Debts - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 1999
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Q & A: Herb Kohl

they don't contribute. My support for young people cuts across a broad spectrum - from supporting a balanced budget amendment so we won't pass our debt on to them, to things more traditionally thought of as kids' issues: Head Start,... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

August 1988 (Revised July 1996)
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Colt Industries

Colt Industries is a conglomerate that is considering undertaking a leveraged recapitalization. The deal would involve a large one-time dividend to stockholders, which would be financed by over $1 billion in new debt. Unlike in an leveraged buyout, however, public... View Details

Keywords: Business Conglomerates; Equity; Economic Growth; Ownership Stake; Stocks; Borrowing and Debt; Employee Stock Ownership Plan; Financial Strategy

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04 Oct 2007
What Do You Think?

Has Managerial Capitalism Peaked?

private equity management were oversold companies taken over by private equity groups have been stripped of their assets and hold unsustainable debt burdens." Gerald Nanninga, in lamenting the decline of "emotional... View Details

Keywords: by Jim Heskett

10 Dec 2020
Blog Post

A New Case at Harvard Business School Highlights the Real-World Issues for Latinx Considering an MBA

leaving that position to take on student debt is considerable. “You almost feel guilty about putting that idea in front of your family, who has perhaps been working their whole life to make the income that you're making as a 22-year old,”... View Details

October 1999 (Revised January 2000)
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W. R. Hambrecht & Co: OpenIPO

By: Andre F. Perold and Gunjan D. Bhow

OpenIPO is a new mechanism for pricing and distributing initial public offerings. The system, which is based on a Dutch auction, represents an attempt by the investment bank W.R. Hambrecht + Co. to change the manner in which IPOs are underwritten. The case provides a... View Details

Keywords: Investment Banking; Debt Securities; Stocks; Initial Public Offering; Price; Information; Auctions; Agreements and Arrangements; Distribution; Internet; Netherlands

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20 Dec 2011
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First Look: December 20

limited managers' incentives to take actions favoring equity over debt for firms in the vicinity of financial distress. We show that this ruling increased the likelihood of equity issues, increased investment, and reduced firm risk,... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

07 Sep 2011
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First Look: Sept. 7

hard to quantify in the 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 View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

September 1992 (Revised March 1997)
Case

Summit Distributors (A)

By: William J. Bruns Jr. and Amy P. Hutton

Summit Distributors was in danger of violating loan covenants because of slow economic activity and forecasted losses and was faced with a choice. Changing the inventory valuation method from LIFO to FIFO would avoid default but would require higher future income... View Details

Keywords: Taxation; Cost Accounting; Cash Flow; Interest Rates; Economic Systems; Borrowing and Debt; Financial Statements; Valuation; Accounting Audits; Financing and Loans; Accounting Industry; Legal Services Industry

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29 Oct 2013
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First Look: October 29

none of the five measures identifies firms that behave as if they were constrained: public firms classified as constrained have no trouble raising debt when their demand for debt increases, are unaffected by... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

22 Feb 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Important Management Trends of the (Still Young) Twenty-First Century

results in a financial flow, where the debt of deficit countries is bought by surplus countries, who now own several trillion dollars of foreign assets. A related problem are the fiscal (government budget) deficits run by the United... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

08 May 2019
News

Lessons from the Ashes

day one of the takeover, we had a lot more debt than we anticipated. Then there was the October '87 stock market crash, which really hurt our asset sale program in Australia. So by the end of '87, we had in Australian dollars, about $1.5... View Details

01 Dec 2005
News

Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper

commercial real estate prior to 1990. Since then, almost every major Wall Street firm has become active in real estate private equity. “Morgan Stanley alone has gone from zero dollars under management to almost $40 billion over the past fifteen years,” says Slaughter.... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Real Estate

13 Jan 2015
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First Look: January 13

employee confusion about or neglect of the tax properties of Roth balances and (2) partition dependence. Download working paper: http://www.nber.org/papers/w20738 The Rise and Fall of Demand for Securitizations By: Chernenko, Sergey, Samuel G. Hanson, and Adi Sunderam... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

07 Sep 2021
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Increasing Access and Expanding Opportunity

graduate school, how does the fear of incurring a large amount of debt keep individuals from applying to HBS? Chad Losee: We did a market research study in 2019 to understand what prevents qualified potential students from applying.... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Gillespie

01 Sep 2012
News

On a Sound Track

through the business world is a great advantage. The IPO went well? Yes, we raised nearly $190 million, which enabled us to retire debt and go in some new directions. My main challenge now is managing growth and our increasing... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; audio accessories; Sporting Goods, Hobby, Musical Instrument, and Book Stores; Retail Trade

21 Aug 2012
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First Look: August 21

prior to and following Corzine's arrival, and the strategic and managerial decisions taken by Corzine to reorient the firm. In addition, the sovereign debt trade, created to boost earnings, is described in some in some detail. Purchase... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

04 Aug 2009
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First Look: August 4

"going public" and "going private'" transactions. We then find that majority PE-backed private firms engage in less book-tax nonconforming tax planning than public years; nonetheless, they exhibit substantially lower marginal tax rates. We attribute... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

March 2021
Supplement

Making Impact Investing Markets: IFC (B)

By: Shawn A. Cole, John Masko and T. Robert Zochowski

In 2018, Thailand’s Bank of Ayudhya (known as Krungsri), was considering whether to participate in the first issue of a new financial instrument from the International Finance Corporation (IFC), known as a gender bond. Building on the success of the Green Bond program... View Details

Keywords: Impact Investment; Development Economics; Developing Countries and Economies; Borrowing and Debt; Credit; Equity; Bonds; Financing and Loans; Growth and Development; Emerging Markets; Non-Governmental Organizations; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Financial Instruments; Gender; Financial Services Industry; Thailand

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January 2021 (Revised March 2021)
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Juno (B): Leveraging Student Power

By: Joshua Schwartzstein, Kathleen L. McGinn and Amy Klopfenstein

In March 2020, Juno co-founders Chris Abkarians and Nikhil Agarwal decided to pitch banks in anticipation of their annual auction while negotiating directly with private lender Eager. Responses from the majority of private lenders—including Juno’s 2019 partner—were not... View Details

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March 2004 (Revised March 2005)
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Oscar de la Renta

By: Bharat N. Anand, Elizabeth Lea Carpenter and Samhita Patwardhan Jayanti

Over three decades, Oscar de la Renta (ODLR) had established itself as one of the premier luxury brands in America. Its mainstay business had always been producing and marketing high-priced, couture/ready-to-wear luxury goods. Now, in September 2003, it faced a series... View Details