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  • 01 Jun 2016
  • News

Taking Care of Business

Winners the HBS New Venture Competition don’t rest on their laurels for long—the ink is hardly dry on those prizewinning checks before it’s time to shift to a higher gear. (This year’s cash prizes in the alumni competition totaled more... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
  • 16 Dec 2020
  • Blog Post

Alumni on the Black Lives Matter Movement

million in cash and $5 million in media assets, will focus on six areas identified with the help of community leaders and Celtics players: equity in education, economic opportunity and empowerment, View Details
  • 28 May 2019
  • News

Case Study: Building the Base

the beginning, but it gets easier. Are there any large deals to be made that could solve cash flow issues? —Johan Pensar (OPM 41, 2011) I think this is a clear example of mistaking a better product with... View Details
Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; Information
  • 21 Nov 2016
  • Research & Ideas

It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales

increase is largely driven by more functional specialists like CIOs or CMOs, not general managers.” “There ultimately is no such thing as effective selling that is not tied to the company’s strategic objectives” The reason for that is business is increasingly complex,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
  • 21 Feb 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: February 21

empirical analysis shows that on average, NPEs appear to behave as opportunistic “patent trolls." NPEs sue cash-rich firms—and target cash in business segments unrelated to alleged infringement at essentially the same frequency as... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 25 Sep 2007
  • First Look

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
  • October 2016 (Revised January 2017)
  • Supplement

Bally Total Fitness (B): The Fall, 2005–2016

By: John R. Wells and Gabriel Ellsworth
By many measures the largest health-club chain in the United States in the early 2000s, Bally Total Fitness sold most of its remaining fitness clubs to 24 Hour Fitness in 2014 and disappeared from the industry top 100 rankings. After Bally was bedeviled by accounting... View Details
Keywords: Bally Total Fitness; Accounting; Accounting Audits; Accrual Accounting; Business Earnings; Revenue Recognition; Financial Statements; Acquisition; Business Exit or Shutdown; For-Profit Firms; Crime and Corruption; Borrowing and Debt; Capital; Capital Structure; Cash; Cash Flow; Public Equity; Financial Condition; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financing and Loans; Investment Activism; Profit; Revenue; Geographic Scope; Business History; Executive Compensation; Resignation and Termination; Annual Reports; Contracts; Lawsuits and Litigation; Business or Company Management; Marketing; Market Entry and Exit; Private Ownership; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Strategy; Business Strategy; Competition; Corporate Strategy; Health Industry; Accounting Industry; United States; Illinois; Chicago
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  • 09 May 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, May 9

suggest that workers with higher rank should receive compensation packages more heavily weighted in equity. However, we observe the puzzle that many firms adopt an equality-in-equity strategy: they offer different cash salaries across all... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 06 Nov 2006
  • Research & Ideas

How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI

More than one decade after the fall of apartheid, and despite ambitious economic reforms by the ANC government, foreign direct investment flows into South Africa averaged around two-thirds less than investments in comparable... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 21 Nov 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, November 21, 2017

flows between markets and prices of risk become more closely aligned. While prices in the directly impacted market initially overreact to the supply shock, we show that prices in related asset classes underreact under plausible... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Sep 2017
  • News

A Jolt for the African Coffee Industry

private equity fund invests in distressed businesses across sub-Saharan Africa, and Dozie soon found himself responsible for a coffee cherry washing station in the volcanic hills of western Rwanda. Up until that point, Dozie’s only sense... View Details
Keywords: Sasha Issenberg; cafe; Cafe Neo; Food and Beverage Stores; Retail Trade
  • 02 May 2017
  • First Look

First Look at New Research: May 2, 2017

Asante Should Governments Demand Equity in Foreign-Owned Extractive Projects? By: Wells, Louis T. Abstract—No abstract available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52573 2016 The Challenge of BRIC... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 24 Feb 2014
  • News

A Capital Idea for Small Business

their research. That encouraged them to move ahead and form the company. "Small businesses are the engine of job growth in this country," says Callaghan. "The JOBS Act is an attempt to facilitate capital flows in a number of ways. Of... View Details
Keywords: Robert S. Benchley; crowd-funding; online communities; Finance; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance
  • 26 Jun 2007
  • First Look

First Look: June 26, 2007

increases US investors' equity FPI holdings by 21%, controlling for effects on FDI. This suggests that the residual tax on foreign multinational firm earnings biases capital flows to low corporate tax... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

HBS - Financials | From the Chief Financial Officer

2023 Annual Report From The Dean Key Metrics Financials PDF Downloads Financials From the CFO Financial Highlights Statement of Activity & Cash Flows Consolidated Balance Sheet Supplemental Financial... View Details
  • Web

HBS - Financials | From the CFO

2021 Annual Report From The Dean Financials PDF Downloads Archive Financials 5 Year Summary From the CFO Financial Highlights Statement of Activity & Cash Flows Consolidated Balance Sheet Supplemental... View Details
  • 04 May 2010
  • First Look

First Look: May 4

framework of Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) Analysis and apply it to two unique perspectives of an identical problem. The students will then use this DCF approach to rationalize observed stock prices, connecting... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 20 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 20

  Publications August 2013 Journal of the European Economic Association Sovereigns, Upstream Capital Flows and Global Imbalances By: Alfaro, Laura, Sebnem Kalemli-Ozcan, and Vadym Volosovych Abstract—We construct measures of net private... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 May 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Global Change in the Built Environment

class because of its large component of current income and cash flow. The three big trends in the industry are securitization, globalization, and environmentalism. The securitization markets on both the debt and View Details
Keywords: by Arthur Segel; Construction; Real Estate
  • 13 Jun 2017
  • Research & Ideas

Why Global Investments Are Still a Good Bet

Photo by iStock Investors in global equity markets have traditionally hedged their bets, casting their investments far and wide across the world. That way, if the market in one country or region stagnated (think Japan in the 1990s or... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services