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- 25 May 2021
- Blog Post
The Surprising Power of Nostalgia at Work
triggered by explicit reminders of the past, such as running into an old friend or hearing music from one’s youth, but people also often become nostalgic when they’re feeling down or distressed in some way. Common psychological triggers...
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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
- 24 Oct 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, October 24, 2017
competitor, Apollo Global Management. The case allows for discussion of strategic and financing considerations by Centerbridge, a New York–based investment firm employing a flexible approach across investment disciplines: private equity (PE); credit, View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 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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- 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
- 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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- 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
- 29 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 29, 2008
housing option in the United States. Yet government policies and programs continue to grapple with widespread problems, including affordability, distressed urban neighborhoods, poor-quality housing stock, concentrated poverty, and...
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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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- 10 May 2016
- First Look
May 10, 2016
led to the distressed sale of the firm in 1996. This essay offers new source material about the actions at both Encarta and Britannica, and it offers a novel interpretation of events. Britannica’s management did not misperceive the...
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Carmen Nobel
- 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
- 12 Dec 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, December 12, 2017
liquidating funds: at the beginning of the fire sale, they sell their holdings in the liquidated stocks, to then cover their positions once asset prices start recovering. The predatory trades generate at least 50 basis points over ten days and cause the liquidation...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 6
debt choice is more pronounced for firms with high financial distress risk, firms that are informationally opaque, and firms that are family controlled. Moreover, this effect is weakened by the presence of multiple large owners and in...
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Sean Silverthorne