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By: Debora L. Spar

I'll have a girl, please

American Public Media [Marketplace], 12 September 2006

DR. DEBORAH SPAR: "The ability to choose gender is really only the first... View Details

  • 24 Feb 2022
  • Op-Ed

Want to Prevent the Next Hospital Bed Crisis? Enlist the SEC

FASB’s singular purpose—to increase for transparency—ensures that enforceable standards will be created. Although the SEC is hardly perfect, it helped reform once opaque financial markets with accessible, timely, relevant, and trustworthy... View Details
Keywords: by Regina Herzlinger and Richard Boxer; Health
  • March 2004 (Revised March 2005)
  • Case

Oscar de la Renta

By: Bharat N. Anand, Elizabeth Lea Carpenter and Samhita Patwardhan Jayanti
Over three decades, Oscar de la Renta (ODLR) had established itself as one of the premier luxury brands in America. Its mainstay business had always been producing and marketing high-priced, couture/ready-to-wear luxury goods. Now, in September 2003, it faced a series... View Details
Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Borrowing and Debt; Growth and Development Strategy; Brands and Branding; Production; Family Ownership; Luxury; Competition; Diversification; Expansion; United States
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Bringing a Taste of Japan to the World - Global Activities 2020

we can make this work. ” Yasu Sasago MBA 2020 Alleviating Debt Concerns Sasago studied commerce at Waseda University in Tokyo and the University of Sydney in Australia prior to attending HBS. His ability to pursue a graduate school... View Details
  • October 2012
  • Article

Securitization without Adverse Selection: The Case of CLOs

By: Effi Benmelech, Jennifer Dlugosz and Victoria Ivashina
In this paper, we investigate whether securitization was associated with risky lending in the corporate loan market by examining the performance of individual loans held by CLOs. We employ two different datasets that identify loan holdings for a large set of CLOs and... View Details
Keywords: Personal Finance; Performance; Markets; Banks and Banking; Debt Securities; Investment Portfolio; Financing and Loans
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The 20th Century Zeitgeist - Leadership

infections Synthetic rubberx Influence: High 50 1950 s 19 Television sales expand dramatically Transistors used in portable radios and calculators Influence: Medium-High 60 1960 s 19 Man walks on the moon Color TV market grows Microchips... View Details
  • 25 Jan 2010
  • Research & Ideas

A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy

GDP, that is, total aggregate output, the market value of all final goods and services produced. In a sense, all that you (as a country) have is the total output that you produce in a year—your GDP. Sometimes people think if everyone... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Nov 2020
  • Research & Ideas

COVID Was Supposed to Increase Bankruptcies. Instead, They've Gone Down.

Consumer bankruptcies usually climb alongside unemployment rates as filers seek to discharge debt and get a fresh start, write the authors of the new working paper Bankruptcy and the COVID-19 Crisis. “Historically, the number one cause of... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 15 Jul 2008
  • First Look

First Look: July 15, 2008

Theory of Corporate Debt Maturity Choice Authors:Robin Greenwood, Jeremy C. Stein, and Samuel Hanson Abstract We argue that time-series variation in the maturity of aggregate corporate debt issues arises... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Dec 2023
  • News

Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem

Clubs News Clubs News Webinar illuminates broad array of business opportunities across Africa On December 5th, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) hosted ‘Doing Business in Africa: From Opportunity to Action’, a webinar panel of HBS alumni who shared... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 02 Oct 2017
  • What Do You Think?

Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future?

specific use of the asset class when he observed that a possible use of Bitcoin could be “hedge funds betting on sovereign debt defaults.” Charles Sabatier III added that Bitcoin is the most secure financial network in the world. “The... View Details
Keywords: by James L. Heskett; Financial Services
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Sustainable Investing Course | HBS Online

Effects of Shareholder Engagement Show Hide Details Concepts Sustainable Investing in Public Markets Divestment: Screening and Portfolio Tilts Engagement and Proxy Voting ESG Integration and Alpha Generation Sustainable Public View Details
  • 26 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 26, 2007

shown to be associated with a 24% increase in US investors' equity FPI holdings. These results are robust to various controls, are not evident for debt capital flows, and are confirmed using an instrumental variables analysis. The use of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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VCPE Database Comparison

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376K Corp/Strategic M&A 142K Buyout 75K Private Debt... View Details
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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Western leadership; the United States’ weakened economy after 2008; post-COVID deficits and debt in Latin America, Africa and Europe; and the conditions of energy and commodity markets post-Ukrainian war.... View Details
  • September 2010
  • Case

Angola and the Resource Curse

By: Aldo Musacchio, Eric D. Werker and Jonathan Schlefer
Since emerging from decades of conflict in 2002, Angola has been growing at a scorching double-digit rate, led by its oil industry. But the nation remains beset with seemingly intractable problems: immense inequality, low life expectancy, a non-diversified economy, and... View Details
Keywords: Crime and Corruption; Developing Countries and Economies; Financial Crisis; Borrowing and Debt; Financial Institutions; Globalized Economies and Regions; Policy; Government Administration; Emerging Markets; Natural Environment; Angola
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  • March 2007 (Revised May 2012)
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PRG-Schultz International

By: Paul W. Marshall and James Weber
PRG-Schultz will run out of cash within a couple of months unless the new CEO can reduce costs and restructure the company's debt. PRG was the dominant market leader in the audit recovery industry. The industry consisted of firms which employed accounting professionals... View Details
Keywords: History; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Leadership; Restructuring; Cost Management; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Borrowing and Debt; Accounting Audits; Accounting Industry
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    Best-selling and New Cases by Ben Esty

    Best-Selling (MOST POPULAR) Cases:  

      1) Eaton: Portfolio Transformation & Cost of... View Details

    • 25 Jun 2013
    • First Look

    First Look: June 25

    establishing some stylized facts about the fine-grained structure of large, real-world technical systems. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2277795 Pricing and Efficiency in the Market for IP Addresses By: Edelman,... View Details
    Keywords: Anna Secino
    • 11 Aug 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: August 11, 2009

    profit from their private information relating to a specific financial reporting element, goodwill impairments, prior to its incorporation by the equity market or recognition by the firm's accounting system. Download the paper:... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace