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Dispelling Myths About HBS Through My Summer Venture in Management Program Experience - MBA

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Research - Private Capital Project

explaining boom-bust cycles, financial crises, and slow... September 2023 Case Blackstone Credit and Delaware Basin Resources By: Victoria Ivashina and Alys Ferragamo 2023 Book Chapter Private Equity View Details

21 Jul 2022
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A Warren Buffett Protégée Strikes Out on Her Own

time at Berkshire Hathaway, but tells the Times that “I’m not building a Berkshire 2.0. I’m building something different using some of the principles.” Her classmate Andrew Van Pelt (MBA 2009) says her approach is also very different from how some expect private View Details

05 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 5, 2008

Have Persistent Effects Over Time? A Look at Law and Finance around the World c. 1900 Author:Aldo Musacchio Abstract How persistent are the effects of legal institutions adopted or inherited in the distant past? A substantial literature... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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The Sixth Year of Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) at HBS - MBA

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August 2015 (Revised October 2023)
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Eastman Kodak Company: Restructuring a Melting Ice Cube

By: Stuart C. Gilson, John D. Dionne and Sarah L. Abbott

In May 2013, senior managers of GSO Capital Partners, an $80 billion credit-oriented investment firm owned by The Blackstone Group, are considering what to do next with their investment in the senior secured debt of Eastman Kodak Company. Once a great company and an... View Details

Keywords: Restructuring; Finance; Strategy; Investment; United States

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The U.S. Job Search for International Students - MBA

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01 Oct 2001
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How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

that has been suggested is to increase the firm's financial leverage (so it has less of a cushion when the business begins to suffer); another is to increase senior managers' equity stake so they are directly rewarded for restructuring... View Details

Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson

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Are Buybacks Really Shortchanging Investment?

By: Jesse M. Fried and Charles C.Y. Wang

It’s no secret that the American economy is suffering from the twin ills of slow growth and rising income inequality. Many lay the blame at the doors of America’s largest public corporations. The charge? These firms prefer to distribute cash generated from their... View Details

Keywords: Economy; Investment; Stocks; Business and Shareholder Relations; Equality and Inequality; United States

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How Short Intensive Programs (SIPs) Transform Your MBA Learning Journey - MBA

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Entrepreneurial Management Curriculum - Faculty & Research

Benjamin N. Roth Fall 2024 Q1Q2 3.0 The Coming of Managerial Capitalism Tom Nicholas Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Data for Impact: Impact Measurement from Startup to Fortune 500 C-Suite Benjamin N. Roth , Natalia Rigol Spring 2025 Q3Q4 3.0 Entrepreneurial View Details

March 2016 (Revised May 2021)
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Michael Milken: The Junk Bond King

By: Tom Nicholas and Matthew G. Preble

Michael Milken, an investment banker who dominated the junk bond market in the 1980s, was sentenced to jail in 1990 after pleading guilty to a number of securities and tax-related felonies. In the preceding decade, Milken had helped usher in a new wave of leveraged buy... View Details

Keywords: Junk Bonds; High-yield Bonds; Financial Innovation; Shareholder Value; Bonds; Capital; Capital Structure; Cost of Capital; Crime and Corruption; Entrepreneurship; Ethics; Finance; Investment Banking; Leveraged Buyouts; Mergers and Acquisitions; Ownership; Private Equity; Restructuring; United States

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Taking the Risk to Start a Company at Business School - MBA

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April 2016 (Revised February 2017)
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Eastman Kodak Company: Restructuring a Melting Ice Cube

By: Stuart C. Gilson, John D. Dionne and Sarah L. Abbott

In May 2013, senior managers of GSO Capital Partners, an $80 billion credit-oriented investment firm owned by The Blackstone Group, are considering what to do next with their investment in the senior secured debt of Eastman Kodak Company. Once a great company and an... View Details

Keywords: Restructuring; Financial Strategy; Investment; United States

March 2011 (Revised January 2015)
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H Partners and Six Flags

By: Robin Greenwood and Michael Gorzynski

Rehan Jaffer, the founder of hedge fund H Partners, is considering what to do with his investment in Six Flags. H Partners had invested a significant amount of the firm's capital in the senior bonds of U.S.-based Six Flags, following that company's bankruptcy filing. View Details

Keywords: Behavioral Finance; Private Equity; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Debt Securities; Bonds; Investment; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Financial Services Industry; United States