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  • 02 Feb 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Feb. 2

and Finance (forthcoming). (Also Harvard Business School Working Paper No. 05-053 and NBER Working Paper No. 13131.) Abstract The main arguments in favor of and against nominal and indexed debt are the incentive to default through... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Sep 2012
  • First Look

First Look: September 25

While the senior bank debt comprised only 6% of the capital used in the acquisition and was fully secured, it exercised its right to stop payments to Lind's subordinated lender that funded about 40% of the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 21, 2008

http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=608123 Dogus Group: Weighing Partners for Garanti Bank Harvard Business School Case 709-401 In August 2005, the leadership of Turkey's Dogus Group considered opportunities for... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Feb 2023
  • Blog Post

Meet the Black Investment Club

the Black Investment Club. Aka Akapelwa (MBA 2023) Aka Akapelwa came to HBS after six years in financial services, first in investment banking at Jeffries and later in Private Equity at ICV Partners where he invested across Healthcare,... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Venture Capital; Investment Management / Hedge Fund
  • 20 Dec 2011
  • First Look

First Look: December 20

major investment bank to investigate factors associated with analysts' annual compensation. We find compensation to be positively related to "All-Star" recognition, investment-banking contributions, the size of analysts'... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 09 Aug 2016
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August 9, 2016

economic activity? This paper exploits the federal preemption of national banks in 2004 from local laws against predatory lending to gauge the effect of the supply of credit on the real economy. Specifically, we exploit the heterogeneity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jun 2011
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Fame, Faith, and Social Activism: Business Lessons from Bono

early 1990s began raising awareness of the conflict in Sarajevo, playing live footage of the war during U2's Zooropa tour. After working to get eight industrialized nations in 1999 to agree to $100 million in African debt relief, he... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation
  • 03 Jan 2017
  • First Look

January 3, 2017

pay out capital also initiate debt or equity issues in the same year, resulting in 32% of aggregate payouts being externally financed. Most firms with simultaneous payouts and security issues do not generate enough operating cash flow to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 04 Mar 2014
  • First Look

First Look: March 4

act like debt during "normal times" but would convert to create capital should the bank hit a "triggering event." How should these instruments be designed? Can they be made attractive for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Oct 2009
  • Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance

MBA programs in America and the top five in Europe. While some offer banking courses, and others offer behavioral courses, none had a course that was specifically about consumer finance. Here at HBS, we have a rich set of finance... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Financial Services; Education
  • 01 Sep 2009
  • News

Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut

our curriculum. Was HBS alone in not offering a consumer finance course? No. I surveyed the top twenty MBA programs in America and the top five in Europe. While some offer banking courses, and others offer behavioral courses, none had a... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Finance
  • 21 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 21

insight from behavioral economists and organizational consultants is also included. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52264 December 2016 Journal of Business and Policy Research Corporate Sponsorship in Culture—A Case of Collaborative... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

The Case for Studying Financial History

liquidity shock because of the extent of leverage, of debt that had emerged in the system. So the lack of knowledge about financial history, in your view, contributed to the current global financial crisis? I really believe that. It’s... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government
  • 25 Oct 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Will Machine Learning Make You a Better Manager?

stock and see if it is positive or negative.” Finance is another field in which Teodorescu predicts that machine learning will become more common, as banks and financial companies will use data about how customers use money to predict... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information Technology
  • April 2017 (Revised February 2020)
  • Case

Restructuring Ukraine

By: Kristin Mugford, Seema Amble and Tian Feng
In June 2015, Ukraine found itself struggling with a volatile and devalued currency, dramatically diminished foreign reserves, and a projected financing shortfall of $40 billion. Ukraine’s new government sought to return the nation to stability following political... View Details
Keywords: Exchange Rates; Politics; Macroeconomics; Financial Crisis; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Restructuring; Economy; Currency Exchange Rate; Banks and Banking; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Bonds; Sovereign Finance; Capital Markets; Credit; Debt Securities; Financial Liquidity; Financial Markets; Government and Politics; Ukraine
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  • 15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008

Theory of Corporate Debt Maturity Choice Authors:Robin Greenwood, Jeremy C. Stein, and Samuel Hanson Abstract We argue that time-series variation in the maturity of aggregate corporate debt issues arises... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 22 Apr 2015
  • Op-Ed

Reforming Greece: Myths and Truths

But that hasn't happened. Why? To a large extent it is because of the inability of firms to obtain financing. All sources of financing collapsed in the country. With bank nonperforming loans to total gross loans skyrocketing from 5... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
  • Profile

Lara Hodgson

not wanting to strap the young company with debt that might hinder future access to capital that would be needed for tooling and not wanting to raise equity that required her to give away half the business. “This just doesn’t make... View Details
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Bibliography - Option Pricing in Theory & Practice: The Nobel Prize Research of Robert C. Merton - Exhibits - Historical Collections

Robert C. "The Changing Nature of Debt and Equity," discussion. In Are the Distinctions Between Debt and Equity Disappearing? Conference Series #33, edited by R. W. Kopeke and E. S. Rosengren. Federal... View Details
  • 20 Jan 2015
  • First Look

First Look: January 20

when the costs of financing a reorganization are greater than financing costs to a potential acquirer. Consistent with a senior creditor liquidation bias, the greater use of secured debt leads to more sales in bankruptcy-but, this result... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne