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- 27 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement
of dollars every year. I estimate that liquidation is frequently chosen when a reorganization would have maximized total creditor recovery. I estimate that courts could dramatically improve creditor recovery by assigning liquidations... View Details
- 10 Jun 2008
- First Look
First Look: June 10, 2008
University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center was an internationally leading institution for cancer care, education, and research. Since 1996, it had successfully reorganized itself from a cancer hospital that was physically organized... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
bankruptcy reorganization on June 1, 2009. What are some of the key issues the company faces? Three Harvard Business School faculty members--Joseph Bower, an authority on general management; Vineet Kumar, a marketing expert; and Dante... View Details
- 21 Jul 2006
- Op-Ed
Enron Jury Sent the Right Message
reserves to "manage" reported earnings, the recategorization of investments to enable gains to be booked on the company's income statements, the reorganization of business structures to conceal business failures, the use of... View Details
Keywords: by Malcolm S. Salter
- 05 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 5, 2007
for evaluating the different sources of uncertainty and their implications for various stakeholders of the firm when attempting a reorganization with creditors or considering opening a court-supervised View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 03 Jan 2016
- Research & Ideas
NFL Black Monday: How Much Do Coaches Really Matter?
Every year, just as Hercules cleansed the Augean Stables, some NFL teams undergo a thorough reorganization of their coaching staffs. This annual exercise in bloodletting, known as Black Monday, takes place on the first Monday after the... View Details
- 09 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 9
Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/609041-PDF-ENG Jones Lang LaSalle: Reorganizing around the Customer Harvard Business School Case 410-007 Peter Roberts, CEO of Jones, Lang, LaSalle (JLL) Americas division, has... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 4
reorganization of the bureaucracy, and (c) an increase in monitoring by both the government and the general public. Correspondingly, we advance managerial implications that stem from these recent changes, illustrated by recent MNC and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Nov 2008
- First Look
First Look: November 25, 2008
The CEO of the Corporate Solutions Group at Jones Lang LaSalle Americas (JLL) is executing an organizational redesign to respond to its strategy goal of becoming more customer-centric. This case examines the dramatic corporate View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 19
Western Hospital (GWH) is a community hospital in Wiltshire, South West England, and one of England's largest maternity providers, responsible for delivering over 9,000 babies per year. The case discusses the efforts of Dr. Harini Narayan, consultant obstetrician, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
How Economics May Lead to Better Football Games
six years the bowls and athletic conferences went through three major reorganizations in the apparently dysfunctional system of matching teams. The upshot, in economist terms, is that the market has since become increasingly thick—larger... View Details
- 23 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 23, 2008
b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=609027 Kmart and ESL Investments (A) Harvard Business School Case 209-044 A major bankrupt retailer is poised to emerge from Chapter 11. Two activist hedge funds ("vulture investors") will own over 50% of View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 1, 2008
Case 208-069 Delphi Corporation, operating under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, has filed a plan of reorganization with the court, under which a consortium of hedge funds led by Appaloosa Management will invest up to $2.6 billion in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 5, 2017
urban and rural, the new urbanization does not upend China’s longstanding duality between those categories. The central goals of the new urbanization are to manage urbanization so as to generate domestic demand and reorganize agricultural... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Apr 2003
- Research & Ideas
XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”
businesses. In reorganizing to capitalize on its technology, Xerox created a new entity in 1989, headed by Robert Adams, that effectively established a third phase for managing spin-offs. Adams had created a new business for Xerox out of... View Details
Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
bankruptcy, they are allowed to break leases and shut down their unprofitable stores. The newly reorganized chain generally has not solved the basic underlying issues created by the online threat. However, it now has a smaller, healthier... View Details
- 27 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 27, 2009
b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=509032 Offering the Right Service in the Right Place: Growing Orthopedics at the Brigham and Women's/Faulkner (BW/F) Hospitals Harvard Business School Case 108-016 After the merger of two local hospitals, hospital leaders much decide... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
Netherlands, placed its U.S. operations and a German subsidiary under U.S. Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. To successfully reorganize as a going concern, the company sought to raise over $8 billion in a super-priority... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 30 Oct 2012
- First Look
First Look: October 30
School Case 712-496 In 2006, surgeon Ara Darzi identified several key areas, including acute stroke care, for improving health care across London. In response to his seminal call to action, stroke care was reorganized around eight... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Jun 2010
- Research & Ideas
Strategy and Execution for Emerging Markets
businesses, each of which was not performing up to its full potential, it was uncompetitive. The chairman of the group, Ratan Tata, creatively reorganized the business to make it survive in the new open global economy, and then challenged... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace