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Should Companies Retain "Strategic" Cash?

Harvard Business Review

This raises the question of whether retaining strategic cash makes economic sense and should be viewed as a legitimate corporate finance tool in today's environment. Strategic cash also can be used to finance long-term reinvestment programs in the business—which is especially valuable to companies in capital-intensive industries (e.g.,

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Case Study: A Short-Seller Crashes the Party

Harvard Business Review

Beyond the intangibles of poor publicity and anxious employees, a sinking share price wreaked havoc with the company’s compensation structure, which relied on stock options as incentives. With the company’s share price sinking and its cost of capital rising, those deals might have to be put on hold. As CFO, A.J.

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Why Those Guys Won the Economics Nobels

Harvard Business Review

The prizes were awarded “for their empirical analysis of asset prices,” but what the three had been doing looked from the outside less like a common endeavor than a not-all-that-coherent argument. So I wanted to see if Campbell could make sense of the prizes and the current state of academic knowledge about asset prices.

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