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- 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
- 24 Mar 2021
- News
Clubs Reaffirm Equity in Community Partners Work; Alumni Angels Invest in Member Education
trust of the communities they serve.” For the Oregon Community Partners, that has meant teaming up with Micro Enterprise Services of Oregon (MESO), a micro-lending organization providing entrepreneurs of color with opportunities for financial coaching and access to...
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Margie Kelley
- Web
Preface - Coin and Conscience – Baker Library | Bloomberg Center, Historical Collections
formed much of the collection. Mr. Brunner's love of banking history led him to acquire prints on all aspects of money's influence on mankind. Whether it was a humorous nineteenth century French lithograph of a self satisfied speculator...
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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
- 20 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 20
individuals. Financial inclusion could potentially help these individuals by increasing financial literacy, building credit records, improving savings rates, providing access to loans and other financial products, and, in general, by...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, July 10, 2018
information in lending decisions leads to worse credit outcomes when loan officers are busy or before weekends and national holidays; when loan officers had earlier non-banking and, in particular,...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 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
- 19 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019
take advantage of the opportunity, which is consistent with the idea that it is the mere availability of human contact that mitigates anxiety’s deleterious effects. Finally, in a field experiment conducted with a credit union’s self-service term View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
investigated the CIO losses. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/313033-PDF-ENG Lind Equipment Richard S. Ruback and Royce YudkoffHarvard Business School Case 212-012 Lind Equipment failed to meet its loan covenants with its senior...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Nov 2020
- News
The Long View: Persevering Through Past Crises
opportunity to start my own business. I actually wrote the business plan in one of my HBS courses as the final project. I then took this business plan to the bank and was able to secure a loan to start a...
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- 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
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Making Change
paper to the ground as quickly as we have. Designing and building modular shelters accommodating over 200 homeless people in Delhi and influencing the World Bank project to take into consideration housing design and safety when financing...
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- 09 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 9, 2018
consider the real effects of bank lending shocks and how they permeate the economy through buyer-supplier linkages. We combine administrative data on all firms in Spain with a matched bank-firm-loan dataset incorporating information on...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 19, 2009
credit products in the U.S. with an emphasis on the types of products that low—and moderate—income consumers use. Included here are the following: credit cards, bank overdraft products, payday lending, personal View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
multi-currency capital structure with both senior, secured bank loans and junior bonds. PCP has to decide whether to push for bankruptcy in a European court, or to push for out of court renegotiations. The...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2017
- News
City of Dreams
existing railway and new light rail network. Finally, the Asian Development Bank has agreed to a $650 million loan to cover capital costs for electrification of an initial 110-kilometer railway line running...
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- 02 Mar 2010
- First Look
First Look: March 2
discussed supporting innovation through a range of additional policy interventions, including tax credits, loan guarantees, IP policy, regulatory mandates, codes, and standards. It is critically important that these kinds of interventions...
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Martha Lagace
- March 2018
- Case
Chaudhary Group: Rebuilding Nepal
By: Christopher J. Malloy, Lauren H. Cohen and Inakshi Sobti
After the 2015 Nepal earthquake, the Chaudhary Group, a billion-dollar conglomerate in Nepal, decides to play a pivotal role in rebuilding the country. The Group's philanthropic arm (Chaudhary Foundation) works with stakeholders and develops a blue print for short- and...
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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;
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Banking Industry;
Banking Industry;
Nepal
Malloy, Christopher J., Lauren H. Cohen, and Inakshi Sobti. "Chaudhary Group: Rebuilding Nepal." Harvard Business School Case 218-100, 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