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The Case Method in Professional Education
By: David A. Garvin
Garvin, David A. "The Case Method in Professional Education." Boston: Harvard Business School Publishing Class Lecture, 2004. Electronic. (Faculty Lecture: HBSP Product Number 9-829-0C.)
- December 1981 (Revised September 1986)
- Background Note
Research Methods in Marketing: Survey Research
By: Robert J. Dolan
Presents basic issues in survey research, covering both measurement and sampling error. The intention is to consider each element of the survey process: problem statement, questionnaire design, sampling, and data analysis. View Details
Dolan, Robert J. "Research Methods in Marketing: Survey Research." Harvard Business School Background Note 582-055, December 1981. (Revised September 1986.)
- June 2005 (Revised November 2006)
- Background Note
Valuation Methods and Discount Rate Issues: A Comprehensive Example
By: Marc L. Bertoneche and Fausto Federicic
Presents a comprehensive review of the valuation methods based on discounting cash flows or value creation metrics and shows, through simple example and a straightforward "how-to-do" framework, the perfect consistency and identity of their results under similar... View Details
Keywords: Valuation
Bertoneche, Marc L., and Fausto Federicic. "Valuation Methods and Discount Rate Issues: A Comprehensive Example." Harvard Business School Background Note 205-116, June 2005. (Revised November 2006.)
- 08 Oct 2018
- Working Paper Summaries
Developing Theory Using Machine Learning Methods
- May 1993
- Teaching Note
Museum Accounting Methods Controversy TN, The
- December 2004
- Class Lecture
The Case Method in Professional Education
By: David A. Garvin
Garvin, David A. "The Case Method in Professional Education." Harvard Business School Class Lecture 305-072, December 2004.
- 2006
- Article
Schumpeter's Plea: Historical Methods in the Study of Entrepreneurship
By: Rohit Daniel Wadhwani and Geoffrey Jones
This paper outlines the case for why and how historical methods are important to the study of entrepreneurship. We show that research in entrepreneurship has displayed declining attention to historical context since the field first emerged in the 1940s. We discuss why... View Details
Wadhwani, Rohit Daniel, and Geoffrey Jones. "Schumpeter's Plea: Historical Methods in the Study of Entrepreneurship." Academy of Management Annual Meeting Proceedings (2006).
- March 2013
- Background Note
Deliberative Democracy and the Case Method
By: Jordan I. Siegel
Siegel, Jordan I. "Deliberative Democracy and the Case Method." Harvard Business School Background Note 713-517, March 2013.
- July 1980 (Revised December 1986)
- Background Note
Reflections of a Case Method Teacher
Learned, Edmund P. "Reflections of a Case Method Teacher." Harvard Business School Background Note 381-006, July 1980. (Revised December 1986.)
- July 1987 (Revised October 2009)
- Background Note
A Method For Valuing High-Risk, Long-Term Investments: The "Venture Capital Method"
By: William A. Sahlman and Daniel R Scherlis
Describes a method for valuing high-risk, long-term investments such as those confronting venture capitalists. The method entails forecasting a future value (e.g., five years from the present) and discounting that terminal value back to the present by applying a high... View Details
Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Entrepreneurship; Venture Capital; Investment; Risk Management; Valuation
Sahlman, William A., and Daniel R Scherlis. A Method For Valuing High-Risk, Long-Term Investments: The "Venture Capital Method". Harvard Business School Background Note 288-006, July 1987. (Revised October 2009.)
- Article
Storytelling: A Method for Assessing Children's Creativity
By: B. A. Hennessey and T. M. Amabile
Keywords: Creativity; Measurement and Metrics; Early Childhood Education; Research; Performance Evaluation
Hennessey, B. A., and T. M. Amabile. "Storytelling: A Method for Assessing Children's Creativity." Journal of Creative Behavior 22, no. 4 (December 1988): 235–246.
- September 1984
- Background Note
Marketing Research: An Overview of Research Methods
By: Robert J. Dolan
Broadly describes the scope of marketing research, and describes experiments, non-survey methods, and internal data. View Details
Dolan, Robert J. "Marketing Research: An Overview of Research Methods." Harvard Business School Background Note 585-039, September 1984.
- 2022
- Conference Presentation
Towards the Unification and Robustness of Post hoc Explanation Methods
By: Sushant Agarwal, Shahin Jabbari, Chirag Agarwal, Sohini Upadhyay, Steven Wu and Himabindu Lakkaraju
As machine learning black boxes are increasingly being deployed in critical domains such as healthcare and criminal justice, there has been a growing emphasis on developing techniques for explaining these black boxes in a post hoc manner. In this work, we analyze two... View Details
Keywords: AI and Machine Learning
Agarwal, Sushant, Shahin Jabbari, Chirag Agarwal, Sohini Upadhyay, Steven Wu, and Himabindu Lakkaraju. "Towards the Unification and Robustness of Post hoc Explanation Methods." Paper presented at the 3rd Symposium on Foundations of Responsible Computing (FORC), 2022.
- 1978
- Book
Quantitative Methods in Management: Text and Cases
By: Paul A. Vatter, Stephen P. Bradley, Sherwood C. Frey Jr. and Barbara B. Jackson
Keywords: Management Practices and Processes
Vatter, Paul A., Stephen P. Bradley, Sherwood C. Frey Jr., and Barbara B. Jackson. Quantitative Methods in Management: Text and Cases. Homewood, IL: Richard D. Irwin, 1978.
- July 1980 (Revised November 1982)
- Background Note
Note to a Beginning Case Method Teacher
Christensen, C. Roland, and Charles Mason. "Note to a Beginning Case Method Teacher." Harvard Business School Background Note 381-007, July 1980. (Revised November 1982.)
- March 2001
- Background Note
Valuing the Option Component of Debt and Its Relevance to DCF-Based Valuation Methods
The flows-to-equity or equity cash flows valuation method is a discounted cash flow method used to estimate the equity portion of the capital structure. It is closely related to the venture capital/buyout valuation method, which estimates the IRR of the stream of cash... View Details
Meulbroek, Lisa K. "Valuing the Option Component of Debt and Its Relevance to DCF-Based Valuation Methods." Harvard Business School Background Note 201-110, March 2001.