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Ten Ways to Create Shareholder Value (Spanish version)
Rappaport, AlfredArticle HBS-R0609CFinanceThis article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. Executives have developed tunnel vision in their pursuit of shareholder value, focusing on short-term performance at the expense of investing in long-term growth. It's time to broaden that perspective and begin shaping business strategies in light of the competitiv...Starting at €8.20
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El secreto estratégico de las firmas de capital privado
Barber, Felix; Goold, MichaelArticle HBS-R0709BFinanceLas enormes sumas que las firmas de capital privado hacen de sus inversiones evocan admiración y envidia. Por lo general, estas declaraciones se atribuyen a un uso agresivo de las empresas de la deuda, la concentración en el flujo de caja y los márgenes, la libertad de la normativa de la empresa pública, e incentivos fuertes para los gerentes operativos. Pero la razón fundamental para el éxito de capital privado es la estrategia de compra para ve...Starting at €8.20
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Need Cash? Look Inside Your Company (Spanish version)
Kaiser, Kevin; Young, S. DavidArticle HBS-R0905EFinancemanaging to the income statement, which can encourage executives to tie up capital in stock and receivables because income statements often fail to include important cost items; rewarding the sales force for growth alone, which makes concessions in the terms of trade more likely, as salespeople look for ways to get customers to buy; overemphasizing production quality, which often results in gold-plated and slow production processes; tying receiv...Starting at €8.20
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Important Accounting Concepts: The Rules that Shape Financial Statements
HBS Press; Harvard Business School PressBook Chapter HBS-5801BC-EFinanceAlthough many managers are proficient in reading financial statements, most are not yet masters of the accounting concepts and processes from which this data is derived. This chapter examines seven key accounting issues that affect your performance as a manager: GAAP, accrual vs. cash accounting, accounting for inventories, accounting for depreciation, the account treatment of leases, the principle of historic cost, and cost accounting. This cha...Starting at €8.20
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How the World Works: A Brief Course in Macroeconomics--And Where the Fed Fits In
Harris, Ethan S.Book Chapter HBS-7621BC-EFinanceEven to investment professionals, macroeconomics can seem like a bewildering array of competing models. But, in the economic and policy debate at the Fed, a relatively simple framework tends to dominate discussion. In this chapter, leading economist, Ethan Harris, lays out how the Fed fits into the broader economic and financial market environment. This chapter is excerpted from "Ben Bernanke's Fed: The Federal Reserve After Greenspan."Starting at €8.20
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Constrained Discretion: Bernanke's Quest for an Inflation Target
Harris, Ethan S.Book Chapter HBS-7627BC-EFinanceOne of the hot topics in monetary economics is whether policy makers should be constrained by rules or use discretion. Advocates of discretion argue that the Fed should react to developments in the economy using its best judgment at the time. By contrast, rules advocates argue that policy makers are not very adept at managing the economy, that they are influenced by politicians, and that they may pursue policies that boost economic performance in...Starting at €8.20
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Nantero (Spanish version)
Sahlman, William A.; Heath, Dan; Perkins, CarolineCase HBS-818S13FinancePara maximizar su eficacia, los casos de color deben imprimirse en color. Este caso describe una decisión confrontar el fundador de Nantero, una compañía de desarrollo de una nueva tecnología de semiconductores. La compañía necesita recaudar capital de riesgo adicional. Los inversores potenciales han compitiendo visiones para la empresa, y su modelo de negocio. Algunos inversores quieren la compañía para licenciar su tecnología a empresas de semi...Starting at €8.20
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Paramount Equipment (Spanish version)
Baldwin, Carliss Y.; Wang, WeiCase HBS-916S14FinanceParamount Equipment, Inc., based in Fort Wayne, Indiana, is a large manufacturer of cranes and compact construction equipment, aerial work platforms, and food service equipment. Founded in 1987, Paramount now had manufacturing operations in 24 countries. However, it lost its competitive position because it took on too much debt in the form of bank borrowings relative to the risk level of its business. Now the company must seek funding and guarant...Starting at €8.20
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New Earth Mining, Inc. (Spanish version)
Fruhan, William E.; Wang, WeiCase HBS-917S19FinanceNew Earth Mining is one of the largest producers of precious metals in the U.S. While the firm operates mines primarily in the U.S. and Canada, it has also made substantial investments in gold exploration projects in Australia and Chile. New Earth has been very successful and has a large amount of cash on the balance sheet, a simple debt structure, and a reasonable leverage ratio with liquidity risk. With a strong financial position, the firm con...Starting at €8.20
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Relevant Costs and Revenues (Spanish version)
Schleifer, Arthur , Jr.Case HBS-803S09FinanceBasic background material for decision making under certainty and under uncertainty. Provides a framework under which a variety of costs and revenues, resulting from substitution, complementarity, capacity, etc., can be identified as relevant.Starting at €8.20