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Visit the HBS Executive Education Campus-Virtually
well-appointed residence halls featuring private bedrooms on the banks of the Charles River, you can explore the HBS campus in just a few minutes. And if it's been some time since you visited our campus, we hope you’ll check out the tour... View Details
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Independent Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
presence. Recommended and designed business partnerships and product designs for a Chinese telecom company to pursue mobile banking and microfinance for rural Chinese population to access financing. Dates &... View Details
- 28 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Capital Rules: The Tensions of Global Finance
country's domestic institutional foundations for sound banking systems as a precondition for full liberalization. Every organized voice of authority within the international financial system has backed away from embracing complete,... View Details
Keywords: by Rawi Abdelal
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Pasha Nahass
colleagues from different sections, helped a large bank craft a digital pipeline for students and other young people accustomed to mobile devices. “It’s great exposure on how to do business and add value to... View Details
Keywords: Tech
- 14 Jul 2003
- Research & Ideas
Keeping Your Balance With Customers
acquisition as the biggest challenge. But lacking a CM strategy and able to respond to only short-term financial pressures, most organizations do an inadequate job of selection, retention, and growth. For many years, Mobil pursued a... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
- 07 Sep 2021
- News
Funding His Purpose
money,” Letelier says, and the grants that typically power nonprofits don’t typically offer organizations the flexibility of the financial products available to for-profit companies, which can mean everything from bootstrapping and commercial View Details
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Blog | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
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 have a tremendous array of opportunities to get involved in social... View Details
- 01 Dec 2012
- News
Rival Visions
rootless too and how its mobility could serve the public good." Gallatin successfully arranged financing for the Louisiana Purchase and for the War of 1812, despite President Thomas Jefferson's push to reduce spending and eliminate the... View Details
- 04 Oct 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #10: Amanda Li (MBA 2018): Speeding Climate Change Solutions Through Project Finance Efficiencies
quarter to prepare for that growth, adding staff and taking scores of inbound inquiries for Banyan’s services. “How does a bank quickly grow its portfolio while managing risk?” she asked. “They should definitely leverage technology and... View Details
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Jennifer Kelly
consultants who spent six months in Aceh, Indonesia after the devastating 2004 tsunami tore through the island. "We worked with the government, the World Bank, and the Asian Development Bank to build a new organization, the... View Details
- 17 Feb 2011
- News
Field Report: Rwanda
company’s offices in downtown Kigali,” Barry says. “So you might think, great, we’ll figure out how to get people to pay by check. But you start to understand the system better once you go to a Rwandan bank and see that it takes three... View Details
- 17 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 17
Publications March 2015 Journal of Financial Economics Banks as Patient Fixed-Income Investors By: Hanson, Samuel G., Andrei Shleifer, Jeremy C. Stein, and Robert W. Vishny Abstract—We examine the business model of traditional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
("boomerangs"), and increasing employee diversity. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/412147-PDF-ENG Bank of America: Mobile Banking (Abridged) Sunil Gupta and... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Partnering and the Balanced Scorecard
strategy. The strategy map reveals the strategic chain of cause-and-effect relationships that eventually links investment in employee skills to improved financial performance. As the senior executive of a major bank declared: Partnering... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & David P. Norton
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Elisabeth Ndour
HBS. In Nairobi, she’ll work with a startup that allows SMBs to accept mobile payments. “It’s a life-changing technology for people without computers or bank accounts,” Elisabeth explains. “And it represents... View Details
- 03 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 3
These changes relate to: advisory notes by shareholders, refinements to board structure, non-disclosure on compensation and tightening up of certain enforcement provisions. Purchase this note:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/311091-PDF-ENG View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
exporting, learning from competitors, users, and alliance partners. In this paper we focus attention on another locus of learning that has received less attention from academics despite popular interest: learning by supplying. Using a detailed panel dataset on supply... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 12 Jan 2015
- News
Good Investments
inside the booth owned by tech startup Barared to do everything from place phone calls to pay bills, deposit money, and buy minutes for their mobile phones. It’s a convenience for her customers, Reyes says: Chimalhuacán has only two View Details
- 24 Mar 2023
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Exploring Talent Markets; Aid for Turkey
outside the area. "We lost five people," he said. "It was heartbreaking, and it's hard to talk about." Then, he said, the bank immediately mobilized its many resources to help. "Our building was confirmed to... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- March 2024 (Revised June 2024)
- Case
Kashat: Navigating the Uncertainties of the Egyptian Fintech Market
By: Paul A. Gompers and Ahmed Dahawy
Karim Nour, the founder of Kashat, an Egyptian nano-lending fintech company, is contemplating how to manage the growth of his startup. Over the summer of 2022, Kashat's loan disbursements had grown by nearly 40%, fueled by macroeconomic instability in Egypt. However,... View Details
Keywords: Fintech; Business Model; Developing Countries and Economies; Acquisition; Business Exit or Shutdown; Mobile and Wireless Technology; Business Growth and Maturation; Business Startups; Financing and Loans; Capital; Banking Industry; Banking Industry; Egypt
Gompers, Paul A., and Ahmed Dahawy. "Kashat: Navigating the Uncertainties of the Egyptian Fintech Market." Harvard Business School Case 824-055, March 2024. (Revised June 2024.)