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    James J. Ling

    Ling was a maverick in the development of the conglomerate business model, building in 14 years the 14th largest industrial corporation in the United States. A major risk taker, Ling extensively used debt to... View Details
    Keywords: Fabricated Goods
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    Turnarounds

    Where can I find information on turnarounds? Use LSEG Workspace to search for investments in turnaround or distressed View Details

      Charles D. Tandy

      Though Tandy Corporation was a successful leather goods company, Charles Tandy’s biggest accomplishment was his revitalization of Radio Shack. Acquiring the company with $4.5 million in debt and almost $1... View Details
      Keywords: Retail
      • 01 Mar 2009
      • News

      Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion

      historic emergence of credit and debt was as important in the rise of civilization as technological invention. In the excerpt that follows, he explains the recently developed symbiotic financial relationship between the United States and... View Details
      Keywords: Finance; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information
      • Winter 2013
      • Article

      Fear of Rejection? Tiered Certification and Transparency

      By: Emmanuel Farhi, Josh Lerner and Jean Tirole
      The sub-prime crisis has shone a harsh spotlight on the practices of securities underwriters, which provided too many complex securities that proved to ultimately have little value. This uproar calls attention to the fact that the literature on intermediaries has... View Details
      Keywords: Debt Securities; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Governance
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      • 11 Jul 2006
      • First Look

      First Look: July 11, 2006

      becoming "stateless." Robert Reich among others suggested that historically the nationality of multinationals was clear, while for contemporary multinationals corporate nationality is both unclear and increasingly irrelevant.... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • June 2014
      • Supplement

      Financial Policy at Apple, 2013 (B)

      By: Mihir Desai and Elizabeth A. Meyer
      This case is meant to accompany Financial Policy at Apple, 2013 (A) and details the results of Apple's Q2 2013 earnings call. View Details
      Keywords: Apple; Steve Jobs; Forecast; Forecasting; Forecasting And Prediction; Shareholder Activism; Share Repurchase; Dividends; Financial Ratios; Preferred Shares; Cash Distribution; Corporate Finance; Borrowing and Debt; Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Technology Industry; Consumer Products Industry; United States; Republic of Ireland
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      • June 2014
      • Supplement

      Financial Policy at Apple, 2013 Student Supplement

      By: Mihir Desai and Elizabeth A. Meyer
      This is the student spreadsheet supplement to case 214-085, Financial Policy at Apple, 2013 (A). View Details
      Keywords: Apple; Steve Jobs; Forecast; Forecasting; Forecasting And Prediction; Shareholder Activism; Share Repurchase; Dividends; Financial Ratios; Preferred Shares; Cash Distribution; Corporate Finance; Borrowing and Debt; Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Technology Industry; Consumer Products Industry; United States; Republic of Ireland
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        Henry R. Kravis

        By making LBOs part of the financial mainstream of American business, Kravis reshaped the perception of debt as a motivating factor for corporate performance. View Details
        Keywords: Finance
        • October 2014
        • Supplement

        Financial Policy at Apple, 2013 Excel Supplement

        By: Mihir Desai and Elizabeth A. Meyer
        This is the Excel Supplement to Teaching Note 215-022: Financial Policy at Apple, 2013 (A) - (B). View Details
        Keywords: Apple; Steve Jobs; Forecast; Forecasting; Forecasting And Prediction; Shareholder Activism; Share Repurchase; Dividends; Financial Ratios; Preferred Shares; Cash Distribution; Corporate Finance; Borrowing and Debt; Financial Management; Financial Strategy; United States; Republic of Ireland
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        • 01 Dec 2011
        • News

        A Modest Tax Proposal

        "How about 'No new taxes after these new taxes'?" © James Stevenson/The New Yorker Collection/www.cartoonbank.com As Congress starts the next round of debt ceiling negotiations, the US Chamber of Commerce and other business groups are... View Details
        Keywords: Robert C. Pozen; tax holidays
        • 18 Jul 2005
        • Research & Ideas

        Identify Emerging Market Opportunities

        count on raising debt or equity capital locally to finance their operations. Like investors, creditors don't have access to accurate information on companies. Businesses can't easily assess the creditworthiness of other firms or collect... View Details
        Keywords: by Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu & Jayant Sinha
        • 06 Nov 2012
        • First Look

        First Look: November 6

        entrepreneurs. The results are consistent with intra-section learning, where the close ties between section-mates lead to insights about the merits of business plans. Corporate Ownership Structure and the Choice Between Bank View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • 14 Oct 2013
        • Research & Ideas

        Time that Government Reopens for Business

        doesn't increase its debt limit on October 17, it will start defaulting on its bills—an unprecedented event in the nation's history. Senior Lecturer Joseph B. Fuller, a member of the School's Entrepreneurial Management Unit and an expert... View Details
        Keywords: by Jim Aisner
        • 01 Jun 2006
        • News

        A New Day for Fellowships

        Ed Gozonsky (MBA '54), right, spoke to Associate Professor Andrew McAfee and students after attending a class as part of Fellowship Day. HBS changed my life. The education I got here made all the difference,” retired CEO of Alleghany View Details
        Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
        • 12 Jul 2011
        • First Look

        First Look: July 12

        debt issuers deteriorates during credit booms, and that this deterioration forecasts low excess returns to corporate bondholders. The key insight is that changes in the pricing of credit risk... View Details
        Keywords: Carmen Nobel
        • 01 Jul 2014
        • First Look

        First Look: July 1

        a mix of both. Wherever clubs fall on this spectrum, having a strategy that recognizes the global importance of stars is critical to long-lasting financial success. August 2013 Journal of Finance A Comparative-Advantage Approach to Government View Details
        Keywords: Carmen Nobel
        • 14 Jun 2004
        • Research & Ideas

        The Big Money for Big Projects

        debt, which means the loan repayments must come from project cash flows only. In municipally financed or public financed projects, a government entity is the borrower or the debt is backed by a government guarantee. In the case of the Big... View Details
        Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services
        • 20 May 2014
        • First Look

        First Look: May 20

        developing countries considering both creditor and debtor side of the international debt transactions. Using these measures, we demonstrate that sovereign-to-sovereign transactions account for upstream capital flows and global imbalances.... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
        • 15 Nov 2016
        • First Look

        November 15, 2016

        will be critical to their success. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51813 Fiscal Rules and Sovereign Default By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—We provide a quantitative analysis of fiscal rules in a standard model of... View Details
        Keywords: Sean Silverthorne