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  • 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
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rules, formal and informal, creates opportunities and constraints for transnational firms, for example examining Shell in 1990s-2000s Russia, Google in Europe, battles between financial firms and states in sovereign View Details
  • 20 Sep 2012
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US Competitiveness at Risk

begin this inquiry? Michael Porter: There was a clear feeling at Harvard Business School that something different was happening in the US economy—this was not just a deep recession caused by the housing mortgage crisis and so forth. The... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
  • 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
  • 19 Aug 2010
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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
  • 22 May 2007
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First Look: May 22, 2007

Hours Harvard Business School Case 407-007 When a tsunami hit Southeast Asia on December 26, 2004, the leadership team at a Swedish tour company must manage a devastating crisis affecting thousands of its customers and employees 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
  • 01 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1

the world. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49090 Private Equity and Financial Fragility During the Crisis By: Bernstein, Shai, Josh Lerner, and Filippo Mezzanotti Abstract—Do private equity firms... View Details
Keywords: 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
  • 08 Jun 2010
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First Look: June 8

http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-102.pdf Does Diversification Create Value in the Presence of External Financing Constraints? Evidence from the 2008-2009 Financial Crisis Authors:Venkat Kuppuswamy and Belén Villalonga Abstract We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details

  • 19 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 19, 2019

near absence of strong processes for internal operations such as HR, accounting, credit, invoicing, and collections. During this financial crunch, Flipkart (India’s e-commerce unicorn) offered BlackBuck $20 million in convertible debt... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Dec 2018
  • News

Lesson Plan

the district’s solicitor and financial consultant waive fees for refinancing debt from 2014 was rebuffed as agenda-driven by a 20-year veteran of the board. Cognetti’s response: “My agenda is to get us through this View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; photographed by Chris Sorensen