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  • 24 Oct 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017

estate. Students are presented the opportunity to perform valuation analysis and compare two possible forms of financing for the potential acquisition: 1) traditional corporate debt and bond financing and 2) commercial mortgage-backed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Feb 2011
  • Research & Ideas

The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

decade I believe the research agenda at business schools will be driven by the desire to apply management principles to addressing complex social problems (like balancing energy security with environmental sustainability), whose solutions... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 May 2019
  • News

Lessons from the Ashes

day one of the takeover, we had a lot more debt than we anticipated. Then there was the October '87 stock market crash, which really hurt our asset sale program in Australia. So by the end of '87, we had in Australian dollars, about $1.5... View Details
  • 16 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 16

strategy. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/molycorp-financing-the-production-of-rare-earth-minerals-a/an/214054-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 215-014 Molycorp: Issuing the 'Happy Meal' Securities (B) Molycorp, the western... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Sep 2010
  • First Look

First Look: September 14, 2010

of publicly traded U.S. firms over 16 years, we investigate the impact of corporate socially responsible (CSR) strategies on security analysts' recommendations. Socially responsible firms received more favorable recommendations in recent... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 22 Sep 2014
  • Op-Ed

Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business

which other online upstarts such as Amazon.com changed retail and Square changed the small business payments business. A few factors account for the rapid growth of the entrants. First, institutional debt and equity investors have been... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking; Financial Services
  • 10 Feb 2015
  • First Look

First Look: February 10

in terms of both the bankruptcy code and the cultural attitudes toward corporate restructuring. This case can fit into an introductory course in a module on capital structure and the tradeoff between the costs and benefits of debt or in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Aug 2014
  • Op-Ed

Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering

Editor's note: This is the second in a series of articles based on a Harvard Business School working paper by Karen Mills that analyzes the current state of availability of bank capital for small business. During the 2008 financial crisis, small businesses were... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking; Financial Services
  • 18 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 18

Parisiens (RATP) decided to adopt new security measures and considered the opportunity to automate the oldest and the busiest line of the network. The head of the Paris Subway, Serge Lagrange, believed that automating Line 1 would improve... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 09 Aug 2016
  • First Look

August 9, 2016

the performance of the “U.S. Endowment Model,” and compares Christ Church’s performance against others as he weighs a variety of investment strategies including redevelopment, land sales, specialist funds, pooling capital with the other Oxford Colleges, and taking on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 21, 2008

who are the primary targets for the firm. "HealthAllies (B)" provides information about subsequent events. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=302019 Iceland (A) Harvard Business School Case 709-011 In May of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Oct 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Planning for Surprises

many U.S. airlines, the debt owed to customers in the form of miles is a value significantly larger than the airlines' market capitalization. This is simply not sustainable. Airlines have already reduced the value of miles by making seats... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 29 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 29, 2016

debt crisis of the 1980s, the Washington Consensus era, and reform efforts in the 2000s. Purchase this case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/711040-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 816-065 The Entrepreneurial Manager: Course... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2012
  • News

On a Sound Track

through the business world is a great advantage. The IPO went well? Yes, we raised nearly $190 million, which enabled us to retire debt and go in some new directions. My main challenge now is managing growth and our increasing... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg; audio accessories; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade
  • 07 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 7

uniformly agreed on the mechanism underlying this relationship: the sharing of tacit knowledge and recombination of ideas that occurs because of intra-firm mobility. But a second mechanism may also be at work: intra-firm mobility might help distant employees 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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  • 08 Mar 2016
  • Research & Ideas

Solving an Economic Mystery Surrounding Argentina and Chile

expressing frustration about their country’s recurring crises, and describing a business class lacking cohesion. While Chilean business leaders have secured legitimacy for their role in Chilean economic success over the last three... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Mar 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”

marveled at humankind's resourcefulness and success: The chorus notes that without gills, man has devised ways to travel on the sea. He has invented speech, and plows for the earth. With these accomplishments he secures good things such... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
  • 06 Feb 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Trouble Behind Livedoor

Horie represented all that is wrong with Western-style capitalism, others saw him as the future of the country's media industry, and a man of the people. But last month, Horie was arrested on suspicion of accounting fraud and illegal View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Technology
  • 01 Dec 2015
  • First Look

December 1, 2015

in response to a perceived security threat resulting from the Soviet policy of "Peaceful Coexistence" as well as Soviet misunderstanding and neglect of the anti-colonial revolution. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne