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- 01 Mar 2015
- News
Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed
The Fed’s structure The Federal Reserve System is overseen by the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, an independent agency with seven members who are nominated by the President and confirmed by the Senate. The system is composed of 12... View Details
- 31 Jul 2014
- News
Making Private Equity Public Knowledge
©Rick Friedman As Daniel Sheyner (MBA 2014) tells it, most private equity firms have a very specific target in mind when recruiting: "The best athletes." The highest-ranked investment banking and consulting analysts; the elite. "Goldman... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- September 2019
- Case
Starling Trust Sciences: Measuring Trust in Organizations
By: Aiyesha Dey, Jonas Heese and James Weber
Stephen Scott needed to decide whether to keep his behavioral analytics startup in the people analytics sector or shift his company into the RegTech sector. Starling had develop technology that enabled its customers to anticipate and shape the behavior of their... View Details
Keywords: Behavioral Analytics; Financial Institutions; Banks and Banking; Entrepreneurship; Strategy; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; United States; United Kingdom
Dey, Aiyesha, Jonas Heese, and James Weber. "Starling Trust Sciences: Measuring Trust in Organizations." Harvard Business School Case 120-006, September 2019.
Theodore N. Vail
Securing over $100 million in financing, Vail first set up a more unified operating structure for AT&T, the Bell companies and the so-called “Bell-Connected” independent firms, and then went on to form an affiliation with competitor... View Details
Keywords: Communications
- April 2008 (Revised October 2008)
- Supplement
TD Canada Trust (C): Translating the Service Model to Service Operations
By: Dennis Campbell and Brent Kazan
Campbell, Dennis, and Brent Kazan. "TD Canada Trust (C): Translating the Service Model to Service Operations." Harvard Business School Supplement 108-055, April 2008. (Revised October 2008.)
Dee Ward Hock
In 1970, Hock created a reverse holding company tying together thousands of independent banks to create the Visa Network. His aggressive marketing and sharp negotiation skills enabled Visa to quickly capture... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- May 2008
- Teaching Note
Subprime Meltdown: American Housing and Global Financial Turmoil
By: Julio J. Rotemberg
Teaching Note for [708042]. View Details
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Setting the Stage: A Young Scholar at HBS
healthcare industry. Wadhwani earned his Ph.D. in history at the University of Pennsylvania, where his research focused on the institutional and regulatory origins of popular banking in the United States. He has received awards and... View Details
- 29 Sep 2015
- First Look
September 29, 2015
policy with two key features: (i) the central bank has private information about its long-run target for the policy rate and (ii) the central View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- Career Coach
Annette Rodriguez-Ferrer
private-equity backed and high-growth companies. Work Experience: Private Equity (Warburg Pincus, JPMorgan Partners, founded MKH Capital Partners), Investment Banking (Goldman Sachs), Independent Consulting. View Details
Keywords: Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking
- August 2011
- Teaching Note
Friend Bank: The Time for Hope (TN)
By: Clayton Rose and Sally Canter Ganzfried
Teaching Note for 310-070. View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Sole Mates
defining a shared ambition for the various components of its population. We shall work on it. MIZO: A peaceful and newly independent country of proud people, looking to the future. At A Glance Total Area: 25,713 sq. km. Population:... View Details
- 28 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit
(Editor's note: This is the third in a series of articles based on a Harvard Business School working paper by Karen Mills that analyzes the current state of availability of bank capital for small business.) Access to credit is critical to... View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Hollywood Story
all day,” she says, attributing her discontent to her type-A personality. At the urging of a friend, Epstein began to write. She soon came up with the idea for a Wall Street thriller. In HBS fashion, Epstein also started networking. In 2000, she met Harvey Kahn, an... View Details
- April 1993
- Case
Sumiko Ito
By: David A. Thomas
Describes the life and career of the first Japanese female investment banker at Nomura Securities, Sumiko Ito, who later became a partner at Alex Brown, a U.S. investment bank. Organized around the major life events and career transitions Ms. Ito experienced. Set in... View Details
Keywords: Investment Banking; Personal Development and Career; Gender; Diversity; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Japan; England; United States
Thomas, David A. "Sumiko Ito." Harvard Business School Case 493-011, April 1993.
- 18 Nov 2014
- News
Helping foreign countries invest wisely
Dora Vardis (MBA 1994), managing director in the foreign exchange division of Citigroup, works with sovereign wealth funds and central banks to create successful investments for their countries. (Published... View Details
- 28 Mar 2016
- News
The Alum Building a Brand New City in Panama
experience—bought the base and began building a new city. “It was a white canvas to develop from the beginning,” Gilinski told Forbes. Today, nearly 1,000 buildings stand in Panama Pacifico—a property five times the size of Central Park,... View Details
Harold Stanley
Having made a name for himself at JP Morgan prior to the Banking Act of 1933, Stanley became a leader in the newly independent investment banking industry. Under Stanley’s... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
rationale. For instance, the government bailed out Bear Stearns, but why not Lehman Brothers? Ironically, Congress in 1991 passed a statute establishing specific procedures (including stating a rationale) to be followed before a bank... View Details
- 15 Feb 2017
- Op-Ed
What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects
technologies are illuminating new ways to approach the task of funding infrastructure despite a scarcity of government funds" At first glance, it seems counterintuitive that a massive continent with more than 50 independent nations,... View Details