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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 businesses looking to obtain... View Details

June 2002
Article

Do Better Customers Utilize Electronic Distribution Channels? The Case of PC Banking

By: L Hitt and F. Frei

Keywords: Online Technology

2011
Working Paper

Leviathan as a Minority Shareholder: A Study of Equity Purchases by the Brazilian National Development Bank (BNDES), 1995-2003

By: Sergio G. Lazzarini and Aldo Musacchio

There is a growing literature comparing the performance of private vs. state-owned companies. Yet, there is little work examining the effects of having the government as a minority shareholder of private companies. We conduct such a study using data for 296 publicly... View Details

Keywords: Investment; Ownership Stake; State Ownership; Private Ownership; Performance Evaluation; Business and Government Relations; Business and Shareholder Relations; Banking Industry; Brazil

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30 Aug 2012
Working Paper Summaries

Incentivizing Calculated Risk-Taking: Evidence from an Experiment with Commercial Bank Loan Officers

Keywords: by Shawn Cole, Martin Kanz & Leora Klapper

21 Nov 2009
News

Big banks giving high salaries and bonuses face anger from public: expert

18 Mar 2022
News

As Tiger Global’s VC Arm Borrows Billions, JPMorgan Calls In More Banks

14 Aug 2019
Podcast

Fintech on Main Street: How small businesses are banking on new technology

Technology is changing financial institutions’ relationships with local businesses and sole proprietors, which account for half of America’s workforce. HBS professor and former head of the Small Business Administration Karen Mills sheds light on the ongoing... View Details

August 13, 2021
Other Article

New Child Tax Credit Should Be a Call to Action for Banks

By: Bob Neuhaus, Daniel Schneider and Peter Tufano

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August 2002 (Revised May 2005)
Teaching Note

Postgirot Bank and Provment AB: Managing the Cost of IT Operations, TN

By: F. Warren McFarlan

Teaching Note for (9-302-061). View Details

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Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s... View Details

08 May 2015
News

A new view of the cost of equity and capital requirements for banks

possibly substantial downside of heightened capital requirements. “Over the last 40 years, lower risk banks have higher stock returns on a risk-adjusted or even a raw basis, consistent with a stock market anomaly previously documents in... View Details

Article

Fixing Market Failures or Fixing Elections? Elections, Banks and Agricultural Lending in India

By: Shawn A. Cole

Keywords: Failure; Voting; Banks and Banking; Agribusiness; India

December 2004
Article

When the State is Untrustworthy: Public Finance and Private Banking in Porfirian Mexico

By: Noel Maurer and Andrei Gomberg

Keywords: Finance; Banks and Banking; Trust; Mexico

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February 1997 (Revised March 1998)
Case

European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in 1997, The: Defining a Market Exit Strategy

By: Michael Y. Yoshino and Carin-Isabel Knoop

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Market Entry and Exit; Strategy; Banking Industry; Europe

1992
Chapter

The Legacy of the Past: British Multinational Banking Strategies since the Nineteenth Century

By: G. Jones

Keywords: History; Multinational Firms and Management; Corporate Strategy; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; United Kingdom

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

Keywords: Government And Business; Option Contract; Corporate Finance; Bank Capital; Bank Regulation; Finance; Banking Industry; Europe; North and Central America

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

March 2013
Teaching Note

The IPO of Agricultural Bank of China (ABC) (A) and (B) (TN)

By: Aldo Musacchio