Publications

July 1997
Teaching Note

U.S. Bank of Washington (TN)

By: W. Carl Kester

Teaching Note for (9-292-057). View Details

Keywords: Financing and Loans; Cash Flow; Financial Statements; Business Subsidiaries; Commercial Banking; Managerial Roles; Banking Industry; Food and Beverage Industry; United States

Web

Native American Heritage Month | Baker Library

Department of Commerce. It depicts the recycling of aquaculture and agriculture-derived cash flowing through a community: "If the community sets up its own business such as a motel, gas station, credit... View Details

November 1994 (Revised November 1994)
Case

MW Petroleum Corporation (A)

By: Timothy A. Luehrman, Peter Tufano and Barbara Wall

Amoco Corp. is negotiating to sell a wholly-owned subsidiary, MW Petroleum, to Apache Corp. MW owns large reserves of oil and gas comprising many properties at different stages of engineering, development, and production. The proposed acquisition is a large one for... View Details

Keywords: Acquisition; Business Subsidiaries; Mining; Cash Flow; Stock Options; Financing and Loans; Price; Negotiation; Production; Valuation; Mining Industry

August 2010
Teaching Note

Vereinigung Hamburger Schiffsmakler und Schiffsagenten e.V.: Valuing Ships (TN)

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Albert W. Sheen

Teaching Note for 210058. View Details

Keywords: Valuation; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Financial Crisis; Price; Financing and Loans; Contracts; Asset Pricing; Cash Flow; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Shipping Industry; Germany

March 2011
Supplement

Valuation of AirThread Connections, Spreadsheet Supplement (Brief Case)

By: Erik Stafford and Joel L. Heilprin

Keywords: Present Value; Tax Accounting; Capital Costs; Synergy; Telephony; Wireless Technologies; Assets; Cost of Capital; Valuation; Capital Structure; Cash Flow; Communication; Taxation; Accounting; Wireless Technology

21 Feb 2018
News

Can Farming Save the Planet?

good return on their product, more than enough to offset the increased cost of additional labor, says Wiviott. “You do the conversions for a couple of years,” he says, “and then after that you have a very stable cash View Details

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Media

This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details

January 1983 (Revised February 1988)
Case

Hospital Corp. of America (B)

By: W. Carl Kester

Focuses on HCAs financing options for reaching its target capital structure. The options include new equity conversion of convertible debentures, a debt-for-equity swap, the sale of assets, and fixed-rate debt. Students must address the problem of market timing and... View Details

Keywords: Assets; Capital Structure; Cash Flow; Equity; Debt Securities; Credit Derivatives and Swaps; Health Industry; United States

August 2004
Article

Capital Controls, Risk and Liberalization Cycles

By: Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk

The paper presents an overlapping-generations model where agents vote on whether to open or close the economy to international capital flows. Political decisions are shaped by the risk over capital and labor returns. In an open economy, the capitalists (old) completely... View Details

Keywords: Business Cycles; Development Economics; Voting; Risk and Uncertainty; Cash Flow; Saving; Investment; Economy; Wages

01 Mar 2018
News

Making Sense of the Modern Startup

up front, given people a discount for paying a year’s worth of services in advance, and employed a number of other innovative tactics, the company turned cash-flow positive in its third week of operations and thereafter simply coined... View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey L. Cruikshank (PMD 51, 1986)

26 Mar 2025
Blog Post

How to Approach Your Equity Compensation

deciding whether to buy, sell, or hold equity you must consider: Tax and cash flows – Understand the cash outlay (including taxes) required to exercise your equity Opportunity... View Details

June 1990 (Revised August 1990)
Case

Sun Microsystems, Inc.--1987 (A)

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin

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

April 2000
Case

Financing of Project Achieve, The (B)

By: Mihir A. Desai

Supplements the (A) case. View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Forecasting and Prediction; Venture Capital; Cash Flow; Equity; Negotiation Deal; Valuation