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  • 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
  • 02 Sep 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Foreign Multinationals in the U.S.: A Rocky Road

highly attractive host economy over the following decade. There are major acquisition opportunities in, for example, the fragmented U.S. banking sector, and the probable further weakening of the dollar over the medium term will make U.S.... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston & Martha Lagace
  • 10 Mar 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Counting Up the Effects of Sarbanes-Oxley

Widely deemed the most important piece of security legislation since formation of the Securities and Exchange Commission in 1934, the landmark Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002 was born into a climate still reeling from the burst of the high-tech bubble and fraud scandals at... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Banking; Banking
  • February 2008 (Revised July 2008)
  • Case

Banco Compartamos: Life after the IPO

By: Michael Chu and Regina Garcia Cuellar
After an international IPO yielding extraordinary returns to original investors, Banco Compartamos, Mexico's leading microfinance institution, contemplates its future strategic and competing priorities: maintaining growth, defending industry, leadership, preserving... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Microfinance; Initial Public Offering; Non-Governmental Organizations; Competition; Value Creation; Banking Industry; Mexico
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Collection Highlights | Baker Library

Materials Includes over one thousand woodcuts, engravings, etchings, and lithographs, ranging from the 16th to the 19th centuries. Lehman Brothers Records Records the history of the investment banking firm from 1868 until 2007, the bulk... View Details
  • Web

Harvard Business School

Organization of a Bank; a Study of Selected New Banks R. Roosevelt Thomas Jr. (DBA) 1974 The Management of the Liberal Arts College: A Case Study Rudolph Winston Jr. (DBA) 1975 A Study to Determine How Personnel Managers' Perceptions of... View Details
  • 02 Jan 2020
  • News

Empowering Rural Communities

photo by Brandon Thibodeaux Chris Riley (MBA 2008) didn’t have any experience with renewable power when he cofounded Guzman Energy in 2013. Riley, who had spent most his career as an officer in the US Navy and then as director of investment View Details
Keywords: April White; Electric Power Generation, Transmission, Distribution; Utilities
  • June 1997
  • Teaching Note

BancZero New Product Development TN

By: Marco Iansiti
Teaching Note for (9-697-044). View Details
Keywords: Banking Industry; Mexico City; United States
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  • 26 Feb 2020
  • News

Phoenix Rising

filled, even the blare of rush-hour traffic clogging the central square of Athens out front—is the sound of Greece’s GDP on the move. It’s the ring of an economy finally looking up. “This place would have been empty in 2015,” says Dimos... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • 24 May 2017
  • News

John H. McArthur, MBA 1959, DBA 1963

Founding Cochair, Partners HealthCare 1995 Retires from HBS 1995 Named Senior Advisor to the President of The World Bank 1997 John and Natty McArthur University Professorship established at Harvard 1999 McArthur Hall dedicated at HBS 2002... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
  • Web

Seen and Unseen | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

two female figures on this ten-dollar bill from Mahaiwe Bank of Great Barrington, Massachusetts, are most likely Roman goddesses associated with the harvest, with crops emblematic of American abundance and the caduceus in the View Details
  • 04 Mar 2016
  • Working Paper Summaries

Credit-Market Sentiment and the Business Cycle

Keywords: by David Lopez-Salido, Jeremy C. Stein, and Egon Zakrajsek; Banking
  • 01 Sep 2011
  • News

The Spangler Effect

observes Steve Nelson (MBA ’88), executive director of the MBA Program. “In that time, Spangler has become so much a part of the fabric of the HBS community. We had 32 buildings spread across a 40-acre campus, but no central space for... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 02 Jan 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018

this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/218001-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 218-012 Turkish Economy Bank and Fortis Bank: Managing a Complex Merger Following the announcement of the merger of the Turkish Economic View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 2018
  • Supplement

JPMorgan Chase: Invested in Detroit (B)

By: Joseph L. Bower and Michael Norris
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Local Economic Development; Workforce Development; Philanthropic Investment; Financial Institutions; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Urban Development; Business and Community Relations; Banking Industry; United States; Michigan
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  • Student-Profile

Fanele Mashwama

Fanele Mashwama (he/him) first arrived at Harvard as an undergraduate. While earning his philosophy degree, he simultaneously worked in the central bank of his home country of eSwatini, where he became more... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion

wealth. By the end of 2007, sovereign wealth funds had around $2.6 trillion under management, more than all the world’s hedge funds, and not far behind government pension funds and central bank reserves.... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
  • 22 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 22, 2008

  Working PapersFixing Market Failures or Fixing Elections? Agricultural Credit in India Authors:Shawn A. Cole Abstract This paper integrates theories of political budget cycles with theories of tactical electoral redistribution to test for political capture in a novel... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • April 1990 (Revised May 1990)
  • Case

BankAmerica Corp. (A)

By: Richard H.K. Vietor
Keywords: Banking Industry; United States
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  • 11 May 2017
  • News

Going with the Flow

services enabled anybody having a baby at any hospital in the world to bank the cord blood. Trained obstetricians treated the procedure like an organ transplant, with all of the systems in place. Medical couriers transported the blood to... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley