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  • 17 Apr 2007
  • First Look

First Look: April 17, 2007

often for two or more years. Any debtor, no matter how small, could hold up the process at any point by issuing written complaints to the court. Fernando needed to figure out whether the company was worth saving, whether it had a business strategy that could succeed if... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 4

by smart competitors and changes in their industries. In each case, there were opportunities to act before a crisis engulfed the organization. At Kodak, for example, CEO George Fisher attempted to move the company into the digital era in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
  • 08 Mar 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile

streets of Buenos Aires. Yet this kind of globalized economy also created distortions, as it was the owners of land and commodities who became rich. When globalization came to a shuddering halt with the Great Depression, there was a crisis. Chile passed through an... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Aug 2014
  • Op-Ed

Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit

immediate impact of the financial crisis on small business and, second, driving economic recovery in the years following. Together, the three-the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act), the Small Business Jobs Act... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking
  • 13 Jun 2012
  • HBS Case

HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants

Fons is about to propose a strategy to Kroll to launch KBRA. Along with Fons, an economist specializing in credit risk and rating agency issues, students are asked to consider several key questions: Should KBRA enter this business, which despite the economic View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Banking; Financial Services
  • 16 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 16

transaction referred to as a "Happy Meal." The goal was to help convertible debt investors "hedge their respective investments through short sales." The challenge of the case is to understand why Molycorp used this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jun 2011
  • First Look

First Look: June 21

Authors: Ferguson, Niall, and Moritz Schularick Publication: International Finance 14, no. 1 (2011) Abstract For the better part of the past decade, the world economy has been marked by an economic order that combined Chinese export-led development with U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 Jul 2009
  • Research Event

Business Summit: Real Estate

The crisis may have started with residential real estate but it is also affecting commercial real estate. Asset prices have fallen and are expect to decline further; there are likely to be massive defaults; and View Details
Keywords: Re: Howard H. Stevenson; Construction; Real Estate
  • 04 Dec 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

join the European Monetary Union in 1999. With strong unions, weak competitiveness, and a legacy of socialism, it could not compete with north-European countries. After borrowing extensively to fund deficits, Portugal went into debt View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 18 Nov 2014
  • First Look

First Look: November 18

own puzzles. Our review outlines the growing body of work that documents a role for debt financing related to innovation. We highlight the new literature on learning and experimentation across multi-stage innovation projects and how this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 14, 2010

decisions taken and financial results through the end of fiscal year 2010. Purchase this supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/411027-PDF-ENG Cypress Sharpridge: Raising Capital in a Time of Crisis Lena G. Goldberg and Adam... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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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  • 11 Feb 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Politicians Benefited From Using Toxic Loans

Talk of the recent financial crisis often falls into a simplistic narrative of villainous banks, marketing toxic financial products to innocent customers who did not understand their risks. Among the storied victims are municipal... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
  • September 1998 (Revised December 1998)
  • Case

Infinity Carpets, Inc.

By: Ronald W. Moore and Thomas R. Piper
A turnaround expert must determine whether a firm in distress is worth more as a going concern than its liquidation value. If so, the finances of the firm must be restructured in a way consistent with the bargaining power of the holders of the various securities. The... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Borrowing and Debt; Financial Liquidity; Crisis Management; Value; Apparel and Accessories Industry
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  • 13 Sep 2011
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First Look: September 13

capital flows—both debt and equity—into public and private components and study their relationship with productivity growth. This exercise reveals that international capital flows are mainly shaped by government decisions and sovereign to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • December 2010 (Revised March 2011)
  • Case

The Euro in Crisis: Decision Time at the European Central Bank

By: J. Gunnar Trumbull, Dante Roscini and Diane Choi
This case traces the origins and evolution of the European Central Bank, with attention to its 2010 decision concerning the purchase of Greek sovereign debt. View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Borrowing and Debt; Currency; Central Banking; Financial Management; Sovereign Finance; Policy; Crisis Management; Europe; Greece
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  • 24 Sep 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Financial Meltdowns Are More Predictable Than We Thought

increased the odds of a crisis to 40 percent." “Previous authors had shown that there was some ability to predict financial crises,” says Hanson, a professor of business administration in the HBS Finance Unit. “But we were surprised by... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Financial Services
  • 03 Oct 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?

In September 2008, Lehman Brothers went under—the largest bankruptcy in American history. But that was just the beginning of the story. What followed was the Great Recession, a gargantuan financial crisis that affected the entire world... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Banking; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate
  • 20 Nov 2018
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New Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018

forthcoming Review of Financial Studies Private Equity and Financial Fragility During the Crisis By: Bernstein, Shai, Josh Lerner, and Filippo Mezzanotti Abstract—Do private equity firms contribute to financial fragility during economic... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Oct 2010
  • First Look

First Look: October 5, 2010

and recovery to be associated with increases in orders from Hugo Boss's retailer customers Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-034.pdf A Comparative-Advantage Approach to Government Debt Maturity Authors:Robin... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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