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  • September 1960 (Revised August 1983)
  • Background Note

Note on Financial Analysis

Serves as an introduction to funds flows and ratio analysis. Includes basic discussion of these tools as assists in the analyst's or manager's job. Supplementary material includes problem set and answers. View Details
Keywords: Analysis; Investment
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  • 20 Jun 2023
  • Research & Ideas

Looking to Leave a Mark? Memorable Leaders Don't Just Spout Statistics, They Tell Stories

newspaper article is not just numbers.” But that doesn’t mean there’s no role for statistics; arguments and pitches that rely on data and numbers can be more effective in some circumstances, notes the research, which Graeber conducted... View Details
Keywords: by Scott Van Voorhis
  • December 1993 (Revised June 2000)
  • Case

Kochman, Reidt + Haigh, Inc.

By: Richard S. Ruback and Roy Burstin
A small company faces the dilemma of how to finance growth (i.e., internally generated cash flows vs. outside financing sources). An innovative concept positions the company in promoting a niche within the kitchen-cabinet industry and in looking for an optimal way of... View Details
Keywords: Cash Flow; Business Growth and Maturation; Entrepreneurship; Corporate Finance; Growth and Development Strategy; Consumer Products Industry; Utilities Industry
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    Amit Goldenberg

    Amit Goldenberg is an assistant professor in the Negotiation Organization & Markets unit, an affiliate with Harvard’s View Details

    • February 1984 (Revised February 1986)
    • Case

    E.I. du Pont de Nemours & Co.: Titanium Dioxide

    By: W. Carl Kester, Robert R. Glauber, David W. Mullins Jr. and Stacy S. Dick
    Disequilibrium in the $350 million TiO2 market has prompted Du Pont's Pigments Department to develop two strategies for competing in this market in the future. The growth strategy has a smaller internal rate of return than the alternative strategy due to large capital... View Details
    Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Cash Flow; Investment Return; Growth and Development Strategy; Strategic Planning; Projects; Chemical Industry
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    • 2013
    • Working Paper

    Visualizing and Measuring Enterprise Application Architecture: An Exploratory Telecom Case

    By: Robert Lagerstrom, Carliss Y. Baldwin, Alan MacCormack and Stephan Aier
    We test a method for visualizing and measuring enterprise application architectures. The method was designed and previously used to reveal the hidden internal architectural structure of software applications. The focus of this paper is to test if it can also uncover... View Details
    Keywords: Communication Technology; Complexity; Applications and Software; Product Design; Telecommunications Industry
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      Paul Hamilton

      Paul studies the economic complements needed for firms to realize productivity gains from machine learning and artificial intelligence. These complements include data, human capital & skills, organizational processes, and business models. 
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      • March 2020
      • Article

      Do Fire Sales Create Externalities?

      By: Sergey Chernenko and Adi Sunderam
      We develop three novel measures of how much of the price impact of their trading different mutual funds internalize. We show that mutual funds that internalize more of their price impact hold larger cash buffers and use these buffers more aggressively to accommodate... View Details
      Keywords: Fire Sales; Externalities; Investment Funds; Price; Financial Liquidity; Management
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      • 17 Sep 2024
      • Research & Ideas

      Advice for the New CEO: Talk to Your Employees Early and Often

      CEOs have never had so many ways to communicate with their employees. But despite the availability of Slack, internal newsletters, and virtual town hall meetings, organizations can still go quiet. One of the... View Details
      Keywords: by Ami Albernaz
      • July 2021
      • Article

      Medical Debt in the U.S., 2009–2020

      By: Raymond Kluender, Neale Mahoney, Francis Wong and Wesley Yin
      Importance: Medical debt is an increasing concern in the US, yet there is limited understanding of the amount and distribution of medical debt, and its association with health care policies.

      Objective: To measure the amount of medical debt nationally and by... View Details
      Keywords: Debt; Borrowing and Debt; Health Care and Treatment; United States
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      • March 1989 (Revised October 1994)
      • Case

      Philip Morris Companies and Kraft, Inc.

      By: Richard S. Ruback
      Gives students the opportunity to explore the effect of substantial free cash flow on corporate acquisition and operating strategies. Students are also given the opportunity to extract information from the common stock prices of the participating firms. A variety of... View Details
      Keywords: Cash Flow; Strategic Planning; Acquisition; Strategy; Restructuring; Valuation; Stocks
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      • January 1975 (Revised April 2009)
      • Case

      Optical Distortion, Inc. (A)

      A new product, contact lenses for chickens, is to be introduced by a small firm formed to market the product. An entry strategy must be planned including price, sales force, size, and location. Allows data for computation of economic benefit to farmers. Includes... View Details
      Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Price; Geographic Location; Marketing Strategy; Product Launch; Market Entry and Exit; Sales
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      • June 2005 (Revised November 2006)
      • Background Note

      Valuation Methods and Discount Rate Issues: A Comprehensive Example

      By: Marc L. Bertoneche and Fausto Federicic
      Presents a comprehensive review of the valuation methods based on discounting cash flows or value creation metrics and shows, through simple example and a straightforward "how-to-do" framework, the perfect consistency and identity of their results under similar... View Details
      Keywords: Valuation
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      • January 1989 (Revised September 1995)
      • Case

      MSDI-Alcala de Henares, Spain

      By: Timothy A. Luehrman
      Merck & Co., Inc. is evaluating a proposed cost-saving investment by its Spanish subsidiary. The case introduces techniques of discounted cash flow valuation analysis in a multicurrency setting. Can be used to teach basic international parity conditions as they relate... View Details
      Keywords: Business Subsidiaries; Cash Flow; Cost Management; Currency; Investment; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Valuation; Spain
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      • 01 Oct 2018
      • Book

      Is the US Losing its Ability to Attract Highly Skilled Migrant Workers?

      Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Food & Beverage; Service
      • 26 Jun 2015
      • News

      Linda Hill: How to manage for collective creativity.

      • January 2022
      • Background Note

      Residual Income Valuation Model

      By: Charles C.Y. Wang and Albert Shin
      This note explains the residual income valuation model (RIM), how it relates to "traditional" valuation models, the intuition behind its use, and empirical research related to its value relevance. RIM is theoretically equivalent to the dividend discount model and the... View Details
      Keywords: Residual Income Valuation; Valuation; Research; Theory; Measurement and Metrics; Performance; Financial Management; Business Strategy
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      • Web

      Laying Down the Principles: Management - Railroads and the Transformation of Capitalism | Harvard Business School/title>

      Railroads Finance Management Business Analysts Mass Distribution Mergers & Syndicates Research Links Laying Down the Principles: Management A system of centralized management was born from the need to direct the View Details
      • January 2005 (Revised March 2008)
      • Case

      Kohler Co. (A)

      Kohler Co., best known for its plumbing fixtures, is a large, private family firm. As part of a recapitalization aimed at preserving family ownership of Kohler Co., nonfamily shareholders, who held 4% of common stock, were required to sell their shares to the company.... View Details
      Keywords: Family Business; Capital Structure; Cash Flow; Stocks; Price; Family Ownership; Business and Shareholder Relations; Valuation
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        Seth Neel

        Seth Neel is an Assistant Professor housed in the Department of Technology and Operations Management (TOM) at HBS, and a Faculty Affiliate in Computer Science at SEAS. He is Principal Investigator of the Trustworthy AI Lab in Harvard's new View Details