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4 Areas of Cyber Risk That Boards Need to Address
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleHow companies can build a long-term strategy that will keep them secure. -
The Balanced Scorecard—Measures that Drive Performance
Balanced scorecard Magazine ArticleWhat you measure is what you get. Senior executives understand that their organization’s measurement system strongly affects the behavior of managers and employees. Executives also understand that traditional financial accounting measures like return-on-investment and earnings-per-share can give misleading signals for continuous improvement and innovation—activities today’s competitive environment demands. The traditional financial performance measures worked well […] -
How to Choose the Right Forecasting Technique
Financial analysis Magazine ArticleWhat every manager ought to know about the different kinds of forecasting and the times when they should be used. -
How Venture Capital Works
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleIn this article, Bob Zider, president of the Beta Group, a California-based firm that invests in commercializing new technologies, presents an analysis... -
Strategic Secret of Private Equity
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleThe huge sums that private equity firms make on their investments evoke admiration and envy. Typically, these returns are attributed to the firms' aggressive... -
Strategies for Learning from Failure
Organizational culture Magazine ArticleWe are programmed at an early age to think that failure is bad. That belief prevents organizations from effectively learning from their missteps. -
Decision Trees for Decision-Making
Decision making and problem solving Magazine ArticleHere is a [recently developed] tool for analyzing the choices, risks, objectives, monetary gains, and information needs involved in complex management decisions, like plant investment. -
How to Create a Stakeholder Strategy
Business and society Magazine ArticleA data-driven approach to design, measurement, and implementation -
An Inconvenient Truth About ESG Investing
Investment management Digital ArticleIt might not actually work. -
Putting the Balanced Scorecard to Work
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleIn an earlier, groundbreaking article, Balanced Scorecard -- Measures That Drive Performance, the authors proposed a new measurement system that provided... -
Kodak's Downfall Wasn't About Technology
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleWhat it missed was the business model. -
Business Marketing; Understand What Customers Value
Sales & Marketing Magazine ArticleIn this article, authors James Anderson, professor at the Kellogg Graduate School, Northwestern University, and James Narus, associate professor at the... -
How Venture Capitalists Make Decisions
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleFor decades now, venture capitalists have played a crucial role in the economy by financing high-growth start-ups. While the companies they've backed--Amazon,... -
A Refresher on Net Present Value
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleKnow what your project is worth in today's dollars. -
What I Learned from Warren Buffett
Financial analysis Magazine ArticleA book on Buffett spurs Gates to reflect on their friendship. -
Why Start-ups Fail
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleIf you're launching a business, the odds are against you: Two-thirds of start-ups never show a positive return. Unnerved by that statistic, a professor... -
Contribution Margin: What It Is, How to Calculate It, and Why You Need It
Accounting Digital ArticleDo you know what your most profitable product is? -
Does the Capital Asset Pricing Model Work?
Financial crisis Magazine ArticleAn important task of the corporate financial manager is measurement of the company’s cost of equity capital. But estimating the cost of equity causes a lot of head scratching; often the result is subjective and therefore open to question as a reliable benchmark. This article describes a method for arriving at that figure, a method […] -
Everything You (Don’t) Want to Know About Raising Capital
Financial markets Magazine ArticleMost entrepreneurs understand that if the fundamentals of a business idea—the management team, the market opportunities, the operating systems and controls—are sound, chances are there’s money out there. The challenge of landing that capital to grow a company can be exhilarating. But as exciting as the money search may be, it is equally threatening. Built […] -
Ten Ways to Create Shareholder Value
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleExecutives have developed tunnel vision in their pursuit of shareholder value, focusing on short-term performance at the expense of investing in long-term...
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Business Process Transformation at the CIA (A)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details When Dick Calder is named head of the CIA's Directorate of Administration (DA) in 1995, he faces the task of leading a beleaguered organization through... -
Procter & Gamble: Cost of Capital (Abridged)
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This case asks the student to compute Procter & Gamble's weighted-average cost of capital to determine whether another company should enter the household-products... -
Business Process Transformation at the CIA (B)
Leadership & Managing People Case Study5.00View Details When Dick Calder is named head of the CIA's Directorate of Administration (DA) in 1995, he faces the task of leading a beleaguered organization through... -
Overview of Credit Ratings
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This note is a brief summary of how credit-rating agencies do their job. It includes historical information on rates and capital spreads. The note serves... -
MCI Communications Corp.: Capital Structure Theory (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This case provides an introductory exercise for estimating the cost of capital (cost of equity, weighted average cost of capital) for a firm contemplating... -
Duration and Convexity
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details The price of a bond is a function of the promised payments and the market-required rate of return. Because the promised payments are fixed, bond prices... -
Valmont Industries, Inc
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This case serves as an introduction to the concept of economic value added (EVA). The student is placed in the position of Valmont's CFO to decide whether... -
The We Company: How Do You Like We Now?
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In August 2019, WeWork filed for an initial public offering; investors in its 14 venture capital rounds were anxious for an exit. Softbank had invested... -
Netflix and Dave Chappelle (B)
Management Case Study8.95View Details In late 2021, Netflix leadership had to deal with some fierce employee and public blowback after airing The Closer, a comedy special by comedian Dave... -
Strategic Capital Management, LLC (A)
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Strategic Capital Management, LLC, is a hedge fund that is planning to make financial investments in Creative Computers and Ubid. Creative Computers recently... -
CRP Products
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Bruce Ballantyne had recently joined CRP Products (CRP) of Stratford, Ontario, to help review the company's operations and assess what changes were necessary... -
Sustainability and Innovation: Frameworks, Concepts, and Tools for Product and Strategy Redesign
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details This technical note introduces the concepts and terms entrepreneurial innovators use in addressing sustainability. It explores the evolution of such terms... -
Portland's Urban Growth Boundary and Housing Prices (A): The Debate
Strategy & Execution Case Study8.95View Details In December of 2002, the Metro Council of Portland, Oregon had to decide whether or not to expand the Urban Growth Boundary (UGB) for the metropolitan... -
Mira's Microbrewery Inc.
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The Dividend Discount Model
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This note focuses on the dividend model (DDM), or Gordon Growth Model, as it is sometimes known. The DDM appears in many forms in practice. The note examines... -
The Maple Lane Driveway Paving Project
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This brief case narrative tells the story of how a few people managed to wring consensus from over 40 of their neighbors on repaving a shared driveway.... -
Privatization of Li & Fung: Rationales and Implications
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This case explores the corporate finance issues arising from the privatization of Li & Fung Limited (Li & Fung, prior stock code: 494.HK) in May 2020.... -
Eastern Cape Clinic (C)
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details Thandeka Sisulu had just been hired as the new administrative director for the Eastern Cape Clinic, located in the outskirts of the South African city... -
Gold: A Distinct Asset Class
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details Gold is a very popular alternative asset class globally. This note looks at the properties of gold that make it so attractive. The note also compares... -
Eddie Bauer (C)
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details The Eddie Bauer (B) case describes the events leading up to February 2007, when shareholders of Eddie Bauer, the specialty apparel retailer, were scheduled...
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4 Areas of Cyber Risk That Boards Need to Address
Technology & Operations Digital ArticleHow companies can build a long-term strategy that will keep them secure. -
The Balanced Scorecard—Measures that Drive Performance
Balanced scorecard Magazine ArticleWhat you measure is what you get. Senior executives understand that their organization’s measurement system strongly affects the behavior of managers and employees. Executives also understand that traditional financial accounting measures like return-on-investment and earnings-per-share can give misleading signals for continuous improvement and innovation—activities today’s competitive environment demands. The traditional financial performance measures worked well […] -
How to Choose the Right Forecasting Technique
Financial analysis Magazine ArticleWhat every manager ought to know about the different kinds of forecasting and the times when they should be used. -
How Venture Capital Works
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleIn this article, Bob Zider, president of the Beta Group, a California-based firm that invests in commercializing new technologies, presents an analysis... -
Strategic Secret of Private Equity
Finance & Accounting Magazine ArticleThe huge sums that private equity firms make on their investments evoke admiration and envy. Typically, these returns are attributed to the firms' aggressive... -
Strategies for Learning from Failure
Organizational culture Magazine ArticleWe are programmed at an early age to think that failure is bad. That belief prevents organizations from effectively learning from their missteps. -
Making Smart Investments: A Beginner’s Guide
Costing AdviceReduce the risk factor, increase the reward factor, and generate meaningful returns. -
How to Build Wealth When You Don't Come from Money
You are worthy of wealth, despite the systems designed to keep it from you. -
Decision Trees for Decision-Making
Decision making and problem solving Magazine ArticleHere is a [recently developed] tool for analyzing the choices, risks, objectives, monetary gains, and information needs involved in complex management decisions, like plant investment. -
Everything You Need to Know About Stock Options and RSUs
Budgets and budgeting AdviceJust like salary, you should negotiate equity compensation.