Bank Holding Companies - Publications - Faculty & Research

Carl E. Wickman

In 1926, with a colleague named Orville Caesar, he formed the holding company that would eventually become Greyhound. Wickman, seeing that an increased bus transportation system was beneficial to both bus... View Details

Keywords: Transportation

01 Jun 2009
News

Too Big To Fail

banking panics roughly every fifteen to twenty years,” explains Moss. When the Great Depression struck, it was “in a league of its own” in severity and governmental response, he continues. With the banking... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Credit Intermediation and Related Activities; Finance

20 Jun 2016
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Having an Impact on Development and Poverty Issues

development challenges facing India and other emerging economies, through impact investing in areas such as affordable housing, financial inclusion, and access to energy. The other is VSG Capital Advisors, an investment bank that is... View Details

Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman

01 Jun 2012
News

Made in the USA

survey cited specific actions their companies had implemented to remain competitive. The majority had taken steps such as improving worker training, investing in technology, growing exports, and expanding to new markets. Among the... View Details

Keywords: Blagg, Deborah; cheese; lobster fishing; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

Career Coach

Ryan Kim

independent sponsor private equity firm and completed a self-funded search to buy a regional automotive installation services business which he operated as President. Prior to that, Ryan worked in large and mid cap private equity, led corporate development at a rapidly... View Details

Keywords: Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking; Investment Banking

01 Mar 2003
News

Naina Lal Kidwai

Raised in Mumbai and Delhi, Naina Lal Kidwai (MBA ’82) went away to school in Simla, in the Himalayas, and has conducted her career at similarly lofty heights ever since. A Delhi University alumna and the first Indian woman to graduate from HBS, Kidwai joined ANZ... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

17 Jun 2014
First Look

First Look: June 17

suggested by theories concerning conflicts between managers and owners over risk-taking. We argue that managers holding equity of their bank take less risk because they have fewer opportunities to diversify... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Sep 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 19

out the effect of an increasingly important retail phenomenon (channel integration) on a key factor for inventory management (sales dispersion). Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53103 forthcoming Brookings Papers on Economic Activity... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2008
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No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis

commercial and investment banking had been torn down, and banks, investment banks, and insurance companies were in each others’ businesses. “As a result of deregulation, the derivatives market and the market... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson;Martha Lagace; deregulation; moral hazard; the middle class; Finance

11 Apr 2000
Research & Ideas

Financial Services 24/7

customers to take their business elsewhere. With new Internet-only banks and brokerages popping up regularly, established firms must find innovative ways to hold onto their customers. "Traditionally,... View Details

Keywords: by Susan Young

24 May 2017
News

Angie Hicks, MBA 2000

on the Angie’s List “campus”—a collection of buildings the company bought and renovated in Indianapolis— when an employee asks to take a selfie with her. While she has been the name and the face of the View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

John G. Medlin, Jr.

Medlin expanded the relatively small Wachovia Bank into one of the largest financial companies in the south. During his seventeen year tenure, he acquired banks in Georgia and... View Details

Keywords: Finance

01 Dec 2013
News

Alumni News | Book Briefs

and keep informed; where to raise capital; and what help is available for any professional, entrepreneur, student, or researcher seeking to settle in the city. The Three Rules: How Exceptional Companies Think by Michael E. Raynor (DBA... View Details

Keywords: Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

09 Nov 2017
News

A Chance to Lead

John Brennan (MBA 1980) is chairman emeritus, the Vanguard Group. In this interview he recalls his early time at the business and the opportunity presented to him to lead. “In the summer of 1982, I moved out to Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, to work for Vanguard, a small,... View Details

03 Mar 2008
First Look

First Look: March 4, 2008

early 1720, the South Sea Company and the Bank of England were competing for the right to issue new shares and to exchange those shares for government bonds that were then in the hands of the public. The... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 1999
News

Hawes Family Funds New Classroom Building

reinsurance. During almost four decades in the insurance business as a salesman, entrepreneur, top executive, and industry leader, he established a remarkable record of success while maintaining a sterling reputation for character and integrity. For example, in 1978... View Details

02 Jan 2018
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Reconsidering Retirement

require lifelong care; and at about the same time, Tuchman sold his company for a profit. “Those events really shaped the way I invest,” he says. Amid the dot-com boom, when “people were doing a lot of really dumb things with money in... View Details

Keywords: April White; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

22 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

Profits and Prophets: The Role of Values in Investment

"Profits and Prophets: The Role of Values in Investment," at the Harvard Business School Möbius Leadership Forum on April 12. Hayes holds the Jacob H. Schiff Chair in Investment Banking at Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2004
News

Clay Christensen (MBA 1979)

Clayton M. Christensen is the Robert and Jane Cizik Professor of Business Administration at HBS, where he holds a joint appointment in the Technology and Operations Management and General Management units. He is the author or coauthor of... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

13 Jul 2010
First Look

First Look: July 13

Business Review 88, nos. 7-8 (July-August 2010) An abstract is unavailable at this time. Read the Article: http://hbr.org/2010/07/vision-statement-mapping-the-social-internet/ar/1 Working PapersForeign Entry and the Mexican Banking... View Details