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- 09 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 9
M. Sharpe and John O. WhitneyHarvard Business School Case 813-049 With a competitor nipping at his heels, his bank reluctantly covering his recent overdraft, Jacob Zimmerman is considering expanding his midwestern View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 23, 2007
Download the paper (purchase from NBER required: $5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13470 Accountability in Complex Organizations: World Bank Responses to Civil Society Authors:Alnoor Ebrahim and Steve Herz Abstract Civil society actors... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Dec 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #13: Democratizing Climate Returns - Nisha Desai (HBS 1997), Founder and CEO of Invest With Intention
don’t have enough capital to invest in the best deals. Why don’t we have the ability to get the same returns as infrastructure limited partnerships or banks or private equity firms?” Here’s the thesis: Nisha has found only two managed... View Details
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
causes leading to the Mexican crisis of 1994-1995 (known as "The Tequila Crisis"), and its short- and long-term consequences. It argues that excessive enthusiasm on the part of foreign investors, not based on Mexico's fundamentals, and weak regulation of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Apr 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research, April 11
forthcoming Journal of Accounting & Economics Career Concerns of Banking Analysts By: Horton, Joanne, George Serafeim, and Shan Wu Abstract—We study how career concerns influence banking analysts'... View Details
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
did not gain water during the privatization. This suggests that propaganda was persuasive when it had a basis in reality. Foreign Entry and the Mexican Banking System, 1997-2007 Authors:Stephen Haber and Aldo Musacchio... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Buy Now, Pay Later: Pre-Industrial Credit in Practice
and places like colonial America where hard currency was scarce. Resourceful merchants and retailers devised clever instruments and institutions of credit that made possible large, complicated transactions even without a fungible means of... View Details
- 28 Oct 2009
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance
MBA programs in America and the top five in Europe. While some offer banking courses, and others offer behavioral courses, none had a course that was specifically about consumer finance. Here at HBS, we have a rich set of finance... View Details
- 21 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 21, 2015
acquisitions of companies that were important providers of transaction software in the retail and hospitality industries. Now, in late November 2013, Nuti and his team were considering a third potential major acquisition: Digital Insight,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: February 21
this product find a market and how does it fit into the bank’s product portfolio? The case investigates how Deutsche Bank manufactures and distributes its structured retail products and more broadly explores... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar
the "disaggregation" of financial services. "For example," he said, "mutual funds rather than banks now provide many types of services." The cumulative effect on households is that individuals must now make major financial decisions... View Details
Keywords: Elizabeth McNair
- 22 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 22, 2008
Working PapersFixing Market Failures or Fixing Elections? Agricultural Credit in India Authors:Shawn A. Cole Abstract This paper integrates theories of political budget cycles with theories of tactical electoral redistribution to test for political capture in a novel... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Profile
Juan Pablo Moncayo
to make decisions with conviction, but without all the necessary information." As he worked his way up at Goldman, from banking to private equity, HBS remained in the back of his mind. Finally, in 2013, JP realized "it was now... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services
- 17 Dec 2001
- Research & Ideas
Enterprising Women
people," said Cynthia Fisher (HBS MBA '90). In 1993, using her own capital, Fisher founded ViaCord, a business that allows customers to bank cord blood stem cells for possible future use in the treatment of cancer and autoimmune... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 07 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 7
644 geographically isolated markets in which a nationwide retail bank conducted business over a five-year period. We find that customers defect at a higher rate from the incumbent following increased service... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Fast Answer
FIELD Global Immersion Resources: Argentina
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- 19 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Why Privacy Protection Notices Turn Off Shoppers
good thing not to have any privacy policy,” John says. It’s almost as if you had the choice of two banks in a sketchy neighborhood, one with bulletproof glass and one without. For their last experiment, the researchers consciously tried... View Details
- 04 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 4
Publications November 2014 Centro de Estudios Espinosa Yglesias Los Buenos Tiempos Son Éstos: Los efectos de la incursión de la banca extranjera en México después de un siglo de crisis bancarias [These Are the Good Old Days: Foreign Entry and the Mexican View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Beyond the Numbers
Robinson in 1986 as assistant controller for their international consumer businesses, including bank cards and retail banking. His first task, he recalls, was to "take a look around and advise my boss what... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
distribution channels to alter customer interactions with the firm. Using a sample of retail banking customers observed over a 30-month period at a large U.S. bank, we test whether changes in service... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace