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  • 13 Dec 2016
  • First Look

December 13, 2016

the banking sector, which is one reason for the disproportionately high impact on America’s small businesses, which tend to be heavily credit dependent. While some aspects of the economy have recovered in the years since, small businesses... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 20 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

bonds generates a crowding out of corporate lending. For a given domestic firm, new debt is less likely to be a loan—i.e., the loan supply contracts—when local banks have purchased more domestic sovereign... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jan 2009
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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
  • 2014
  • Discussion Paper

The Promise of Microfinance and Women's Empowerment: What Does the Evidence Say?

By: Dina D. Pomeranz
The microfinance revolution has transformed access to financial services for low-income populations worldwide. As a result, it has become one of the most talked-about innovations in global development in recent decades. However, its expansion has not been without... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship In Emerging Markets; Entrepreneurship; Women's Empowerment; Entrepreneurs; Saving; Savings; Credit; Credit Supply; Insurance; Development Economics; Development Finance; Behavioral Economics; Gender; Microfinance; Social Entrepreneurship; Developing Countries and Economies; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Latin America; Kenya; Chile; India; Asia; Africa
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  • 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
Keywords: by Nancy F. Koehn; Beauty & Cosmetics; Consumer Products; Retail
  • 31 Mar 2009
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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
  • 08 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 8

Almandoz Abstract—A case study is presented on business ethics and bank management. The situation facing the president of a community bank established to operate as a green business and to consider ethical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Apr 2007
  • Research & Ideas

The Business of Global Poverty

Bank he founded in Bangladesh more than two decades ago. With interest rates ranging from zero to 20 percent, Grameen's average loan (no collateral required) is $200. Its repayment rate is about 98 percent.... View Details
Keywords: by Garry Emmons
  • 26 Feb 2019
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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 Nov 2011
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 1

repatriated earnings from foreign affiliates exceeded net capital investments by $1.1 trillion in 2010 dollars; and from 1950 to 2010, repatriated earnings and net interest from foreign affiliates exceeded net equity investments and loans... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • May 2025 (Revised June 2025)
  • Background Note

Social Enterprise in Latin America

By: Brian L. Trelstad and Karina Souza
This research note provides an overview of the social enterprise ecosystem in Latin America, exploring current dynamics across key markets, including country-specific insights on Brazil, Mexico, Argentina, Colombia, Chile, and Central America. In a region characterized... View Details
Keywords: Impact Investing; Developing Countries and Economies; Social Entrepreneurship; Emerging Markets; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Mission and Purpose; Ownership; Social Enterprise; Business Strategy; Equality and Inequality; Microfinance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry; Information Technology Industry; Latin America; Brazil; Mexico; Argentina; Colombia; Chile; Guatemala; Central America; Peru; Uruguay
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  • 15 Jan 2013
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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
  • 13 Mar 2018
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March 13, 2018

Wachovia, a top U.S. bank, less than three months after becoming its CEO. Wachovia’s exposure to risky home loans led depositors and creditors to flee the bank on Friday, September 26, after the FDIC seized... 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
  • 26 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019

case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/819038-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 516-005 BancoSol and Microfinance in Bolivia BancoSol, a microfinance bank headquartered in La Paz, Bolivia, was forced to adjust its lending strategy and... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 Apr 2018
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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
  • 29 Jan 2019
  • Research & Ideas

'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control

Municipalities have been selling bonds to pay for public works projects—fire stations, parking garages,sewage treatment systems—for 200 years. It’s only in the past decade or so, however, that they’ve been selling them with an extra perk: helping the environment. In... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Energy; Utilities; Construction; Green Technology; Public Administration
  • 01 Dec 2008
  • News

Seth Klarman

in knowing whether this plan will solve it. The bailout does almost nothing to solve the specific problem of declining housing prices. If the government really wants to tackle that problem, making capital available so that banks can make... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance
  • 16 Apr 2019
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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