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  • 23 Mar 2018
  • News

Dropbox shares surge in biggest tech debut since Snap

  • January 2020
  • Case

Banorte Móvil: Data-Driven Mobile Growth

By: Ayelet Israeli, Carla Larangeira and Mariana Cal
In mid-2019, Carlos Hank was deliberating over the results for Banorte Móvil—the mobile application for Banorte, Mexico’s most profitable and second-largest financial institution. Hank, who had been appointed as Banorte´s Chairman of the Board in January 2015, had... View Details
Keywords: Data Analytics; Customer Lifetime Value; Financial Institutions; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Growth and Development Strategy; Customers; Technology Adoption; Communication Strategy; Banking Industry; Mexico; Latin America
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  • November 1994 (Revised February 1996)
  • Case

Toy World, Inc.

By: W. Carl Kester
A shift from seasonal to level production of toys will change the seasonal cycle of Toy World's working capital needs and necessitate new bank credit arrangements. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details
Keywords: Working Capital; Business Cycles; Cash Flow; Forecasting and Prediction; Investment Funds; Financial Statements
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  • January 2008 (Revised September 2009)
  • Case

Financing American Housing Construction in the Aftermath of War

By: David Moss and Cole Bolton
At the start of WWI, the United States faced a significant housing shortage. Public officials feared the spread of disease—and even communism—in the nation's cramped urban centers where vacancy rates held near zero and families often "doubled up" in single-housing... View Details
Keywords: Central Banking; Bonds; Mortgages; Government Legislation; Business History; Housing; Banking Industry; United States
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    Sven Von Appen

    Keywords: Shipping and Logistics

      Robert C. Merton

      Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

      Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

      Keywords: banking; banking; banking; banking; banking; banking
      • December 1961 (Revised January 1994)
      • Case

      Plowman Poultry Farm

      By: Samuel L. Hayes III
      A poultry farmer wanted to expand production greatly and sought a large extension of his line of credit from his bank in addition to his existing loan on which he had not made payment. The Board of Directors must review a detailed account of events leading to this... View Details
      Keywords: Governing and Advisory Boards; Animal-Based Agribusiness; Expansion; Decision Choices and Conditions; Financing and Loans; Commercial Banking; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry
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      • 06 Sep 2017
      • News

      Staples finalizes its sale, beginning a new chapter

      • June 2019
      • Case

      Athena Bancorp

      By: Leonard A. Schlesinger and Sarah Abbott
      Athena Bancorp was founded in 2016 by Beth Daniels, a banking professional with 15 years of experience in the industry. Daniels took advantage of what she perceived as a gap in the market caused by recent industry consolidation, a decreasing industry focus on branch... View Details
      Keywords: Banks and Banking; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development Strategy; Organizational Culture; Human Resources; Strategy; Service Delivery; Banking Industry
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      • February 2006 (Revised August 2006)
      • Case

      Christo and Jeanne-Claude: The Art of the Entrepreneur

      By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
      Christo and Jeanne-Claude, the artists who created The Gates in New York City in 2005, are trying to decide how best to finance their next project. Over the River, a project to drape sections of the Arkansas River with translucent fabric is a very different enterprise... View Details
      Keywords: Private Equity; Arts; Fine Arts Industry; Arkansas
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      • 06 Mar 2017
      • News

      Harvard Reveals Blueprint for Avoiding Stock Crashes

      • 13 May 2020
      • Video

      Cas Coovadia

      Cas Coovadia, the long-running Managing Director of the Banking Association South Africa, discusses the reasons for the lack of gender diversity in South African financial services, and calls for deliberate... View Details
      • 11 Sep 2020
      • Video

      James Mwangi

      James Mwangi, CEO of Kenya’s Equity Bank, which has one of the largest customer bases of any bank in Africa, explains his bank’s determination to remain neutral in the highly polarized Kenyan political environment. View Details
      • 12 Oct 2012
      • News

      Trade-offs: Having your cake

      • Research Summary

      Overview

      By: Boris Vallee
      Professor Vallée focuses on financial innovation, investigating it from different angles. This research thread has led him to relate the methods and insights of corporate finance and banking with those of other subfields, including household finance, public finance,... View Details
      • Research Summary

      Level Playing Fields in International Financial Regulation

      Joint work with Alan Morrison, Saïd Business School, Oxford.

      We study a model of featuring two economies with adverse selection of and moral hazard by bankers. We demonstrate... View Details

      • April 2022
      • Teaching Note

      Banorte Móvil: Data-Driven Mobile Growth

      By: Ayelet Israeli and Carla Larangeira
      In mid-2019, Carlos Hank was deliberating over the results for Banorte Móvil—the mobile application for Banorte, Mexico’s most profitable and second-largest financial institution. Hank, who had been appointed as Banorte´s Chairman of the Board in January 2015, had... View Details
      Keywords: Data Analytics; Customer Lifetime Value; Financial Institutions; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Growth and Development Strategy; Customers; Technology Adoption; Communication Strategy; Banking Industry; Mexico; Latin America
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      • July 2009 (Revised January 2012)
      • Case

      Risk Management at Wellfleet Bank: All That Glitters Is Not Gold

      By: Anette Mikes
      This case motivates a debate on the role of staff functions, such as risk management: what does it mean for them to be independent, and at the same time, to partner the business lines? The case describes the risk assessment process in the corporate banking arm of... View Details
      Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Judgments; Credit; Banks and Banking; Governance Controls; Risk Management; Mathematical Methods
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      • 15 Oct 2013
      • First Look

      First Look: October 15

      economic reasons. The conventional wisdom is that politically motivated aid is less effective in promoting developmental objectives. We examine the ex-post performance ratings of World Bank projects and generally find that projects that... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • Video

      Narayanan Vaghul

      Narayanan Vaghul, Former Chairman of ICICI Bank Limited, discusses the bank's approach to gender neutrality in recruitment and outlines proactive measures that supported the advancement of more women in senior positions (Filmed October 26, 2017). View Details