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- 01 Dec 1997
- News
Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
face, Merton faced rows of reporters, banks of TV cameras, and flurries of firing strobe lights and calmly strove to put his complicated and abstract theory into accessible terms. Merton's research focuses on evaluating the financial risk...
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- 01 Oct 1999
- News
New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program
In June, W. Carl Kester, the School's Industrial Bank of Japan Professor of Business Administration, was appointed senior associate dean and MBA Program chair (succeeding Professor and Senior Associate Dean Steven C. Wheelwright). The...
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- 13 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 13, 2016
the banking sector, which is one reason for the disproportionately high impact on America’s small businesses, which tend to be heavily credit dependent. While some aspects of the economy have recovered in the years since, small businesses...
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Carmen Nobel
- 24 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 24
structuring of consumer loans than those who are not. Conditional on using decision-making authority, their decisions are also less risky ex post. These findings demonstrate employee selection as an important, but understudied, element of...
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Carmen Nobel
- 13 Mar 2018
- First Look
March 13, 2018
Wachovia, a top U.S. bank, less than three months after becoming its CEO. Wachovia’s exposure to risky home loans led depositors and creditors to flee the bank on Friday, September 26, after the FDIC seized...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Jan 2017
- First Look
January 3, 2017
School Case 217-018 Rose Electronics Distributing Company Itamar Frankenthal was evaluating bank loan proposals to finance his acquisition of Rose Electronics Distributing Company (“Rose”). He contacted 40...
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Carmen Nobel
- 12 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 12, 2017
bank on the popularity of k-pop and k-dramas to drive broader interest in Korean culture? Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/517083-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 117-038 Signet Jewelers: All That...
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Carmen Nobel
- 17 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 17
misleading guides for the welfare effects of alternative fiscal policies. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-113.pdf Specialization and Variety in Repetitive Tasks: Evidence from a Japanese Bank Authors:Bradley R....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 1998
- News
Diversity and Community
opportunities, housing, and access to capital. It found, for example, that low-income whites were twice as likely to be approved for loans as Native or African Americans with higher incomes. The task force's work helped convince one View Details
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Garry Emmons
- 26 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
dollars. This creates a direct connection between U.S. monetary policy and EME credit cycles. We estimate that over a typical U.S. monetary easing cycle, EME borrowers experience a 32-percentage-point greater increase in the volume of View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
Banking on Cheese Credem, an Italian regional bank, grants loans to Parmigiano Reggiano producers and holds the cheese as collateral in its own warehouse during the maturation process, essentially replacing...
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Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
Structure in Small-Scale Finance Authors:Carpena, Fenella, Shawn Cole, Jeremy Shapiro, and Bilal Zia Publication:The World Bank Economic Review Abstract Microfinance, the provision of small individual and business loans, has experienced...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
MBAs on a Mission
School of Public Health as a way to understand the policies and skills required to address the systemic challenges that many developing countries face. She then moved to Johannesburg to assist with efforts by South Africa’s First National View Details
- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
platform. Since 2014 the company has worked with institutional investors at scale. While the company assigns grades and sub-grades to each application using its own risk evaluation model, it also makes detailed data on each loan...
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Dina Gerdeman
- Profile
Lara Hodgson
growing to death.” She thought to herself, “I’m not a banker. Why in the world is the very thing I worked so hard for, which was to get large orders from large companies and grow my business; why is that going to be what kills me? I’m basically stuck being...
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- 01 Feb 2000
- News
No Place Like Home
typically banks and insurance companies - in return for their upfront capital." Designed to attract private investment, the program is a proven success with more capital chasing it than can currently be accommodated. Supporters are...
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Garry Emmons
- March 2018
- Supplement
Chaudhary Group: Rebuilding Nepal (B)
By: Christopher J. Malloy, Lauren H. Cohen and Inakshi Sobti
Supplements the (A) case. Having successfully spearheaded relief work in the aftermath of the Nepal earthquake, the Chaudhary Foundation envisions creating a more comprehensive and sustainable development model. They are keen to build a model village that integrates...
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Leadership;
Family Business;
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Developing Countries and Economies;
Social Entrepreneurship;
Values and Beliefs;
Venture Capital;
Microfinance;
Geographic Location;
Collaborative Innovation and Invention;
Management;
Crisis Management;
Management Teams;
Resource Allocation;
Business and Community Relations;
Business and Government Relations;
Natural Disasters;
Social and Collaborative Networks;
Social Issues;
Business Strategy;
Banking Industry;
Banking Industry;
Banking Industry;
Banking Industry;
Banking Industry;
Nepal
Malloy, Christopher J., Lauren H. Cohen, and Inakshi Sobti. "Chaudhary Group: Rebuilding Nepal (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 218-110, March 2018.
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
spread to other European markets. Within a few months Ireland and Portugal had also lost access to the sovereign debt markets and had to rely on supranational loans for their financing. The risk of further contagion was clear and present....
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Vive la Madeleine!
private investors, including Viana’s father-in-law, stepped forward with stakes of 100,000 and above. A regional grant available to Normandy businesses was good for 100,000. Finally, one bank did come around, View Details
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
debt, which means the loan repayments must come from project cash flows only. In municipally financed or public financed projects, a government entity is the borrower or the debt is backed by a government guarantee. In the case of the Big...
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