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- 25 Jul 2015
- News
Small businesses turning to online lenders
- 12 Jan 2023
- News
‘Debiasing’ Debt with Data
records on borrowers, and put the data through a random forest regression, a type of analysis known for producing good predictions that can be readily understood. When they tested the resulting model, the results were astounding. They...
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Ralph Ranalli
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
Enabling Students to Pursue Their Passions
per student per year— the loans he would need to take out to finance the rest of his education and living expenses would limit his future career choices. Nevertheless, he decided to pursue his MBA. Tristan Bagala (MBA 2023) pictured in...
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April White
- 19 Aug 2016
- News
Lending a Hand to Small Businesses in Emerging Markets
lenders a better understanding of both the skills and the personality of loan applicants. Based on psychometrics research conducted at the Harvard Center for International Development, the questions on this test seek not to mimic the data...
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- 01 Dec 2015
- News
Truth in Lending
Lab. And that may just be the answer to developing a strong small-business sector in emerging markets. In more developed markets, a bank can make loan decisions based on credit scores, that three-digit distillation of a lifetime of bill...
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April White
- 25 Aug 2016
- News
Having an Impact on Development and Poverty Issues
financing any other project—sourcing deals, doing all the same types of due diligence. However, unlike other microlending efforts, there is one other value that must be assessed: whether a loan has an impact...
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- 01 May 2013
- News
Celeste A. Guth, MBA 1986
computer science and economics. “For my graduate degree, I knew I wanted to study finance, and I knew I wanted the HBS brand,” she says. “I maxed out on every possible type of student loan to make that...
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- 01 Dec 2009
- News
An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
General. But because Bear and AIG weren’t banks, no one had to explain what they were doing under the 1991 statute. To hold senior government officials accountable for all bailouts, Congress should extend the 1991 statute to any type of...
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- 01 Dec 2006
- News
The Hard Way
building. Her banker, however, refused to loan her all the money she needed. That should not have come as a surprise given that her school’s enrollment would fill only three of the twelve floors, and Russo had no plans to sublet the rest...
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- 07 Jan 2016
- News
Helping Property Owners Reduce Their Carbon Footprint
on the bandwagon, because the type of financing we have, and the kind of impact it has, is on local jobs; it’s on the local environment, so it really is gaining popularity. “The work I do now is running a company, which is actually pretty...
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- 01 Sep 2018
- News
After the Fall
Antonio Falato of the Federal Reserve Board, Scharfstein says many traditional banks responded by taking outsized credit risk in an effort to boost short-run performance. “The complex interplay of different types of intermediaries made it...
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- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
well-heeled clients. Savings and loans, desperate for high returns, made risky loans a business staple. And the Japanese, buoyed by a strong economy and low interest rates at home, swept in to buy up trophy properties at almost any asking...
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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
The Winning Season
float DeWitt a loan for $3.5 million, which he used to buy the team in 1961. It’s hard to imagine better circumstances for absorbing the many financial, legal, and political details that go into the successful management of a professional...
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- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
tears. A high-school marching band played The Temptations’ “Get Ready,” and Cummings and dozens of others involved in the project broke bread to officially open the store. That moment is one Cummings often talks about as “a religious experience.” The Whole Foods store...
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April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 20 Jun 2019
- News
Reframing Modern Art
Europe, Asia once-a-year, Latin America once a year, etc. And with that type of extended travel, you do have downtime on weekends, during weekdays, and browsing museums was one of my favorite things to do. Spending time repeatedly,...
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- 19 Aug 2021
- News
A Letter to My White Friends and Colleagues
Black-owned banks go to Black people. We know that, Carver Bank in New York, for example, 80 percent of their commercial loans or business loans go to Black people. And we know conversely, that less than...
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- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Empowering Entrepreneurially Minded Students
entrepreneurship flourish in many sectors, expanding beyond just the software, high-tech type of startup, into financial services and the future of blockchain, for example. We want to support people going into many different spaces during...
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Jennifer Gillespie
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
and loan crisis, followed by a rash of bank failures in the early 1990s that forced the government to recapitalize the FDIC’s Bank Insurance Fund. Long Term Capital Management, a largely unregulated hedge fund, came perilously close to...
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- 01 Mar 2011
- News
Local Hero
and corporate sponsors; naming rights; 29,500 season tickets (including 15,000 “charter seats”); and the loans it would take to cover the price tag for a $357 million ballpark. “Larry is the nicest person in the world, but he is also a...
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- 01 Dec 2001
- News
September 11: A Community Reflects
remarks underscoring the importance of community during times of national tragedy. "These types of circumstances, as horrific as they may be, serve to remind us of how blessed we are to be members of this wonderful HBS community," Cash...
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Susan Young;Deborah Blagg