business History; Brazil; Mexico

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February 2001 (Revised April 2001)
Case

Merrill Lynch: Integrated Choice (Abridged)

By: F. Warren McFarlan and James Weber

Merrill Lynch, a full-service brokerage firm with $1.5 trillion in client assets, is under attack from both discount and electronic brokerage firms. It responds with Integrated Choice, a suite of products designed to capture clients, from the do-it-yourself investor... View Details

Keywords: Investment Banking; Marketing Strategy; Distribution Channels; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Risk and Uncertainty; Financial Services Industry

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01 Dec 2009
News

Broad Range of Interests Among Nine New Faculty

1999), who also joins the Accounting & Management unit, came to HBS after 37 years at Bankinter, one of Spain’s most successful banks and noted for its innovations in technology and online banking. Arena, who holds a Ph.D. in engineering,... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

01 Dec 2008
News

Alumni Books

“sell their souls.” Albion helps MBA students give themselves “permission” to be who they really want to be. The Partnership: The Making of Goldman Sachs by Charles D. Ellis (MBA ’63) (Penguin Press) Now a bank holding company, Goldman... View Details

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Food Services and Drinking Places; Hospitality; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing

17 Nov 2022
News

Blockchain for Good

cash, which is held by a regulated third party in a segregated account. “Holding 100 percent liquid collateral for our stablecoins eliminates any risk of a bank run, which is something no other provider can claim,” she notes. As the... View Details

Keywords: Ralph Ranalli

May 19, 2007
Article

Bernanke's False Dictionary

By: Robert C. Pozen

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Economics

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March 2010
Teaching Note

Disruptive IPOs? WR Hambrecht & Co. (TN)

By: Willy C. Shih

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Keywords: Auctions; Financing and Loans; Theory; Disruptive Innovation; Initial Public Offering; Investment Banking; Financial Services Industry; Service Industry

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November 2006
Case

Selling Biovail Short

By: Malcolm P. Baker, Chris Lombardi and Aldo Sesia

Hedge fund SAC Capital and analysts from Gradient Analytics and Banc of America face charges of stock price manipulation from Biovail, a Canadian pharmaceutical company. Gradient and BofA produced negative reports on Biovail's earnings quality. At the same time, SAC... View Details

Keywords: Stock Shares; Investment Banking; Asset Pricing; Financial Strategy; Crime and Corruption; Pharmaceutical Industry; Financial Services Industry; Canada

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25 Oct 2013
News

"Cool as Ice" CEO Takes Helm at Canada's Scotiabank

01 Dec 2015
News

Research Brief: What Makes a Mobile Money Service Thrive in an Emerging Market?

Ishan Sachdev (MBA 2013) Since 2009, more than 80 mobile money services have popped up in emerging markets to offer financial services to the millions of people who have a cell phone but no traditional bank account. Taking advantage of... View Details

Keywords: Erin Peterson

11 Sep 2018
Working Paper Summaries

IQ from IP: Simplifying Search in Portfolio Choice

Keywords: by Huaizhi Chen, Lauren Cohen, Umit Gurun, Dong Lou, and Christopher J. Malloy

2016
Article

The Federal Reserve's Balance Sheet as a Financial-Stability Tool

By: Robin Greenwood, Samuel Gregory Hanson and Jeremy C. Stein

We argue that the Federal Reserve should use its balance sheet to help reduce a key threat to financial stability: the tendency for private-sector financial intermediaries to engage in excessive amounts of maturity transformation—i.e., to finance risky assets using... View Details

Keywords: Central Banking; Policy; Risk Management; Public Administration Industry; United States

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30 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Rethinking Retirement Planning

would be offered through their 401(k). "They didn't see anything wrong with it," Merton says. "They just didn't believe it could be that good until it had their employer's seal of approval. Most people trust their employer more than View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Banking