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  • 20 Dec 2011
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First Look: December 20

Per Strömberg Abstract We use an important legal event as a natural experiment to examine the effect of management fiduciary duties on equity-debt conflicts. A 1991 Delaware bankruptcy ruling changed the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 12 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 12

211-090 Rehan Jaffer, the founder of hedge fund H Partners, is considering what to do with his investment in Six Flags. H Partners had invested a significant amount of the firm's capital in the senior bonds... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Dec 2017
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New Research and Ideas, December 19, 2017

forthcoming Economic Journal (Royal Economic Society) Increasing the Electoral Participation of Immigrants: Experimental Evidence from France By: Pons, Vincent, and Guillaume Liegey Abstract—Improving the political participation View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 09 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 9

legal event as a natural experiment to examine equity-debt conflicts in the vicinity of financial distress. A 1991 Delaware bankruptcy ruling changed the nature of corporate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Dec 2018
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New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018

structural adjustment followed. Today several structural issues and the threat of external risks continue to cast a shadow on its otherwise remarkable recovery. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

    Sidney Kimmel

    several niche retailers including Nine West. The company which was on the brink of bankruptcy in the early eighties was generating over $4 billion in revenues by the end of the... View Details
    Keywords: Fabric & Apparel
    • 06 Mar 2007
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    First Look: March 6, 2007

    Self-Policing in the Shadow of the Regulator Authors:Jodi L. Short and Michael W. Toffel Abstract As part of a recent trend toward more cooperative relations between regulators... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 01 Dec 2009
    • News

    Hope for Reform Dims

    excessive consumer and corporate debt. “Regulatory structures failed to keep up” with innovations in the marketplace, he added. Thain took the top spot at Merrill Lynch in December 2007, resigning as CEO of the NYSE Euronext. Previously,... View Details
    Keywords: Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs
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    Baker Old Class 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
    • 02 Sep 2015
    • Research & Ideas

    Explaining China's Crash

    practically zero here. One thing to watch for will be how China ensures the stability of its financial system since total debt has reached 250 percent of GDP, credit has been abundant, and the size View Details
    Keywords: by Christina Pazzanese; Financial Services
    • 05 Feb 2009
    • What Do You Think?

    Why Can’t We Figure Out How to Select Leaders?

    2001) Note: Selecting companies for good to greatness may be just as difficult as selecting leaders. One of the 11 companies that Collins cited as going from good to great went on to bankruptcy in just seven... View Details
    Keywords: by Jim Heskett
    • 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 Middle-Class Mothers and... View Details
    Keywords: Roger Thompson;Martha Lagace; deregulation; moral hazard; the middle class; Finance

      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
      • 10 Apr 2012
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      First Look: April 10

      relational contracts (i.e., informal agreements sustained by the shadow of the future). We argue that one of the reasons these practices may be difficult to copy is that... View Details
      Keywords: Carmen Nobel
      • 22 Jan 2013
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      First Look: Jan. 22

      significantly decreases the likelihood of bankruptcy by up to 2.7 times (270%) four years after funding application. Selection also increases the average level of employment by... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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      Lehman Brothers Archives | 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
      • 20 Jul 2010
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      First Look: July 20

      rights on firms' external finance constraints via generalized method of moments (GMM) estimation of an augmented investment Euler equation developed by Whited and Wu (2006). Using a large sample View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • Portrait Project

      Bhargav Srinivasan

      India but raised in Texas, I sometimes felt out of place or alone. Sharp pangs of frustration arose when I had important things to say and nobody to lend an ear. On the rare occasion that I found a willing... View Details
      • 02 Jun 2010
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      First Look: June 2

      downstream party's optimal sales effort and, as a consequence, lead to different order quantities. We provide a formal characterization of both effects, insight into how these effects interact, and information on which conditions the... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace
      • 20 Apr 2010
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      First Look: April 20

      company's, and his, legacy will be after declaring bankruptcy despite a cultural turnaround and successful operations. Purchase this supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/610061-PDF-ENG The Last DVD Format War? Andrei... View Details
      Keywords: Martha Lagace