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  • November 1994 (Revised February 1996)
  • Case

Toy World, Inc.

By: W. Carl Kester
A shift from seasonal to level production of toys will change the seasonal cycle of Toy World's working capital needs and necessitate new bank credit arrangements. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details
Keywords: Working Capital; Business Cycles; Cash Flow; Forecasting and Prediction; Investment Funds; Financial Statements
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  • February 2021
  • Case

Lidya: Bringing Nigerian FinTech Innovation to Global Small and Medium Enterprises

By: Lauren Cohen and Spencer C.N. Hagist
Lidya CEO Tunde Kehinde must size up options for the expansion of his novel lending practices that drastically reduce the credit cycle in his developing Nigeria, and determine if expansion into Eastern Europe will prove successful or disastrous. View Details
Keywords: Fintech; Economics; Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Strategy; Expansion; Nigeria
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  • 18 Nov 2015
  • HBS Seminar

Martin Kanz, Economist, Development Economics Research Group, Finance and Private Sector Research, The World Bank

  • 23 Nov 2020
  • Research & Ideas

COVID Was Supposed to Increase Bankruptcies. Instead, They've Gone Down.

very surprising to a lot of people. And I think it raises a lot of questions,” says Kluender, who studies the causes of financial distress among American households and how government, private insurance, and credit markets should function... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 24 Feb 2011
  • Research & Ideas

What’s Government’s Role in Regulating Home Purchase Financing?

book This Time Is Different, credit markets particularly mortgage markets are prone to boom and bust cycles that can have long-lasting and devastating economic impacts. Regulation is going to have to be... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services
  • 2011
  • Chapter

The Economics of Housing Finance Reform

By: David S. Scharfstein and Adi Sunderam
This paper analyzes the two leading types of proposals for reform of the housing finance system: (i) broad-based, explicit, priced government guarantees of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) and (ii) privatization. Both proposals have drawbacks. Properly-priced... View Details
Keywords: Economics; Housing; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Government and Politics
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  • 2019
  • Book

Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream: How Technology Is Transforming Lending and Shaping a New Era of Small Business Opportunity

By: Karen G. Mills
Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream describes the needs of small businesses for capital and demonstrates how technology—novel data sources, artificial intelligence, machine learning—will transform the small business lending market. This market has been... View Details
Keywords: Fintech; Big Data; Data; Technology; Artificial Intelligence; Great Recession; Regulation; Innovation; Banks; Lending; Loans; Access To Capital; American Dream; Community Banking; Small Business Administration; Entrepreneur; Government; Public Policy; API; Policy Making; Small Business; Financing and Loans; Technological Innovation; Financial Crisis; Banks and Banking; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; AI and Machine Learning; Analytics and Data Science; United States
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  • March 1997 (Revised January 1999)
  • Case

SureCut Shears, Inc.

By: W. Carl Kester
A bank loan officer must determine whether to waive convenants and extend terms on a line of credit granted to SureCut Shears. At issue is whether the inability of SureCut to pay down its line of credit is due to a temporary cyclical downturn or other long-term... View Details
Keywords: Business Cycles; Finance; Performance; Problems and Challenges
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  • Research Summary

Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream: How Technology Is Transforming Lending and Shaping a New Era of Small Business Opportunity

By: Karen Mills
Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream describes the needs of small businesses for capital and demonstrates how technology—novel data sources, artificial intelligence, machine learning—will transform the small business lending market. This market has been... View Details
  • 15 Jun 2012
  • Working Paper Summaries

Reaching for Yield in the Bond Market

Keywords: by Bo Becker & Victoria Ivashina

    Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream: How Technology Is Transforming Lending and Shaping a New Era of Small Business Opportunity

     

    Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream describes the needs of small businesses for capital and demonstrates how technology—novel data sources, artificial intelligence, machine learning—will transform the small business lending market. This market... View Details
    • 21 Oct 2014
    • First Look

    First Look: October 21

    of 2.5 million U.S. respondents, and Eurobarometer data that cover multiple business cycles over four decades. This research provides a new perspective on the welfare cost of business cycles with... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 05 Oct 2010
    • First Look

    First Look: October 5, 2010

    Affect Credit Ratings? Authors:Bo Becker and Todd Milbourn Abstract The credit rating industry has historically been dominated by just two agencies, Moody's and S&P, leading to longstanding legislative... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 01 May 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: May 1, 2007

    property rights in developing countries on the level and composition of industrial development. We develop a North-South product cycle model in which Northern innovation, Southern imitation, and FDI are all endogenous. Our model predicts... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Web

    Faculty & Advisors | MBA

    Underscore VC, she invested in fast growing B2B software startups, including life sciences tech products used by leading biopharma companies across the drug development cycle from R&D to commercial stages. She began her career at Michael... View Details
    • 03 Mar 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: March 3, 2009

    the Primary Dealer Credit Facility (PDCF), the Term Securities Lending Facility (TSLF), and the Asset Backed Commercial Paper Money Market Mutual Fund Liquidity Facility (AMLF). Purchase this case:... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • Research Summary

    Overview

    Professor Begenau’s research agenda is directed at better understanding how financial markets work and how they affect the real economy. She uses quantitative analysis to build both prescriptive and descriptive models concerning financial risk in banking, and she also... View Details
    • Web

    Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

    do—with either regulatory tools or monetary policy—to help moderate credit-driven fluctuations in real activity. See Jeremy’s other research here . More Info Real Credit Cycles By: Pedro Bordalo , Nicola... View Details

      Risks, Opportunities, And Investments In The Era Of Climate Change (ROICC)

      The MBA course on "Risks, Opportunities, and Investments in an Era of Climate Change" is ideal for students who aspire to become entrepreneurs by starting their own company or joining a start-up that is driving innovation and solving challenges posed by climate change.... View Details
      • 06 Nov 2018
      • First Look

      New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018

      Monetary Policy and Emerging Market Credit Cycles By: Bräuning, Falk, and Victoria Ivashina Abstract—Foreign banks’ lending to firms in emerging market economies (EMEs) is large and denominated predominantly... View Details
      Keywords: Dina Gerdeman