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  • February 2014 (Revised March 2022)
  • Case

School Specialty, Inc.

By: Stuart C. Gilson and Kristin Mugford
Set in 2013, School Specialty was a financially troubled supplier of educational products to primary and secondary schools in the United States. The company planned to file Chapter 11 in order to address its excessive debt load, but needed to arrange... View Details
Keywords: School Specialty; Bankruptcy; Section 363; Financing; Chapter 11; Capital Structure; Financing and Loans; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Distribution Industry; Education Industry; United States
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  • 11 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 11

fundamentals: the book-to-market ratio and expected ROE. We find that the model is easily applied to a large cross section of firms and that firm-level discount rates vary over time and are highly persistent. The model can forecast stock... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Mar 2013
  • Research & Ideas

How Chapter 11 Saved the US Economy

can frustrate attempts to restructure out of court," Gilson writes. Companies also increasingly using Chapter 11 to expeditiously sell off assets. Section 363 of the US Bankruptcy Code allows a bankrupt... View Details
Keywords: by Kim Girard; Financial Services
  • 11 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 11

on this question. The first section provides background on MNCs and their rise. Section two summarizes attempts to promulgate global standards for MNCs in relation to human rights, labour, bribery, and the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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The Changing Landscape of Auditors' Liability

By: Colleen Honigsberg, Shivaram Rajgopal and Suraj Srinivasan
We provide a comprehensive overview of shareholder litigation against auditors since the passage of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act (PSLRA). The number of lawsuits per year has declined, dismissals have increased, and settlements in recent years have... View Details
Keywords: Auditor Litigation; Tellabs; Section 10(b); Section 11; Audit Quality; Janus; PSLRA; Class-action Litigation; Accounting Audits; Lawsuits and Litigation; Legal Liability
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  • 08 Nov 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Handgun Waiting Periods Prevent Hundreds of Homicides Each Year

led to a 7 percent to 11 percent reduction in gun-related suicides. In the second analysis, they focused on the 1990s, a period when the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act was in effect between 1994 and 1998. The Brady Act imposed a... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
  • June 2001 (Revised June 2001)
  • Case

Student Who Was Missing-in-Action, The

Assistant Professor Sam Benson was about to end the class session portion of his course with only student projects remaining. Then, he received a phone call from a student, George McHenry, who had missed 11 of 20 sessions. McHenry wanted to know what he needed to do to... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Higher Education; Decision Choices and Conditions; Learning; Education Industry
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  • 15 Jan 2013
  • First Look

First Look: January 15

installments are 11 percent less likely to be missed under the group liability setting in comparison with individual liability. In addition, compulsory savings deposits are 20 percent less likely to be missed under group liability... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 28 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'

powerful tools to fix the business. One of these is the automatic stay, discussed previously. Companies in Chapter 11 can also reject unfavorable leases and supply agreements (under Section 365 of the... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Financial Services; Banking
  • 01 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

The following excerpt is taken from the "Lessons of Restructuring" section of Gilson's introduction to Creating Value through Corporate Restructuring. Although the case studies in this book span a wide range of companies,... View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
  • 20 Jul 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Bankruptcy Spells Death for Too Many Businesses

Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection is supposed to allow companies to shed debt and get a fresh start. Ideally, creditors recover most of what they’re owed as the restructured firm begins turning a profit. Yet, more companies are liquidated... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 06 Nov 2012
  • First Look

First Look: November 6

with firm value and operating performance persisted. Read the paper: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1589731 Does Management Really Work? Authors: Nicholas Bloom, Raffaella Sadun, and John Van Reenen Publication: Harvard Business Review 90, no. View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Feb 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Big Deal: Reflections on the Megamerger of American and US Airways

announced merger between American Airlines and US Airways reminds us of the critical role that bankruptcy law, represented by Chapter 11 of the US Bankruptcy Code, has played in the ongoing economic recovery. Like other recent large... View Details
Keywords: Re: Rosabeth M. Kanter & Stuart C. Gilson; Air Transportation
  • 10 Nov 2009
  • First Look

First Look: Nov. 10

Author:Francois Brochet Publication:The Accounting Review (forthcoming) Abstract This paper examines the information content of Form 4 filings under the more timely disclosure regime introduced by Section 403 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 09 Nov 2010
  • First Look

First Look: November 9, 2010

These People Is Your Future CEO? Authors:Boris Groysberg, Andrew Hill, and Toby Johnson Publication:Business Review 88, no. 11 (November 2010) Abstract Americans have long believed that U.S. military officers—trained for high-stakes... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 14 Nov 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Creating a Global Business Code

The team then refined the survey and since 2006 has administered it in 11 cohorts of AMP participants to nearly 900 executives from more than 600 companies. (The results of the AMP surveys have not yet been published since this phase of... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Dec 2015
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December 1, 2015

liabilities for the firm. We explore a large novel dataset of over 50,000 workers across 11 different firms to document a variety of workers’ characteristics and circumstances that lead them to engage in what we call "toxic"... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 03 Jun 2014
  • First Look

First Look: June 3

educational products to primary and secondary schools in the United States. The company planned to file Chapter 11 in order to address its excessive debt load but needed to arrange debtor in possession financing to provide liquidity while... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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