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- February 1992 (Revised July 1993)
- Case
Telefonica de Argentina S.A.
Deals with the privatization of the Argentine telephone industry. Focuses on the restructuring aspect. Commercial banks owned sovereign debt of Argentina trading at a deep discount to par. The question is whether the banks should exchange their sovereign debt...
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Financial Instruments;
Restructuring;
Privatization;
Commercial Banking;
Telecommunications Industry;
Argentina
Fenster, Steven R. "Telefonica de Argentina S.A." Harvard Business School Case 292-039, February 1992. (Revised July 1993.)
- 03 Nov 2009
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 3
wrongdoers is consistent with their judgments, and we offer preliminary evidence on how to reduce these biases. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-020.pdf Stock Price Fragility Authors:Robin Greenwood and David Thesmar Abstract We investigate the...
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Martha Lagace
- 02 May 2008
- What Do You Think?
What is the Future of State Capitalism?
respondents. Shann Turnbull points out that "National governments can deal with globalisation as they can determine the rules of ownership and control applicable in their jurisdictions." Nevertheless, he proposes the creation of...
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by Jim Heskett
- 11 Oct 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Success of Reverse Leveraged Buyouts
public, selling shares to individual and institutional investors," says Lerner. Critics complain that buyout firms suck out profits rather than improve the firms they acquire, making these companies weakened goods when the IPO is...
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- Profile
Daniel Sheyner
he first tried to transition to private equity from consulting, looking for more ownership over his work. Because the consulting company he worked for wasn't targeted by private equity, he had to go out and sell himself. "Traditional...
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- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Research Brief: Bankruptcy as a Better—Not Bitter—End
Are big banks using bankruptcy as a bullying tactic? A recent report by the American Bankruptcy Institute suggested that a longtime—and increasingly popular—mechanism in the US code that allows for expedited, less-democratic asset sales...
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Erin Peterson
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
increased self-employment by 15%. Monte Carlo evidence suggests the technique significantly reduces bias and Type-1 Error. SCHIP increased incorporated ownership by 36% and business share of household income by 12%, implying...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Jan 2019
- Working Paper Summaries
The Creation and Evolution of Entrepreneurial Public Markets
- 31 Jul 2014
- News
Making Private Equity Public Knowledge
first tried to transition to private equity from consulting, looking for more ownership over his work. Because the consulting company he worked for wasn't targeted by private equity, he had to go out and sell himself. "Traditional...
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Dan Morrell
- 14 Nov 2019
- Book
Lifting the Lid on Turkey's Hidden Business History
today. Historical evidence suggests it is remarkably difficult to reverse corruption when it has become systemic. The few successful cases, such as Singapore, point to the importance of institutional reforms, especially taking...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Dec 2010
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Doing Business in Emerging Markets
late 19th and early 20th centuries. Khanna and Palepu outline how to identify and respond to institutional voids in product, labor, and capital markets. Investors and entrepreneurs can respond to niches in View Details
- 2023
- Working Paper
The Stock Market and Bank Risk-Taking
By: David S. Scharfstein and Antonio Falato
Using confidential supervisory risk ratings, we document that banks increase risk after they go public compared to a control group of banks that filed to go public but withdrew their filings for plausibly exogenous reasons. The increase in risk increases short-term...
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Scharfstein, David S., and Antonio Falato. "The Stock Market and Bank Risk-Taking." Working Paper, September 2023.
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Books
Connecting the Dots by Cathleen Benko and F. Warren McFarlan Selling China by Yasheng Huang What Customers Think by Gerald Zaltman Connecting the Dots by Cathleen Benko and F. Warren McFarlan (Harvard Business School Press) A recent study by the Project Management...
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- 29 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
'Green Bonds' May Be Our Best Bet for Environmental Damage Control
of Business Administration at HBS. “In the process, they jump-start investing in areas that might be important for the environment.” They examine the phenomenon in a new paper for the National Bureau of Economic Research, Financing the Response to Climate Change: The...
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- Profile
Damien Hooper-Campbell
of soul searching, "I realized what really drives me is people; that's the thread in my life." Even though he would have to accept a fifty percent pay cut, Damien joined the Upper Manhattan Empowerment Zone in Harlem, writing grants and running financial...
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- 26 Jan 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Women Can Get More Venture Capital
Women-owned businesses are just as financially strong and creditworthy as the average U.S. firm, according to the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Women's Business Research. Yet women struggle more than men to acquire equity capital. Why? According to a 1999 survey,...
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by Mallory Stark & Martha Lagace
- 24 Jun 2019
- Blog Post
Chloe Ho, MBA 2019: Data-Driven and In Demand
larger existential implications. “As this field continues to involve, there are broader implications on data ownership and governance, notions of personal privacy and ethics, and on the evolution of man-machine interactions and...
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Technology
- 15 Aug 2017
- Blog Post
Where Work Meets Passion: A Summer In Community Development
primarily run an eight-acre urban farm called D-town Farm. They also ventured to create a brick-and-mortar store called the Detroit Food Commons, centered on creating greater access to healthy foods and spurring community ownership – and...
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Nonprofit / Government
- 24 Jul 2019
- Blog Post
Data-Driven and in Demand
larger existential implications. “As this field continues to involve, there are broader implications on data ownership and governance, notions of personal privacy and ethics, and on the evolution of man-machine interactions and...
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- 23 Aug 2019
- Sharpening Your Skills
Has the Corporate Mission Just Been Disrupted?
financial one. Institutional change expert Julie Battilana discusses what it will take to create this "transformation of capitalism." Why Politics is Failing America, and What Business Can Do To HelpHow could a country that...
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