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Admissions & Financial Aid | MBA

Scholarship Board uses the annual Cost of Attendance to determine financial aid awards. Amounts are based on student surveys of direct and... View Details
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Financial Aid | MBA

world. Tuition Assistance Approximately 50 percent of MBA students receive a need-based scholarship from HBS, with 10 percent of our student body—those with the greatest View Details

    The Hidden Costs of Flexible Labor Models: How Working Multiple Jobs Affects Employees

    As operations increasingly rely upon flexible labor models — such as gig, part-time, and remote work — it has become commonplace for individuals to work multiple jobs. Across three studies, relying on a combination of... View Details

    • 2018
    • Working Paper

    Trade Creditors' Information Advantage

    By: Victoria Ivashina and Benjamin Iverson
    Using information on the sales of debt claims for 132 U.S. Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases, we show that large trade creditors’ decisions to sell receivables of a distressed company in bankruptcy are predictive of lower recovery rates, and that in such cases these... View Details
    Keywords: Trade Credit; Distress; Bankruptcy; Credit; Information; Insolvency and Bankruptcy
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    • 01 Jan 2024
    • Blog Post

    Answers to Your Top Questions about Financial Aid at HBS

    Students can also work with the Financial Aid team to get help securing the loans required to cover the full cost of the MBA. With this support in mind, please visit the View Details
    • 16 Jan 2018
    • Blog Post

    How Can I Prepare to Apply for Financial Aid at HBS?

    While the financial aid process begins after you’ve been accepted at HBS, there is a lot you can do in the months (and even years) beforehand to put yourself in the best position to access funding. HBS will help you meet your full View Details
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    Corporate Debt, Firm Size and Financial Fragility in Emerging Markets

    By: Laura Alfaro
    The post-Global Financial Crisis period shows a surge in corporate leverage in emerging markets and a number of countries with deteriorated corporate financial fragility indicators (Altman’s Z-score). Firm size plays a critical role in the relationship between... View Details
    • February 2005 (Revised June 2006)
    • Case

    UAL, 2004: Pulling Out of Bankruptcy

    By: Daniel Baird Bergstresser, Kenneth A. Froot and Darren Robert Smart
    UAL is a large air transportation company with roots that go back to the 1920s. As a legacy carrier, going back to before the 1978 deregulation of air transportation markets, United Airlines is burdened with cost structures that make it difficult to compete with newer... View Details
    Keywords: Bankruptcy; Compensation; Costs; Loans; Reorganization; Cost; Restructuring; Financing and Loans; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Compensation and Benefits; Air Transportation Industry; United States
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    • 2009
    • Working Paper

    Why Do Countries Adopt International Financial Reporting Standards?

    By: Karthik Ramanna and Ewa Sletten
    In a sample of 102 non-European Union countries, we study variations in the decision to adopt International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). There is evidence that more powerful countries are less likely to adopt IFRS, consistent with more powerful countries being... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Reporting; International Accounting; Globalized Economies and Regions; Network Effects; Standards; Adoption
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    Do Strict Capital Requirements Raise the Cost of Capital? Bank Regulation, Capital Structure and the Low Risk Anomaly

    By: Malcolm Baker and Jeffrey Wurgler
    Traditional capital structure theory predicts that reducing banks' leverage reduces the risk and cost of equity but does not change the weighted average cost of capital, and thus the rates for borrowers. We confirm that the equity of better-capitalized banks has lower... View Details
    Keywords: Capital Structure; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry
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    • 18 Aug 2011
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Non-Audit Services and Financial Reporting Quality: Evidence from 1978-1980

    Keywords: by Kevin Koh, Shivaram Rajgopal & Suraj Srinivasan; Accounting
    • 25 Jun 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Why Do Countries Adopt International Financial Reporting Standards?

    Keywords: by Karthik Ramanna & Ewa Sletten; Accounting
    • November 2013
    • Supplement

    Arch Wireless, Inc. (B): Food for Vultures

    By: Stuart C. Gilson
    In 2002, a hedge fund investor acquires the distressed bank debt of a bankrupt wireless paging company and converts his holding into common stock of the reorganized entity. Determining his likely return from this investment is challenging, given that the entire... View Details
    Keywords: Bankruptcy Reorganization; Distress Investing; Capital Structure; Restructuring; Investment Funds; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Borrowing and Debt; Wireless Technology; Telecommunications Industry
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    • 21 Jul 2010
    • Research & Ideas

    HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation

    the needs of legitimate users of derivates with systemic protections. In addition, it provides greater clarity as to how troubled non-bank financial institutions can fail. We... View Details
    Keywords: by Staff
    • August, 2022
    • Article

    Billing and Insurance-Related Administrative Costs: A Cross-National Analysis

    By: Barak D. Richman, Robert S. Kaplan, Japees Kohli, Dennis Purcell, Mahek Shah, Igna Bonfrer, Brian Golden, Rosemary Hannam, Will Mitchell, Daniel Cehic, Garry Crispin and Kevin A. Schulman
    Billing and insurance-related costs are a significant source of wasteful health care spending in Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development nations, but these administrative burdens vary across national systems. We executed a microlevel accounting of these... View Details
    Keywords: Health Care Costs; Administrative Costs; Cost; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry
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    • 22 Jun 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    “Too Big To Fail”: Reining In Large Financial Firms

    guarantees that are open-ended. I believe we need to be honest about these implicit guarantees, to define and limit them. That's the purpose of this whole proposal, not to put systemic firms at a competitive disadvantage but rather to... View Details
    Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Financial Services; Financial Services
    • June 2023
    • Case

    Accounting for Loan Losses at JPMorgan Chase: Predicting Credit Costs

    By: Jonas Heese, Jung Koo Kang and James Weber
    The case examines the accounting for loan losses at a large bank, how a bank sets its Allowance for Loan and Lease Losses (ALLL) on its financial statements. ALLL, and the rules that set them, determine when banks would and would not extend loans, which significantly... View Details
    Keywords: Accounting Standards; Accrual Accounting; Financial Statements; Financial Reporting; Banks and Banking; Financing and Loans; Banking Industry; United States
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    Survive Another Day: Using Changes in the Composition of Investments to Measure the Cost of Credit Constraints

    By: Luis Garicano and Claudia Steinwender
    We introduce a novel empirical strategy to measure the size of credit shocks. Theoretically, we show that credit shocks reduce the value of long-term relative to short-term investments. Empirically, we can therefore compare the reduction of long-term relative to... View Details
    Keywords: Credit Constraints; Credit Crunch; Spain; Investment Behavior; Credit Squeeze; Financial Crisis; Economic Growth; Investment; Credit; Manufacturing Industry; Spain; European Union
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    • 22 Jan 2014
    • Research & Ideas

    High-Tech Immigrant Workers Don’t Cost US Jobs

    are legal fees and recruiting costs for hiring immigrants, and that kind of stuff will quickly wipe out any underpayment that a firm would get off a $50,000 salary. So I don't have the belief that firms are... View Details
    Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Financial Services
    • 03 Dec 2020
    • Research & Ideas

    Cut Payroll Costs with Transparency, Fairness, and Compassion

    workweeks, unpaid leave, pay freezes, elimination of bonuses, a freeze on 401(k) matching, and reduced vacation allowance. Some CEOs believe salary cuts are a way to spread the pain of reducing salary View Details
    Keywords: by Boris Groysberg and Sarah Abbott