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ImmuLogic Pharmaceutical Corporation (A): March 1991

ImmuLogic Pharmaceutical Corp., a development-stage biotechnology company, is considering making an initial offering of common stock. The diverse perspectives of the entrepreneur, venture capitalist, investment banker, and institutional investor are explored. Problems... View Details

Keywords: Decisions; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Banks and Banking; Initial Public Offering; Going Public; Perspective; Valuation; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry

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Educators

Purchase

14 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

Keeping Your Balance With Customers

market segments. Likewise, for many years, Chemical Bank (now Chase) cultivated relationships with unprofitable customers for the same reason. Most organizations view the sale purely as a transaction and then lose touch with the customer,... View Details

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton

02 Jul 2014
News

Winner of Bitcoin Auction, Tim Draper, Plans to Expand Currency’s Use

Keywords: bitcoin; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

17 Apr 2017
HBS Case

This Turkish Debt Collector Is Customer-friendly

consortium of asset management companies (AMCs) that included the Turkish branch of Lehman Brothers. When Lehman went bankrupt, Turkasset acquired a $200 million portfolio of non-performing loans (NPLs). After that, it continued to acquire more debts from other View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

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FinTech Lending and Cashless Payments

By: Pulak Ghosh, Boris Vallée and Yao Zeng

Borrower's use of cashless payments both improves their access to capital from FinTech lenders and predicts a lower probability of default. These relationships are stronger for cashless technologies providing more precise information, and for outflows. Cashless payment... View Details

Keywords: Fintech; Lending; Payments; Data Sharing; Financing and Loans; Information Technology; Banks and Banking; Business Model

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18 Jul 2018
News

Ensuring HBS Remains a Dynamic Community

together,” she remembers. That interest led her to study finance and accounting at the University of Pennsylvania. After college, she joined Morgan Stanley as an analyst. “I found investment banking to be exciting and fast-paced,” says... View Details

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Video-Coverage of the Financial Crisis | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s... View Details

01 Dec 2010
News

Noted & Quoted

bank capital on loans is too small to have a big impact on growth.” — HBS professor DAVID SCHARFSTEIN and Harvard economics professor Jeremy Stein respond to banking industry complaints that new global... View Details

Keywords: Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance

01 Sep 2011
News

Faculty Learn Firsthand about Chinese Business

deep connections with HBS alumni on the mainland, McFarlan arranged a six-city itinerary of meetings with executives of major consumer products, textile, software, energy, microfinance, and banking concerns. In Beijing, the group spent... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

Arthur Reynolds

Reynolds shepherded Continental and Commercial through a series of expansionary acquisitions, growing the company into the United States’ third largest commercial bank with resources of $1.1 billion in 1929. View Details

Keywords: Finance

16 May 2011
Research & Ideas

What Loyalty? High-End Customers are First to Flee

domestic bank operating in more than 20 states from 2002 to 2006. In addition to proving what earlier models only hinted at—that new challengers offering high levels of service can siphon off the best customers of long-standing... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

18 Dec 2007
First Look

First Look: December 18, 2007

Working PapersHappiness, Contentment and Other Emotions for Central Banks Authors:Rafael Di Tella and Robert MacCulloch Abstract We show that data on satisfaction with life from over 600,000 Europeans are negatively correlated with the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

23 Apr 2018
News

Richard Jenrette, 89, Wall St. Power and Preservationist of Homes, Dies

Gordon S. Rentschler

Rentschler helped grow National City into one of the world’s largest commercial banks. Under his leadership, National City Bank had assets of over $5 billion with branches throughout New York, Latin America and Asia. View Details

Keywords: Finance

19 Nov 2014
News

Advancing opportunities for diverse professionals

Wall Street banker Sherrese Clarke Soares (MBA 2004) works with the Council for Urban Professionals to help minority professionals advance in their careers to the C-suite and corporate boards. (Published November 2014) View Details

07 Nov 2013
News

Selig Choice for Commerce Dept. Post

22 Sep 2016
News

The Competitiveness of Lost Causes

“My work is about making competitive businesses out of ‘lost causes,’” wrote Emiliano Duch (MBA 1991) in a Class Notes post announcing his 2013 career move, from private development consultant to lead financial and private-sector development specialist at the World... View Details

12 Jul 2016
First Look

July 12, 2016

Case 816-005, "Bigbelly," by Mitchell Weiss and Christine Snively. This case is an example of public entrepreneurship. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51306 Financial Regulation in a Quantitative Model of the Modern View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

24 Apr 2014
News

Building business for a better Brazil

Jorge Paulo Lemann (AB 1961) has built a career focused on strengthening the financial markets of Brazil. As a senior partner of Banco Garantia, he was the leading force for 25 years behind Brazil’s premier investment bank. Lemann transformed the national economy,... View Details

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Bibliography - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School

Hammond, Bray. Banks and Politics in America, from the Revolution to the Civil War . Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1957. Full text available as a networked resource. (Harvard users only: Harvard ID and University PIN required)... View Details

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