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  • 01 Dec 2008
  • News

No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis

subprime crisis. “It’s hard to overstate the dramatic buildup in subprime lending by mid-decade,” he said. “Subprime lending represented a minimal share of home mortgages in the 1990s. As recently as 2001,... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson;Martha Lagace; deregulation; moral hazard; the middle class; Finance
  • 01 Jun 2005
  • News

Change of Pace

policy and the expression of faith in public life. He will also lend his expertise to nuts-and-bolts issues, such as assessing the financial risks involved in the diocese’s possible support for a housing project in the West View Details
Keywords: GOP; Catholic; Religious, Grantmaking, Civic, Professional, and Similar Organizations; Personal Services
  • 17 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 17

economists and other social scientists as they guide our most important personal and societal decisions. Bank Lending During the Financial Crisis of 2008 Authors:Victoria Ivashina and David S. Scharfstein... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 07 Sep 2021
  • News

Funding His Purpose

money,” Letelier says, and the grants that typically power nonprofits don’t typically offer organizations the flexibility of the financial products available to for-profit companies, which can mean everything from bootstrapping and commercial View Details
  • 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 View Details
Keywords: by Nicolas P. Retsinas; Banking; Banking; Banking
  • 01 Dec 2019
  • News

INK: Big News for Small Business

What would this golden age look like? Imagine if small businesses had access to AI-enabled insights—picture a dashboard informed by a business’s bank accounts, payment systems, taxes, and accounting software. The business owner could see... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • 01 Sep 2004
  • News

Hollywood Story

Epstein’s heart, she had a hands-on role in day-to-day production work. As both coproducer and writer, she spent every day on the set in Vancouver, British Columbia, attending to the details that lend authenticity. The film is expected to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley; Motion Picture and Sound Recording Industries; Information
  • 07 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Sept. 7

use loan-level data to study how the organizational structure of banks impacts small business lending. We find that decentralized banks—where branch managers have greater autonomy over lending decisions—give... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Oct 2009
  • First Look

First Look: October 14

assuring price transparency so advertisers know what they're buying. I explain the need for these rights by presenting specific practices causing particular concern. The Decline and Renewal of British Multinational Banking... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 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... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

How $40 Loans Lifted Lives in Kenya | Working Knowledge

study of digital lending in Kenya reveals the benefits of relying on mobile phone data to expand credit access—improving financial outcomes and overall well-being even for individuals borrowing as little as $40. Tala , a fintech lender... View Details
  • 20 Nov 2007
  • First Look

First Look: November 20, 2007

ownership patterns across different towns, allowing credible identification of the effects of bank ownership on financial development, lending rates, and the quality of intermediation, as well as employment... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion

glaring trade imbalances, and soaring political risk, particularly in the economically crucial, oil-exporting regions of the world. The key to this seeming paradox lay in China. Chongqing, on the undulating banks of the mighty earth-brown... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 21 Jul 2010
  • Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation

the long-term lending most borrowers need—is now performed outside the channels most visible to the Federal Reserve or the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. We should not blame anyone but ourselves for this. Almost 40 years ago, savers... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 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
  • 01 Jan 2005
  • News

Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975

the board of WWB—a role that influenced the way she formulated her strategy at the World Bank. "I applied what I was learning in the young WWB to create a network for learning and change at the Bank in areas such as small enterprise View Details
  • 01 Sep 2014
  • News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014

gain perspective; and reframe the question to open up new possibilities. Molly Waldo! A Young Man's First Voyage to the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, Adapted from the Stories of Marblehead Fishermen of the 1800s by Priscilla L. Moulton and... View Details
Keywords: faculty research; Alumni Research
  • 22 Dec 2016
  • Op-Ed

The Small Business Administration is a Model for How to Drive Economic Growth

unlock capital to small businesses at a time when most banks had stopped lending to small businesses altogether. In fact, SBA’s guarantee brought many banks back to small... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills
  • 15 Jan 2013
  • First Look

First Look: January 15

http://ssrn.com/abstract=2192460 Dollar Funding and the Lending Behavior of Global Banks Authors:Ivashina, Victoria, David S. Scharfstein, and Jeremy C. Stein Abstract A large share of dollar-denominated... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Oct 2007
  • First Look

First Look: October 16, 2007

encourage bankers to loot their banks at the expense of minority shareholders and depositors. We argue that neither looting nor credit misallocation are necessary outcomes of related lending. On the contrary, related View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne