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- 14 Nov 2024
- News
How the Insurance Industry Can Weather the Storms
talk about how Liberty actually can support mitigation and adaptation and what that looks like in real terms. Tim Sweeney: We have risk engineers on staff. And so even when new construction projects are happening now, we lend our risk... View Details
- 19 May 2022
- News
Leading to Salvation
with them long enough (because they weren’t very well-managed), if you’ll stay with them long enough, we’ll do it. So what I did is I got MEDA, the Metropolitan Economic Development Association, to lend them money to pay their taxes. And... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar
the "disaggregation" of financial services. "For example," he said, "mutual funds rather than banks now provide many types of services." The cumulative effect on households is that individuals must now make major financial decisions... View Details
Keywords: Elizabeth McNair
- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
institutions don't want to burden themselves with so many students who have financial needs. DM: One of the other recommendations you give is to put money in Black-owned banks. Part of the rationale, of course, there is that Black-owned View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
Case Study: Let’s Dance
board chairman role to begin working on a related venture, a mutual bank to support lending to local food and farming businesses.) The changes slashed errors in half and doubled their packing speed.... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Big Business of Little Loans
Funding Circle, among others. It was a wide circle. These startups are part of a new ecosystem filling the void left by traditional banks that don’t want to lend to small businesses because they are too... View Details
Keywords: Nancy Miller
- 01 Mar 2015
- News
A Boomtown's Echo
issues that came out of that bust. So they’re almost too conservative. They’re not investing in infrastructure as much as they could or should. I’ve literally called banks while working on real estate development projects, and they’re... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Charles Stoddard (MBA 1969)
returning home to work in the family bank and, ultimately, found his own — Grand Bank in Grand Rapid. Stoddard sold Grand Bank in 2002, and he has since launched Grand Angels,... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
INK: Big News for Small Business
What would this golden age look like? Imagine if small businesses had access to AI-enabled insights—picture a dashboard informed by a business’s bank accounts, payment systems, taxes, and accounting software. The business owner could see... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
Change of Pace
policy and the expression of faith in public life. He will also lend his expertise to nuts-and-bolts issues, such as assessing the financial risks involved in the diocese’s possible support for a housing project in the West View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
subprime crisis. “It’s hard to overstate the dramatic buildup in subprime lending by mid-decade,” he said. “Subprime lending represented a minimal share of home mortgages in the 1990s. As recently as 2001,... View Details
- 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
- 01 Jun 2014
- News
School Ties
the National Math and Science Initiative to share its successful teacher development and advanced placement initiatives with hundreds of partners across the country. Formulating strategy. Concerned about the quality of his state's schools, the chairman of a local... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Hollywood Story
Epstein’s heart, she had a hands-on role in day-to-day production work. As both coproducer and writer, she spent every day on the set in Vancouver, British Columbia, attending to the details that lend authenticity. The film is expected to... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
glaring trade imbalances, and soaring political risk, particularly in the economically crucial, oil-exporting regions of the world. The key to this seeming paradox lay in China. Chongqing, on the undulating banks of the mighty earth-brown... View Details
- 01 Jan 2005
- News
Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975
the board of WWB—a role that influenced the way she formulated her strategy at the World Bank. "I applied what I was learning in the young WWB to create a network for learning and change at the Bank in areas such as small enterprise View Details
- 01 Sep 2014
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014
gain perspective; and reframe the question to open up new possibilities. Molly Waldo! A Young Man's First Voyage to the Grand Banks of Newfoundland, Adapted from the Stories of Marblehead Fishermen of the 1800s by Priscilla L. Moulton and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2008
- News
Greed, Gullibility, and Optimism
RETSINAS: Too many people began to regard their homes as a guaranteed high-return investment. We just got carried away,” observes Nicolas Retsinas, a lecturer in real estate at HBS, whose distinguished career in housing, community development, and View Details
- 01 Dec 1997
- News
"Economists are puzzle solvers..."
same way. A home mortgage is a simple example of how our work is commonly applied. Most mortgages allow the homeowner the option to prepay the mortgage before its term is up. That option to prepay has a value, and banks need to know how... View Details
- 04 Nov 2016
- News
The Competitiveness of Lost Causes
more tools to help countries with dire economic problems. “I can offer not only strategic and logistical coaching, but also financing to put plans in motion. In a place like Haiti, the ability to lend money and the execution capacity to... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg