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  • March 2016 (Revised May 2021)
  • Case

Michael Milken: The Junk Bond King

By: Tom Nicholas and Matthew G. Preble
Michael Milken, an investment banker who dominated the junk bond market in the 1980s, was sentenced to jail in 1990 after pleading guilty to a number of securities and tax-related felonies. In the preceding decade, Milken had helped usher in a new wave of leveraged buy... View Details
Keywords: Junk Bonds; High-yield Bonds; Financial Innovation; Shareholder Value; Bonds; Capital; Capital Structure; Cost of Capital; Crime and Corruption; Entrepreneurship; Ethics; Finance; Investment Banking; Leveraged Buyouts; Mergers and Acquisitions; Ownership; Private Equity; Restructuring; United States
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Perceptions and the Politics of Finance: Junk Bonds and the Regulatory Seizure of First Capital Life

By: S. C. Gilson, H. DeAngelo and L. DeAngelo
In May 1991, one month after seizing Executive Life, California regulators seized First Capital Life (FCLIC). Both insurers were Drexel clients with large junk bond holdings, and both had experienced 'bank runs.' FCLIC's run followed regulators' televised comments that... View Details
Keywords: Finance; Bonds; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms
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  • 2000
  • Other Unpublished Work

Private Versus Public Debt: Evidence from Firms that Replace Bank Loans with Junk Bonds

By: S. C. Gilson and J. Warner
Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Financing and Loans; Bonds; Banking Industry
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The Collapse of First Executive Corporation: Junk Bonds, Adverse Publicity, and the Run on the Bank Phenomenon

By: S. C. Gilson, H. DeAngelo and L. DeAngelo
In April 1991, regulators seized the major subsidiaries of First Executive Corporation (FE), an insurer that invested heavily in junk bonds. During the junk bond market turmoil of 1989–1990, adverse publicity fueled a bank run at FE, forcing a $4 billion portfolio... View Details
Keywords: Business Ventures; Bonds; Banks and Banking
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  • May 1996
  • Case

First Capital Holdings Corp.

By: Stuart C. Gilson, Harry DeAngelo and Linda DeAngelo
The manager of a money-management firm considers whether to invest in the securities of a large, financially troubled, California-based life insurance holding company that holds 40% of its assets in high-yield junk bonds. Over the past year, the value of its portfolio... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Debt Securities; Bonds; Valuation; Investment Return; Fair Value Accounting; Financial Institutions; Insurance Industry
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  • October 2004 (Revised July 2011)
  • Case

AT&T 2000-2004

By: Stephen P. Bradley and Kerry Herman
Provides an update on CEO Michael Armstrong's "Project Grand Slam" strategy to build the value of AT&T by offering a complete, integrated telecommunications solution to both corporate and residential customers, including wireless and wire line telephone, Internet,... View Details
Keywords: Business Exit or Shutdown; Customers; Business or Company Management; Failure; Business and Shareholder Relations; Networks; Corporate Strategy; Internet; Wireless Technology; Value Creation; Telecommunications Industry
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  • June 2017
  • Article

The Social Trajectory of a Finance Professor and the Common Sense of Capital

By: Marion Fourcade and Rakesh Khurana
This paper traces the career of Michael Jensen, a Chicago finance PhD turned Harvard Business School professor to reveal the intellectual and social conditions that enabled the emergence and institutionalization of what we call the “neoliberal common sense of capital,”... View Details
Keywords: Executive Pay; The Firm; Michael Jensen; Neo-Liberalism; Shareholder Value; Agency Theory; Corporate Governance; Executive Compensation; Business and Shareholder Relations; Transformation
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  • 03 Oct 2023
  • Research Event

Build the Life You Want: Arthur Brooks and Oprah Winfrey Share Happiness Tips

world. You better use it wisely. And the best thing that you can do is to lift people up and bring them together in bonds of happiness and love. And when we met each other and realized that we thought, wow, if we could join up forces... View Details
Keywords: by HBS Staff
  • 01 Dec 2003
  • News

An Authentic Leader

communities where they serve. It sounds old-fashioned, and yet it’s almost revolutionary. What set the stage for recent business scandals? Greed took over. It started with the junk bonds and the corporate... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 21 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 21

Michael Milken: The Junk Bond King Michael Milken, an investment banker who dominated the junk bond market in the 1980s, was sentenced to jail in... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 23 Dec 2008
  • First Look

First Look: December 23, 2008

Goldman Sachs & Co.—where one of the authors (Friedman) was Chairman—during the 1980s and early '90s: the firm's moves into junk bonds and private equity and its sustained efforts to become a truly... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Jun 2016
  • News

Again in a Great City

thousands of abandoned homes, needs more housing The Detroit economy was already wavering when the Cummings family arrived. By early 1992, Detroit’s debt rating would be cut to junk bond status. From an... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly