Publications

August 2013
Background Note

A Simple Free Cash Flow Valuation Model

By: William A. Sahlman

Explores some of the issues involved in valuing cash flow streams. A simple model is presented that reveals the effect on value of changing assumptions about the appropriate discount rate, the level of profitability, the growth rate of sales, the asset intensity ratio,... View Details

Keywords: Cash Flow; Valuation

Educators

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2002
Chapter

New Business Models for Higher Education

By: David J. Collis

Keywords: Business Model; Higher Education; Non-Governmental Organizations

January 2003 (Revised February 2011)
Tool

Business Analysis and Valuation Model (Version 5)

By: Paul M. Healy, Krishna G. Palepu and Jonathan Barnett

Once you enter company financial statements, this software enables you to standardize them to a common format, make any needed adjustments to the company's accounting, and make assumptions about the company's future performance. The model then provides financial ratios... View Details

Keywords: Financial Statements; Standards; Mathematical Methods; Valuation

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20 Jul 2016
News

How Amazon Adapted Its Business Model to India

15 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

A New Model for Business: The Museum

by the bevy of choices and model numbers like "XPS 15x" and "VPCSB190X." But at Apple, they have only two aptly named laptop choices: the MacBook Air, which is lightweight and geared toward consumers, and the MacBook Pro, which is... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

June 2020
Article

Parallel Play: Startups, Nascent Markets, and the Effective Design of a Business Model

By: Rory McDonald and Kathleen Eisenhardt

Prior research advances several explanations for entrepreneurial success in nascent markets but leaves a key imperative unexplored: the business model. By studying five ventures in the same nascent market, we develop a novel theoretical framework for understanding how... View Details

Keywords: Search; Legitimacy; Organizational Innovation; Organizational Learning; Mechanisms And Processes; Institutional Entrepreneurship; Qualitative Methods; Business Model Design; Business Model; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Emerging Markets; Adaptation; Competition; Strategy

26 Feb 2019
News

Building a New Real Estate Investment Model

An experiment in real estate investing is underway in Philadelphia, where Steinbridge Group CEO Tawan Davis (MBA 2006) has made a long-term commitment to less-affluent renters in the city’s most rapidly gentrifying communities. “You want to see positive economic... View Details

07 Jul 2003
Research & Ideas

The Organizational Model for Open Source

three projects: Debian, a complete non-commercial distribution of Linux; the GNU Object Model Environment (GNOME), which is a graphical user interface for Linux-based operating systems; and Apache, a public domain open source Web server.... View Details

Keywords: by Mallory Stark

2008
Working Paper

Minimally Altruistic Wages and Unemployment in a Matching Model

By: Julio J. Rotemberg

This paper presents a model in which firms recruit both unemployed and employed workers by posting vacancies. Firms act monopsonistically and set wages to retain their existing workers as well as to attract new ones. The model differs from Burdett and Mortensen (1998)... View Details

Keywords: Retention; Selection and Staffing; Employment; Wages; Mathematical Methods

1 Oct 1981
Conference Presentation

Creativity: Some Stories and a Model

By: Teresa M. Amabile

Keywords: Creativity

September 2022
Article

How Emerging Telehealth Models Challenge Policymaking

By: Mitchell Tang, Michael E Chernew and Ateev Mehrotra

Policy Points

Current telehealth policy discussions are focused on synchronous video and audio telehealth visits delivered by traditional providers and have neglected the growing number of alternative telehealth offerings.

These alternative... View Details

Keywords: Telehealth; Health Care and Treatment; Technology Adoption; Policy; Health Industry

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2013
Case

Revenue Model Innovation at Roche Diagnostics

By: Marco Bertini and Nader Tavassoli

Article

Overhead Allocation via Mathematical Programming Models

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Gerald Thompson

Keywords: Mathematical Methods

2004
Working Paper

R&D Performance Volatility: A Behavioral Model

By: Francesca Gino and Gary Pisano

25 Jan 2023
Podcast

Extra credit: Reach University’s apprenticeship-to-degree model

In combining upskilling through on-the-job training with tailored online courses, Reach helps school districts develop faculty internally. Founder and chancellor Mallory Dwinal-Palisch breaks down the approach, which offers flexible degree programs to existing... View Details

19 Nov 2014
News

Panel Highlights Philanthropy Models Across Nations

30 Dec 2010
News

A New Model for Corporate Boards

2024
Working Paper

Anytime-Valid Inference in Linear Models and Regression-Adjusted Causal Inference

By: Michael Lindon, Dae Woong Ham, Martin Tingley and Iavor I. Bojinov

Linear regression adjustment is commonly used to analyze randomized controlled experiments due to its efficiency and robustness against model misspecification. Current testing and interval estimation procedures leverage the asymptotic distribution of such estimators to... View Details

Keywords: Mathematical Methods; Analytics and Data Science