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January 2006 (Revised July 2016)
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Gordon Bethune at Continental Airlines

By: Nitin Nohria, Anthony Mayo and Mark Benson

A $385 million loss for the final months of fiscal year 1994 signaled Continental might go bankrupt. Could new CEO Gordon Bethune turn Continental around? Continental was in dire straits because the deregulation of the commercial airline industry in 1978 ushered in a... View Details

Keywords: Transformation; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Profit; Leading Change; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Performance Improvement; Labor and Management Relations; Air Transportation Industry

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11 Oct 2006
What Do You Think?

How Do We Respond to the “Dependency Ratio” Dilemma?

declare bankruptcy and walk away from as much of its obligation as possible. Potential management responses can get pretty complicated. In this instance, growth trumps greater productivity, because the... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

April 2011 (Revised February 2016)
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Jamaica's Anemic Growth: The IMF, China and the Debt(th) Trap

By: Rafael Di Tella and Natalie Kindred

This case describes the economic development problems faced by the small Caribbean-island country of Jamaica over most of the past half-century. The Jamaican economy showed relatively strong growth in the 1960s but stagnated in the 1970s. By the end of that decade,... View Details

Keywords: Government Administration; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; International Finance; Crime and Corruption; Poverty; Private Sector; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Economy; Developing Countries and Economies; Borrowing and Debt; Jamaica

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Carlos Emilio Larreategui

eventually left Ecuador, convinced I would never return, as the shadows of hatred and discord at home loomed larger each day. With time, however, emptiness filled me. It was then that I realized that purpose... View Details

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Student Activities - Health Care

together more than 600 students, alumni, and professionals, plus 30 speakers from diverse areas of health care. Physician Shadow Program Enables students who are interested in health care delivery to View Details

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 View Details

Keywords: by Ashish Nanda and Tabatha Robinson

01 Jan 2013
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Joanna M. Jacobson, MBA 1987

Jon accepted a position at Harvard Management Company in Boston, the pair commuted for nine months until Joanna relocated, eventually accepting a position as SVP of marketing for Converse, which was in View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

01 Mar 2024
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Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

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Sara Mattei Gentili

belong to was myself. It felt liberating. I embraced the things that made me stand out and those became my strengths. So now I graduate with a new mission: being unapologetically myself and showing all weird and odd little girls hiding in corners that they can step out... View Details

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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Local Firm Responses to Currency Crises" (November 2008). Stuart C. Gilson : Appointed Business Law Advisor to the Business Bankruptcy Committee of the American Bankruptcy... View Details

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John H. McArthur | About

assignment as a Trustee in Bankruptcy of the Penn Central Transportation Company. For much of that decade, he fielded a team that included future Secretary 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

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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, View Details

23 May 2023
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Lessons on Life, Graffiti, and Value: 'It's in That Darkness That You Can Actually Develop and Evolve'

liberating, creatively and personally. “We had this charismatic appeal, this raw authenticity, but we didn’t have the cultural or social capital to access those worlds and people weren’t exactly excited about opening the doors for us, for fear View Details

Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese, Harvard Gazette

08 Sep 2015
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Knowledge Transfer: You Can't Learn Surgery By Watching

are you won’t ever learn how to pull off a triple bypass. And yet, in business, companies routinely expect employees to pick up new job knowledge through vicarious learning—through reading descriptions of tasks in knowledge-management... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

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Business, Government & the International Economy Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

University Press, 2001). Rawi E. Abdelal : Received the 2002 Robert F. Greenhill Award. 1999 David A. Moss : Winner of the Editors' Prize for the Best Article of 1999 from American View Details

01 Mar 2009
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It’s the Economy

Detroit from imminent bankruptcy will be futile. see article HBS professor Peter Tufano makes the case for allowing Americans to automatically buy U.S. savings bonds with their tax refunds, building family and national savings in a time... View Details

Keywords: Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs

12 Jul 2016
First Look

July 12, 2016

internalize the social costs of higher leverage in the form of greater bankruptcy losses (moral hazard) and are subject to a regulatory capital requirement. In contrast, View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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