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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
Adi Sunderam AUG 2021 What are the determinants of value creation in U.S. commercial banks? The authors develop novel measures of banks’ productivities at collecting deposits and making loans. They find that View Details
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Great American Business Leaders of the 20th Century - Leadership
Steel and Alcoa withstand antitrust accusations Personal and corporate tax rates cut Airmail service starts Influence: High 30 1930 19 The New Deal Commercial and investment banking separated Reconstruction Finance Corp. created to combat... View Details
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
one of the industry's leading firms. Oil sands deposits in Alberta represent a potentially vast reserve of hydrocarbons, but the extraction, refining, and transportation challenges are formidable, and the environmental consequences of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Oct 2023
- Research Event
Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips
course, how you can use it and then then how you can share it. Winfrey: And also having a bank of positive emotions you can go to. Right. Positive actions you can go to when you're in the midst of all of these negative emotions.... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Staff
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 31 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 31
Kast, Stephan Meier, and Dina Pomeranz Abstract While commitment devices such as defaults and direct deposits from wages have been found to be highly effective to increase savings, they are unavailable to the millions of people worldwide... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
productivities at collecting deposits and making loans. They find that deposit productivity is responsible for two thirds of the value of the median bank and most variation in... View Details
- 12 Jan 2023
- News
‘Debiasing’ Debt with Data
Seke Ballard (MBA 2010) says he owes the inspiration for BetaBank, his small business-focused digital-banking venture, to his father—and not just as a person, but also as an archetype for every minority entrepreneur who has struggled to find capital in a View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 16 Dec 2019
- Research & Ideas
Taking on the Taboos That Keep Women Out of India's Workforce
bank account was opened in the name of the woman in the household; the second included an account and basic training in banking; the third included an account and direct deposit of wages earned in a... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 08 Jun 2010
- First Look
First Look: June 8
fallen, unemployment was high, and bank deposits and gold were being withdrawn from the country at a rapid pace, threatening the value of the German mark. The country's third largest bank, the Danatbank, was... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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In The Classroom - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
Lawrence Summers HKS Selected HBS Cases on Financial Stability Bidding for Finansbank By: David S. Scharfstein & Esel Çekin FEB 2016 | Harvard Business School Case 216-040 View Details Novantas and Deposit Funding at First Regional View Details
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Leading Successful Digital Transformation
growth. For example, digital banking allowed DBS bank of Singapore to expand into India with a fully digital bank—a market it could not compete in previously. Similarly, J.P. Morgan used blockchain... View Details
- 01 Sep 2023
- News
History Matters
The stunning collapse of three high-profile banks in recent months—Silicon Valley Bank, Signature Bank, and First Republic Bank—churned up a host of headlines and fears: Are these signs of major instability? The first dominos to fall? In the second edition of their... View Details
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Baker Library / Bloomberg Center | About
philanthropist, and president of the First National Bank of New York, Baker was an extraordinary business leader. At the age of 23, he invested $3,000 to become an original shareholder in the First National Bank, where he worked as a... View Details
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The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership
Reconstruction Finance Corp. created to combat bank and business failures Introduction of Federal Deposit Insurance SEC established Federal regulations prohibit false advertising Influence: Low 40 1940 s 19... View Details
- 17 Aug 2021
- Op-Ed
Dispensing Justice: The Case for Legalizing Cannabis Nationally
deductions or credits. "Banks are extremely chary about extending capital to them. Even if they do, banks charge cannabis firms hefty fees." These inefficiencies are compounded by a dearth of capital. Banks... View Details
Keywords: by Ashish Nanda and Tabatha Robinson
- 28 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 28
employed by sell-side investment banks and brokerage houses. Yet investment firms undertake their own buy-side research, and their analysts face different stock selection and recommendation incentives than their sell-side peers. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
Unethical Amnesia: Why We Tend to Forget Our Own Bad Behavior
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” —George Santayana If you’ve ever tuned into a Congressional testimony or legal deposition, you’ve likely heard a witness respond to a question with the words “I don’t recall.” For example, rapper Lil... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Long-Term Interest: Bill Crozier, a Banker Pegged to the Customer
is between companies that serve traditional banking needs and those catering to clients with more complicated financial lives. A crucial delineation," he says, "may be between those for whom federal deposit... View Details
Keywords: Eileen K. McCluskey
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Savings and Loam
are being deployed on the lending side,” he says. Cummings, who jokes that he’s “going from pretend farmer to pretend banker,” submitted the banking charter and FDIC insurance applications in August 2021 and hopes to have a provisional... View Details