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By: Mark L. Egan
When considering how households make investment decisions, Professor Egan became intrigued by the question, “What makes a bank ‘special’ when compared to other lending institutions?” Focusing on empirical industrial organization with applications to finance and... View Details
Keywords: Banking; Financial Advisors; Consumer Finance; Personal Finance; Corporate Finance
  • July 2016 (Revised January 2017)
  • Case

Banking on Change: Aligning Culture and Compensation at Morgan Stanley

By: Malcolm S. Salter
This case study was prepared as part of a research project on Culture, Conduct, and Governance in Financial Firms. The objective of this project is to compare and contrast the efforts of U.S. and European banks to induce changes in organization culture in the aftermath... View Details
Keywords: Business or Company Management; Corporate Accountability; Ethics; Organizational Culture; Corporate Governance; Banks and Banking; United States; Europe
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  • May 2011
  • Article

Institutional Stock Trading on Loan Market Information

By: Victoria Ivashina and Zheng Sun
Over the past decade, one of the most important developments in the corporate loan market has been the increasing participation of institutional investors in lending syndicates. As lenders, institutional investors routinely receive private information about borrowers.... View Details
Keywords: Stocks; Financing and Loans; Negotiation; Investment Portfolio; Investment Return
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  • 12 Dec 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Using the Law to Strategic Advantage

Most managers think the legal department is that office down the hall where they go to keep out of trouble or write a binding patent agreement. And that's shortsighted, says Harvard Business School professor Constance Bagley. A company that makes proactive use of the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Legal Services
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Credit Supply Shocks, Network Effects, and the Real Economy

By: Laura Alfaro
We consider the real effects of bank lending shocks and how they permeate the economy through buyer-supplier linkages. We combine administrative data on all firms in Spain with a matched bank-firm-loan dataset with information on the universe of corporate loans for... View Details
  • September 2022 (Revised January 2023)
  • Case

York Capital CLOs and WorldStrides International

By: Victoria Ivashina and William Vrattos
The case follows the debt restructuring of WorldStrides International, a travel program provider in the education market, after the onset of COVID-19. The pandemic severely impacted the travel industry, creating challenges for many companies like WorldStrides, which... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Debt Restructuring; CLO; Compliance; Debt Securities; Financing and Loans; Decision Making; Travel Industry; Education Industry
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Having grown up in a developing country, Professor Sikochi’s research focus is driven by a desire to understand how capital flows to firms and entrepreneurs with the ultimate goal to help build capital markets in the developing economies. To this end, he conducts... View Details

  • 06 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55194 Large Banks and Small Firm Lending By: Bord, Vitaly, Victoria Ivashina, and Ryan D. Taliaferro Abstract—We show that since 2007, there was a large and persistent shift in the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • October 2010 (Revised November 2010)
  • Case

YES BANK: Mainstreaming Development into Indian Banking

By: Michael Chu and Namrata Arora
YES BANK, founded in 2003 and highly successful, has consistently been profitable meeting the Indian government's Priority Sector Lending (PSL) requirements, unlike virtually all other private sector banks, which view PSL activity as a necessary but loss-making part of... View Details
Keywords: Development Economics; Private Equity; Microfinance; Investment; Governing and Advisory Boards; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Expansion; Banking Industry; India
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  • 06 Jun 2013
  • Working Paper Summaries

Do Strict Capital Requirements Raise the Cost of Capital? Banking Regulation and the Low Risk Anomaly

Keywords: by Malcolm Baker & Jeffrey Wurgler; Banking; Financial Services
  • 25 Mar 2013
  • Research & Ideas

How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy

truth is anything but— "it's about reviving companies," says Gilson, author of the 2010 book Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring: Case Studies in Bankruptcies, Buyouts, and Breakups . Reviving The Economy Taking a... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Financial Services
  • April 2020
  • Case

The Board's Role in Refocusing Bahrain Development Bank

By: Paul M. Healy and Alpana Thapar
In March 2016, Bahrain Development Bank’s (BDB) existing board term came to an end and Khalid Al Rumaihi was appointed the new chairman. Determining a need for change, he immediately overhauled the board and replaced BDB’s long-standing CEO. The new board quickly... View Details
Keywords: Board Of Directors; Governing and Advisory Boards; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Banking Industry; Bahrain
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  • 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15

  PublicationsThe Future of Organization Design Authors:Baldwin, Carliss Y. Publication:Journal of Organization Design Abstract The modern corporation has long been the central focus of the field of organization design. Such firms can be... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jun 2008
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First Look: June 17, 2008

are impacted most by regulation are those measuring working status, social networks, business skills, and attitudes toward risk. Download the paper from SSRN ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w14012 Bank Structure and the Terms of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 16

shocks and crime is similar to the observed relationship between rainfall shocks and crime. Our results thus identify a causal effect of poverty on crime. They also lend credence to a large literature on the effects of weather shocks on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24

and discrepancies can emerge as a result. Effective Auditing for Corporates provides you with proactive advice to help you safeguard core value within a corporation and to ensure that auditing processes and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Sep 2016
  • Research & Ideas

What Brands Can Do to Monitor Factory Conditions of Suppliers

accuracy of audits. The authors note several reasons why this might be the case: Sociology studies have found that women tend to be better at both perceiving and integrating facts they observe, lending them a greater ability to notice... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 20 Jan 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Here’s How Businessman Trump Is Likely to Approach the Presidency

perspectives might the wealthy businessman draw on as he transitions from CEO to commander in chief? To get a better sense of the months ahead, The Gazette asked Harvard Business School (HBS) faculty members how Trump’s nearly 50 years of experience in building a... View Details
Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese
  • 26 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 26

order to achieve higher yields-is believed to be an important factor contributing to the credit cycle. This paper analyses this phenomenon in the corporate bond market. Specifically, we show evidence for reaching for yield among insurance... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Finance Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students 2024 Working Paper Corporate Actions as Moral Issues By: Zwetelina Iliewa, Elisabeth Kempf and Oliver Spalt We study how a representative sample... View Details