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19 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

Handicapping the Best Countries for Business

for the next few years—maybe larger, maybe smaller (barring some catastrophe). Thus, net foreign debt will rise. Thus, the dollar will weaken. Thus, there will be upward pressure on real interest rates thus, thus, thus. These are then... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

03 Jan 2017
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January 3, 2017

pay out capital also initiate debt or equity issues in the same year, resulting in 32% of aggregate payouts being externally financed. Most firms with simultaneous payouts and security issues do not generate enough operating cash flow to... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

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The Economic Consequences of Hospital Admissions

By: Carlos Dobkin, Amy Finkelstein, Raymond Kluender and Matthew Notowidigdo

We use an event study approach to examine the economic consequences of hospital admissions for adults in two datasets: survey data from the Health and Retirement Study, and hospitalization data linked to credit reports. For non-elderly adults with health insurance,... View Details

Keywords: Personal Finance; Borrowing and Debt; Insurance; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Health Care and Treatment

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29 May 2020
Op-Ed

How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents

COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020.... View Details

Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Agriculture & Agribusiness

22 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business

which other online upstarts such as Amazon.com changed retail and Square changed the small business payments business. A few factors account for the rapid growth of the entrants. First, institutional debt and equity investors have been... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking; Financial Services

December 2010
Case

Financing Higher Education in Australia

By: David A. Moss and Stephanie Lo

Even before Australian lawmakers abolished university tuition in 1973, students in Australia had long benefited from low tuition and large government subsidies. By the early 1980s, however, the nation's universities faced growing budget challenges and an apparent... View Details

Keywords: Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Higher Education; Borrowing and Debt; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Policy; Education Industry; Australia

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18 Dec 2012
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be going off patent, underscored the importance of the BPH opportunity. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/513005-PDF-ENG Can the Eurozone Survive? Roscini, Dante, and Jonathan SchleferHarvard Business School Case 713-034 The sovereign View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

03 Jun 2014
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educational products to primary and secondary schools in the United States. The company planned to file Chapter 11 in order to address its excessive debt load but needed to arrange debtor in possession financing to provide liquidity while... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

January 2021 (Revised March 2021)
Supplement

Juno (B): Leveraging Student Power

By: Joshua Schwartzstein, Kathleen L. McGinn and Amy Klopfenstein

In March 2020, Juno co-founders Chris Abkarians and Nikhil Agarwal decided to pitch banks in anticipation of their annual auction while negotiating directly with private lender Eager. Responses from the majority of private lenders—including Juno’s 2019 partner—were not... View Details

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January 1994
Exercise

Walt Disney Company's Sleeping Beauty Bonds

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin

Walt Disney Co. issues a 100-year bond. This case describes the terms of the bond and immediate capital market reaction. View Details

Keywords: Capital Markets; Cash Flow; Debt Securities; Bonds; Interest Rates; Value

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December 2004
Teaching Note

Yield Curves and Bond Ratings Tutorial (TN)

By: William E. Fruhan Jr.

Teaching Note to (9-204-712). View Details

Keywords: Internet and the Web; Education; Debt Securities; Service Operations; Measurement and Metrics; Performance Evaluation; Education Industry

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December 1999 (Revised November 2001)
Background Note

Note on Private Equity Securities, A

By: G. Felda Hardymon and Josh Lerner

Provides an overview of the primary securities used in private equity, their structures, and the economic motivation behind their designs. View Details

Keywords: Design; Private Equity; Debt Securities; Industry Structures; Motivation and Incentives

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09 Aug 2016
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August 9, 2016

the performance of the “U.S. Endowment Model,” and compares Christ Church’s performance against others as he weighs a variety of investment strategies including redevelopment, land sales, specialist funds, pooling capital with the other Oxford Colleges, and taking on... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

31 May 2016
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May 31, 2016

consider the possibility that the risk anomaly represents mispricing and develop its implications for corporate leverage. The risk anomaly generates a simple tradeoff theory: at zero leverage, the overall cost of capital falls as leverage increases equity risk, but as... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Nov 2015
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November 10, 2015

were realized. What we label the CEO-specific Q and past return explains equity issuance, but it does not explain debt issuance, investment, or profitability. Two discontinuity analyses show that the specific share price that the current... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

13 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 13

employee confusion about or neglect of the tax properties of Roth balances and (2) partition dependence. Download working paper: http://www.nber.org/papers/w20738 The Rise and Fall of Demand for Securitizations By: Chernenko, Sergey, Samuel G. Hanson, and Adi Sunderam... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Jul 2008
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http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208088 Collateralized Debt Obligations (CDOs) Harvard Business School Note 208-113 This lesson integrated Merton's (1974) contingent claims model of View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

Privatization and the New European Economy

including deficits of 8 to 10 billion Deutsche marks and debts of over 20 billion marks. "Results were not important; markets were not a concern," he said. "Money came in courtesy of the Finance Minister, and the various... View Details

Keywords: by James E. Aisner; Air Transportation; Transportation

07 Aug 2012
Research & Ideas

Off and Running: Professors Comment on Olympics

place for permanent residents or poorly designed for families in a mass market. Finally, consider the costs of projects that more often than not go way over budget and then result in crushing long-term debt burdens. Montreal's Olympic... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Sports