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- 13 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
Cash and the Woman-Owned Business
businesses are also becoming more accessible. Financing through government-sponsored lending programs such as the 7(a) General Business Loan Guaranty program, the Certified Development Company (504) loan... 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.)
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Andrea Silbert
the Community Entrepreneurs Program and attend sessions that cover the basics — business literacy, planning, and launch, for example — while those further along in the process can get help through CWE’s Business Excellence Center or by making an appointment with a... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Is AI OK?
to weeding bias out of banking and lending, essentially removing from the picture human beings and their inherently biased decision-making processes. He understood that his father, a Black business owner in the Deep South, was repeatedly... View Details
- Fast Answer
Securitization process and credit rating agencies
What resources are available on the securitization process, credit rating agencies and European covered bonds? Databases Bloomberg - Use Mortgages function to get information on various forms of secured loans Standard &... 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
- 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
- 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
- September 2012
- Case
BASIX (Abridged)
By: Shawn Cole and Peter Tufano
BASIX, an Indian microfinance corporation, must decide whether to continue to sell weather insurance to its clients. A brand-new financial product, weather insurance pays if measured rainfall during the growing season falls below a pre-specified limit. Mr. Sattaiah,... View Details
Keywords: Cost vs Benefits; Microfinance; Household; Risk Management; Insurance; Banking Industry; India
Cole, Shawn, and Peter Tufano. "BASIX (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 213-035, September 2012.
- 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
- 24 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 24
provides an introduction to the process of loan syndication and the evolution of the leveraged loan market. The note emphasizes the role of banks as View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
2014) Angel investors could be a good fit if you can tap either friends and family or local institutional angels. Although most large banks might not be interested, there may be a small regional bank that... View Details
- Web
Bankers, Financiers, and Statesmen - Coin and Conscience
[Nürnberg, ca. 1654]. 18.5 x 13.5 cm F g5 The Bancho Publico in Nürnberg was one of the oldest banks in Germany, founded in 1621, and in operation until 1827. Fussel was its banker from 1654 to 1674. 62 Sir Thomas Gresham (1519?–79) view... View Details
- 31 May 2017
- Sharpening Your Skills
10 Harvard Business School Research Stories That Will Make Your Mouth Water
quality with affordable prices. Gary Pisano and Oldani explain how. A Bank That Takes Parmesan Cheese as Collateral: The Cheese Stands a Loan Nikolaos Trichakis discusses the Italian regional View Details
- 20 Mar 2012
- First Look
First Look: March 20
non-performing loans and an increase in interest rate spreads, suggesting that foreign concerns bought domestic banks that had been making loans with low interest rates to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Untold Story of the US Auto Bailout
Courtesy Argos Pictures; iStock “Because Congress failed to make funds available for these loans, the plan I’m announcing today will be drawn from the financial rescue package Congress approved earlier this fall. The terms of the loans... View Details
- 19 May 2020
- News
Exploring the Economics of a Pandemic; Alumni Forums Draw Closer Online
Black community as a private-enterprise desert, with devastating consequences.” To prevent this, he gave an overview of how to fill out the PPP loan application, and shared promising data from Seaway National View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 07 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: Sept. 7
use loan-level data to study how the organizational structure of banks impacts small business lending. We find that decentralized banks—where branch managers have greater autonomy over lending decisions—give larger View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2024
- News
Conducting Business
In 2015 I moved from New York City to Madison, Connecticut, where I met, quite by chance, Ginny Vancil and her brother, Richard. I thought, How many Vancils can there be in the world? I asked if they knew Richard “Dick” Vancil, who was my first professor for my first... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
COO and Loan Fund president, says a few words as well. Jones highlights BCC’s role as an intermediary lender between Citizens Bank and the Somerville Community Corporation and mentions another BCC project in... View Details