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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

effect of a unique mediated funding scheme that combines project grants with active facilitation and conflict management on firm performance, comparing the likelihood of bankruptcy and employee count as well as patent count, publication... View Details
  • 21 Aug 2020
  • Blog Post

Pursuing a JD/MBA Joint Degree

(EC) friends to discuss the latest ideas in the startup scene. Afterward, I head over to HLS where I am debating a recently issued statute interpretation from a Delaware bankruptcy judge with my 2L classmates. Finally, I end my day with... View Details
  • 24 Apr 2017
  • Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Courage: The Defining Characteristic of Great Leaders

W. Bush to bail the company out. Even so, GM declared bankruptcy months later. Mary Barra, GM’s CEO since 2014, demonstrates the difference courage can make. Immediately after her appointment, she testified before a hostile Senate... View Details
Keywords: by Bill George; Auto; Food & Beverage
  • 01 Sep 2023
  • News

Startup Success Beyond Silicon Valley

established companies, such as Toyota or Mitsubishi, because they offer safe careers, while starting a company is viewed as career-destroying. Gompers also learned that in some countries, legal constraints may deter entrepreneurial ambitions, citing Egypt, where there... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Mele
  • 04 Feb 2002
  • Research & Ideas

How To Do Business in Islamic Countries

somebody is in bankruptcy or if somebody is experiencing financial reversals, you can't put pressure on them, because that is not an appropriate thing to do when somebody is down. You don't kick them when they're down," said Hayes.... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 21 Sep 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Are You Sabotaging Your Own Company?

that you can’t make progress.” This cloud of inefficiency that hangs over many companies can be tough for business leaders to see. When a company is struggling, the first instinct is often to blame external factors, Thomke says. When the LEGO Group, for example, was on... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • 28 Nov 2018
  • HBS Case

On Target: Rethinking the Retail Website

been tanking, with shares recently trading at $1.50. And in October, Sears filed for bankruptcy protection, following the dark road paved by Borders, RadioShack, and Toys ‘R’ Us. “Target had to make this big shift from thinking only about... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Retail
  • 06 Aug 2021
  • Book

Steve Jobs and the Rise of the Celebrity CEO

struggling company on the brink of bankruptcy into a mammoth success. Book Excerpt The Emergence of Charismatic Business Leadership Richard S. Tedlow Steve Jobs: Triumph at Apple Steve Jobs was the only man in the whole world who could... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • December 2019 (Revised December 2022)
  • Case

TXU (A): Powering the Largest Leveraged Buyout in History

By: Trevor Fetter, Erik Snowberg and Rebecca M. Henderson
This case is designed to support a lively discussion about the relative merits of shareholder vs. stakeholder perspectives in the context of a company that provides a vital public service that has important environmental implications. The 2007 purchase of TXU, the... View Details
Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Transformation; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Environmental Sustainability; Business and Shareholder Relations; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Energy Generation; Non-Renewable Energy; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Utilities Industry; Energy Industry; Texas
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  • July 1996 (Revised July 2025)
  • Case

Innovative Opportunities to Manage Health Care Delivery: THG/Healthy Shop

By: Regina E. Herzlinger and D. Scott Lurding
The purpose of this case is: To familiarize the students with the changing landscape of health care delivery, through chains of retail medical centers and those offering value-based care (VBC).

To discuss fundamental managerial decisions about their... View Details
Keywords: Managed Care; Capitation; Strategy
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By: Richard S. Tedlow

Don't Deny the Facts

Investor's Business Daily, April 27, 2010

The ability to see facts objectively is paramount to business success. An interview with Richard S.... View Details

  • 31 Jan 2023
  • Op-Ed

Can Insurance Technology Solve the Uninsured Driver Problem?

Unit at Harvard Business School. He studies the causes of financial distress among American households and how technology, private markets, and public policy can reduce those risks. You Might Also Like: Why Cutting Jobless Aid Isn't the Answer to Worker Shortages View Details
Keywords: by Ray Kluender; Insurance
  • 21 Jul 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Did Pandemic Stimulus Funds Spur the Rise of 'Meme Stocks'?

policy makers.” You Might Also Like: Who Pays For Wildfire and Hurricane Damage? Everyone. Bankruptcy Spells Death for Too Many Businesses Keep or Cut Workers? How Companies Reacted to the COVID-19 Crisis Feedback or ideas to share? Email... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services
  • 2010
  • Book

Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring: Case Studies in Bankruptcies, Buyouts, and Breakups

By: Stuart C. Gilson
A collection of case studies illustrates real-world techniques, implementation, and strategies on corporate restructuring. Over the period 1981-1998, public companies with combined assets of over half a trillion dollars filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy. Over the same... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Public Ownership; Value Creation
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  • 17 Aug 2021
  • Op-Ed

Dispensing Justice: The Case for Legalizing Cannabis Nationally

services. Institutional investors, such as endowments and pension funds, often have “vice clauses” prohibiting investments in Schedule I industries. Even private investors are dissuaded by the industry’s lack of access to bankruptcy... View Details
Keywords: by Ashish Nanda and Tabatha Robinson
  • February 2013
  • Case

LEGO (A): The Crisis

By: Jan W. Rivkin, Stefan H. Thomke and Daniela Beyersdorfer
As this case opens, iconic toymaker LEGO stands on the brink of bankruptcy. Jørgen Vig Knudstorp, LEGO's young and newly appointed CEO, must size up changes in the toy industry, learn from the company's recent moves, and craft a strategy that will put LEGO back on... View Details
Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Change Management; Competitive Strategy; Crisis Management; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Consumer Products Industry
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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Finance Overview Faculty Curriculum Seminars & Conferences Awards & Honors Doctoral Students 2025 Samuel B. Antill : Winner of the 2025 Rising Scholar Award from The Review of Financial Studies for "Are Bankruptcy Professional Fees... View Details

    Paul W. Marshall

    MBA Class of 1960 Professor of Management, Paul W. Marshall, is affiliated with the Entrepreneurial Management Unit and teaches The Entrepreneurial Manager in the Turnaround Environment. This Elective Curriculum course focuses on the role of... View Details

    Keywords: aerospace; banking; brokerage; computer; consulting; defense; management consulting; manufacturing; metals; professional services; retail financial services; retailing; steel
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    2018 Financial Risk and Regulation Survey - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

    Of those who chose financial stability, 37% states that the government must sometimes intervene and only 6% stated "No institutions is too big to fail. The government should allow institutions to go bankrupt." By contrast, of those who chose consumer protection, 35%... View Details
    • 30 Oct 2019
    • Research & Ideas

    How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup

    When Munchery announced in January that it would join the compost heap of food delivery startups, the San Francisco company burned customers, suppliers, and investors that included Oscar-winning actors Jared Leto and Marisa Tomei. In its View Details
    Keywords: by Danielle Kost