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- 01 Mar 2014
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The Solution to the Global Food Crisis Just Might Come from Nigeria
Monument Bank, which loans against measures like warehouse receipts. At the height of the growing season, First City has 9 percent of its $2.7 billion loan book invested in agriculture, compared to a national bank average of 3 percent. "There are millions of farmers...
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- 17 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 17, 2009
promoting the government's goal of increased homeownership. Although lawmakers had already partially privatized Fannie Mae in 1954 and again in 1968, the agency in 1987 still retained close links to the federal government, including an emergency line of View Details
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Martha Lagace
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
particularly, credit to those institutions? You’ve been a leader at Eastern in using so-called “fintech advanced technology” to automate small business lending. Is Covid going to accelerate that? Is it going to change that? How are you...
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
from everything—invoice processing to core banking systems to credit card reconciliations, all sorts of manual tasks. A lot of compliance tasks they are doing. But also we have modern companies—Pandora or Spotify, Uber, CrowdStrike—that...
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- 02 Mar 2016
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The New Space Race
This entrepreneurial energy is following a decidedly terrestrial opportunity. The nonprofit advocacy group Space Foundation estimated that the global size of the industry reached $330 billion in 2014, with an annual growth rate of 9...
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Robert S. Benchley
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Podcast - Managing the Future of Work
Governors University: Pursuing the network effects of competency based education WGU President Scott Pulsipher returns to the podcast for an update on the online institution’s mission to extend the reach of skill-oriented instruction. The HBS alum argues that the focus...
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- 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
new fintech entrepreneurs, and banks—small and large—vying for a position. Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream grapples with the broad significance of small business to the economy, the historical role of credit markets, the...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 28 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 28, 2008
(0.74%). Even after controlling for filers' demographic factors and self-revealed savings intent, the likelihood of tax-site savings was 5.5 percentage points higher at treatment sites as compared with control sites. In contrast to the take up of many financial...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Dec 2001
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September 11: A Community Reflects
prevail," and urged U.S. policymakers to think beyond short-term solutions — such as cutting interest rates and letting companies buy back their own stocks — to more lasting measures — such as creating new forms of employment and...
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Susan Young;Deborah Blagg