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  • February 2010 (Revised September 2011)
  • Case

Lehman Brothers

By: Tom Nicholas and David Chen
In 2008, the U.S. financial system was in a state of crisis and Lehman Brothers went from a major Wall Street investment bank to an insolvent institution. It was a swift end for a firm that had its beginnings over 150 years prior. What would be the firm's legacy? And... View Details
Keywords: History; Business History; Development Economics; Business Exit or Shutdown; Investment Banking; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Economic Growth; Financial Crisis; Financial Services Industry; United States
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Nicholas, Tom, and David Chen. "Lehman Brothers." Harvard Business School Case 810-106, February 2010. (Revised September 2011.)
  • 14 Jul 2015
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First Look: July 14, 2015

and the United States were both friends and potential foes. In the meantime, Russia's own ambivalent relationship with the United States and its Western allies has worsened. In this context, China and Russia... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Endowments, Fiscal Federalism, and the Cost of Capital for States: Evidence from Brazil, 1891-1930

By: Andre C. Martinez Fritscher and Aldo Musacchio
There is a large amount of literature that aims to explain what determines country risk (defined as the difference between the yield of a sovereign's bonds and the risk free rate). In this paper, we contribute to the discussion by arguing that an important explanatory... View Details
Keywords: Trade; Cost of Capital; Revenue; Sovereign Finance; Goods and Commodities; Taxation; Business History; Risk and Uncertainty; Brazil
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Martinez Fritscher, Andre C., and Aldo Musacchio. "Endowments, Fiscal Federalism, and the Cost of Capital for States: Evidence from Brazil, 1891-1930." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-027, October 2009. (Revised December 2009.)
  • 20 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 20

2016 Gurgaon, India: Penguin Random House Win-Win Corporations: The Indian Way of Shaping Successful Strategies By: Shah, Shashank Abstract—Why did Ratan Tata decide to pay for all the victims of 26/11 whether injured in the Taj or... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 30, 2008

brokerage firm size and status, and recommendation boldness. The changes have a large and significant impact on the classification of trading signals and back-tests of three stylized facts: The profitability of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • October 1982
  • Supplement

Ideal Standard France: Pat Paterson, Video

By: Christopher A. Bartlett
A two-part taped interview with Pat Paterson. Paterson describes the action he took in dealing with his company's profit problems, then talks about the outcome. His decision to dismiss 1,500 workers may have accelerated the company's bankruptcy. View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Profit; Resignation and Termination; Outcome or Result; Problems and Challenges
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Bartlett, Christopher A. "Ideal Standard France: Pat Paterson, Video." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 883-512, October 1982.
  • 13 Apr 2010
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above and beyond first-nature driven geographic concentration due to market size, comparative advantage, and trade costs. Second-nature forces including knowledge spillovers, capital-market externalities, and vertical production linkages... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • April 2000 (Revised December 2001)
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AirTex Aviation

By: Brian J. Hall and Carleen Madigan
Two young and inexperienced MBAs buy a virtually bankrupt company. They design a decentralized control system organized around profit centers. As a case in control systems, there is ample detail for a discussion of design issues, control of independent profit centers,... View Details
Keywords: Air Transportation; Management Systems; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Air Transportation Industry
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Hall, Brian J., and Carleen Madigan. "AirTex Aviation." Harvard Business School Case 800-269, April 2000. (Revised December 2001.)
  • 23 Apr 2001
  • Research & Ideas

The Gulf: It’s a Family Affair

are so interrelated. Q: What's happening in the Gulf? A: We have seen increasing liberalization of the Gulf economies, for instance, the lowering of barriers to trade for foreign companies. These changes... View Details
Keywords: by Wendy Guild & Andrea Schulman
  • April 1995 (Revised July 1996)
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Governance at Metallgesellschaft (A)

