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  • 2011
  • Working Paper

Why Fears about Municipal Credit Are Overblown

Highly publicized predictions of 50-100 municipal defaults have caused anxiety among municipal bond investors. While there is some chance that negative investor sentiment will lead to further spread widening, the probability of the kind of widespread default that would... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Borrowing and Debt; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Bonds; Investment Return; City
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  • 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... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
  • November 2024
  • Case

Meghna Modi at Revlon India: Leading with a Bold Purpose

By: Aiyesha Dey, Sarah Mehta and Sarah Sasso
This case is about Meghna Modi, the head of struggling cosmetics company Revlon India, as she tries to both turn the company around and implement her personal purpose at work. Influenced by her own life struggles, Modi feels compelled to empower her frontline... View Details
Keywords: Leadership; Business or Company Management; Performance; Personal Development and Career; Gender; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Power and Influence; Beauty and Cosmetics Industry; Asia; India; Delhi
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  • 14 Feb 2007
  • Op-Ed

Tata-Corus: India’s New Steel Giant

Tata-Corus is the largest out of India, and is done by a private sector entity of its own volition, away from the shadow of state influence. For... View Details
Keywords: by Tarun Khanna
  • 01 Jun 2002
  • News

HBS Vets Support Homeless Comrades

Vets helping vets: Dann Angeloff, Rob Kaderavek (HBS '03) beside their thought-provoking bivouac. (photos by John Chase) Vets helping vets: Dann Angeloff, Rob Kaderavek (HBS '03) beside their thought-provoking bivouac. (photos by John Chase) In the View Details
Keywords: Health, Social Assistance
  • 12 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 12

experiment to examine the effect of management fiduciary duties on equity‐debt conflicts. A 1991 Delaware bankruptcy ruling changed the nature of corporate directors' fiduciary... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Apr 2008
  • First Look

First Look: April 1, 2008

Case 208-069 Delphi Corporation, operating under Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, has filed a plan of reorganization with the court, under which a consortium of hedge funds... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Oct 2021
  • Blog Post

Embracing Activism for Social Change

In 2020, the city of Detroit logged some 7,000 calls involving mental health emergencies—a critical issue, notes Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, who says, “When the mentally ill turn to the police for a response, the system is broken.” To fix... View Details
  • 13 Nov 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 13, 2018

718-510 The Rise and Rise (?) of Walmart (B): Kmart Declares Bankruptcy This case follows up on the competition between Kmart and Walmart as discussed in the (A) case. It summarizes the companies' positions... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 31 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 31, 2009

Shadow of a Giant (A) Harvard Business School Case 609-002 As the only significant competitor to Intel Corporation in PC microprocessors, Advanced Micro Devices faced daunting investment choices. Not only... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jun 2020
  • Blog Post

Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 1/5

March 28, 2019:  1. I am angry at the truth that lingers in this seemingly outlandish Nazi-inspired hate email received by last year's AASU leadership, which reflects the ever-present shadow of white... View Details
  • January 2011 (Revised July 2019)
  • Case

Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

By: Stuart C. Gilson and Sarah L. Abbott
One of the leading publishers of textbooks and other educational materials for the U.S. K-12 educational instruction market has suffered a dramatic decline in sales and profits in the wake of the 2008-2009 financial market crisis and economic recession, and is now... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Capital Structure; Financial Crisis; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Publishing Industry; Massachusetts
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  • 14 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 14

October 2014 Review of Financial Studies Money Creation and the Shadow Banking System By: Sunderam, Adi Abstract—Many explanations for the rapid growth of the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Jul 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017

customer value propositions. However, this proved difficult to sustain over the long run, and the business ultimately went into bankruptcy in 2001. How did Polaroid rise to a position of such preeminence,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Apr 2014
  • News

Understanding how trust impacts delivering superior performance

contracts rely on subjective measures of performance that cannot be fully specified or verified; they are understandings enforced by what Henderson terms “the shadow of the... View Details
  • October 1997 (Revised January 2008)
  • Case

Asda (A)

By: Michael Beer and James Weber
In the mid-1980s, Asda was one of the most successful retail companies in the United Kingdom. By 1991, the chain of 200 grocery stores had a lack of direction, a demoralized workforce, declining profits, rising debt, collapsing stock price, and was facing bankruptcy.... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Crisis Management; Management Teams; Business Strategy; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United Kingdom
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  • 01 Dec 2013
  • News

Faculty Q&A: Playing the Hits

ALL IN: The bigger the bet Hollywood makes, the better. Photo courtesy of Anita Elberse Offstage at a Lady Gaga concert seems an unlikely place for academic fieldwork. But that's exactly the kind of... View Details
Keywords: Patrick Kirchner; Arts, Entertainment; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • March 2024 (Revised July 2024)
  • Case

AMC: The Zero Revenue Case

By: C. Fritz Foley and Donal O'Cofaigh
The onset of the Covid-19 pandemic put theatre company AMC’s already perilous financial situation under even further strain. The company’s high levels of debt resulted in a monthly cash-burn which left it facing an imminent Chapter-11 filing in the absence of... View Details
Keywords: Ethics; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Public Equity; Stock Shares; Health Pandemics; Entertainment and Recreation Industry
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  • 22 Aug 2017
  • News

Thoughts on Charlottesville

outraged by what has transpired. Here at HBS, as members of a community committed to ensuring that everyone on our campus can and should thrive, we must guard against even a shadow View Details
  • 14 Jan 2022
  • Blog Post

Embracing Activism for Social Change

In 2020, the city of Detroit logged some 7,000 calls involving mental health emergencies—a critical issue, notes Detroit Mayor Mike Duggan, who says, “When the mentally ill turn to the police for a response, the system is broken.” To fix... View Details