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  • 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... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
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Health Care - Faculty & Research

patient-distance-to-facility instrument, we document that bankruptcies harm patients through increases in hospitalizations, physical restraints, and bedsores. Finally, we employ a randomized survey experiment 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
    • 07 Mar 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    Why Companies Fail—and How Their Founders Can Bounce Back

    then falling short of meeting it, then the failure rate is a whopping 90 to 95 percent. "Very few companies achieve their initial projections," says Ghosh. "Failure is the norm." Why Start-ups Fail Start-ups often fail... View Details
    Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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    2023 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

    of Work Project. Slides Readings: Building from the Botton Up Hidden Networks The Partnership Imperative Navigating the Brave New World of Cryptocurrency Bankruptcy Professor... View Details
    • 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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    • 01 Sep 2023
    • News

    Startup Success Beyond Silicon Valley

    Professor Paul Gompers visited Endeavor Saudi Arabia, a nonprofit that promotes startups in emerging markets. Pictured are Alpana Thapar and Fares Khrais (both of the Middle East and North Africa Research Center), Gompers, Lateefa... View Details
    Keywords: Jennifer Mele
    • 16 Oct 2015
    • Blog Post

    HBS and the Arts

    I am what you may consider an atypical candidate at HBS; I am an art history major in pursuit of an MBA, dedicated to a career path in the arts.      My fascination with art stems from an experience I had in high school. I attended a... View Details
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    Impact Stories | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

    intention in mind when she... Once in a Lifetime Opportunities Kasia Stochniol MBA 2014 In 2011, at 26 years of age, Kasia Stochniol (MBA 2014) packed her bag... “It’s like a pie-eating contest” Josh Latson MBA 2015 One night during his... View Details
    • 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

    • 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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    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 View Details
    • Web

    Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

    Complexity (3) Conflict Management (4) Conflict and Resolution (13) Conflict of Interests (1) Construction (1) Consumer Behavior (173) Contracts (7) Cooperation (3) Cooperative Ownership (1) Copyright (2) Core Relationships (1) Corporate... View Details
    • 18 Apr 2011
    • Research & Ideas

    It’s Not Nagging: Why Persistent, Redundant Communication Works

    industries (computing, telecommunications, and health care) by shadowing them at their jobs. The team recorded every activity in the managers' workday, collecting a total of 256 hours' worth View Details
    Keywords: by Kim Girard
    • 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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    • 16 May 2000
    • Research & Ideas

    Getting the Message: How the Internet is Changing Advertising

    help corporations build relationships between their brands and their customers in the online marketspace. The Price Of Privacy The power of these new technologies and their ability to View Details
    Keywords: by Susan Young
    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Does Private Equity Have Any Business Being in the Health Care Business?

    By: Nori Gerardo Lietz and Zirui Song
    Private Equity (“PE”) has come under increased scrutiny by the press, academics, and policymakers, as well as the public, for its investments in health care delivery. This scrutiny has been exacerbated by recent high profile hospital bankruptcies following PE... View Details
    Keywords: Private Equity; Government Administration; Acquisition; Health Industry
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    Alumni Engagement | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

    the land, giraffes cast long shadows on the dry savannas and woodlands of sub-Saharan Africa where they live. But their ... Re: Susan Myers (MBA 1978); Richard Myers (MBA 1984); By: Jen Mcfarland Flint;... View Details
    • 30 May 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Six Steps for Making Your Threat Credible

    influence stemming from the increased credibility of future promises, commitments, and threats. 6. Leverage the shadow of the future Even if you can't leverage your past... View Details
    Keywords: by Deepak Malhotra