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- 16 Aug 2016
- First Look
August 16, 2016
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51460 Concentrated Capital Losses and the Pricing of Corporate Credit Risk By: Siriwardane, Emil N. Abstract—Using proprietary data on all credit default swap (CDS) transactions in the U.S.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2024
- News
The Road Less Traveled
the most popular worldwide choice for getting around—even for the short, solo trips that make up most of driving life in dense cities and sprawling suburbs. Swapping in smaller, energy-efficient electric vehicles, like bicycles and... View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Beyond the Rim: New Paths to Success in Asia
of mentor capitalism brought HBS professor Dorothy A. Leonard and Professor Walter Swap of Tufts University to Singapore and Hong Kong last fall. The pair had been studying Silicon Valley mentor-capitalists (successful entrepreneurs who... View Details
- 01 Feb 2018
- News
HBS Professor Emeritus Hugo Uyterhoeven Dies at 86
fondly. “Hugo left a lasting impression on my life,” she said. “Our journey started simply with John McArthur asking me to, ‘Go talk to Hugo .’ That set in motion many ways that Hugo and I worked together. My capstone memory is walking around the HBS campus with him... View Details
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
about "alpha," e.g., investment skill, which is not necessarily linked to "beta," or risk exposure. Through the use of derivative products such as swaps it is now possible for many investors to invest in... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 01 Mar 2009
- News
Buddy, Can You Spare a Trillion
produced less than stellar results. There are justifiable fears in Beijing that the worst may be yet to come for Western banks, especially given the unknowable impact of a U.S. recession on outstanding credit default swaps with a notional... View Details
- 15 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: January 15
swap into dollars to make up for the dollar shortfall, but this may lead to violations of covered interest parity (CIP) when there is limited capital to take the other side of the swap trade. In this case,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster
and a last-minute plan to swap employees between the two companies, the dealer conflicts intensified, KDC market share declined sharply, losses mounted, 2,000 jobs were cut, and ultimately, the venture was dissolved. Subject to more than... View Details
- November 2003 (Revised March 2006)
- Case
Dow Chemical's Bid for the Privatization of PBB in Argentina
By: Mihir A. Desai and Alexandra de Royere
What price should Dow Chemical bid for PBB, a petrochemical complex that is being privatized by the Argentine government? To answer this question, students are forced to consider the role of country risk, the underlying currency exposure of the business, and how to... View Details
Keywords: Bids and Bidding; Privatization; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Cash Flow; Emerging Markets; Valuation; Business and Government Relations; Multinational Firms and Management; Risk and Uncertainty; Energy Industry; Argentina
Desai, Mihir A., and Alexandra de Royere. "Dow Chemical's Bid for the Privatization of PBB in Argentina." Harvard Business School Case 204-021, November 2003. (Revised March 2006.)
- 13 Jun 2017
- News
Finding Common Ground
nonprofit counterparts. “One of the roles we have to play is getting people to see the humanity of the other,” Crespin observes. In the honey-bee world, Crespin came up with the idea of having beekeepers, farmers, crop experts, and entomologists View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 04 Aug 2009
- First Look
First Look: August 4
GM, it is burdened with large pension and other retiree liabilities that threaten to push it into bankruptcy. Bauer-Martin is considering using various credit derivatives (credit default swaps, credit-linked notes, credit default swap... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 11 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 11, 2006
case:http://harvardbusinessonline.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=506055 The Barber of Buenos Aires: Argentina's Debt Renegotiation Noel Maurer and Aldo Musacchio 706-034 This case tells the story of Argentina's aggressive strategy for renegotiating... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
Advertising Symbiosis: The Key to Viral Videos
raps about the joys and indignities of being a mom. ("I swapped my sexy handbag for a snot-stained sack ") The Fiat 500L makes a cameo appearance, but her life is the focal point. The idea is that moms will share the ad with other moms.... View Details
- 01 Jun 2011
- News
Alumni Books
It Happened on the Way to War: A Marine’s Path to Peace by Rye Barcott (MPA/MBA ’09) (Bloomsbury USA) Barcott relates how as a college student he lived in the Kibera slum of Nairobi, Kenya, for part of a summer, seeing poverty he’d never imagined. Wanting to help, he... View Details
- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
M&A team decided to achieve this goal through targeted transactions or “precision M&A.” By 2014, after examining 20 or so possible deals, the company was in the process of negotiating a multibillion dollar asset swap with... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 02 Oct 2007
- First Look
First Look: October 2, 2007
This paper examines the effect of corporate governance on investor reactions to accounting choice in the context of accounting for business combinations. Using a sample of 324 recent stock swap acquisitions I find that, contrary to... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Delivering the Digital Goods: iTunes vs. Peer-to-Peer
Apple boasts that more than one billion songs have been purchased from its iTunes music service. That sounds like a great number—until you consider that an estimated ten million users of Internet-based peer-to-peer (p2p) networks are logged on at any one time to View Details
- 26 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54634 forthcoming Journal of Finance Limited Investment Capital and Credit Spreads By: Siriwardane, Emil N. Abstract—Using proprietary credit default swap (CDS) data, I investigate how... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Getting the Message
Amazon books on its site. The affiliate then receives a commission for books Amazon sells through these links. Barter exchanges, also called link exchanges, entail the trading (with no money exchanged) of links between Internet sites. There are several networks that... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Dispatches from the Global Classroom
emeritus Jim Austin and his wife, Cathy. It’s a welcome opportunity to swap stories about our experiences in the different villages and reflect on what we’ve seen while touring the Austins’ gardens, which provide vegetables to the local... View Details