Publications

November 2000
Case

Wit Capital: Evolution of the Online Investment Bank (B)

Describes the evolution of Wit Capital from its origins as a small brewery to an online investment bank advising both small technology-based companies seeking to raise capital and large companies seeking to acquire Internet companies, as well as offering retail... View Details

Keywords: Internet and the Web; Disruptive Innovation; Service Delivery; Investment Banking; Entrepreneurship

1993
Book

British Multinational Banking 1830-1990

By: Geoffrey Jones

This book provides the first modern history of British multinational banking. It analyses their emergence, growth and performance from their origins in the 1830s until the present day. It is based on a wide range of confidential banking records, which are placed in the... View Details

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Multinational Firms and Management; Growth and Development; Information Management; Performance; Great Britain; United Kingdom

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LaToya Marc

wanted a stable job that could provide that," she says. LaToya excelled at math, and both her father (who served in the Air Force) and her high-school guidance counselor encouraged her to go into engineering. At the Georgia Institute... View Details

Keywords: Financial Services; Financial Services

January 2009
Article

Bank Debt and Corporate Governance

By: Victoria Ivashina, Vinay Nair, Anthony Saunders, Nadia Massoud and Roger Stover

In this paper, we investigate the disciplining role of banks and bank debt in the market for corporate control. We find that relationship bank lending intensity and bank client network have positive effects on the probability of a borrowing firm becoming a target. This... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Governance; Borrowing and Debt; Banks and Banking; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Governance Controls; Managerial Roles

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April 2025
Article

How Central Banks Manage Climate and Energy Transition Risks

By: Esther Shears, Jonas Meckling and Jared Finnegan

Central banks have begun to examine and manage climate risks, including both transition risks of moving from fossil fuels to clean energy and physical climate risks. Here we provide a systematic assessment of how and why central banks address climate risks on the basis... View Details

Keywords: Banks and Banking; Risk and Uncertainty; Climate Change; Transition; Risk Management

09 Oct 2015
News

Balancing Progress and Preservation

went on to serve as deputy project manager for the $200 million renovation of Grand Central Terminal as a vice president with LaSalle Partners from 1994 to 1996. In 2012, the Institute of Classical Architecture and Art recognized his work... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments

19 Sep 2011
Research & Ideas

Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?

Froot, "all this is interesting and useful because it's a microcosm for the larger financial sector, made up of banks and shadow banks. We have a huge institutional setup for bearing these sorts of... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Financial Services

November 2001 (Revised August 2005)
Case

BigEast Bank (A): Credit Card Approval

By: Frances X. Frei and Dennis Campbell

BigEast is considering adopting a relationship-centric view in its credit card approval process. This would shift the bank's current practice of analyzing applications based on the merits of a single product to one where the customer's existing relationship is... View Details

Keywords: Customers; Forecasting and Prediction; Banks and Banking; Analytics and Data Science; Managerial Roles; Relationships; Adoption; Banking Industry

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01 Apr 1998
News

Spangler, Former UNC President, Candidate for Board of Overseers

merger of the Bank of North Carolina with the North Carolina National Bank Corporation—now NationsBank, one of the largest financial institutions in the United States. A longtime friend of HBS, Spangler... View Details

Keywords: Nancy O. Perry

01 Dec 2003
News

A Legacy of Investment

5d44e16e230f4261c6f0a40446934d91 A new exhibit at Hawes Hall pays tribute to alumni and friends whose generous financial support has made a lasting difference in the character and quality of HBS. The exhibit aims to illuminate the past... View Details

25 Aug 2016
News

Having an Impact on Development and Poverty Issues

Vikram Gandhi (MBA 1989) started Asha Impact to bring together successful business leaders and entrepreneurs to help India’s poor with affordable housing, financial inclusion, and access to energy. “India has 400 million people within the... View Details

April 2025 (Revised April 2025)
Case

JPMorganChase: Leadership in the Age of GenAI

By: Iavor I. Bojinov, Karim R. Lakhani and David Lane

This case study examines JPMorgan Chase's (JPMC) journey in adopting and implementing Generative AI (GenAI) following the release of ChatGPT. It outlines JPMC's initial cautious approach focused on data security, followed by strategic investments in internal platforms... View Details

10 May 2017
Research & Ideas

Amazon Web Services Changed the Way VCs Fund Startups

out if this new strategy has paid off for investors and their portfolio companies. Nanda and colleagues present their findings in a paper scheduled to appear in a forthcoming issue of the Journal of Financial Economics, titled Cost of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services; Financial Services; Financial Services

May 2025
Case

'Net Zero in Action': Impact Investing at the McKnight Foundation

By: Lauren Cohen, Christina R. Wing and Sophia Pan

Elizabeth McGeveran, Vice President of Investments at the McKnight Foundation, reflected on how to effectively advance the organization’s net-zero strategy. The foundation had committed 10% of its endowment to building a portfolio of impact investments and was among... View Details