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- 09 Nov 2023
- News
From the Brink
Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994), Adam Chepenik (MBA 2010), Sebastián Negrón-Reichard (JD/MBA 2024) As the senior top official in the US Treasury Department on domestic finance issues, Antonio Weiss (MBA 1994) could see Puerto Rico’s financial meltdown coming, like watching a... View Details
Keywords: Ralph Ranalli
- 15 Dec 2023
- News
Exploring Business Opportunities in Africa; Alumni Grapple with Plastic Waste Problem
mission. They bring energy, ideas, they’re hungry for growth, they’re eager and passionate and give you their best.” The downsides, say panelists, include a lack of infrastructure in financing, low debt availability for small and medium... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Going Against the Flow
Brazil was defaulting on its overseas debt and hyperinflation was running rampant. Somehow, amid the country's financial fracasso, Jakurski sensed opportunity. "With inflation at times increasing 2 percent daily," he recalls, "we would... View Details
Keywords: Dun Gifford, Jr.
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Research Brief: Bankruptcy as a Better—Not Bitter—End
lenders and liquidating otherwise viable companies. As the theory goes, the deep-pocketed secured lenders at the front of the line have a bias toward shutting down viable operations, selling off the assets, and collecting the cash they’re... View Details
Keywords: Erin Peterson
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
HBS-Harvard Collaboration Fosters New Ventures
technology to erase debt CEO and cofounder Rohan Pavuluri (AB 2018) was inspired to launch Upsolve, which helps low-income and working-class families overcome financial distress, after learning that a bankruptcy lawyer costs a prohibitive... View Details
- 01 Dec 2002
- News
The Campaign for Harvard Business School
historical collections of books and periodicals in two new underground floors of environmentally controlled stacks. In recognition of this extraordinary gift, the reading room will be named in honor of the Stampses. Advisory Board Boosts... View Details
- 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
- 02 Mar 2016
- News
On Credit
Generally compensated by being recommended as debt collection agents, they mailed accounts of an individual’s net worth, character, habits, and time in business to the closest Dun office, where clerks were... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 25 Aug 2015
- News
Sunset in the East?
“hoping” that consumer and small-business debt will accelerate GDP growth (like Brazil did at the beginning of the century). Will this new measure take the Chinese consumer beyond tolerable levels of debt-to-income ratio? —Robert... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
Four Promoted to Full Professor
environment. He has written on a broad range of restructuring topics, including corporate bankruptcy and debt workouts, tracking stock, equity spin-offs, corporate downsizing, bank mergers, and employee buyouts. Currently, he is studying... View Details
- 01 Dec 2011
- News
A Modest Tax Proposal
"How about 'No new taxes after these new taxes'?" © James Stevenson/The New Yorker Collection/www.cartoonbank.com As Congress starts the next round of debt ceiling negotiations, the US Chamber of Commerce and other business groups are... View Details
- 01 Jun 2012
- News
Made in the USA
collective expertise of generations of Wisconsin cheese makers and dairy farmers in the burgeoning US market for ethnic cheeses. “Ethnic cheese wasn’t huge in Wisconsin when we launched the Specialty Cheese Company,” he notes, “but you... View Details
- 19 Mar 2015
- News
Walter Salmon Remembered
campus even after his retirement, Salmon was highly regarded for his tough but humorous approach in the classroom and an unfailing generosity in advising and supporting students. A collection of remembrances follows; add your own in the... View Details
- 26 Feb 2020
- News
Phoenix Rising
assets—which Greece has had a wealth of in recent years. Indeed the last decade has been rough on the country, to vastly understate the impact of a sovereign debt crisis that nearly kneecapped the entire eurozone. A succession of three... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
formas, dividends, debt maturity, asymmetric information, and more. Power Is Boring: The Globalized World as Explained by the Most Anarchic of Economists (Il potere è noioso: Il mondo globalizzato raccontato dal più anarchico degli... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
commercial real estate prior to 1990. Since then, almost every major Wall Street firm has become active in real estate private equity. “Morgan Stanley alone has gone from zero dollars under management to almost $40 billion over the past fifteen years,” says Slaughter.... View Details
- 08 Mar 2013
- News
The Accidental Innovator
mention for 30 seconds that Greece might have to do an austerity program, and they’ll repeat it 100 times over the next week. Unfortunately, 99 percent of the viewers don’t know what an austerity program is, and 99 percent don’t understand what sovereign View Details