Shadow Of Bankruptcy - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2007
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Up from the Ashes

Someone whose ideas have become so ubiquitous and ingrained that we cannot separate his foundational thoughts from our own.” Remarkably, Schumpeter, an only child with deep and conflicting emotions, produced his sweeping body of... View Details

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

17 Feb 2010
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Harrah's CFO Plans a Recovery

Keywords: Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment

07 Jan 2011
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Working on a Turnaround

Keywords: Nursing and Residential Care Facilities; Health, Social Assistance

Profile

Rob Casper

As a Marine captain with experience in the Middle East, East Asia, and Afghanistan, Rob Casper has learned to learn from mistakes. “When I went into the Philippines, I had what I thought was a brilliant plan for teaching patrol skills to a platoon View Details

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Law, Management and Entrepreneurship - Course Catalog

litigation, Merger and Acquisition litigation, IP lawsuits, antitrust suits, bankruptcy litigation, and criminal prosecution in the context of securities regulation and international white collar crime. The... View Details

May 2018 (Revised January 2019)
Teaching Note

Lind Equipment

By: Richard S. Ruback, Royce Yudkoff and Ahron Rosenfeld

Teaching Note for HBS No. 212-012. Lind Equipment, a Canadian manufacturer and distributor of industrial electrical safety equipment, was purchased in December 2007 by Brian Astl (HBS 2006) and Sean Van Doorselaer. Lind’s performance was negatively impacted by the... View Details

Keywords: Recession; Seller Debt; Equity; Financial Condition; Borrowing and Debt; Capital; Revenue; Financing and Loans; Financial Strategy; Financial Management; Acquisition; Financial Crisis; Currency Exchange Rate; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Manufacturing Industry; Industrial Products Industry

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Purchase

01 Jun 2002
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Up to the Challenge: Lori Schock - Listen and Learn

into the new system illustrated to Schock the importance of flexibility and of valuing every team member. Her response was to deepen her involvement in the process by listening to the team and watching them... View Details

Keywords: Kathleen Brill

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Multimedia Development | Information Technology

today’s standards but ground-breaking for its time—10 years before YouTube would make streaming video ubiquitous. Featured Case of the Month The Reinvention of Kodak The Kodak multimedia case highlights the... View Details

01 Jun 2017
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Life in Lockdown

average amount on clothes,” she says. It is now 4:30 p.m. Back in Morris Hall, the team huddles around their laptops designing the look and functionality of an app that, just hours earlier, was a shadow... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers; photography by Chris Churchill

01 Dec 2001
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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 View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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

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Creating Value Through Corporate Restructuring - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog Creating Value Through Corporate Restructuring Course Number 1420 Professor Stuart C. Gilson Spring; Q3Q4; 3.0 credits 28 Sessions Exam Career Focus This course provides students with skills and knowledge that will prepare them for a variety View Details

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Timeline - Race, Gender & Equity

Allen partner to create Microsoft 1976 Cray Research, Inc. introduces the Cray-1 supercomputer 1978 Mandatory retirement is prohibited except for high-powered decision-making positions that also provide large pensions 1978 Bankruptcy... View Details

01 Dec 2003
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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,... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young; Crop Production; Agriculture

03 Jun 2016
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Again in a Great City

investments in the city do, starting with the lowest point in Detroit’s financial history: In July 2013, the city filed for Chapter 9; it was the largest municipal bankruptcy filing in US history. “Uncertainty is a horrible constraint for... View Details

Keywords: April White; photographed by Brian Kelly

October 2016 (Revised January 2017)
Supplement

Bally Total Fitness (B): The Fall, 2005–2016

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth

By many measures the largest health-club chain in the United States in the early 2000s, Bally Total Fitness sold most of its remaining fitness clubs to 24 Hour Fitness in 2014 and disappeared from the industry top 100 rankings. After Bally was bedeviled by accounting... View Details

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Purchase

09 Dec 2010
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Driving the Market for Big-Rig Engines

Keywords: Machinery Manufacturing; Manufacturing

19 Aug 2010
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Catchphrases, Mottos, and Cheers

(sent in by class-notes secretaries) Catchphrases and Mottos 1972B studied an HBO (Human Behavior in the Organization) case in which there were two hourly workers. One of them would steal the other fellow’s banana every day from his... View Details

Keywords: Keith Larson; Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

01 Mar 2006
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The Little Ice-Cream Company That Could

the College Avenue facility as a state-of-the-art ice-cream plant. Fifteen years later, the firm was on the verge of bankruptcy when Dreyer’s son, then in charge, sold it to key officers, including Ken Cook,... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Food Manufacturing; Manufacturing

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Field Course: Public Markets Investing Seminar - Course Catalog

seminars supplement the project work and allow the class to come together to engage with industry leaders, protagonists, and asset allocators. Students will learn first-hand the challenges and issues surrounding the diligence of an... View Details

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