Insolvency and Bankruptcy - Publications - Faculty & Research

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

Keywords: by William George; Auto

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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14 Mar 2011
Research & Ideas

Keeping Credit Flowing to Consumers in Need

families lost their homes, personal bankruptcies soared, and it seemed that every weekend one financial firm after another failed. There was substantial doubt about the ability of the financial system to... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Construction; Real Estate

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

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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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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October 1982
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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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April 1995 (Revised July 1996)
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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

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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

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
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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

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

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Lehman Brothers - Introduction | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

derivatives and subprime mortgages; losses on these instruments contributed to the firm’s filing for bankruptcy in 2008. Drawing from the extensive Lehman Brothers Collection in Baker Library’s Special... View Details

20 Jan 2015
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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

01 Mar 2010
News

Rx for Too Big to Fail

the scourge of too big to fail. One is to break up the largest financial institutions, possibly with a new and improved Glass-Steagall law. The other is to perfect a bankruptcy process for super-sized... View Details

Keywords: David Moss; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools

12 Aug 2008
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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

01 Apr 2008
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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

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

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

May 1985 (Revised November 1990)
Case

Spinnaker Software Corp.

By: Howard H. Stevenson

Describes the problems faced by a company that has experienced remarkable growth, but growth which is below projections. The management must evaluate the company's position in the turbulent software industry. The two partners must then decide whether to cut back to... View Details

Keywords: Decisions; Borrowing and Debt; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Profit; Growth and Development; Growth and Development Strategy; Problems and Challenges; Software; Information Technology Industry

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