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CEOs Are Predicting a Mild Recession in the U.S.
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleThey expect a "short and shallow" downturn. -
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 […] -
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. -
How the Carl Icahns of the World Benefit Firms but Not Workers
Financial markets Digital ArticleResearch reveals how activist investors help and hurt. -
Do Algorithms Make Better — and Fairer — Investments Than Angel Investors?
Algorithms Digital ArticleIt depends on the investor. -
Strong Dollar, Weak Thinking
Economics Digital ArticleWhy Wall Street is wrong to worry about the impact on earnings per share. -
The Art of Commerce
Business history Magazine ArticleThe story of a royal trading company comes to life on an 18th-century stock certificate. -
Why Businesses Should Lower Prices During Natural Disasters
Sales & Marketing Digital ArticleIt helps your customers, which helps your brand. -
One Big Reason There's So Little Competition Among U.S. Banks
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleThey're owned by the same mutual funds. -
What’s Your Real Cost of Capital?
Budgets and budgeting Magazine ArticleThe traditional approach to evaluating capital investments has a fatal flaw. Here’s how to get numbers you can count on. -
The Capitalist’s Dilemma
Economics Magazine ArticleThe tools we use to guide our investments are blind to the best opportunities for creating new jobs and new markets. -
Who’s to Blame for the Bubble?
Financial markets Magazine ArticleBy instigating the dot-com crash, the capital markets have placed the entire new economy at risk. -
Funding Eureka!
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleNathan Myhrvold, the cofounder of Intellectual Ventures, has been reviled as a patent troll - a renegade who buys up patents and uses them to hold up... -
Can Zombie Firms Survive Rising Interest Rates?
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleThey feast on cheap credit, which is drying up. -
Does the Market Know Your Company’s Real Worth?
Financial markets Magazine ArticleNot long ago I asked the officer of a regional investment banking firm why the price-earnings ratio for a small publicly held company was so low. “After all,” I said, “this company has the potential to grow since it’s in the dental equipment industry. It seems to me it warrants a high ratio.” “Don’t you […] -
CEOs Get Paid Too Much
A survey showed that CEOs worldwide are making exponentially more money than people think they should. -
Grexit Would Be Even More Dangerous than Economists Realize
Economics Digital ArticleWhat the referendum is really about. -
Survival of the Richest
Organizational culture Magazine ArticleIn financial markets, as in many human endeavors, there’s a battle between reason and madness. On one side are the disciples of the efficient-markets hypothesis: the notion that markets fully, accurately, and instantaneously incorporate all relevant information into prices. These adherents assume that market participants are rational, always acting in their own interest and making […] -
Column: To Win, Create What’s Scarce
Financial markets Magazine ArticleMarketers like to work on the demand side—take what’s in demand, make it cheaper, run a lot of ads, make a profit. If you can increase demand for what you already make, a lot of problems take care of themselves. It’s the promise of the typical marketing organization: Give us money, and we’ll increase demand. […] -
Efficient? Chaotic? What’s the New Finance?
Economics Magazine ArticleRational investors, beta, CAPM—everything they taught you in business school is now open to debate.
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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... -
Fixed Income Arbitrage in a Financial Crisis (A): US Treasuries in November 2008
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Investment manager James Franey confronts an apparent arbitrage opportunity during the global financial crisis of 2008 when he notices a wide yield spread... -
Digital Equipment Corp.: The Endpoint Model (C1)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details To follow Digital Equipment Corp.: The Endpoint Model (B2). The division has just received a request for dramatically increased production. If it complies... -
Square, Inc. IPO
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In November 2015, Square, Inc. launched its initial public offering (IPO). The IPO had an offering price of $9 per share, lower than the $11 to $13 estimate... -
State of South Carolina
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This case presents the managerial dilemma faced by the treasurer of South Carolina in 1998. Until last year, the South Carolina state pension fund (with... -
Diversification, the Capital Asset Pricing Model, and the Cost of Equity Capital
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Describes in nonmathematical terms the nature of capital asset pricing model and possible use in estimating a company's cost of equity capital. -
Travelers Mortgage Securities CMO
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Describes a series of collateralized mortgage obligations offered by Travelers Insurance. Provides a general description of the life insurance business... -
Generation Investment Management: 2016
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Aspen Financial
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Warren E. Buffett, 2015
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This case was designed as an introduction to a finance course or a module on capital markets. Alternatively, it could be used as a basic introduction... -
Fixed Income Arbitrage in a Financial Crisis (B): US Treasuries in December 2008
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details The B case briefly recounts the action that investment manager James Franey takes in the matter of two U.S. Treasury bonds with identical maturity dates... -
Strategic Capital Management, LLC (B)
Finance & Accounting Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case. -
Wells Fargo Convertible Bonds
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Howard Atkins, the chief financial officer of Wells Fargo, is considering issuing $3 billion in convertible debt. With an investment-grade credit rating,... -
Citibank Hong Kong: Capital Arbitrage in the Emerging Markets
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Describes how a credit derivative may be used to structure a profitable transaction between a bank and its client. Design and risk management issues are... -
Ti-Tech (B)
Sales & Marketing Case Study5.00View Details This case concerns the selection and scheduling of orders by a small industrial titanium fabricator that recently has been plagued by poor deliveries... -
Interest Rate Derivatives
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Introduces and explains the six major interest rate derivative products: swaps, forward rate agreements, Eurodollar futures, bond options, caps/floors/collars,... -
Evanston Capital Management
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The Dutch East India Company in 1612 (A)
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details The Dutch East India Company's board of directors must decide what to do about an impending legal requirement to liquidate the company's assets and return... -
Revitalizing Philips (B)
Strategy & Execution Case Study5.00View Details Supplements the (A) case.
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CEOs Are Predicting a Mild Recession in the U.S.
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleThey expect a "short and shallow" downturn. -
Making Smart Investments: A Beginner’s Guide
Costing AdviceReduce the risk factor, increase the reward factor, and generate meaningful returns. -
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 […] -
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. -
How the Carl Icahns of the World Benefit Firms but Not Workers
Financial markets Digital ArticleResearch reveals how activist investors help and hurt. -
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... -
Do Algorithms Make Better — and Fairer — Investments Than Angel Investors?
Algorithms Digital ArticleIt depends on the investor. -
Fixed Income Arbitrage in a Financial Crisis (A): US Treasuries in November 2008
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Investment manager James Franey confronts an apparent arbitrage opportunity during the global financial crisis of 2008 when he notices a wide yield spread... -
Strong Dollar, Weak Thinking
Economics Digital ArticleWhy Wall Street is wrong to worry about the impact on earnings per share. -
Digital Equipment Corp.: The Endpoint Model (C1)
Technology & Operations Case Study5.00View Details To follow Digital Equipment Corp.: The Endpoint Model (B2). The division has just received a request for dramatically increased production. If it complies...