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- 22 May 2019
- News
Forgiving Student Loan Debt Leads to Better Jobs, Stronger Consumers
- January 2008
- Teaching Note
Credit Risk: Valuing Risky Debt & CDOs (TN)
By: Joshua D. Coval and Erik Stafford
Teaching Note for [208111] and [208113].
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- October 2014
- Article
Good Cop, Bad Cop: Complementarities Between Debt and Equity in Disciplining Management
By: Alexander Guembel and Lucy White
In this paper we examine how the quantity of information generated about firm prospects can be improved by splitting a firm's cash flow into a "safe" claim (debt) and a "risky" claim (equity). The former, being relatively insensitive to upside risk, provides a...
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Guembel, Alexander, and Lucy White. "Good Cop, Bad Cop: Complementarities Between Debt and Equity in Disciplining Management." Journal of Financial Intermediation 23, no. 4 (October 2014): 541–569.
- May 2004 (Revised July 2008)
- Teaching Note
Brazil 2003: Inflation Targeting and Debt Dynamics (TN)
By: Laura Alfaro, Rafael M. Di Tella and Ingrid Vogel
Teaching Note to (9-704-028).
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Finance - Faculty & Research
likely to be a loan—i.e., the loan supply contracts—when local banks have purchased more domestic sovereign debt and when that debt is risky (as measured by CDS spreads). These effects are most pronounced in...
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- 25 Apr 2014
- Research & Ideas
To Pay or Not to Pay: Argentina and the International Debt Market
Editor's note. Argentina is in the midst of a continuing saga regarding its 2002 default on its sovereign debt, a case that the US Supreme Court will decide soon. HBS finance professor Laura Alfaro, who served from 2010 to 2012 as...
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by Laura Alfaro
- October 2015
- Teaching Note
Molycorp: Financing the Production of Rare Earth Minerals (A)
By: Benjamin C. Esty and E. Scott Mayfield
Molycorp, the western hemisphere's only producer of rare earth minerals, was in the middle of a $1 billion capital expenditure project in its effort to become a vertically integrated supplier of rare earth minerals, oxides, and metals. Yet it had just reported lower...
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Keywords:
Convertible Debt;
Uncertainty;
Competition;
Startup;
China;
Supply & Demand;
Growth;
Rare Earth Minerals;
Discounted Cash Flows;
Mining;
Payoff Diagrams;
Option Pricing;
Capital Budgeting;
Capital Structure;
Cash Flow;
Financial Strategy;
Market Entry and Exit;
Vertical Integration;
Valuation;
Metals and Minerals;
Mining Industry;
Industrial Products Industry;
Canada;
California
- 06 Oct 2018
- News
The cycle of debt among vendors in India and the Philippines
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Buy Now, Pay Later: Home Finance
The Rise of Installment Selling Home Finance Cars on Time The Secondary Credit Market The Usurer's Grip Research Links Credits “About everyone who lives in what he calls his own house is in debt.” 20 &mdash Anonymous Boston leather...
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- 10 Dec 2013
- News
Wall Street feeds the ravenous debt beast again
- 11 Sep 2009
- Working Paper Summaries
Banking Deregulations, Financing Constraints and Firm Entry Size
- September 1990
- Article
How Risky is the Debt in Highly Leveraged Transactions?
Kaplan, Steve, and Jeremy Stein. "How Risky is the Debt in Highly Leveraged Transactions?" Journal of Financial Economics 27, no. 1 (September 1990): 215–245.
- March 2011 (Revised November 2011)
- Case
Harmonic Hearing Co.
By: Howard H. Stevenson and Craig H. Stephenson
Harmonic is a small, privately held manufacturer of hearing aids. Harriet Burns and Marc Davis, two employees at Harmonic, have an opportunity to purchase the company from the founder. As well-informed insiders who understand the industry, Burns and Davis believe the...
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Debts;
Quantitative Analysis;
Financing;
Entrepreneurial Finance;
Development Stage Enterprises;
Small & Medium-sized Enterprises;
Small Business;
Business Growth and Maturation;
Cash Flow;
Mathematical Methods;
Entrepreneurship;
Financing and Loans;
Borrowing and Debt;
Equity;
Manufacturing Industry
Stevenson, Howard H., and Craig H. Stephenson. "Harmonic Hearing Co." Harvard Business School Brief Case 114-271, March 2011. (Revised November 2011.)
- January 1987 (Revised September 1991)
- Case
Walt Disney Co.'s Yen Financing
By: W. Carl Kester and William B. Allen
Walt Disney is considering hedging future yen inflows from Disney Tokyo. It is evaluating techniques using FX Forwards, swaps, and Yen term borrowings. Goldman Sachs presents a rather unusual but potentially attractive solution: Disney could issue ECU Eurobonds and...
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Kester, W. Carl, and William B. Allen. "Walt Disney Co.'s Yen Financing." Harvard Business School Case 287-058, January 1987. (Revised September 1991.)
- May 2006 (Revised January 2007)
- Teaching Note
The Barber of Buenos Aires: Argentina's Debt Renegotiation (TN)
By: Noel Maurer and Aldo Musacchio
- June 2017
- Article
Is Operating Flexibility Harmful under Debt?
By: Nikolaos Trichakis, Dan A. Iancu and Gerry Tsoukalas
We study the inefficiencies stemming from a firm's operating flexibility under debt. We find that flexibility in replenishing or liquidating inventory, by providing risk-shifting incentives, could lead to borrowing costs that erase more than a third of the firm's...
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Covenants;
Risk-shifting;
Inventory;
Agency Costs;
Debt Financing;
Risk Management;
Borrowing and Debt
Trichakis, Nikolaos, Dan A. Iancu, and Gerry Tsoukalas. "Is Operating Flexibility Harmful under Debt?" Management Science 63, no. 6 (June 2017): 1730–1761.
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Consumer Finance Makes HBS Debut
TUFANO: His new consumer finance elective is part of a broader effort to legitimize the field as an important area for research and teaching. Last spring HBS became the first top-ranked U.S. business school to offer a course in consumer...
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Data - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
The Growth of Finance ” by Robin Greenwood and David Scharfstein . Appendix Data US Government Debt Project members Robin Greenwood , Sam Hanson , Jeremy Stein , and Lawrence Summers have written extensively...
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