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Alternative Investments Course | HBS Online

Featured Exercises Identify phases of the real estate market Prepare for a real estate negotiation Conduct valuation analysis Classify real estate products based on their diversification potential 6-7 hrs Module 5 Portfolio Construction... View Details
  • 06 Oct 2003
  • Research & Ideas

The Problem with Hedge Funds

valuation processes. The SEC seems concerned about conflicts of interest (such as mutual funds owning hedge funds) and possible fraud and the increasing availability of hedge funds to retail investors. The SEC may be getting ready to... View Details
Keywords: by D. Quinn Mills
  • 18 Dec 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, December 18, 2018

valuation of $200 million and debating changes to them that will allow them to grow their business. Ensuring that their marketing dollars were being spent efficiently was critical to the data-driven management team and proving to be... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 18 Sep 2019
  • Op-Ed

WeWork—The IPO That Shouldn’t?

not to frame a public offering." To ameliorate some of the criticism, and to salvage its IPO, WeWork recently pivoted. It proposed its IPO valuation of $47 billion be slashed, added a woman to its board of directors, and, this past... View Details
Keywords: by Nori Gerardo Lietz; Financial Services; Real Estate
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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

financing) poses many challenges to core investing activities such as financial projections, valuation and exit modeling. Family offices doing direct investing have unique capacities to be flexible, long-term partners to companies absent... View Details
  • 01 Oct 1999
  • News

Banking on Success

Kennedy Stephen M. Waters James A. Stern William J. Kneisel Donald H. Layton Kevin W. Kennedy A managing director at Goldman Sachs, where he has spent his entire career, Kevin Kennedy has served the firm in a number of positions, including head of View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
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General Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

: Winner of Aspen Institute’s 2017 Ideas Worth Teaching Award in the Corporate Purpose & Leadership category for the MBA course Reimagining Capitalism: Business and the Big Problems with George Serafeim. Rebecca M. Henderson : Awarded the... View Details
  • 07 Apr 2015
  • News

Warrior Spirit

million of venture capital. Working with him was extraordinary: intense and energetic.” Over the next couple of years, NextDoor Networks raised nearly $38 million in venture capital investment before the dot-com bust of March 2000; by the time the business was acquired... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna; Performing Arts, Spectator Sports, and Related Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Amusement, Gambling, and Recreation Industries; Arts, Entertainment; Technical and Trade Schools; Educational Services
  • 04 Dec 2012
  • First Look

First Look: December 4

http://www.people.hbs.edu/jsebenius/articles_scans/12_IS_NuclearDealWithIran.pdf Punctuated Generosity: Events, Communities, and Corporate Philanthropy Authors:Andras Tilcsik and Christopher Marquis Publication:Administrative Science... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
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Entrepreneurship Course Online | HBS Online

Investment Define key finance terms and understand the opportunities and tradeoffs associated with different sources of financing Highlights Intuit Choosing an Investor The Complete Fundraising Landscape Stages of Investment Show Hide Details Concepts Fundraising Term... View Details
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

Contributing to Growth? The Role of Open Source Software for Global Startups

By: Nataliya Langburd Wright, Frank Nagle and Shane Greenstein
How does participating in open source software (OSS) communities spur entrepreneurial growth? To address this question, we analyze novel data matching accounts from GitHub—the largest OSS hosting platform—to the universe of global software venture-backed firms... View Details
Keywords: Applications and Software; Open Source Distribution; Entrepreneurship; Business Growth and Maturation; Human Capital; Valuation; Corporate Strategy
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  • 17 May 2011
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First Look: May 17

valuations in first financing rounds. Further econometric tests suggest that, as predicted by the theory, this effect is driven by unobservable heterogeneity, and it is more pronounced in teams that make quick decisions about founder... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 01 Dec 2022
  • News

Full Court Press

organization required a very specific kind of leader, and he had one in mind: former classmate Williams, who led corporate and investment banking for African markets at South Africa’s Standard Bank. “He’s always been a real strategic,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
  • 13 Mar 2005
  • Research & Ideas

The Tricky Business of Nonprofit Brands

corporations such as Microsoft or Coca-Cola, particularly in Europe. Many NGOs, by the very nature of the work they do and the dedication of their staff and volunteers, attract the respect and admiration of many individuals. Nonprofits... View Details
Keywords: by Manda Salls
  • 20 Mar 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?

structure, because the typical partnership and corporation of this era is a dead structure, a stupid structure." At Divine Interventures, said Filipowski, companies are brought together in an "econet," functioning as... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
  • 23 Oct 2018
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New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

Serafeim, George Abstract—Combining corporate sustainability performance scores based on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) data with big data measuring public sentiment about a company’s sustainability performance, I find that... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 01 Mar 2004
  • News

Reforming Company Boards

Senior executives have taken most of the heat for the headline-grabbing scandals that have rocked corporate America over the past few years. Scott C. Newquist (MBA ’75), president of Board Governance Services, wants to shift some of that... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Services
  • January 2009
  • Supplement

The Tip of the Iceberg: JP Morgan Chase and Bear Stearns (B1)

By: Clayton S. Rose, Daniel Baird Bergstresser and David Lane
Bear Stearns & Co burned through nearly all of its $18 billion in cash reserves during the week of March 10, 2008, and an unprecedented provision of liquidity support from the Federal Reserve on Friday March 13 was insufficient to reverse the decline in Bear's... View Details
Keywords: Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Capital; Financial Liquidity; Banks and Banking; Governance; Crisis Management; Failure; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Balance and Stability; Valuation; New York (state, US)
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  • 20 Sep 2011
  • First Look

First Look: September 20

associated with risky lending in the corporate loan market by examining the performance of individual loans held by CLOs. We employ two different datasets that identify loan holdings for a large set of CLOs and find that adverse selection... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Courses by Faculty Unit - Course Catalog

and Valuation Using Financial Statements Joseph Pacelli Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0 Yuan Zou Spring 2026 Q3Q4 3.0 Changing the World: Life Choices of Influential Leaders (also listed under General Management) Robert Simons Fall 2025 Q1Q2 3.0... View Details