Debt Collection - Publications - Faculty & Research

29 Nov 2017
Research & Ideas

How to Succeed in Business (According to a 15th Century Trade Merchant)

reception celebrating the release. The library’s late medieval and early Renaissance Italian business records housed in HBS’s Historical Collections in Baker Library are among the largest and most important View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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Globalization - Faculty & Research

and Louis Wells on foreign investment in emerging markets - helped pave today’s global research path. Supported by eight Global Research Centers that facilitate our contact with global companies and the collection of international data,... View Details

15 Dec 2023
News

Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem

Clubs News Clubs News Webinar illuminates broad array of business opportunities across Africa On December 5th, the HBS African-American Alumni Association (HBSAAA) hosted ‘Doing Business in Africa: From Opportunity to Action’, a webinar panel of HBS alumni who shared... View Details

Keywords: Margie Kelley

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Home Finance

Great Depression, when foreclosures on residential properties soared alongside farm foreclosures. Scholars still know relatively little about the American real estate industry before World War II. The U.S. Commerce Department did not begin View Details

28 May 2020
Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'

cover debt payments owed to creditors. This could set up the perfect storm for a huge wave of bankruptcies in the weeks and months ahead, says Stuart C. Gilson, the Steven R. Fenster Professor of Business Administration at Harvard... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking

25 Jun 2013
First Look

First Look: June 25

their career, want to run their own companies. This note looks at the funded search as a means to entrepreneurship through acquisition and describes the path to buy and run a business using debt and equity as a means of financing the... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

12 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

Enron’s Lessons for Managers

five-legged cow; it doesn't really make sense. I think that Enron's pathologies are not unique, save in their collective occurrence and collective impact. Very few of us who engage in competitive endeavors... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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Industry Information - Alumni

current picture of the CPG business. CGT Consumer Goods Technology A collection of news, articles, featured content, sponsored events. A mission of being the intersection of business and technology in the global consumer goods community.... View Details

23 Jun 2008
Research & Ideas

Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings

whether it is in prize-linked or collectible savings. On the sociological end, our research with U.S. savings bonds has been eye-opening. It reveals an old-fashioned impulse lives on: to save on behalf of others. Savings bonds help... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

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2022 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Western leadership; the United States’ weakened economy after 2008; post-COVID deficits and debt in Latin America, Africa and Europe; and the conditions of energy and commodity markets post-Ukrainian war. Slides June 10-11 Reunion... View Details

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2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

Digital platforms like Amazon and Facebook evoke strong emotions. Supporters highlight their ability to democratize and personalize access to goods, services, and information in ways previously unimaginable. Critics, however, focus on their market dominance, excessive... View Details

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Bankers, Financiers, and Statesmen - Coin and Conscience

by N. Smith, June 10, 1793. 22.5 x 17.5 cm F gb4 x Gresham is known as the founder of the Royal Exchange and of Gresham College, London. As the royal financial agent in Antwerp, he was shrewd in discharging the debts of the crown, and... View Details

02 Jun 2011
What Do You Think?

Is it Time for a National Bankruptcy?

nation's debt? they are the ones who chose the representatives." As an alternative to insolvency, forgiveness of debt combined with other measures had appeal for several respondents. Yadeed Lobo, while entertaining the idea of... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

24 Jun 2014
First Look

First Look: June 24

Publications August 2013 Harvard Business Review Press Collective Genius: The Art and Practice of Leading Innovation By: Hill, Linda A., Greg Brandeau, Emily Truelove, and Kent Lineback Abstract—Why can some organizations innovate time... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Sep 2003
News

Jonathan Mariner

negotiated as part of last year’s collective bargaining agreement will usher in a new era of fiscal responsibility. “Those measures — luxury taxes, revenue sharing, and debt limits — have teeth,” Mariner... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment

01 Sep 2015
News

Research Brief: Bankruptcy as a Better—Not Bitter—End

lenders and liquidating otherwise viable companies. As the theory goes, the deep-pocketed secured lenders at the front of the line have a bias toward shutting down viable operations, selling off the assets, and collecting the cash they’re... View Details

Keywords: Erin Peterson

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Buy Now, Pay Later: Research Links - Secondary Resources

Manuscript Collections Printed Collections Visual Collections Secondary Resources Credits Bacheller, Irving. Keeping up with Lizzie; Charge It (New York: Harper & Brothers,... View Details

01 Oct 1998
News

Going Against the Flow

Brazil was defaulting on its overseas debt and hyperinflation was running rampant. Somehow, amid the country's financial fracasso, Jakurski sensed opportunity. "With inflation at times increasing 2 percent daily," he recalls, "we would... View Details

Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.

18 Jun 2013
First Look

First Look: June 18

influence-seeking risk managers (1) establish and maintain interpersonal connections with decision makers and how they (2) adopt, deploy, and reconfigure tools-practices that we define collectively as toolmaking. Using prior literature... View Details