Publications

1996
Book

New and Improved: The Story of Mass Marketing in America

By: R. S. Tedlow

Keywords: Marketing Strategy; United States

1996
Book

Management Past and Present: A Casebook on American Business History

By: A. D. Chandler Jr., T. K. McCraw and R. S. Tedlow

Keywords: Business History; United States

November 1995
Case

Communications Revolution, The : 1995

By: Richard S. Tedlow and James Weber

Keywords: Communication; Communication Technology

August 1995
Teaching Note

Chain Stores TN

By: Richard S. Tedlow

Teaching Note for (9-391-251). View Details

Keywords: Growth and Development; Lawfulness; Retail Industry

May 1995 (Revised October 1995)
Background Note

Introduction to Cash Flow Valuation Methods

By: Richard S. Ruback

Provides an introduction to three cash flow valuation methods. The three methods differ in their measure of cash flows and the discount rate applied to those cash flows. The names for the three methods correspond to the type of cash flow that is used in the valuation:... View Details

Keywords: Cash Flow; Valuation

November 1994
Background Note

Why Bad Things Happen to Good Companies

By: Benson P. Shapiro, Adrian J. Slywotsky and Richard S. Tedlow

Describes the Darwinian internal and external processes that lead to poor performance from a previously well performing company. Demonstrates why any business design eventually fails and the role of organizational calcification and poor leadership in the failure. Also... View Details

Keywords: Leadership; Management Practices and Processes; Organizational Design; Failure; Performance

November 1994 (Revised January 1995)
Background Note

A Note on Capital Cash Flow Valuation

By: Richard S. Ruback

Presents the capital cash flow method for valuing risky cash flows. In this method cash flows are calculated to include the benefits of interest tax shields. In a capital structure, with just ordinary debt and common equity, capital cash flows equal the flows available... View Details

Keywords: Capital; Cash Flow; Valuation

November 6, 1994
Article

Why Great Companies Go Wrong

By: Richard S. Tedlow, Benson P. Shapiro and Adrian Jurij Slywotzky

Keywords: Business Ventures

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