Publications

Publications

Filter Results: (13,842) Arrow Down
Filter Results: (13,842) Arrow Down Arrow Up

Show Results For

Show Results For

← Page 195 of 13,842 Results →
  • Video

Alumni Clubs address

    Sara L. Fleiss

    Sara Fleiss was the co-founder and co-portfolio manager of Emeth Partners, an emerging markets arbitrage hedge fund.  Prior to founding Emeth, Sara was the lead analyst on the Emerging Markets Equities portfolio at Harvard Management Company (HMC). At HMC, Sara... View Details

    • August 2024
    • Technical Note

    Is Concentrated Ownership Good?

    By: Christina R. Wing, Everett Alexander and Justin Huang
    This note provides an overview of factors to consider when valuing a closely held, private business. View Details
    Keywords: Private Ownership; Valuation
    Related
    • 2011
    • Other Unpublished Work

    Height Taken but Worth Unknown: Valuation as an Institutional Process

    By: R. Daniel Wadhwani and Mukti Khaire
    Drawing on research from organizational studies, sociology, history, and anthropology, we develop a framework for understanding valuation as an institutional process in markets. We posit that three institutional elements—categories, criteria, and standards—are integral... View Details
    Keywords: Interactive Communication; Markets; Standards; Situation or Environment; Perception; Valuation
    Related
    • October 2013
    • Article

    The Strategy That Will Fix Health Care

    By: Michael E. Porter and Thomas H. Lee
    In health care, the days of business as usual are over. Around the world, every health care system is struggling with rising costs and uneven quality, despite the hard work of well-intentioned, well-trained clinicians. Health care leaders and policy makers have tried... View Details
    Keywords: Organizational Change and Adaptation; Strategy; Value; Customer Focus and Relationships; Health Care and Treatment; Health Industry
    Related
    • March 2023
    • Case

    Ownership Works: Scaling a Profitable Social Mission

    By: Ethan Rouen, Dennis Campbell and Andrew Robinson
    Pete Stavros was on a high after his latest experiment with employee ownership. As the head of industrial investments for KKR, Stavros orchestrated the sale of CHI Overhead Doors, which turned into KKR’s best investment in more than two decades and created $360 million... View Details
    Keywords: Employee Ownership; Knowledge Sharing; Nonprofit Organizations
    Related
    • Article

    How Direct-to-Consumer Brands Can Continue to Grow

    By: V. Kasturi Rangan, Daniel Corsten, Matt Higgins and Leonard A. Schlesinger
    Direct-to-consumer (DTC) brands such as Allbirds, Casper, Peloton, and Warby Parker have creatively found a weakness in the marketing citadel of incumbent brands. By using data gleaned from daily interactions with customers, these brands have been able to adapt how... View Details
    Keywords: Direct-to-consumer; Customer Journey; Business Model; Customer Relationship Management; Growth and Development Strategy
    Related

      Pedro Tarak

      Keywords: B Corporation
      • 14 Jul 2015
      • First Look

      First Look: July 14, 2015

      Abstract—Google Flu Trends article of November 2008 heralded a new age for big data where it is possible to leverage the vast amount of data to... View Details
      Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
      • 04 Apr 2016
      • HBS Seminar

      Ariel Stern, Harvard Business School

      • 26 Sep 2020
      • News

      Here is what 10 Happiness World Leaders have to share about Happiness

      • 17 May 2011
      • News

      Building resumes, rebuilding lives

        Josh Lerner

        Josh Lerner is the Jacob H. Schiff Professor at Harvard Business School and Co-Director of the HBS Private Capital Project.  Much of his research focuses on venture capital and private equity organizations.  (This research is summarized in his books The Money of... View Details

        Keywords: biotechnology; high technology; venture capital industry
        • 2021
        • Article

        Designing, Not Checking, for Policy Robustness: An Example with Optimal Taxation

        By: Benjamin B. Lockwood, Afras Sial and Matthew C. Weinzierl
        Economists typically check the robustness of their results by comparing them across plausible ranges of parameter values and model structures. A preferable approach to robustness—for the purposes of policymaking and evaluation—is to design policy that takes these... View Details
        Keywords: Optimal Taxation; Income Tax; Social Welfare; Elasticity; Income; Taxation; Policy
        Related
        • January 2005 (Revised March 2008)
        • Case

        Kohler Co. (A)

        Kohler Co., best known for its plumbing fixtures, is a large, private family firm. As part of a recapitalization aimed at preserving family ownership of Kohler Co., nonfamily shareholders, who held 4% of common stock, were required to sell their shares to the company.... View Details
        Keywords: Family Business; Capital Structure; Cash Flow; Stocks; Price; Family Ownership; Business and Shareholder Relations; Valuation
        Related
        • 10 Mar 2009
        • News

        Why CMOs Are Gaining Ground in the Recession

        • October 1987 (Revised January 2013)
        • Background Note

        Note on Free Cash Flow Valuation Models

        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
        Related
        • 2021
        • Working Paper

        Governance Transparency and Firm Value: Evidence from Korean Chaebols

        By: Akash Chattopadhyay, Sa-Pyung Sean Shin and Charles C.Y. Wang
        We examine Korean business groups' transition from circular-shareholding structures to (relatively simple) pyramidal-shareholding structures between 2011 and 2018. When firms were removed from ownership loops, chaebol families' control or incentive conflicts in them... View Details
        Keywords: Business Groups; Cross Shareholding; Circular Shareholding; Pyramidal Ownership; Governance Transparency; Ownership Transparency; Earnings Response Coefficient; Business Conglomerates; Corporate Governance; Valuation; Business Earnings
        Related
        • October 2023 (Revised June 2024)
        • Case

        ReUp Education: Can AI Help Learners Return to College?

        By: Kris Ferreira, Christopher Thomas Ryan and Sarah Mehta
        Founded in 2015, ReUp Education helps “stopped out students”—learners who have stopped making progress towards graduation—achieve their college completion goals. The company relies on a team of success coaches to engage with learners and help them reenroll. In 2019,... View Details
        Keywords: AI; Algorithms; Machine Learning; Edtech; Education Technology; Analysis; Higher Education; AI and Machine Learning; Customization and Personalization; Failure; Education Industry; Technology Industry; United States
        Related
        • March 2002 (Revised June 2005)
        • Case

        AOL Time Warner, Inc.

        By: Stephen P. Bradley and Erin Sullivan
        AOL Time Warner, which has been billed as the "first fully integrated media and communications company of the Internet Century," raises the fundamental question of how value will be created and captured by the merger of AOL and Time Warner. This case describes just how... View Details
        Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Internet and the Web; Value Creation; Organizational Culture; Consolidation; Change Management; Telecommunications Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States
        Related