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- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
Capital Management was evaluating the purchase of a pool of U.S. residential mortgages. The firm had formed an investment vehicle to acquire troubled residential mortgages from banks and other motivated sellers. The idea was to purchase... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Plight of the Global Poor
Indeed, the 2006 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Muhammad Yunus and the microcredit Grameen Bank he founded in Bangladesh more than two decades ago. With interest rates ranging from zero to 20 percent, Grameen’s average View Details
- 10 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 10
prices (values?) fell, ship owners began to default on loans and new purchase contracts while banks holding loans secured by ships faced the possibility of increasing defaults... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control
Green Bonds, written with Daniel Bergstresser of Brandeis University and Jeffrey Wurgler of NYU’s Stern School of Business. While green bonds have been issued by banks and corporations as well, the researchers focused on municipal bonds,... View Details
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51989 forthcoming Review of Financial Studies The Political Economy of Financial Innovation: Evidence from Local Governments By: Vallée, Boris, and Christophe Perignon Abstract—We examine the toxic View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
rates for loans in the banking system would decline to single digits. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=307107 Multifactor Models Harvard Business School... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jan 2004
- News
Minoru Makihara, 75th AMP, 1977
depended on bank loans instead of equity, creating the illusion that money was in infinite supply. That led Mitsubishi and other Japanese companies to make bad investments. I decided we should do something... View Details
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=709488 Investing in Early Learning as Economic Development at the Minneapolis Federal Reserve Bank Harvard Business School Case 309-090 In his role as... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
A Healthy Profit
microfinance into an industry. The distinction is important, he argues. While foundations, governments, and NGOs all play significant roles in pioneering social-good organizations, such funding can never equal the dimensions of the challenge. When View Details
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
dollars. This creates a direct connection between U.S. monetary policy and EME credit cycles. We estimate that over a typical U.S. monetary easing cycle, EME borrowers experience a 32-percentage-point greater increase in the volume of View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 1
risk-management actions. Purchase this supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/111052-PDF-ENG The Pecora Hearings David A. Moss, Cole Bolton, and Eugene KintgenHarvard Business School Case 711-046 In 1932, in the depths of the Great Depression, the Senate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Oct 2000
- Research & Ideas
Building a Powerful Prestige Brand
consumers had to pay for merchandise with cash. This, the entrepreneur believed, precluded a consumer from making a spontaneous purchase. In the late 1940s, banks did not usually provide loans for consumer... View Details
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
Structure in Small-Scale Finance Authors:Carpena, Fenella, Shawn Cole, Jeremy Shapiro, and Bilal Zia Publication:The World Bank Economic Review Abstract Microfinance, the provision of small individual and business loans, has experienced... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Profile
Lara Hodgson
growing to death.” She thought to herself, “I’m not a banker. Why in the world is the very thing I worked so hard for, which was to get large orders from large companies and grow my business; why is that going to be what kills me? I’m basically stuck being... View Details
- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
typically banks and insurance companies - in return for their upfront capital." Designed to attract private investment, the program is a proven success with more capital chasing it than can currently be accommodated. Supporters are... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
- 03 Apr 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54301 On the Direct and Indirect Real Effects of Credit Supply Shocks By: Alfaro, Laura, Manuel García-Santana, and Enrique Moral-Benito Abstract—We consider the real effects of bank lending... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
founder and CEO of Ribbon Home, had to decide on the next steps for the company. Ribbon had introduced a program that backs consumers with cash offers without creating a loan structure in order to help them compete with iBuyers, such as... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
information in lending decisions leads to worse credit outcomes when loan officers are busy or before weekends and national holidays; when loan officers had earlier non-banking and, in particular,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Web
Preface - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
formed much of the collection. Mr. Brunner's love of banking history led him to acquire prints on all aspects of money's influence on mankind. Whether it was a humorous nineteenth century French lithograph of a self satisfied speculator... View Details
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
individuals. Financial inclusion could potentially help these individuals by increasing financial literacy, building credit records, improving savings rates, providing access to loans and other financial products, and, in general, by... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne