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HBS - Financials | Consolidated Balance Sheet
Deposits, Advances & Other $94 $69 $62 Deferred Revenue 194 206 191 Other Debt Owed to University 83 79 81 Building Debt 28 33 40 Total Liabilities $399 $387 $374 Net Assets 2022 2021 2020 Current Use... View Details
- 29 Jan 2015
- Op-Ed
The Fall of Greece
Editor's note. On Sunday, the left-leaning Syriza party and its leader Alexis Tsipra won a decisive national victory in Greece, partly on pledges to reduce current austerity measures and to seek a restructuring of debt commitments to... View Details
Keywords: by George Serafeim
- Feb 2014
- Case
Finding the Money: An Overview of Infrastructure Finance Challenges and Opportunities
creative tools that can be used. It focuses on five major areas: the problematic state of fuel taxes; the increasing promise of user fees; innovations in debt financing; the challenges of privatization; and the promise (and challenges) of... View Details
James R. Kuse
Mortgaging his home in 1984, Kuse, along with a few other executives from Georgia Pacific, financed a leveraged buy-out to create Georgia Gulf Corporation, a major producer of specialty chemical products. Under his leadership, Kuse not only paid off the View Details
Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
Francis B. Davis Jr.
In 1928, United States Rubber lost $10 million due to the collapse of the world crude rubber market. Taking over the helm in 1929, Davis reorganized the company, putting in place a multi-divisional organizational structure. Davis reduced the company’s View Details
Keywords: Chemicals & Industrial
- February 2006
- Case
Fraikin SA
By: W. Carl Kester, Vincent Marie Dessain and Monika Stachowiak
Provides an example of a so-called "whole business" securitization. In early 2004, Fraikin, France's leading industrial vehicle rental company, compares several alternatives for refinancing a large bridge loan within a year. Presents three primary options: a classic... View Details
Keywords: Debt Securities; Transportation; Renting or Rental; Transportation Industry; Service Industry; France
Kester, W. Carl, Vincent Marie Dessain, and Monika Stachowiak. "Fraikin SA." Harvard Business School Case 206-090, February 2006.
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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
- 30 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 30, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51574 Fiscal Rules and Sovereign Default By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract—We provide a quantitative analysis of fiscal rules in a standard model of sovereign debt accumulation... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 30 Sep 2008
- First Look
First Look: September 30, 2008
case: http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu /b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=799015 PublicationsOptimal Reserve Management and Sovereign Debt Authors:Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk Publication:Journal of International... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Portrait Project
Tom Doyle
Financial theory suggests that debt creates value. So, I want to spend my life accumulating more debt... ...debt to friends and classmates for extending their talent to transform a slum into a thriving community ...debt to academic... View Details
- 20 Nov 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, November 20, 2018
PE-backed companies increased investments relative to their peers, while also experiencing greater equity and debt inflows. The effects are stronger among financially constrained companies and those whose private equity investors had more... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Dec 2008
- News
A U.S. Turnaround?
overburdened by debt is that it has steadily taken more borrowing to finance our growth. In the 1950s the economy grew by 73 cents for each dollar of added debt. In the 1960s it was 65 cents. By the 1980s it was only 34 cents, and so far... View Details
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Bonds: data
Where do I find data on bonds? Bloomberg Use the GOVT or CORP yellow keys For yield curves, type FMCI, then hit GO Capital IQ Screening Go to Screening > Fixed Income See Fixed Income section on the lower right hand side to screen by a variety of criteria View Details
- April 1993 (Revised December 1994)
- Case
American Express TRS Charge-Card Receivables
By: Andre F. Perold and Kuljot Singh
American Express (TRS) Co. is considering a proposal to securitize a portion of their consumer charge-card receivables portfolio. In the past, they have relied exclusively on a captive finance subsidiary, Credco, to perform this function. The proposed securitization... View Details
Keywords: Credit Cards; Restructuring; Borrowing and Debt; Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Debt Securities; Travel Industry
Perold, Andre F., and Kuljot Singh. "American Express TRS Charge-Card Receivables." Harvard Business School Case 293-120, April 1993. (Revised December 1994.)
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HBS - Financials | Consolidated Balance Sheet
Liabilities 2021 2020 2019 Deposits, Advances & Other $69 $62 $95 Deferred Revenue 206 191 183 Other Debt Owed to University 79 81 31 Building Debt 33 40 46 Total Liabilities $387 $374 $355 Net Assets 2021... View Details
- October 1998 (Revised May 1999)
- Case
Kmart Corp.
Describes a situation in which a company (Kmart) refinances a portion of its debt. Used to illustrate how the asset and liability sides of the balance sheet are linked. View Details
Noe, Christopher F. "Kmart Corp." Harvard Business School Case 199-017, October 1998. (Revised May 1999.)
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Bonds: data | Baker Library
Help Center Bonds: data Where do I find data on bonds? Bloomberg Use the GOVT or CORP yellow keys For yield curves, type FMCI , then hit GO Capital IQ Screening Go to Screening > Fixed Income See Fixed Income section on the lower right hand side to screen by a variety... View Details
Reginald F. Lewis
Just 10 years after founding his investment ventures firm, Lewis had established a $2.5 billion financing business, the largest firm owned by an African American in United States history. Through his purchase of Beatrice Food Company, he netted the largest offshore... View Details
Keywords: Finance
- June 2012
- Response
Solution to Exchanges 10.2 Puzzle: Borrowing in the Limit as Our Nerdiness Goes to Infinity
By: Ran I. Shorrer
This is a solution to the editor's puzzle from issue 10.2 of SIGecom Exchanges [Reeves 2011]. The puzzle asks to determine a point in time such that a lump sum payment of $S will be equivalent to a continuous stream of infinitesimal payments totaling $S, spread evenly... View Details
Shorrer, Ran I. "Solution to Exchanges 10.2 Puzzle: Borrowing in the Limit as Our Nerdiness Goes to Infinity." ACM SIGecom Exchanges 11, no. 1 (June 2012): 39–41.
- Portrait Project
Lou DiLorenzo
simple: to live in such a way that I can recognize when someone might need an extra hand, and to help others see that they may have a few debts to repay as well. View Details