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  • April 2010
  • Supplement

The Auction for Travelport (B)

By: Andrei Hagiu and Misha Sanwal
This short case presents the epilogue of The Auction for Travelport (A). Blackstone decided to bid on its own, acquired Travelport for $4.3 billion and subsequently went on to acquire another GDS, Travelspan, for $1.4 billion. It then merged the two GDSs and partially... View Details
Keywords: Competitive Advantage; Value Creation; Private Equity; Mergers and Acquisitions; Industry Structures; Initial Public Offering; Capital Markets; Market Transactions; Change; Auctions; Travel Industry
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  • 18 Jul 2006
  • First Look

First Look: July 18, 2006

than $100 million. These transactions are large enough to require the help of a financial adviser and attract both strategic and financial bidders. The sale process described is that of a private auction, including a confidential... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • January 2021 (Revised March 2021)
  • Case

Juno (A): Leveraging Student Power

By: Joshua Schwartzstein, Kathleen L. McGinn and Amy Klopfenstein
In March 2020, Chris Abkarians and Nikhil Agarwal were in the midst of preparing the annual auction for their student loan assistance startup, Juno. Both current MBA students at Harvard Business School, the duo founded Juno in 2018 to leverage student bargaining power... View Details
Keywords: Decision Making; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Cost vs Benefits; Education; Higher Education; Finance; Borrowing and Debt; Strategy; Adaptation; Alignment; Negotiation; Agreements and Arrangements; Negotiation Participants; Negotiation Process; Negotiation Tactics; Negotiation Deal; Negotiation Offer; Negotiation Types; Financial Services Industry; Education Industry; North and Central America; United States; Massachusetts; Boston
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Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

expense of private consumption or capital flight. For this reason, the authors contend that the traditional concepts of crowding out and leakages must be redefined to be more encompassing. See Carmen’s other research here and Vincent’s... View Details

    Meg Rithmire

    Meg Rithmire is the James E. Robison Professor in the Business, Government, and International Economy Unit. Professor Rithmire holds a PhD in Government from Harvard University, and her primary expertise is in the comparative political economy of development with a... View Details

    Keywords: real estate
    • Web

    Finance - Faculty & Research

    Working Paper Sovereign Default and the Decline in Interest Rates By: Max Miller , James D. Paron and Jessica Wachter Sovereign debt yields have declined dramatically over the last half-century. Standard explanations, including aging... View Details
    • 2009
    • Other Unpublished Work

    Danatbank

    By: David Moss, Cole Bolton and Andrew Novo
    In the summer of 1931, Germany was struggling with a deepening economic crisis. Production had fallen, unemployment was high, and bank deposits and gold were being withdrawn from the country at a rapid pace, threatening the value of the German mark. The country's third... View Details
    Keywords: Financial History; Economy; Financial Crisis; Borrowing and Debt; Banks and Banking; Financing and Loans; Banking Industry; Germany
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    • 06 Nov 2007
    • First Look

    First Look: November 6, 2007

    some implications for the future growth of the industry. Purchase this note: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=804176 Blue River Capital Harvard Business School Case 708-448 Examines the strategy and experience of Indian View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • 10 Nov 2009
    • First Look

    First Look: Nov. 10

    are also consistent with SOX and regulatory actions reducing the incentives to sell ahead of privately known negative news. Bye Bye Bundles: The Unbundling of Music in Digital Channels Author:Anita Elberse Publication:Journal of Marketing... View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace

      Camille J. Douglas

      CAMILLE J. DOUGLAS is a Lecturer at Harvard Business School and a Lecturer and Senior Fellow at Harvard University Graduate School of Design in their inaugural Master of Real Estate (MRE) degree program. She was an Adjunct Professor in Finance and... View Details

      • 08 Nov 2011
      • First Look

      First Look: Nov. 8

      especially on high-income young workers and (2) lowers average taxes on all young workers relative to older workers when private saving and borrowing are restricted. Finally, I calculate and characterize the welfare gains from age... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 16 Jul 2013
      • First Look

      First Look: July 16

      managerial skill, and significant alignment of interests. All these abound in the private sector. Thus major opportunities exist for businesses that can create and claim value by improving resource efficiency. The products and services... View Details
      Keywords: Anna Secino
      • Web

      Help - Alumni

      fraudulent emails devised to extract sensitive, private information. Recent messages appear to come from ithelp@hbs.edu and state that your account has been blocked or suspended and threaten permanent removal or deletion of your account.... View Details
      • 16 Nov 2021
      • HBS Case

      How a Company Made Employees So Miserable, They Killed Themselves

      can make extreme means seem justifiable.” A company spiraling into debt France Télécom’s troubles started in the late 1990s, after the French government turned the national telephone monopoly into a publicly traded company, now known as... View Details
      Keywords: by Michael Blanding
      • 02 Aug 2016
      • First Look

      August 2, 2016

      performance in public and private performance domains by decreasing anxiety. Belief that a specific series of behaviors constitute a ritual is a critical ingredient to reduce anxiety and improve performance: engaging in behaviors... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • January 2021 (Revised March 2021)
      • Supplement

      Juno (C): Leveraging Student Power

      By: Joshua Schwartzstein, Kathleen L. McGinn and Amy Klopfenstein
      In May 2020, Juno co-founders Chris Abkarians and Nikhil Agarwal decided to hold the annual auction for their student loan assistance startup. Five lenders submitted bids, and the co-founders ultimately opted to select Eager Bank as their partner for the 2020-2021... View Details
      Keywords: Decision Making; Decision Choices and Conditions; Decisions; Cost vs Benefits; Judgments; Education; Higher Education; Finance; Borrowing and Debt; Strategy; Adaptation; Alignment; Negotiation; Agreements and Arrangements; Negotiation Deal; Negotiation Offer; Negotiation Participants; Negotiation Process; Negotiation Tactics; Negotiation Types; Financial Services Industry; Education Industry; North and Central America; United States; Massachusetts; Boston
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      • June 2024
      • Case

      Caesars Entertainment: Governance on the Road to Bankruptcy

      By: Kristin Mugford
      Caesars Entertainment was a large casino operator in the United States that had been purchased in a 2008 leveraged buyout by Apollo and TPG. In January 2015, Caesars Entertainment Operating Company (CEOC), its largest subsidiary, filed for Chapter 11. This set up a... View Details
      Keywords: Gaming; Chapter 11; Fraudulent Conveyance; Apollo; TPG; Bankruptcy; Leveraged Buyouts; Restructuring; Capital Structure; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Private Equity; Financial Management; Lawsuits and Litigation; Negotiation; Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Borrowing and Debt; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Las Vegas
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      Finance - Faculty & Research

      mechanism that amplifies interest rate volatility. I find strong support for these predictions in the time series of US government bond returns. 2014 Working Paper Financial Repression in the European Sovereign Debt Crisis By: Bo Becker... View Details
      • 24 Jul 2000
      • Research & Ideas

      Value Maximization and Stakeholder Theory

      our actions and opportunities, at least in the short run. It is our job as directors, managers, and employees to resist the temptation to conform to the pressures of equity and debt markets when those markets do not have the View Details
      Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
      • Web

      Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

      (19) Annual Reports (2) Annuities (1) Arts (2) Asset Management (3) Asset Pricing (4) Assets (11) Attitudes (18) Auctions (4) Balanced Scorecard (11) Banks and Banking (30) Behavioral Finance (7) Behavior (75) Bids and Bidding (1) Bonds (7) Borrowing and View Details