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- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
Working PapersThe CHAT Dataset Authors:Diego A. Comin and Bart Hobijn NBER Working Paper Series, No. 15319, September 2009 Abstract This note accompanies the Cross-country Historical Adoption of Technology (CHAT) dataset. CHAT is an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 May 2010
- First Look
First Look: May 4
Netherlands, placed its U.S. operations and a German subsidiary under U.S. Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. To successfully reorganize as a going concern, the company sought to raise over $8 billion in a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Apr 2007
- First Look
First Look: April 17, 2007
called Edelnor that was in danger of becoming insolvent within months. Fernando had six months to restructure the company before it would become completely insolvent, and his headache was compounded by the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 14 Apr 2023
- Blog Post
New MBA Course Asks Students: What’s More Important—Purpose or Profits?
he made financial inclusion a priority for the insolvent bank that he was asked to lead, and how he ultimately transformed it into one of the largest banking conglomerates in Africa. Lagercrantz discussed... View Details
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Corporate Reports Collection | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Introduction 1840s – 1880s General Merchants to Commodities Brokers 1880s – 1920s Investment Banking & Securities Underwriting 1920s – 1960s Investing in Emerging Industries 1850–1968 Lehman Brothers Family Partners 1960s – 2000s Leadership Transitions 2008 View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
BOOK: Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring
Bankruptcies, Buyouts, and Breakups. The book is based on the MBA course of the same name that Gilson has taught for the last eight years. It explains exactly how corporate restructuring is done, from the first signs of concern until the... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 20 Dec 2011
- First Look
First Look: December 20
PublicationsUnconscious Thought Works Bottom-up and Conscious Thought Works Top-down When Forming an Impression Authors:Maarten W. Bos and Ap Dijksterhuis Publication:Social Cognition 29, no. 6 (2011)... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
One-on-One with Peter Cuneo
mentions a tireless vigilante: the Punisher. What is the motive behind Marvel’s decision to begin producing its own films? Creative control and a greater portion of the potential profits. When we came out of View Details
- 17 Aug 2011
- News
Breath of Life
but brought back from the brink of bankruptcy by its current president David Green (MBA ’91). Explaining that a natural trachea is shaped by its “scaffold” (its framework of cartilage and muscle), the Wall... View Details
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Manuscript Collections - Bubbles, Panics & Crashes – Historical Collections – Harvard Business School
papers concerning the Cooke bankruptcy that date from 1873 to 1877. Collection Guide Henry Villard Business Papers, 1835–1900 . Baker Library Historical Collections, Harvard Business School. German-born Henry Villard was a journalist,... View Details
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The Reinvention of Kodak | Information Technology
Featured Case The Reinvention of Kodak The Kodak multimedia case highlights the company's reinvention efforts by its leadership to navigate near bankruptcy and industry disruption from new technology. It... View Details
- 12 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 12, 2016
internalize the social costs of higher leverage in the form of greater bankruptcy losses (moral hazard) and are subject to a regulatory capital requirement. In contrast, shadow bank liabilities are subject... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
Joe C. Thompson, Jr.
Though Southland was quite a successful block ice retailer in the 1920s, when home refrigerators became popular, the company suffered and was forced into bankruptcy in 1932. Seeing the budding success of the... View Details
Keywords: Retail
- Profile
Roy Ben-Dor
of thinking." New roles In previous summers, Roy has interned with the Paul Hastings law firm on bankruptcies and private equity, and in a management training program with... View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
No Easy Fix for the Financial Crisis
middle class.” Consumers Need More Protection Harvard Law School professor Elizabeth Warren is a bankruptcy and commercial law expert and co-author of The Two-Income Trap: Why... View Details
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments
instead of traditional, on-balance sheet corporate finance. Consider, for instance, Iridium LLC, a $5.5-billion global satellite communications firm backed by Motorola that filed for bankruptcy in August, 1999, View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
3-Minute Briefing: Bonnie Kintzer (MBA 1987)
I had worked at a consulting firm where Reader’s Digest was my client, so I got to learn a lot about the business and the people prior to joining the first time. Thankfully, I was not there during either of the company’s two bankruptcies.... View Details
- 10 Nov 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Hard Numbers on Social Investments
percent had been acquired, and 6 percent had experienced an IPO. The incidence of bankruptcy in these social purpose companies was not unlike traditional early stage companies, but the percentage (15... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
Working Papers An Investigation of Earnings Management through Marketing Actions (revised) Authors: Craig J. Chapman and Thomas J. Steenburgh Abstract Prior research hypothesizes managers use "real actions," including the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Mark Gundersen
experience absolutely made me come alive. I spent most of the summer analyzing financials and modeling loans. Then one afternoon, I got a chance to meet the people we were making loans to. A farmer wearing a 'World's Best Dad' T-shirt... View Details