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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

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and files. Monitoring CPU usage of your jobs on the HBSGrid Learn how to run a Unix command or query LSF to check the status of a current job. HBSGrid Project directory space notifications Tips on how to monitor HBSGrid project space usage and control notifications.... View Details

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Libraries Research Data Management Program / Instruction Harvard Research Data Webinars and Explainers R Introduction to R Static notes with code examples and results All workshop materials as downloadable... View Details

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Online Business Analytics Course | HBS Online

across themes such as forecasting, linear regressions, and machine learning to better lead your team to long-term success. You will learn how to create a compelling story that uses proven, collected data to make core business decisions, and explore coding environments... View Details

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Careers Recruiting Partners Our recruiting partners include leading biotechnology, pharmaceutical, medical device, and diagnostic companies, as well as financial services, consulting, health care delivery, and health services organizations. By Name By Sector A B C D E... View Details

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graphical applications, interactive "console tools" like R and iPython, significant script/code development, or efforts like iterative data exploration, either in a GUI or at the command line. For example, signing in via the NoMachine... View Details

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Illness: A Prescription for Change: Reimagining U.S. Healthcare By: Lidia Moura and Susanna Gallani March–April 2024 Article Retailers and Health Systems Can Improve Care Together By: Robert S. Huckman , Vivian S. Lee and Bradley R Staats... View Details

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you can start your application using a wrapper script {link to Working with wrapper (default submission) scripts subsection} or a custom submission script {link to Working with custom submission scripts subsection} and specify the number of CPUs you will use. For... View Details

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the HBSGrid? JupyterLab is available on Grid 3.0. To get started with Grid 3.0, please see our documentation here. How can I use the latest version of R or RStudio? This page demonstrates how you can check to see which version of View Details

October 2023
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Clinician Response to Patient Medication Prices Displayed in the Electronic Health Record

By: Anna D Sinaiko, Caroline E Sloan, Mark J Soto, Olivia Zhao, Chen-Tan Lin and Foster R Goss

Keywords: Prescription Drugs; Electronic Health Records; Physicians; Prescription Drug Costs; Health Care and Treatment; Price; Health Industry

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like MATLAB or SAS Iterative data exploration at the command line Interactive "console tools" like R and iPython Significant code development and compiling efforts An interactive job differs from a batch job in two important aspects: The... View Details

26 Jun 2017
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How Cellophane Changed the Way We Shop for Food

cellophane accounted for 10 percent of DuPont’s sales and 25 percent of its profits. “Between 1925 and 1938, its return on investment averaged 36 percent, over twice that of chemically similar rayon,” says Hisano, citing the book Science and Corporate Strategy: Du Pont... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Food & Beverage; Retail; Advertising

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environments such as R and visualization software. Can I take CORe if I've taken Business Analytics? By enrolling in the Business Analytics certificate program, participants will be ineligible to enroll in the CORe program. By enrolling... View Details

30 Jun 2021
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The Harvard Business School Faculty Summer Reader 2021

What’s on HBS faculty members’ reading list for summer 2021? Which books are most meaningful to them and why? Below, faculty share their top picks, ranging from biographies and memoirs to their colleagues’ latest works. Julia Austin: Social justice and the Obamas I... View Details

Keywords: by Kathryn Haviland

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values. Please see the Stata manual entry for memory for more information. R In R, the mem_used() function of the pryr package can inform your variable usage. Please see the http://adv-r.had.co.nz/memory.html (by Hadley Wickham) for more... View Details

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Involvement in Faculty & Student Ventures | About

as needed. The Dean’s Office will use the annual reporting process and periodic audits to monitor compliance. Definitions For the purposes of this policy statement, the following definitions apply: A faculty membe r is anyone with a... View Details

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Training Training Workshops & Technical Talks 2ms See below for trainings, reference materials, and resources at Harvard and beyond. R R workshop materials (e.g., Intro to R; R... View Details

Henry W. Bloch

Bloch diversified H & R Block by purchasing Personnel Pool of America, CompuServe, and Hyatt Legal Services. By the mid-1980s, H & R Block was spending at least $20 million a year on advertising. By... View Details

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Ruback 14 Jan 2025 Times of India An Idea That Got Its Aim Right By: Tarun Khanna 09 Jan 2025 Family Capital Family Dynasties Increasingly Drive M&A Deals Re: Christina R Wing 24 Dec 2024 Cold Call Scaling a Family Business While... View Details

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