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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. -
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... -
An Inconvenient Truth About ESG Investing
Investment management Digital ArticleIt might not actually work. -
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,... -
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 […] -
What African Fintech Startups Can Teach Silicon Valley About Longevity
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleThree lessons, based on a study of more than 200 senior-level executives. -
Create Efficiencies
Finance & Accounting VideoTo gain insight into solving your organization's issues, stop and look at the numbers. -
No, WeWork Isn't a Tech Company. Here's Why That Matters
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleThe kind of company it is influences investors and its valuation. -
Enduring Logic of Industrial Success
Global Business Magazine ArticleLarge managerial enterprises have been the engines of growth and innovation in modern economies for more than a century. This essay lays out the logic... -
Research: Few Corporate Spinoffs Deliver Value
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleHere's what the best-performing ones do differently. -
The Strategy Question at the Center of Lyft's IPO
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleWhy are some networks so much more profitable than others? -
Case Study: Should We Embrace Crypto?
Finance and investing Magazine ArticleThe CFO of an online education platform considers whether to adopt Bitcoin for payments and investments. -
Mapping Your Innovation Strategy
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Magazine ArticleIn the complex sport of American football, teams rely on playbooks as thick as the Manhattan phone directory. But when it comes to creating innovative... -
Bringing Silicon Valley Inside
Finance and investing Magazine ArticleIn Silicon Valley, exciting new business ideas rapidly attract capital and talent away from less worthy ventures. But in big companies, ideas, capital, and talent are stagnant—prisoners of traditional bureaucratic ways of allocating resources. To capture the Valley’s entrepreneurial magic, your company needs to move from resource allocation to resource attraction. -
The Staying Power of the Public Corporation
Finance and investing Magazine ArticleReports of the “eclipse of the public corporation” underestimate its institutional staying power and unique capacity for renewal. In his recent HBR article, Michael C. Jensen, a distinguished scholar of corporate finance and governance, argues for a revolution in the structure of ownership and control in the U.S. economy.1 I share many of his criticisms […] -
Samsung's Corporate Venturing Strategy
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleMark Twain is supposed to have said that "History doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme." It's apparently a belief shared by many stock market analysts,... -
Successful Startups Don't Make Money Their Primary Mission
Strategy & Execution Digital ArticleLose sight of that and you lose the company. -
FTX and the Problem of Unchecked Founder Power
Innovation & Leadership Digital ArticleGrowing quickly requires giving up some control. It's investors' responsibility to make sure that happens. -
The CEO of New Mountain Capital on Using PE Management to Ignite Growth
Strategy & Execution Magazine ArticleTwelve years ago, in 2010, the private equity firm New Mountain Capital acquired a little-known Wisconsin software company, RedPrairie, for $565 million....
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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... -
TruthCRM Competitive Auction in Mergers and Acquisitions: Instructions for Tank Software Team
Management Case Study8.95View Details The TruthCRM case provides students with an interactive simulation of the competitive auction process to maximize value for a company involved in an acquisition.... -
Gold in 2011: Bubble or Safe Haven Asset?
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Case explores the pricing of gold in 2011. Is the pricing justified or are we in a speculative bubble? What data are useful in determining a view on this... -
Palamon Capital Partners/TeamSystem S.p.A
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In February 2000, a managing partner of a U.K.-based private equity fund, Palamon Capital Partners, faced the decision of whether to invest in an Italian... -
Maytag: Takeover Strategies
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details On April 22, 2005, Maytag Corporation's stock price fell 28 percent after the company reported disappointing first-quarter results and significantly reduced... -
Note on Minority Interest
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This case provides a brief introduction to the concept of minority interest and the issues that it gives rise to in valuation of firms. -
Scale and Scope at Drake Real Estate Partners
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details Realizing in early 2021 that their pending real estate investment fund would likely be oversubscribed, Drake Real Estate Partners co-founders Nicolás... -
Codensa: Easy Credit for All
Global Business Case Study8.95View Details This case describes how Codensa, an electricity company in Bogotá and Cundinamarca (Colombia), developed an easy-access consumer credit business model... -
Accounting for Marketable Securities and the "Recycling" of Income
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Gives an overview of accounting for equity investments less than 20%. Uses this accounting to introduce the issue of amounts included in the statement... -
Canadian Pacific's Bid for Norfolk Southern
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details In December 2015, Canadian Pacific Railroad (CPR) has just made its third bid to acquire Norfolk Southern Corporation (NSC), one of the largest railroads... -
Note on Macroeconomics and Investment Returns: An Overview
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details This note provides a brief overview of the relationship between the macro behaviour of the economy and the resulting impact on investment returns. It... -
Jeepers! Inc. in 2000
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details After the company's IPO is withdrawn, the company enters a period of severe financial distress. The consultants recommend that the company be liquidated.... -
Slalom to the Finish: Carlyle's Exit from Moncler
Innovation & Entrepreneurship Case Study8.95View Details In 2011, Carlyle is considering an exit from its investment in the European fashion brand Moncler, in which it holds a minority stake. The case focuses... -
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... -
Goodyear Tire & Rubber Co.--1988
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Set two years after a takeover attempt forced the company to restructure by leveraging up, selling assets, and repurchasing stock. The case affords an... -
Misaki Capital and Sangetsu Corporation
Finance & Accounting Case Study14.00View Details Japan's corporate culture has traditionally prioritized the interests of stakeholders such as customers, employees, and suppliers over those of shareholders.... -
Ajax Health: A New Model for Medical Technology Innovation
Leadership & Managing People Case Study8.95View Details This case teaches key success factors for both startups and established medtech firms. It examines how to structure a firm to maximize financial returns.... -
Altoona State Investment Board & Bain Capital Fund XI
Finance & Accounting Case Study8.95View Details Considers the decision faced by state pension fund manager Rod Calhoun as he decides whether to invest $200 million in Bain Capital's eleventh global...
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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. -
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... -
Everything You Need to Know About Stock Options and RSUs
Budgets and budgeting AdviceJust like salary, you should negotiate equity compensation. -
An Inconvenient Truth About ESG Investing
Investment management Digital ArticleIt might not actually work. -
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,... -
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 […] -
What African Fintech Startups Can Teach Silicon Valley About Longevity
Entrepreneurship Digital ArticleThree lessons, based on a study of more than 200 senior-level executives. -
Reexamining Dual-Class Stock
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleSnapchat's initial public offering, which provided shares with no voting rights, is a culmination of the growing trend of dual-class shares. It contradicts... -
Can Twitter Help Predict Firm Value?
Finance & Accounting Digital ArticleInvestors have long relied on information intermediaries-from financial analysts and advisors to the business press, credit rating agencies and auditors-to...