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- 03 Apr 2013
- News
Need A Business Loan? Impress The Algorithm, Not The Loan Officer
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Big Business of Little Loans
Ensuring that quality, Teo says, means focusing not only on growing fast but also on growing well. For Funding Societies, that means a borrower must have at least $250,000 in revenue and meet with a loan View Details
Keywords: Nancy Miller
- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Turning a Profit by Helping the Poor
- 12 Jan 2023
- News
‘Debiasing’ Debt with Data
institutions, he says, and small-business lending is one of the least automated parts of the U.S. banking system. That means it relies mostly on commercial bankers making personal judgments about borrowers. Ballard says when his father went to those banks, he was... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books The World’s Littlest Book on Climate: Ten Facts in Ten Minutes About CO2 By Mike Nelson, Pieter Tans, and Michael Banks (MBA 1983) Independently Published In this updated edition of the world’s smallest book on the world’s biggest... View Details
Keywords: podcasts
- 01 Jan 2002
- News
Egon P.S. Zehnder (MBA '56)
McCann-Erickson, Inc., 1956-59 With a student loan to repay after HBS, Zehnder jumped at the advertising agency's starting salary of $7,500-the highest offer he received-plus the prospect of an international posting. By 1959, aged 29, he... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Up on the Corner
been forthcoming. Commercial lenders have also shunned her, even though much of the financial risk associated with the project ultimately stems from discriminatory practices such as redlining, which for decades denied residents of the area access to mortgages and other... View Details
- 03 Aug 2021
- News
Leading Maryland’s Only Black-Owned and -Managed Commercial Bank to Be a Pandemic Resource
The Baltimore Sun recently highlighted the work of John Lewis (MBA 2004), President and Chief Operating Officer of Harbor Bank of Maryland, which the newspaper notes became a vital pandemic-era resource for businesses looking to obtain... View Details
- 15 Sep 2015
- News
Easing the Costs of Saving a Child
Taylor is heartened every Wednesday, the day when Pathways’ partners meet to approve loan requests. The magic happens on the 10th floor in an office across from Rowland Taylor’s headquarters in Houston. One... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 19 Aug 2016
- News
Lending a Hand to Small Businesses in Emerging Markets
In emerging markets, where traditional credit scores are rare, how can lenders decide who is creditworthy? Just ask, says DJ DiDonna (MBA 2010), cofounder and chief strategy officer of the for-profit Entrepreneurial Finance Lab. The... View Details
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
All in a Day's Work
have a business background.” How to Measure Social Good Back at the office, Oakes reheats some leftovers for lunch before meeting with Investor Relations Manager Jessica Brooks and Junior Loan Officer Peter... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
James Heads Executive Education
Ralph James (MBA ’82) rejoined HBS in September as the executive director of Executive Education. He served most recently as vice chairman of The First Marblehead Corporation, a Boston firm specializing in student loan services. Prior to... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Truth in Lending
Illustration by Jon Krause What percentage of managers do you think steal from their companies? Your answer to that question can tell a financial institution a lot about your creditworthiness, says DJ DiDonna (MBA 2010), cofounder and chief strategy View Details
Keywords: April White
- 01 Jan 2013
- News
Thomas A. James, MBA 1966
loan. Three months later he'd repaid the loan and made a profit of $10,000. At Harvard College, he combined his business and music skills by forming a rock band, the Maniacs, and also booking–and often playing with–six other bands. James... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 10 Aug 2021
- News
Moving Education Within Reach
supporting scores of students in his native Malaysia both academically and financially—and in many cases through graduate school. The project started in 1996, in the midst of Ramalingam’s career in manufacturing and consulting, when a woman who cleaned his View Details
- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
when the future of the business hinged on a single decision. For Sarina Russo (OPM 28, 1999), founder and president of the Sarina Russo Group of education, employment services, and property companies, that moment came in 1993 when she risked everything to buy a... View Details
- 01 Jan 2006
- News
Sir Ronald M. Cohen, MBA 1969
invest in venture capital. Guided by Cohen, who is regarded as the father of the European venture capital industry, Apax emerged as one of the world’s preeminent VC and private equity investment groups, raising or advising funds now totaling more than $20 billion. With... View Details
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Winning Season
THAT'S A WINNER: The DeWitts enjoy the home field advantage at the new Busch Stadium, which offers views of downtown St. Louis and the city's trademark Gateway Arch. From his office in the new Busch Stadium, St. Louis Cardinals Managing... View Details