Publications

2023
Working Paper

Uniform Rate Setting and the Deposit Channel

By: Juliane Begenau and Erik Stafford

U.S. banks predominantly use uniform deposit rate setting policies, particularly the largest banks. Uniform rate setting ignores local market concentration, and is therefore inconsistent with the identification strategy used to provide cross-sectional evidence of the... View Details

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Financial Markets; Interest Rates; Banking Industry

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March 2008
Supplement

Pilgrim Bank (A), (B) and (C) (CW)

By: Frances X. Frei

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Banking Industry

March 1990 (Revised April 1991)
Case

Chase Manhattan Bank (A)

By: Benson P. Shapiro

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Banking Industry

December 1975
Case

St. Joseph Bank & Trust Co.

By: Stephen A. Greyser and John A. Quelch

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Banking Industry

June 1985
Case

Chemical Bank: Payments Automation Project (A) (Condensed)

By: Robert G. Eccles Jr.

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Technology; Banking Industry

August 1998 (Revised September 2004)
Teaching Note

First Community Bank (A) TN

By: Rosabeth M. Kanter

Teaching Note for (9-396-202). View Details

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Banking Industry

03 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance

short, the modules have been sequenced to progress from markets to firms to institutions so that complexities are gradually layered on. The major decisions that managers confront in multinational financial... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

March 1997 (Revised July 1997)
Case

Morgan Stanley in China

The Asian economy, particularly China's, is experiencing explosive growth. China needs capital to fund the growth, and this presents a tremendous opportunity for an investment bank that can penetrate the market. Morgan Stanley establishes a joint venture with the China... View Details

Keywords: Joint Ventures; Investment Banking; Emerging Markets; Developing Countries and Economies; Financial Services Industry; Financial Services Industry; China

March 24, 2023
Article

What Silicon Valley Bank Did Right

By: Lou Shipley

There’s a reason Silicon Valley Bank became such a fixture among startups: it understood their needs better than any other bank. Even now, many banks don’t have the flexibility and understanding to make banking easy for startups. With SVB gone, a lot of young companies... View Details

Keywords: Startup; Silicon Valley; Entrepreneurship; Bank; Finance; Business Startups; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry

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October 2014
Case

Grantham, Mayo, and Van Otterloo, 2012: Estimating the Equity Risk Premium (Abridged)

By: Samuel Hanson, Erik Stafford and Luis Viceira

Keywords: Equity Valuation; Investment Banking; Equity

January 2004 (Revised November 2006)
Case

Fleet Managed Assets Division (A)

By: Paul W. Marshall and Todd H Thedinga

Paul Kennedy, executive director of Fleet's Managed Asset Division, must decide whether to extend further credit to Polaroid Corp. in the fall of 2001. Polaroid's credit rating had been declining rapidly, but it was a major employer in the Boston area with many... View Details

Keywords: Information Technology; Credit; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry; Boston

fall 1994
Article

Banc One Corporation: Asset and Liability Management

By: B. C. Esty, P. Tufano and J. Headley

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Assets; Finance; Management; Banking Industry; United States

May 1986 (Revised October 1986)
Case

Data Administration in Citibank Brazil (B): Strategy and Technology

By: Shoshana Zuboff

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Information Management; Banking Industry; Brazil