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  • July 2009 (Revised July 2009)
  • Case

Delphi Corp. and the Credit Derivatives Market (A)

By: Stuart C. Gilson, Victoria Ivashina and Sarah Abbott
In 2005, Jane Bauer-Martin, a hedge fund manager, is considering what she should do with the fund's large investment in the publicly traded bonds of Delphi Corp., a financially troubled auto parts supplier. Delphi is General Motor's key auto parts supplier, and, like... View Details
Keywords: Borrowing and Debt; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Bonds; Financial Management; Risk Management
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  • 01 Oct 1999
  • News

Four Promoted to Full Professor

environment. He has written on a broad range of restructuring topics, including corporate bankruptcy and debt workouts, tracking stock, equity spin-offs, corporate downsizing, bank mergers, and employee buyouts. Currently, he is studying... View Details
  • 15 Oct 2019
  • News

In Pursuit of Academia

the work and knowing that a consulting salary would help mitigate the debt she and her husband, Alberto Fernandes (MBA 2012), had acquired to finance their degrees, she turned down the company’s offer of postgraduation employment.... View Details
  • 24 Sep 2013
  • First Look

First Look: September 24

time series. While loan issuance falls in recessions, it is not clear if this is due to demand or supply. We address this question by studying firms' substitution between bank debt and non-bank debt (public... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jul 2016
  • First Look

July 19, 2016

in press Journal of Systems and Software Technical Debt and System Architecture: The Impact of Coupling on Defect-related Activity By: MacCormack, Alan, and Daniel J. Sturtevant Abstract—Technical debt is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Private Equity Finance - Course Catalog

Deal Management This module explores the important choices that private equity firms make after closure of the transactions. In particular, the critical operational levers that drive value creation will be examined, as well as governance, board effectiveness and... View Details
  • August 1997 (Revised February 1999)
  • Case

Argentina's YPF Sociedad Anonima (D): The International Platform

By: Michael Y. Yoshino and Carin-Isabel Knoop
In March 1995, YPF (the former Argentine state-owned oil and gas utility, privatized in late 1993) acquired the Dallas-based Maxus Energy Corp., one of the world's largest independent oil and gas exploration companies. YPF's first acquisition is nearly bankrupt, with... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Globalization; Borrowing and Debt; Privatization; Managerial Roles; Energy Industry; Argentina; Texas
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  • Article

The Economics of Structured Finance

By: Joshua D. Coval, Jakub W. Jurek and Erik Stafford
This paper investigates the spectacular rise and fall of structured finance. The essence of structured finance activities is the pooling of economic assets like loans, bonds, and mortgages, and the subsequent issuance of a prioritized capital structure of claims, known... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Asset Management; Debt Securities; Investment; Risk Management; Behavior
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  • May 2011
  • Teaching Note

Securities Lending After the Financial Crisis (TN)

By: Robert C. Pozen and Gayle Elizabeth Hameister
Teaching Note for 311131. View Details
Keywords: Asset Management; Business and Government Relations; Stocks; Debt Securities; Investment Funds; Investment Return
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  • September 1992 (Revised March 1998)
  • Case

Japan Confronts an Interdependent World

By: George C. Lodge
Traces the evolution of Japan's economic strategy from 1972 to 1992. Describes the collapse of the Japanese stock market in the spring of 1992, raising the question: Is this the end of Japan's miraculous growth? To help students consider that question, the case... View Details
Keywords: Policy; Financial Markets; Information Technology; System Shocks; Borrowing and Debt; Financial Crisis; Government and Politics; Growth and Development; Situation or Environment; Japan; United States
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  • April 2010
  • Teaching Note

Groupe Ariel S.A.: Parity Conditions and Cross-Border Valuation (Brief Case)

By: Timothy A. Luehrman and James Quinn
Teaching Note for 4194 View Details
Keywords: Exchange Rates; Securities Analysis; Project Evaluation; Debt Securities; Analysis; Currency Exchange Rate; Performance Evaluation; Projects; Capital Budgeting
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  • 15 Dec 2020
  • Blog Post

MBA Voices Blog: A Year in Review

thinking debt was unequivocally bad. Many people in my life discussed student loans negatively as if they were sure to become an insurmountable burden. With that in mind, I attended the college that awarded me the best scholarship and... View Details
  • Web

FAQs | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School

career path. You may model your letter on the donor thank-you letters you wrote as an enrolled student with added personalized information on your job and how you've applied your HBS education. I participated in the terminated HBS-HMS pilot program to reduce View Details
  • 11 Oct 2016
  • First Look

October 11, 2016

Wenxin, and Jesse Schreger Abstract—Nominal debt provides consumption-smoothing benefits if it can be inflated away during recessions. However, we document empirically that countries with more countercyclical inflation, where nominal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Jun 2011
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Fame, Faith, and Social Activism: Business Lessons from Bono

early 1990s began raising awareness of the conflict in Sarajevo, playing live footage of the war during U2's Zooropa tour. After working to get eight industrialized nations in 1999 to agree to $100 million in African debt relief, he... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Entertainment & Recreation
  • July 2000 (Revised November 2001)
  • Case

Catalyst Medical Solutions

By: Amy C. Edmondson, Richard M.J. Bohmer and Naomi Atkins
Faced with a drop in the NASDAQ, four eHealth entrepreneurs must decide between two distribution strategies for their new company's technology. The team, comprised of three full-time resident physicians and an MBA, has developed software to enable electronic... View Details
Keywords: Product Development; Health Care and Treatment; Distribution; Strategy; Venture Capital; Applications and Software; Partners and Partnerships; Borrowing and Debt; Information Technology Industry; Service Industry
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  • 17 Mar 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Harvard Business School Faculty Comment on Crisis in Japan

with the task of fashioning an appropriate fiscal response. Bold recovery plans would seem to be in order, but how that response is financed holds great import for Japan's economic future. With government deficits equaling 10% of GDP, and national View Details
Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty
  • Web

Africa - Global Activities 2020

GO: Africa Fellowship not only allows you to keep up with all the debt that comes with an MBA education, but also be a resource to your loved ones. Having funding available to do that and try to reach our North Star is extremely helpful.”... View Details
  • 08 Oct 2012
  • Research & Ideas

The Immigrants Who Built America’s Financial System

As today's fiscal deficit and dragging economy continue to cast long shadows, it's easy to forget much darker times in American history. Shortly after winning its independence from Great Britain, the United States was bankrupt. Individual states weren't required to... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Financial Services; Banking
  • 15 Jun 2010
  • First Look

First Look: June 15

identifying the effects of bank credit supply. First, we focus on firms' choice between two close forms of external financing: bank debt and public bonds. By conditioning the sample of firms raising new debt, we can rule out a demand... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace