What's in the Works?

Filene Research Projects in Progress

Filene Research Institute will publish these projects sometime in the future. If you are interested in learning more about any of these projects, feel free to contact us.

Credit Union Strategy

1. How Cooperative Structure Impacts Organizational Decision-Making
2. Challenges to the Cooperative Model – a Colloquium
3. Supporting Credit Unions in Intelligent Merger Design
4. Global Trends & Scenarios: Credit Union Implications
   
5. Credit Union Maturity and Governance Forms
6. An Examination of Credit Union Operational Efficiency
7. Re-thinking the 30 Year Mortgage
8. CEO Behaviors and Organizational Performance
9. High Performing Credit Unions During the Recession
10. Key Motivators of the Next Generation Workforce
11. Attributes/Skills of Highly Effective Credit Union Managers
12. Credit Union Sustainability: Operational Efficiency – Colloquium at UC Berkeley

Consumer Behavior

1. The Future of the Branch – a Colloquium
2. Gamification within the Credit Union System
3. Testing the Impact of a Financial Health Check on Consumer Behavior
4. ROI of Social Media
5. Ethnographic Research for Targeted Credit Union Challenges
   
6. The NEW Field of Membership: Social Niches

Public Policy

1. Short-term Credit for Families on Public Assistance
2. Dynamic Considerations in Supplemental CU Capital Research
   
3. Commercial Lending During the Crisis: Credit Unions vs. Banks
4. Investor Education in the Workplace
5. Determinants of Attitudes Toward Strategic Default on Mortgages