Publications

29 Sep 2008
Research & Ideas

Financial Crisis Caution Urged by Faculty Panel

was a member of the firm's executive committee. The regulatory structure did not keep pace with two decades of deregulation on Wall Street, Rose explained. Deregulation led to intense competitive pressures to which firms responded by... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services

01 Oct 1999
News

Finance Conference Explores Research Methodologies

Finance," focused on five subjects: corporate capital raising, corporate restructuring, extracting information from security prices, risk management, and security design. The fifteen papers presented at the conference, chosen by a... View Details

Fast Answer

Black Business Leaders and Entrepreneurship

data plus Social Explorer tables which include easy reports with age, sex, race, Hispanic origin, household relationship, place of birth, education, employment status, income, tenure, cost and value of housing, year structure built and... View Details

07 Apr 2008
Research & Ideas

The Debate over Taxing Foreign Profits

influence how investors diversify their portfolios; the organizational and ownership decisions firms make; firm investment[PDF] decisions; and myriad financing decisions, including capital structure and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

06 Oct 2015
First Look

October 6, 2015

unavoidably exert influence over politics through power that is generated by both structure and process. While both political economy and management scholars address international firms, neither field has an adequate understanding of the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

Profile

Daniel Serna

standards (and resolved the mystery of "missing" milk output — it turns out the gallon jugs were 1.5 ounces too big). Dan also spent time at AgriMark, a dairy co-operative of 1,400 farmers, where he worked on futures and options-trading strategies, global... View Details

01 May 2007
First Look

First Look: May 1, 2007

FDI increase when we account for the quality of FDI. Download working paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/07-072.pdf The Price of Capital: Evidence from Trade Data Authors:Laura Alfaro and Faisal Z. Ahmed Abstract In this paper we use highly disaggregated data on... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

April 2015 (Revised October 2017)
Teaching Note

Buffett's Bid for Media General's Newspapers

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Annelena Lobb

On May 12, 2012, BH Media Group, a subsidiary of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, announced an offer to buy Media General's (MEG) newspaper division for $142 million in cash and provide debt financing to the struggling firm. Reactions from investors and industry... View Details

Keywords: Mergers ＆ Acquisitions; Bankruptcy; Mergers and Acquisitions; Valuation; Capital Structure; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financial Strategy; Risk Management; Executive Compensation; Cash Flow; Business Exit or Shutdown; Media; Advertising; Restructuring; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Publishing Industry; United States

June 2013 (Revised April 2015)
Case

Buffett's Bid for Media General's Newspapers

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Aldo Sesia

On May 12, 2012, BH Media Group, a subsidiary of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, announced an offer to buy Media General's (MEG) newspaper division for $142 million in cash and provide debt financing to the struggling firm. Reactions from investors and industry... View Details

Keywords: Mergers ＆ Acquisitions; Bankruptcy; Mergers and Acquisitions; Valuation; Capital Structure; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financial Strategy; Risk Management; Executive Compensation; Cash Flow; Business Exit or Shutdown; Media; Advertising; Restructuring; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Publishing Industry; United States

07 Feb 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: February 7

deployment to a challenging context is associated with human capital development. Managers initially deployed to more challenging contexts were not, however, more likely to break into the upper echelons of the organization. Publisher's... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

June 2024
Case

Caesars Entertainment: Governance on the Road to Bankruptcy

By: Kristin Mugford

Caesars Entertainment was a large casino operator in the United States that had been purchased in a 2008 leveraged buyout by Apollo and TPG. In January 2015, Caesars Entertainment Operating Company (CEOC), its largest subsidiary, filed for Chapter 11. This set up a... View Details

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; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Borrowing and Debt; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Las Vegas

25 Nov 2014
First Look

First Look: November 25

field research methods, this paper connects these achievements to bureaucratic norms, unwritten rules within the state that guide the behavior of public officials and structure their relations with civic agencies outside the state.... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

Web

IFC: Italy; Tradition and Innovation - Course Catalog

design, openness to trade, quality, as well as internationalization, and strategic flexibility. Italy’s family capitalism has shown it can evolve and adjust to a changing world. Students will analyze how it has done so even against... View Details

16 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 16

pricing mechanism, capitalism must have the administrative capability to regulate the behavior of economic actors within those markets and the political capability to redesign their institutions; regulation and the design of market... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

22 May 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 22, 2018

Murphy, and Jorg L. Spenkuch Abstract—We develop a model of intergenerational resource transmission that emphasizes the link between cross-sectional inequality and intergenerational mobility. By drawing on first principles of human View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

11 Apr 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research, April 11

experimentation ex-post and one that funds experimental projects ex-ante. In equilibrium it is possible that all competing financiers choose to offer failure-tolerant contracts to attract entrepreneurs, leaving no capital to fund the most... View Details

15 Dec 2015
News

The Year in Ideas 2015

this to VCs, they thought we were crazy,” Sapone says. There was the increase in cost structure and concerns about scalability. “But these are people we’re sending to your home to take care of you: They are our product.” Providing steady... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna, Christine Lejeune, Dan Morrell, and April White

Web

Board Diversity Network: 2024 Fall Events Recap - Blog: RGE Report

It’s good to bring the core financial skills but boards these days are also looking for expertise on how to navigate economic uncertainty, capital allocation, cybersecurity, digital transformation and AI, and all things talent and human... View Details

January 2020 (Revised December 2024)
Case

Governing PG&E

By: Lynn S. Paine and Will Hurwitz

The five commissioners of the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) listened intently at a public forum in April 2019 as PG&E Corporation’s out-going chairman Richard Kelly described the company’s proposed new board. PG&E, which provided electricity and natural... View Details