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  • 01 Oct 2001
  • Research & Ideas

How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company

valuations of the company. Since the restructuring plan proposed to give creditors a substantial amount of new common stock, their relative financial recoveries depended materially on what the firm, and this stock, was ultimately worth.... View Details
Keywords: by Stuart C. Gilson
  • 2020
  • Working Paper

How ESG Issues Become Financially Material to Corporations and Their Investors

By: George Serafeim
Management and disclosure of environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues have received substantial interest over the last decade. In this paper, we outline a framework of how ESG issues become financially material, affecting corporate profitability and valuation.... View Details
Keywords: Materiality; ESG; Pharmaceutical Companies; Business Ethics; Sustainability; Environment; Disclosure; Disclosure And Access; Regulation; Social Impact; Environmental Sustainability; Social Issues; Corporate Governance; Ethics; Corporate Disclosure; Corporate Accountability; Resource Allocation; Finance; Accounting; Valuation
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Leadership - Faculty & Research

partnership with the company’s board chair, Rosgaard worked to make changes to the board composition and board routines to create more board engagement with the company’s strategy and transformation. Have these efforts been enough? Keywords: Leadership ; View Details

    Paul M. Healy

    Paul Healy is the James R. Williston Professor at the Harvard Business School. His research covers a broad range of topics, including white collar crime, governance, business ethics, financial analysis, and Wall Street research. He joined the HBS faculty in 1998,... View Details

    Keywords: accounting industry; brokerage; pharmaceuticals
    • March 2024 (Revised April 2024)
    • Case

    Angel City Football Club: Scoring a New Model

    By: Jeffrey F. Rayport, Jennifer Fonstad and Nicole Tempest Keller
    In January 2024, Kara Nortman, Julie Uhrman, and Natalie Portman, the founders of Angel City Football Club (ACFC) were developing the club’s first three-year strategic plan. Founded in 2020, ACFC had a star-studded investor group, including Portman and celebrities such... View Details
    Keywords: Sports; Entertainment; Entrepreneurship; Brands and Branding; Venture Capital; Business Model; Corporate Strategy; Digital Marketing; Sports Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; United States; California; Los Angeles
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    Financial Accounting Online Course | HBS Online

    key concepts and metrics in valuation, including time value of money, terminal value, and net present value. Highlights Forecasting: Metropolis Health Care IRR and Payback Period Industry Insights: Assessing Financial Statements Show Hide Details Concepts Pro Forma and... View Details
    • 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
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    Current Research: Issues in Corporate Governance

    Effectiveness of shareholder voting
    Reform of shareholder voting is a key component of legislation arising from the financial crisis of 2008. Professor Gow examines the effect of shareholder voting on corporate actions, particularly on... View Details
    • June 2014 (Revised January 2017)
    • Case

    Focus Financial Partners and the U.S. RIA Industry in 2014

    By: Luis Viceira and Emily A. Chien
    In the Spring of 2014, Rudy Adolf, CEO and founder of Focus Financial, and the two other co-founders of the firm are considering alternative growth strategies to solidify Focus Financial's position as a leading aggregator of independent wealth management firms in the... View Details
    Keywords: Financial Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Business Model; Financial Services Industry
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    Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online

    Average Cost of Capital Beta Show Hide Details Concepts How Is Value Created? Costs of Capital Cost of Equity Mistakes Featured Exercises Market-to-book ratios exercises Match companies to their cost of debt and industries to their betas 6-7 hrs Module 5 View Details

      Robert C. Merton

      Robert C. Merton is the School of Management Distinguished Professor of Finance at the MIT Sloan School of Management.

      Merton is University Professor Emeritus at Harvard University and was the George Fisher Baker Professor of... View Details

      Keywords: banking; brokerage; financial services; insurance industry; investment banking industry; retail financial services
      • September 2011
      • Article

      The Labor Illusion: How Operational Transparency Increases Perceived Value

      By: Ryan W. Buell and Michael I. Norton
      A ubiquitous feature of even the fastest self-service technology transactions is the wait. Conventional wisdom and operations theory suggests that the longer people wait, the less satisfied they become; we demonstrate that due to what we term the labor illusion, when... View Details
      Keywords: Internet and the Web; Perception; Valuation; Service Delivery; Consumer Behavior; Performance Effectiveness; Customer Satisfaction; Service Industry
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      • 01 Dec 2023
      • News

      Venturing Forth

      Illustration by Adam McCauley Venture capital is a heady industry: Big bets mean big checks when the deals hit right. And for most of the last decade, those taking part in the funds were riding high: Capital was abundant, valuations were soaring, and the stock market... View Details
      Keywords: Janelle Nanos; Funds, Trusts, and Other Financial Vehicles; Finance
      • 03 Mar 2003
      • Research & Ideas

      Top Ten Legal Mistakes Made by Entrepreneurs

      date, then taxes this difference as ordinary income. An 83 (b) election allows the tax computation to be made based on the value at the time the shares are issued, which is often pennies per share. A no-name firm offering the highest View Details
      Keywords: by Staff
      • Fast Answer

      Resources for Investment Management and Financial Analysis

      Resources and instructional videos for company and industry financial analysis, stock pitching, Business Analysis & Valuation Using Financial Statements (BAV), Investment Management and Capital Markets, Projects in... View Details
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      Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online

      Adjusting Journal Entries The Statement of Cash Flows Analyzing Financial Statements Accounting for the Future Featured Exercises Discover how balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements are developed Predict future revenue, expenses, and cash flow... View Details
      • 2024
      • Working Paper

      The Value of Open Source Software

      By: Manuel Hoffmann, Frank Nagle and Yanuo Zhou
      The value of a non-pecuniary (free) product is inherently difficult to assess. A pervasive example is open source software (OSS), a global public good that plays a vital role in the economy and is foundational for most technology we use today. However, it is... View Details
      Keywords: Valuation; Open Source Distribution; Applications and Software
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      • 08 Sep 2014
      • Research & Ideas

      The Strategic Way To Hire a Sales Team

      Google and Groupon, for instance, a higher percentage of employees work in sales than engineering or data mining. And at Facebook the salesforce's ability to translate 'likes' into advertisers will make or break that company's valuation... View Details
      Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
      • 17 Apr 2009
      • Working Paper Summaries

      The Investment Strategies of Sovereign Wealth Funds

      Keywords: by Shai Bernstein, Josh Lerner & Antoinette Schoar; Financial Services
      • October 2017
      • Case

      The Transformation of Microsoft

      By: C. Fritz Foley, E. Scott Mayfield and F. Katelynn Boland
      In early 2015, Amy Hood, CFO of Microsoft, and the rest of the senior leadership team faced a set of fundamental choices. The firm had opportunities to serve customers in ways that would be associated with higher growth but lower margin. Some of these opportunities... View Details
      Keywords: Growth; Corporate Finance; Valuation; Growth Management; Communication Strategy; Transformation; Information Technology Industry; Computer Industry; United States
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