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  • 10 Apr 2007
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First Look: April 10, 2007

firm's capital to provide liquidity for the event. He must decide what positions to establish, and at what price he is willing to get out. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=207109 Parmalat... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 26 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 26

liquidity and duration. Comparison of the ex-post performance of bonds acquired by insurance companies does not show outperformance, but higher volatility of realized returns. Download the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2065841... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Jun 1999
  • News

Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

liquid and effective," he says. "Mutual funds deepen the capital markets, and the capital markets lubricate our entire economy by allocating financial resources." For the consumer, the mutual fund combines a number of attractions in a... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • September 2017 (Revised January 2019)
  • Case

FJ Management Inc.

By: Lynda M. Applegate and Matthew G. Preble
In late 2015, Crystal Call Maggelet, president and CEO of FJ Management, is working with her investment committee to help set the company’s strategic direction. Maggelet, daughter of the company’s founder, has led FJ Management since 2009 when she stepped in as CEO... View Details
Keywords: Turnaround; Company History; Family Business; Transformation; Volatility; Change Management; Entrepreneurship; Ethics; Moral Sensibility; Values and Beliefs; Cash Flow; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financial Liquidity; Financial Management; Governance; Corporate Governance; Governance Controls; Leadership; Leading Change; Crisis Management; Negotiation; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Family Ownership; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Business Strategy; Energy Industry; Travel Industry; Retail Industry; Service Industry; Utah
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  • April 2017 (Revised February 2020)
  • Case

Restructuring Ukraine

By: Kristin Mugford, Seema Amble and Tian Feng
In June 2015, Ukraine found itself struggling with a volatile and devalued currency, dramatically diminished foreign reserves, and a projected financing shortfall of $40 billion. Ukraine’s new government sought to return the nation to stability following political... View Details
Keywords: Exchange Rates; Politics; Macroeconomics; Financial Crisis; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Restructuring; Economy; Currency Exchange Rate; Banks and Banking; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Bonds; Sovereign Finance; Capital Markets; Credit; Debt Securities; Financial Liquidity; Financial Markets; Government and Politics; Ukraine
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  • 30 Apr 2025
  • News

A Social Enterprise Talk in DC; Canadian Alumni Talk Trade; Meet the Leader: HBS Club of Colorado

DC Panel Looks at Social Enterprise in a New Government Landscape The HBS Club of Washington, DC teamed up with the HBS Social Enterprise Initiative (SEI) on April 2, to present an alumni panel discussion on social impact titled “New Perspectives in Social Enterprise,”... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 16 May 2018
  • News

ALUMNI NVC Finals and Regional Roundup

co-working/accelerator space Grand Central Tech in Manhattan. Three teams made the final cut to advance to the Global Rounds. George Hessler (MBA 1985) was named the regional winner with Magma Trading, “a trading platform that allows dealers to roll up the View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
  • 04 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

shareholders' economic interests and low corporate profitability, Japan introduced the JPX-Nikkei400 in 2014. The index highlighted the country's "best-run" companies by annually selecting the 400 most profitable of its large and liquid... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 18 Oct 2011
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First Look: October 18

skilled workers, and getting distribution for Boumi products in major markets such as Europe and the United States. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/112029-PDF-ENG Khosla Ventures: Biofuels Gain Liquidity Joseph B.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 12 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018

introduced the JPX400 in 2014. The index highlighted the country's "best-run" companies by annually selecting the 400 most profitable among Japan's large and liquid firms. Index-inclusion incentives led firms to increase ROE... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 17 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 17

banks to roll over their short-term debt. We document that there was a simultaneous run by borrowers who drew down their credit lines, leading to a spike in commercial and industrial loans reported on bank balance sheets. We examine whether these two stresses on bank... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 10 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 10, 2009

its $18 billion in cash reserves during the week of March 10, 2008, and an unprecedented provision of liquidity support from the Federal Reserve on Friday, March 13 was insufficient to reverse the decline in Bear's condition. Federal... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Mar 2009
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First Look: March 3, 2009

the efforts of Ben Bernanke, Chairman of the Federal Reserve, to improve liquidity in money markets during the subprime crisis. The case explains the four main new tools for monetary policy (or quantitative easing) the Federal Reserve has... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Nov 2008
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First Look: November 4, 2008

had changed radically in March, and the Moody's team was fearful that the situation could spiral out of control. The Moody's team knew that carry traders increased Iceland's vulnerability to a confidence crisis because they were quick to View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2008
  • News

No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis

plan doesn’t do enough to recapitalize banks. The Treasury’s view, he said, is that creating a market for distressed assets will help recapitalize the banks to the extent that its actions make these assets more liquid and more easily... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson;Martha Lagace; deregulation; moral hazard; the middle class; Finance
  • 01 Dec 2000
  • News

Latin America's Decade

emerging markets where local stock exchange listings have grown, liquidity in many Latin American exchanges has diminished in recent years. The purchase of local, family-owned companies and state-owned enterprises by outside... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons and Julia Hanna; Latin America; research; infrastructure; Hospitality; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services
  • 18 Nov 2010
  • Research & Ideas

GM’s IPO: Back to the Future

important, by establishing a liquid market in securities, the IPO will open the door to a progressive program for selling off the government's stake in the company. This is the only way for the Treasury to divest of its holding and will... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Auto
  • 01 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 1

prices in liquid secondary markets, but caution against expanding fair values to areas such as intangibles where they could be used opportunistically. We conclude that rather than converging U.S. GAAP with IFRS, competition between the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13

multi-currency capital structure with both senior, secured bank loans and junior bonds. PCP has to decide whether to push for bankruptcy in a European court, or to push for out of court renegotiations. The case is a tool for studying the difference between View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Nov 2009
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First Look: Nov. 3

structure of financial assets and non-fundamental risk. An asset is fragile if its owners collectively have to buy or sell. Such assets are susceptible to non-fundamental price movements. An asset can be fragile because of concentrated ownership, or because its owners... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace