Publications

September 1985
Case

Citicorp Investment Management

Keywords: Investment Funds; Management; Financial Services Industry

April 1985
Supplement

General Electric Co.: Major Appliance Business Group (B)--Project C--An Investment in Quality, Video

By: John A. Quelch

1985
Other Unpublished Work

Corporate Dividend Dynamics at the Firm Level

By: Terry A. Marsh and Robert C. Merton

Keywords: Investment Return

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March 1985 (Revised November 1985)
Case

The general manager of a division manufacturing taps and dies must decide whether to continue a major capital investment program. The program was designed to replace aging mechanical machines with modern, electronically controlled equipment. A post-audit, after an... View Details

Keywords: Capital Budgeting; Investment; Accounting Audits; Cost Management; Technological Innovation; Information Technology; Performance Productivity; Production; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Manufacturing Industry

March 1985 (Revised November 1988)
Case

Precision Parts, Inc. (A)

Contains a description of a decision confronting two entrepreneurs in mid-1981. They are considering purchasing a small manufacturer of precision electromechanical parts. Among the issues in the case are the following: 1) Should Taylor and Grayson buy Precision Parts,... View Details

Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Venture Capital; Financing and Loans; Cost vs Benefits; Investment Return; Strategy; Management Practices and Processes; Risk and Uncertainty; Outcome or Result; Manufacturing Industry

January 1985 (Revised February 1997)
Case

Lotus Development Corp.

Contains a description of the history and venture capital financing of Lotus Development. Focuses on issues related to the possible terms of investment in Lotus by a major venture capital firm. The pedagogic objectives in the case are: to explore the elements of the... View Details

Keywords: Technological Innovation; Business or Company Management; Venture Capital; Organizational Structure; Entrepreneurship; Financing and Loans; Outcome or Result; Corporate Finance; Planning; Computer Industry

January 1985
Case

Business Research Corp. (A)

Contains a description of a decision confronting an entrepreneur: which of two investment proposals should he accept to fund the creation and marketing of a database that comprises the full text of research reports produced by Wall Street investment banking firms? The... View Details

Keywords: Strategy; Cost vs Benefits; Valuation; Investment Banking; Negotiation Participants; Negotiation Deal; Financing and Loans; Financial Strategy; Corporate Finance; Service Industry

winter 1985
Article

Sovereignty en Garde: Negotiating with Foreign Investors

By: L. T. Wells Jr. and D. Encarnation

Keywords: Negotiation; Investment

November 1984
Background Note

Black-Scholes Option Pricing Program for the HP 12C Calculator

Contains a program that can be used on the HP12C pocket calculator to compute the Black-Scholes option price and the associated hedge ratio. The program must be given the following parameters: the exercise price, the risk-free rate, the time to expiration, and the... View Details

Keywords: Stock Options; Investment Funds; Price; Management; Software

November 1984
Article

Corporate Investments in Common Stock

By: W. Mikkelson and R. S. Ruback

Keywords: Investment; Stocks; Business Ventures

October 1984 (Revised February 2007)
Background Note

Introduction to Portfolio Theory

Introductory note describing the basic building blocks of Markowitz's mean-variance portfolio theory. View Details

Keywords: Theory; Investment Portfolio

September 1984
Article

The Evolution of Market Risk in the U.S. Steel Industry and Implications for Required Rates of Return

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin, J. J. Tribendis and J. P. Clark

Keywords: Risk and Uncertainty; Markets; Investment Return; Steel Industry

July 1984 (Revised September 1986)
Case

CML Group, Inc.: Going Public (A)

Describes a series of decisions confronting Charles Leighton, co-founder and chairman of the CML Group. CML is a successful participant in the leisure time industry with two lines of business: specialty retailing and recreational consumer products. The key issues in... View Details

Keywords: Valuation; Going Public; Strategy; Business or Company Management; Cost vs Benefits; SWOT Analysis; Investment Banking; Financing and Loans; Planning; Corporate Finance; Retail Industry; Consumer Products Industry

June 1984 (Revised June 1987)
Case

Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., Inc.

Keywords: Financial Management; Investment Portfolio; Management; Financial Services Industry