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  • Working Paper

Covenant-Light Contracts and Creditor Coordination

By: Bo Becker and Victoria Ivashina
In 2015, 70% of newly issued leveraged loans had weaker enforcement features, called covenant-light or "cov-lite"; this is nearly a three-time increase in cov-lite issuance compared to a previous peak in 2007. We evaluate whether this development can be attributed to... View Details
Keywords: Credit Cycles; Loan Contracts; Debt Covenants; Contracts; Financing and Loans; Credit; Borrowing and Debt
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  • 2014
  • Working Paper

Hidden Substitutes

By: John William Hatfield and Scott Duke Kominers
In this paper, we show that preferences exhibiting some forms of complementarity in fact have an underlying substitutable structure. Specifically, we show that some preferences that are not substitutable in the setting of many-to-one matching with contracts become... View Details
Keywords: Many-to-One Matching; Many-to-Many Matching; Stability; Substitutes; Matching With Contracts; Slot-Specific Priorities; Sherlock; Market Design; Contracts; Marketplace Matching; Balance and Stability
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  • February 2009
  • Teaching Note

Syndexa and Technology Transfer at Harvard University (TN)

By: Richard G. Hamermesh
Teaching Note for [808073]. View Details
Keywords: Agreements and Arrangements; Commercialization; Science-Based Business; Research; Rights; Pharmaceutical Industry
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  • January 2008 (Revised March 2008)
  • Supplement

Uría Menéndez (B) (Abridged)

By: Robert G. Eccles
This one-page case, to be handed out in class, briefly lists the three major strategic options facing Uria Menendez. View Details
Keywords: Corporate Strategy; Law; Geographic Location; Expansion; Strategic Planning; Legal Services Industry; Iberian Peninsula
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  • 2007
  • Chapter

Your Expertise: Creating and Developing Successful New Legal Practices

By: H. K. Gardner, T. Morris and N. Anand
Keywords: Experience and Expertise; Practice; Success; Law; Legal Services Industry
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  • November 2002 (Revised December 2002)
  • Case

Calvin Klein, Inc. v. Warnaco Group, Inc.

On May 30, 2000, Calvin Klein, Inc. (CKI) filed suit against Warnaco Group, Inc. and Linda Wachner, its CEO, for breaching its jeanswear licensing and distribution contract and, in so doing, diluting the equity of its brand. On June 26, 2000, Warnaco countered with its... View Details
Keywords: Lawsuits and Litigation; Distribution Channels; Brands and Branding; Manufacturing Industry; Distribution Industry; Apparel and Accessories Industry
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  • January 1995 (Revised March 1995)
  • Supplement

Apple Computer 1995 (A)

By: David B. Yoffie and Takia Mahmood
Updates Apple Computer--1992. Summarizes the key strategic actions from 1992 to 1995 regarding PCs, the PowerMac, multimedia, OS licensing, and alliances with IBM. View Details
Keywords: Competitive Strategy; Information Infrastructure; Alliances; Rights; Computer Industry
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  • 22 May 2016
  • News

An Evangelist for Entrepreneurs

As former chief secretary to the British Treasury under Prime Minister Gordon Brown, MP and former entrepreneur Liam Byrne (MBA 2010) has had plenty of opportunity for success, failure, and reflection. Asked what his one change would be to the financial world, Byrne... View Details
  • 29 Sep 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Work 3.0: Redefining Jobs and Companies in the Uber Age

undercutting an era of new opportunity for American workers that I call Work 3.0. Work 1.0 existed through roughly the first half of the twentieth century. Almost any worker who wasn’t self-employed was a company’s employee. Work 2.0, our present stage, emerged as... View Details
Keywords: by Andrei Hagiu; Transportation; Web Services
  • 01 Sep 2018
  • News

Remembering Dick Spangler

Achievement Award, the highest distinction at HBS. In 2005, the University honored him with the Harvard Medal, in appreciation for his many contributions to Harvard; in 2013 Harvard awarded him an honorary doctor of laws degree. The... View Details
  • 01 Jun 2005
  • News

Ideas: Books

institutions ranging from Wall Street, to law and business schools, to the AFL-CIO examining the responsibilities of “gatekeepers” — corporate directors, regulators, auditors, lawyers, investment bankers, and journalists. They find that... View Details
Keywords: Alfred D. Chandler Jr.; Chandler
  • 2012
  • Chapter

Integrated Reporting Requires Integrated Assurance

By: Robert G. Eccles, Michael P. Krzus and Liv A. Watson
In the wake of the recent financial crisis, increasing the effectiveness of auditing has weighed heavily on the minds of those responsible for governance. When a business is profitable and paying healthy dividends to its stockholders, fraudulent activities and... View Details
Keywords: Risk Management; Crime and Corruption; Integrated Corporate Reporting; Governance Compliance; Organizational Culture; Management Systems; Laws and Statutes; Information Management; Accounting Audits; Financial Crisis
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  • June 2022 (Revised January 2023)
  • Case

South Africa – a 'Just Energy Transition'

By: Richard Vietor
South Africa, like most other countries, is in the process of reducing its carbon emissions to comply with COP26 and, hopefully, reach net zero emissions by 2050. However, because South Africa relies almost wholly on coal (93%) for electricity, and on coal for... View Details
Keywords: Energy; Economic Development; Climate Change; Coal Mining; Emission Reduction; Environmental Regulation; Environmental Sustainability; Environmental Law; Labor and Management Relations; Labor Unions; Natural Resources; Energy Policy; Energy Sources; South Africa
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  • Profile

Kevin S. Rollag

do they balance respect for the nation's laws while maintaining a commitment to human rights? How do you run a business in a location where you might be required to impose on those rights? Before, I thought of these issues as... View Details
  • 17 Sep 2019
  • Blog Post

What to Expect from your First Week at HBS

year ago, I began pursuing a JD/MBA at Harvard Law School and interned this past summer for the UN in Cambodia before ending up across the river at HBS to start my MBA.  Expectation vs. Reality  My expectations from the first week were... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2016
  • News

Feedback

bring much-needed accountability into the system? —Jim Mills (MBA 1986) Tim Draper’s investment in the school voucher campaign was not for naught. It caused the legislature to panic and pass a surprisingly progressive charter school law... View Details
  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

Faculty Responds to Financial Crisis

Financial System, Professor David Moss’s course on the history of financial panics. It draws parallels to the current crisis. Consumer Finance, jointly taught by HBS professor Peter Tufano and HLS professor Howell Jackson, examines the View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 01 Dec 2015
  • News

Preparing Future Leaders for Tomorrow’s Challenges

Enriching the MBA Experience Through Curricular Innovation In its first century, Harvard Business School created the pedagogy that has come to define management education around the world. The case method, adapted from Harvard Law School,... View Details
  • 15 May 2015
  • Blog Post

2+2: A "Liberating and Life-Altering" Choice

towards law school. However, as a result of this new initiative I began thinking critically about business school as a pathway.  The opportunity to apply to HBS while still in college struck me as a really interesting one, especially... View Details
  • 01 Jun 1998
  • News

Lisa Frankenberg

bureaucratic difficulties in a country where laws were in flux, Frankenberg persisted in her vision to fill the new republic's information void. "Having total support from my investor made it possible," she says gratefully. Today, the... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso; photograph by Webb Chappell