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  • October 2000 (Revised January 2002)
  • Case

Individual and the Corporation, The: Kathy Levinson and E*TRADE (A)

By: Joseph L. Badaracco Jr. and Susan Harmeling
Kathy Levinson, the president and COO of ETRADE and a lesbian mother of two children, must decide whether and how to participate in the "No on Knight" campaign. The campaign opposes California ballot proposition 22, which requires California to recognize only marriages... View Details
Keywords: Conflict of Interests; Leadership; Managerial Roles; Values and Beliefs; Decision Choices and Conditions; Gender; Diversity; Financial Services Industry
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  • 01 Dec 2018
  • News

Case Study: Your Data, Your Health

early detection of gynecological diseases. The Oakland-based company completed its second clinical trial and is now raising Series A funding. Its initial indications focus on identifying conditions that contribute to infertility, such as... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
  • Profile

Nathalie du Preez

survive. Suddenly, the question was not merely whether child labor should be abolished, but how to address the underlying social conditions that give rise to a culture of child labor. "Roots and wings" For her summer internship,... View Details
  • January 2003 (Revised June 2003)
  • Case

Adams Capital Management: March 2002

By: G. Felda Hardymon, Josh Lerner and Ann Leamon
In March 2002, the five partners of Adams Capital Management (ACM), a venture capital firm investing in information technology telecommunications with $700 million under management, gathered to discuss whether they should change their strategy in view of the prolonged... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Venture Capital; Investment Portfolio; Business or Company Management; Partners and Partnerships; Business Strategy; Financial Services Industry
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  • 13 Jun 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 13

Abstract—Antisocial behavior is often assumed to reflect aberrant risk processing. However, many of the most significant forms of antisocial behavior, including crime, reflect the outcomes of decisions made under conditions of ambiguity... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • November 2013
  • Supplement

Arch Wireless, Inc. (B): Food for Vultures

By: Stuart C. Gilson
In 2002, a hedge fund investor acquires the distressed bank debt of a bankrupt wireless paging company and converts his holding into common stock of the reorganized entity. Determining his likely return from this investment is challenging, given that the entire... View Details
Keywords: Bankruptcy Reorganization; Distress Investing; Capital Structure; Restructuring; Investment Funds; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Borrowing and Debt; Wireless Technology; Telecommunications Industry
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  • December 2012
  • Course Overview Note

Entrepreneurial Management in a Turnaround Environment (EMTE) Fall 2012: Course Overview and Syllabus

Course Overview and Syllabus in the Fall Term 2012 for the Entrepreneurial Management in a Turnaround Environment (EMTE) course. View Details
Keywords: Entrepreneurial Management; Entrepreneurs; Entrepreneurship; Turnarounds; Bankruptcy Reorganization; Bankruptcy; Small ＆ Medium-sized Enterprises; Careers; Entrepreneurial Finance; Distressed Debt; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Management; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Organizational Culture
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  • 21 Jan 2009
  • First Look

First Look: January 21, 2009

that result in a failure to notice ethical erosion when it occurs slowly. Broadly, our studies provide evidence as to when and why people overlook cheating by others and examine the conditions under which the slippery slope effect occurs.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • March 2009 (Revised March 2010)
  • Case

Groupe Eurotunnel S.A. (A)

By: Stuart C. Gilson, Vincent Marie Dessain and Sarah Abbott
In the summer of 2006, the chairman and CEO of Eurotunnel Group is faced with the decision whether to file for bankruptcy protection, after having failed to gain creditor approval of an ambitious out-of-court restructuring plan. The company, which has been attempting... View Details
Keywords: Restructuring; Capital Structure; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Laws and Statutes; Risk Management; Rail Industry; France; United Kingdom
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  • 01 Jun 2015
  • News

Research Brief: If State Pensions Clean Up Their Books, Who Pays?

When the financial crisis hit in 2008, it became apparent that many states had played fast and loose with their pension funding. Some states slashed benefits, others contemplated bankruptcy. You might think state governments, burned badly... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
  • 12 Mar 2013
  • First Look

First Look: March 12

even after controlling for the focal district-industry's conditions. The core patterns hold when using local industrial conditions in 1994 to instrument for incumbent conditions in 2000-2005. The results... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Jun 2016
  • Op-Ed

What Hath the United Kingdom Wrought?

trading block in the world. Financial markets had been complacent and were caught off guard by an early morning earthquake that affected most traded asset classes around the globe. Prime Minister David Cameron announced his resignation,... View Details
Keywords: by Dante Roscini
  • 25 May 2016
  • Research & Ideas

How Consumers and Businesses are Reshaping Public Health

disaster that killed over 1,000 factory workers in Bangladesh in 2013 highlighted to Western consumers the challenging conditions faced by the workers who made their clothes. Consumer pressure on Western retailers worked its way back up... View Details
Keywords: by John A. Quelch; Health
  • 13 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Science Business: What Happened to Biotech?

"anatomy," has created poor conditions for a science-based business to flower. "The sector has indiscriminately borrowed business models, organizational strategies, and approaches from other high-technology industries under... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Biotechnology
  • 01 Feb 2001
  • News

The Doctor Is In

The spotless, brightly lit corridors of Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital are filled with the ebb and flow of the human condition —people from around the globe and around the corner who come here seeking the best possible care for... View Details
Keywords: healthcare; Health, Social Assistance
  • Web

Program Policies - HBS Online

learnings of the program. Some programs also have assignments that must be completed as part of your experience. Business Analytics , Economics for Managers , and Financial Accounting contain required quizzes, and an average score of 50%... View Details
  • February 2017 (Revised January 2022)
  • Supplement

Bankruptcy at Caesars Entertainment (B)

By: Kristin Mugford
Keywords: Gaming; Chapter 11; Fraudulent Conveyance; Apollo; TPG; Bankruptcy; Leveraged Buyouts; Restructuring; Capital Structure; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Private Equity; Financial Management; Lawsuits and Litigation; Negotiation; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Las Vegas
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  • fall 2010
  • Article

Lawsuits and Empire: On the Enforcement of Sovereign Debt in Latin America

By: Faisal Z. Ahmed, Laura Alfaro and Noel Maurer
The re-occurring phenomenon of sovereign default has prompted an enormous theoretical and empirical literature. Most of this research has focused on why countries ever chose to pay their debts (or why private creditors ever expected repayment). The problem originates... View Details
Keywords: Lawsuits and Litigation; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Sovereign Finance; Borrowing and Debt; Debt Securities; Motivation and Incentives; Markets; Equity; Banking Industry; Latin America
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  • 06 Nov 2019
  • Op-Ed

Torched Planet: The Business Case to Reinvent Almost Everything

The world is. on. fire. The Earth is burning. We only have a little time to arrest climate change, and if we fail to do so the consequences will be both dire and irreversible. We have the technology and the resources to fix things, if we want to. We even have a... View Details
Keywords: by Rebecca Henderson; Energy
  • 01 Mar 2015
  • News

Ask the Expert: Inside the Fed

Board of Governors to formulate monetary policy, ensuring that its policies take into account conditions in every state and across all economic sectors. Each Reserve Bank is supervised by a nine-member board of directors. With the Federal... View Details
Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Government; Monetary Authorities-Central Bank; Finance