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  • 28 Apr 2016
  • Blog Post

3 Concerns I Had about HBS

decision I’d never been in debt before attending HBS. I was lucky enough to attend undergrad fully funded, and the idea of taking on so much debt was not only overwhelming, but counter to the ideals that I... View Details
  • 07 Apr 2015
  • First Look

First Look: April 7

2015 Journal of Financial Economics The Ownership and Trading of Debt Claims in Chapter 11 Restructurings By: Ivashina, Victoria, Benjamin Iverson, and David C. Smith Abstract—What is the ownership structure of bankrupt View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • May 2005 (Revised January 2006)
  • Case

Mortgage Backs at Ticonderoga

Ticonderoga is a small hedge fund that trades in mortgage-backed securities--securities created from pooled mortgage loans. They often appear as straightforward so-called "pass-throughs," but can also be pooled again to create collateral for a mortgage security known... View Details
Keywords: Debt Securities; Mortgages; Investment Funds
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  • 11 Feb 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Politicians Benefited From Using Toxic Loans

their study on France, having gained access to two valuable data sets: The first contained the entire debt portfolio for most of the 300 largest French local governments as of December 31, 2007; and the second contained the loan-level... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Financial Services
  • 03 Nov 2016
  • Op-Ed

Forget About Making College Affordable; Make it a Good Investment

America’s more than $1 trillion in student loan debt. Indeed, some college graduates with student loans have not secured employment sufficiently remunerative to meet their financial obligations. Others are struggling to escape a heavy View Details
Keywords: by Joseph Fuller; Education
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Turnarounds

Where can I find information on turnarounds? Use LSEG Workspace to search for investments in turnaround or distressed View Details

    James J. Ling

    Ling was a maverick in the development of the conglomerate business model, building in 14 years the 14th largest industrial corporation in the United States. A major risk taker, Ling extensively used debt to sustain parent company growth... View Details
    Keywords: Fabricated Goods
    • May 1974
    • Article

    On the Pricing of Corporate Debt: The Risk Structure of Interest Rates

    By: Robert C. Merton
    Keywords: Price; Borrowing and Debt; Risk and Uncertainty; Interest Rates
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    • 18 Sep 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: September 18, 2007

      Working PapersOptimal Reserve Management and Sovereign Debt Authors:Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract Most models currently used to determine optimal foreign reserve holdings take the level of international View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace

      Erwin C. Uihlein

      tenure, all done without any debt financing. Because of Uihlein’s success, Schlitz was the United States’ second largest producer of beer in the 1950s and 1960s. View Details
      Keywords: Food & Tobacco
      • March 2009 (Revised April 2010)
      • Supplement

      UBS and Auction Rate Securities (C)

      By: Daniel Baird Bergstresser, Shawn A. Cole and Siddharth Bhaskar Shenai
      Supplement to 209119 and 209131 View Details
      Keywords: Debt Securities
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      • March 2009 (Revised October 2011)
      • Supplement

      UBS and Auction Rate Securities (B)

      By: Daniel Baird Bergstresser, Shawn A. Cole and Siddharth Bhaskar Shenai
      Supplement to 209119 View Details
      Keywords: Debt Securities
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      Credit Access and Social Welfare: The Rise of Consumer Lending in the United States and France

      By: Gunnar Trumbull
      Research into the causes of the 2008 financial crisis has drawn attention to a link between growing income inequality in the United States and high household indebtedness. Most accounts trace the U.S. idea of credit-as-welfare to the period of wage stagnation and... View Details
      Keywords: Household Finance; Welfare State; Credit; Personal Finance; Welfare; Borrowing and Debt; France; United States
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      • 18 Dec 2018
      • First Look

      New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

      of Debt Forgiveness: Strategic Default Contagion and Lender Learning By: Pérez Cavazos, Gerardo Abstract—I use a unique data set of loans to small business owners to examine whether lenders face adverse consequences when they grant View Details
      Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
      • 15 Nov 2016
      • First Look

      November 15, 2016

      will be critical to their success. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51813 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... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 08 May 2012
      • First Look

      First Look: May 8

      activity between strategic (operating firms) and financial (private equity) acquirers. What are the economic factors that drive either financial or strategic buyers to dominant positions in M&A activity? We introduce debt market... View Details
      Keywords: Carmen Nobel

        Frederick D. Underwood

        When Underwood took over management of the Erie Railroad in 1901, it was barely surviving. Though its owner, JP Morgan had brought the company’s debt within a manageable range, the road itself had suffered much deterioration. Undertaking... View Details
        Keywords: Transportation
        • 31 Aug 2009
        • Research & Ideas

        Why Competition May Not Improve Credit Rating Agencies

        In the run-up to the global financial crisis, credit rating agencies gave high marks to such risky financial vehicles as collateralized debt obligations, which few people understood. It has been argued that these ratings misled investors... View Details
        Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
        • Web

        HBS - Financials | Statement of Activity & Cash Flows

        81 77 Space & Occupancy 64 71 72 Supplies & Equipment 10 12 13 Professional Services 46 59 72 Fellowships 53 57 51 University Assessments 21 26 26 Debt Service 2 3 3 Depreciation 46 45 46 Other Expenses 73 102 102 Total Expenses $779 $831... View Details
        • 01 Sep 2013
        • News

        A Start-Up with Giddyup

        with cowboy boots.' They're timeless and appreciated worldwide, so I don't have to guess fashion trends." Best advice "Don't worry about a business plan, just go and sell 50 pairs of boots." Capitalization "So far, just me and my savings; I don't want to be in View Details
        Keywords: Clothing and Clothing Accessories Stores; Retail Trade