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23 Jul 2019
News

Karen Mills and the case for open banking

summer 1970
Article

Marketing Strategy and Bank Service Interaction: A Probability Model

By: D. B. Crane

Keywords: Marketing; Strategy; Banks and Banking

2018
Working Paper

Bank Risk-Taking and the Real Economy: Evidence from the Housing Boom and Its Aftermath

By: Antonio Falato, Giovanni Favara and David Scharfstein

The short-termism of lenders amplifies boom-bust credit cycles, leading in turn to real costs for the aggregate economy. During the U.S. housing credit boom, publicly-traded banks increased mortgage lending activity and relaxed standards much more than privately-held... View Details

Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Financial Markets; Investment; Corporate Finance; Banks and Banking

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28 Aug 2019
Blog Post

Know Your Audience: Recruiting HBS Students for Investment Banking

Director and Career Coach Renee Pappastratis – Recruiting Relations Manager Kurt and Renee work closely with students interested in banking and... View Details

January 1990
Case

Thai Farmers Bank (A) (Abridged)

By: James I. Cash Jr.

Keywords: Banking Industry; Thailand

Article

The Contingent Nature of Public Policy and the Growth of U.S. Commercial Banking

By: Christopher Marquis and Zhi Huang

That public policy affects organizational behaviors is well accepted, but less explored is how these effects may depend on other external environmental factors. We investigate how policy is a necessary, but not sufficient, condition to understand the growth of... View Details

Keywords: Policy; Organizational Culture; Strategy; Commercial Banking; Growth and Development Strategy; United States

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June 1960
Case

First Pennsylvania Banking & Trust Co.

By: John H. McArthur

Keywords: Banking Industry

April 1979 (Revised November 1981)
Case

Southern Peru Copper Corp. and Monmouth National Bank

By: Thomas R. Piper

February 2006 (Revised November 2008)
Teaching Note

Banco Real: Banking on Sustainability (TN)

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter and Ryan Raffaelli

Keywords: Investment Funds; Banking Industry

August 1997
Case

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in 1997, The

By: Hugo Uyterhoeven, Michael Y. Yoshino and Carin-Isabel Knoop

Keywords: Banking Industry; Europe

January 2008 (Revised April 2008)
Teaching Note

Pilgrim Bank (A): Customer Profitability (TN)

By: Frances X. Frei and Dennis Campbell

Teaching Note for 602104. View Details

Keywords: Customers; Profit; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry

January 2009 (Revised December 2017)
Case

Who Broke the Bank of England?

By: Niall Ferguson and Jonathan Schlefer

In the summer of 1992, hedge fund manager George Soros was contemplating the possibility that the European Exchange Rate Mechanism (ERM) would break down. Designed to pave the way for a full-scale European Monetary Union, the ERM was a system of fixed exchange rates... View Details

Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Currency Exchange Rate; Investment; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Financial Services Industry; European Union

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