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  • 19 Oct 2021
  • Cold Call Podcast

Should Global Beer Company Molson Coors Dive into the Cannabis Beverages Business?

Keywords: Re: Derek C. M. van Bever
  • March 1994 (Revised June 1999)
  • Background Note

Real Options: Valuing Managerial Flexibility

Provides a basic understanding of real options in corporate finance. Traditional discounted cash flow techniques (NPV) do not deal well with managerial flexibility or future response to uncertainty. The value of this flexibility can be significant and is handled well... View Details
Keywords: Strategy; Capital Budgeting; Corporate Finance
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    Roy D. Shapiro

    Roy D. Shapiro is the Philip Caldwell Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration.  He is currently the faculty co-chair of the School's Technology and Operations Management Unit... View Details

    • November 2020
    • Teaching Note

    Valuing Celgene's CVR

    By: Benjamin C. Esty and Daniel Fisher
    Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 221-031. When Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS) acquired Celgene Corporation in November 2019, Celgene shareholders received cash, BMS stock, and a contingent value right (CVRs) that would pay $9 if the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA)... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Valuation; Value; Judgments; Decision Making; Cash Flow; Financial Instruments; Cognition and Thinking; Pharmaceutical Industry; Biotechnology Industry; United States
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    • October 1989 (Revised May 1990)
    • Case

    Jaguar plc--1984

    By: Timothy A. Luehrman and William Schiano
    A vehicle for analyzing the exposure of operating cash flows to exchange rate changes. Considers the value of Jaguar plc at the time of its privatization and share offering in 1984. Jaguar is a major exporter from the United Kingdom and the United States is therefore... View Details
    Keywords: Change; Cash Flow; Currency Exchange Rate; Risk Management; Privatization; Valuation; Auto Industry; United Kingdom; United States
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    • January 1995 (Revised August 1997)
    • Background Note

    Cross-Border Valuation

    By: Kenneth A. Froot and W. Carl Kester
    Provides a review of valuation techniques used to assess cross-border investments. Discusses the discounting of free cash flows with a weighted average cost of capital and the use of adjusted present value. Special concerns such as foreign-exchange risk, country risks,... View Details
    Keywords: Valuation; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues
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    • August 2011 (Revised November 2017)
    • Case

    Adaptive Engineering, LLC

    By: Richard S. Ruback and Royce Yudkoff
    The owner and CEO of Adaptive Engineering was facing an important decision: should he focus on rebuilding its core professional services business which had generated significant revenue and cash flow over the past several years, or should he focus on developing and... View Details
    Keywords: Leadership; Growth and Development Strategy; Decision Making; Service Industry; Technology Industry
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    • February 2002 (Revised December 2003)
    • Exercise

    Incentives Game, The

    By: Jason R. Barro, Brian J. Hall and Jonathan Lim
    This exercise provides an opportunity to gain insight about designing, negotiating, and responding to incentives. The setting is investment management. A class is divided into a certain number of investment firms. Each company has one CEO and begins with four portfolio... View Details
    Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Compensation and Benefits; Investment; Management
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    • 12 Jul 2020
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Sticky Capital Controls

    Keywords: by Miguel Acosta-Henao, Laura Alfaro, and Andrés Fernández
    • 01 Aug 2018
    • News

    Are share buybacks 'plundering company resources'?

    • June 2009
    • Journal Article

    Taxes, Institutions and Foreign Diversification Opportunities

    By: Mihir Desai and Dhammika Dharmapala
    Investors can access foreign diversification opportunities through either foreign portfolio investment (FPI) or foreign direct investment (FDI). The worldwide tax regime employed by the U.S. potentially distorts this choice by penalizing FDI, relative to FPI, in... View Details
    Keywords: International Finance; Foreign Direct Investment; Investment Portfolio; Multinational Firms and Management; Taxation; Diversification; United States
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    • September 2017 (Revised March 2023)
    • Background Note

    Production Processes

    By: Willy Shih and Michael W. Toffel
    This note describes four broad categories of process architectures and then examines the nature of task assignment that typically would be found in a factory organized along the lines of each process type. It then delves more deeply into work flow policies, materials... View Details
    Keywords: Production Management; Production Planning; Production Scheduling; Process Analysis; Process Maps; Processing Times; Process Improvement; Production; Management; Product; Consumer Products Industry; Manufacturing Industry
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    • August 2019 (Revised March 2023)
    • Case

