community banking - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Aug 2019
Blog Post

Know Your Audience: Recruiting HBS Students for Investment Banking

Director and Career Coach Renee Pappastratis – Recruiting Relations Manager Kurt and Renee work closely with students interested in banking and assist investment banks with their recruiting strategy. They... View Details

January 2001
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World Bank and Knowledge Management, The: The Case of the Urban Services Thematic Group

By: William E. Fulmer and W. Earl Sasser

The World Bank has implemented a knowledge management initiative. One of its communities of practice is to take the lead in a $50 billion commitment to address urban slums. The community of practice is struggling with its mission and how knowledge management can help. View Details

Keywords: Urban Development; Knowledge Management; Problems and Challenges; Financial Services Industry

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08 Nov 2019
Blog Post

Staying Connected to the Harvard Veterans Community After HBS

HBS is home to veterans of all branches of the US Military, as well as foreign militaries. Veterans bring a variety of unique and valuable skills to the HBS community and have many opportunities not only to connect with fellow veterans... View Details

05 Jun 2015
News

How Banking Analysts’ Biases Benefit Everyone Except Investors

18 Jul 2018
News

Ensuring HBS Remains a Dynamic Community

together,” she remembers. That interest led her to study finance and accounting at the University of Pennsylvania. After college, she joined Morgan Stanley as an analyst. “I found investment banking to be exciting and fast-paced,” says... View Details

2007
Working Paper

Accountability in Complex Organizations: World Bank Responses to Civil Society

By: Alnoor Ebrahim and Steve Herz

Civil society actors have been pushing for greater accountability of the World Bank for at least three decades. This paper outlines the range of accountability mechanisms currently in place at the World Bank along four basic levels: (1) staff, (2) project, (3) policy,... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Accountability; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Compensation and Benefits; Business and Community Relations; Social Enterprise; Motivation and Incentives

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15 Feb 2019
News

Small banks you've never heard of are quietly enabling the tech takeover of the financial industry

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Dissertation topic: The invisible hand and the good of communities: How institutional logics matter in local banks

How do individuals’ backgrounds and identities influence the strategies and success of newly founded ventures? In my dissertation, I explore the impact on local bank startups of their founders’ community and financial identities. Those identities have... View Details

09 Mar 2021
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Community Colleges as Engines of Economic Opportunity

Sara Enright (MBA 2004) speaks with students at the Community College of Rhode Island. Courtesy Sara Enright When former Rhode Island Governor Gina M. Raimondo came into office in 2015, she included in her plans to make the state more... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

2019
Interviews

Interview with Kira Hudson Banks on "Corageous Self Awareness for Social Change"

24 Apr 2014
News

Making community involvement a part of daily business

Margaret Preston (MBA 1983) talks about being involved in community life throughout her career in investment banking, wealth management, and entrepreneurship. (Published April 2014) View Details

21 Sep 2021
Cold Call Podcast

Why JPMorgan Chase Is Committed to Improving Racial Equity in Banking

Keywords: Re: Joseph L. Bower; Banking; Banking

26 Sep 2019
News

Harvard Business School Online and The Greater Boston Food Bank Team Up to End Hunger

14 Oct 2014
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Banking on social impact by brokering public-private partnerships

Maureen Harrington (MBA 2001), director of the International Development Group of Standard Bank, describes the role of a traditional bank in providing funding to social impact projects in developing countries, including supporting... View Details

14 Aug 2019
News

Fintech on Main Street: How small businesses are banking on new technology

21 May 2018
News

Community Partners Delivers “Expert Goodness” to the Bay Area

Clubs News Clubs News Since its launch in 1986, the HBS Association of Northern California’s Community Partners (HBSCP) program has deployed the expertise of more than 1,000 alumni volunteers to enhance the impacts of hundreds of Bay Area... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

18 May 2022
News

Are Banks the ‘Bad Guys’? Overdraft Fees Are Crushing Low-Income Customers

July 2012 (Revised August 2012)
Case

Friend Bank: The Time for Hope (Abridged)

By: Clayton Rose and Aldo Sesia

In 2010, Friend Bank was entering the fifth year of Hope Harris Johnson's ambitious 20-year growth plan to transform her family's one-branch community bank into an institution with a substantial presence in southeastern Alabama. Harris Johnson was pleased, so far, with... View Details

Keywords: Banking; Family Business; Strategy And Execution; Banks and Banking; Family Ownership; Financial Institutions; Strategy; Banking Industry; United States; Alabama

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March 2023 (Revised May 2023)
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Tribal Councils Investment Group of Manitoba Ltd.

By: David L. Ager

In the Fall of 2014, Heather Berthelette, the recently appointed COO of Tribal Councils Investment Group of Manitoba Ltd. (TCIG), was preparing a recommendation to the Board of Directors about whether to dissolve the company and return any remaining funds to the seven... View Details

Keywords: Indigenous Communities; Corporate Governance; Governing and Advisory Boards; Social Enterprise; Economic Growth; Investment Banking; Canada

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