Market Valuation - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Jun 2022
News

Making It Count

faculty chair of the IWA Project and author of the 2022 book Purpose and Profit: How Business Can Lift Up the World. “It’s very hard to have accountability about those claims, both externally and internally, without a valuation mechanism... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Dec 2004
News

Ideas: Books

Case Studies in International Entrepreneurship by Walter Kuemmerle (McGraw-Hill) This collection of 29 cases based on real situations compares opportunities, financing contexts, valuation approaches, and entrepreneurial styles in the... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

22 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World

will be looking at how investors in the Social Capital Markets understand valuation without clear-cut metrics by which they can assess their ROI. "In other words, how do you know you have achieved what... View Details

Keywords: by Anne Kavanagh

12 PM – 1 PM EST, 12 Dec 2019
Webinars: Career

From Private Equity to Private Debt: Key Trends in Alternative Investments

Private equity industry has expanded substantially to include new strategies, new players, and new funding models. Professor Victoria Ivashina will explore new trends, limits to disintermediation, growth potential, and what to keep in mind if you are exploring these... View Details

01 Sep 2020
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020

are a lifelong gamer, a curious Fortnite parent, or a businessperson seeking to understand the marketing opportunities of this multibillion-dollar phenomenon, The Book of Esports charts the rise of this exciting new industry, crafting a... View Details

01 Mar 2004
News

Reforming Company Boards

structuring and M&A transactions, it was obvious that the focus was not on building shareholder value but on reporting predictable, double-digit earnings growth to achieve temporarily high stock market valuations. The truth has been... View Details

Keywords: Corporate Services

06 Dec 2017
News

Puzzle Master

business relative to other omnichannel retailers, our data scientists and digital marketing experts optimize our content to deliver a superior and customized customer experience, and we often pilot new partnerships and integrations across... View Details

28 Jul 2015
First Look

First Look: July 28, 2015

Because Greece had not adopted accrual accounting, its debt was reported in face value terms, according to the Maastricht treaty. This was in contradiction to accounting practices that prescribed fair valuation of debt in line with View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

01 Dec 1997
News

Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize

generalization of Black and Scholes's valuation method made it possible to customize financial claims to suit the preferences of buyer and seller alike and to price those derivative claims directly. Thus Bob's theories are the analytical... View Details

31 Jan 2017
Research & Ideas

The Dow at 20,000: What's That All About?

the only way to reconcile stock valuations with fundamentals was to believe that the US economy would grow almost forever at rates never seen before or that investors had stopped caring altogether about risk and View Details

Keywords: by Jim Aisner

01 Mar 2007
News

Private Equity under Investigation

dramatically downsized or announced their intention to cease operations after experiencing investment missteps and succession problems. Meanwhile, new organizations have amassed enormous sums of capital in short periods. Even a quick glance at the annual View Details

Keywords: Josh Lerner; syndication; antitrust enforcement; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance

15 Aug 2016
Research & Ideas

Black Swans and Big Trends Can Ruin Anyone's Internet Prediction

how we thought about online opportunities one year after the dot-com bubble burst. In retrospect, many of my thoughts about the internet’s future evolution missed the mark. If you think history repeats itself, then these forecasting errors might be germane, since... View Details

Keywords: by Thomas R. Eisenmann; Technology

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Launching Global Ventures - Course Catalog

of heightened geopolitical tensions, breakthrough technological innovations, and significant demographic change presents not just complexity but immense opportunity. This course provides frameworks for recognizing patterns across markets... View Details

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Online Creating Brand Value Course | HBS Online

This course is part of the Marketing track. Introduction to Creating Brand Value ENROLL NOW No application needed for our certificate programs. Start your journey today! Creating Brand Value $1,850 Next 6-week session starts September... View Details

08 Apr 2021
Blog Post

HBS Entrepreneurship Immersion - Four Highlights

analytics for startups and small businesses. It is a very dynamic environment; I spent half of last year leading a new product launch (from customer discovery to creating marketing collateral) and the rest of the time on hiring, strategy,... View Details

11 May 2010
First Look

First Look: May 11

Standard theories of corporate ownership assume that because markets are efficient, insiders ultimately bear agency costs and therefore have a strong incentive to minimize conflicts of interest with outside investors. We show that if... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Sep 2009
News

Alumni Books

mistakes that doom individual investors to market underperformance. Investment Banking: Valuation, Leveraged Buyouts, and Mergers & Acquisitions by Joshua Rosenbaum (MBA ’01) and Joshua Pearl (Wiley) As the world of finance returns to the... View Details

17 Jul 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, July 17, 2018

Programs By: Hanson, Samuel G., David S. Scharfstein, and Adi Sunderam Abstract—We develop a model of government portfolio choice in which a benevolent government chooses the scale of risky projects in the presence of market failures and... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

01 Sep 2009
First Look

First Look: September 1

considerations guiding financial reporting. Financial reports produced under the positive theory of GAAP would also generate information useful for equity valuation, but equity valuation is not predicted to be the primary objective... View Details