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  • 26 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 26, 2008

United States, Europe, or Japan, or any combination. He is also faced with the immediate decision if to make offers to U.S. and European regional managers. Cash resources are scarce, and GI hopes to raise additional capital soon. Purchase... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 25, 2018

company, faced a strategically important capital allocation decision. After the exit of its private equity sponsors in 2016, HCA had to determine how best to allocate its substantial annual free cash flows... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 05 Feb 2007
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Business and the Global Poor

Could you describe some of these entrepreneurial efforts? A: There is a lot of talk—both in this book and elsewhere—about the massive potential consumer market at the base of the economic pyramid. However, for a poor consumer, participating in the marketplace requires... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 30, 2015

sources. The case is intended to be used as an introduction to water policy, seawater desalination, bond finance and cash flow waterfalls, infrastructure as a foundation for economic development, and risk... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 26 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019

develop three novel measures of how much of the price impact of their trading different mutual funds internalize. We show that mutual funds that internalize more of their price impact hold larger cash buffers and use these buffers more... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 15 Jan 2013
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First Look: January 15

findings contribute to the corporate strategy literature by shedding light on the roots of the diversification discount and by showing how analysts' research enables investors to overcome asymmetric information. Paper: View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 May 2014
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First Look: May 6

examine how the quantity of information generated about firm prospects can be improved by splitting a firm's cash flow into a "safe" claim (debt) and a "risky" claim (equity). The former,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 20

typically refers to the elimination of layers in a firm's organizational hierarchy and the broadening of managers' spans of control. The alleged benefits of flattening flow primarily from pushing decisions downward to enhance customer and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 18 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 18

discounting is robust to various controls for unobserved proposal quality and alternative explanations. Additional tests suggest information effects rather than strategic effects account for the novelty penalty. Only a minority of the... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 21 Dec 2010
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First Look: December 21

markets froze. To make matters worse, PIC cancelled the joint venture with Dow in December 2008. As a result, Dow was hurt on three fronts: first, it lost an important funding source for the proposed acquisition; second, Dow's financial condition and internal View Details
  • 12 Apr 2010
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One Report: Better Strategy through Integrated Reporting

emissions can have a positive return on investment but hurt earnings and cash flow in the short term. Some commitments may actually result in a wealth transfer from shareholders to another stakeholder group,... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jan 2012
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First Look: January 17

section of stock returns, also predicts excess bond returns. These relationships remain in place even when bonds and stocks become "decoupled" at the index level. They are driven by a combination of effects including correlations between real View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 25 May 2010
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First Look: May 25

minority shareholders fare poorly after listing. Parent firms often repurchase subsidiaries at large discounts to valuations at the time of listing and experience positive abnormal returns when repurchases are announced. Download the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 25 Sep 2007
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First Look: September 25, 2007

Ventures. Forces students to grapple with the nature of financial risk in the start-up firm and assess the prospective risks and returns to a lender to such a firm. To reach a perspective on these issues, students need to assess the existing pro-forma View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4

Publication:Innovations: Technology, Governance, Globalization (forthcoming) Abstract We discuss the birth of a new economy in a society that has only recently emerged from a 22-year-long civil war. The pace of growth so far has been fast but uneven. We find that aid... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008

household income gains for new adopters. However, one year after the study ended, the exporter refused to continue buying the cash crops from the farmers because the conditions of the farms did not satisfy European export requirements.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 17 Jul 2012
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First Look: July 17

Students must grapple with obstacles including changing energy prices, variations in energy needed in different climate scenarios, issues in net and gross lease responsibilities, and issues in finding adequate cash View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 10 Sep 2007
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High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet

themselves avoiding the music because they were terrified. When they finally decided to take it on, they thought it would require a certain amount of time, and believed they had sufficient cash reserves. But the preparation process turned... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Music
  • 29 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 29

business. Under Ron Johnson's "Fair and Square" program, sales had declined rapidly, and quarterly losses and expensive capital investments had put severe pressure on cash reserves. Ullman decided to combine "Fair and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019

business owners to understand their own cash flow and prospects. Now the fintech innovation cycle is at an inflection point—new streams of data have the power to illuminate the opaque nature of a small... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

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