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- 27 Jul 2010
- First Look
First Look: July 27
likely to perceive CSR strategies favorably. Our results show how CSR strategies can affect value creation in public equity markets through analyst recommendations. Institutional Stock Trading on Loan Market Information Authors:Victoria... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Road Work
space at the i-Lab, where classmates Wombi Rose and John Wise of LovePop and Michael Martin of RapidSOS were neighbors. To date, Camino’s loans have totaled about $70 million, with average amounts of $16,000 per member (Camino’s term for... View Details
- 01 Apr 1998
- News
Microfinance's Big Payoff: Michael Chu and ACCION International
short-term business loans to the self-employed poor. Chu, a native of China, grew up in Montevideo, Uruguay. After graduating from Dartmouth and HBS, he held senior management positions with several firms, including The Boston Consulting... View Details
- 24 Sep 2024
- Research & Ideas
Why Small Businesses Deserve More Credit
It’s Wall Street doctrine that small firms struggle to raise capital at reasonable rates and are often rejected for credit lines and loans because banks think their risk profile is too high. “If you really want to drive investment,... View Details
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3.9 Annual Notice: Higher Education Opportunity Act | MBA
HBS Consumer Information In addition to school-specific consumer information, there is also information about Federal Student Loans and Harvard's retention and graduation rates on these Federal websites: Term & Conditions for Federal... View Details
- 17 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
How ‘Hybrid’ Nonprofits Can Stay on Mission
charitable donations like a typical nonprofit would. Commercial microfinance organizations often adopt a hybrid model, for example: they provide business loans to poor people who wouldn't traditionally qualify, but they still depend on... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 09 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
A Playbook for Small-Business Job Creation
savings and home equity loans, bank loans have been the critical source of capital for small businesses," Mills says. When Mills arrived at SBA in 2009, the nation was in recession, and lending to small businesses was at a... View Details
- 25 Mar 2016
- News
Putting Faith in a Good Education
become an aruaba, ‘a woman who goes to work in a business suit,’ in the West African language Twi,” says Crane, founder of Edify, a nonprofit that provides micro-enterprise loans to faith-based schools in Africa and Latin America. “I’m... View Details
- 19 Nov 2019
- Op-Ed
Gender Bias Complaints against Apple Card Signal a Dark Side to Fintech
to make loan and underwriting decisions, as the Apple Card situation illustrates, the potential for discrimination grows. “When lending relies on algorithms to make loan and underwriting decisions, as the... View Details
- 06 Apr 2016
- News
Two HBS Students Are Changing Lending in Southeast Asia
- 08 Mar 2017
- News
Helping vets become resident landlords
Reed Benet (MBA 1991) is founder and CEO of HeroHomes.com, an online organization that helps military veterans secure no-money-down VA loans to purchase and live in small multifamily homes for housing themselves and income purposes. In... View Details
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Funding His Purpose
money,” Letelier says, and the grants that typically power nonprofits don’t typically offer organizations the flexibility of the financial products available to for-profit companies, which can mean everything from bootstrapping and commercial bank View Details
- 13 Apr 2020
- Research & Ideas
Small Businesses Are Worse Off Than We Thought
federal help.” A significant number of survey-takers said they would not apply for government loans because they anticipated problems with accessing the funds due to red tape and distrust in the government to forgive the loans. “The low... View Details
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Career Tools & Resources | MBA
interview tips, research tools for international roles, resume tips for international positions, work authorization support, and more. Loan Reduction HBS offers a loan reduction program for graduates working... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Truth in Lending
Lab. And that may just be the answer to developing a strong small-business sector in emerging markets. In more developed markets, a bank can make loan decisions based on credit scores, that three-digit distillation of a lifetime of bill... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 15 Jun 2016
- Working Paper Summaries
Slack Time and Innovation
- 2015
- Mimeo
Market Power in Mortgage Lending and the Transmission of Monetary Policy
By: David S. Scharfstein and Adi Sunderam
We present evidence that high concentration in mortgage lending reduces the sensitivity of mortgage rates and refinancing activity to mortgage-backed security (MBS) yields. We isolate the direct effect of concentration and rule out alternative explanations in two ways.... View Details
Keywords: Mortgage Lending; Market Power; Monetary Policy Transmission; Mortgages; Banking Industry; United States
Scharfstein, David S., and Adi Sunderam. "Market Power in Mortgage Lending and the Transmission of Monetary Policy." April 2015. Mimeo.
- April 2006
- Case
Promise (B): Navigating an Entrepreneurial Consumer Finance Company in Japan's Financial Establishment
Supplements the Promise: Building a Consumer Finance Company in Japan case. View Details
Kuemmerle, Walter. "Promise (B): Navigating an Entrepreneurial Consumer Finance Company in Japan's Financial Establishment." Harvard Business School Case 806-139, April 2006.
Jesse H. Jones
Under Jones’ presidency, RFC became the nation’s largest bank and biggest single investor. It not only provided loans to established banks, but also encouraged new ventures and sought to enlarge bank capital by buying bank-preferred... View Details
Keywords: Finance