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Incentivizing Calculated Risk-Taking: Evidence from an Experiment with Commercial Bank Loan Officers
This paper uses a series of experiments with commercial bank loan officers to test the effect of performance incentives on risk-assessment and lending decisions. We first show that, while high-powered incentives lead to greater screening effort and more... View Details
- January 2014
- Teaching Note
Evaluating Microsavings Programs: Green Bank of the Philippines (A), (B) and (C)
By: Nava Ashraf and Kristin Johnson
Keywords: Saving; Innovation and Invention; Measurement and Metrics; Product Design; Success; Performance Evaluation; Philippines
Ashraf, Nava, and Kristin Johnson. "Evaluating Microsavings Programs: Green Bank of the Philippines (A), (B) and (C)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 914-022, January 2014. (Request a courtesy copy.)
- October 2011 (Revised February 2012)
- Case
The IPO of Agricultural Bank of China (ABC) (A)
By: Li Jin, Aldo Musacchio and Hania Dawood
Jin, Li, Aldo Musacchio, and Hania Dawood. "The IPO of Agricultural Bank of China (ABC) (A)." Harvard Business School Case 712-006, October 2011. (Revised February 2012.)
- 03 Aug 2021
- News
Leading Maryland’s Only Black-Owned and -Managed Commercial Bank to Be a Pandemic Resource
The Baltimore Sun recently highlighted the work of John Lewis (MBA 2004), President and Chief Operating Officer of Harbor Bank of Maryland, which the newspaper notes became a vital pandemic-era resource for... View Details
- March 2013
- Teaching Note
The IPO of Agricultural Bank of China (ABC) (A) and (B) (TN)
By: Aldo Musacchio
- February 2014
- Supplement
Evaluating Microsavings Programs: Green Bank of the Philippines (C)
By: Nava Ashraf, Dean Karlan, Wesley Yin and Marc Shotland
Keywords: Saving; Innovation and Invention; Measurement and Metrics; Product Design; Success; Performance Evaluation; Banking Industry; Philippines
Ashraf, Nava, Dean Karlan, Wesley Yin, and Marc Shotland. "Evaluating Microsavings Programs: Green Bank of the Philippines (C)." Harvard Business School Supplement 914-003, February 2014.
- February 2014
- Supplement
Evaluating Microsavings Programs: Green Bank of the Philippines (B)
By: Nava Ashraf, Dean Karlan, Wesley Yin and Marc Shotland
Keywords: Microfinance; Saving; Innovation and Invention; Measurement and Metrics; Product Design; Success; Performance Evaluation; Banking Industry; Philippines
Ashraf, Nava, Dean Karlan, Wesley Yin, and Marc Shotland. "Evaluating Microsavings Programs: Green Bank of the Philippines (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 914-002, February 2014.
- August 2002 (Revised May 2005)
- Teaching Note
Postgirot Bank and Provment AB: Managing the Cost of IT Operations, TN
Teaching Note for (9-302-061). View Details
- December 2004
- Article
When the State is Untrustworthy: Public Finance and Private Banking in Porfirian Mexico
By: Noel Maurer and Andrei Gomberg
Maurer, Noel, and Andrei Gomberg. "When the State is Untrustworthy: Public Finance and Private Banking in Porfirian Mexico." Journal of Economic History 64, no. 4 (December 2004): 1087–1107.
- 19 Feb 2019
- News
Bank Boards: What Has Changed Since the Financial Crisis?
- Web
Bank Summary Sheets - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
Banking System Bank Summary Sheets JPMorgan Chase & CO. JPMorgan Chase & CO. Bank of America Corporation Wells Fargo & Co. Citigroup Inc. 5 6 7 8 9 10 JPMORGAN CHASE & CO... View Details
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The Collapse of First Executive Corporation: Junk Bonds, Adverse Publicity, and the Run on the Bank Phenomenon
By: S. C. Gilson, H. DeAngelo and L. DeAngelo
In April 1991, regulators seized the major subsidiaries of First Executive Corporation (FE), an insurer that invested heavily in junk bonds. During the junk bond market turmoil of 1989–1990, adverse publicity fueled a bank run at FE, forcing a $4 billion portfolio... View Details
Gilson, S. C., H. DeAngelo, and L. DeAngelo. "The Collapse of First Executive Corporation: Junk Bonds, Adverse Publicity, and the Run on the Bank Phenomenon." Journal of Financial Economics 36, no. 3 (December 1994): 287–336.
- Research Summary
Can Gambling Increase Savings? Empirical Evidence on Prize-linked Savings Accounts
This paper studies whether prize-linked savings (PLS) accounts, which offer random, lottery-like payouts to account holders in lieu of risk-free interest, can aid individuals in increasing savings levels by adding the chance to “win big.” Using micro-level data from... View Details
- April 2003
- Article
R&D Comes to Services: Bank of America's Pathbreaking Experiments
By: Stefan Thomke
Thomke, Stefan. "R&D Comes to Services: Bank of America's Pathbreaking Experiments." Harvard Business Review 81, no. 4 (April 2003). (Translated into German and reprinted in Harvard Business Manager (July 2003))
- July–August 2021
- Article
Case Study: Will a Bank's New Technology Help or Hurt Morale?
A case study is presented on the effort to introduce new information technology into a community bank and what impact that process may have on bank employees. View Details
Keywords: Employee Morale; Community Banks; Information Technology; Banks and Banking; Employees; Technology Adoption
Schlesinger, Leonard A. "Case Study: Will a Bank's New Technology Help or Hurt Morale?" Harvard Business Review 99, no. 4 (July–August 2021): 144–149.
- March 2014
- Teaching Note
Barclays Bank, 2008
By: Lucy White
In the midst of the financial crisis, Barclays (the world's 4th largest bank by assets) is forced by UK regulators to raise more capital. Should it take up the UK government's offer to invest, or take funding from investors from the Middle East? Students may price the... View Details
- 24 Sep 2010
- News
Small biz, banks may spurn Obama's $30 bln program
- January 2000 (Revised October 2014)
- Exercise
Windham Negotiation: Confidential Information for the Cooperative Savings Bank
By: Michael Wheeler
Six-party negotiation of land use and development. View Details
Wheeler, Michael. "Windham Negotiation: Confidential Information for the Cooperative Savings Bank." Harvard Business School Exercise 800-090, January 2000. (Revised October 2014.)
- 13 Jan 2020
- Interview
Cas Coovadia, Managing Director, The Banking Association South Africa
By: Cassim Coovadia and Euvin Naidoo
"Cas Coovadia, Managing Director, The Banking Association South Africa." Creating Emerging Markets: Interviews, Harvard Business School and Baker Library, January 13, 2020. (Interviewed by Euvin Naidoo in Johannesburg, South Africa.)
- Article
Fixing Market Failures or Fixing Elections? Elections, Banks and Agricultural Lending in India
By: Shawn A. Cole
Cole, Shawn A. "Fixing Market Failures or Fixing Elections? Elections, Banks and Agricultural Lending in India." American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 1, no. 1 (January 2009): 219–50.