Lending - Publications - Faculty & Research

07 May 2020
News

Ensuring Student Equity

volunteers who pick up materials from NCCP’s office to assemble learning packets at home, then bring back the completed packets for the nonprofit to distribute to families. “We created a Volunteer from Home program that allows individuals to View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

17 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Becoming the Next Real Estate Mogul

into an integrated real estate financial advisory firm," he said. The 1999 sale of Boston Financial's $8 billion Real Estate Institutional Advisory Practice to the Lend Lease Corporation was extremely successful from a financial... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Construction; Real Estate

15 Nov 2018
Blog Post

Valuing an MBA: Beyond Dollars and “Sense"

challenges. While case discussions lend themselves to abstracting away general principles, the value of engagement with business issues of all shapes and sizes can’t be overstated. Similarly, personal traits and individual excellence... View Details

08 Jan 2020
Blog Post

Know Your Audience - Recruiting HBS Students for Private Equity

lends itself well to a large classroom-based presentation and Q&A. She adds, “Looking at attendance over the past two years, Private Equity consistently sees the highest numbers across industries.” Jonathan also notes, “For Private... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital / Private Equity

28 Sep 2009
Research & Ideas

Improving Accountability at the World Bank

other hand, the Bank has no required procedures for developing policy, and no clear minimum standards for soliciting or incorporating public inputs in its lending operations. As a result, public participation is usually ad hoc and... View Details

Keywords: by Alnoor Ebrahim

25 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Walking Away from a $3 Billion Deal

billion. Is this a problem? In the case, Yudkoff describes his belief that ABRY's success is due in part to its culture and emphasis on service. He details how the firm has distinguished itself over the years through its industry knowledge, View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services

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

Keywords: by Nicolas P. Retsinas; Banking; Construction; Real Estate

01 Oct 2001
News

New Economy Notables: Scott D. Cook

once sold holdings in their retirement accounts to lend me money to keep the doors open. All seven hundred employees at the meeting rose to give my parents a standing ovation. View Details

Keywords: Young, Susan; Computer Systems Design and Related Services; Professional Services

23 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

How Countries Use Financial Policy to Fight COVID-19

interactive database tracking 16 categories of policies announced in each country, from rate cuts and lending to quantitative easing, the large-scale asset purchases and balance sheet expansion by central banks. The database also includes... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

29 Jan 2019
News

Gloria Steinem and Diane Paulus Take Center Stage

Ademosu, (GMP 14, 2013), Managing Director and CEO of Credit Direct Limited. Ademosu led the team that launched Credit Direct Limited, the first and largest non-bank structured consumer lending business in Nigeria. Since its inception in... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

27 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments

didn't happen. Big companies with cash didn't spend it. Banks with cash didn't lend it. Small businesses didn't attract capital and thus didn't help reduce unemployment. Europeans were paralyzed by debt crises and transportation shutdowns... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

15 Feb 2012
Op-Ed

Occupy Wall Street Protestors Have a Point

capital and an end to predatory lending practices? Organizations lament sky-rocketing health care costs, but why is there such a limited effort to organize preventative care? Cutting Medicare will not stop the epidemic of obesity. The... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph L. Bower, Herman B. Leonard & Lynn S. Paine

Web

Breaking Down the Barriers - The High Art of Photographic Advertising - Baker Library | Bloomberg Center

commerce and consumption.” 16 Recognizing his reputation as an extraordinary portraitist and the prestige his name could lend to commercial work, the J. Walter Thompson Advertising Agency hired Steichen in 1923, the same year he became... View Details

12 May 2016
News

Food Rescue Is on a Mission

being discarded everywhere, particularly at the local Prahran market where they regularly shopped, so he researched the issue, then reached out to lend a hand. With their three young kids, the Carsons filled the back of their Volvo... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

07 Aug 2019
Research & Ideas

Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits

Kerr: This is important because it means that these are not loans that were taken out to pay for the GQ itself. These are loans in the private sector alongside the roads that are developing. Nanda: This allowed us to understand what was happening to View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Construction

20 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways

powerful economic incentive to lend to companies in Chapter 11. (Although American did not need such debtor-in-possession financing, United and Delta together raised almost $3.5 billion in DIP financing in their bankruptcies.) Chapter 11... View Details

Keywords: Re: Rosabeth M. Kanter & Stuart C. Gilson; Air Transportation

19 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Political Turmoil and Mexico’s Economy

maintained his control in part by creating a banking system that functioned more as a kind of investment club, Maurer says. Local businessmen would agree to lend each other money to finance one another's companies, while also selling... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

22 Dec 2016
Op-Ed

The Small Business Administration is a Model for How to Drive Economic Growth

unlock capital to small businesses at a time when most banks had stopped lending to small businesses altogether. In fact, SBA’s guarantee brought many banks back to small business lending, helping resuscitate this critical sector of our... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills

Web

Africa - Global Activities 2021

recipients were chosen (see below) and three previous recipients had their funding extended. Moni Alli (MBA 2021) , founder of Front Edge, a lending platform in Lagos, Nigeria, that provides access to affordable working capital solutions.... View Details

07 Sep 2011
First Look

First Look: Sept. 7

capitalism. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2011/09/global-capitalism-at-risk-what-are-you-doing-about-it/ar/1 A Darker Side to Decentralized Banks: Market Power and Credit Rationing in SME Lending Authors:Rodrigo Canales and Ramana... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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