Publications

01 Jun 2022
News

Making It Count

faculty chair of the IWA Project and author of the 2022 book Purpose and Profit: How Business Can Lift Up the World. “It’s very hard to have accountability about those claims, both externally and internally, without a valuation mechanism... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

2001
Case

Value Pricing at Procter & Gamble (B)

By: R. Lal

Keywords: Price; Valuation; Consumer Products Industry

December 2010
Supplement

Restaurant Valuation: O'Charley's and AFC (CW)

This is a spreadsheet of the Exhibits for case 111-081, restaurant Valuation: O'Charley's and AFC. View Details

Keywords: Business Ventures; Valuation; Retail Industry; Food and Beverage Industry

2013
Working Paper

Adjusting National Accounting for Health: Is the Business Cycle Countercyclical?

By: Mark Egan, Casey B. Mulligan and Tomas J. Philipson

Many national accounts of economic output and prosperity, such as gross domestic product (GDP) or net domestic product (NDP), offer an incomplete picture by ignoring, for example, the value of leisure, home production, and the value of health. Previous discussed... View Details

Keywords: Health; Valuation; Accounting; United States

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15 Mar 2011
First Look

First Look: March 15

failed to address important measurement and valuation issues that have arisen in the past 40 years of practice. This gap is illustrated with missed opportunities in risk measurement and management and the estimation of the fair value of... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

July 1997
Background Note

Basic Capital Investment Analysis

By: William J. Bruns Jr.

Discusses the net present value and internal rate of return methods for analyzing capital investments. Assumes prior knowledge of compound interest and present value methods. View Details

Keywords: Investment Return; Valuation

November 1993 (Revised February 2013)
Background Note

Quality of Earnings Analysis

By: David Hawkins

Discusses quality of earnings analysis and its relevance to security valuation. View Details

Keywords: Business Earnings; Quality; Valuation

February 2011 (Revised January 2015)
Supplement

Matrix Capital Management (A) (CW)

By: Malcolm P. Baker and David Lane

Spreadsheet supplement to Matrix Capital Management (A) allowing students to value the company. View Details

Keywords: Investment Funds; Valuation; Financial Services Industry

June 2001
Case

Bond Math

This case presents four exercises that teach compounding interest and valuing bonds. View Details

Keywords: Bonds; Valuation

Fast Answer

First time investments in private equity and M&A.

Placements section select Valuations In the window Screening Criteria: Transaction Valuations, set the value to "= 1" Click add criteria Add other filters date and those listed under Private Placement Transaction... View Details

August 2000 (Revised July 2002)
Background Note

Fundamental Enterprise Valuation: Advantage Horizon

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin

A technical note that defines advantage horizon. View Details

Keywords: Valuation; Business Ventures

April 1984
Exercise

Present Value Investment Problems

By: F. Warren McFarlan

Keywords: Investment; Valuation

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15 Aug 2021
News

You’ve Never Heard of the Biggest Digital Media Company in America

The New York Times recently profiled Red Ventures, led by CEO and cofounder Ric Elias (MBA 1994), calling the company “perhaps the biggest digital publisher in America, a 4,500-employee juggernaut that says it has roughly $2 billion in annual revenues, a conservative... View Details

06 Dec 2017
News

Puzzle Master

had this advice for those interested in mergers & acquisitions: “...the best thing you can do is to develop an expert-level knowledge or—if applicable—execute one of the many workstreams required for a successful transaction,” she said, citing the value of practicing... View Details

June 2013 (Revised February 2015)
Teaching Note

Assured Guaranty

By: Robin Greenwood, Adi Sunderam and Jared Dourdeville

To be used as an aid in teaching the Assured Guaranty case, #213100. View Details

Keywords: Value Investing; Investment; Valuation; Insurance; Behavioral Finance; Financial Services Industry

February 2013 (Revised November 2016)
Case

Assured Guaranty

By: Robin Greenwood, Adi Sunderam and Jared Dourdeville

Nate Katz at Yokun Ridge Capital Management is evaluating an investment in Assured Guaranty, a municipal bond insurance company that is trading at a discount to book value. View Details

Keywords: Value Investing; Investments; Valuation; Insurance; Behavioral Finance; Financial Services Industry

2002
Chapter

Helping Managers Assess the Value of Human Capital

By: Christopher A. Bartlett

Keywords: Human Capital; Valuation