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  • February 2014
  • Article

Accountability of Independent Directors—Evidence from Firms Subject to Securities Litigation

By: Francois Brochet and Suraj Srinivasan
We examine which independent directors are held accountable when investors sue firms for financial- and disclosure-related fraud. Investors can name independent directors as defendants in lawsuits, and they can vote against their re-election to express displeasure over... View Details
Keywords: Independent Directors; Litigation Risk; Class Action Lawsuits; Director Accountability; Reputation; Boards Of Directors; Corporate Governance; Debt Securities; Corporate Accountability; Lawsuits and Litigation
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  • 2013
  • Working Paper

Accountability of Independent Directors—Evidence from Firms Subject to Securities Litigation

By: Francois Brochet and Suraj Srinivasan
We examine which independent directors are held accountable when investors sue firms for financial and disclosure related fraud. Investors can name independent directors as defendants in lawsuits, and they can vote against their re-election to express displeasure over... View Details
Keywords: Debt Securities; Lawsuits and Litigation; Legal Liability
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  • February 2002
  • Background Note

Note on Commercial Real Estate Financial Market

By: Arthur I Segel and Melissa Yin-Yin Lam
Discusses the recent history of the commercial real estate financial market (pre-1990s-2001). Looks at the shift to more conventional capital markets for commercial real estate debt. View Details
Keywords: History; Capital Markets; Financial Markets; Borrowing and Debt; Real Estate Industry
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  • 20 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 20

developing countries considering both creditor and debtor side of the international debt transactions. Using these measures, we demonstrate that sovereign-to-sovereign transactions account for upstream capital flows and global imbalances.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • fall 2001
  • Article

Structuring Loan Syndicates: A Case Study of the Hong Kong Disneyland Project Loan

By: Benjamin C. Esty
Keywords: Groups and Teams; Borrowing and Debt; Entertainment; Hong Kong
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  • June 2013
  • Article

Are There Too Many Safe Securities? Securitization and the Incentives for Information Production

By: Samuel G. Hanson and Adi Sunderam
We present a model that helps explain several past collapses of securitization markets. Originators issue too many informationally insensitive securities in good times, blunting investor incentives to become informed. The resulting endogenous scarcity of informed... View Details
Keywords: Information; Debt Securities; Financial Crisis
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  • 11 Dec 2017
  • Blog Post

3 Ways Financial Aid is Unique at HBS

the financial position of recent HBS graduates. For the Class of 2017, the average debt was $87,300. The median starting salary at graduation was $135,000 and the median signing bonus (for students who received a bonus) was $25,000. This... View Details
  • 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
  • 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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  • 04 Apr 2017
  • Blog Post

Why I Love My Job: Jerry Murphy at The Davis Companies

underwriting, and closing of new equity and high-yield debt investments on behalf of our latest real estate private equity fund. My area of focus is residential investment strategies, including both for-sale and for-rent opportunities... View Details
Keywords: Real Estate
  • 29 Jan 2019
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019

was roughly half as large as prior estimates have suggested. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55509 Fiscal Rules and Sovereign Default By: Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk Abstract— Recurrent concerns over View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

    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
    • Web

    Buy Now, Pay Later: Pre-Industrial Credit in Practice

    money supply than the visible money stock like bank notes or specie. 7 The account books of small-time storekeepers show how common credit purchases were, particularly in agricultural or frontier regions. Farmers, for example, were seldom able to settle their View Details
    • 2010
    • Working Paper

    Banking Market Concentration and Consumer Credit Constraints: Evidence from the 1983 Survey of Consumer Finances

    This paper uses data from the 1983 Survey of Consumer Finances to test the relationship between the banks' market power and households' self-reported levels of credit constraints. The 1983 Survey was the last to identify households' geographic location, making it... View Details
    Keywords: Age Characteristics; Household Characteristics; Borrowing and Debt; Credit; Banks and Banking; Interest Rates; Geographic Location; Banking Industry
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      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

        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
        • August 2001 (Revised May 2004)
        • Case

        Maria Hernandez & Associates

        By: William J. Bruns Jr.
        This case presents the situation of an unemployed web page designer who starts a new consulting firm with personal savings and a family loan. Two months later, she is to report on operations to her father, using financial reports she must design and construct. View Details
        Keywords: Financial Reporting; Accounting; Business Startups; Design; Borrowing and Debt; Service Industry
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        • Portrait Project

        Natalie C. Eckford

        fields. I plan to remember that true progress comes from getting your fingers a little dirty and that the freedoms I enjoy are not a privilege, but a debt obligation. My grandparents would always be playing the blues when I went to visit... View Details
        • Web

        Career Support & Exploration Funds | MBA

        Career Support & Exploration Funds Attending Harvard Business School is a profound and life-changing experience. So it’s no surprise that so many students change career paths after completing their MBA. The School has a strong commitment to career exploration, and we... View Details
        • 27 Apr 2020
        • Working Paper Summaries

        Corporate Leadership and Creditor Recovery Rates: Evidence from Executive Gender

        Keywords: by Clarissa Hauptmann and Anywhere Sikochi