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  • 07 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 7

ownership influence Chapter 11 outcomes? To answer these questions, we construct a data set that identifies the entire capital structure for 136 companies filing for U.S. Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection between 1998 View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

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 View Details
Keywords: Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government
  • November 2010 (Revised September 2015)
  • Case

American International Group - 2010

By: Jay W. Lorsch and Melissa Barton
The AIG Board underwent significant restructuring after the company was bailed out by the U.S. government in September 2008 in the midst of the financial crisis. View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Business and Government Relations; Governing and Advisory Boards; Management Teams; Restructuring; Financial Services Industry
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  • 08 May 2012
  • First Look

First Look: May 8

future, as well as the overall viability of the department store business model. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/412033-PDF-ENG A Glossary of Technical Terms Related to Bankruptcy in the U.S. Carliss Y. Baldwin,... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 07 Jan 2015
  • Research & Ideas

The Quest for Better Layoffs

A few years ago, Sandra J. Sucher received worried emails from two MBA students in her first-year Leadership and Corporate Accountability (LCA) class at Harvard Business School. Elana Green (now Elana Silver) View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing
  • 16 Sep 2014
  • First Look

First Look: September 16

acceded to the European Union and in 2008 to the Eurozone. However, in 2012, facing fiscal deficits and an insolvent banking sector, the island became the fourth EU country to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • March 2005
  • Supplement

Anne Mulcahy: Leading Xerox through the Perfect Storm (B)

By: William W. George and Andrew N. McLean
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Financial Liquidity; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Profit; Leadership Development; Personal Development and Career; Motivation and Incentives; Service Industry; Computer Industry
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  • September 1996 (Revised March 2002)
  • Case

Bishay Industries

By: David F. Hawkins and Norman Bartczak
A bankrupt company has a turnaround plan. Students are asked to predict whether it will be successful. View Details
Keywords: Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Business Plan; Goals and Objectives; Strategic Planning; Business Strategy; Cash Flow; Mathematical Methods; Financial Services Industry
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  • 06 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 6

Case 210-056 This two-page case demonstrates how to unbundle the cost of credit extensions from product prices by observing the price of a credit default swap. It also explores how credit default swaps work, and how trade creditors are... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 06 Feb 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Kodak: A Parable of American Competitiveness

American company that filed for bankruptcy protection in January. The company developed the first digital camera in 1975. Yet Kodak was never able to ride the digital wave over the long haul, and the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Manufacturing
  • 20 Jan 2015
  • First Look

First Look: January 20

Hotchkiss, and Matthew Osborn Abstract—The use of M&A in bankruptcy has increased dramatically in recent years, leading to concerns that the Chapter 11 process has shifted toward excessive liquidation of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Portrait Project

Jocelyne Moyer

Bankruptcy is a word I learned very young. Bankruptcy is when a company's liabilities exceed its assets, so a process is used to sort everything out. But to me, bankruptcy is... View Details
  • 01 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 1, 2008

lays policies that have been proposed to deal with either the consequences or the causes of the crisis. These include policies for reforming the supervision of the financial system, changing bankruptcy rules View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • October 1982
  • Supplement

Ideal Standard France: Pat Paterson, Video

By: Christopher A. Bartlett
A two-part taped interview with Pat Paterson. Paterson describes the action he took in dealing with his company's profit problems, then talks about the outcome. His decision to dismiss 1,500 workers may have accelerated the company's bankruptcy. View Details
Keywords: Decisions; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Profit; Resignation and Termination; Outcome or Result; Problems and Challenges
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  • 12 Aug 2008
  • First Look

First Look: August 12, 2008

Amazon.com: The Brink of Bankruptcy Harvard Business School Case 809-014 Enables a thorough analysis of the Amazon.com business model and its evolution from 1994 to 2001. The case ends with the company... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Oct 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Lehman Brothers Plus Five: Have We Learned from Our Mistakes?

In September 2008, Lehman Brothers went under—the largest bankruptcy in American history. But that was just the beginning of the story. What followed was the Great Recession, a gargantuan financial crisis that affected the entire world... View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Banking; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate
  • 24 Dec 2013
  • First Look

First Look: December 24

incentives of collateralized loan obligations (CLOs). Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/product/note-on-the-leveraged-loan-market/an/214047-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 214-035 Oaktree and the Restructuring of CIT Group (A) CIT's... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Dec 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Power to the People: The Unexpected Influence of Small Coalitions

benefits to both members and nonmembers, negotiating advertising and product standards. "French consumer groups cultivated membership not by providing selective benefits, but by emphasizing their public... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard
  • Profile

Andres Sarmiento

Why was earning your MBA at Harvard Business School important to you? Working at American Airlines' through the bankruptcy process made me reconsider the form of impact that I intended to have. My career until that point had consisted in... View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Technology; Services
  • 18 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 18

system was in a state of crisis and Lehman Brothers went from a major Wall Street investment bank to an insolvent institution. It was a swift end for a firm that had its beginnings over 150 years prior. What... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace