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- 01 Feb 1999
- News
Too Much of a Good Thing?
booming. Banks and companies, eager for a piece of the action, invest heavily in production capability. Not surprisingly, a market can soon become saturated with too much product; consequently, demand drops, revenues slow to a trickle,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
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Events - Private Capital Project
Events Events Innovation, VC, and Federal Budgets June 26, 2025, “Innovation, VC, and Federal Budgets” provided insight into the critical role of Federal funding in shaping the innovation ecosystem, from early-stage research to commercial... View Details
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
André R. Jakurski, MBA 1973
wanted to go back to Brazil because at that time the country was really booming," he says. He was soon put in charge of developing the bank's leasing company. During his 10-year career at Unibanco, he quickly rose through the company, running parts of the investment... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
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Charts & Statistics - Leadership
Airmail service starts Influence: High 30 1930 s 19 The New Deal Commercial and investment banking separated Reconstruction Finance Corp. created to combat bank and business... View Details
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ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School
modern venture capital industry. "We are a movement, not just a company. A commercial bank lends only on the strength of past successes and proven assets. I want money to do things that have never been done... View Details
- 30 May 2023
- News
Finding PRIDE
second year, when I was looking for a job as a commercial and investment banker, I would look at their policies for nondiscrimination. Most banks had nothing, but Bank of... View Details
- 30 Jun 2023
- Blog Post
Finding Pride
was part of the radical gay liberation movement. He had nothing to do with it, except to coordinate with me to publish it. He took a lot of heat for me back then. Thanks, David! In my second year, when I was looking for a job as a View Details
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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Meeting for “The Impact of Contingent Liability on Commercial Bank Risk Taking.” 1995 Stuart C. Gilson : Winner of the 1995 Graham and Dodd Award for Excellence in Financial Writing from the Financial... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
two dilapidated row houses that had been vacant since 1978. She intends to replace them with affordable rental apartments—the opening salvo in an ambitious plan to redevelop West Baltimore Street, whose boarded-up windows and abandoned storefronts belie its history as... View Details
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Harvard Business School
Accenture). He became a partner in 1976, specializing in the development of financial control and operating systems in retail and banking industries. In 1985, Gates began to develop commercial and... View Details
- 04 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
Diversity Boosts Profits in Venture Capital Firms
began gathering demographic information on individual VCs to better understand if their gender or race influenced a firm’s performance. “It was a real guerilla research effort,” he says. Starting with commercial data on 14,000 VC... View Details
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Agents of Change: The Founding of the AASU - The Value of Business Education
University, the Atlanta Conferences addressed pressing economic issues that the Black community faced. The fourth annual conference was entitled "The Negro in Business." In 1900, Booker T. Washington founded the National Negro Business League (NNBL) to promote View Details
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset
securitized, and professionalized. There are over $5.5 trillion of securitized home mortgages, $500 billion of commercial mortgage-backed securities (CMBS) and $200 billion of real estate investment trusts (REITs), much of which did not... View Details
- 04 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Schmoozing with the Boss Helps Men Get Promoted
unnamed commercial bank in Asia between 2015 and 2018, Cullen and Perez-Truglia found that male employees advanced further and faster when they reported to male managers. [div class=infogram-embed... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
commercial bank with 4,500 branches across India. Pre-COVID, the bank had no organizational or technological measures in place to enable work from remote locations. Only 30 to... View Details
- 16 May 2005
- Research & Ideas
Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow
different: Her research suggests that a more powerful lever to increase a nonprofit's social impact might be to focus on building network relationships like-minded groups—even competitors. Organizations as unique as Guide Dogs for the Blind Association and Women's... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 10 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink
dramatically as well—retail square footage in the United States grew from 18.45 square feet per capita in 1999 to 23.06 square feet per capita in 2009. The hope among retailers (and commercial real-estate developers) was that as the... View Details
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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni
variables. While considerable economic research has examined the influence of policy movements on bank lending behavior, capital flows, and market responses in the public sector, the private equity industry—despite its substantial size... View Details
- February 2015 (Revised April 2017)
- Case
Edyficar and Mibanco: The Emergence of M&A in Microfinance
By: Michael Chu
Mibanco, a microfinance icon, is for sale, and Edyficar, owned by Banco del Credito (BCP), Peru's largest bank, is evaluating its acquisition. Until recently, such a transaction would have been fanciful given Mibanco's preeminent role in Peruvian microfinance, which... View Details
Keywords: Base Of The Pyramid; Peru; Latin America; Microfinance; Commercial Banking; Mergers and Acquisitions; Banking Industry; Latin America; Peru
Chu, Michael. "Edyficar and Mibanco: The Emergence of M&A in Microfinance." Harvard Business School Case 315-030, February 2015. (Revised April 2017.)
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
Financial Services 24/7
Today's bank offers many of the services of a brokerage firm, and vice versa. Congress's repeal of the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act that separated the activities of commercial and investment View Details
Keywords: Susan Young