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Buy Now, Pay Later: The Secondary Credit Market
The Rise of Installment Selling Home Finance Cars on Time The Secondary Credit Market The Usurer's Grip Research Links Credits “We must divorce the three golden ballsfrom the three Furies.” — Charities Review, 1892 Installment plans, home mortgages, and auto View Details
- 29 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 29, 2008
1,582 loans financing private equity-sponsored leveraged buyouts between 1993 and 2005, we find that bank relationships explain cross-sectional variation in the loan interest...
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Martha Lagace
- 31 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 31
Financial Studies (forthcoming) Abstract This paper examines the impact of leveraged buyout firms' bank relationships on the terms of their syndicated loans. Using a sample of 1,590 loans financing private...
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Sean Silverthorne
Mickey Konson
time there. In 2013 he co-founded StreetShares, a financial technology company that provides software to banks and credit unions to digitally process business loan and credit card applications, and decision...
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Finance;#64;#Software/App
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
Noted & Quoted
bank capital on loans is too small to have a big impact on growth.” — HBS professor DAVID SCHARFSTEIN and Harvard economics professor Jeremy Stein respond to banking industry...
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- 22 Jun 2009
- Research & Ideas
“Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms
such period on record. Significant financial failures returned to the marketplace in the late 1980s with the savings and loan crisis, followed by a rash of bank failures in the early 1990s that forced the...
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- 23 Jan 2008
- Op-Ed
A House Divided: Investment or Shelter?
country, they yearned for shelter, a sanctuary in a new land. That shelter could be a tenement, a farmstead, a ramshackle cottage. For families, home had a connotation of safety and stability. Banks did not lend with 30-year amortizing...
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- 07 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
Big Infrastructure May Not Always Produce Big Benefits
data on loans to individuals and firms across the entire country by banks also across the entire country. So, they have information on the recipient of the loan, the amount, the location where that View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
to figure out how to operationalize these insights. We have developed two credit products with Sanghamithra that are based on these ideas, and we’ve just deployed the first few dozen of each of them. The first is a graduation loan. For many borrowers, it’s hard to get...
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- 01 May 2013
- News
Celeste A. Guth, MBA 1986
Celeste Guth vividly recalls the day she received her acceptance letter to HBS. “When I opened the admissions packet, I was thrilled beyond belief,” shares Guth, a partner with global responsibility for the Financial Institutions group in Goldman Sach’s Investment...
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- 26 Nov 2019
- News
Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream
Mills asked, “How do we keep this piece of the economy vibrant?” As Mills’s research demonstrates, small business lending hadn’t changed in 50 to 100 years. Traditional banks failed to deliver a positive customer experience and struggled...
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- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Noted & Quoted
also be a statutory cap on leverage, a maximum speed limit, if you will, that regulators can’t loosen.” — HBS professor David Moss commenting on the need for financial reform legislation to place limits on the amount banks can borrow for...
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Politics and War - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
the suspension of gold payments by the Bank of England. Prime minister William Pitt was forced to implement the issue of paper money when the Bank announced a gold shortage, due to View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
percent. “In 2004 and 2005, as these subprime loans started to emerge, it really wasn’t a particular problem because of the lag effect. People who couldn’t pay off these mortgages with toxic terms and exploding payment schedules figured,...
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- October 2014 (Revised December 2014)
- Case
Gentera: Beyond Microcredit
By: Rajiv Lal and Lisa Mazzanti
Gentera, whose largest subsidiary is Compartamos Banco, has been a fantastically successful endeavor since it started in the 1990s. But in 2014, Gentera faces challenges in expanding beyond group-lending and micro-credit into microfinance and beyond in order to fulfill...
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Financial Inclusion;
Compartamos;
Gentera;
Micro-lending;
Microfinance;
Insurance;
Banking Industry;
Banking Industry;
Mexico City
Lal, Rajiv, and Lisa Mazzanti. "Gentera: Beyond Microcredit." Harvard Business School Case 515-017, October 2014. (Revised December 2014.)
- March 2010
- Teaching Note
Disruptive IPOs? WR Hambrecht & Co. (TN)
By: Willy C. Shih
Teaching Note for 610065.
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- Portrait Project
Shibani Joshi
meant fame and wealth, but today I see the meaning as much more profound. Now breaking free involves resisting the temptation to return to the investment bank I previously worked for and instead pursuing my dreams in the entertainment...
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- October 2008 (Revised August 2010)
- Case
The Christmas Eve Closing
By: Peter Tufano
In 2002, two homeowners in Massachusetts are deciding whether to refinance their home less than two years after taking out an initial mortgage and a subsequent home equity line of credit.
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Tufano, Peter, and Andrea Ryan. "The Christmas Eve Closing." Harvard Business School Case 209-043, October 2008. (Revised August 2010.)
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
PPP’s forgivable loans were a lifeline for many small businesses. But banks often prioritized larger, established clients, while the smallest and most vulnerable businesses had trouble accessing funds....
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Deborah Blagg
- February 2007 (Revised October 2007)
- Case
BASIX
By: Shawn A. Cole and Peter Tufano
BASIX, an Indian microfinance corporation, must decide whether to continue to sell weather insurance to its clients. A brand-new financial product, weather insurance pays if measured rainfall during the growing season falls below a pre-specified limit. Mr. Sattaiah,...
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