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Becoming an Entrepreneur - Alumni

In the first step toward entrepreneurship, career seekers face a fundamental choice that affects every subsequent action: do you see yourself as a startup founder or joiner? The Path of the Founder Founders are typically driven by one of... View Details
  • 01 Oct 1999
  • News

Banking on Success

think those people also run a tremendous risk of being left behind. Goldman has a big market share in Internet stocks, and we have tried our best to understand them, but some of this defies rational analysis! We're using valuation... View Details
Keywords: Deborah E. Blagg
  • September 2019 (Revised September 2019)
  • Case

Facebook Fake News in the Post-Truth World

By: John R. Wells, Carole A. Winkler and Benjamin Weinstock
In August 2019, Mark Zuckerberg, founder and CEO of Facebook, was surrounded by controversy. The first major storm of protest followed the surprise election of Donald Trump as President of the United States on November 8, 2016; many put the blame at the door of fake... View Details
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  • 02 Oct 2006
  • Research & Ideas

Negotiating in Three Dimensions

schedule would do the trick, with the bulk of the payment due when procurement budgets are replenished. The frustrated supplier also may be overlooking a fundamental set-up barrier. While top management from both firms might speak of the... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory

financing) poses many challenges to core investing activities such as financial projections, valuation and exit modeling. Family offices doing direct investing have unique capacities to be flexible, long-term partners to companies absent... View Details
  • 01 Dec 2022
  • News

My First Job

it’s almost an unavoidable fact that blunders will be made. We might wish we could forget them and focus instead on the more successful stages of work life, but the lessons that we take from those earliest failures have a way of sticking with us for good, often playing... View Details
Keywords: Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services
  • 20 Mar 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Incubators: The New Venture Capitalists?

other thing to look at, added Corey, is the post valuation an incubator can bring. "If you've got VC money, and you gave away 20% of your company but the post valuation was $10 million, or if you gave... View Details
Keywords: by Kenneth Liss
  • 01 Mar 2011
  • News

Faculty Research Online

general idea that less was always more when it came to regulation, which, in part, contributed to the crisis. To that end, he calls for a fundamental shift in academic research on the government’s role in the economy. See... View Details
Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services
  • 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 View Details
  • 10 Nov 2020
  • Sharpening Your Skills

Research News and Tips: Innovating Across Time Zones

stock valuation President Trump’s executive order in June suspending new work visas barred nearly 200,000 foreign workers from entering the United States and prevents American companies from hiring skilled immigrants using H-1B or L1... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
  • 29 Aug 2016
  • Blog Post

First Year at HBS: A Foundation for Business

top ten business stories for the past year. 1. China:  industrial-goods slowdown and market turmoil  2. Yahoo: Marissa Myers and activist investors  3. Uber: valuation and growth of the gig economy  4. Volkswagen: emissions cheating... View Details
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Strategic Financial Analysis Online Course | HBS Online

of financial analysis and valuation methods are most appropriate in different situations Use financial metrics, ratio analysis, and other tools to assess performance and drive strategic changes Assess View Details
  • Fast Answer

Challenges and Opportunities in the Restaurant Industry

Resources Company Analysis and Financing Company profiles on project sponsors Financial fundamentals for valuation Executive bios Size of organization, i.e., number of employees, revenue View Details
  • 10 Nov 2015
  • First Look

November 10, 2015

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49606 forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Can Analysts Assess Fundamental Risk and Valuation Uncertainty? An Empirical Analysis of Scenario-Based Value... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 23 Nov 1999
  • Research & Ideas

The Future of the Venture Capital Cycle

with a rapid increase in capital commitments have led to less restrictive partnership agreements, large investments in portfolio firms, and higher valuations for those investments. These patterns have led many practitioners to conclude... View Details
Keywords: by Paul A. Gompers & Josh Lerner; Financial Services
  • Web

Managing Customers for Growth - Course Catalog

achieve sustainable customer growth. The course explores the fundamentals of customer value, including strategies for customer acquisition, retention, and development. By leveraging customer analytics tools and technologies, students will... View Details
  • 02 Apr 2013
  • First Look

First Look: April 2

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=41870 Expected Returns Dynamics Implied by Firm Fundamentals By: Lyle, Matthew R., and Charles C.Y. Wang Abstract—We provide a tractable stock valuation model to study the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 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 1997
  • News

Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize

accomplishment from both sides of the Charles. "Robert Merton has been an innovative leader in the field of economic valuations and in improving the capacity to manage financial risk," said Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine. "This is a... View Details
  • 15 Mar 2011
  • First Look

First Look: March 15

failed to address important measurement and valuation issues that have arisen in the past 40 years of practice. This gap is illustrated with missed opportunities in risk measurement and management and the estimation of the fair value of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne