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- 19 Jan 2017
- News
Finding Purpose in Profit
non-core operations—including the GoLite footwear product line and support of the GoLite brand generally. Despite the couple’s desperate attempts to keep the company afloat, GoLite closed in 2014. “After putting literally everything we... View Details
- 02 Sep 2002
- Research & Ideas
The Role of Government When All Else Fails
social insurance, bankruptcy law, disaster relief, and so forth) have been studied extensively on an individual basis. What struck me, however, was that no one had ever looked across these policies View Details
Keywords: by Laura Linard
- 17 Jan 2025
- News
Tracking Modern Air Travel’s Takeoff
bankruptcy before leaving the industry in 1990 to found the investment firm, Savoy Capital. Lorenzo offers a blow-by-blow of the industry's transformation in his new memoir, Flying for Peanuts: Tough Deals, Steep Bargains, View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A Force for Good
Fouraker’s Deanship (1970 to 1980), in particular, McArthur held a range of increasingly important administrative positions. He also took on a highly unusual outside-world assignment as a Trustee in Bankruptcy of the Penn Central... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Books
bankruptcy laws) to creditors, and by spreading risk throughout the population (via deposit insurance and even the use of government-issued money). He discusses how the rise of... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
M.I.A. Boards
Illustration by Dan Page In a company as large, complex, and prestigious as Lehman Brothers, one would expect to have found seasoned, astute, well-informed directors to oversee the managers and the risks the... View Details
- 05 Feb 2009
- What Do You Think?
Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?
Summing Up How do we close the gap between theory and results in selecting leaders? In discussing why our achievements in selecting leaders are less than stellar, contributors offered a rich set of ideas. Given their number, I've tried to... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Four Promoted to Full Professor
environment. He has written on a broad range of restructuring topics, including corporate bankruptcy and debt workouts, tracking stock, equity spin-offs, corporate downsizing, bank mergers, View Details
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Big Bailouts, Little Debate
Duhigg Photo Courtesy Charles Duhigg As a business writer for the New York Times, I often bump into HBS classmates and alumni who ask me, in a whisper, “What’s the real story behind the economic crisis? There’s some hidden tale that... View Details
- 23 May 2018
- News
John A. Paulson, MBA 1980
boutique investment firm; Bear Stearns; and then Gruss Partners, where he concentrated on risk arbitrage and bankruptcy investing. In 1994, Paulson was ready to return to his... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- Profile
Terrance McGuire
venture created by four post-docs from The Whitehead Institute, which is now a public company with a drug on the market. He helped rescue deCODE from bankruptcy and oversaw its sale to Amgen. For more than... View Details
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
An Action Plan for Economic Recovery
POZEN: Offers a plan for overhauling the U.S. financial system to avoid a repeat of the recent market meltdown. Most books about the nation’s financial crisis tell us what happened. In his new book, HBS senior lecturer Robert Pozen tells us how to fix the system. A... View Details
- 03 Jun 2016
- News
Again in a Great City
Above: Cummings in the iconic Fisher Building, known as “Detroit’s largest art object.” Cummings and his partners are redeveloping the 28-story landmark. A trip through downtown Detroit with Peter Cummings (OPM 13, 1988) is part urban... View Details
Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
Silvers Illustration by Jeff Smith Damon Silvers (MBA ’95) tried to put his whirlwind day on hold just long enough to answer my queries about labor’s wish list for the new Congress and his role as a member of the Congressional Oversight... View Details
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could
restaurateur, broke, and with a wife and four young children at home, Rogers converted his aging Porsche into desperately needed cash to cinch the best deal he ever made — ownership of Dreyer’s Grand Ice... View Details
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image scientists, organic chemists, polymer chemists, and physicists in the photometric laboratory in the research and development department. Polaroid Corporation Records Held by the Polaroid View Details
- 12 Feb 2001
- Research & Ideas
Creating Value Across Borders
With many of today's entrepreneurs starting ventures simultaneously in several countries, it is critical for the global businessperson to understand the financial and business environments in different countries View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 09 Dec 2010
- News
Driving the Market for Big-Rig Engines
- 01 Dec 2003
- News
Rural Renewal
was thoroughly engaging intellectually,” says Reade of her years in the investment business. “We were detectives, piecing together the information to figure out the value of basic businesses.” Ultimately, however, she felt dissatisfied, in part because the View Details
- 20 Nov 2015
- News
Room to Grow
real-world experience after college and landed at an animal feed company in Arizona. When the company’s leaders were removed due to fraud, Kendall found himself in charge. “I ended up seeing an organization go through a View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley