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- 05 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
How New BofA Executives Learn its ’Deep Smarts’
Company's Deep Smarts offers a roadmap for ensuring that critical knowledge remains in the organization. This excerpt focuses on the executive onboarding practice at Bank of America. Dorothy Leonard is the William J. Abernathy Professor...
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- 2014
- Working Paper
The State of Small Business Lending: Credit Access During the Recovery and How Technology May Change the Game
By: Karen G. Mills and Brayden McCarthy
Small businesses are core to America's economic competitiveness. Not only do they employ half of the nation's private sector workforce—about 120 million people—but since 1995 they have created approximately two-thirds of the net new jobs in our country. Yet in recent...
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Mills, Karen G., and Brayden McCarthy. "The State of Small Business Lending: Credit Access During the Recovery and How Technology May Change the Game." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-004, July 2014.
- Career Coach
Renee Pappastratis
Renee serves as the Assistant Director of Employer Relations in HBS Career & Professional Development, where she oversees relationships with our Investment Banking recruiting partners. In her role, Renee offers guidance to students...
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- 01 May 2011
- News
Be Careful Wishing for the Fed's End
- 2022
- Article
Regulatory Treatment of Changes in Fair Value and the Composition of Banks' Investment Portfolios
By: Michael Iselin, Jung Koo Kang and Joshua Madsen
In their implementation of Basel III, U.S. bank regulators are again including changes in the fair value of available-for-sale (AFS) debt securities in Tier 1 capital, but only for the largest U.S. banks. This paper investigates a potential impact of expanding this...
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Keywords:
Fair Value Accounting;
SFAS 115;
Basel III;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Banks and Banking;
Debt Securities;
Credit;
Risk and Uncertainty;
Investment Portfolio;
Decision Making;
Banking Industry;
United States
Iselin, Michael, Jung Koo Kang, and Joshua Madsen. "Regulatory Treatment of Changes in Fair Value and the Composition of Banks' Investment Portfolios." Journal of Financial Reporting 7, no. 1 (2022): 123–143.
- 04 Feb 2020
- Video
Dr. Elizabeth Mary Okelo
Mary Okelo, who pursued a successful career as an executive of Barclays Bank In Kenya before founding the only women’s bank in Africa and the Makini schools system, describes how, while a manager at Barclays,...
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- January 1995 (Revised October 1995)
- Case
Citibank: Global Customer Management
By: Michael Y. Yoshino and Thomas W. Malnight
Describes Citibank's worldwide operations, which include activities in developing and developed markets. The bank's structure also varies across markets and regions, varying from autonomous national affiliates to an industry/product-based structure in its domestic U.S....
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Keywords:
Customer Focus and Relationships;
Global Range;
Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues;
Multinational Firms and Management;
SWOT Analysis;
Emerging Markets;
Banking Industry;
United States
Yoshino, Michael Y., and Thomas W. Malnight. "Citibank: Global Customer Management." Harvard Business School Case 395-142, January 1995. (Revised October 1995.)
- 2023
- Working Paper
The Market for Sharing Interest Rate Risk: Quantities and Asset Prices
By: Umang Khetan, Jane Li, Ioana Neamtu and Ishita Sen
We study the extent of interest rate risk sharing across the financial system using granular positions and transactions data in interest rate swaps. We show that pension and insurance (PF&I) sector emerges as a natural counterparty to banks and corporations: overall,...
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Keywords:
Interest Rates;
Investment Funds;
Banks and Banking;
Insurance;
Investment Banking;
Risk and Uncertainty
Khetan, Umang, Jane Li, Ioana Neamtu, and Ishita Sen. "The Market for Sharing Interest Rate Risk: Quantities and Asset Prices." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-052, February 2024.
- 21 Apr 2010
- News
A better fail-safe than CoCo bonds
- 13 Apr 2017
- News
Bros Don’t Let Bros Lend Money
- May 2009
- Article
Asymmetric Information Effects on Loan Spreads
The paper estimates the cost arising from information asymmetry between the lead bank and members of the lending syndicate. In a lending syndicate, the lead bank retains only a fraction of the loan but acts as the intermediary between the borrower and the syndicate...
