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  • August 2014 (Revised March 2016)
  • Case

Thomas Cook Group on the Brink (A)

By: Benjamin C. Esty, Stuart C. Gilson and Aldo Sesia
Harriett Green, the newly appointed CEO of Thomas Cook Group, faces a daunting set of business and financial challenges at the 171-year old UK travel services company. The company has lost almost £600 million in the last three quarters; has seen its stock price fall... View Details
Keywords: Turnaround; Corporate Restructuring; Change Leadership; Female Ceo; Change Management; Communication Strategy; Borrowing and Debt; Cash Flow; Cost Management; Financial Liquidity; Financial Management; Executive Compensation; Leading Change; Crisis Management; Value Creation; Travel Industry; United Kingdom
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  • 31 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 31, 2009

opportunity to bid for debt and equity claims on Plascar Industria e Comercio Ltda., the Brazilian subsidiary of the bankrupt global auto components company Collins & Aikman Corp. In evaluating this opportunity, students must analyze... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Mar 2014
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First Look: March 4

outcomes for oneself and others. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/emotion-in-negotiations-an-introduction/an/914032-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 214-063 Barclays Bank and Contingent Capital Notes, 2012 In 2012, regulatory changes following the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jun 2011
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First Look: June 21

Authors: Ferguson, Niall, and Moritz Schularick Publication: International Finance 14, no. 1 (2011) Abstract For the better part of the past decade, the world economy has been marked by an economic order that combined Chinese export-led development with U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Dec 2010
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First Look: Dec. 7

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-040.pdf Financial Guarantors and the 2007-2009 Credit Crisis Authors:Daniel Bergstresser, Randolph Cohen, and Siddharth Shenai Abstract More than half of the municipal bonds issued between 1995 and 2009... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13

bankruptcy vs. out of court restructuring, and dealing with negotiations between creditors. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/213008-PDF-ENG Preem (B) Bo BeckerHarvard Business School Supplement 213-014 Preem's creditors and owners made a deal with an 18 month... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 31 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 31

duties in firms incorporated in that state. This change limited managers' incentives to take actions favoring equity over debt for firms in the vicinity of financial distress. We show that this ruling increased the likelihood of equity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
  • 11 Dec 2012
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First Look: Dec. 11

of bank leverage and risk exposures contributes to a form of systemic risk. We compute bank exposures to system-wide deleveraging, as well as the spillover of a single bank's deleveraging onto other banks. We show how our model can be used to evaluate a variety of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

firms lever up, the overall cost of capital falls as leverage increases equity beta, but as debt becomes riskier the marginal benefit of increasing equity beta declines. As a simple theoretical framework predicts, we find that leverage is... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 04 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 4

European banking sector, what decision should Crédit Agricole take regarding Emporiki? Through the example of this European cross-border acquisition the case looks at the Greek banking system before and during the unprecedented Greek View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Aug 2010
  • News

Catchphrases, Mottos, and Cheers

staring at and studying the reality before your eyes. So in class, when a marketing topic came up, Marshall would ask, “Did you look at the fish?” OPM 38. “Never let a crisis go to waste.” PMD 49. The two catch-phrases for our class as a... View Details
Keywords: Keith Larson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 04 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

join the European Monetary Union in 1999. With strong unions, weak competitiveness, and a legacy of socialism, it could not compete with north-European countries. After borrowing extensively to fund deficits, Portugal went into debt View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 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
  • 14 Sep 2010
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First Look: September 14, 2010

decisions taken and financial results through the end of fiscal year 2010. Purchase this supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/411027-PDF-ENG Cypress Sharpridge: Raising Capital in a Time of Crisis Lena G. Goldberg and Adam... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

reinvestment after the Olympic Games; access to mass transit; the existence of no nearby competing venues with a large capacity; no financial burden of past debt or its accompanying psychological burden; the positive legacy from a venue's... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Oct 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Vanguard Corporation

being values-based, led by principles and a sense of purpose at the heart of the enterprise. They are dealing with the crisis of capitalism by offering a new and different model. Q: Why do we need a new corporate model? A: There have been... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6

longer at the beginning or end. Credit Access and Social Welfare: The Rise of Consumer Lending in the United States and France Author:Gunnar Trumbull Publication:Politics and Society 40, no. 1 (2012) Abstract Research into the causes of the 2008 financial View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 7, 2008

in the former Soviet Union and Europe since the late 1960s until the end of the 1990s; sketches the story of the creation of Gazprom by the first post-Soviet government of Russia; and describes how the erection of new sovereign borders in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 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
  • 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