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- August 2014 (Revised March 2016)
- Case
Thomas Cook Group on the Brink (A)
By: Benjamin C. Esty, Stuart C. Gilson and Aldo Sesia
Harriett Green, the newly appointed CEO of Thomas Cook Group, faces a daunting set of business and financial challenges at the 171-year old UK travel services company. The company has lost almost £600 million in the last three quarters; has seen its stock price fall...
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Turnaround;
Corporate Restructuring;
Change Leadership;
Female Ceo;
Change Management;
Communication Strategy;
Borrowing and Debt;
Cash Flow;
Cost Management;
Financial Liquidity;
Financial Management;
Executive Compensation;
Leading Change;
Crisis Management;
Value Creation;
Travel Industry;
United Kingdom
Esty, Benjamin C., Stuart C. Gilson, and Aldo Sesia. "Thomas Cook Group on the Brink (A)." Harvard Business School Case 215-008, August 2014. (Revised March 2016.)
- 21 Jun 2011
- First Look
First Look: June 21
Authors: Ferguson, Niall, and Moritz Schularick Publication: International Finance 14, no. 1 (2011) Abstract For the better part of the past decade, the world economy has been marked by an economic order that combined Chinese export-led development with U.S....
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Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
significant, misstep by Dimon who had successfully steered Morgan through the financial crisis and was regarded as one of the financial industry's best leaders and risk managers. The firm also revealed that it was restating its first...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 31, 2009
opportunity to bid for debt and equity claims on Plascar Industria e Comercio Ltda., the Brazilian subsidiary of the bankrupt global auto components company Collins & Aikman Corp. In evaluating this opportunity, students must analyze...
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Martha Lagace
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
bankruptcy vs. out of court restructuring, and dealing with negotiations between creditors. Purchase this case:http://hbr.org/search/213008-PDF-ENG Preem (B) Bo BeckerHarvard Business School Supplement 213-014 Preem's creditors and owners made a deal with an 18 month...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to...
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by Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 21
illustrates the choices faced by a prospective IPO firm that operates in a global setting. Purchase this case:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/212051-PDF-ENG SKS and the AP Microfinance Crisis Shawn Cole and Yannick SalemanHarvard...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
firms lever up, the overall cost of capital falls as leverage increases equity beta, but as debt becomes riskier the marginal benefit of increasing equity beta declines. As a simple theoretical framework predicts, we find that leverage is...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-040.pdf Financial Guarantors and the 2007-2009 Credit Crisis Authors:Daniel Bergstresser, Randolph Cohen, and Siddharth Shenai Abstract More than half of the municipal bonds issued between 1995 and 2009...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Hard Choices
even when that is costly or difficult or unpopular. It’s a choice to leverage up your company to the hilt, to pile on nonrecourse debt to pay special dividends to the owners and then walk away if the business falters and the View Details
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Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
December 2021 Alumni and Faculty Books
for Solving Our Climate Crisis Now By John Doerr (MBA 1976) Portfolio In 2006, John Doerr was moved by Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth and a challenge from his teenage daughter: “Dad, your generation created this problem. You better fix...
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- May 2008
- Teaching Note
Subprime Meltdown: American Housing and Global Financial Turmoil
By: Julio J. Rotemberg
Teaching Note for [708042].
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- 10 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 10, 2017
forthcoming New York: Palgrave Macmillan New Perspectives on the History of Political Economy By: Fredona, Robert, and Sophus A. Reinert, eds. Abstract—This volume offers a snapshot of the resurgent historiography of political economy in the wake of the ongoing global...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2007
- First Look
First Look: November 6, 2007
combination of history, culture, and compensation. Traces Tad's strategy in obtaining these offers and lets students decide which he should accept. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=806024 PublicationsSolve the...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Jun 2013
- First Look
First Look: June 4
European banking sector, what decision should Crédit Agricole take regarding Emporiki? Through the example of this European cross-border acquisition the case looks at the Greek banking system before and during the unprecedented Greek View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- Web
Dean Srikant Datar’s 2023 Commencement Remarks | About
address his country’s debt crisis by raising taxes and cutting spending—never a popular path. And Stephen Schwarzman acted courageously in cofounding Blackstone, a pioneer in the fields of private equity and...
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- 19 Aug 2010
- News
Catchphrases, Mottos, and Cheers
staring at and studying the reality before your eyes. So in class, when a marketing topic came up, Marshall would ask, “Did you look at the fish?” OPM 38. “Never let a crisis go to waste.” PMD 49. The two catch-phrases for our class as a...
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- 04 Dec 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 4, 2018
join the European Monetary Union in 1999. With strong unions, weak competitiveness, and a legacy of socialism, it could not compete with north-European countries. After borrowing extensively to fund deficits, Portugal went into debt View Details
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Dina Gerdeman
- 18 Nov 2014
- First Look
First Look: November 18
own puzzles. Our review outlines the growing body of work that documents a role for debt financing related to innovation. We highlight the new literature on learning and experimentation across multi-stage innovation projects and how this...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 14 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 14, 2010
decisions taken and financial results through the end of fiscal year 2010. Purchase this supplement:http://cb.hbsp.harvard.edu/cb/product/411027-PDF-ENG Cypress Sharpridge: Raising Capital in a Time of Crisis Lena G. Goldberg and Adam...
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Sean Silverthorne