Borrowing And Debt - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Oct 2009
Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Begins Teaching Consumer Finance

dovetailed nicely with my role as senior associate dean for Planning and University Affairs. Q: It would seem that the timing was perfect given the many consumer credit and View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Financial Services; Education

31 Oct 2016
Research & Ideas

Quantitative Easing Didn’t Ease the Housing Crisis for the Neediest

Another tool to stimulate a distressed economy has made its way into the playbooks of central banks across the world. With quantitative easing, known as QE for short, a central bank makes it easier to borrow money by buying long-term... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

04 Apr 2017
Blog Post

Why I Love My Job: Jerry Murphy at The Davis Companies

underwriting, and closing of new equity and high-yield debt investments on behalf of our latest real estate private equity fund. My area of focus is residential investment... View Details

Keywords: Real Estate

21 Jan 2009
First Look

First Look: January 21, 2009

2000 respectively, GE Capital and Citi Financial both acquired Japanese consumer-lending companies. In 2006, when the Japanese Supreme Court rules that one of the big Japanese consumer lenders must repay a View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

11 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

The New International Style of Management

that has borrowed freely from others around the world. "With the United States accounting for approximately 30 percent of the world's GDP and as the home to 62 out of the 100 most valuable brands in the... View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons

05 Mar 2013
First Look

First Look: March 5

emerging Asian markets. Paper: http://www.asiabusinessinsights.com/articles.html#sub_articles_E-commerce_in_Asia Issuer Quality and Corporate Bond Returns Authors:Greenwood, Robin, and Samuel G. Hanson... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 20

12, 2012, BH Media Group, a subsidiary of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, announced an offer to buy Media General's (MEG) newspaper division for $142 million in cash and provide debt financing to the... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

October 2016 (Revised January 2017)
Supplement

Bally Total Fitness (B): The Fall, 2005–2016

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth

By many measures the largest health-club chain in the United States in the early 2000s, Bally Total Fitness sold most of its remaining fitness clubs to 24 Hour Fitness in 2014 and disappeared from the industry top 100 rankings. After Bally was bedeviled by accounting... View Details

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24 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 24

alternative financing models of corporate lenders, including banks and finance companies.) The second major component of the case concerns distressed debt investment strategies View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

03 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 4, 2008

Vayanos Abstract We examine empirically how the maturity structure of government debt affects bond yields and excess returns. Our analysis is based on a theoretical model of preferred habitat in which... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

25 Oct 2004
Research & Ideas

Planning for Surprises

many U.S. airlines, the debt owed to customers in the form of miles is a value significantly larger than the airlines' market capitalization. This is simply not sustainable. Airlines have already reduced the value of miles by making seats... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

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... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking; Financial Services

05 Apr 2011
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First Look: April 5

709-469 Zopa, a U.K.-based peer-to-peer lending company, connected individual lenders and borrowers via an online interface. The company charged a small fee for completed loan transactions but has not turned... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

03 Apr 2019
Book

Fintech's Game-Changing Opportunities for Small Business

customers own their banking data and can designate it to be available to a third party. Open data and open banking are important so that data streams are available to multiple financial institutions View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Banking; Financial Services

15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008

Theory of Corporate Debt Maturity Choice Authors:Robin Greenwood, Jeremy C. Stein, and Samuel Hanson Abstract We argue that time-series variation in the maturity of aggregate corporate View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Mar 2017
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First Look at New Research, March 21

in sequence, map onto how very young children play. These components are (1) focusing on substitutes and borrowing selectively from peers, (2) testing assumptions about profit logics before committing to... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2011
News

Greek Drama

Samaras: Enough pain. Photo AFP/Getty Images The debt drama unfolding in Greece is made even more gripping by the long relationship between two of the country’s leaders, former Socialist Prime Minister George Papandreou View Details

Keywords: Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support; Executive, Legislative, and Other General Government Support

07 Feb 2017
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First Look at New Research: February 7

Valley, California, Western Technology Investment (WTI) specialized in a hybrid form of debt and equity financing for early-stage companies. Like traditional venture capital View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

March 1999 (Revised June 2005)
Case

Saevig Corporation

By: Henry B. Reiling and Mark Pollard

The taxpayer purchased land and later transferred it to a family controlled corporation in return for an earn out. When funds were eventually received, the IRS treated them as dividends, whereas the individual and corporate taxpayers contended they were sums paid on... View Details

Keywords: Investment Return; Debt Securities; Taxation; Outcome or Result; Financial Reporting; Family Business; Assets; Business and Stakeholder Relations

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May 2005 (Revised January 2006)
Case

Mortgage Backs at Ticonderoga

Ticonderoga is a small hedge fund that trades in mortgage-backed securities--securities created from pooled mortgage loans. They often appear as straightforward so-called "pass-throughs," but can also be pooled again to create collateral for a mortgage security known... View Details

Keywords: Debt Securities; Mortgages; Investment Funds

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