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- 21 Jan 2009
- First Look
First Look: January 21, 2009
borrowers to restructure their debts. Performing mortgages could then potentially be resold in the secondary market. The case provides cash flow projections in various economic scenarios that are revealing of the economics of troubled... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
household income gains for new adopters. However, one year after the study ended, the exporter refused to continue buying the cash crops from the farmers because the conditions of the farms did not satisfy European export requirements.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 May 2014
- First Look
First Look: May 6
examine how the quantity of information generated about firm prospects can be improved by splitting a firm's cash flow into a "safe" claim (debt) and a "risky" claim (equity). The former, being relatively insensitive... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 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 the two, and further reconcile... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Mar 2007
- First Look
First Look: March 27, 2007
company. They can either sell the company to a large public company, raise another round of capital from a preeminent venture capital fund, or continue to grow using existing positive cash flow. Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Aug 2005
- Research & Ideas
Balancing the Future Against Today’s Needs
from the core reap many benefits, not the least of which is that they deliver returns that satisfy investors while generating the cash they need to invest in more-radical growth and innovation opportunities. You don't want the guys in the... View Details
Keywords: by Paul Michelman
- 25 Apr 2005
- Research & Ideas
New Learning at American Home Products
Home Products, the most successful company in terms of financial return, paid $10 billion in cash as an entry fee in order to become a player in a scientific revolution whose infrastructure was just being constructed. This episode... View Details
- 29 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 29, 2019
power plants. Accounting standards required utilities to record the present value of projected D&D costs as a liability. However, there were many uncertainties associated with these estimates given the actual cash outlays that would... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 24 May 2011
- First Look
First Look: May 24
simultaneous pressures of these two businesses, plus dozens of potential deals pending, are testing the company's management skills, cash reserves, and abilities to execute. Purchase this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
cells and tissue to repair or replace tissue or organ function lost due to age, disease, damage, or congenital defects. In late 2008 Tengion management faces a difficult dilemma. In light of the financial crises, the company needs to manage View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 17
Students must grapple with obstacles including changing energy prices, variations in energy needed in different climate scenarios, issues in net and gross lease responsibilities, and issues in finding adequate cash flow and security to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 10, 2009
its $18 billion in cash reserves during the week of March 10, 2008, and an unprecedented provision of liquidity support from the Federal Reserve on Friday, March 13 was insufficient to reverse the decline in Bear's condition. Federal... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
arise from operating performance, leverage, and the effect of large cash holdings (in Bata). In doing so, students learn the components of the traditional and modified DuPont frameworks and how to analyze financial statements to better... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 21 Apr 2015
- First Look
First Look: April 21
growth was one of the biggest stories in e-commerce, especially when the retailer attracted $50 million in investment from Index Ventures, a top VC firm that funded other successful retailers such as Net-a-Porter and Etsy, in 2013. Yet, with a View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel & Sean Silverthorne
- 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
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
significant political and macro-economic uncertainty facing the industry. As part of the investment analysis a complete discounted cash flow analysis must be performed. Purchase this case: http://hbr.org/search/212045-PDF-ENG View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Aug 2012
- First Look
First Look: August 7
to reductions in dividends relative to the reference point set by prior dividends. Managers with strong but unobservable cash earnings separate themselves by paying high dividends but retain enough earnings to be likely not to fall short... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Sharing the Responsibility of Corporate Governance
former Warner shareholders. As a result, Time directors had no duty to maximize shareholder value and were permitted to rebuff the arguably higher Paramount cash offer for Time that a majority of the Time shareholders favored over the... View Details
Keywords: by Carla Tishler
- 29 Apr 2020
- Book
The Key to Powerful Social Change: Small Villages
Who will solve the great problems facing humanity, a list of critical issues that only begins with the current pandemic? In the interview below, Rosabeth Moss Kanter discusses her recent book, Think Outside the Building, and her view that solutions are most likely to... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Jan 2019
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New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
and cash flow rights who nevertheless need to collaborate to help make the venture a success? We outline the ways in which these coordination frictions manifest themselves, describe the underlying drivers, and document several contractual... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman