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- 2014
- Discussion Paper
The Promise of Microfinance and Women's Empowerment: What Does the Evidence Say?
By: Dina D. Pomeranz
The microfinance revolution has transformed access to financial services for low-income populations worldwide. As a result, it has become one of the most talked-about innovations in global development in recent decades. However, its expansion has not been without... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship In Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Women's Empowerment; Entrepreneurs; Saving; Savings; Credit; Credit Supply; Insurance; Development Economics; Development Finance; Behavioral Economics; Gender; Microfinance; Social Entrepreneurship; Developing Countries and Economies; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Latin America; Kenya; Chile; India; Asia; Africa
Pomeranz, Dina D. "The Promise of Microfinance and Women's Empowerment: What Does the Evidence Say?" EY Thought Leadership Series, February 2014.
- 27 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments
$38 trillion. Once again, the inexorable shift in demographics, combined with high and increasing healthcare costs, will result in a widening gap between tax intake and payment outflow for Medicare. On another front, the government is also on the hook for insuring... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 08 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 8, 2008
the nation's cramped urban centers where vacancy rates held near zero and families often "doubled up" in single-housing units. Hoping to spark a burst of new construction, New York Senator William Calder called for the creation of eleven regional Federal... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 17
economists and other social scientists as they guide our most important personal and societal decisions. Bank Lending During the Financial Crisis of 2008 Authors:Victoria Ivashina and David S. Scharfstein Publication:Journal of Financial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 9, 2016
economic activity? This paper exploits the federal preemption of national banks in 2004 from local laws against predatory lending to gauge the effect of the supply of credit on the real economy. Specifically, we exploit the heterogeneity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018
bonds generates a crowding out of corporate lending. For a given domestic firm, new debt is less likely to be a loan—i.e., the loan supply contracts—when local banks have purchased more domestic sovereign... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Building Bridges: New Dimensions in Negotiation
Kennecott also arranged for an Export-Import Bank loan plus U.S. political risk insurance. The mine's output would then be sold to North American and European industrial customers under long-term supply... View Details
Keywords: by Anita M. Harris
- 06 Jan 2003
- What Do You Think?
China: The Next Big Market Opportunity or the Next Big Bubble?
other hand, Joshua Kurlantzick, writing from Shanghai in The New Republic three weeks ago, paints another picture. His is of a China with a failed banking system with 50 percent of non-performing loans made... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- May 2008
- Teaching Note
Subprime Meltdown: American Housing and Global Financial Turmoil
By: Julio J. Rotemberg
Teaching Note for [708042]. View Details
- 08 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 8
Almandoz Abstract—A case study is presented on business ethics and bank management. The situation facing the president of a community bank established to operate as a green business and to consider ethical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- February 2000 (Revised October 2000)
- Case
Kendle International Inc.
By: Dwight B. Crane, Paul W. Marshall and Indra Reinbergs
Candace Kendle and Christopher Bergen, the CEO and COO of Kendle International, Inc., are reviewing ways to finance the growth of their privately-owned company. Kendle is a contract research organization that conducts clinical drug trials for pharmaceutical and... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Financing and Loans; Venture Capital; Stock Options; Banks and Banking; Debt Securities; International Finance; Financial Strategy; Management Skills; Private Ownership; Initial Public Offering; Biotechnology Industry; Pharmaceutical Industry
Crane, Dwight B., Paul W. Marshall, and Indra Reinbergs. "Kendle International Inc." Harvard Business School Case 200-033, February 2000. (Revised October 2000.)
- 04 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
The Business of Global Poverty
Bank he founded in Bangladesh more than two decades ago. With interest rates ranging from zero to 20 percent, Grameen's average loan (no collateral required) is $200. Its repayment rate is about 98 percent.... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
- 12 Aug 2002
- Op-Ed
Using Big Business to Fight Poverty
Bank loans and foreign aid to the government did not then and would not in the future reduce poverty, especially among the 80 percent of the population that lived in the countryside. Millions of rural... View Details
Keywords: by George C. Lodge
- 26 Apr 2011
- Op-Ed
HBS Faculty Comment on Environmental Issues for Earth Day
Esty's book, Green to Gold), such as General Electric's push into wind and solar power. JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, and Bank of America are among those adding environmental criteria to loan analyses. Venture... View Details
- 01 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 1
repatriated earnings from foreign affiliates exceeded net capital investments by $1.1 trillion in 2010 dollars; and from 1950 to 2010, repatriated earnings and net interest from foreign affiliates exceeded net equity investments and loans... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2012
- Op-Ed
Once a Castle, Home is Now a Debtors’ Prison
owner must pay the lender the difference. Owners will still need to find someplace else to live. An owner can walk away from the loan and join the "strategic defaulters," who defaulted not because they could not pay but because... View Details
- 13 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Improving Public Health for the Poor
response people had with microfinance. The concept of giving a loan that could start as low as $125 to someone who is poor and then think of that as a viable business was once inconceivable. But today in Latin America, the View Details
- 10 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 10
prices of used ships to fall by as much as 80%. As ship prices (values?) fell, ship owners began to default on loans and new purchase contracts while banks holding loans... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- July 2009 (Revised July 2009)
- Case
Blue Ocean or Stormy Waters? Buying Nix Check Cashing
By: Peter Tufano
Kinecta Federal Credit Union has the opportunity to purchase Nix Check Cashing as part of their "blue ocean" strategy to reach the financially underserved and increase credit union membership and deposits. But they face financial as well as reputational risk. Check... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Credit; Financing and Loans; Personal Finance; Strategic Planning; Partners and Partnerships; Reputation; Banking Industry; Banking Industry
Tufano, Peter, and Andrea Ryan. "Blue Ocean or Stormy Waters? Buying Nix Check Cashing." Harvard Business School Case 210-012, July 2009. (Revised July 2009.)
- 20 Mar 2020
- Research & Ideas
How Small Businesses Can Survive the Coronavirus Outbreak
and Fundbox, which specialize in loans to small businesses, are also considering ways to support the sector. Renegotiate terms of contracts and debt. Owners should ask landlords for more time to pay their rent, for example. They should... View Details