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Financial Accounting Online Course | HBS Online

Forecasting: Metropolis Health Care IRR and Payback Period Industry Insights: Assessing Financial Statements Show Hide Details Concepts Pro Forma and Free Cash Flows Valuation Lease Accounting Featured Exercises Prepare pro-forma... View Details
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Academics - Health Care

Investing in Life Sciences This course will shed light on the process of investing in life sciences, more broadly: the valuation of early and later stage biopharma companies and the approaches to combat both common diseases, like heart... 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
    • 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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    Accounting & Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research

    Accountants for "Transfer Pricing with ABC" (with Dan Weiss and Eyal Desheh, Management Accounting , May 1997). Krishna G. Palepu : Business Analysis and Valuation Using Financial Statements (South-Western College Publishing, 1996), with... View Details
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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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    Leadership - Faculty & Research

    board composition and board routines to create more board engagement with the company’s strategy and transformation. Have these efforts been enough? Keywords: Leadership ; Governance ; Valuation ; North America ; Europe Citation Educators... View Details
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    Business Fundamentals Course - CORe | HBS Online

    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 Understand key metrics in valuation like time... View Details
    • 17 Apr 2009
    • Working Paper Summaries

    The Investment Strategies of Sovereign Wealth Funds

    Keywords: by Shai Bernstein, Josh Lerner & Antoinette Schoar; Financial Services
    • 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
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    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
    • 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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    • 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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    • 02 May 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Four VCs on Evaluating Opportunities

    the valuation is right, it could still be a good venture deal. In a decent IT market, a $50 million revenue company should be worth at least a $100 million to $200 million outcome. At that point, we're making a good venture multiple,... View Details
    Keywords: by Lauren Barley
    • 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
    • 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
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    Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online

    Featured Exercises Market-to-book ratios exercises Match companies to their cost of debt and industries to their betas 6-7 hrs Module 5 Valuation Determine how the future affects value today, compare various View Details
    • 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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    • June 1992
    • Case

    Arundel Partners: The Sequel Project

    By: Timothy A. Luehrman and William A. Teichner
    A group of investors is considering buying the sequel rights for a portfolio of feature films. They need to determine how much to offer to pay and how to structure a contract with one or more major U.S. film studios. The case contains cash flow estimates for all major... View Details
    Keywords: Rights; Debt Securities; Contracts; Cash Flow; Valuation; Capital Budgeting; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; United States
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