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- 27 Oct 2014
- Research & Ideas
The Coffee Economy That Bloomed Out of Nowhere
“The work is all about the difficulty of building an economy where there's nothing.” "The work is all about the difficulty of building an economy where there's nothing: where there are no roads, where there's no reliable labor system, where there are no property... View Details
- 23 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 23
comparative historical analysis of consumer lending in the United States and France, I argue that national differences in the regulation of consumer credit had their roots in the historical conditions by which the small loan sector came... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
1,582 loans financing private equity-sponsored leveraged buyouts between 1993 and 2005, we find that bank relationships explain cross-sectional variation in the loan interest rate and covenant structure. Our results indicate that two... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 11, 2007
disciplining role of banks and bank debt in the market for corporate control, focusing on takeovers between 1992 and 2005. We find that relationship bank View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Apr 2015
- Op-Ed
Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths
But that hasn't happened. Why? To a large extent it is because of the inability of firms to obtain financing. All sources of financing collapsed in the country. With bank nonperforming loans to total gross loans skyrocketing from 5... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
if he develops product that can be monetized. O’Malley conducts tests in insurance cross-selling and small business lending, eventually launching a completely automated small business lending product. Rivers keeps the promise by helping... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 5
now also has an equity stake in the Bahamas' gaming and resort industry. The case explores the growing role of project financing by way of China's Export-Import Bank and its implications for business dealmaking and the competitiveness of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53888 Marketplace Lending: A New Banking Paradigm? By: Vallée, Boris, and Yao Zeng Abstract—Marketplace lending relies on large-scale loan screening by... View Details
- 07 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits
investments. Lagace: How did you carry out this study over a several-thousand-mile highway network? Nanda: As Bill mentioned, the Indian government collects comprehensive, detailed microdata. One of the great datasets they maintain is in the Reserve View Details
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
government's Priority Sector Lending (PSL) requirements, unlike virtually all other private sector banks, which view PSL activity as a necessary but loss-making part of their portfolio. To do this, YES BANK... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Feb 2007
- Op-Ed
What a U.N. Partnership with Big Business Could Accomplish
are the greatest drivers of wealth creation, there needs to be a way to bring their capabilities and resources to those countries and regions where they are now absent. It is also essential to minimize the risk, make their investment profitable, View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge & Craig Wilson
- 24 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 24
their funds on demand even if consumption takes place later. Capitalized institutions serving overoptimistic depositors emerge in equilibrium even if depositors and bank owners have identical preferences and investment opportunities.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Global Opportunity Fellowship GO: ASIA - Alumni
countries and territories in Asia designated by the World Bank as Low Income, Low Middle Income or Upper Middle Income (view complete list: World Bank Country and Lending... View Details
- 20 Mar 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, March 20, 2018
58,294 face-to-face retail banking transactions, quantifying the relative importance of customer, employee, process, location, and market-level effects on customer satisfaction. In our models, which explain roughly a quarter of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
The Case for Studying Financial History
households, or masters of the universe on Wall Street, rely on their own personal experience when forming judgments about the financial future. That means the average chief executive of an investment bank was working on data going back no... View Details
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
compared to the distance to universities that offer only business or medical education (or neither). We argue that supplying joint MBA-healthcare courses may be a channel through which universities increase medical business skills and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 22
Shawn A., Martin Kanz, and Leora Klapper Abstract—This paper uses a series of experiments with commercial bank loan officers to test the effect of performance incentives on risk assessment and lending... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
institutions don't want to burden themselves with so many students who have financial needs. DM: One of the other recommendations you give is to put money in Black-owned banks. Part of the rationale, of course, there is that Black-owned View Details
- 19 Jul 2006
- Research & Ideas
Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy
maintained his control in part by creating a banking system that functioned more as a kind of investment club, Maurer says. Local businessmen would agree to lend each other money to finance one another's... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 29 Apr 2022
- News
Clean Slate
of what the future might hold. For Kidwai, those dreams led to the United States, where in 1982, she became the first woman from India to graduate from HBS. But Kidwai always knew she wanted to return to help shape her country. Highlights from her long and extremely... View Details