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- 22 Feb 2010
- Op-Ed
Tragedy at Toyota: How Not to Lead in Crisis
but a leadership crisis. During Chrysler's 1980s crisis, CEO Lee Iacocca took charge, restoring consumer trust and prosperity. When General Motors emerged from bankruptcy last summer, Chairman Ed Whitacre... View Details
- 01 Dec 1998
- News
Short Takes
managers' time to educate them, communicate with them, and develop informal relationships with them so those owners will have a better understanding of what the company is trying to do." Who Gets the Credit for Bankruptcy? The number of... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 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
Hawkins, David F., and Norman Bartczak. "Bishay Industries." Harvard Business School Case 197-024, September 1996. (Revised March 2002.)
- April 1995 (Revised July 1996)
- Supplement
Governance at Metallgesellschaft (B)
By: Jay W. Lorsch and Samanta Graff
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Corporate Accountability; Business Conglomerates; Governing and Advisory Boards; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Corporate Governance; Mining Industry; Chemical Industry; Germany; United States
Lorsch, Jay W., and Samanta Graff. "Governance at Metallgesellschaft (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 495-056, April 1995. (Revised July 1996.)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
George, William W., and Andrew N. McLean. "Anne Mulcahy: Leading Xerox through the Perfect Storm (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 405-065, March 2005.
- 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
Lorsch, Jay W., and Melissa Barton. "American International Group - 2010." Harvard Business School Case 411-074, November 2010. (Revised September 2015.)
- 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
- 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
- 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
- October 1982
- Supplement
Ideal Standard France: Pat Paterson, Video
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
Bartlett, Christopher A. "Ideal Standard France: Pat Paterson, Video." Harvard Business School Video Supplement 883-512, October 1982.
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 03 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 3
from its existing term loan lender that includes some aggressive and unusual features. This includes the requirement that, immediately upon filing for Chapter 11, School Specialty undertake to sell its assets under Section 363 of the U.S.... 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
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
Forget millions; think billions. That’s what HBS associate professor Benjamin C. Esty does in Large-Scale Investment, a new MBA elective course he has developed that examines how companies structure, value, and finance large,... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Motorola; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments