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  • 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
  • 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
  • 07 May 2013
  • First Look

First Look: May 7

during peaks of the private equity market, when the parent banks arrange more debt financing for in-house transactions yet have the lowest exposure to debt. Using financing terms and ex-post performance, we show that overall banks do not... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 06 Feb 2006
  • Research & Ideas

The Trouble Behind Livedoor

Over the past few years, Livedoor acquired more than twenty companies, most paid for with stock. Livedoor's most famous transaction, its failed attempt to buy Nippon Broadcasting Systems last year, was financed with convertible debt. However, the View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services; Technology
  • 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
  • October 2003 (Revised January 2005)
  • Case

Shared Decision Making

By: Richard M.J. Bohmer, Karen Sepucha and Laura Feldman
The Foundation for Informed Medical Decision-Making has created an interactive videodisc system that provides patients with customized support regarding medical treatment or screening decisions when they face a choice between two equally effective courses of action.... View Details
Keywords: Decision Choices and Conditions; Borrowing and Debt; Health Care and Treatment; Innovation Strategy; Technological Innovation; Product Marketing; Distribution Channels; Production; Partners and Partnerships; Research and Development; Information Technology
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  • January 2021 (Revised March 2021)
  • Supplement

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
Keywords: Decision Making; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Cost vs Benefits; Judgments; Education; Higher Education; Finance; Borrowing and Debt; Strategy; Adaptation; Alignment; Negotiation; Negotiation Deal; Negotiation Offer; Negotiation Participants; Negotiation Process; Negotiation Types; Financial Services Industry; Education Industry; North and Central America; United States; Massachusetts; Boston
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  • 10 Feb 2015
  • First Look

First Look: February 10

in terms of both the bankruptcy code and the cultural attitudes toward corporate restructuring. This case can fit into an introductory course in a module on capital structure and the tradeoff between the costs and benefits of debt or in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Aug 2014
  • Op-Ed

Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering

Assessing creditworthiness of small businesses can be difficult due to information asymmetry. Little, if any, public information exists about the performance of most small businesses because they rarely issue publicly traded equity or View Details
Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking; Financial Services
  • 09 Sep 2009
  • First Look

First Look: September 9

http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/709495-PDF-ENG Wal-Mart's Use of Interest Rate Swaps Harvard Business School Case 108-038 "Wal-Mart's Use of Interest Rate Swaps" recounts Wal-Mart's use of interest rate swaps to hedge the fair value of its fixed-rate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 1997
  • News

Banking on HBS

guaranteeing long-term debt from the market against government contractual obligations. "A big lesson I took away from the course," Shapiro says, "is the importance of gaining internal acceptance for specific change, even when almost... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 01 Mar 2009
  • News

The Case for Studying Financial History

liquidity shock because of the extent of leverage, of debt that had emerged in the system. So the lack of knowledge about financial history, in your view, contributed to the current global financial crisis? I really believe that. It’s... View Details
Keywords: Roger Thompson; federal bailouts; 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
  • 11 Dec 2007
  • First Look

First Look: December 11, 2007

perceived as value-destroying and may not improve a firm's competitive advantage. Bank Debt and Corporate Governance Authors:Victoria Ivashina, Vinay Nair, Anthony Saunders, Nadia Massoud, and Roger Stover Periodical:Review of Financial... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Jul 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, July 18, 2017

Business School Case 217-062 The U-Turns of National Truck Stops Raj Makam had spent months trying to restructure a 2006 investment he had made in National Truck Stops, Inc. (NTS) as a senior member of Oaktree Capital Management’s (Oaktree) Mezzanine finance business... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne