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Real Estate Private Equity - Course Catalog
How to assess the risks and returns in private investments and real estate portfolios 3. How to perform relative value analyses of differing investments 4. How to manage troubled investments (when to hold 'em and when to fold 'em) 5. How...
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- 04 Sep 2019
- News
Advanced Statistics Are the New Foam Fingers
and RBIs—is WAR (wins above replacement). What was once a weird new metric, which caused panic among traditionalists, has become industry standard shorthand for assessing player value. “If anyone tries to explain how WAR is calculated, it...
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- 01 Sep 2008
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An American Story
1959. Thirty years after arriving at Soldiers Field, with eight books, dozens of articles, and hundreds of students transformed, Levitt assessed his accomplishments with the usual dry-eyed perspective. “What I’ve achieved is I’ve made...
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- 01 Mar 2005
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Job Interviews
could come even before any formal conversation begins. “When you are walking down the hall, the interview is already under way,” he notes. “That initial handshake, eye contact, and assessment of your energy, enthusiasm, and confidence...
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- 14 Apr 2021
- Research & Ideas
The High Cost of the Slow COVID Vaccine Rollout
shock,” says Kominers, who explored that disconnect in another co-authored paper forthcoming in AEA Papers and Proceedings. “We’re not used to assessing benefits on the scale of hundreds of billions to trillions, so when you are already...
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- 06 May 2015
- Research & Ideas
A Flood of Picassos Threatens to Water Down the Art Market
which the art world uses market categories to separate and organize large amounts of information, which in turn allows buyers and sellers to accurately assess the value of various works. This investigation led to a related lesson that art...
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- 06 Sep 2006
- Lessons from the Classroom
Mixing Students and Scientists in the Classroom
unexpected ways. One of the students self-assembled a team in the very early stages of the course. He assessed classmates' strengths and interests during the first couple of sessions and recruited the ones he wanted to work with. The...
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- 08 Jun 2011
- Lessons from the Classroom
Twenty-first Century Skill: Trading Carbon Credits
advantage; other options include auctioning permits to the highest bidders, or assessing each firm's operations by size and industry and then estimating benchmark pollution levels; if a firm exceeded those levels, it would need to buy...
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- 01 Mar 2006
- News
Academic Cross-Pollination
assessed classmates’ strengths and interests during the first couple of sessions and recruited the ones he wanted to work with. The surprise is that he was a Ph.D. scientist, not an MBA. And this was the team that won the MIT contest....
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- 01 Mar 2004
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David “Bull” Gurfein: Bronze Star citation
After assessing the situation, Major Gurfein quickly used superb initiative and coordinated with Regimental Combat Team (RCT) 7 to attach a tank platoon from 1st Tank Battalion in order to take advantage of both their firepower and their...
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- 16 Aug 2016
- Blog Post
Health Care Club: Summer Spotlight
finance, commercial, who each weigh in with their evaluation of an asset. But subject matter experts from clinical, regulatory, quality, legal, manufacturing - you name it - also all assess the effects of a deal on their part of the...
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IFC: Saudi Arabia; Economic Diversification - Course Catalog
IFC Financial Aid for a quick assessment to determine your eligibility and process or contact finaid@hbs.edu for more information. Enrollment: Limited to 45 MBA students (due to the nature of IFCs, auditing is not permitted) Educational...
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- 09 Dec 2014
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First Look: December 9
propose that team reflexivity reduces the occurrence of information-processing failures by ensuring that teams discuss and assess the implications of team information for team goals, processes, and outcomes. In this article, we present a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 6
a later point in time. Students must assess whether the self-storage business model can deliver the growth rate in Europe that the company has promised his potential investors. Involves calculating some basic estimates of the company's...
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Martha Lagace
- 21 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 21, 2008
School Exercise 509-022 This exercise is meant to assess students' level of confidence around everyday business and general knowledge questions, for the purpose of identifying where they are overconfident and underconfident. Purchase this...
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Martha Lagace
- 01 Apr 2008
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First Look: April 1, 2008
of Boca Junior's business model and how it differs from that of the richer soccer clubs in Western Europe. Also enables an assessment of successful talent and brand management strategies in the context of a sports franchise with a...
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Martha Lagace
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Past Projects | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
specific to Lincoln Center's international business development initiatives. MD Anderson Health Care Cost Management Focus: Health Care Value Team: Stephen Schleicher Description: Our project's purpose was to assess the actual cost (vs....
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- 02 Aug 2004
- What Do You Think?
For Greater Transparency, Is Section 404 an Effective Response?
innovation is less likely to occur." Brian Donahue warns that "an assessment of internal controls by management at a point in time is not effective because the organization—and thus internal controls—have already changed to meet...
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by James Heskett
- 01 Jun 2018
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June 2018 Alumni and Faculty Books
management. The authors provide first-hand accounts of M&A transactions that they led or were involved in, assessing each from an insider perspective and outlining the key success factors and pitfalls. The book concludes with practical...
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Kevin Nazemi
product that had reached hundreds of millions in revenues. My trajectory at Microsoft had accelerated even faster than I had hoped for. That was when I assessed my progress: what did I have to do to get the skills and networks I needed...
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