Business Lending - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Aug 2019
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Has the Twitter Age Left the Case Method Behind?

experience this way: “I took away the self-confidence to approach complex problems that did not lend themselves to 240 characters worth of analysis or 2 minutes worth of attention. In other words, the types of problems that management... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Education

01 Mar 2024
News

Elevator Pitch: Banking On It

Illustration by Drue Wagner Illustration by Drue Wagner Marc Escapa (MBA 2017) Andres Klaric (MBA 2017) Cofounders and co-CEOs, Fuse Concept: Fuse makes it easier for lenders to tackle digital innovation, offering a next-gen loan-origination platform that simplifies... View Details

Keywords: fintech; finance; entrepreneurship; Finance

Research Summary

Current working papers

Organizational restructuring: the influence of formal and informal structure on tie formation. This paper considers how changes in formal structure and a key element of informal structure – the embeddedness of employee... View Details

22 Jul 2008
First Look

First Look: July 22, 2008

I find that government-owned bank lending tracks the electoral cycle, with agricultural credit increasing by 5-10 percentage points in an election year. There is significant cross-sectional targeting, with large increases in districts in... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

12 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

Using the Law to Strategic Advantage

Most managers think the legal department is that office down the hall where they go to keep out of trouble or write a binding patent agreement. And that's shortsighted, says Harvard Business School professor Constance Bagley. A company... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Legal Services

28 Jun 2004
Research & Ideas

Microfinance: A Way Out for the Poor

poor by removing the high cost of everything they need. Chu discussed the benefits and complexities of microfinance with Harvard Business School alumni on June 4, in a session titled "Microfinance: Harnessing the Market for Social... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

22 Sep 2023
News

Capital Connection

and fixing them up, creating jobs, and revitalizing neighborhoods,” says Beckford, now the CEO of Diversified Lending Solutions (DLS), a real estate capital advisory based in New York City. “These smaller operators are real engines for... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley; Real Estate

03 Apr 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018

less busy than the present, they may underweight the value of these purchases. We examine the impact of debiasing this previously unexplored barrier of consumer decisions to "buy time" in a field experiment with a U.S.-based... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

29 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

Harvard Business School faculty members, looking at the U.S. financial crisis from a variety of disciplines, urged caution and prudent analysis in a recent panel discussion. The discussion titled "Turmoil on the Street: Fathoming the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

17 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Why We Don’t Study Corporate Responsibility

For too long, scholarship in the field of management has looked at economic performance rather than social welfare, argue HBS professor Joshua Margolis and colleagues James P. Walsh, of University of Michigan Business School, and Klaus... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls

29 Aug 2024
Research & Ideas

Shoot for the Stars: What to Know About the Space Economy

rapidly changing. Harvard Business School Senior Associate Dean Matthew Weinzierl’s new research explores the business opportunities hidden among the stars, particularly in data from and through space, but... View Details

Keywords: by Kara Baskin; Aerospace

11 Nov 2002
Research & Ideas

Women Entrepreneurs Usher in the Next Generation

Spontaneous responses can often be quite telling. As a member of a panel discussion at the Women, Money, and Power conference, entrepreneur Joline Godfrey posed two simple questions to the mostly-female audience. "How many of you had View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Research - Private Capital Project

in Brazil, Private Equity firm Advent International has to decide how to exit this investment: through an IPO or selling the business to Carrefour. AEA Papers and Proceedings Weak Corporate Insolvency Rules: The Missing Driver of Zombie... View Details

19 Jul 2011
Research & Ideas

Rupert Murdoch and the Seeds of Moral Hazard

need their help on the way down. Ruthlessness in pursuit of success might work for a while. But when there is the merest hint of a problem, a history of callous, cold-blooded, critical behavior means that there is no one left to lend... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Journalism & News; Publishing

19 Jan 2021
In Practice

Leadership Advice for Biden: Restore a Sense of Calm

Small Business Administration from 2009 to 2013. She is the author of Fintech, Small Business & The American Dream: How Technology is Transforming Lending and Shaping a New... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

01 May 2020
Blog Post

5 Reasons to Join a Club at HBS

internship at a leading airline. 3. Leadership Opportunities More than 200 students serve as club leaders and that’s only counting co-presidents and CFOs. HBS is a leadership school and clubs can be an incredible way to sharpen and maintain those leadership skills to... View Details

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A Brand Manager’s Guide to Losing Control

a connected group of very passionate supporters” "The way brands came in to social media wasn't sensitive to the medium," says Jill Avery, a senior lecturer at Harvard Business School, who spent a decade managing brands for... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising

25 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy

influencing the cost and availability of money, goods, and services. Macroeconomic forces can conspire to make business more difficult, but they can also present opportunities to executives who know how to, for example, read a country's... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

11 May 2010
First Look

First Look: May 11

PublicationsBlock-by-Blockbuster Innovation Author:Rosabeth Moss Kanter Publication:Harvard Business Review 88, no. 5 (May 2010) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Preview the Article:... View Details