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  • 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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  • March 2005
  • Article

Sovereign Debt As a Contingent Claim: A Quantitative Approach

By: Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk
We construct a dynamic equilibrium model with contingent service and adverse selection to quantitatively study sovereign debt. In the model, benefits of defaulting are tempered by higher future interest rates. For a wide set of parameters, the only equilibrium is one... View Details
Keywords: Sovereign Finance; Borrowing and Debt; Interest Rates; Balance and Stability; Risk and Uncertainty; Risk Management; Mathematical Methods; Management Style; Segmentation; Debt Securities; Banking Industry
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  • 12 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 12, 2006

Environmental Strengths, in contrast, do not accurately predict the outcomes. We discuss the implications of our findings for advocates and opponents of corporate social responsibility, as well as for studies relating social responsibility ratings with View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Profile

John Rogers

a means of improving the lives of their families and communities. Upon leaving HBS, I have been inspired to do much more. I want not just to be a participant in this field but a leader, as my experiences at HBS have given me the skills, confidence and support View Details
Keywords: Other Financial Services; Other Financial Services
  • 07 Aug 2019
  • News

“The Star of the North”

The leaders of Granite Equity, a nontraditional private investment and holding company in St. Cloud, Minnesota, know the strength of the area in which they sit. They aren’t looking for portfolio businesses with a Manhattan financial... View Details
Keywords: Maureen Harmon
  • Profile

Maurice Taylor

from those motivations and fears. The reality is, a strong financial system requires the best and the brightest to develop appropriate regulations – not just for the good of the United States, but for the... View Details
  • 01 Apr 2000
  • News

Q & A: A Conversation with IRS Chief Charles Rossotti

that can't tell you exactly how much our customers have on deposit. We have 35-year-old systems for maintaining records on tape files. Our collection process and compliance examinations are months or years behind, largely due to... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
  • 10 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 10

more than five years, the global shipping (maritime) industry experienced a dramatic crash in late 2008 as the global financial system froze and the global economy slid into recession. Ship charter rates... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 05 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

SEC Commissioner Sees “Healing and Reform”

causes of the scandals were systemic rather than a matter of a proverbial "few bad apples." In the panel, moderated by HBS professor Krishna Palepu, panelists also said that new laws ,and regulations were already making a... View Details
Keywords: by Catherine Walsh
  • 27 Feb 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Take Responsibility for Rising Stars

development of individual star managers but also for helping senior executives and HR experts define and create a balanced leadership development system for the entire company. They must tackle questions such as "How will we balance... View Details
Keywords: by Jeffrey M. Cohn, Rakesh Khurana & Laura Reeves
  • 01 Feb 1997
  • News

Herzlinger on Health Care: Revolution in Evolution

transactions. Now they're requiring that the health-care system also provide convenience and information. Patients can't be patient anymore. What other market forces are at work? Major organizational changes. During the 1980s, companies... View Details
  • Career Coach

Craig Husa

CourtLink Corporation (acquired by LexisNexis) and served in the U.S. Navy as a submarine officer.  MBA from HBS, BS Systems Engineering from the United States Naval Academy.  Currently, Craig is also the Board Chairman of the Clean Tech... View Details
Keywords: Financial Services (All); Financial Services (All); Financial Services (All); Financial Services (All); Financial Services (All); Financial Services (All); Financial Services (All); Financial Services (All); Financial Services (All); Financial Services (All); Financial Services (All); Financial Services (All)
  • 12 Nov 2008
  • First Look

First Look: November 12, 2008

problems in the renovation of the 27-floor, 60,000 square meter complex. The WTC owners, two Dutch financial institutions, had hired TvT in 1995 to advise how to best handle their property's underperformance, which stood 20% empty and had... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

Harvard Business School and Polaroid - Edwin H. Land & Polaroid | Harvard Business School

interest of the School, whose faculty engaged with the company in research projects, as the subject of case studies, and through consulting. In 1944, J. Keith Butters, HBS Assistant Professor of Financial Research, and John V. Lintner, at... View Details
  • 15 Nov 2010
  • Lessons from the Classroom

Connecting Goals and Go-To-Market Initiatives

Cespedes: For most firms, the largest, most difficult, and increasingly expensive part of strategy implementation is aligning field behaviors and go-to-market systems with espoused strategic goals. It's the largest because doing this well... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 29 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 29, 2008

Viceira Publication:Chapter 5 in Overcoming the Saving Slump: How to Increase the Effectiveness of Financial Education and Saving Programs, edited by Annamaria Lusardi. University of Chicago Press, forthcoming Abstract The U.S. retirement... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Feb 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Growing Pains: Prescriptions for U.S. Health Care

gravely ill, HBS professor Clayton Christensen finds its prognosis encouraging. These symptoms, he says, merely reflect inefficient delivery systems that market forces have already begun to reshape. Christensen's optimistic outlook stems... View Details
Keywords: by Staff; Health
  • 05 Aug 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger

care system into a consumer-driven model. What, in a nutshell, are the advantages to your proposal? And the risks? Herzlinger: The pros of consumer-driven health care: Unlike today's cookie-cutter insurance policies, under consumer-driven... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • March 2005 (Revised June 2005)
  • Case

Capital Controls in Chile in the 1990s (B)

By: Laura Alfaro, Rafael M. Di Tella and Ingrid Vogel
Supplements the (A) case. View Details
Keywords: Governance Controls; Financial Crisis; Foreign Direct Investment; Currency Exchange Rate; Inflation and Deflation; Demand and Consumers; Interest Rates; Capital; System; Central Banking; Chile
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  • 01 Mar 2023
  • News

March 2023 Alumni and Faculty Books

Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books Invisible Trillions: How Financial Secrecy Is Imperiling Capitalism and Democracy—and the Way to Renew Our Broken System By Raymond W. Baker (MBA 1960) Berrett-Koehler... View Details
Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information