Publications

December 2012 (Revised November 2014)
Case

W.R. Grace & Co.: Dealing with Asbestos Torts

By: Stuart C. Gilson and Sarah L. Abbott

A manufacturer of building products and specialty chemicals, W. R. Grace & Co. filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in 2001 in response to a flood of lawsuits alleging that its products contained asbestos, and had caused hundreds of thousands of people to contract... View Details

Keywords: Bankruptcy Reorganization; Business Failures; Environmental Regulations; Class Action Lawsuits; Natural Environment; Valuation; Health Disorders; Capital Structure; Restructuring; Lawsuits and Litigation; Chemicals; Crisis Management; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Legal Liability; Construction Industry; Chemical Industry; United States

March 2005 (Revised April 2007)
Case

Comergent Technologies Inc.: Enterprise E-Commerce

By: V. Kasturi Rangan and Marie Bell

Coming out of the 2001 high-tech industry recession, this venture capital start-up has to come up with a marketing plan to break even and grow. Its innovative e-commerce software provides unique customer relationship management solutions, but it has to convince... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Customer Relationship Management; Financial Crisis; Collaborative Innovation and Invention; Business or Company Management; Marketing Strategy; Problems and Challenges; Software; Information Technology Industry

November 2010
Supplement

Dow's Bid for Rohm and Haas (CW)

By: Benjamin C. Esty

Spreadsheet Supplement for 211020. View Details

Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Performance; Joint Ventures; Financial Crisis; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Financial Markets; Sales; Lawsuits and Litigation; Negotiation Deal; Governing and Advisory Boards; Cash Flow; Decisions; Chemical Industry; Kuwait

20 Mar 2007
First Look

First Look: March 20, 2007

model to establish these interrelationships at a firm level. Using publicly available financial data we estimate the six causal effects among sales, inventory, and gross margin. Our results show that sales, inventory, and gross margin are... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Sep 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017

stylized facts about leverage and financial fragility for emerging market firms following the Global Financial Crisis (GFC). Corporate debt vulnerability indicators during the... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

20 Feb 2018
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, February 20, 2018

American tradition of a well-regulated society with the legacy of Gilded Age laissez-faire capitalism produced the modern American regulatory state. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=48304 forthcoming Review of Finance View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Apr 2013
First Look

First Look: April 30

Leroux was elected in 2008 as Chairman, President, and CEO of Desjardins Group. In order to compete effectively in a demanding and changing financial services industry and survive the global View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

July 2013 (Revised September 2013)
Case

New York City: Bloomberg's Strategy for Economic Development

By: Michael E. Porter, Christian H.M. Ketels and Jorge Ramirez-Vallejo

Traces the economic development of New York City from its founding in the 17th century through 2012. Focuses on the decisions made by New York City officials, past and present, highlighting the challenges of economic development at the city level. Enables deep... View Details

Keywords: History; Development Economics; Industry Clusters; Policy; Government Administration; Financial Crisis; Growth and Development Strategy

20 Sep 2016
First Look

September 20, 2016

efforts of U.S. and European banks to induce changes in organization culture in the aftermath of the 2008 financial crisis. Since this crisis, wide ranging regulations aimed at improving risk management and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 16

banking" experience. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/110049-PDF-ENG Ben Bernanke: Person of the Year? Lakshmi Iyer and Matthew C. WeinzierlHarvard Business School Case 710-051 In response to the economic and View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Dec 2011
News

Alumni Book Briefs

economists, and financiers who declared a moral battle for freedom but instead gave rise to an age of greed, Madrick traces the lineage of some of our nation’s most pressing economic problems. Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World... View Details

Keywords: Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Finance; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing

Web

Dean Srikant Datar’s 2023 Commencement Remarks | About

boys and men. For Raymond McGuire , acts of courage include pursuing a career in investment banking at a time when there were no role models who looked like him, and quitting his job to run for mayor of New York City. As the prime minister of Greece after the View Details

11 Aug 2020
Blog Post

Supporting Independent Workers During COVID-19: One Phone Call at a Time

financially underserved. Chrys and his parents in Aldrich early in the spring semester At the start of their first spring semester at HBS, Shrey and Chrys would meet almost daily after class to chat with HBS alumni and professors,... View Details

November 2005 (Revised November 2007)
Case

Meisterchef.com

By: Henry B. Reiling

Two underperforming companies are seeking to combine on terms that will preserve the net operating loss of one for use against their combined future profits or at least against the future profits of the company that generated the losses. The questions are whether the... View Details

Keywords: Code Law; Corporate Governance; Mergers and Acquisitions; Cost Accounting; Taxation; Corporate Strategy; Profit; Crisis Management; Financial Management; Legal Services Industry; Service Industry; United States

June 2010
Teaching Note

Australia: The Riches and Challenges of Commodities (TN)

By: Laura Alfaro and Renee Kim

Teaching Note for 709007. View Details

Keywords: Futures and Commodity Futures; Financial Crisis; Demand and Consumers; Trade; Natural Environment; Business and Government Relations; Policy; Growth and Development Strategy; Australia