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- 11 Feb 2021
- Blog Post
Good Leadership Is an Act of Kindness
space to hear how your team members are truly doing and to be compassionate. They may not want to share much detail, which is completely fine. Knowing that they can is what matters." "Are you okay?" Show a willingness to provide comfort and monitor for signs of View Details
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- 08 Sep 2021
- Blog Post
Building the Bridge from Nonprofit to VC with Joshua Mbanusi (MBA 2021)
possibilities. He joined Teach for America where he designed and taught a “Social Justice” course in an economically distressed community for two years. “This experience reinforced something I was beginning to understand – education alone...
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- 18 Apr 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 18, 2018
and TPG. In January 2015, Caesars Entertainment Operating Company (CEOC), its largest subsidiary, filed for Chapter 11. This set up a battle between the company and a set of large, distressed investors. At issue was not only how to...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 23 Jun 2016
- Op-Ed
Brexit: Should Britain Stay or Go?
Much has been written about the distressing consequences of an exit, both for the UK and Europe. Such an outcome would be contrary to economic and historical common sense, would further damage a barely nascent economic recovery on this...
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by Geoffrey G. Jones & Dante Roscini
- 03 May 2016
- First Look
First Look, May 3, 2016
memory for their past unethical actions is impaired. We propose that after engaging in unethical behavior, individuals’ memory of their actions becomes more obfuscated over time due to the psychological distress and discomfort such...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017
Regression estimates suggest that the relationship between leverage, exchange rate depreciations, and corporate financial distress is time varying. A central finding is that firm size is correlated with corporate View Details
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Carmen Nobel
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Homeschooled
June Bulletin’s coverage of the path ahead for education, health care, management, and the hotel and restaurant industries. Return to June Bulletin John Jong-Hyun Kim: One of the things that’s distressing is that with public school...
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- 23 May 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research: May 23, 2017
the GFC, firms with higher leverage have Z-scores that are closer to the financial distress range. The data also corroborate two macro-related hypotheses: first, that leverage interacted with currency depreciation had a statistically...
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Carmen Nobel
- 12 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 12
Business School Case 211-026 One of the world's leading investors in distressed companies, Oaktree Capital Management, is contemplating a "loan to own" investment in the debt of Countrywide plc, a financially troubled...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2008
- First Look
First Look: March 11, 2008
unprofitable, non-dividend-paying, extreme growth, and distressed stocks earn relatively higher subsequent returns. When sentiment is high, the aforementioned categories of stocks earn relatively lower subsequent returns. In Microfinance,...
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Martha Lagace
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
distressed bonds. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=208111 The Xiamen PX Project: The Rule of Contract or Citizens in China Today Harvard Business School Case 808-123 This case examines the...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Debate Financial Reform Legislation
the needs of legitimate users of derivates with systemic protections. In addition, it provides greater clarity as to how troubled non-bank financial institutions can fail. We should, however, be wary of the claim that the government will no longer bail out View Details
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by Staff
- 04 Oct 2021
- Blog Post
Tapping into “Nontraditional” Private Equity and Venture Capital Talent at HBS
address poverty at scale which led him to focus on education and education policy as key to opening up possibilities. After two years teaching social justice in an economically distressed community with Teach for America, Mbanusi joined...
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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory
in Nicaragua, once a darling in the impact investing space, is now in crisis, due to high loan defaults. This case examines how impact investors should consider financial and social returns in a situation of financial distress Key Themes:...
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- 01 Sep 2012
- News
What’s the Big Idea?
customers, the depletion of natural resources vital to their businesses, the viability of key suppliers, and the economic distress of the communities in which they produce and sell. By contrast, shared value reconnects company success...
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- 30 Jan 2007
- First Look
First Look: January 30, 2007
positions, which creates price pressure in the securities held in common by distressed funds. A similar phenomenon exists among funds experiencing large inflows: their tendency to expand existing positions creates positive price pressure...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Jan 2008
- First Look
First Look: January 15, 2008
Ross has built a successful private equity firm focused on distressed investing, WL Ross & Co. In 2006, INVESCO, an asset management company, approaches him about acquiring his firm. INVESCO has had weak performance in recent years...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
The Devil You Don’t Know
similar: “Our distress comes from no failure of substance. We are stricken by no plague of locusts. Plenty is at our doorstep, but a generous use of it languishes in the very sight of the supply.” Remarkably, Keynes says much the same...
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- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
venture capital, leveraged buyouts, mezzanine investments, buildups, and distressed debt. VCPE is designed to be useful not only to individuals whose eventual careers will demand expertise in markets, deal-structuring, and investing but...
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- 01 Feb 1998
- News
Running Up the Score
tickets, it now costs a family of four $250 to attend a Boston Bruins hockey game). They are distressed by instability and eroding tradition: teams no longer seem loyal to their cities nor players to their teams. For their part, the...
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Garry Emmons