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  • 01 Feb 1999
  • News

Too Much of a Good Thing?

booming. Banks and companies, eager for a piece of the action, invest heavily in production capability. Not surprisingly, a market can soon become saturated with too much product; consequently, demand drops, revenues slow to a trickle,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 15 Sep 2015
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Easing the Costs of Saving a Child

Little Feet in 2008. Intended to be a family’s last step in its adoption journey, Pathways, funded by Taylor and a group of donors, is essentially a private, interest-free, nonprofit bank providing loans of... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
  • 22 Feb 2022
  • News

Savings and Loam

all millennials park their money at the three largest banks. It’s a disconnect that he finds “viscerally aggravating,” given that those institutions have bankrolled the fossil-fuel industry—and, with it, the carbon emissions that are underpinning climate change. Since... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
  • 01 Dec 2019
  • News

Capitalizing the Corner Shop

simplified the application process, asking business owners for only a bank statement as part of their mobile-based loan application, and delivering funds to successful applicants within 48 hours. “The joke... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
  • 01 Dec 2010
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Noted & Quoted

bank capital on loans is too small to have a big impact on growth.” — HBS professor DAVID SCHARFSTEIN and Harvard economics professor Jeremy Stein respond to banking industry... View Details
Keywords: Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance
  • 01 Sep 2018
  • News

After the Fall

Lovett-Learned Professor of Business Administration In mid-2007, corporate lending began to decrease—a trend that accelerated during the banking panic in the fall of 2008, with new loans to large borrowers... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers; illustration by Dan Bejar; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank
  • 01 Dec 2015
  • News

Truth in Lending

Lab. And that may just be the answer to developing a strong small-business sector in emerging markets. In more developed markets, a bank can make loan decisions based on credit scores, that three-digit... View Details
Keywords: April White
  • 01 Dec 2019
  • News

INK: Big News for Small Business

The earliest small business loan on record dates back to Mesopotamia, when a royal baker borrowed capital—suggesting that small-business owners have been wrestling with access to capital literally since the dawn of civilization, says... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • 24 Mar 2014
  • News

Lender Earnest Opens in Boston with New Approach

Keywords: startups
  • 01 May 2013
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Celeste A. Guth, MBA 1986

Celeste Guth vividly recalls the day she received her acceptance letter to HBS. “When I opened the admissions packet, I was thrilled beyond belief,” shares Guth, a partner with global responsibility for the Financial Institutions group in Goldman Sach’s Investment... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2009
  • News

An Action Plan for Economic Recovery

rationale. For instance, the government bailed out Bear Stearns, but why not Lehman Brothers? Ironically, Congress in 1991 passed a statute establishing specific procedures (including stating a rationale) to be followed before a bank... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance
  • 22 Feb 2022
  • News

An Rx for Small Business Recovery

PPP’s forgivable loans were a lifeline for many small businesses. But banks often prioritized larger, established clients, while the smallest and most vulnerable businesses had trouble accessing funds.... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
  • 01 Dec 2008
  • News

No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis

percent. “In 2004 and 2005, as these subprime loans started to emerge, it really wasn’t a particular problem because of the lag effect. People who couldn’t pay off these mortgages with toxic terms and exploding payment schedules figured,... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson;Martha Lagace; deregulation; moral hazard; the middle class; Finance
  • 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
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
  • 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
Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Hospitals; Health, Social Assistance
  • 01 Jun 2015
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Rebooting Europe

flow of more venture capital to EU startups. (Currently, 70 to 80 percent of EU businesses rely on bank loans for funding, whereas in the United States that number is closer to 30 percent. The fund,... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos; European Union; Government; Health, Social Assistance
  • 01 Jan 2005
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Nancy M. Barry, MBA 1975

microfinance institutions and banks in developing countries that make small loans to low-income women-and in some instances, men-so that they can build their own business and move beyond poverty. A customer... View Details
  • 24 Mar 2023
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Exploring Talent Markets; Aid for Turkey

the bank provided interest-free loans and postponed credit card payments. Now, ING in Turkey, with $100 million Euros donated by the ING community of banks globally, will work... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 01 Apr 1998
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Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International

short-term business loans to the self-employed poor. Chu, a native of China, grew up in Montevideo, Uruguay. After graduating from Dartmouth and HBS, he held senior management positions with several firms, including The Boston Consulting... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2024
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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
Keywords: Michael Farmer (MBA 1971); illustration by Lucinda Rogers; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
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