Banking Industry - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 20

did not gain water during the privatization. This suggests that propaganda was persuasive when it had a basis in reality. Foreign Entry and the Mexican Banking System, 1997-2007 Authors:Stephen Haber and Aldo Musacchio... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

14 Dec 2010
Op-Ed

Tax US Companies to Spur Spending

industry benchmarks from periods that featured more standard corporate savings behavior. Alternatively, a measure of accumulated nondistributed earnings could also serve as the basis for the tax. Accumulated earnings taxes have been used... View Details

Keywords: by Mihir A. Desai

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2019 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity

Aspiration Towards Safe(r) Spaces Apr 05 Friday, April 05, 2019 Keynote Kira Banks , St. Louis University Courageous Self Awareness for Social Change Keynote Dolly Chugh , NYU Stern School of Business The Person You Mean to Be: How Good... View Details

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ARD - Georges F. Doriot : Educating Leaders, Building Companies, Baker Library, Harvard Business School

in the development of new technologies and industries during the war, the US government had assumed significant risk," HBS Professor Tom Nicholas asserts. "The fact that several of these risks paid off–in ways that Doriot had seen... View Details

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Workplace Diversity: Data Sources

Where can I find data on diversity in the workplace and labor markets? Resource Type Resource Description US. Government Agencies US Equal Opportunity Commission “Job Patterns For Minorities And Women In Private Industry” breaks out diversity data by View Details

22 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 22, 2008

Working PapersFixing Market Failures or Fixing Elections? Agricultural Credit in India Authors:Shawn A. Cole Abstract This paper integrates theories of political budget cycles with theories of tactical electoral redistribution to test for political capture in a novel... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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Laura Arjona

impact of my contribution." Encouraged by friends working in the financial sector, Laura obtained a position at UBS Investment Banking after graduation, staying for two years in the energy group. "When I started, news was just... View Details

01 Sep 2016
News

The Untold Story of the US Auto Bailout

The US automotive industry collapse was one of the most important business stories to come out of the 2008 financial crisis—and like so many events of that time, it was big on headlines but short on nuance. To address that shortfall,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing

24 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 24

that priming relevant networks (e.g., family or friends) makes products associated with those networks more attractive. Read the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/mnorton/anik norton.pdf The Influence of Prior Industry Affiliation on... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2012
News

High Honors

a few hundred case studies, a lightbulb lit up. “It was in an HBS classroom that I first considered starting my own company,” says Mikitani, who, at 47, is one of Japan’s youngest and most successful entrepreneurs. In 1997, after considerable success at the View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Finance; Corporate, Subsidiary, and Regional Managing Offices; Management; Mining; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services; Miscellaneous Store Retailers; Retail Trade

28 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Six Lessons from Mobile Money Ventures in Developing Countries

prospective operators—and perhaps entrepreneurs in other industries as well—take an educated shot at developing a winning service. He outlined his advice in a July working paper, Mobile Money Services—Design and Development for Financial... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Telecommunications

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Nelson Yuan

While studying industrial engineering at Columbia University, Nelson Yuan “felt the gravitational pull of Wall Street.” For him, engineering wasn’t an end in itself, “but a framework for looking at problems. I like to apply an engineering... View Details

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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

you think Elizabeth Scharpf 14 Sep 2017 About 10 years ago, I was a bright-eyed HBS intern at the World Bank in Mozambique. I went there... My Transformational Experience with Social Enterprise at HBS Matt Segneri 08 Sep 2017 MBAs at HBS... View Details

18 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

The Bias of Wall Street Analysts

brokerages are working on repairing the tarnished image of the sell-side analyst profession while at the same time reconfiguring the economics of that function. Up until brokerage commissions were deregulated on May 1, 1975 (known in the View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

October 1992 (Revised November 1997)
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ImmuLogic Pharmaceutical Corporation (A): March 1991

By: Josh Lerner

ImmuLogic Pharmaceutical Corp., a development-stage biotechnology company, is considering making an initial offering of common stock. The diverse perspectives of the entrepreneur, venture capitalist, investment banker, and institutional investor are explored. Problems... View Details

Keywords: Decisions; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Banks and Banking; Initial Public Offering; Going Public; Perspective; Valuation; Biotechnology Industry; Biotechnology Industry

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01 Jan 2011
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Hüsnü Özyeğin, MBA 1969

native land to complete his military service. He then worked his way through a series of rapid advancements in the banking world. In 1985, he took the helm of Yapi Kredi Bank, where he turned a deficit into a $60 million profit in two... View Details

10 May 2017
Research & Ideas

Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups

substantially between 2006, when AWS was introduced, and 2010, especially for those firms that could most take advantage of cloud services. For the control group of companies in industries such as aerospace and medical devices,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Banking; Banking; Banking

30 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 30

hypothesis that the happiness gains they have experienced from the past 45 years of growth have been the same as the gains that they experienced from growth prior to the 1960s. Central Banks Maximize Happiness? Happiness, Contentment and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Dec 2016
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December 13, 2016

the banking sector, which is one reason for the disproportionately high impact on America’s small businesses, which tend to be heavily credit dependent. While some aspects of the economy have recovered in the years since, small businesses... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

October 2014 (Revised December 2014)
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Gentera: Beyond Microcredit

By: Rajiv Lal and Lisa Mazzanti

Gentera, whose largest subsidiary is Compartamos Banco, has been a fantastically successful endeavor since it started in the 1990s. But in 2014, Gentera faces challenges in expanding beyond group-lending and micro-credit into microfinance and beyond in order to fulfill... View Details