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  • January 2021
  • Supplement

Aster DM Healthcare: Budget Exercise

By: V.G. Narayanan and Amy Klopfenstein
In April 2020, Alisha Moopen, Deputy Managing Director of Aster DM Healthcare, a network of clinics, hospitals, and pharmacies in the Middle East and India, must create her company’s budget for the 2021 fiscal year in light of the onset of Covid-19. The pandemic had... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Decisions; Forecasting and Prediction; Judgments; Decision Choices and Conditions; Cost vs Benefits; Finance; Borrowing and Debt; Financial Institutions; Banks and Banking; Financial Condition; Financial Liquidity; Accounting; Budgets and Budgeting; Management; Crisis Management; Health Pandemics; Health Industry; Asia; India; United Arab Emirates; Dubai
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  • 12 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 12

debt for firms in the vicinity of financial distress. We show that this ruling increased the likelihood of equity issues, increased investment, and reduced firm risk, consistent with a decrease in debt-equity conflicts of interest. The... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • Article

The Economics of Structured Finance

By: Joshua D. Coval, Jakub W. Jurek and Erik Stafford
This paper investigates the spectacular rise and fall of structured finance. The essence of structured finance activities is the pooling of economic assets like loans, bonds, and mortgages, and the subsequent issuance of a prioritized capital structure of claims, known... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Asset Management; Debt Securities; Investment; Risk Management; Behavior
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  • February 2023
  • Supplement

Performance Management at Afreximbank (B)

By: Robert S. Kaplan, Siko Sikochi, Anna Ngarachu and Namrata Arora
Supplements the (A) case. Founded in October 1993, the Cairo-based African Export-Import Bank (Afreximbank) was a specialized continental financial institution designed to address the low level of intra-African trade, the decline in financial flows to Africa, the... View Details
Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Performance Evaluation; Organizational Culture; Crisis Management; Banking Industry; Africa
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  • 16 Jun 2021
  • HBS Case

Cruising in Crisis: How Carnival Is Riding Out the COVID-19 Storm

companies are often considered financially distressed. “Indeed, early in the pandemic, with the financial markets in turmoil, Carnival reportedly entered into discussions with a group of private equity and hedge fund investors—who typically specialize in buying the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Travel
  • 15 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

Business School Case 719-417 National Australia Bank: Looking Out for the Customer After learning that most defaults were due to health, job, or marital problems, National Australia Bank revised its debt collection department to shift... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 2012
  • Book

The Founders and Finance: How Hamilton, Gallatin, and Other Immigrants Forged a New Economy

In 1776 the United States government started out on a shoestring and quickly went bankrupt fighting its War of Independence against Britain. At the war's end, the national government owed tremendous sums to foreign creditors and its own citizens. But lacking the power... View Details
Keywords: History; Sovereign Finance; Ethnicity Characteristics; Economics; Great Britain; United States
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Credit Access and Social Welfare: The Rise of Consumer Lending in the United States and France

By: Gunnar Trumbull
Research into the causes of the 2008 financial crisis has drawn attention to a link between growing income inequality in the United States and high household indebtedness. Most accounts trace the U.S. idea of credit-as-welfare to the period of wage stagnation and... View Details
Keywords: Household Finance; Welfare State; Credit; Personal Finance; Welfare; Borrowing and Debt; France; United States
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  • 16 Jul 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Restaurant Revolution: How the Industry Is Fighting to Stay Alive

business model for small independents is often elusive. So when a crisis of the magnitude of the COVID-19 global pandemic forces restaurants to close, and their revenue drops to zero overnight, things get particularly dire. Unlike the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael S. Kaufman, Lena G. Goldberg, and Jill Avery; Food & Beverage
  • 16 Jul 2013
  • First Look

First Look: July 16

low and unstable income, but also by heavy debt burdens. We find that the inability to save contributes to this indebtedness. Access to free savings accounts substantially decreases participants' propensity to use short-term credit. In... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
  • 02 Apr 2020
  • What Do You Think?

What Are Lessons for Leaders from This Black Swan Crisis?

small rock together.” WH Kolkman added: “We also need to give more attention to mitigation, which will be greatly helped by cooperation, resilience, innovation, pragmatism and speed. In a crisis like this, perfection is the enemy of... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 10 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 10

Crisis (A) Aldo Musacchio, Andrew Goodman, and Claire QureshiHarvard Business School Case 710-069 On November 25, 2009, the city state of Dubai stunned markets by announcing that Dubai World, its flagship state holding company, would seek... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Jun 2018
  • Research & Ideas

In America, Immigrants Really Do Get the Job Done

School Professor William R. Kerr. “Nationalistic policies have gained strength all around the world,” Kerr says, pointing to Brexit in the UK and strains caused by the refugee crisis in Europe as indicators of anti-immigrant sentiment... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Agriculture & Agribusiness; Technology; Service
  • 31 Jul 2012
  • First Look

First Look: July 31

112-105 A simple consolidation exercise. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/112105-PDF-ENG Capitalizing for the Future: HSBC in 2010 Anette Mikes and Dominique HamelHarvard Business School Case 112-097 Following the financial crisis... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 28 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'

cover debt payments owed to creditors. This could set up the perfect storm for a huge wave of bankruptcies in the weeks and months ahead, says Stuart C. Gilson, the Steven R. Fenster Professor of Business Administration at Harvard... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking
  • 07 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 7

Valley, California, Western Technology Investment (WTI) specialized in a hybrid form of debt and equity financing for early-stage companies. Like traditional venture capital and private equity firms, WTI raised funds from institutional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

profitable when it decided to do its spin-off. What can be done to encourage companies to restructure sooner rather than later? In the case of United Air Lines, management in effect created a crisis that made employees more willing to... View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
  • 30 Aug 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset

the building gets built and (hopefully) leased. I have another case I am working on with HBS professor Dan Bergstresser on a real estate mortgage bank in Argentina that restructured itself during the country's recent collapse—the greatest default of View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Construction; Real Estate
  • 25 Oct 2020
  • Research & Ideas

The Dark Side of Fintech Borrowing

by consolidating some of their credit card debt saw a deterioration in those scores months down the line as they began to use their credit lines to consume more goods, from purchasing a car to buying everyday items, the researchers... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services; Banking
  • 16 Apr 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Has COVID-19 Broken the Global Value Chain?

transparency through data sharing in order to better track the chain of subcontractors. THE CORONAVIRUS CRISIS More Business-Related Pandemic Coverage from Around Harvard and Beyond How to Manage Coronavirus Layoffs with Compassion... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

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