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- 07 Nov 2016
- News
The Business of Saving Old Buildings
right around Faneuil Hall. “So that’s pretty much what I’ve associated with my success in helping bring the Faneuil Hall Markets into existence in the 1960s. “In the Architecture Heritage Foundation, I was producing a substantial cash... View Details
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
Case Study: Growing the Family Business
center the company remodeled, is expected to cost about $200,000 to break even.) The sector is not of interest to venture capital or many angels. The company is too small for private equity. There is not enough of a track record of cash... View Details
- 01 Dec 2005
- News
Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper
in the high single digits, so money started flowing in.” (By law, REITs must annually pay out 90 percent of their net revenues, generated largely by rents and leases that make them — in good times — cash... View Details
- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Agenda: Stacy Sonnenberg (MBA 2003)
Sacramento, where we worked on arenas and the public sector funded 50 percent of the construction costs. Even at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas it was 50-50.” “We sell to the private placement bond market. That’s primarily life insurance companies that have long-dated... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
- 22 Feb 2022
- News
An Rx for Small Business Recovery
suppliers—run with thin margins and minimal cash reserves, even in the best of times. “When COVID-19 hit, they felt the shock immediately,” Mills explains. Beginning in March 2020, the pandemic and... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 01 Dec 2018
- News
Combating Climate Change
If global temperatures rise by 6 degrees celsius by 2050—as they are on track to do—officials at the International Energy Agency say the changes would bring “devastating consequences for the planet.” And those consequences will extend to business: Storm-lashed... View Details
- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Capitalizing the Corner Shop
photo by Getty Images photo by Getty Images When Samuel Ejeh decides to open a new location for his Lagos-based supermarket chain Grocery Bazaar, he likes to move quickly. But expansion is capital-intensive, constraining his cash flow,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 26 Nov 2019
- News
Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream
threatening cash flow issues. On the flip side, new questions arise, such as what is in the algorithms being written and who owns a customer’s data? How we choose to use and share our financial data will be... View Details
- 01 Mar 2012
- News
Health Care’s New Frontier
athenahealth was operating 13 practices and achieving 50 percent revenue growth. The only snag was cash flow. “It was almost impossible to get claims paid reliably or to keep track of the basic information View Details
- 01 Oct 2001
- News
HBS Press Books in Brief
offers a powerful alternative for identifying value-price gaps. The authors provide everything the reader needs to utilize the discounted cash flow model successfully. And they add an important twist: They... View Details
- 01 Mar 2023
- News
The Exchange: Micro Management
match the cash flows of their business with their repayment obligations. If you are a tailor and you’re switching from sewing by hand to using a sewing machine, you have to learn how to use the machine and... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
'Rooted' In Innovation
flows, how to analyze cash statements, and how to quantify progress was very helpful to me.” Ajanoh also found supportive communities at the Harvard i-lab and the Social Innovation and Change Initiative at the Harvard Kennedy School,... View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 02 Oct 2015
- News
The ‘F’ Word
had worked so hard for was the very thing that would kill us. That realization led me to the development of NOWaccount, a merchant service that relieves small businesses from the burden of funding and managing trade credit by immediately enabling payment for a 2.5... View Details
Keywords: Walt Disney Studios
- 01 Sep 2015
- News
Case Study: Golden Ticket
long-term “strategy” is fun to talk about but rarely works out the way you planned it. I would focus on proving out the revenue (and profit) model and trying to get to cash flow breakeven by delighting the... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Case Study: Sound Check
product, with a case study and clear pricing. It can be a little scary to give up the consulting revenue, which likely provides cash flow to fund the development of the productized offerings. The downside of... View Details
- 01 Oct 2000
- News
Books
and read a twelve-month operating cash flow statement. Many HBS readers will recognize "The R&R Case," by HBS professor Howard Stevenson. Introduced in the 1980s, the case focuses on one of Reiss's business... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
The Camel and the Unicorn
oxygen of cash or the oxygen of investment, and that was there in Silicon Valley. I mean, we talk about it coming with Sand Hill Road in the 1960s, but it was there in a different guise from very, very early on, from the early 20th... View Details
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Road Work
Camino business is underbanked and informally run, lacking the data footprint that regular cash deposits and a digital bookkeeping system provide. Finally, some of Camino’s borrowers are undocumented immigrants to the United States.... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Case Study: Building the Base
the beginning, but it gets easier. Are there any large deals to be made that could solve cash flow issues? —Johan Pensar (OPM 41, 2011) I think this is a clear example of mistaking a better product with... View Details
- 01 Jun 2010
- News
Michael Depatie
partners, and thinking about cash flow and how it works over five years do you buy this property or don’t buy that property? I always wanted to build a brand and a sustainable organization. This is the job... View Details