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DeWitt Wallace
After his idea for a magazine with condensed articles for time starved readers was rejected by several New York publishers, Wallace borrowed money from his family and launched Reader’s Digest from his... View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
- 13 Jun 2012
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: A Startup Takes On the Credit Ratings Giants
investment decisions; fund managers employ them when describing the contents and risks of their bond portfolios; market makers use them to set debt prices. In addition, they're part of the regulatory... View Details
- 04 Oct 2016
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October 4, 2016
2016 Self-published Introduction to Financial Accounting: Review Quizzes and Practice Exams By: Narayanan, V.G. Abstract—This book provides practice multiple choice questions on introductory accounting topics. It can be used to prepare... View Details
- 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
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
TelePrompTer and TCI, nearly went bankrupt during the early 1970s due to excessive debt leverage. 20 The cash drain from building and operating cable franchises encouraged... View Details
- 30 Oct 2012
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First Look: October 30
business utilizing debt and investors equity that in a very short time is about to trigger bank covenants due to poor financial performance. The prior owner continues to be involved in the business, handling... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
Samuel I. Newhouse
At the age of 26 with $600 borrowed from his relatives, Newhouse bought his first local newspaper, the Staten Island Advance. Over the next five decades, Newhouse would amass a communications giant including a collection of 22 local... View Details
Keywords: Publishing & Print Media
- 01 Sep 2003
- News
Jonathan Mariner
negotiated as part of last year’s collective bargaining agreement will usher in a new era of fiscal responsibility. “Those measures — luxury taxes, revenue sharing, and debt limits — have teeth,” Mariner... View Details
- 24 Apr 2012
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First Look: April 24
PublicationsBarriers to Household Risk Management: Evidence from India Authors:Shawn A. Cole, Xavier Giné, Jeremy Tobacman, Petia Topalova, Robert M. Townsend, and James Vickery Publication:American Economic Journal: Applied Economics... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 12 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 12, 2007
arises from a major economic, social, and institutional breakdown that jeopardizes the subsidiary's existence. Argentina defaulted on it sovereign debt and devalued the peso by... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Mar 2008
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First Look: March 18, 2008
growth, stagnant GDP growth, and high public debt. As of early 2007, the country's global competitiveness has plummeted and its debt remains well above the level allowed by the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2005
- News
One-on-One with Grover Norquist
to zero. Are you concerned about the projected $2 trillion in government borrowing that may be necessary to cover the Social Security funding gap created by the President’s partial privatization plan? No. The unfunded liability of Social... View Details
Keywords: Government
- 07 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 7, 2008
Financially Constrained Authors:Shawn A. Cole, Peter Tufano, and John Thompson Publication:Chap. 2 in Borrowing to Live: Consumer and Mortgage Credit Revisited, 65-91.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 08 Nov 2016
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November 8, 2016
it was all debt finance) or by accepting larger chunks of capital from a major global bank and a private equity firm, getting them much closer to the threshold but at the cost of significant dilution (35%)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jan 2010
- News
Back to Glass-Steagall?
President Obama shocked Wall Street recently with his proposal to cut down to size too-big-to-fail banks by imposing new rules to separate commercial and investment activities. Specifically, Obama would prohibit banks that take customers... View Details
Fred DeLuca
Hoping to earn enough money to go to college, DeLuca borrowed $1,000 from a family friend and opened his first sub shop in 1965. Though he struggled for a few years, he did pay his way through college. After... View Details
Keywords: Food & Tobacco
- 18 Feb 2014
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First Look: February 18
Frictions in Shadow Banking: Evidence from the Lending Behavior of Money Market Funds By: Chernenko, Sergey, and Adi Sunderam Abstract—We document the consequences of money market fund risk taking during the European sovereign View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
Frederic N. Schwartz
Schwartz orchestrated Bristol-Myers' growth as a multinational health and beauty care provider ushering in ten consecutive years of market value appreciation. He oversaw the successful acquisition of Clairol View Details
Keywords: Healthcare
- 18 Jul 2005
- Research & Ideas
Identify Emerging Market Opportunities
framework—that lets executives map the institutional contexts of any country. Economics 101 tells us that companies buy inputs in the product, labor, and capital markets and sell their outputs in the... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
The Sparkles in Our Skies
lifetime of use,” says Hagemann. “It’s not really about selling jewelry,” says Hagemann. “It’s really about focusing on an industry that has for so long been allowed to use the planet as a bank that it will continue to borrow from View Details