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- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
that issuance is partly an attempt to arbitrage mispriced characteristics. Our approach helps forecast returns to portfolios based on book-to-market, size, price, distress, payout policy, profitability, and industry. Our results provide a new perspective on View Details
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Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
household income gains for new adopters. However, one year after the study ended, the exporter refused to continue buying the cash crops from the farmers because the conditions of the farms did not satisfy European export requirements....
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Martha Lagace
- 25 Sep 2012
- First Look
First Look: September 25
financing from leading venture capital (VC) firms and by 2012 had been cash flow positive for the past six quarters. Its founder, Bryan Mistele, was looking to pivot into high growth and faced several...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 16, 2019
Europe, a private equity investment company, had worked in the family business for a few years but had developed a career mainly outside of the family business. The transfer of the shares’ ownership had tightened the three brothers’ bonds...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
its $18 billion in cash reserves during the week of March 10, 2008, and an unprecedented provision of liquidity support from the Federal Reserve on Friday, March 13 was insufficient to reverse the decline in Bear's condition. Federal...
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Martha Lagace
- 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
- 02 Jul 2015
- Op-Ed
The Future of the Greek Economy
pay wages? Why pay loans? With what? What does a "no" mean? What does a "yes" guarantee? These weeks have been a nightmare, with no medium of exchange and banks facing growing lines of depositors who want to withdraw their euros but don't know...
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- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
among them was a severe cash flow constraint that prevented Frederic Schreurs from properly forecasting and investing resources to maximize the BIP’s impact. As traffic inched along, Sanginga contemplated...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 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
- 20 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 20, 2015
average demand increases with both pricing transparency and agent expertise, and that agent expertise interacts positively with competitive intensity. We also find that competition is associated with higher inventory holdings of both cash...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 28 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Dedication to Creation: India's Ad Man Ranjan Kapur
clamped down. A lot of constraints were put on growth of companies, until Rajiv Gandhi became prime minister in 1984. Before that, a lot of multinationals—Coca Cola, Pepsi—decided to leave because the government wanted them to give a majority View Details
- 22 Jan 2013
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 22
and Tesco. The case introduces the tools of Dupont and Modified Dupont Decomposition. While performance as measured by return on equity has been similar for the two companies, Ahold has had significantly better stock market performance...
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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
- 28 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 28
the short-term have a more short-term oriented investor base. Moreover, we find that short-term oriented firms have higher stock price volatility, and that this effect is mitigated for firms with more long-term investors. We also find that short-term oriented firms...
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Sean Silverthorne