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  • 18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18

pivotal role in the industry during the 1970s by selling Iranian oil to Israel and South Africa. The case provides a means to explore the rationale and advantages of giant commodity traders, as well as enabling students to debate... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 18 Nov 2014
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First Look: November 18

own puzzles. Our review outlines the growing body of work that documents a role for debt financing related to innovation. We highlight the new literature on learning and experimentation across multi-stage innovation projects and how this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 16

transaction referred to as a "Happy Meal." The goal was to help convertible debt investors "hedge their respective investments through short sales." The challenge of the case is to understand why Molycorp used this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 4

http://hbr.org/search/513015-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 113-037 Business and Government: Campaign Contributions and Lobbying in the United States This module note on business-government relations introduces students to the state... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Nov 2016
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November 8, 2016

it was all debt finance) or by accepting larger chunks of capital from a major global bank and a private equity firm, getting them much closer to the threshold but at the cost of significant dilution (35%) as these financiers were also... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 5, 2018

emphases, including psychometric, cognitive, expertise-based, developmental, neuropsychological, cultural, systems, and group-difference approaches. The Nature of Human Creativity brings together an incredible diversity of viewpoints, helping View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 04 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 4

The role of private equity in Japan is also explored and allows students to compare the Japanese merger and acquisition market to that of the U.S. and Europe. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2018
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Alumni and Faculty Books for December 2018

the author’s debt to Belvedere College and the Jesuits as the great influence on his life philosophy and life choices. McEvoy also reflects on how Irish banks morphed from being customer oriented, conservative, dull, and profoundly honest... View Details
  • 27 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27

equity inflows have a more negative announcement effect on equity returns than those on debt inflows. Real investment falls in the three years following the controls. Overall, the findings have implications for macro-finance models that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 14

international franchising opportunities and a debt recapitalization. By early 2016, Sun was looking to the company’s next phase of growth while handing management of her executive team to BrightStar’s President and COO. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018

current time to first available appointment was 93 days. The case considers several alternatives for reducing waiting time in outpatient neurology without increasing the total clinical staff. The case allows students to evaluate... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 30 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 30

business utilizing debt and investors equity that in a very short time is about to trigger bank covenants due to poor financial performance. The prior owner continues to be involved in the business, handling key customers and expecting a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 27 Mar 2019
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Life Is a Startup

that dream and how you want to go and impact the world, that you go and push to the side initially when you’re coming out of school. Maybe you have student debt or maybe finally after promising the spouse... View Details
  • 21 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 21

and Siddharth Shenai Abstract We study the impact of ethnic and religious fractionalization on the U.S. municipal debt market and find that issuers from more ethnically and religiously fractionalized counties pay higher yields on their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Sep 2008
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First Look: September 23, 2008

explore the challenges of information collection and analysis. Students will, experientially, gain insights into how information is used and be exposed to a framework for identifying and evaluating information. In addition, the exercise... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 20

when the costs of financing a reorganization are greater than financing costs to a potential acquirer. Consistent with a senior creditor liquidation bias, the greater use of secured debt leads to more sales in bankruptcy-but, this result... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Oct 2007
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First Look: October 2, 2007

bidding process. Describes these events in detail, while providing information for students on CWA's history, the nature of Section 363 auctions, and the bidders who were involved in the process. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 10, 2007

Curriculum Strategy course to students at Harvard Business School. Purchase this overview: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=707492 Kerr-McGee Harvard Business School Case 207-020 Activist investors Carl Icahn... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Feb 1998
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Women at the Top

second afternoon, participants in the Women Leading Business program were beginning to develop a genuine rapport that was reflected in the camaraderie they shared with some one hundred current women MBA students who joined them for a... View Details
Keywords: Marguerite Rigoglioso and Susan Young
  • 12 Dec 2018
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Lesson Plan

compromises. But it can happen.” In a unanimous decision made shortly after her concluding remarks, the school board appointed Cognetti to its vacant seat. Headlines the next day put Cognetti’s Harvard MBA front and center—a fact she embraces for the example it offers... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Chris Sorensen