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- 22 Jan 2013
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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
- 05 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 5, 2008
Ostrovsky, and Schwarz. We prove that convergence occurs with probability 1, and we compute the expected time until convergence. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-056.pdf Attracting Flows by Attracting Big Clients:...
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Martha Lagace
- Web
Impact Stories - Business & Environment
private equity funds, and institutional investors." Jacqueline Crespo MBA 2015 | At the Nexus of Change "My experiences have taught me that there are no shortcuts or easy paths to solving the energy and climate problem. My view is that...
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- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
The Knowledge Coach
wireless solutions. As Reddy recalled his second meeting, Chandra "tore the Unimobile business plan apart," noting that the revenue projections were unrealistic and the business focus was too diffuse—but still he invested in the company. The chain of...
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by Dorothy Leonard & Walter Swap
- 10 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Surprising Winners and Losers in the Retail Revolution
few years is Kroger in the food space. They are a very large company. They have all this leverage against suppliers. They have huge cash flow, customer counts are fine, they've crushed the competition. But I think they are at an...
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- 28 Feb 2012
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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
- 10 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 10
within markets: When sentiment is high, future returns are low on relatively difficult to arbitrage and difficult to value stocks. Private capital flows appear to be one mechanism by which sentiment spreads across markets and forms global...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Retirement's Changing Face
with this eternal conundrum. Easy Rider Martin Snoey (MBA ’72) Age: 61 Home: Mercer Island, Washington “My sense is that life is not a simple sequence of events,” says Martin Snoey. “Instead, it’s a continual trade-off among career, family, hobbies, and community...
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Personal Services
- 01 Feb 2001
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Drilling Down
past. Now the big strikes lie elsewhere. The wildcatters of today travel the globe from Angola to Kazakhstan to the deep waters off the coast of Brazil in search of "elephant fields" with flow rates measuring in the thousands of barrels...
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- 05 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 5
known as the abnormal earnings) valuation approach. Students are asked to provide a valuation of Coca-Cola Company using the residual income valuation methodology and understand how it maps into the discounted cash View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
way to solve it. Morrell: With this goal and the investments from Omidyar and others, Ruma pivoted and soon rebranded as Mapan, a word that implies something is “financially self-sufficient.” Haryopratomo: What Mapan does is it solves a really clear View Details
- 28 Oct 2014
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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
- 03 Jul 2018
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New Research and Ideas, July 3, 2018
design tools is a powerful force that is leveling the global technology playing field. It democratizes innovation and makes future competition more challenging. This paper describes the knowledge flows through production and design tools,...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 28 May 2013
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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
- 03 Jul 2012
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling
are covered by employers or Medicaid. The healthy people in these insurance pools subsidize the costs of the sick. But many employers, weary of uncontrolled and unpredictable health care costs, will likely soon switch to a pension-like defined contribution system,...
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- 07 Apr 2009
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First Look: April 7, 2009
Effects of Using Unverifiable Estimates in Financial Reporting Authors:Karthik Ramanna and Ross L. Watts Abstract SFAS 142 requires managers to estimate reporting unit values to determine goodwill write-offs. Those estimates often use unverifiable discounted future...
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Martha Lagace
- 17 Dec 2013
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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
- 24 Jul 2007
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First Look: July 24, 2007
(A) case. Purchase this supplement: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=607156 Dressen (Abridged) (A) Harvard Business School Case 207-125 John Lynch, CEO of the Dressen Division of Westinghouse, was elated by the proposed leveraged buyout by...
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Martha Lagace
- 11 Mar 2014
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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