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Book

·      Harmon, Mike. The Financial Restructuring Tool Set:  How to Fix Your Broken Balance Sheet, Columbia Business School Publishing, 2024.  https://a.co/d/6D8CkHz.  . 

Articles and Case Studies

·      Harmon, Mike. "Employee-Related Liabilities in Restructuring", AIRA Journal, Vol. 38, No. 1, 2025.  https://aira.org/pdf/journal/2025_v38_n1.pdf.  . 

·      Harmon, Mike. "Note on Restructuring Non-Debt Liabilities in the United States", Stanford GSB Technical Note, 2022.  https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/F318-PDF-ENG?Ntt=

·      Altman, Edward I. and Mike Harmon. "Risky Corporate Bonds in 2021: A Bubble, or Rational Underwriting in a Low-Rate Environment?", Journal of Portfolio Management, November, 2021.  https://jpm.pm-research.com/content/early/2021/09/29/jpm.2021.1.292

·      Robles-Garcia, Claudia and Mike Harmon. "Zombies on the Rise" on Stanford Insights, December 3, 2020.  https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/zombies-rise.  

·      Harmon, Mike and Claudia Robles-Garcia. "Restructuring Corporate Debt – A Different Kind of Cycle" on SSRN, December 2, 2020.  
https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=3740657.  

·     Harmon, Mike and Claudia Robles-Garcia. "Restructuring at Neiman Marcus Group (A)." Stanford GSB Case Study, 2020.  https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/faculty-research/case-studies/restructuring-neiman-marcus-group.

·      Harmon, Mike. "A Primer on Restructuring Your Company's Finances" in Harvard Business Review, June 9, 2020.  https://hbr.org/2020/06/a-primer-on-restructuring-your-companys-finances.

·      Harmon, Mike, and Victoria Ivashina. "When a Pandemic Collides with a Leveraged Economy" submitted to the Federal Reserve, April 16, 2020.  https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/files/covidpt/files/when_a_pandemic_collides_with_a_leveraged_global_economy_20200416_final.pdf.

·      Harmon, Mike, and Victoria Ivashina. "Managing the Liquidity Crisis" in Harvard Business Review, April 9, 2020.  https://hbr.org/2020/04/managing-the-liquidity-crisis.

·      Mugford, Kristin, and Mike Harmon. "Quiksilver, Inc. and Oaktree Capital Management." Harvard Business School Case 219-097, February 2019.  https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55854

·      Subramanian, Guhan, and Mike Harmon.  “Pierre Foods Acquisition of Advance Foods (A-E).”  Harvard Business School Case N1-919-022, February 2019.

·      Ivashina, Victoria, and Mike Harmon. "Oaktree: Pierre Foods Investment." Harvard Business School Case 219-018, August 2018.  https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54848

Mentions in the Media

·      “US credit squeeze triggers rise in corporate bankruptcies”, Financial Times, 5/26/23.  https://www.ft.com/content/7f45d897-5312-40bd-abff-039ef31c9e50

·      “Tyranny of the Majority:  Creditor Infighting Comes to $1.4tn Leveraged Loan Market”, Financial Times, 4/25/23.  https://www.ft.com/content/3370ae57-7f26-463e-9233-761322ccdd0f

·      "Alarm bells are ringing unheeded in a world yearning for optimism", Financial Times, September 17, 2021. https://www.ft.com/content/1cba68a5-b776-4dcd-9499-14c11638dbba 

·      “Survival Guide for Canadian Oil Patch Investors”, The Globe and Mail, 4/29/20.  https://www.theglobeandmail.com/investing/markets/inside-the-market/article-survival-guide-for-canadian-oil-patch-investors/