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- March 2013 (Revised March 2013)
- Case
Rough Justice: Stuart Eizenstat and Holocaust-era Asset Restitution (A)
By: James K. Sebenius and Laurence A. Green
Beginning in 1994, a series of articles and public disclosures indicated that Swiss banks may have retained assets belonging to victims of the Holocaust, and also may have engaged in long term attempts to block survivors' ability to recover those assets after World War... View Details
Keywords: Banking; Banking And Insurance; U.s. History; Germany; Europe; Governance; History; Negotiation; Business and Government Relations; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Germany; United States; Switzerland
Sebenius, James K., and Laurence A. Green. "Rough Justice: Stuart Eizenstat and Holocaust-era Asset Restitution (A)." Harvard Business School Case 913-037, March 2013. (Revised March 2013.)
- January 2002 (Revised February 2002)
- Case
Postgirot Bank and Provment AB: Managing the Cost of IT Operations
By: F. Warren McFarlan and Nancy Bartlett
Describes a specific approach for measuring the efficiency of the groups of computers inside an organization and suggests ways this tool may be used to reduce the company's computing investment while maintaining service. It is a software-enabled industrial engineering... View Details
Keywords: Cost Management; Investment; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Management Style; Information Technology; Applications and Software
McFarlan, F. Warren, and Nancy Bartlett. "Postgirot Bank and Provment AB: Managing the Cost of IT Operations." Harvard Business School Case 302-061, January 2002. (Revised February 2002.)
- March 1998 (Revised October 2001)
- Case
Xedia and Silicon Valley Bank (B-1): The Bank's Perspective
By: Paul A. Gompers and Jon Biotti
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Banking Industry
Gompers, Paul A., and Jon Biotti. "Xedia and Silicon Valley Bank (B-1): The Bank's Perspective." Harvard Business School Case 298-120, March 1998. (Revised October 2001.)
- April 2003
- Article
R&D Comes to Services: Bank of America's Pathbreaking Experiments
By: Stefan Thomke
Thomke, Stefan. "R&D Comes to Services: Bank of America's Pathbreaking Experiments." Harvard Business Review 81, no. 4 (April 2003). (Translated into German and reprinted in Harvard Business Manager (July 2003))
- August 1997
- Case
European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in 1997, The
By: Hugo Uyterhoeven, Michael Y. Yoshino and Carin-Isabel Knoop
Uyterhoeven, Hugo, Michael Y. Yoshino, and Carin-Isabel Knoop. "European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in 1997, The." Harvard Business School Case 398-032, August 1997.
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry
costs, Dozie notes that “two years ago it was cheaper to put a store in London than on Victoria Island in Lagos.” That has led Café Neo to prioritize co-locations in offices: Counters inside businesses such as banks and insurance... View Details
- March 1998 (Revised October 2001)
- Case
Xedia and Silicon Valley Bank (B-2): The Company's Perspective
By: Paul A. Gompers and Jon Biotti
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Banking Industry
Gompers, Paul A., and Jon Biotti. "Xedia and Silicon Valley Bank (B-2): The Company's Perspective." Harvard Business School Case 298-121, March 1998. (Revised October 2001.)
- January 2001
- Case
World Bank and Knowledge Management, The: The Case of the Urban Services Thematic Group
By: William E. Fulmer and W. Earl Sasser
The World Bank has implemented a knowledge management initiative. One of its communities of practice is to take the lead in a $50 billion commitment to address urban slums. The community of practice is struggling with its mission and how knowledge management can help. View Details
Keywords: Urban Development; Knowledge Management; Problems and Challenges; Financial Services Industry
Fulmer, William E., and W. Earl Sasser. "World Bank and Knowledge Management, The: The Case of the Urban Services Thematic Group." Harvard Business School Case 801-157, January 2001.
