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  • February 2001 (Revised April 2001)
  • Background Note

Note on Valuing Private Businesses

By: Dwight B. Crane and Indra Reinbergs
This case provides a brief overview of valuation for owners of closely held companies. The focus is on a comparable transactions approach, although rules of thumb and discounted cash flow are mentioned. Earnings multiples and their drivers are discussed. It uses... View Details
Keywords: Earnings Management; Finance; Cash Flow; Analytics and Data Science; Private Ownership; Valuation
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Crane, Dwight B., and Indra Reinbergs. "Note on Valuing Private Businesses." Harvard Business School Background Note 201-060, February 2001. (Revised April 2001.)
  • August 2012 (Revised July 2017)
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Netflix: Valuing a New Business Model

By: Francois Brochet, Suraj Srinivasan and Michael Norris
In autumn 2011, Netflix was working to right the ship after publicly stumbling through a price hike and strategic shift and then retreat. The company was changing its business model to focus on streaming video service rather than the DVDs by mail that had brought the... View Details
Keywords: Performance Measurement; Online Business; Asset Recognition; Accounting; Performance Evaluation; Online Technology; Motion Pictures and Video Industry; United States; Canada; Latin America; West Indies
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Brochet, Francois, Suraj Srinivasan, and Michael Norris. "Netflix: Valuing a New Business Model." Harvard Business School Case 113-018, August 2012. (Revised July 2017.)
  • January 2018 (Revised August 2018)
  • Supplement

Fair Value Accounting at Noble Group (B)

By: Siko Sikochi, Suraj Srinivasan and Quinn Pitcher
Following a series of reports by Iceberg Research alleging that Noble Group was too aggressive in its fair value accounting for contracts and investments in producers, Noble’s stock price continued to fall and stakeholders began to call for improved transparency in... View Details
Keywords: Fair Value Accounting; Contracts; Valuation
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Sikochi, Siko, Suraj Srinivasan, and Quinn Pitcher. "Fair Value Accounting at Noble Group (B)." Harvard Business School Supplement 118-062, January 2018. (Revised August 2018.)
  • December 2012
  • Article

Estimating the Value of Connections to Vice-President Cheney

By: Rakesh Khurana, Raymond Fisman, Julia Galef and Yongxiang Wang
We estimate the market valuation of personal ties to Richard Cheney. Our proxies for personal ties are based on corporate board linkages that are prevalent in the network sociology literature. We consider a number of distinct political and personal events that either... View Details
Keywords: Event Analysis; Political Economy; Corruption; Networks; United States
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Khurana, Rakesh, Raymond Fisman, Julia Galef, and Yongxiang Wang. "Estimating the Value of Connections to Vice-President Cheney." B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy 13, no. 3 (December 2012).
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Companies Should Be Guided by Their Purpose and Values When Deciding Whether or Not to Exit Russia

By: Hubert Joly
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Joly, Hubert. "Companies Should Be Guided by Their Purpose and Values When Deciding Whether or Not to Exit Russia." Fortune (May 12, 2022).
  • May 1983 (Revised May 2015)
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The Carlton Polish Company

By: William A. Sahlman
Students are asked to determine the fair market value of Carlton Polish Co. and decide if Mr. Carlton should buy out his partner's half for $25 million. Carlton's alternative is to sell his half for $25 million. Students must also evaluate a financing plan. View Details
Keywords: Value; Financing and Loans; Partners and Partnerships; Leveraged Buyouts; Fair Value Accounting
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Sahlman, William A. "The Carlton Polish Company." Harvard Business School Case 283-008, May 1983. (Revised May 2015.)
  • 19 Jan 2011
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Activist Board Members Increase Firm’s Market Value

Public company shareholders have long complained that corporate boards don't always act in the best interest of their investors. But does the addition of a shareholder-sponsored board member increase the market View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • August 2021
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Yummy: Delivering Value to Venezuela

By: Ayelet Israeli, Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago and Carla Larangeira
By June 2021, Yummy had become Venezuela’s first and largest food delivery app and last-mile logistics company. In Caracas, the nation’s capital, Yummy held a 55% market share, while operations in other cities had already started to take place, including in three of... View Details
Keywords: Internet and the Web; Health Pandemics; Business Startups; Growth and Development Strategy; Expansion
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Israeli, Ayelet, Jenyfeer Martinez Buitrago, and Carla Larangeira. "Yummy: Delivering Value to Venezuela." Harvard Business School Case 522-034, August 2021.
  • September 2002 (Revised April 2004)
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Valuing Cash Flows in an International Context

Addresses the question of how to value cash flows in an international context. Focuses on entrepreneurial ventures, but its content applies to finance issues that arise in established multinational enterprises. Addresses cash flows, discount rates, country risk... View Details
Keywords: International Finance; Valuation; Cash Flow
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Kuemmerle, Walter, and Matias Braun. "Valuing Cash Flows in an International Context." Harvard Business School Background Note 803-028, September 2002. (Revised April 2004.)
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The Ecosystem of Shared Value

