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Measuring Investment Center Performance
Finance and investing Magazine ArticleA spate of articles and books about return on investment has appeared during the past two or three years. Improving company earnings in relation to the capital used to generate those earnings has become a matter of great concern to many top financial and general managers. Their concern is not surprising. About three years ago, […] -
Collaborating with Congregations: Opportunities for Financial Services in the Inner City
Economics Magazine ArticleBy pooling the resources of the poor and by sharing information, religious and financial institutions can work together to change inner-city economies. -
How Private Equity Firms Infuse a Positive Attitude
Private equity Digital ArticleTimes change and markets transform themselves overnight. The half-life of common wisdom is shorter than ever. But top private equity firms have distilled a set of institutional habits that boost the likelihood of their success. What’s critical to this success? Attitude. PE leaders take pains to foster a “results-oriented mind-set”. In short, that means creating […] -
My First, Failed Foray into Venture Investing
Venture capital Digital ArticleI love hearing about other people’s dreams. “Dreams,” as in: “this is what I always wanted to do with my life.” Tell me about your dream, and like Pavlov’s dogs, I begin to salivate. I almost can’t help it — encouraging people and their dreams makes me happy, and I am good at it. In […] -
How to Measure a Company's Real Impact
Organizational Development Digital ArticleA comprehensive new approach to quantifying an organization's footprint on the world. -
Groupon Doomed by Too Much of a Good Thing
Venture capital Digital Article“Alright, you caught us. We’re actually not making any money. In fact, we are really losing a lot of money.” This is the essence of Groupon’s declaration last week that it will remove the controversial accounting metric called Adjusted Consolidated Segment Operating Income (ACSOI) from its financial statements. ACSOI essentially measures Groupon’s profits before subtracting […] -
The Ways Americans Pay for Things Are Woefully Out of Date
National competitiveness Digital ArticleAnd PayPal, Square, and other services don’t go far enough. -
Use Data to Fix the Small Business Lending Gap
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleIn search of a more sophisticated measure of risk. -
Bringing the Environment Down to Earth
Finance and investing Magazine ArticleManagers should make environmental investments for the same reason they make other investments: because they expect them to deliver positive returns or to reduce risks. -
The Role of Private Equity in Driving Up Health Care Prices
Competitive strategy Digital ArticleIt prioritizes short-term profits over patients’ health. -
How to Create a Stakeholder Strategy
Business and society Magazine ArticleA data-driven approach to design, measurement, and implementation -
Must Finance and Strategy Clash?
Finance and investing Magazine ArticleMarketers and finance people seldom see eye to eye. The makers say, “This product will open up a whole new market segment.” Finance people respond, “It’s a bad investment. The IRR is only 8%.” Why are they so often in opposition? The financial criteria used to decide if a project will be profitable are entirely […] -
The Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission Needs a Real Website
Sales & Marketing Digital ArticleReally? This is the online face of the of the Financial Crisis Inquiry Commission? The commission that's tasked with restoring the public's trust in our... -
Research: Higher U.S. Physician Spending Doesn't Lead to Better Patient Outcomes
Finance & Accounting ResearchThere's considerable waste in the system. -
Stock or Cash?: The Trade-Offs for Buyers and Sellers in Mergers and Acquisitions
Accounting Magazine ArticleCompanies are increasingly paying for acquisitions with stock rather than cash. But both they and the companies they acquire need to understand just how big a difference that decision can make to the value shareholders will get from a deal. -
Does Your Startup Have a Spending Strategy?
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleDon't burn all your cash on a fancy office. -
The Two Big Reasons That Digital Transformations Fail
Leadership & Managing People ResearchResults from a study of 1,350 companies. -
Why Innovation Labs Fail, and How to Ensure Yours Doesn’t
Incubators Digital ArticleSetting up a research hub is easy. Setting it up to succeed is harder. -
Bootstrap Finance: The Art of Start-ups
Entrepreneurial financing Magazine ArticleEntrepreneurship is more celebrated, studied, and desirable than ever. Business school students flock to courses on entrepreneurship. Managers, fearful of losing their step on the corporate ladder, yearn to step off on their own. Policymakers pin their hopes for job creation and economic growth on start-ups rather than on the once-preeminent corporate giants. Belief in […] -
The One Thing VCs Could Do Immediately to Increase Returns
Consumer behavior Digital ArticleHow investors can start seeing more opportunities.
