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Case
| HBS Case Collection
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2005
Managing Failure: American Bankruptcy Law at a Crossroads
by
David A. Moss, Mary Oey and Jonathan Lackow
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Abstract
Introduces the core principles and challenges of bankruptcy law (both individual and corporate) against the backdrop of the early 1970s, when the U.S. bankruptcy system appeared to be failing. With personal bankruptcy filings at record levels and successful corporate reorganizations relatively rare, policymakers had to decide whether the time had come to overhaul the nation's bankruptcy law and, if so, how to structure the new system.
Keywords: Change;
Insolvency and Bankruptcy;
Policy;
Government Legislation;
United States;