By: Mark R. Kramer and Marc W. Pfitzer
Governments, NGOs, companies, and community members must all be involved in programs to create shared value, yet they work more often in opposition than in alignment. A movement known as collective impact has facilitated successful collaborations in the social sector,... View Details
Keywords: Social Entrepreneurship; Cooperation
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Kramer, Mark R., and Marc W. Pfitzer. "The Ecosystem of Shared Value." Harvard Business Review 94, no. 10 (October 2016): 80–89.
  • 19 Sep 2005
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Rethinking Company Loyalty

says Grantham. Based on her interest and commitment to furthering her career, as well as on her educational background and strengths—including attention to detail, adherence to rules, and persistence—the company offered her the position... View Details
Keywords: by Lauren Keller Johnson
  • June 2024
  • Module Note

Value Creation Potential of New Business Models

By: David J. Collis
A business model is composed of three elements. These describe a generic way of creating value and identify the maximum potential value of that model for customers. The elements of a business model are the “job to be done” for the customer, the asset configuration, or... View Details
Keywords: Business Model; Corporate Strategy; Mission and Purpose; Competitive Strategy; Value Creation
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Collis, David J. "Value Creation Potential of New Business Models." Harvard Business School Module Note 724-491, June 2024.
  • 12 Feb 2001
  • Research & Ideas

Creating Value Across Borders

being created, while in others, the stock of technical knowledge that can potentially be transferred into new ventures is locked up in companies. The best example is Japan, where most innovations are generated within research laboratories operated by large View Details
Keywords: by Staff
  • 10 Jun 2019
  • Working Paper Summaries

Going Digital: Implications for Firm Value and Performance

Keywords: by Wilbur Chen and Suraj Srinivasan
  • 11 Aug 2003
  • Research & Ideas

Why Budgeting Kills Your Company

The average billion-dollar company spends as many as 25,000 person-days per year putting together the budget. If this all paid off in shareholder return, that would be fine. But few organizations can make that claim. In fact, many firms... View Details
Keywords: by Loren Gary
  • 07 Mar 2007
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How Do You Value a “Free” Customer?

Businesspeople understand that not all customers are created equal—the 80-20 rule suggests that over time a small percentage of a company's customer base can generate a high percentage of its sales and profit. Models for calculating customer lifetime View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Web Services
  • 2000
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The Role of the Business Model in Capturing Value Innovation: Evidence from Xerox Corporation's Technology Spinoff Companies

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Chesbrough, Henry W., and Richard S. Rosenbloom. "The Role of the Business Model in Capturing Value Innovation: Evidence from Xerox Corporation's Technology Spinoff Companies." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 01-002, July 2000.
  • 2019
  • Working Paper

Who Should Select New Employees, Headquarters or the Unit Manager? Consequences of Centralizing Hiring at a Retail Chain

By: Carolyn Deller and Tatiana Sandino
We examine how changing the allocation of hiring decision rights in a multiunit organization affects employee-firm match quality, contingent on a unit’s circumstances. Our research site, a US retail chain, switched from a decentralized hiring model (hiring by business... View Details
Keywords: Control; Selection; Decentralization; Company Values; Retail Chains; Decision Making; Economics; Geography; Employees; Selection and Staffing; Organizational Design; Situation or Environment; Retail Industry
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Deller, Carolyn, and Tatiana Sandino. "Who Should Select New Employees, Headquarters or the Unit Manager? Consequences of Centralizing Hiring at a Retail Chain." Harvard Business School Series in Accounting and Control, No. 16-088, January 2016. (Revised August 2019. Forthcoming in The Accounting Review.)
  • 2021
  • Working Paper

Quantifying the Value of Iterative Experimentation

By: Iavor I Bojinov and Jialiang Mao
Over the past decade, most technology companies and a growing number of conventional firms have adopted online experimentation (or A/B testing) into their product development process. Initially, A/B testing was deployed as a static procedure in which an experiment was... View Details
Keywords: Product Development; Value Creation; Research
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Bojinov, Iavor I., and Jialiang Mao. "Quantifying the Value of Iterative Experimentation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 24-059, March 2024.
  • January 2013 (Revised April 2015)
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Affinity Labs: Valuing Customer Growth

By: Joseph B. Lassiter III and Elizabeth Kind
In November 2006, Chris Michel left Military.com, which he founded in 1999, to start Affinity Labs, a global network of online communities. That month, Michel raised a Series A round of venture funding and established a partnership with Monster, which he had sold... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Business Startups; Entrepreneurship; Demand and Consumers; Partners and Partnerships; Social and Collaborative Networks; Online Technology
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Lassiter, Joseph B., III, and Elizabeth Kind. "Affinity Labs: Valuing Customer Growth." Harvard Business School Case 813-147, January 2013. (Revised April 2015.)
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