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Faculty - Creating Emerging Markets

values/value systems , ethics , moral leadership Interviews Ian Fuhr Robert Brozin Victoria Ivashina Lovett-Learned Professor of Business Administration Anne and James F. Rothenberg Faculty Fellow Research Interests : bank debt ,... View Details

18 May 2016
Research & Ideas

Unethical Amnesia: Why We Tend to Forget Our Own Bad Behavior

self-views,” says Francesca Gino, the Tandon Family Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, who co-wrote the study with Maryam Kouchaki, an assistant professor at the Kellogg School of Management. “Unethical behavior creates psychological View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

Meeting for “The Impact of Contingent Liability on Commercial Bank Risk Taking.” 1995 Stuart C. Gilson : Winner of the 1995 Graham and Dodd Award for Excellence in Financial Writing from the Financial Analysts Journal and the CFA... View Details

14 Sep 2023
Blog Post

MBAs Accelerate Their Social Enterprise Ventures

options, and (2) they harbored reservations about entrusting an unfamiliar FinTech without an established banking relationship. Consequently, I began to envision a neobank dedicated to migrants, initially offering essential services like... View Details

20 Jul 2021
Research & Ideas

Bankruptcy Spells Death for Too Many Businesses

information from Bankruptcydata.com, Bloomberg Law, Moody’s Investors Service, and the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, Antill studied 503 nonfinancial companies, each carrying more than $50 million in debt at the time of default... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

03 Dec 2020
Research & Ideas

Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion

Conduct, your jobs are secure. This decision was made with 100 percent support of the Firm’s Operating Committee. At the end of this year, we will know what we are dealing with, and hopefully, the economy will be on the mend by then.” Brian Moynihan of View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott

30 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset

big and diverse. Today, however, American investors are buying distressed mortgages in Japan, industrial buildings in Mexico, and developing shopping centers in Eastern Europe. Globalization has hit the real estate industry big time. A... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston; Construction; Real Estate

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... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson;Martha Lagace; deregulation; moral hazard; the middle class; Finance

09 Aug 2016
First Look

August 9, 2016

forthcoming Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes Managing Perceptions of Distress at Work: Reframing Emotion as Passion By: Wolf, Elizabeth Baily, Jooa Julia Lee, Sunita Sah, and Alison Wood Brooks Abstract—Expressing... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 Oct 2016
Research & Ideas

Quantitative Easing Didn’t Ease the Housing Crisis for the Neediest

Another tool to stimulate a distressed economy has made its way into the playbooks of central banks across the world. With quantitative easing, known as QE for short, a central View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

19 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 19

stage; and lastly, intermediaries facilitate earlier-stage sales for inexperienced writers. Download the paper: http://www.people.hbs.edu/hluo/whentosell_2012.pdf Did Bank Distress Stifle Innovation During... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Mar 2013
Research & Ideas

How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy

as the study of dead or dying companies” During the crisis, the "amount of debt that needed to be restructured posed a seemingly insurmountable challenge," he writes in the article. At one point, a whopping "$3.5 trillion of corporate debt was View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Financial Services

01 Dec 2003
News

Studying Japan from the Inside

Motor was turned around by Carlos Ghosn. Ghosn was sent from Renault, the French auto company, which acquired management control of the financially distressed Nissan in March 1999. Ghosn motivated Nissan’s middle management and... View Details

Keywords: Cynthia Churchwell; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Sep 2017
News

A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry

private equity fund invests in distressed businesses across sub-Saharan Africa, and Dozie soon found himself responsible for a coffee cherry washing station in the volcanic hills of western Rwanda. Up until that point, Dozie’s only sense... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg; cafe; Cafe Neo; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade

01 Dec 2008
News

Seth Klarman

a mountain of cash — 40 to 50 percent of Baupost’s $14 billion–plus in assets — for several years, the firm’s recent investments have cut its cash stash in half. Distress selling, it seems, breeds the kind of bargains Klarman lives for.... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Finance

24 Dec 2013
First Look

First Look: December 24

alternative financing models of corporate lenders, including banks and finance companies.) The second major component of the case concerns distressed debt investment strategies and provides an illustration... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

23 Jun 2016
Op-Ed

Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?

Multinational Banking 1830-1990, and Professor of Management Practice Dante Roscini, who held top leadership roles in the capital markets units of Goldman Sachs, Merrill Lynch, and Morgan Stanley before coming to HBS, where he teaches the... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini

27 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 27

economic climate of the time. Purchase this case: http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/810054-PDF-ENG Citigroup's Exchange Offer (A) Robin Greenwood and James QuinnHarvard Business School Case 210-009 Citigroup faced considerable View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 4, 2008

help improve saving and financial decision-making, but much more can be done to improve the effectiveness of these programs. Download the paper from SSRN.com ($5): http://papers.nber.org/papers/w13824 Contract Rights and Risk Aversion: Foreign View Details