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- 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 bankruptcy seven years ago we... View Details
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
No Bull — Nancy E. Havens-Hasty (MBA 1971)
before being asked to head the company's bankruptcy department in 1987. In 1991, she was granted responsibility for the high-yield department as well, and in 1992 became the first female employee elected to the Bear Stearns board of... View Details
Keywords: Linda Goodspeed
- 01 Dec 2009
- News
Hope for Reform Dims
THAIN: Regulations failed to keep up with innovations in financial markets. A year after the federal government rushed to rescue Wall Street from its own nearly fatal excesses, former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain (MBA ’79) worries “that we aren’t using the crisis to... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Big Deals: Project Finance Helps Mitigate Risk in Large-Scale Investments
mitigation is the use of off-balance sheet project finance 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 View Details
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
Promise & Perils
arrival of large multinational competitors such as Wal-Mart and Carrefour. The SOEs in particular are feeling threatened. Of the 100,000 that remain, experts maintain that many are near bankruptcy and not prepared to compete head-to-head... 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 big business provoked reforms that, by the early 20th... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 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 entrepreneurial roots and set up his own fund. “Ultimately,... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 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, and Revolution... View Details
- 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 firm undertook with shareholders’ money. Yet when Lehman... 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 Street Journal (July 8, 2011)... 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 last deal is completed. An... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 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 explains everything, right?” The... View Details
- 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, and employee buyouts. Currently, he is studying... View Details
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Damon Silvers
congressional bailout than Wall Street? No. The reason Congress voted in October to allot $700 billion for financial institutions was the risk that multiple bankruptcies would place the economy in jeopardy. Let’s apply that reasoning to... 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
- 01 Mar 2006
- News
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, who took over as president. It... 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 Middle-Class Mothers and Fathers Are Going Broke. Warren noted... View Details
- 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. I left in 2007 and returned in... View Details
- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Six Receive 2017 HBS Alumni Achievement Award
sustains our mission.” “At no point in my life could I have guessed what I’d be doing next,” says John H. McArthur (MBA 1959, DBA 1963), who was Dean of the School from 1980 through 1995. In his career, McArthur also served as a trustee in View Details
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
Business at the Summit
evolution,” he explained. “It is never good when the state intervenes to the point that it essentially controls a financial system and makes bankruptcy a near impossibility.” Citing Harvard economist Joseph Schumpeter, Ferguson observed... View Details