    Rand Fishkin at Moz (A)

    By: Thomas R. Eisenmann
    In 2016, senior management at Moz, a venture capital–backed startup providing software tools for digital marketing professionals, must decide how to address a looming cash flow crisis precipitated by failed efforts to broaden its product line. Seattle-based Moz had... View Details
    Keywords: Startups; Scaling; Entrepreneurship; Failure; Business Startups; Diversification; Growth Management; Technology Industry
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    • June 2010 (Revised August 2010)
    • Case

    State Grid: Corporate Social Responsibility

    By: Christopher Marquis, Nancy Dai, Dongning Yang and Hong Wu
    In October 2009, State Grid, the largest utility company in the world, and a pioneer and leader in CSR practices in China, was planning its 2009 CSR Report and long-term CSR implementation. Some of the specific challenges faced at the time include: How could the... View Details
    Keywords: Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Management Systems; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Corporate Accountability; Behavior; Change Management; Global Range; Employees; Utilities Industry; China
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    • 2013
    • Book

    Business Analysis and Valuation: Using Financial Statements, Text and Cases

    By: Krishna G. Palepu and Paul M. Healy
    This book provides a framework for business analysis and has been used by business schools throughout the world. It provides a foundation for analysis using four key steps: 1) Strategy analysis: Identifying a firm's strategy and understanding sources of its competitive... View Details
    Keywords: Governance; Debt Securities; Valuation; Performance Evaluation; Financial Statements; Credit; Business Ventures; Strategy; Financial Condition; Mergers and Acquisitions; Forecasting and Prediction
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    • 2014
    • Working Paper

    Islam, Inequality, and Pre-Industrial Comparative Development

    By: Stelios Michalopoulos, Alireza Naghavi and Giovanni Prarolo
    This study explores the interaction between trade and geography in shaping the Islamic economic doctrine and in turn the comparative development of the Muslim world. We build a model where an unequal distribution of land quality in presence of trade opportunities... View Details
    Keywords: Islam; Inequality In Land Quality; Wealth Accumulation; Public Good Investment; Conflict; Wealth; Geography; Religion; Trade
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    • 2017
    • Book

    Geography, Location, and Strategy

    By: Juan Alcácer, Bruce Kogut, Catherine Thomas and Bernard Yin Yeung
    Changes in both technology and global political economy have vastly accelerated the pace of globalization in the last 40 years, eroding barriers that limited firms' geographic scope and unleashing a seemingly unlimited set of new threats, challenges, and opportunities... View Details
    Keywords: Geographic Location; Global Strategy; Value Creation
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    • 2019
    • Working Paper

    Design Rules, Volume 2: How Technology Shapes Organizations: Chapter 9 Organizing to Rationalize

    By: Carliss Y. Baldwin
    The purpose of this chapter is to explain what the technologies of flow production with stochastic bottlenecks require and reward in organizations. I argue that organizations successfully implementing these technologies are likely to have unified governance and... View Details
    Keywords: Information Technology; Organizational Design; Management Teams; Business History
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    • 1998
    • Book

    The Multinational Traders

    By: Geoffrey Jones
    This book examines the history and theory of multinational trading companies. The essays in this volume demonstrate the importance of trading companies in trade and investment flows in the world economy from the nineteenth century to the present day. The empirical... View Details
    Keywords: Company History; Trade; Globalization; Books; Organizational Structure; Perspective; Diversification; Theory; Asia; Europe; United States
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    • February 2017 (Revised March 2017)
    • Case

    Link REIT

    By: Siddharth Yog
    Publicly listed in November 2005, Link REIT was the first real estate investment trust (REIT) in Hong Kong after the Hong Kong government decided to privatize a portfolio of community shopping malls, car parks, and fresh produce markets. Run by CEO George Hongchoy, the... View Details
    Keywords: Hong Kong; REIT; Real Estate; Retail; Government; China; Housing; Public Company; Strategic Planning; Expansion; Public Equity; Real Estate Industry; Hong Kong; China
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