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- 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 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 fundamentals of View Details
- 15 Dec 2024
- News
Skydeck: Reddit’s Rise
Jen Wong (MBA 2004), COO of Reddit (Illustration by John S. Dykes) “I met Steve [Huffman] at SFO, I think at like 6:00 AM. We were sort of ships passing and had a great meeting and I got really excited because it’s really rare that you get to work on an asset that is,... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Full Stream Ahead
Picasso you can’t put a price on these songs.” By 2016, when Sony purchased Jackson’s share of ATV, the figure had ballooned to a staggering $750 million. Music has been raking in top-dollar valuations ever since, in part because of the... View Details
- 01 Oct 2021
- News
HBS-Harvard Collaboration Fosters New Ventures
Ahmed (AB 2012) and his team designed WHOOP, a wearable fitness strap that collects physiological data to help athletes, their coaches, and trainers analyze strain, recovery, and sleep. The startup, one of the first unicorns to come out of the HIL with a recent View Details
- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Reforming Company Boards
straight line, it will reduce the huge valuation swings that we’ve seen in the last three years. Greater transparency does not mean that all issues can or should be disclosed — otherwise a company could forfeit competitive advantage. Is a... View Details
Keywords: Corporate Services
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World
taxes, there's an inverse relationship; they end up contributing to society," Emerson says. "We are trying to find out what investments are needed to achieve social value." At HBS, Emerson will explore how investors in the social capital markets understand View Details
Keywords: Anne Kavanagh
- 13 Jul 2011
- News
China Boot Camp
case he had been contemplating for inclusion in his fall course, Business Analysis and Valuation Using Financial Statements. “The context and contacts I’ve acquired have brought very tangible benefits,” Srinivasan says, adding that the... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Merton Named University Professor
in Economic Sciences for his work on the valuation of stock options, had held the George Fisher Baker Professorship of Business Administration at HBS since 1988. The John and Natty McArthur University Professorship was established after... View Details
- 01 Jun 2000
- News
The Right Connections
impact on the size of the start-up's IPO. "Downstream social capital was essential in attracting the interest of a top investment bank and getting a high valuation for the IPO," Higgins says. Such downstream connections can be valuable... View Details
Keywords: Judith A. Ross
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Spray Canon
dollars at auctions in recent years. How did a style born on the canvas of the city make the leap from the subway to Sotheby’s? Assistant Professor James Riley, a former graffiti artist himself who now studies valuation processes in... View Details
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Books
through which leaders of any era emerge. In Value Sweep: Mapping Corporate Growth Opportunities, valuation and strategy expert Martha Amram proposes a simple and transparent valuation method that helps... View Details
- 01 Jun 2002
- News
Books
until plummeting stock valuations in the spring of 2000 burst the Internet stock “bubble,” venture capitalists, investment bankers, mutual funds managers, accountants, and corporate leaders had sponsored a financial mania at the expense... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
A Quiet Force: Remembering Jay Light
integrative valuation and negotiation classes were used with all 900 students in the first year Finance course in the MBA Program. Dwight Crane, the George Fisher Baker Jr. Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, says: “Jay had... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
Vision: Into the Breach
local schools and colleges in the education sector and the small- to medium-size businesses it serves in the United States. (The firm also raised $205 million in Series D funding, saw an eightfold increase in year-over-year premium revenues, and reached a View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
The One That Got Away
at a valuation of more than $100 million?” Turns out, it can get very big. At the time, we completely misunderstood the unit economics and network effects of the business—in other words, the “winner-take-all” dynamics in a category as... View Details
- 25 Feb 2020
- News
Case Study: The Credit Bureau
for 18 to 24 months, then turning on the marketplace later. When they did, valuation quickly followed. It’s a risky strategy, but what isn’t. —Wil Eyi (MBA 2019) Got a case? To take part in a future “Case Study,” send an outline of your... View Details
- 12 May 2016
- News
Food Rescue Is on a Mission
models are very powerful,” he explains. “We have trucks that do deliveries, but the innovation is in how we are able to suit local needs, with many different collection models customized for local circumstances.” For Carson, a founder of PPB Advisory, a specialist firm... View Details
Keywords: Jill Radsken
- 17 Oct 2019
- News
Venturing Away from Venture Capital
today’s largest venture capital firms to focus “almost exclusively [on] chasing unicorns,” leaving companies that boast lower valuations and more modest risk/return profiles out in the cold. Indeed, data suggests that more money is... View Details
Keywords: Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
what it actuallytakes to build a business in a world that’s not always fair, predictable, or politically correct. Investment Banking: Valuation, LBOs, M&A, and IPOs (Includes Valuation Models + Online Course) 3rd Edition by Joshua... View Details