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- 06 Jan 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Expensing Options Doesn’t Solve the Problem
short-term, unrecorded loans to Enron. What's more, several of Enron's officers were partners in some of the SPEs. Because these officers had more to gain from their SPE ownership than from their ownership of Enron (an obvious conflict of interest), they might have... View Details
Keywords: by William Sahlman
- Web
Scrapbooks & Collectibles- The Art of American Advertising
subject theme. Advertisers encouraged repeated purchases by capitalizing on the desire of customers to collect a complete series. Coffee, tea, and tobacco companies, for example, produced groups of trade cards with specific themes such as... View Details
- April 2015 (Revised October 2017)
- Teaching Note
Buffett's Bid for Media General's Newspapers
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Annelena Lobb
On May 12, 2012, BH Media Group, a subsidiary of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, announced an offer to buy Media General's (MEG) newspaper division for $142 million in cash and provide debt financing to the struggling firm. Reactions from investors and industry... View Details
Keywords: Mergers & Acquisitions; Bankruptcy; Mergers and Acquisitions; Valuation; Capital Structure; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financial Strategy; Risk Management; Executive Compensation; Cash Flow; Business Exit or Shutdown; Media; Advertising; Restructuring; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Publishing Industry; United States
- June 2013 (Revised April 2015)
- Case
Buffett's Bid for Media General's Newspapers
By: Benjamin C. Esty and Aldo Sesia
On May 12, 2012, BH Media Group, a subsidiary of Warren Buffett's Berkshire Hathaway, announced an offer to buy Media General's (MEG) newspaper division for $142 million in cash and provide debt financing to the struggling firm. Reactions from investors and industry... View Details
Keywords: Mergers & Acquisitions; Bankruptcy; Mergers and Acquisitions; Valuation; Capital Structure; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Financial Strategy; Risk Management; Executive Compensation; Cash Flow; Business Exit or Shutdown; Media; Advertising; Restructuring; Media and Broadcasting Industry; Publishing Industry; United States
Esty, Benjamin C., and Aldo Sesia. "Buffett's Bid for Media General's Newspapers." Harvard Business School Case 213-142, June 2013. (Revised April 2015.)
- 07 Jan 2025
- Blog Post
Revolutionizing Wellness: Kate Twist (MBA 2008) Shapes the Future of Consumer Health Brands
all-female founding teams received less than 2% of venture capital dollars, and Black founders received less than 1%) and shares her advice for entrepreneurs seeking funding. “We can’t ignore that the precious resource of high-growth... View Details
- 14 Oct 2009
- First Look
First Look: October 14
the strong hardware and manufacturing bias and hierarchical structures of Japan's computer and electronics firms is largely responsible for the virtual non-existence of a standalone software sector. Second, even when the vertical... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Feb 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas: February 6, 2018
2018 Columbia Studies in the History of U.S. Capitalism American Capitalism: New Histories By: Beckert, Sven, and Christine Desan, eds. Abstract—The United States has long epitomized capitalism. From its enterprising shopkeepers, wildcat... View Details
- 09 Jan 2006
- Research & Ideas
Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate
viewed as a new asset class that competes with stocks and bonds for investment capital. It earned that newfound status on the strength of market-stabilizing structural changes that took root after the last crash. "Everything we do... View Details
- 01 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
Companies, Cultures and the Transformation to the Transnational
of doing things" and shape its international organization structure and processes. Business historian Alfred Chandler has traced the influence of the cultural values and social structures on British... View Details
- 27 Jan 2015
- First Look
First Look: January 27
Publications January 2015 American Economic Review: Papers and Proceedings Do Strict Capital Requirements Raise the Cost of Capital? Bank Regulation, Capital Structure, and the Low Risk Anomaly By: Baker,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 10
article theorizes and tests empirically the conditions under which organizations' internal compliance structures are particularly likely to shape their compliance practices and outcomes. We argue that the institutionalization of these... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Merton Discusses Risk Management at Dean's Seminar
areas of capital markets, financial services, and corporate finance. "New financial product and market designs, improved computer and telecommunications technology, and advances in finance theory during the past quarter century have led... View Details
Keywords: Elizabeth McNair
- 29 Jul 2014
- First Look
First Look: July 29
multiparty risk and disaster management, namely that the organizational challenge is to enable multiple actors and subunits with competing and often conflicting values and expertise to establish a virtual, well‐aligned organization. Organizational View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
“common practices,” and a set on which they do not, which we term “strategic.” We subsequently explore performance implications and find that the adoption of strategic sustainability practices is significantly and positively associated with both return on View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Mar 2003
- News
Inside the Revolution
occur differently in countries around the world. In his research, West investigates how a nation’s institutional systems may either facilitate or retard the development of biotech as an industry. Labor and capital market View Details
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Field Course: Investing for Impact - Course Catalog
impact investing by conducting diligence on an operating company in the Boston area that is looking to access capital for growth. The focus is supporting small businesses that have historically lacked access to growth capital, which are... View Details
- 12 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 12, 2006
and emotion is, thus, critical to designing organizations, control systems, and governance structures that promote desired behaviors. Teaching Purpose: Some model of human nature, implicitly if not explicitly, guides any manager's... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Case Study: Sweat the Technique
version first. Launch it to test real demand and to better understand usage patterns and segments. If it is successful, raising more capital for developing the digital shouldn’t be a problem. You can then position a more sophisticated... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 27 Sep 2016
- First Look
September 27, 2016
forthcoming Measuring Entrepreneurial Businesses: Current Knowledge and Challenges Venture Capital Data: Opportunities and Challenges By: Kaplan, Steven N., and Josh Lerner Abstract—This paper describes the available data and research on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Mar 2014
- First Look
First Look: March 4
resources to meeting that customer's needs. This article will show you how to identify the best primary customer for your business by analyzing perspective, capabilities, and profit potential; allocate resources through structural... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne