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- 01 Oct 2001
- News
Margaret Hanson Costan: A Whole New World
One afternoon in 1997, while World Bank senior financial analyst Margaret Hanson Costan was in Paris discussing donations to the Bank, her husband, Jay, got a phone call. The social worker with whom they had been working to adopt a baby... View Details
Keywords: Young, Susan
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Naina Lal Kidwai
more familiar legal and judiciary system, better protection for intellectual property, and strong English language and engineering skills. The Indian banking system is improving and has a much lower percentage of nonperforming View Details
- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
proceeds were used to repay CPP receipts without jeopardizing loan growth. Banks that received CPP funds prior to the passage of the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
standard deviation increase in the divergence increases the average loan spread by approximately 18%, or 35 basis points. The effect of the excess control rights on the cost of bank debt is more pronounced... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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
- 01 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 1
Credit Supply: Firm Level Evidence By: Ivashina, Victoria, and Bo Becker Abstract—Theory predicts that there is a close link between bank credit supply and the evolution of the business cycle. Yet fluctuations in bank-loan supply have... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
Stanley’s experience is typical of other investment banks at the time. “We got into the investing side of the business primarily because the opportunity was there to buy nonperforming loan portfolios from... View Details
- 26 Jan 2021
- Research & Ideas
A New Way to Cut Credit Card Debt: Pay Off One Purchase at a Time
Bush, senior manager at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia; and Zoë Chance, assistant professor of marketing at Yale School of Management. Putting ‘repayment-by-purchase’ to the test A field experiment conducted with the Commonwealth... View Details
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
Black-owned banks go to Black people. We know that, Carver Bank in New York, for example, 80 percent of their commercial loans or business loans... View Details
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
such as certificates of deposit and consumer loans, but it will not be allowed to inspect most banks, since they are already examined by the banking agencies. At the same time, the CFPC's jurisdiction was narrowed to exclude many... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 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
- 22 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Not Your Father’s State-Run Capitalism
different types of minority stakes, from partially privatized firms, to those with minority investments by state-holding companies, to those receiving favorable loans from state-owned banks What they found... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 07 Sep 2020
- Research & Ideas
How to Help Small Businesses Survive COVID's Next Phase
through a few months, when normalcy would resume. The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP)—government-funded forgivable loans designed to help businesses pay their employees—would help them weather the storm. Six months later, there’s still... View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
building. Her banker, however, refused to loan her all the money she needed. That should not have come as a surprise given that her school’s enrollment would fill only three of the twelve floors, and Russo had no plans to sublet the rest... View Details
- 05 Nov 2024
- Book
Building the Road to 'Small Business Utopia' with AI and Fintech
But what if technology had the power to make a small business owner significantly wiser about their cash flow, and a lender wiser as well? What if new loan products and services made it easier to create what one investor calls a “truth... View Details
- 04 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 4
point out that they may benefit politically connected capitalists or bail out inefficient firms. We study the effect of loans and equity investments of the Brazilian National Development Bank (BNDES) and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- May 2007 (Revised January 2011)
- Case
Bankinter: Deploying the Mortgage Simulator to the Branches
Describes how Bankinter, a mid-sized Spanish bank, altered the information set available to its customer-facing employees. In the spring of 2003, Bankinter introduced an Excel-based program called the Mortgage Simulator that helped branch managers calculate the price... View Details
Keywords: Customer Focus and Relationships; Customer Value and Value Chain; Banks and Banking; Mortgages; Employees; Motivation and Incentives; Spain
Martinez-Jerez, Francisco de Asis, and Katherine Miller. "Bankinter: Deploying the Mortgage Simulator to the Branches." Harvard Business School Case 107-070, May 2007. (Revised January 2011.)
- 17 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 17
economists and other social scientists as they guide our most important personal and societal decisions. Bank Lending During the Financial Crisis of 2008 Authors:Victoria Ivashina and David S. Scharfstein Publication:Journal of Financial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Dec 2007
- First Look
First Look: December 18, 2007
Banking, and Loan Repayment Authors:Martin Brown and Christian Zehnder Periodical:Journal of Money, Credit and Banking 38, no. 8 (December 2007) Abstract How does information sharing between lenders affect... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 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