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  • 26 Sep 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

during the AFC. Regression estimates suggest that the relationship between leverage, exchange rate depreciations, and corporate financial distress is time varying. Also, a central finding is that firm size is correlated with corporate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 24 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 24

alternative financing models of corporate lenders, including banks and finance companies.) The second major component of the case concerns distressed debt investment strategies and provides an illustration... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 08 May 2012
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First Look: May 8

thought (versus conscious thought) would reduce frequency of intrusions from an analogue trauma film. Participants viewed a distressing film and were subsequently instructed to think about the film deliberately (conscious thought), to... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 15 Oct 2001
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Rethinking E-Leadership

Chuang, CEO of Aquent, an employment services company headquartered in Boston. In roughly half of the new initiatives Aquent has invested in over the last few years, Chuang estimates, "we have gotten too excited about a new product... View Details
Keywords: by Melissa Raffoni
  • 02 Jan 2018
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The Most Popular Stories and Research Papers of 2017

Elizabeth Baily Wolf discusses a technique to reframe distress as passion. . The Three Types of Leaders Who Create Radical Change Every successful social movement requires three distinct leadership roles: the agitator, the innovator, and... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Jul 2010
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HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation

more than $150 million in assets to register with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). Such registration will subject these managers to regular reporting and inspections by the SEC, although these managers can continue to pursue any View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 17 Oct 2006
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First Look: October 17, 2006

organizations that design these programs, the companies that are investing resources to adopt them, and those that are relying on them to infer the quality of management practices. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019

which is hard to explain by the traditional leverage tradeoff with financial distress that emphasizes downside risk. The results are robust to a variety of specification choices and control variables. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 11 Jan 2011
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First Look: Jan. 11

students and investors how to evaluate mutual funds and other collective investment vehicles. It discusses how different types of funds are managed, marketed, and regulated. It also reviews how funds invest... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 May 2017
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First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017

the GFC, firms with higher leverage have Z-scores that are closer to the financial distress range. The data also corroborate two macro-related hypotheses: first, that leverage interacted with currency depreciation had a statistically... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 08 Jan 2018
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The Startling Percentage of Financial Advisors with Misconduct Records

misconduct disclosures may be higher. Near the top for best ethical practices was USAA Financial Advisors, which serves military families and had only a 3 percent rate of misconduct. More distressing than the rates of financial... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services
  • 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009

and a large fraction of its debt has come to be held by U.S.-based hedge funds that specialize in investing in distressed companies. Finally, Eurotunnel's business is extremely challenging to value and is... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 24 Oct 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017

competitor, Apollo Global Management. The case allows for discussion of strategic and financing considerations by Centerbridge, a New York–based investment firm employing a flexible approach across View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jul 2010
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First Look: July 20

rights on firms' external finance constraints via generalized method of moments (GMM) estimation of an augmented investment Euler equation developed by Whited and Wu (2006). Using a large sample of U.S. firms during the period from 1995... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 03 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 4, 2008

financial advisors to make saving and investment decisions. Low literacy and lack of information affect the ability to save and to secure a comfortable retirement; ignorance about basic financial concepts can be linked to lack of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 15, 2019

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53888 Racial Heterogeneity and Local Government Finances: Evidence from the Great Migration By: Tabellini, Marco Abstract—Is racial heterogeneity responsible for the distressed financial... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 29 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 29, 2008

variability in the importance of their posts. There are alternative routes to career success: officers of higher initial ability are more likely to invest in developing expertise, but officers who belong to the same caste as the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 11 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 11, 2008

are crucial to understanding Mexico's current economic and political challenges. Why did the opening up of the economy to foreign trade and investment not result in sustained economic growth? Why has electoral democracy not produced rule... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 Feb 2018
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50575 Trade Creditors' Information Advantage By: Ivashina, Victoria, and Benjamin Iverson Abstract—Using information on the sales of debt claims for 132 U.S. Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases, we show that large trade... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 10

given difficulties at the portfolio companies and disruptions in credit markets. The case takes the perspective of a private equity firm evaluating the deal to determine whether buying leveraged loans is a good investment opportunity.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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