Bank Capital And Risk Management - Publications - Faculty & Research

15 Sep 2015
News

Easing the Costs of Saving a Child

Little Feet in 2008. Intended to be a family’s last step in its adoption journey, Pathways, funded by Taylor and a group of donors, is essentially a private, interest-free, nonprofit bank providing loans of... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

15 Jul 2002
Research & Ideas

Going Green Makes Good Business Sense

business is simplistic, said Reinhardt. Companies always operate based on imperfect information about their competitive arena. To succeed as a viable concern with an environmental conscience, "you have to look deeper. And look... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

01 Feb 2001
News

Q&A - Dirty Money: Raymond Baker Explores the Free Market's Demimonde

laundering and illegal flight capital." These are among the most opaque problems the world faces," Baker says. "In this era of globalization, they constitute the biggest loophole in the free-market system." You assert that Western View Details

Keywords: Finance; Government

Profile

Jack Perkowski

Against the advice of many, Jack Perkowski (MBA 1973) ditched his high-flying investment career and relocated to China in 1992 to build his own company. Through trial and error, Perkowski learned that the... View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Manufacturing

18 Aug 2011
Lessons from the Classroom

Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs

the Aldrich classrooms on the Harvard Business School campus where other people's ventures are the usual topic of discussion. Judges—a mix of angel investors, VCs, serial entrepreneurs, and industry executives—score the plans on criteria... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education

05 Apr 2011
First Look

First Look: April 5

now also has an equity stake in the Bahamas' gaming and resort industry. The case explores the growing role of project financing by way of China's Export-Import Bank and its... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures

seldom map to realistic approximations of true underlying risks and that coarse rules-of-thumb are used in pretty ad hoc ways. Given the importance of large emerging markets to the future growth of... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

18 Feb 2021
Blog Post

SIPs in 2021

mayhem, but it is also a waste of very good ideas that may never see the light of day.” Partnerships, she says, are even more complicated than marriages. The pressures from courting investors, managing employees, speaking to the public,... View Details

Brittany Davis

receive investment and development resources. Previously, she was a Manager at Village Capital where she analyzed opportunities and created... View Details

01 Dec 1999
News

New Jakurski Chair Supports Research in Global Finance

Director of Research and teaches courses in capital markets, international finance, and risk management. He received a BA from Stanford in 1980... View Details

Henry R. Towne

added later. This and other techniques, many of which were the invention of Towne himself, helped make his company the leader in locking equipment, from small household locks, to bank locks, View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods

18 Sep 2000
Research & Ideas

Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments

that there is an incentive to manage these risks efficiently is the key to success," he notes. With billions of dollars on the line and five to ten parties... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

10 Apr 2012
First Look

First Look: April 10

different functions, divisions, and cultures. Several project management principles-scoping out the challenge, structuring the boundaries, and sorting tasks for execution-help... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

06 Jun 2017
News

Is the Real Estate Market Going to Collapse?

tanking the market? Sultenic: The industry is capitalized and managed more transparently and thoughtfully than it has been historically, with... View Details

30 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 30

strategic investment programs crucial to its ability to remain competitive with Boeing. Students must address questions concerning the proper way to measure foreign exchange exposures, the objectives of a rational risk View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

15 Apr 2011
News

Students Hear Wall St. Critics

cited the FCIC’s January report that found failures in financial regulations and enforcement, corporate governance, risk management, and accountability View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

28 Apr 2010
Research & Ideas

Earth Day Reflections

topsoil are free or cheap. A few years ago, a manager at a large IT company said something to me that I've never forgotten."For many years we've optimized our business as if capital View Details

Keywords: by Staff

02 Jun 2011
What Do You Think?

Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?

the risks are no longer connected to individuals who possess the incentive, power and capability to take action and manage the risks."... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

16 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

The Times Captures History of American Business

creative destruction move so fast and forcefully across the landscape as that ushered in by the financial crisis of 2008. Beginning in the United States, this crisis took the capital markets View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Journalism & News

19 Apr 2011
First Look

First Look: April 19

Financial, LLC was a modern merchant bank that provided high quality advisory services and capital to small- and mid-sized inner city businesses.... View Details