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- 26 Feb 2019
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New Research and Ideas, February 26, 2019
develop three novel measures of how much of the price impact of their trading different mutual funds internalize. We show that mutual funds that internalize more of their price impact hold larger cash buffers and use these buffers more... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 08 Mar 2004
- Research & Ideas
Secret to Success: Go for “Just Enough”
thirty-nine-year-old fellow we interviewed cashed out his start-up software business for a cool $19 million in 1999 and felt ashamed to tell his peers he hadn't made more! When records break at such earth-shattering speed, being all we... View Details
Keywords: by Laura Nash & Howard Stevenson
- 10 Sep 2007
- Research & Ideas
High Note: Managing the Medici String Quartet
themselves avoiding the music because they were terrified. When they finally decided to take it on, they thought it would require a certain amount of time, and believed they had sufficient cash reserves. But the preparation process turned... View Details
- 17 Jan 2012
- First Look
First Look: January 17
section of stock returns, also predicts excess bond returns. These relationships remain in place even when bonds and stocks become "decoupled" at the index level. They are driven by a combination of effects including correlations between real View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Jun 2007
- First Look
First Look: June 29, 2007
PeopleSoft: A Case Study Authors:D. Millstone and Guhan Subramanian Periodical:Harvard Negotiation Law Review (winter 2007) Abstract This case describes Oracle's hostile takeover bid to acquire PeopleSoft, which began with an unsolicited View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books
have suddenly become an alternative investment vehicle pursued by high-end investors and hedge funds. Will this phenomenon last? Time to Sell Those Sports Cards follows a personal trip to market as author John Schwarz turns a childhood hobby to an 80-year-old’s View Details
- 01 Dec 2001
- News
Reaching Out
Maine. His work at two of Common Good's partner organizations — Stone Soup Foods and East End Kids Katering, both in Portland, Maine — focused on evaluating new business opportunities and developing marketing plans to maximize each program's View Details
- 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7
and how quoted prices might reflect expectations that are hard to justify. Regardless of which valuation method is employed (e.g., residual income, discounted cash flow, multiples), the case provides a platform (i) to map the firm's key... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Apr 2019
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New Research and Ideas, April 9, 2019
business owners to understand their own cash flow and prospects. Now the fintech innovation cycle is at an inflection point—new streams of data have the power to illuminate the opaque nature of a small business’s finances. The playing... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
90 days to work with your accountant and attorney on confirmatory due diligence. Transition into leadership. After the sale closes, your priorities should be building relationships (with employees, customers, and suppliers) and setting up processes to ensure steady... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2014
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First Look: April 29
business. Under Ron Johnson's "Fair and Square" program, sales had declined rapidly, and quarterly losses and expensive capital investments had put severe pressure on cash reserves. Ullman decided to combine "Fair and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
orders and have them delivered to their tables—a service often performed by managers. “Now when I see a customer talking to a manager, it’s a good thing,” says Karavites, smiling. Traditionally, the bank of cash registers that separates... View Details
- 29 Jan 2013
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First Look: Jan. 29
in cash should he decide to accept the proposal, rather than hiring AG for more legal work. Hever is wondering if this is a good way to take advantage of recent reforms allowing law firms to provide other professional services, like... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 30
would continue hedging primarily with forward contracts, but in much higher volumes and at increasingly unfavorable rates, or to break with past practice and begin using foreign exchange option contracts. The decision would have consequences for EADS' profitability,... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
capital in the world. It's time we had some kind of a health-care/SEC equivalent. There are some encouraging trends in the private sector. For example, Sears Holdings Corporation and Darden Restaurants are now giving employees cash... View Details
- 24 Oct 2017
- Research & Ideas
Tax Reform is on the Front Burner Again. Here’s Why You Should Care
consumption tax. The destination-based cash flow tax that was proposed in the summer was effectively that in disguise. I wasn't a terrible fan of that implementation of it, but I think there's something to be said for switching to that... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Feb 2013
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First Look: Feb. 5
known as the abnormal earnings) valuation approach. Students are asked to provide a valuation of Coca-Cola Company using the residual income valuation methodology and understand how it maps into the discounted cash flow method. Students... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 May 2009
- First Look
First Look: May 12, 2009
monetize the value they would create? Would investors see as much potential in BCM as its founders? And how would the company's cash constraints impact the strategy in the current economic environment? Purchase this case:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 16 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
At the Center of Corporate Scandal Where Do We Go From Here?
essence of our problem. I spent a very interesting few hours last fall speaking with two CEOs on campus at HBS about these issues. One of them told me, "I run a cash business that has 6,000 stores all over the world, and the problem... View Details
Keywords: by Kim B. Clark
- 08 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 8, 2008
Cash Flow (RDCF) valuation model to calculate the revenue required to support a given stock price for a given company. Then, the methodology applied a probability that the company would achieve the needed revenues in the next 12 months,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace