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23 Mar 2023
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SVB Crash Analysis

HBS faculty members and other experts across Harvard reflect on the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and the state of the banking industry. How ‘Payment Banks’ Could Prevent the Next Bank Collapse Professor Mihir Desai writes in Harvard Business Review that to shore up... View Details

01 Feb 1997
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Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar

increasingly must make sophisticated financial decisions. Last November, Robert C. Merton, the George Fisher Baker Professor of Business Administration at HBS, discussed this problem and elaborated on the importance of risk management in financial View Details

Keywords: Elizabeth McNair

September 2015
Article

Banks as Patient Fixed-Income Investors

By: Samuel G. Hanson, Andrei Shleifer, Jeremy C. Stein and Robert W. Vishny

We examine the business model of traditional commercial banks when they compete with shadow banks. While both types of intermediaries create safe "money-like" claims, they go about this in different ways. Traditional banks create money-like claims by holding illiquid... View Details

Keywords: Shadow Banking; Safe Money-like Claims; Commercial Banking

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April 2008 (Revised October 2008)
Supplement

TD Canada Trust (B): Linking the Service Model to the P&L

By: Dennis Campbell and Brent Kazan

Keywords: Profit; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry

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1999
Chapter

Retail Banking

By: F. Frei, P. Harker and L. Hunter

Keywords: Commercial Banking; Banking Industry

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01 Jun 2003
News

Dean Clark Addresses Journalists

thinkers from business, HBS, and other institutions of higher learning; it will soon report its conclusions and recommendations. Invited to appear as part of the club’s celebrated program of lunchtime speakers, Clark presented his views... View Details

Keywords: Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management

24 Apr 2014
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Understanding the global economy from a new perspective

Henry Paulson (MBA 1970) has held public and private leadership positions, including roles as chairman and CEO of Goldman Sachs, and US Secretary of the Treasury under President George W. Bush. As chairman of The Paulson Institute at the... View Details

24 Apr 2014
News

Training managers in the developing world

aims to help build a modern professional management class, help create jobs, spark value-added processing of raw materials, and encourage competitive manufacturing. “There are up to 100 institutions in Africa that define themselves as a... View Details

20 May 2013
Op-Ed

Making America an Industrial Powerhouse Again

industries. Research funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) sowed the seeds for the internet and advanced computer graphics. And massive investments by the National Institutes of Health in biomedical research,... View Details

Keywords: by Gary Pisano; Manufacturing

Alex Civetta

focused on using interest-based negotiation to get the best possible results for his clients. He was previously a teaching assistant for negotiation courses at Harvard Law School, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School... View Details

Keywords: Legal

April 1998
Case

Citibank Hong Kong--Capital Arbitrage in the Emerging Markets

Describes how a credit derivative may be used to structure a profitable transaction between a bank and its client. Design and risk management issues are discussed in the context of this new class of derivative security. View Details

Keywords: Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Investment Banking; Financial Services Industry; Hong Kong

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The Stock Market and Bank Risk-Taking

By: David S. Scharfstein and Antonio Falato

We argue that stock market pressure to generate earnings encourages banks to increase risk. We measure risk using confidential supervisory ratings as well as financial information released in regulatory filings. We document that there is an increase in the risk-taking... View Details

Keywords: Stock Market; Financial Markets; Business Earnings; Banks and Banking; Risk and Uncertainty

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1993
Chapter

The Strategy of a Merger: Fleet and Bank of New England

By: D. B. Crane and J.C. Linder

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Strategy; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; New England

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September 2013
Article

Combining Banking with Private Equity Investing

By: Lily H. Fang, Victoria Ivashina and Josh Lerner

Bank-affiliated private equity groups account for 30% of all private equity investments. Their market share is highest during peaks of the private equity market, when the parent banks arrange more debt financing for in-house transactions yet have the lowest exposure to... View Details

Keywords: Regulation; Private Equity; Leveraged Buyouts; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry

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September 23, 2008
Editorial

Beyond a Bailout, Wall Street Needs New Rules

By: A. Zelleke

Keywords: Stocks; Financial Institutions; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms

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March 2009
Teaching Note

Dogus Group: Weighing Partners for Garanti Bank (TN)

By: Tarun Khanna and Krishna G. Palepu

Teaching Note for [709401]. View Details

Keywords: Opportunities; Partners and Partnerships; Bids and Bidding; Financial Institutions; Financial Services Industry; Construction Industry

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February 1997 (Revised April 1998)
Case

first direct (A)

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport

Describes the operations and strategy of the world's largest, fastest growing branchless bank. Using a person-to-person interface over conventional phone lines, First Direct provides standard banking and related financial products to nearly 700,000 customers throughout... View Details

Keywords: Service Delivery; Customer Satisfaction; Banks and Banking; Innovation and Invention; Banking Industry; United Kingdom

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