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- November 2007 (Revised June 2011)
- Case
ISS A/S (A)
By: Clayton S. Rose
Provides the opportunity to examine the nature and extent of a company's responsibilities to its bondholders, and to develop an enhanced understanding of the challenges in managing contractual obligations, and circumstances under which business leaders might agree to... View Details
Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Bonds; Contracts; Private Equity; Leveraged Buyouts; Privatization; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Borrowing and Debt; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Europe
Rose, Clayton S. "ISS A/S (A)." Harvard Business School Case 308-054, November 2007. (Revised June 2011.)
- 14 Mar 2023
- In Practice
What Does the Failure of Silicon Valley Bank Say About the State of Finance?
rates, but most bank loans are mortgages, which tend to have fixed interest rates, and US Treasury bonds have fixed interest rates, too. Of course, because the interest payments are fixed, the value of these assets is sensitive to changes... View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company
bankruptcy proceeding can have difficulty restructuring their public bonds. If such bonds are widely held, individual bondholders may be unwilling to make concessions, preferring to free ride off the concessions of others. Thus it will be... View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
- 09 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Driven: How Human Nature Shapes Organizations
the overall objectives of the firm in relation to customers, investors, and regulators. Now people are chosen to step into these roles and the organization is set in motion. What will happen in real time? Once on the job, the bonding... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Lawrence & Nitin Nohria
- 16 Jun 2021
- HBS Case
Cruising in Crisis: How Carnival Is Riding Out the COVID-19 Storm
of passengers transported every year,” says Stuart Gilson, the Steven R. Fenster Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, who studied Carnival’s predicament. He points out that in March 2020, Carnival's bonds were... View Details
- 08 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 8
impairment reporting and that its effect is better understood in the context of upper echelons theory and agency theory. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-088.pdf Risky Trust: How Multi-entity Teams Develop Trust in a High View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 26 Aug 2014
- First Look
First Look: August 26
rates to monetary shocks appears to reflect changes in term premia. One mechanism that may generate such variation in term premia is based on demand effects due to the existence of what we call "yield-oriented" investors. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Jan 2022
- Research & Ideas
Feeling Seen: What to Say When Your Employees Are Not OK
the COVID-19 pandemic approaches its third exhausting year. Validating someone’s feelings can be as simple as pausing during the day to say, “You seem anxious,” says Zlatev, a professor in the Negotiation, Organizations & Markets Unit at HBS. "You're showing that... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
- 22 Feb 2018
- Book
The New History of American Capitalism
Desan look to how scholars in history, law, and political science are redefining capitalism in light of the American experience. Essayists write on such diverse subjects as markets, selling of slave clothing, the Gilded Age, women’s rights, money and finance, View Details
Keywords: Manufacturing
- 01 Jun 2007
- What Do You Think?
How Should Pay Be Linked to Performance?
into account the spread in pay packages between the top two executives in the organizations whose bonds it rates. Presumably, the larger the spread, the lower the bond rating, reflecting the higher implied... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 26 Sep 2011
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: Lady Gaga
Kimball Thomas (HBS MBA '11), prompts an evaluation of the pros and cons of each possibility. "Above all else, I hope the case will help students understand the economics and intricacies of the concert business," Elberse says. "When it comes to touring,... View Details
- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
as a result, but also avoiding disasters. The ice cream and other foods businesses were built patiently by the acquisition of one local firm after another, and their melding into the Unilever model. Following the National Starch acquisition, larger targets were... View Details
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
couple of years could top what we saw during the 2008-2009 Global Financial Crisis, when there were more than 100,000 business bankruptcies. Some analysts are forecasting that by the end of 2021 up to 20 percent of high-yield corporate View Details
- 21 Feb 2005
- Op-Ed
Is Business Management a Profession?
social entity. These bonds of membership create the social capital of a profession, which builds trust and significantly reduces transaction costs among members of that profession and between the profession and society. As we observed at... View Details
- 22 Mar 2011
- First Look
First Look: March 22
nominal and inflation-indexed bond excess returns even after adjusting for liquidity, providing evidence for both time-varying real interest rate risk premia and time-varying... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Oct 2013
- First Look
First Look: October 8
risks after 1997 is attributed primarily to an increase in the persistence of monetary policy interacting with continued shocks to the central bank's inflation target. Endogenous responses of bond View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 May 2015
- First Look
First Look: May 19
decreased volatility of supply shocks and increased volatility of the Fed's long-run inflation target. Endogenous responses of bond risk premia amplify these effects of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 10
bonds varies predictably over time. We also find strong evidence that the spread between the nominal and the real bond risk premium, or the breakeven inflation View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 20, 2016
countries with higher nominal bond-stock betas have significantly larger nominal bond risk premia and borrow less in local currency. Download working paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
M. Viceira Abstract—Our new model of consumption-based habit formation preferences generates loglinear, homoscedastic macroeconomic dynamics and time-varying risk premia on View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman