financial services - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Apr 2002
News

Urban Evolution - HBS Research on the Inner City

indifference. Whether they are helping inner cities capitalize on their inherent competitive advantages, working to make assetbuilding financial services available to low-income families, analyzing the... View Details

Keywords: Paul Grogan; Peter Tufano; David Crockett; Diana Barrett; Real Estate

01 Mar 2014
News

Everything Old Is a New Opportunity

financial abuse Big Data applications—using data analysis to identify problems before they develop and suggest improvement opportunities After HBS, he put that knowledge to use in his six years at Nokia, creating global networks to make... View Details

Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; Personal Services; Personal Services

01 Aug 2019
News

Investing for Good

“Our mission at Social Finance is to mobilize capital—public capital, private capital—in service of society. The tool that we are most proud of is the social impact bond, which is essentially a public-private partnership that brings... View Details

Keywords: Finance

15 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Apple Pay’s Technology Adoption Problem

company will have trouble coming up with an equally compelling message to drive sales of a service that allows you to pay at the retail counter with a swipe of an iPhone. "What does it do for me as a consumer?" asks Associate... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Technology; Retail

06 May 2002
Research & Ideas

Profits for Nonprofits: Earning Your Own Way

issues that profit brings to a social service organization. Founded thirty-five years ago, the small, multiservice nonprofit Haley House is a spiritually based community organization that serves "society's forgotten people"—the... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2010
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Social Reporting

benefit the environment as well as a company's bottom line," Rangan adds. Good examples are the early childhood literacy initiative of PNC, a financial services organization based in Pittsburgh, and the... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

01 Apr 1998
News

Student Conferences Inspire Campus Dialogue

African-American consumer market. Three HBS alumni were also honored with AASU awards: E. Stanley O'Neal (MBA '78), who received the Professional Achievement Award; Deborah C. Wright (MBA/JD '84), who received the Civic Commitment Award; and Nancy L. Lane (29th PMD),... View Details

30 Nov 2020
Research & Ideas

COVID Not Slowing VC Investment

The COVID-19 pandemic has battered industries around the world, but one sector's prospects aren’t so bleak: venture capital. Startup backers—and private-equity managers in general—say that half of their portfolio companies haven’t been harmed by the coronavirus that... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services; Financial Services

28 Mar 2018
Research & Ideas

Sophisticated Investors May Be Harming Fintech Lending Platforms

iPhoto Marketplace lending platforms such as LendingClub and Prosper have made significant competitive inroads against traditional banks in recent years by bringing together people who want to borrow with investors ready to bankroll them. But lending platforms, also... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Financial Services

15 Jun 2016
Research & Ideas

These VC Partners May Make Your Firm Less Innovative

You don’t know what you don’t know—and almost by definition new entrepreneurial ventures need a helping hand from established partners if they hope to succeed. “Startups suffer from what researchers call ‘liability of newness,’” says Harvard Business School Assistant... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services; Financial Services

21 Mar 2016
Working Paper Summaries

Risk Management―The Revealing Hand

Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan and Anette Mikes; Financial Services; Financial Services

13 Apr 2015
Working Paper Summaries

Implied Materiality and Material Disclosures of Credit Ratings

Keywords: by Robert G. Eccles & Tim Youmans; Financial Services; Financial Services

09 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

A Playbook for Small-Business Job Creation

As Administrator of the Small Business Administration (SBA), Karen Mills spent four years as part of President Barack Obama's senior economic team and a member of his Cabinet, specifically focused on the health and growth of America's small businesses and... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services; Financial Services

22 Jan 2014
Research & Ideas

High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs

Many high-tech companies in the United States look overseas to fill talent gaps in their employment ranks by hiring skilled immigrants, often sponsoring the visas these workers need to live in this country. Critics say this can create an unpleasant fallout effect,the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Financial Services