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August 2000 (Revised July 2002)
Background Note

Fundamental Enterprise Valuation: Short- and Long-Term Growth Rates and the Growth Horizon

A technical note that defines short- and long-term growth rates and the growth horizon. View Details

Keywords: Cost of Capital; Stocks; Investment Return

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23 Mar 2010
First Look

First Look: March 23

Cases & Course Materials The Congressional Oversight Panel's Valuation of the TARP Warrants (A) Carliss Y. BaldwinHarvard Business School Case 210-035 The Congressional Oversight Panel wants to value the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Dec 2012
First Look

First Look: December 4

crisis of the day and focus on the United States' role in the world. Read the paper: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2012/11/02/america_needs_a_chief_strategy_officer Working PapersModularity and Organizations Authors:Carliss Y.... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

June 1990 (Revised August 1990)
Case

Sun Microsystems, Inc.--1987 (A)

An integrated sequence of three cases on the financing of a technical workstation manufacturer. This case focuses on Sun's competitive strategy which requires an inordinately high rate of growth (over 20% per quarter) and commensurate amounts of working capital.... View Details

Keywords: Cash Flow; Competitive Strategy; Financing and Loans; Capital; Financial Strategy; Public Equity; Corporate Finance; Information Technology Industry

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2020
Working Paper

Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 3 Transaction Free Zones

In Chapter 2 we saw that the most economical locations for transactions in a task network are the so-called thin crossing points—places where transfers are easy to define, count and pay for. However, in many places in the task network, transfers of material, energy,... View Details

Keywords: Modularity; Information Technology; Organizations

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2020
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Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 2 Transactions in a Task Network

From the 1930s through today, many economists have conceived of large technical systems for the production of goods and services as a series of transactions. This point of view has led eminent economists to assert that transactions are the fundamental unit of analysis... View Details

Keywords: Modularity; Information Technology; Organizations

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2018
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Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 6 The Value Structure of Technologies, Part 1: Mapping Functional Relationships

Organizations are formed in a free economy because a person or group perceives value in carrying out a technical recipe that is beyond the capacity of a single person. Technology specifies what must be done, what resources must be assembled, what actions taken, and... View Details

Keywords: Language; Information Technology; System; Relationships

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2015
Chapter

Modularity and Organizations

Modularity describes the degree to which a complex system can be broken apart into subunits (modules) that can be recombined in various ways. Modularity is important for organizations and the economy because the boundaries of organizational units and corporations are... View Details

Keywords: Complexity; Organizations