By: Jay W. Lorsch and Samanta Graff
MG Corp., a U.S. subsidiary of Germany's international conglomerate, Metallgesellschaft, engaged in a disastrous hedging strategy that nearly dragged the entire enterprise into bankruptcy. This case explores issues of responsibility and accountability among the... View Details
Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Corporate Accountability; Business Conglomerates; Governing and Advisory Boards; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Corporate Governance; Mining Industry; Chemical Industry; Germany; United States
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Lorsch, Jay W., and Samanta Graff. "Governance at Metallgesellschaft (A)." Harvard Business School Case 495-055, April 1995. (Revised July 1996.)
  • 30 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 30, 2007

positions, which creates price pressure in the securities held in common by distressed funds. A similar phenomenon exists among funds experiencing large inflows: their tendency to expand existing positions... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 2010
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When Do Analysts Add Value? Evidence from Corporate Spinoffs

By: Emilie Rose Feldman, Stuart Gilson and Belen Villalonga
We investigate the information content and forecast accuracy of 1,793 analyst reports written around 62 spinoffs—a setting in which analysts' ability to inform investors is potentially very high. We find that analysts pay little attention to subsidiaries about to be... View Details
Keywords: Earnings Management; Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Subsidiaries; Restructuring; Forecasting and Prediction; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Initial Public Offering; Price; Reports; Research
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Feldman, Emilie Rose, Stuart Gilson, and Belen Villalonga. "When Do Analysts Add Value? Evidence from Corporate Spinoffs." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 10-102, May 2010.
  • 12 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

document evidence that firms systematically increase specialized, locally targeted advertising following the firm being taken to trial in that given location—precisely following initiation of the suit. In... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 2018
  • Introduction

Introduction

By: Sophus A. Reinert
BOOK ABSTRACT: When Istvan Hont died in 2013, the world lost a giant of intellectual history. A leader of the Cambridge School of Political Thought, Hont argued passionately for a global-historical approach to political ideas. To better understand the development of... View Details
Keywords: Markets; Moral Sensibility; Government and Politics; Trade; History
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Reinert, Sophus A. "Introduction." Introduction to Markets, Morals, Politics: Jealousy of Trade and the History of Political Thought, edited by Béla Kapossy, Isaac Nakhimovsky, Sophus A. Reinert, and Richard Whatmore, 1–22. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2018.
  • 03 Jun 2014
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First Look: June 3

of Entrepreneurship and Innovation By: Chatterji, Aaron, Edward Glaeser, and William R. Kerr Abstract—This chapter reviews recent academic work on the spatial concentration of entrepreneurship and innovation in the United States. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

through a new survey instrument that allows us to codify CEOs’ diaries in a detailed and comparable fashion and to build a bottom-up measure of CEO labor supply. The comparison of 1,114 family and professional CEOs reveals that family... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 23

Publications "From Visible Harm to Relative Risk: Centralization and Fragmentation of Pharmacovigilance Author: Arthur A. Daemmrich Publication: Chap. 13 in The Fragmentation of U.S. Health Care, Oxford University Press, 2010... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • November 1983 (Revised October 1989)
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Procter & Gamble Europe: Vizir Launch

By: Christopher A. Bartlett
Describes P&G's expansion in Europe, including the development of a strong country subsidiary management, responsive to local market differences. The launch of a new product presents strategic and organizational challenges as P&G considers making this their first... View Details
Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Trade; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Product Launch; Emerging Markets; Organizational Design; Problems and Challenges; Expansion; Europe
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Bartlett, Christopher A. "Procter & Gamble Europe: Vizir Launch." Harvard Business School Case 384-139, November 1983. (Revised October 1989.)
  • 12 Jul 2016
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July 12, 2016

internalize the social costs of higher leverage in the form of greater bankruptcy losses (moral hazard) and are subject to a regulatory capital requirement. In contrast, shadow... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Aug 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Are Consumers the Cure for Broken Health Insurance?

The health insurance system in the United States is broken, and business is paying the price. Employers' insurance premiums reached an estimated $450 billion in 2000, and then shot up again, at three times... View Details
Keywords: by Regina E. Herzlinger
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