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- 20 Jun 2016
- News
Having an Impact on Development and Poverty Issues
financial valuation just like one would as a venture capitalist, but there’s an overlay of impact. And what I define as impact is that the companies we invest in are focused on providing products and services to underserved populations in... View Details
Keywords: Constantine von Hoffman
- 31 Jan 2023
- News
Female Founders' Dilemmas; UK Tech Startups
ambitious visions for a better world,” she says. “This VC model is inherently built on making big bets. VCs are after mega-hits who can return the fund with their stratospheric valuations that are calculated primarily on top-line growth.... View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley
- 28 Sep 2021
- News
Alumni Connections Drive Career Opportunities for Students
evidence—the $1B valuation with the model Eric built in his internship—so the impact is very clear.” Read more about Eric Westphal’s and Diego Dzodan’s experiences on the HBS Alumni Careers Blog. View Details
Keywords: Becca Carnahan
- 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
- 13 Mar 2019
- News
The First Five Years: Sierra Smith and Taylor Wiegele (both MBA 2017)
were filming and Lori came in with Charles, we had to do everything we could to fight our smiles (for fear of giving up our negotiating leverage!). It was tough, too, seeing the other Sharks come in at better valuations and trying to... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
New Chairman Updates Development in MBA Program
there new trends in our students' career choices? There is a surge of interest in high technology, small companies, and more entrepreneurial kinds of jobs. I think that reflects the economic realities of the times; market valuations are... View Details
- 16 Dec 2020
- News
A Creator in the Era of Disruption
country’s first unicorn and is now Indonesia’s super app—connecting users with everything from transportation, to food delivery, financial services and even massage services—with a valuation near $10 billion. In 2017, Gojek acquired... View Details
- 01 Dec 1999
- News
A Class Act
doing well. We are a leading provider (or so we like to believe) in the topsy-turvy world of Internet banking. Like any good, young Internet company, we are struggling for revenue, are losing money, and have a valuation that beggars the... View Details
Keywords: Nancy O. Perry
- 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 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
that Ant Financial, the fintech arm of the Alibaba Group, has approximately 1.5 billion users across its various platforms—a number that exceeds the combined populations of North America and Western Europe. (With a valuation of $60... View Details
- 01 Mar 2008
- News
One-on-One with Jim Breyer
companies in Beijing alone. Is there an investment bubble in China? Yes, so our job is to manage, as best we can, through the bubbles. Today in China, there is simply too much investment in young Internet companies, in particular, most of which are based in Beijing.... View Details
- 01 Feb 1997
- News
Made, Not Born: HBS Courses and Entrepreneurial Management
teaches VCPE, maintains a strong financial orientation in the course, because he believes that the valuation of young growth companies - a complex issue often skirted in entrepreneurial education - is even more important when it involves... View Details
- 06 Dec 2021
- News
What's the Word?
ability to act on ideas using zero-cost trading tools like Robinhood. On the positive side, Cohen notes, meme stocks signal levels of engagement with the stock market that haven’t been seen in decades. But the valuation of meme stocks is... View Details
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for March 2017
creative new markets. Lessons in Corporate Finance: A Case Studies Approach to Financial Tools, Financial Policies, and Valuation by Paul Asquith and Lawrence A. Weiss (DBA 1989) (Wiley) This book explains the fundamentals of the field in... 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 Sep 2013
- News
Who Are We?
recruited by Morgan Stanley, where she built and marketed systems to evaluate options strategies, risk models, and stock valuation models, and then to Paine Webber, where in the early 1990s she helped build one of the first electronic... View Details
- 30 Jul 2024
- News
Reddit’s Rise
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Dan Morrell: Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. When Jen Wong (MBA 2004) joined Reddit as COO in 2018, the user-generated content site wasn’t exactly a burning building...but it might have been... View Details
- 24 Sep 2020
- News
The Race for a Vaccine
spent 2019, expanding and advancing its development pipeline. Moderna had five additional vaccines in Phase 1 testing and two more in preclinical development. It was a portfolio that looked promising to investors. In late 2018, the company’s IPO had broken biotech... 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
- 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