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  • 14 Aug 2007
  • First Look

First Look: August 14, 2007

  Working PapersHedge Fund Investor Activism and Takeovers Authors:Robin Greenwood and Michael Schor Abstract We examine long-horizon stock returns around hedge fund activism in a comprehensive sample of 13D filings by portfolio investors... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • August 2011 (Revised November 2018)
  • Case

Lind Equipment

By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
Lind Equipment failed to meet its loan covenants with its senior bank lender in the summer of 2008, just six months after it was acquired. While the senior bank debt comprised only 6% of the capital used in the acquisition and was fully secured, it exercised its right... View Details
Keywords: Financial Condition; Borrowing and Debt; Capital; Revenue; Financing and Loans; Financial Strategy; Financial Management; Acquisition; Financial Crisis; Currency Exchange Rate; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Manufacturing Industry; Industrial Products Industry
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  • 12 Jul 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide

Whether you sell widgets, designer fashions, or life-saving drugs, mastering the art and science of better analytics can set you ahead of your competitors, according to HBS professor Ananth Raman and Wharton... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Retail; Auto
  • 26 Jan 2016
  • First Look

January 26, 2016

case: https://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cbmp/product/515072-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 213-046 W.R. Grace & Co.: Dealing with Asbestos Torts A manufacturer of building products and specialty chemicals, W.R. Grace & Co. filed... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Aug 2010
  • First Look

First Look: August 10

away (i.e., default). The (B) case describes the decision and the reactions to this decision around the world and presents a new decision on the part of bond holders of Dubai's state-owned holding companies.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 16 Feb 2016
  • First Look

February 16, 2016

shadows of their external counterparts and how the former organization form has evolved over time. The core competencies underlying the contemporary in-house agency model are analyzed, and the competitive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 4

collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008 was the largest bankruptcy in U.S. history. The case examines the economics of the off-balance sheet transactions Lehman undertook prior to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 06 Oct 2015
  • First Look

October 6, 2015

Giving: The Role of Risk By: Exley, Christine L. Abstract—Decisions involving charitable giving often occur under the shadow of risk. A common finding is that potential donors... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Apr 2001
  • What Do You Think?

Dot.Com Shakeout: Chess or Roulette?

survival. The question is whether the form of survival will meet even their modified expectations. What do you think? Original Article In recent weeks the media have covered a number of stories about the... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • February 2010 (Revised September 2011)
  • Case

Lehman Brothers

By: Tom Nicholas and David Chen
In 2008, the U.S. financial 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 would be the firm's legacy? And... View Details
Keywords: History; Business History; Development Economics; Business Exit or Shutdown; Investment Banking; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Economic Growth; Financial Crisis; Financial Services Industry; United States
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  • 18 Nov 2010
  • Research & Ideas

GM’s IPO: Back to the Future

bankruptcy reorganization on June 1, 2009. What are some of the key issues the company faces? Three Harvard Business School faculty members--Joseph Bower, an authority on general management; Vineet Kumar, a... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto
  • 06 Jan 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Why Expensing Options Doesn’t Solve the Problem

company to transfer assets and liabilities to certain so-called special purpose entities (SPEs). According to the Powers report, which was published by a special committee of Enron's board after the company entered View Details
Keywords: by William Sahlman
  • 19 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?

Froot, "all this is interesting and useful because it's a microcosm for the larger financial sector, made up of banks and shadow banks. We have a huge institutional setup for bearing these sorts View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Financial Services
  • 01 Mar 2010
  • Op-Ed

A Golden Opportunity for Ford and GM

Having weathered the 2008 crisis without U.S. government support, Ford has $23 billion in cash in the bank and a lineup of eco-friendly automobiles to which U.S. consumers are gravitating. GM only emerged from View Details
Keywords: by Bill George; Auto
  • 01 Dec 2003
  • What Do You Think?

Is This the Twilight Era for the Managed Mutual Fund?

a shadow over the entire industry. The alleged problems include managers of fund families who allocate investments among individual funds in which they may have a management or ownership stake. This allows... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
  • 16 Dec 2014
  • First Look

First Look: December 16

turnaround from near bankruptcy to the prospect of a continued stream of surpluses. Now its CEO faces the challenge of maintaining the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Creditor-on-Creditor Violence and Secured Debt Dynamics

By: Samuel Antill, Neng Wang and Zhaoli Jiang
Secured lenders have recently demanded a new condition in distressed debt restructurings: competing secured lenders must lose priority. We model the implications of this “creditor-on-creditor violence” trend. In our dynamic model, secured lenders enjoy higher priority... View Details
Keywords: Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Debt Securities; Conflict and Resolution
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  • 02 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 2

downstream party's optimal sales effort and, as a consequence, lead to different order quantities. We provide a formal characterization of both effects, insight into how these effects interact, and information on which conditions the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Jul 2010
  • First Look

First Look: July 20

rights on firms' external finance constraints via generalized method of moments (GMM) estimation of an augmented investment Euler equation developed by Whited and Wu (2006). Using a large sample View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jan 2012
  • First Look

First Look: January 17

not available at this time. Read the article: http://hbr.org/2012/01/what-business-schools-can-learn-from-the-medical-profession/ar/1 Organizations in the Shadow of Communities Authors:Siobhan O'Mahony and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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