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Mattel Toys (A): The Financial Realignment
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details When Robert A. "Bob" Eckert was named Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Mattel Toys in May 2000, he found a company which many considered lost. Its former... -
Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund: Push and Pull Over GP/LP Compensation
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details The case is designed to explore the structure and rationale behind the standard compensation arrangements in the private equity (PE) industry. It effectively... -
Jedi Bank
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Major Insurance Co. is a $15 billion insurance company that is an active, multi-family mortgage leader. This case is part of a negotiation game simulation... -
Wilderness Safaris: Impact Investing and Ecotourism Conservation in Africa
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details In 2018 the majority ownership of publicly owned Wilderness Safaris, the leading high-end ecotourism company in Africa with safari operations in eight... -
Thomson Financial: Building the Customer-Centric Firm
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details In December 1999 Thomson Financial (TF) began a radical transformation from forty-one divisions toward a more integrated firm organized around customer... -
IndiaMART
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details The case on IndiaMART enumerates important decisions that are made in platform business models with regards to the pricing of the different sides of the... -
Transforming Tommy Hilfiger (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Supplement for Transforming Tommy Hilfiger (A), 714451. -
Impairing the Microsoft/Nokia Pairing
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details A writer of computer code, who bought and sold tech company stocks, is asked by one of his friends, who was contemplating buying some Microsoft stock,... -
Legal Compliance Programs
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details Describes the basic elements of a typical corporate compliance or ethics program, focusing on the components of an "effective" program set forth in the... -
Finance Reading: Cost of Capital
Finance & Accounting Tool40.00View Details This Reading introduces practical problems encountered when estimating and applying the cost of capital in a DCF valuation. It applies, but does not derive,... -
Bain Capital: Outback Steakhouse
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Bain Capital had purchased Outback Steakhouse in 2007 and despite the myriad initiatives to improve operations, the financial collapse in 2008 threatened... -
Prabhu Murthy Industries: To Trust or Not to Trust
Management Case Study11.95View Details On July 15, 2022, the senior marketing manager of Prabhu Murthy Industries Limited participated in a high-priority meeting attended by all of the company's... -
Should I Rent My Condo? Assessing Risks of a Property Investment
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details In early 2018, Diana Mulhall was undertaking a career change that would eliminate the need for frequent business trips to Toronto. As a result, she wondered... -
Salem Telephone Co.
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details A computer subsidiary appears to be unprofitable. Managers must determine whether it is actually unprofitable and consider whether changes in prices or... -
ESSA: Who Do You Work For?
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details ESSA is a Colombian electricity utility company. Its origins date back to the late nineteenth century in the Department of Santander. Its history and... -
Polaris Life Insurance Company: Corporate Governance
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details The recently appointed commissioner of insurance for Arlandia, an emerging-market country, is determined to do everything possible to minimize insolvencies... -
Snap Inc.'s IPO (B)
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Women in Venture Capital: Cindy Padnos and Aileen Lee
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details This case focuses on Cindy Padnos's and Aileen Lee's experiences founding their own VC firms. It introduces some of the tradeoffs and challenges facing... -
DLC Management Corporation: Securing Its Future
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details This case describes the founding and growth of a commercial real estate business by a father-son partnership up to the point of deciding whether to stay... -
Ford vs. GM: The Evolution of Mass Production (A)
Technology & Operations Case Study11.95View Details This case explores the very different paths taken by the Ford Motor Company and the General Motors Corporation in the first three decades of the twentieth...
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Measuring Investment Center Performance
Finance and investing Magazine ArticleA spate of articles and books about return on investment has appeared during the past two or three years. Improving company earnings in relation to the capital used to generate those earnings has become a matter of great concern to many top financial and general managers. Their concern is not surprising. About three years ago, […] -
Mattel Toys (A): The Financial Realignment
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details When Robert A. "Bob" Eckert was named Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Mattel Toys in May 2000, he found a company which many considered lost. Its former... -
Oregon Public Employees Retirement Fund: Push and Pull Over GP/LP Compensation
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study11.95View Details The case is designed to explore the structure and rationale behind the standard compensation arrangements in the private equity (PE) industry. It effectively... -
Collaborating with Congregations: Opportunities for Financial Services in the Inner City
Economics Magazine ArticleBy pooling the resources of the poor and by sharing information, religious and financial institutions can work together to change inner-city economies. -
Jedi Bank
Finance & Accounting Case Study11.95View Details Major Insurance Co. is a $15 billion insurance company that is an active, multi-family mortgage leader. This case is part of a negotiation game simulation... -
Wilderness Safaris: Impact Investing and Ecotourism Conservation in Africa
Leadership & Managing People Case Study11.95View Details In 2018 the majority ownership of publicly owned Wilderness Safaris, the leading high-end ecotourism company in Africa with safari operations in eight... -
How Private Equity Firms Infuse a Positive Attitude
Private equity Digital ArticleTimes change and markets transform themselves overnight. The half-life of common wisdom is shorter than ever. But top private equity firms have distilled a set of institutional habits that boost the likelihood of their success. What’s critical to this success? Attitude. PE leaders take pains to foster a “results-oriented mind-set”. In short, that means creating […] -
My First, Failed Foray into Venture Investing
Venture capital Digital ArticleI love hearing about other people’s dreams. “Dreams,” as in: “this is what I always wanted to do with my life.” Tell me about your dream, and like Pavlov’s dogs, I begin to salivate. I almost can’t help it — encouraging people and their dreams makes me happy, and I am good at it. In […] -
Thomson Financial: Building the Customer-Centric Firm
Strategy & Execution Case Study11.95View Details In December 1999 Thomson Financial (TF) began a radical transformation from forty-one divisions toward a more integrated firm organized around customer... -
How to Measure a Company's Real Impact
Organizational Development Digital ArticleA comprehensive new approach to quantifying an organization's footprint on the world.