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Gallatin Hall | About
Treasury’s accountability. Gallatin set aside revenues to reduce the federal debt and raised internal taxes to help defray the cost of the War of 1812. After his tenure as treasury secretary, he participated... View Details
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Leadership Transitions | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
the year Lehman Brothers was ranked by Fortune Magazine as the #1 “Most Admired Securities Firm.” From the early 2000s leading up to the financial crisis of 2008, however, Lehman Brothers’ high amount of borrowing in proportion to its... View Details
- 20 Jul 2021
- Research & Ideas
Bankruptcy Spells Death for Too Many Businesses
Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection is supposed to allow companies to shed debt and get a fresh start. Ideally, creditors recover most of what they’re owed as the restructured firm begins turning a profit. Yet,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
- 28 May 2020
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Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
cover debt payments owed to creditors. This could set up the perfect storm for a huge wave of bankruptcies in the weeks and months ahead, says Stuart C. Gilson, the Steven R. Fenster Professor of Business... View Details
- 05 Jun 2009
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What Does Slower Economic Growth Really Mean?
markets and in the case of the U.S., the dollar, and the Treasury's ability to borrow at reasonable rates of interest. But is all growth similarly useful? For example, is... View Details
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Buy Now, Pay Later &mdash Easy Payments: The Rise of Installment Selling
in installments is an ancient one. In 1641, when the Pilgrims consolidated the “heavy burthens” they owed London creditors, they arranged to pay their debts in four annual “estallments.” 18 But it was mechanization View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
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Bridging the Gap
Spend a day or two in Chattanooga, Tennessee, asking longtime residents about the city’s history, and it’s sure to come up: that less-than-wonderful moment in 1969 when America’s beloved news anchor, Walter Cronkite, proclaimed it to be... View Details
- September 1996 (Revised October 1996)
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Clarkson Lumber Company
By: Thomas R. Piper
The owner of a rapidly growing retail lumber company is considering the financial implications of continued rapid growth. The magnitude of the company's future financing requirements must be assessed in the context of the company's access to bank finance and/or equity... View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Financial Reporting; Forecasting and Prediction; Business Strategy; Financial Strategy; Commercial Banking; Borrowing and Debt; Equity; Corporate Finance
Piper, Thomas R. "Clarkson Lumber Company." Harvard Business School Case 297-028, September 1996. (Revised October 1996.)
- 01 Dec 2019
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Remix
center her, she says. Later on she made elaborate mix-tapes, borrowing tracks from her mother’s record collection (Luther Vandross, Anita Baker, Hall & Oates, and Billie Holiday), grabbing new songs off the... View Details
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Mellon Hall | About
family’s Pittsburgh bank into one of America’s preeminent financial institutions. In the process, Mellon amassed a personal fortune comparable to Baker’s own. Mellon’s fiscal philosophy was one of debt reduction View Details
- 19 May 2022
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Cost of Capital
- 01 Jun 2023
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Cultivating Prosperity in Afghanistan
entrepreneur, advised them in his role as a Harvard i-lab mentor. “We are in debt to him because he changed the trajectory for us,” says Jung. She adds that working at the i-lab with a network of advisors, faculty, View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie
- 30 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Real Estate: The Most Imperfect Asset
the building gets built and (hopefully) leased. I have another case I am working on with HBS professor Dan Bergstresser on a real estate mortgage bank in Argentina that restructured itself during the country's recent collapse—the greatest... View Details
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Bloomberg: corporate actions calendar
What kind of information is included in Bloomberg's Corporate Action Calendar? In Bloomberg type CACT and hit GO to get to the Corporate Actions menu. You can search by: Date Corporate action type Country Company name, for details on:... View Details
- 06 Nov 2018
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8 Ways to Make Olympic Stadiums Useful After the Games End
presence of a nearby competing venue had a negative effect on an Olympic site’s viability, not surprisingly, as did the weight of a past or ongoing financial burden and the general public malaise surrounding a site’s disuse. Montreal, for... View Details
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Finance Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
Ivashina : Winner of the 2017 Second Place Jensen Prize for the Best Paper Published in the Journal of Financial Economics in the Area of Corporate Finance and Organizations for "The Ownership and Trading of... View Details
- 01 Feb 1999
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Too Much of a Good Thing?
booming. Banks and companies, eager for a piece of the action, invest heavily in production capability. Not surprisingly, a market can soon become saturated with too much product; consequently, demand drops, revenues slow to a trickle,... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
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The overarching goal of my research is to produce works that are influential and informative to both academics and practitioners in the field of operations management. To accomplish this, I collaborate with industry partners who provide knowledge about their field,... View Details
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Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online
Featured Exercises Market-to-book ratios exercises Match companies to their cost of debt and industries to their betas 6-7 hrs Module 5 Valuation Determine how the future affects value today, compare various... View Details
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Funding Opportunities - Business & Environment
these here (login required) . Social Enterprise Loan Repayment Assistance Program : The HBS Nonprofit/Public Sector Loan Repayment Assistance Program was established in 1992 to reduce the educational debt repayment burden for alumni... View Details