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  • 22 Jan 2013
  • First Look

First Look: Jan. 22

Mexican government reversed long-standing policies and allowed foreign banks to purchase Mexico's largest commercial banks and relaxed restrictions on the founding of new,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • November 2016 (Revised March 2018)
  • Case

Deutsche Bank: Structured Retail Products

By: Boris Vallée and Jérôme Lenhardt
Describes how Deutsche Bank, a leading European bank, is deciding whether or not to launch a new structured retail product in Germany: an autocallable note. Will this product find a market and how does it fit into the bank’s product portfolio? The case investigates how... View Details
Keywords: Structured Products; Structured Retail Products; Germany; Auto Callable Note; Financial Product; Financial Product Development; Financial Product Marketing; Financial Product Launch; Financial Product Positioning; Finance; Assets; Asset Pricing; Asset Management; Capital Markets; Financial Institutions; Banks and Banking; Commercial Banking; Financial Instruments; Annuities; Bonds; Stocks; Financial Management; Financial Markets; Financial Strategy; Interest Rates; Investment
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  • 15 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 15

slightly worse outcomes than non-affiliated investments, despite the targets having superior performance prior to investments. Investments during market peaks by commercial banks have significantly higher... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 24

an Experiment with Commercial Bank Loan Officers Authors:Shawn Cole, Martin Kanz, and Leora Klapper Abstract This paper uses a series of experiments with commercial View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 29, 2007

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-103.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsBancaja: Developing Customer Intelligence (A) Harvard Business School Case 107-055 In 1996, CEO Fernando Garcia Checa wanted to make customer analytics a part of Bancaja's new strategy. Bancaja, a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Nov 2015
  • First Look

November 10, 2015

multivariate time series model to investigate the interaction between paid search and display ads and calibrate the model using data from a large commercial bank that uses online ads to acquire new checking... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Apr 2014
  • Research & Ideas

To Pay or Not to Pay: Argentina and the International Debt Market

Costa Rica, recommends a course of action sure to anger banks and fund managers: absolute sovereign immunity, which is the way things were done before 1976. Argentina's escalating financial crisis is taking on the look and feel of 2002,... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Alfaro
  • 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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    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
    • 15 Jan 2019
    • First Look

    New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

    financing a risky venture. Structured experimentation, popularized by Eric Ries’ The Lean Startup, has been widely embraced as the gold standard for how to approach the commercialization of radical new ideas. From Boston to Beijing to... View Details
    Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
    • January 2009 (Revised February 2010)
    • Case

    Necessity and Invention: Monetary Policy Innovation and the Subprime Crisis

    By: Aldo Musacchio and Dante Roscini
    This case describes the efforts of Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve, to improve liquidity in money markets during the subprime crisis. The case explains the four main new tools for monetary policy (or quantitative easing) the Federal Reserve has used... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Crisis; Money; Financial Liquidity; Central Banking; Policy; Business and Government Relations
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    • 2010
    • Working Paper

    Regulating for Legitimacy: Consumer Credit Access in France and America

    By: J. Gunnar Trumbull
    Theories of legitimate regulation have emphasized the role of governments either in fixing market failures to promote greater efficiency or in restricting the efficient functioning of markets in order to pursue public welfare goals. In either case, features of markets... View Details
    Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Credit; Financial Markets; Personal Finance; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Business History; Business and Government Relations; Welfare; France; United States
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    • October 1986 (Revised August 2015)
    • Case

    Advanced Medical Technology Corporation

    By: Thomas R. Piper and Steven Rogers
    A loan officer must decide whether to lend $8 million to a rapidly growing high technology company. The company has had a series of relationships with three other banks. Reports from loan officers at these banks are mixed and raise questions as to the ease with which a... View Details
    Keywords: Decision Making; Commercial Banking; Financing and Loans; Financial Condition; Technology Industry
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    • May 2022
    • Case

    Rawbank's Illico Cash: Can 'Fast Money' Overcome Cash Dependency in the DRC?

    By: Lauren Cohen and Grace Headinger
    Thomas de Dreux-Brézé, the Head of Strategy and Project Management at Rawbank Congo in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), was perplexed as he reviewed annual adoption rates for the bank’s launch of Illico Cash 2.0. As the bank’s mobile money app, Illico Cash... View Details
    Keywords: Fintech; Inflation; Deflation; Rural; Urban; Emerging Market; Mobile Technology; Finance; Money; Inflation and Deflation; Business Growth and Maturation; Decision Choices and Conditions; Demographics; Developing Countries and Economies; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Behavioral Finance; Currency; Banks and Banking; Commercial Banking; Financial Strategy; Rural Scope; Urban Scope; Innovation Strategy; Emerging Markets; Network Effects; Consumer Behavior; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Technology Adoption; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Congo, Democratic Republic of the
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    • 2013
    • Working Paper

    Do Display Ads Influence Search?: Attribution and Dynamics in Online Advertising

    By: Sunil Gupta
    As firms increasingly rely on online media to acquire consumers, marketing managers feel comfortable justifying higher online marketing spend by referring to online metrics such as click-through rate (CTR) and cost per acquisition (CPA). However, these standard online... View Details
    Keywords: Internet and the Web; Digital Marketing
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    • August 2022
    • Case

    In-Q-Tel: Innovation On A Mission

    By: Joshua Lev Krieger and Josh Lerner
    In 2022, the leaders of In-Q-Tel (IQT) considered what was next for the unique mission-driven organization. Since 1999, IQT had one mission: to be the most sophisticated source of strategic technical knowledge and capabilities to the U.S. government and its allies. IQT... View Details
    Keywords: Mission and Purpose; National Security; Technological Innovation; Research; Geopolitical Units; Risk Management; Recruitment; Growth and Development Strategy; Venture Capital; Knowledge Management; Banking Industry; Banking Industry
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    • 08 Oct 2014
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Federal Reserve’s Abandonment of Its 1923 Principles

    Keywords: by Julio J. Rotemberg; Banking; Banking
    • Article

    Matriarch: A Python Library for Materials Architecture

    By: Tristan Giesa, Ravi Jagadeesan, David I. Spivak and Markus J. Buehler
    Biological materials, such as proteins, often have a hierarchical structure ranging from basic building blocks at the nanoscale (e.g., amino acids) to assembled structures at the macroscale (e.g., fibers). Current software for materials engineering allows the user to... View Details
    Keywords: Building Block; Category Theory; Hierarchical Protein Materials; Molecular Design; Open-Source Software; Structure Creation
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    • September 2016
    • Article

    Do Display Ads Influence Search?: Attribution and Dynamics in Online Advertising

    By: Pavel Kireyev, Koen Pauwels and Sunil Gupta
    As firms increasingly rely on online media to acquire consumers, marketing managers feel comfortable justifying higher online marketing spending by referring to online metrics such as click-through rate (CTR) and cost per acquisition (CPA). However, these standard... View Details
    Keywords: Internet and the Web; Digital Marketing
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    • 15 Aug 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: August 15, 2006

    expect bankers to have been less central than in Mexico and, perhaps, the United States. Second, I test if the availability of financing alternatives, like a well-developed bond market in Brazil, reduced the average importance of corporate connections to View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne