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- 01 Oct 2021
- News
HBS-Harvard Collaboration Fosters New Ventures
technology to erase debt CEO and cofounder Rohan Pavuluri (AB 2018) was inspired to launch Upsolve, which helps low-income and working-class families overcome financial distress, after learning that a bankruptcy lawyer costs a prohibitive... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
No Bull — Nancy E. Havens-Hasty (MBA 1971)
before being asked to head the company's bankruptcy department in 1987. In 1991, she was granted responsibility for the high-yield department as well, and in 1992 became the first female employee elected to the Bear Stearns board of... View Details
Keywords: Linda Goodspeed
- 10 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 10
Corporation, must decide whether to push JAL group, Japan's largest airline, into bankruptcy or to act as a sponsor in an out-of-court restructuring. The bankruptcy of JAL would be the largest ever for an... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- February 1, 1989
- Article
Is Leverage an Invitation to Bankruptcy?
By: M. C. Jensen
Keywords: Insolvency and Bankruptcy
Jensen, M. C. "Is Leverage an Invitation to Bankruptcy?" Wall Street Journal (February 1, 1989), A14.
Joe C. Thompson, Jr.
Though Southland was quite a successful block ice retailer in the 1920s, when home refrigerators became popular, the company suffered and was forced into bankruptcy in 1932. Seeing the budding success of the retail grocery store business... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- 2002
- Chapter
Creditor Control in Financially Distressed Firms: The Empirical Evidence
By: S. C. Gilson and M. R. Vetsuypens
Keywords: Insolvency and Bankruptcy
Gilson, S. C., and M. R. Vetsuypens. "Creditor Control in Financially Distressed Firms: The Empirical Evidence." In Bankruptcy Anthology, edited by Charles Tabb. Cincinnati: Anderson Publishing Company, 2002.
- 18 Nov 2010
- Research & Ideas
GM’s IPO: Back to the Future
On a journey that began 17 months ago, General Motors entered and emerged from bankruptcy to become a private company with Uncle Sam as its largest shareholder. The company reaches another milestone today by offering an initial public... View Details
- Web
Introduction | Baker Library
bankruptcy in 2008. Drawing from the extensive Lehman Brothers Collection in Baker Library’s Special Collections, Lehman Brothers: A History, 1850–2008 examines the story of one of the country’s longest-running investment banks, its reach... View Details
Sidney Kimmel
several niche retailers including Nine West. The company which was on the brink of bankruptcy in the early eighties was generating over $4 billion in revenues by the end of the century. View Details
Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
- Article
The Rise of Consumer Bankruptcy: Evolution, Revolution, or Both
By: David A. Moss and Gibbs A. Johnson
Keywords: Insolvency and Bankruptcy
Moss, David A., and Gibbs A. Johnson. "The Rise of Consumer Bankruptcy: Evolution, Revolution, or Both." American Bankruptcy Law Journal 73, no. 2 (Spring 1999): 311–351. (Winner of American Bankruptcy Law Journal Editors' Prize Given annually for the best article to appear in the journal.)
- 23 Apr 2016
- News
Tipping His Cap to Open Source
As COO at Delta Airlines, Jim Whitehurst (MBA 1994) helped bring the legacy carrier back from the brink of bankruptcy in 2006 while fending off a takeover bid by US Airways. That feat accomplished, he moved on to lead Red Hat, which... View Details
- December 2003 (Revised June 2012)
- Case
Irving Tanning
By: Paul W. Marshall and Johanna Regine Naunton Blaxall
Irving Tanning, one of the few remaining U.S. leather tanneries, has successfully emerged from bankruptcy. The CEO is now looking at strategic options for the future of Irving. View Details
Marshall, Paul W., and Johanna Regine Naunton Blaxall. "Irving Tanning." Harvard Business School Case 804-082, December 2003. (Revised June 2012.)
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
Q&A: The Post-Pandemic Path
In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States, Robin Greenwood, the George Gund Professor of Finance and Banking and Anne and James F. Rothenberg Faculty Fellow, saw another catastrophe on the horizon: widespread business failure and a View Details
Keywords: April White
- 24 Apr 2014
- News
Leading in business and in public education
saving it from bankruptcy and building a profitable business. Numerous nonprofits also have benefitted from his leadership, including the Wildlife Conservation Society, the American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, and the City Parks... View Details
- Web
2021 Symposium - Race, Gender & Equity
Democracy Robert Livingston How Seeking and Speaking the Truth About Racism Can Radically Transform Individuals and Organizations Sarah Kaplan and Danielle Allen , Rotman School of Management and Harvard University The Bankruptcy of the... View Details
- 01 Mar 2010
- News
Rx for Too Big to Fail
the scourge of too big to fail. One is to break up the largest financial institutions, possibly with a new and improved Glass-Steagall law. The other is to perfect a bankruptcy process for super-sized financial firms so they can fail... View Details
- April 2025
- Article
Crisis Interventions in Corporate Insolvency
By: Samuel Antill and Christopher Clayton
We model the optimal resolution of insolvent firms in general equilibrium. Collateral-constrained banks lend to (i) solvent firms to finance investments and (ii) distressed firms to avoid liquidation. Liquidations create negative fire-sale externalities. Liquidations... View Details
Keywords: Insolvent Firms; Government Intervention; Liquidation; Econometric Models; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Policy
Antill, Samuel, and Christopher Clayton. "Crisis Interventions in Corporate Insolvency." Journal of Finance 80, no. 2 (April 2025): 875–910.
- Web
Polaroid Corporation Collection | Baker Library
fostered invention and creativity within the culture of a small, science-based research and manufacturing company. The records of the Polaroid Corporation records span nearly 3500 linear feet of material related to the company’s operations from its founding in the... View Details
- December 1991 (Revised February 1992)
- Case
Federated Department Stores, Inc.: Managing in a Hurricane
Describes Federated Department Stores following an important infusion of capital and before its subsequent Chapter 11 filing. The questions include how the company can be managed in a period of financial distress, whether it is possible or desirable to avoid Chapter... View Details
Fenster, Steven R. "Federated Department Stores, Inc.: Managing in a Hurricane." Harvard Business School Case 292-079, December 1991. (Revised February 1992.)