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    Charles E. Mitchell

    Under Mitchell’s presidency, National City Bank was converted into a modern retail banking organization and a world-wide banking empire with offices from London to Singapore.... View Details
    Keywords: Finance
    • 01 Dec 2019
    • News

    INK: Big News for Small Business

    The earliest small business loan on record dates back to Mesopotamia, when a royal baker borrowed capital—suggesting that small-business owners have been wrestling with access to capital literally since the dawn of civilization, says... View Details
    Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
    • 01 Jan 2005
    • News

    Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975

    microfinance institutions and banks in developing countries that make small loans to low-income women-and in some instances, men-so that they can build their own business and move beyond poverty. A customer... View Details

      Amadeo Peter Giannini

      Giannini set up a holding company called Transamerica and purchased banks throughout New York, Washington, Arizona, Oregon and Nevada. Giannini was a pioneer in offering consumer installment loans on real... View Details
      Keywords: Finance
      • 01 Apr 1998
      • News

      Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International

      short-term business loans to the self-employed poor. Chu, a native of China, grew up in Montevideo, Uruguay. After graduating from Dartmouth and HBS, he held senior management positions with several firms, including The Boston Consulting... View Details
      • May 1998 (Revised October 1998)
      • Case

      Teleswitch (A)

      Describes the financing history of Teleswitch, a maker of small digital telephone switches for the wireless/cellular industry. As the case ends, Teleswitch is revisiting its selection of an investment banker for its hoped-for IPO. A rewritten version of an earlier... View Details
      Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Investment Banking; Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Wireless Technology; Manufacturing Industry; Telecommunications Industry
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      • 01 Dec 2019
      • News

      Capitalizing the Corner Shop

      simplified the application process, asking business owners for only a bank statement as part of their mobile-based loan application, and delivering funds to successful applicants within 48 hours. “The joke... View Details
      Keywords: Dan Morrell
      • 26 Jun 2017
      • Working Paper Summaries

      Inventory Management for Mobile Money Agents in the Developing World

      Keywords: by Karthik Balasubramanian, David F. Drake, and Douglas Fearing; Banking; Banking
      • Web

      Buy Now, Pay Later: The Usurer's Grip (1912)

      receives a loan at the bank rate of six percent and exposes the illegal loan shark to the authorities. Copyright © 2010 Presidents and Fellows of Harvard College Harvard... View Details
      • August 2011
      • Teaching Note

      Going to the Oracle: Goldman Sachs, September 2008 (TN)

      By: Clayton Rose and Sally Canter Ganzfried
      Teaching Note for 309-069. View Details
      Keywords: Financial Crisis; Investment; Negotiation Deal; Capital; Financial Liquidity; Decisions; Management Teams; Banks and Banking; Financing and Loans; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; United States
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      • 27 Jul 2010
      • First Look

      First Look: July 27

      likely to perceive CSR strategies favorably. Our results show how CSR strategies can affect value creation in public equity markets through analyst recommendations. Institutional Stock Trading on Loan Market Information Authors:Victoria... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 01 Mar 2023
      • News

      The Exchange: Micro Management

      to figure out how to operationalize these insights. We have developed two credit products with Sanghamithra that are based on these ideas, and we’ve just deployed the first few dozen of each of them. The first is a graduation loan. For many borrowers, it’s hard to get... View Details
      Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
      • May 1998 (Revised October 1998)
      • Case

      Teleswitch (C)

      Supplements the (A) case. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details
      Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Investment Banking; Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Wireless Technology; Manufacturing Industry; Telecommunications Industry
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      • May 1998 (Revised October 1998)
      • Case

      Teleswitch (B)

      Supplements the (A) case. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details
      Keywords: Initial Public Offering; Investment Banking; Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Wireless Technology; Manufacturing Industry; Telecommunications Industry
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      • 23 Dec 2002
      • Research & Ideas

      Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS

      healthcare industry. Wadhwani earned his Ph.D. in history at the University of Pennsylvania, where his research focused on the institutional and regulatory origins of popular banking in the United States. He has received awards and... View Details
      Keywords: by Laura Linard; Banking; Banking
      • 2020
      • Working Paper

      Do Lenders Still Discriminate? A Robust Approach for Assessing Differences in Menus

      By: David Hao Zhang and Paul Willen
      We use a new methodology to assess mortgage pricing discrimination by race. We make four main contributions. First, we show that existing estimates of mortgage pricing differences by race can be confounded by a "menu problem," which is the problem associated with... View Details
      Keywords: Mortgages; Financing and Loans; Prejudice and Bias; Race; Measurement and Metrics; Banking Industry; United States
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      • 2010
      • Chapter

      Enamored with Scale: Scaling with Limited Impact in the Microfinance Industry

      By: S. M. Datar, M. J. Epstein and K. Yuthas
      Keywords: Microfinance; Banking Industry
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      • 01 May 2013
      • News

      Celeste A. Guth, MBA 1986

      Celeste Guth vividly recalls the day she received her acceptance letter to HBS. “When I opened the admissions packet, I was thrilled beyond belief,” shares Guth, a partner with global responsibility for the Financial Institutions group in Goldman Sach’s Investment... View Details
      • Web

      Buy Now, Pay Later: The Secondary Credit Market

      The Rise of Installment Selling Home Finance Cars on Time The Secondary Credit Market The Usurer's Grip Research Links Credits “We must divorce the three golden balls from the three Furies.” — Charities Review , 1892 Installment plans, home mortgages, and auto View Details
      • 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... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace