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  • August 2009 (Revised August 2010)
  • Supplement

Eddie Bauer (B)

By: Paul M. Healy, Sharon P. Katz and Aldo Sesia
In February 2007, shareholders of Eddie Bauer, the specialty apparel retailer, were scheduled to vote on management's proposed sale of the company to two private equity firms. More than 50% of outstanding shares in Eddie Bauer needed to be voted in favor of the deal... View Details
Keywords: Financial Statements; Mergers and Acquisitions; Governing and Advisory Boards; Privatization; Valuation; Apparel and Accessories Industry; Retail Industry; United States
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  • 05 Jul 2011
  • First Look

First Look: July 5

Business School Case 111-059 Argentine government claims inflation rate is 8%, but others claim it is double that rate. Analyst attempts to adjust the company's financial statements for inflation. Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 26 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Corporate Transparency Improves For Foreign Firms in U.S. Markets

in its annual financial statements, primarily the annual report. For this we use the recently released transparency-and-disclosure scores provided by Standard and Poor's. Q: What did you discover about the disclosure practices of foreign... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell
  • Web

Preview the Harvard Business School Online Learning Experience

Financial Statement Templates This resource provides a primer on the balance sheet, income statement, and cash flow statement, along with templates to create them yourself. Download for Free Who will... View Details
  • Fast Answer

Field Course: Investing for Impact

[Applicable for: Coils to Locs, GLOU Beauty, Bohio Clean] Statista - Statista is a statistics portal that integrates thousands of diverse topics of data and facts from a wide range of sources onto a single platform. [Applicable for: most industries] Company... View Details
  • October 2002 (Revised January 2013)
  • Case

Krispy Kreme Doughnuts

By: Paul M. Healy
Krispy Kreme is a rapidly growing firm with a business model that has excited Wall Street. View Details
Keywords: Business Growth and Maturation; Business Model; Financial Statements; Forecasting and Prediction; Financial Reporting; Performance Evaluation; Business Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; New York (city, NY)
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  • 01 Sep 2010
  • News

Reinventing the Annual Report

"That's the report. Now, would anyone like to carp?" © James Stevenson/The New Yorker Collection/ www.cartoonbank.com I am always interested in reading what the companies I own stock in have to say about themselves in their ritualistic annual reports filled with View Details
Keywords: Robert G. Eccles
  • Profile

Deborah A. Farrington

in the high tech space. The plan was to put its customers’ financial statements and other financial data on the Internet, at the time a revolutionary idea. With just $100,000... View Details
  • 30 Oct 2006
  • First Look

First Look: October 31, 2006

  Working PapersHow Does Foreign Direct Investment Promote Economic Growth? Exploring the Effects of Financial Markets on Linkages Authors:Laura Alfaro, Areendam Chanda, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Selin Sayek Abstract The empirical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Aug 2009
  • First Look

First Look: August 4

aggressively managing their own tax liabilities and those of their portfolio firms. We investigate the latter assertion based on a sample of private firms for which there is financial statement data... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Dec 2002
  • News

Books

Companies Must Merge Social and Financial Imperatives to Achieve Superior Performance, Paine has condensed twenty years of research and teaching in the oftenmaligned field of business ethics to argue that companies can — indeed must — be... View Details
  • 02 Jun 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Signing at the Top: The Key to Preventing Tax Fraud?

overstatement of expenses. Obviously, many taxpayers give in to the temptation to cheat on their taxes—in spite of the requirement for them to sign a statement declaring that the information on the form is "true, correct, and complete."... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Accounting
  • 05 Oct 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Vanguard Corporation

decisions that would not have made been made on purely financial grounds. It's like P&G's Children's Safe Drinking Water program. When P&G could not make a commercial market out of water purification powder, it created a nonprofit... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

Propose an Independent Project | MBA

expected to maintain the highest ethical standards. If you are concerned about issues of confidentiality, you may want to ask your student team to sign a non-disclosure statement prepared by Harvard Business School. Any potential... View Details
  • November 1994 (Revised February 1996)
  • Case

Toy World, Inc.

By: W. Carl Kester
A shift from seasonal to level production of toys will change the seasonal cycle of Toy World's working capital needs and necessitate new bank credit arrangements. A rewritten version of an earlier case. View Details
Keywords: Working Capital; Business Cycles; Cash Flow; Forecasting and Prediction; Investment Funds; Financial Statements
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Analysis and Valuation Using Financial Statements Accounting & Management Joseph Pacelli Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Business Analysis and Valuation Using Financial View Details
  • 10 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 10

Working PapersMandatory IFRS Adoption and Financial Statement Comparability Authors:Francois Brochet, Alan Jagolinzer, and Edward J. Riedl Abstract This study examines the effect of mandatory International... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 02 Sep 2016
  • Op-Ed

The Twitter Election

earned (i.e free) media coverage; name recognition is not an issue. He draws much larger and more enthusiastic crowds than Clinton, which may impress television viewing audiences. He is increasingly combining scripted policy statements... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch and Thales Teixeira
  • 19 May 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Expensing Options Won’t Hurt High Tech

(One cure for stock option abuse, say proponents, is to change accounting rules so that option grants are reflected in a company's principal financial statements. High-tech start-ups blister at that idea, saying it would harm their... View Details
Keywords: by Zvi Bodie, Robert S. Kaplan & Robert C. Merton
  • 25 Aug 2022
  • News

The Exchange: The Road Ahead for Crypto

want to sell you. Cryptocurrencies have not yet reached that state. Digital financial transactions are commonplace now, but cryptocurrency, per se, is not something very large numbers of individuals or businesses are willing to trade for... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments