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Field Course: Investing for Impact

ratios: RMA Annual Statement Studies Offers industry default risk and cash flow measures for 400 lines of business whose total assets are less than $250 million. Available in IBISWorld: (Search for... View Details
  • April 2011 (Revised June 2011)
  • Case

Internet Securities, Inc.: Path to Sustainability

By: Lynda M. Applegate, William R. Kerr and Ryan Johnson
Founded in 1994 when the Internet was still a "toy for techies," the case is set in 1998 when Internet IPOs were red-hot. Internet Securities provides hard-to-find financial, business, economic, and political information on emerging markets. Information from over 600... View Details
Keywords: Acquisition; Business Model; Business Startups; Decision Choices and Conditions; Venture Capital; Cash Flow; Initial Public Offering; Analytics and Data Science; Growth and Development Strategy; Valuation
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  • January 2011
  • Supplement

Matrix Capital Management (B)

By: Malcolm P. Baker and David Lane
Ben Balbale, a partner at hedge fund Matrix Capital, must decide whether to exit their investment in Rovi Corporation, a company with a diverse portfolio of patents used primarily for digital interactive guides. Rovi's shares are up over 50% from the time Balbale... View Details
Keywords: Public Ownership; Cash Flow; Management Analysis, Tools, and Techniques; Investment Funds; Financial Strategy; Valuation; Partners and Partnerships; Markets; Performance Efficiency; Patents; Stock Shares; Decisions; Financial Services Industry
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  • March 2010
  • Teaching Note

Rosetree Mortgage Opportunity Fund (TN)

By: Victoria Ivashina and Andre F. Perold
Teaching Note for [209088]. View Details
Keywords: Financial Crisis; Crisis Management; Capital; Mortgages; Mergers and Acquisitions; Valuation; Borrowing and Debt; Cash Flow; Bids and Bidding; Financing and Loans; Restructuring; Financial Markets; United States
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  • 11 Dec 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Economic Jitters Push Pandemic Job Seekers to Big Companies, Not Startups

talent to draw from, write the authors of a recent working paper titled Flight to Safety: How Economic Downturns Affect Talent Flows to Startups. This has important implications, says Shai Bernstein, an associate professor of business... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne
  • 04 May 2020
  • Research & Ideas

Predictions, Prophets, and Restarting Your Business

cycles The crisis demonstrates, painfully, the importance of cash. In his famous essay "The Yield from Money Held,” the economist William Hutt described cash in your pocket or on the balance sheet as “a fire engine when there are no... View Details
Keywords: by Frank V. Cespedes
  • 07 Feb 2012
  • First Look

First Look: February 7

and how quoted prices might reflect expectations that are hard to justify. Regardless of which valuation method is employed (e.g., residual income, discounted cash flow, multiples), the case provides a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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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
  • 10 Nov 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Hard Numbers on Social Investments

a willingness to accept a social discount to financial returns. However, some in the social investing community believe that this is simply untrue. Because of the increased risk associated with investing in early-stage social ventures,... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 24 Apr 2018
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, April 24, 2018

Concomitantly, the ability of companies to affect and measure the social interactions among customers has grown tremendously. Consequently, in assessing the full value of each customer to the firm it is no longer sufficient to only consider a customer’s worth in terms... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 04 Feb 2014
  • First Look

First Look: February 4

http://www.aeaweb.org/articles.php?doi=10.1257/jep.27.4.65   Working Papers Sovereigns, Upstream Capital Flows and Global Imbalances By: Alfaro, Laura, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Vadym Volosovych Abstract—We decompose capital flows-both... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne
  • 29 Jan 2008
  • First Look

First Look: January 29, 2008

suggest they are). What's stifling innovation? There are plenty of usual suspects, but the authors finger three financial tools as key accomplices. Discounted cash flow and net... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 01 Mar 2018
  • News

Democratizing Data to Favor Farmers

recruiting farmers to join the network and then modernizing their technology to facilitate the flow of data. There are still holdouts who are wedded to pen-and-paper, Baron says. But don’t discount the... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg
  • 29 May 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Howard Stevenson on the Lessons of the Internet Era

nice," Stevenson quipped. In the new world order, Stevenson said, here are the keys: Hire great people; take a pass on the mediocre Understand and use technology Think globally Don't believe your own financial PR Happiness is a positive View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 16 Mar 2010
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First Look: March 16

Development on the Investment Cash Flow Relationship: Cross-Country Evidence from Europe Authors:Bo Becker and Jagadeesh Sivadasan Publication:B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy (forthcoming)... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 31 Oct 2017
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New Research and Ideas, October 31, 2017

investing in unicorns—highly valued, privately held start-ups—and the consequences of these investments for corporate governance provisions. Larger funds and those with more stable funding are more likely to invest in unicorns. Compared to venture capital groups (VCs),... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 30 Dec 2013
  • Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2013

job performance, failing to consider the job's difficulty? Why do university admissions officers focus on high GPAs, discounting influence of easy grading standards? Francesca Gino and colleagues investigate the phenomenon of the... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 13 Dec 2018
  • Blog Post

"I Wanted to Move from Analyzing Results to Creating Them": Cynthia Samanian, MBA 2012

content. The plan was to grow an audience of sufficient size to attract advertisers but, she says in retrospect, "It wasn't the right business model for me." Cynthia knew she wanted a positive cash View Details
  • 01 Feb 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Keeping Track: Performance Measurement, Control & Strategy

value. [Please see [graphic.] A unique aspect of profit wheel analysis is that it interlocks with two other wheels that analyze cash flow and return on equity. Many companies are paying attention to one of... View Details
Keywords: Re: Robert Simons
  • 15 Feb 2017
  • Op-Ed

What Africa Can Teach the United States About Funding Infrastructure Projects

hard to quantify (the whole society might get cleaner air, faster transit, more dependable electricity, a more robust economy, but these aren’t all cash flow to the promoter). Why, then, can Africa teach the... View Details
Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction