Lending - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Mar 2020
Research & Ideas

How the Coronavirus Is Already Rewriting the Future of Business

tight upcoming turnaround, and how passengers can help the cleaning crew achieve an on-time departure for the next flight. In both cases, we gladly do our part. One caveat: When the rationale for customers to help seems mostly about enhancing profitability, the request... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

25 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy

ask the Japanese, the Chinese, and some others for their goods, and they give them to us. And then they lend us the money to buy them. We are both borrowing—literally borrowing in financial terms from, particularly, the Asians—and getting... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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Overview

The overarching goal of my research is to produce works that are influential and informative to both academics and practitioners in the field of operations management. To accomplish this, I collaborate with industry partners who provide knowledge about their field,... View Details

11 Aug 2021
Blog Post

The Equity Network: How HBS Helped Me Launch a Tech-Enabled Social Enterprise

Olivia Melendez, and Jordyn Turner, we also won 1st place at Berkeley’s Investing in Inclusion Pitch Competition. Throughout the process, our professors and classmates were instrumental to our success — lending their knowledge, time, and... View Details

21 May 2015
Blog Post

3 Ways to Fund Your HBS MBA

rates may be higher than what you could find right now through private loans, their most important advantage are their flexible payment plans. Education loans that you secure through a private bank or lending company. Private loan terms... View Details

02 Mar 2021
HBS Case

The Tulsa Massacre: Is Racial Justice Possible 100 Years Later?

and property damage to broader notions of racial justice. Some proponents of reparations argue that African Americans deserve compensation for slavery, Jim Crow laws, redlining practices that thwarted lending in Black neighborhoods, and... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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2018 Financial Risk and Regulation Survey - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

engaging in excessive risky lending because they knew the government would bail them out, loose monetary policy and government policies promoting homeownership. Figure 10: Factors Contributing to the Financial Crisis Interestingly,... View Details

17 Jan 2019
Blog Post

MBA Curriculum Spotlight: Short Intensive Programs (SIPs)

lending to payments, from investments to real estate. HBS Startup Bootcamp HBS Startup Bootcamp is a 9-day program for RC students that uses a learning-by-doing approach to build skills required to succeed as an early-stage... View Details

20 Aug 2008
Op-Ed

The Time is Right for Creative Capitalism

forces operating today, business and consumer spending, in service toward eradicating deadly disease in Africa. Kiva connects small lenders-many of whom lend $50 or less-with promising entrepreneurs, mostly in developing countries. Three... View Details

Keywords: by Nancy Koehn

12 Feb 2020
Blog Post

Trying Out New Career Options with SIPs (Short Intensive Programs)

different segments of financial markets: from lending to payments, from investments to real estate. HBS Startup Bootcamp Faculty: Julia Austin, Allison Mnookin & Martin Sinozich The HBS Startup Bootcamp is a 9-day program for... View Details

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The Intersection of Public Relations and Photography | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

‘objectively’ the myths of the American experience.” 24 PR departments in industry thus eagerly enlisted artists whose names could lend both prestige and a sense of social realism to their portrayals of large corporations. Corporations,... View Details

01 May 2017
Research & Ideas

Bad At Your Job? Maybe It's the Job’s Fault

reducing the demands of the position. Amazon founder Jeff Bezos made it clear: If you’re unwilling to lend a hand to a co-worker to meet a customer need, you will not survive there. “When a lot is demanded of people, you have to build a... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

29 Feb 2024
Blog Post

African American Student Union Spotlight on Social Enterprise

inclusion. I believe in the power of innovative and human-centered technology that can alleviate poverty by providing vulnerable populations with access to financial services including insurance, savings, or lending that can be life... View Details

28 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'

capital structure, as permitted under the Bankruptcy Code. In general, this is how Chapter 11 gives new lenders the incentive to lend to a financially distressed business; even if the company ultimately fails and is liquidated, the senior... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking

01 Dec 2004
News

Marquis Jet Takes Off

realist. I had to acknowledge that for Rich Santulli to lend his brand to a bunch of guys who, quite frankly, didn’t know what the hell they were talking about was a stretch.” But stretch he did. “It was one of those perseverance... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Air Transportation; Transportation

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Electricity - Business & Environment

Senior Lecturer, Harvard Business School Gina Hall HBS MBA 1986, Investment Director, The Carbon Trust “I’m slowing climate change by harnessing the power of financial institutions to make a positive impact through directing investment and View Details

05 Mar 2019
Blog Post

Part 2: Military Transition and the JD/MBA - The Path to Your Goals

additional time in the military beyond your initial service requirement or enlistment, you’re going to be even older than the average veteran. That lends some advantages. As someone with above average life and career experience—and... View Details

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ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

modern venture capital industry. "We are a movement, not just a company. A commercial bank lends only on the strength of past successes and proven assets. I want money to do things that have never been done before." Georges F. Doriot, in... View Details

18 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

How Disruptive Innovation Changes Education

courseware initially. And rather than being "pushed" into classrooms through a centralized selection process, they will be pulled into use through self-diagnosis—by teachers, parents, and students who don't have access to another tutoring option. Q: How would... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Education

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Current working papers

Organizational restructuring: the influence of formal and informal structure on tie formation. This paper considers how changes in formal structure and a key element of informal structure – the embeddedness of employee... View Details

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