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Keywords:
Cost;
Banks and Banking;
Financing and Loans;
Interest Rates;
Capital;
Investment Portfolio;
Credit;
Diversification;
Risk and Uncertainty
Ivashina, Victoria. "Asymmetric Information Effects on Loan Spreads." Journal of Financial Economics 92, no. 2 (May 2009): 300–319.
- May 2010 (Revised September 2013)
- Case
Friend Bank: The Time for Hope
By: Clayton S. Rose and Aldo Sesia
In 2010, Friend Bank was entering the fifth year of Hope Harris Johnson's ambitious 20-year growth plan to transform her family's one branch community bank into an institution with a substantial presence in southeastern Alabama. Harris Johnson was pleased, so far, with...
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Keywords:
Family Business;
Financial Crisis;
Banks and Banking;
Growth and Development Strategy;
Risk Management;
Family Ownership;
Competitive Advantage;
Banking Industry;
Alabama
Rose, Clayton S., and Aldo Sesia. "Friend Bank: The Time for Hope." Harvard Business School Case 310-070, May 2010. (Revised September 2013.)
- January 1997 (Revised March 1997)
- Background Note
Note on Money and Monetary Policy
By: David A. Moss and Wyatt C. Wells
Offers a brief overview of economic thinking about the nature of money and about how the central bank can affect the economy through monetary policy.
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Keywords:
Sovereign Finance;
Government Administration;
Policy;
Central Banking;
Money;
Inflation and Deflation;
Financial Crisis
Moss, David A., and Wyatt C. Wells. "Note on Money and Monetary Policy." Harvard Business School Background Note 797-094, January 1997. (Revised March 1997.)
- February 1997 (Revised May 1998)
- Case
Tire City, Inc.
By: W. Carl Kester
A small, rapidly growing retail distributor of automotive tires must present a set of forecasted financial statements to a bank in order to obtain a five-year loan. Expected growth rates given in the case and historical financial ratios derived from recent financial...
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Keywords:
Financial Statements;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Financing and Loans;
Price;
Supply Chain;
Distribution Industry;
Retail Industry
Kester, W. Carl. "Tire City, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 297-091, February 1997. (Revised May 1998.)
- 2006
- Article
Deposit Collectors
By: Nava Ashraf, Dean Karlan and Wesley Yin
Informal lending and savings institutions exist around the world, and often include regular door-to-door deposit collection of cash. Some banks have adopted similar services in order to expand access to banking services in areas that lack physical branches. Using a...
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Ashraf, Nava, Dean Karlan, and Wesley Yin. "Deposit Collectors." Art. 5. Special Issue on Field Experiments. Advances in Economic Analysis & Policy 6, no. 2 (2006).
- May 2004 (Revised April 2005)
- Case
Prudential Securities
By: Boris Groysberg, Paul M. Healy and Amanda Cowen
Prudential Insurance Co. attempted to diversify into financial services by building an investment banking franchise. Prudential's initial foray into the industry was its acquisition of The Bache Group in 1982. In 2000, the company decided to exit investment banking....
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Keywords:
Investment Banking;
Corporate Strategy;
Competitive Strategy;
Market Entry and Exit;
Diversification;
Mergers and Acquisitions;
Financial Services Industry;
Insurance Industry
Groysberg, Boris, Paul M. Healy, and Amanda Cowen. "Prudential Securities." Harvard Business School Case 104-008, May 2004. (Revised April 2005.)
- 2009
- Other Unpublished Work
Danatbank
By: David Moss, Cole Bolton and Andrew Novo
In the summer of 1931, Germany was struggling with a deepening economic crisis. Production had fallen, unemployment was high, and bank deposits and gold were being withdrawn from the country at a rapid pace, threatening the value of the German mark. The country's third...
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- 05 Feb 2007
- News
Chimerical? Think Again
- 2021
- Working Paper
Crisis Interventions in Corporate Insolvency
By: Samuel Antill and Christopher Clayton
We model the optimal resolution of insolvent firms in general equilibrium. Collateral constrained
banks lend to (i) solvent firms to finance investments and (ii) distressed firms to
avoid liquidation. Liquidations create negative fire-sale externalities. Liquidations...
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Keywords:
Insolvent Firms;
Government Intervention;
Liquidation;
Econometric Models;
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
Governance;
Policy
Antill, Samuel, and Christopher Clayton. "Crisis Interventions in Corporate Insolvency." Working Paper, February 2021. (Accept with Revisions, Journal of Finance.)