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  • 29 May 2020
  • Op-Ed

How Leaders Are Fighting Food Insecurity on Three Continents

COVID-19 is creating unprecedented strains on food security worldwide. The United Nations' World Food Programme warns that the pandemic could almost double the number of people facing food crises in low- and middle-income populations to 265 million by the end of 2020.... View Details
Keywords: by Howard Stevenson and Shirley Spence; Agriculture & Agribusiness
  • 22 Sep 2014
  • Op-Ed

Online Banks Fill Funding Needs for Small Business

which other online upstarts such as Amazon.com changed retail and Square changed the small business payments business. A few factors account for the rapid growth of the entrants. First, institutional debt and equity investors have been... View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking; Financial Services
  • 18 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 18

be going off patent, underscored the importance of the BPH opportunity. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/513005-PDF-ENG Can the Eurozone Survive? Roscini, Dante, and Jonathan SchleferHarvard Business School Case 713-034 The sovereign View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 08 Aug 2017
  • First Look

First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017

Barry Abstract—Many markets, including the markets for IPOs and debt issuances, are syndicated, in that a bidder who wins a contract will often invite competitors to join a syndicate that will fulfill the contract. We model syndicated... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 19 Jan 2016
  • First Look

January 19, 2016

documents a role for debt financing related to innovation. We highlight the new literature on learning and experimentation across multi-stage innovation projects and how this impacts optimal financing design. We further highlight the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Mar 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”

reasoning. But, argues the wise chorus, "from death alone he still cannot escape . . . Limitation is built in to the human condition. You need to bend to higher laws." Limits? Tell that to today's college graduates, more in debt... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
  • July 2025
  • Teaching Note

Silicon Valley Bank: Gone in 36 Hours

By: Jung Koo Kang, Krishna G. Palepu and Charles C.Y. Wang
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 125-094. View Details
Keywords: Accounting Standards; Bank Runs; Financial Accounting; Financial Reporting; Social Media; Banks and Banking; Financing and Loans; Investment Portfolio; Interest Rates; Debt Securities; Risk and Uncertainty; Financial Statements; Risk Management; Financial Services Industry; United States
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  • March 18, 2009
  • Article

Regulate, Baby, Regulate

The U.S. today faces its biggest economic crisis since the Great Depression. That is why Barack Obama and his team have been looking to Franklin Delano Roosevelt for help. The stimulus measure passed by Congress in February that includes money for building... View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Management Teams; Infrastructure; Insurance; Negotiation Deal; Government and Politics; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Credit; Banks and Banking; Debt Securities; United States
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  • 01 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 1, 2016

credit-market sentiment in year t – 2 also forecasts a change in the composition of external finance: net debt issuance falls in year t, while net equity issuance increases, patterns consistent with the reversal in credit-market... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Nov 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

within the context of the device approval process. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=53492 Lessons Unlearned? Corporate Debt in Emerging Markets By: Alfaro, Laura, Gonzalo Asis, Anusha Chari, and Ugo Panizza... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 17 Mar 2009
  • First Look

First Look: March 17, 2009

Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/09-099.pdf   Cases & Course MaterialsAvid Radiopharmaceuticals: The Venture Debt Question Harvard Business School Case 809-086 The CEO of a promising biotech company must decide how... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 05 May 2023
  • News

Fail Better

country's history. Greece was three years into a debt crisis, with the Samaras government implementing unpopular tax increases and spending cuts and leading intense negotiations with the IMF, the European Central Bank, and Eurozone... View Details
  • August 2014 (Revised March 2016)
  • Case

Thomas Cook Group on the Brink (A)

By: Benjamin C. Esty, Stuart C. Gilson and Aldo Sesia
Harriett Green, the newly appointed CEO of Thomas Cook Group, faces a daunting set of business and financial challenges at the 171-year old UK travel services company. The company has lost almost £600 million in the last three quarters; has seen its stock price fall... View Details
Keywords: Turnaround; Corporate Restructuring; Change Leadership; Female Ceo; Change Management; Communication Strategy; Borrowing and Debt; Cash Flow; Cost Management; Financial Liquidity; Financial Management; Executive Compensation; Leading Change; Crisis Management; Value Creation; Travel Industry; United Kingdom
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  • 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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  • 01 Dec 2009
  • News

Hope for Reform Dims

THAIN: Regulations failed to keep up with innovations in financial markets. A year after the federal government rushed to rescue Wall Street from its own nearly fatal excesses, former Merrill Lynch CEO John Thain (MBA ’79) worries “that we aren’t using the crisis to... View Details
Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance; Administration of Economic Programs; Government
  • 13 Jan 2015
  • First Look

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
  • News

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
  • 13 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 13

bankruptcy vs. out of court restructuring, and dealing with negotiations between creditors. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/213008-PDF-ENG Preem (B) Bo BeckerHarvard Business School Supplement 213-014 Preem's creditors and owners made a deal with an 18 month... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Sep 2008
  • First Look

First Look: September 9, 2008

restructuring failed. Students are divided into five claimholder groups—secured debt holders, unsecured senior debt holders, etc.—and these groups, under the supervision of a bankruptcy judge, must negotiate... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne