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- 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 Dec 2010
- News
Noted & Quoted
bank capital on loans is too small to have a big impact on growth.” — HBS professor DAVID SCHARFSTEIN and Harvard economics professor Jeremy Stein respond to banking industry... View Details
- October 2014 (Revised December 2014)
- Case
Gentera: Beyond Microcredit
By: Rajiv Lal and Lisa Mazzanti
Gentera, whose largest subsidiary is Compartamos Banco, has been a fantastically successful endeavor since it started in the 1990s. But in 2014, Gentera faces challenges in expanding beyond group-lending and micro-credit into microfinance and beyond in order to fulfill... View Details
Keywords: Financial Inclusion; Compartamos; Gentera; Micro-lending; Microfinance; Insurance; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Mexico City
Lal, Rajiv, and Lisa Mazzanti. "Gentera: Beyond Microcredit." Harvard Business School Case 515-017, October 2014. (Revised December 2014.)
- 31 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 31
Financial Studies (forthcoming) Abstract This paper examines the impact of leveraged buyout firms' bank relationships on the terms of their syndicated loans. Using a sample of 1,590 loans financing private... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Politics and War - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
the suspension of gold payments by the Bank of England. Prime minister William Pitt was forced to implement the issue of paper money when the Bank announced a gold shortage, due to View Details
- 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
- January 1993 (Revised November 1997)
- Case
BayBank Boston
In 1992, the Federal Reserve released a study of mortgage lending patterns in Boston. It concluded that even when credit factors were taken into account, black and Hispanic applicants experienced higher rejection rates. Richard Pollard, chairman of BayBank Boston, had... View Details
Dees, J. Gregory, and Christine C. Remey. "BayBank Boston." Harvard Business School Case 393-095, January 1993. (Revised November 1997.)
- 23 Jan 2008
- Op-Ed
A House Divided: Investment or Shelter?
country, they yearned for shelter, a sanctuary in a new land. That shelter could be a tenement, a farmstead, a ramshackle cottage. For families, home had a connotation of safety and stability. Banks did not lend with 30-year amortizing... View Details
- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
such period on record. Significant financial failures returned to the marketplace in the late 1980s with the savings and loan crisis, followed by a rash of bank failures in the early 1990s that forced the... View Details
- 03 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 3, 2008
costly. They are less likely to be repaid. Nor are they put to good use: election year credit booms do not measurably affect agricultural output. Finally, I measure whether the average agricultural loan was beneficial, using variation... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Noted & Quoted
also be a statutory cap on leverage, a maximum speed limit, if you will, that regulators can’t loosen.” — HBS professor David Moss commenting on the need for financial reform legislation to place limits on the amount banks can borrow for... View Details
- 31 Oct 2016
- Research & Ideas
Quantitative Easing Didn’t Ease the Housing Crisis for the Neediest
Another tool to stimulate a distressed economy has made its way into the playbooks of central banks across the world. With quantitative easing, known as QE for short, a central bank makes it easier to borrow... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 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
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Truth in Lending
Lab. And that may just be the answer to developing a strong small-business sector in emerging markets. In more developed markets, a bank can make loan decisions based on credit scores, that three-digit... View Details
Keywords: April White
- March 2010
- Teaching Note
Disruptive IPOs? WR Hambrecht & Co. (TN)
By: Willy C. Shih
Teaching Note for 610065. View Details
- March 2006 (Revised May 2010)
- Case
Banco Hipotecario S.A.
By: Daniel Baird Bergstresser, Arthur I Segel and Alexandra de Royere
In 2003, the chairwoman and controlling shareholder of Argentina's leading residential mortgage lender are considering how to bring the bank's restructuring to a successful conclusion as the country's economy continues to suffer from the impact of the 2001-2002... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Currency; Banks and Banking; Mortgages; Crisis Management; Competition; Argentina
Bergstresser, Daniel Baird, Arthur I Segel, and Alexandra de Royere. "Banco Hipotecario S.A." Harvard Business School Case 206-102, March 2006. (Revised May 2010.)
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Funding His Purpose
money,” Letelier says, and the grants that typically power nonprofits don’t typically offer organizations the flexibility of the financial products available to for-profit companies, which can mean everything from bootstrapping and commercial View Details
- Web
Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Secondary Resources
W.A. Edwards, 1892). Full text available as a networked resource. Davis, Malcolm W. The Loan Shark Campaign (New York: Divison of Remedial Loans, Russell Sage Foundation, 1914). Fitzgerald, Thomas J., and Richard Theodore Ely. Mortgages... View Details
- 26 Nov 2019
- News
Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream
Mills asked, “How do we keep this piece of the economy vibrant?” As Mills’s research demonstrates, small business lending hadn’t changed in 50 to 100 years. Traditional banks failed to deliver a positive customer experience and struggled... View Details
- 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