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- 06 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 6, 2016
the firm operates above this threshold, managing earnings smoothes revenue and cash flow with few long-term consequences. Below it, managing earnings can tip the firm into a vicious cycle of accelerating...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 28
When the firm operates above this threshold, managing earnings smoothes revenue and cash flow with few long-term consequences. Below it, managing earnings can tip the firm into a vicious cycle of...
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Carmen Nobel
- 07 Dec 2010
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 7
(EV) reporting by firms with life insurance operations to assess the impact of unregulated financial reporting on transparency and to examine the institutional characteristics that promote unregulated reporting. Under EV accounting the present value of future View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
Five Questions for Stuart Gilson
business opportunity. For example, in an equity spin-off, a diversified firm's businesses are split apart into independent entities, each with its own common stock. Spin-offs can make sense when a high-growth business is being held back...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 27 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 27, 2007
company. They can either sell the company to a large public company, raise another round of capital from a preeminent venture capital fund, or continue to grow using existing positive cash flow. Purchase this case:...
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Martha Lagace
- 05 Feb 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, February 5, 2019
between steps. I show that the optimal number of modules (and buffers) increases as the underlying rate of technical change goes up. When the underlying technologies are changing rapidly, it makes sense to sacrifice some degree of flow...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 09 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
business owners to understand their own cash flow and prospects. Now the fintech innovation cycle is at an inflection point—new streams of data have the power to illuminate the opaque nature of a small...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 14
View, California-based medical device company had been cash flow positive for seven consecutive quarters with annual revenues over $70 million. Since 2007, it had shipped well over 1.5 million of its...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Aug 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Contest: 15 Years of Building Better Entrepreneurs
Partners, RelayRides, and Birchbox, among others—the Business Plan Contest has grown and evolved from its first iteration in 1997. Back then, 37 teams submitted plans. Last year, a record-breaking 110 teams vied for a total of $170,000 in View Details
- 08 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at Research and Ideas, August 8, 2017
forthcoming Financial Analysts Journal Optimal Tilts: Combining Persistent Characteristic Portfolios By: Baker, Malcolm, Ryan Taliaferro, and Terry Burnham Abstract—We examine the optimal weighting of four tilts in U.S. equity markets...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
competence—expertise in technology—and its skilled people to accomplish what government and relief agencies could not: an information system and supply chain that tracked and managed the flow of relief supplies. Its efforts were crucial...
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Martha Lagace
- 15 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 15
Publications August 2013 American Economic Review Private Equity, Jobs, and Productivity By: Davis, Steven J., John Haltiwanger, Kyle Handley, Ron Jarmin, Josh Lerner, and Javier Miranda Abstract—Private equity critics claim that...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 May 2013
- First Look
First Look: May 28
113-006 Equitas Microfinance (C): Advent of Regulation Supplements case 510-104. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/113006-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 813-157 Brazos Partners and the Tri-Northern Exit Randall Fojtasek, a partner at the Dallas-based...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2007
- Research & Ideas
Business and the Global Poor
Could you describe some of these entrepreneurial efforts? A: There is a lot of talk—both in this book and elsewhere—about the massive potential consumer market at the base of the economic pyramid. However, for a poor consumer, participating in the marketplace requires...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 20
capacity and new products only when attractive, low-risk opportunities are identified and can be funded internally. The firm's culture of risk aversion extends to financing decisions with a clear preference for equity finance over debt...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
significant political and macro-economic uncertainty facing the industry. As part of the investment analysis a complete discounted cash flow analysis must be performed. Purchase this case:...
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Carmen Nobel
- 11 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 11
theory and its departure suggested by Vernon to offer a novel explanation for why state-owned entities might seek a global footprint and global cash flows: to achieve resource independence from other state actors. In the context of...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2002
- Research & Ideas
Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience
cash that we have and make it last till the cash flow is positive, which means we need to reduce the burn rate.' It stops the meeting cold. Then the entrepreneur blurts...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
Open Source Science: A New Model for Innovation
developers are very pragmatic and focused on solving problems. Scientists are focused on problems too, but their priority is often publication and that can sometimes come in the way of openness and sharing. The ideals of science are, of course, openness, sharing, and...
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by Martha Lagace
- 13 Sep 2011
- First Look
First Look: September 13
trustworthiness vary systematically across different stakeholder types and provide strong support for the validity of the depth and locus dimensions. Working PapersSovereigns, Upstream Capital Flows and Global Imbalances Authors:Laura...
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Sean Silverthorne