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Managers face a number of challenges when using traditional valuation approaches to value projects in an emerging market. It is important, therefore, that managers not only be aware of, but…

Anthropologists and sociologists define culture differently, but both might argue that to truly understand a specific culture, it is imperative to immerse oneself and “live within it” for a period…

Prospective investors in startups and growth businesses expect to review detailed financial information on the company. This note provides an in-depth discussion of both the art and the science of…

The purpose of this note is to provide some insight about the change from analog to digital, the increasing penetration of digital technologies in our lives, the increasing performance of…

This note is intended to provide insights into variation across firms and industries. It reviews the various types of variation among firms–variations in revenues, profits, size, employment, capital intensity, output…

After a firm has decided to internationalize, it must select the entry mode and the organizational and contractual arrangements to bring its products and services to the foreign market. This…

This note profiles two companies–Gap Inc. and Deckers Outdoors Corp–with a focus on their value chains. It includes financial information and breaks down the parts of the two companies’ value…

This note gives a general overview of Life-cycle analysis (LCA). As corporations seek to improve their environmental performance, they require new methods and tools. LCA is one such tool that…

In some situations, the available resources are adequate to carry out the alternative operating plan selected. In others, however, this is not true. For example, a machine has only a…

This note provides two items that entrepreneurs and start-up teams will find useful as they pursue investment capital: an outline for a due diligence notebook and a sample investor’s due…