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Bank Risk-Taking and the Real Economy: Evidence from the Housing Boom and Its Aftermath

By: Antonio Falato, Giovanni Favara and David Scharfstein

We present evidence that pressure to maximize short-term stock prices and earnings leads banks to increase risk. We start by showing that banks increase risk when they transition from private to public ownership through a public listing or an acquisition. The increase... View Details

Keywords: Ownership Type; Risk and Uncertainty; Financial Markets; Banks and Banking; Transition; Price

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September 1995
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Chemical Bank Lotus Notes Demonstration Software: Macintosh Version

By: Lynda M. Applegate

Keywords: Applications and Software; Digital Platforms; Banking Industry

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September 1995
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Chemical Bank Lotus Notes Demonstration Software: Windows Version

By: Lynda M. Applegate

Keywords: Applications and Software; Digital Platforms; Banking Industry

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February 2005 (Revised July 2005)
Case

Allianz (B): Integrating an Insurer and a Bank

By: Joseph L. Bower, Marc L. Bertoneche, Anders Sjoman and Sonja Ellingson Hout

Supplements the (A) case. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details

Keywords: Banking Industry; Germany

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The Contingent Nature of Public Policy and the Growth of U.S. Commercial Banking

By: Christopher Marquis and Zhi Huang

That public policy affects organizational behaviors is well accepted, but less explored is how these effects may depend on other external environmental factors. We investigate how policy is a necessary, but not sufficient, condition to understand the growth of... View Details

Keywords: Policy; Organizational Culture; Strategy; Commercial Banking; Growth and Development Strategy; United States

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October 5, 2009
Editorial

The World Bank Must Fix Its Business Model

By: Alnoor Ebrahim

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Business Model

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06 Aug 2015
News

Is Investment Banking Losing Its Appeal to MBAs?

December 2010
Teaching Note

The Export-Import Bank of the United States (TN)

By: C. Fritz Foley and Matthew Johnson

Teaching Note for 211032. View Details

Keywords: Groups and Teams; Financing and Loans; Sales; Problems and Challenges; Credit; Markets; Innovation and Invention; Organizational Structure; Value; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; United States; United Arab Emirates

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July 1993 (Revised November 1993)
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European Bank for Reconstruction and Development: Marketing Strategy for the Debut Bond Offering

By: Jeffrey F. Rayport

The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development, the first supranational financial institution of the post-Cold War era, is planning its debut in the international capital markets through a bond issuance of $500 million. The bank must determine its marketing... View Details

Keywords: Bonds; Marketing Strategy; Capital Markets; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; Europe

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March 1983 (Revised January 1984)
Teaching Note

Metropolitan National Bank (A) and (B), Teaching Note

By: F. Warren McFarlan

Keywords: Banking Industry

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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