- 2013
- Working Paper
Do Strict Capital Requirements Raise the Cost of Capital? Banking Regulation and the Low Risk Anomaly
By: Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler
Minimum capital requirements are a central tool of banking regulation. Setting them balances a number of factors, including any effects on the cost of capital and in turn the rates available to borrowers. Standard theory predicts that, in perfect and efficient capital... View Details
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Cost of Capital; Capital Markets; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; United States
Baker, Malcolm, and Jeffrey Wurgler. "Do Strict Capital Requirements Raise the Cost of Capital? Banking Regulation and the Low Risk Anomaly." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 19018, May 2013.
- November 27, 2023
- Article
How James Mwangi Worked to Democratize Banking Across Africa
By: Ranjay Gulati
Keywords: Personal Development and Career; Moral Sensibility; Decisions; Financial Services Industry
Gulati, Ranjay. "How James Mwangi Worked to Democratize Banking Across Africa." Inc.com (November 27, 2023).
- March 1998 (Revised October 2001)
- Case
Xedia and Silicon Valley Bank (C): The Final Agreement
By: Paul A. Gompers and Jon Biotti
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Banking Industry
Gompers, Paul A., and Jon Biotti. "Xedia and Silicon Valley Bank (C): The Final Agreement." Harvard Business School Case 298-122, March 1998. (Revised October 2001.)
- February 2014
- Supplement
Evaluating Microsavings Programs: Green Bank of the Philippines (C)
By: Nava Ashraf, Dean Karlan, Wesley Yin and Marc Shotland
Keywords: Saving; Innovation and Invention; Measurement and Metrics; Product Design; Success; Performance Evaluation; Banking Industry; Philippines
Ashraf, Nava, Dean Karlan, Wesley Yin, and Marc Shotland. "Evaluating Microsavings Programs: Green Bank of the Philippines (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 914-003, February 2014.
- February 2014
- Supplement
Evaluating Microsavings Programs: Green Bank of the Philippines (B)
By: Nava Ashraf, Dean Karlan, Wesley Yin and Marc Shotland
Keywords: Microfinance; Saving; Innovation and Invention; Measurement and Metrics; Product Design; Success; Performance Evaluation; Banking Industry; Philippines
Ashraf, Nava, Dean Karlan, Wesley Yin, and Marc Shotland. "Evaluating Microsavings Programs: Green Bank of the Philippines (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 914-002, February 2014.
- May 2010 (Revised January 2012)
- Teaching Note
Bank of America Acquires Merrill Lynch (TN) (A) and (B)
By: Robert C. Pozen
Teaching Note for 310092 and 310106. View Details
- January 2000 (Revised October 2014)
- Exercise
Windham Negotiation: Confidential Information for the Cooperative Savings Bank
By: Michael Wheeler
Six-party negotiation of land use and development. View Details
Wheeler, Michael. "Windham Negotiation: Confidential Information for the Cooperative Savings Bank." Harvard Business School Exercise 800-090, January 2000. (Revised October 2014.)
- November 1997
- Case
Rabobank Group, The: The Global Food and Agribusiness Bank
By: Ray A. Goldberg and Tom Clay
Goldberg, Ray A., and Tom Clay. "Rabobank Group, The: The Global Food and Agribusiness Bank." Harvard Business School Case 598-044, November 1997.
- June 2010
- Teaching Note
The Southeast Bank of Texas in the Financial Crisis (TN)
By: Robert C. Pozen and Benjamin Greff Schneider
Teaching Note for 310141. View Details
- 11 Feb 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
Leviathan as a Minority Shareholder: A Study of Equity Purchases by the Brazilian National Development Bank (BNDES), 1995-2003
Keywords: by Sergio G. Lazzarini & Aldo Musacchio
- May 1993
- Teaching Note
Patient Transfusion Services Lab of Central Blood Bank TN
By: James L. Heskett
Teaching Note for (9-693-091). View Details
Keywords: Health Industry
- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. Liberty Mutual CEO Tim Sweeney (MBA 1991) says that 2012 was the year that climate change started really showing up on the balance sheet. “This is a horrible... View Details