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Turnarounds

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01 Mar 2008
News

He’s got a superhero’s name, and he’s shining a light on enduring wrongs here at home while confronting challenges in the Third World as well. Meet Richard America, who sees policy analysis and quality management as keys to development... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Lawrence Fouraker; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training

01 Dec 2005
News

One-on-One with Peter Cuneo

event” and “radical change” for the company, Marvel has secured $525 million of nonrecourse debt (its film characters serve as collateral) to produce ten motion pictures. With Paramount as its distributor, Marvel will oversee all other... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; comic books; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management of Companies and Enterprises

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Student Loans 101 | MBA

approximately $99,000. The average student loan debt for scholarship recipients was $94,000 and the average student loan debt for the neediest half of scholarship recipients was $75,000. To better understand... View Details

Frederick D. Underwood

When Underwood took over management of the Erie Railroad in 1901, it was barely surviving. Though its owner, JP Morgan had brought the company’s debt within a manageable range,... View Details

Keywords: Transportation

March 1983 (Revised March 1986)
Case

Mexico: Crisis of Confidence

By: Richard H.K. Vietor

Keywords: Crisis Management; Borrowing and Debt; Mexico

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February 2016
Supplement

Financing Curtis LLP

By: Nikolaos Trichakis

This is a follow-up to "Curtis LLP: A Case on Cases," HBS case No. 616-049. It explores the challenges facing debtors when dealing with borrowing firms that have operational flexibility. View Details

Keywords: Management; Operations; Borrowing and Debt; Financial Services Industry

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29 Jan 2015
Op-Ed

The Fall of Greece

Editor's note. On Sunday, the left-leaning Syriza party and its leader Alexis Tsipra won a decisive national victory in Greece, partly on pledges to reduce current austerity measures and to seek a restructuring of debt commitments to... View Details

Keywords: by George Serafeim

26 Jan 2021
Research & Ideas

A New Way to Cut Credit Card Debt: Pay Off One Purchase at a Time

Debt, Norton and his fellow researchers argue that separating the purchase from the actual payment demotivates consumers from paying more than the minimum. In contrast, repayment-by-purchase “recouples” the elements of the transaction and “brackets” the View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services

02 Jun 2011
What Do You Think?

Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?

question this raises is which lenders, nations or commercial institutions? Shann Turnbull, citing some of his own work on the subject, argued that the risks of allowing insolvency "can no longer be reliably managed because they have... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

04 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business

“Predictions are risky, especially about the future,” according to a popular expression. Still, business is inescapably about the future—that’s what managers’ decisions are about. In the current crisis, we have daily grand predictions about “new normals,” and View Details

Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes

15 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 15, 2007

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-078.pdf Cases & Course MaterialsAid, Debt Relief, and Trade: An Agenda for Fighting World Poverty (A) Harvard Business School Case 707-029 At the 2005 Group of Eight summit, world leaders agreed to... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

06 Feb 2023
Blog Post

Meet the Black Investment Club

companies, a sale of a health care portfolio company, and several debt refinancings to facilitate portfolio company growth. This summer, Akapelwa expanded on his financial services experience at Kohlberg & Company serving as a Private... View Details

Keywords: Investment Management / Hedge Fund; Investment Management / Hedge Fund; Investment Management / Hedge Fund

28 Apr 2016
Blog Post

3 Concerns I Had about HBS

general managers and leaders, not functional specialists. I am convinced that, like all things in life, my career will take me unexpected places. Selecting a very specific type of training is tempting, but rests on a fallacy: that my... View Details

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Field Course: Entrepreneurship through Acquisition (Application Only) - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Field Course: Entrepreneurship through Acquisition (Application Only) Course Number 6452 Baker Foundation Professor Richard Ruback Professor of Management Practice Royce Yudkoff Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits 12 Sessions... View Details

22 Dec 2015
First Look

December 22, 2015

2015 The $13 Trillion Question: How America Manages Its Debt The Optimal Maturity of Government Debt By: Greenwood, Robin, Samuel Gregory Hanson Abstract—No abstract available.... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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Creating Value Through Corporate Restructuring - Course Catalog

understanding of corporate debt financing, including the rights of secured creditors, subordination agreements, and debt covenants. By understanding how to fix a “sick” capital structure, students will... View Details

16 Jul 2021
Op-Ed

For Entrepreneurs, the Benefits of Slowing Down

acquisitions, partnerships, new product launches, or international expansion in ways you might not have had the time and space to think through. 3. Pay down your organizational debt Every fast-growing startup incurs View Details

Keywords: by Jeffrey Bussgang

01 Dec 2015
News

Complements to the Case Method

productive,” says former student Nami Singhal (MBA 2013), now an associate at asset management firm AQR Capital Management. Singhal’s team made a bet that Argentina would default during its debt crisis; they... View Details

25 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

Will Machine Learning Make You a Better Manager?

increasingly using ML to manage many aspects of their business operations. “There’s been an explosion,” Teodorescu says. “It’s becoming less of a field in itself and more and more of a tool for people in other fields to use.” In a new... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information Technology

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