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    George Serafeim

    George Serafeim is the Charles M. Williams Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School, where he co-leads the Climate and Sustainability Impact Lab in the Digital, Data, and Design Institute. He teaches the course "Risks, Opportunities and... View Details

    Keywords: asset management; insurance industry; automobiles; industrial goods; fashion; food; green technology

      Paul A. Gompers

      Paul Gompers, Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, specializes in research on financial issues related to start-up, high growth, and newly public companies. Professor Gompers has an appointment in both the View Details
      Keywords: electronics; health care; high technology; information technology industry; investment banking industry; pharmaceuticals; semiconductor; venture capital industry
      • June 2018 (Revised April 2021)
      • Supplement

      Valuing Snap After the IPO Quiet Period

      By: Benjamin C. Esty, Marco Di Maggio and Greg Saldutte
      Keywords: Sell-side Analysts; Underwriters; Investment Banking; Social Network; Discounted Cash Flow; Cost Of Capital; Conflicts Of Interest; Corporate Governance; Advertising; Quiet Period; Business Startups; Digital Marketing; Initial Public Offering; Information Infrastructure; Valuation; Venture Capital; Forecasting and Prediction; Social Media; United States; California
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      • June 2018
      • Supplement

      Valuing Snap After the IPO Quiet Period (B)

      By: Marco Di Maggio and Benjamin C. Esty
      Analyzes Snap’s value and analyst recommendations following the events described in the (A) case. View Details
      Keywords: Sell-side Analysts; Underwriters; Investment Banking; Social Network; Discounted Cash Flow; Cost Of Capital; Conflicts Of Interest; Corporate Governance; Advertising; Quiet Period; Business Startups; Digital Marketing; Initial Public Offering; Information Infrastructure; Valuation; Venture Capital; Forecasting and Prediction; Social Media; Advertising Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Web Services Industry; United States; California
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      • June 2018 (Revised October 2018)
      • Teaching Note

      Valuing Snap After the IPO Quiet Period (A), (B), and (C)

      By: Marco Di Maggio and Benjamin C. Esty
      Teaching Note for HBS Nos. 218-095, 218-096, and 218-116. View Details
      Keywords: Sell-side Analysts; Underwriters; Investment Banking; Social Network; Discounted Cash Flow; Cost Of Capital; Conflicts Of Interest; Corporate Governance; Advertising; Quiet Period; Business Startups; Digital Marketing; Initial Public Offering; Information Infrastructure; Valuation; Venture Capital; Forecasting and Prediction; Social Media; Advertising Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Web Services Industry; United States; California
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        Malcolm P. Baker

        Malcolm Baker is the Robert G. Kirby Professor of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School, where he teaches the required course in finance and a short immersive program on investing in life sciences.

        His research is in the... View Details

        Keywords: asset management; biotechnology; financial services; high technology; investment banking industry; pharmaceuticals; private equity (LBO funds); shipping; transportation

          John D. Dionne

          John D. Dionne has been a Senior Lecturer of Business Administration at the Harvard Business School since 2014 and is a recently retired Senior Managing Director and Senior Advisor to Blackstone. He is also Managing Partner of Franconia Capital, a... View Details

            Best-selling and New Cases by Ben Esty

            Best-Selling (MOST POPULAR) Cases:  

              1) Eaton: Portfolio Transformation & Cost of... View Details

            • June 2018
            • Supplement

            Valuing Snap After the IPO Quiet Period (C)

            By: Marco Di Maggio, Benjamin C. Esty and Gregory Saldutte
            Analyzes Snap’s value and analyst recommendations following the events described in the (B) case. View Details
            Keywords: Sell-side Analysts; Underwriters; Investment Banking; Social Network; Discounted Cash Flow; Cost Of Capital; Conflicts Of Interest; Corporate Governance; Advertising; Quiet Period; Business Startups; Digital Marketing; Initial Public Offering; Information Infrastructure; Valuation; Venture Capital; Forecasting and Prediction; Social Media; Advertising Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Web Services Industry; United States; California
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            • May 2008
            • Supplement

            Finansbank 2006 (CW)

            By: C. Fritz Foley and Linnea Meyer
            How do financial policy requirements and benefits of ownership concentration affect the need for and process of corporate restructuring? This case provides students with an opportunity to analyze the restructuring of a Turkish multinational business group by way of a... View Details
            Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Restructuring; Financing and Loans; Policy; Compensation and Benefits; Growth and Development Strategy; Ownership; Business and Shareholder Relations; Banking Industry; Russia; Turkey; Romania; Switzerland; Ukraine
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            • March 2008
            • Article

            When Growth Stalls

            By: Matthew S. Olson, Derek C. M. van Bever and Seth Verry
            This article includes a one-page preview that quickly summarizes the key ideas and provides an overview of how the concepts work in practice along with suggestions for further reading. An abrupt and lasting drop in revenue growth is a crisis that can strike even the... View Details
            Keywords: Growth Strategy; Revenues; Crisis Management; Revenue; Growth and Development Strategy
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            • December 2004 (Revised April 2006)
            • Case

            Nestle and Alcon--The Value of a Listing

            By: Mihir A. Desai, Vincent Dessain and Anders Sjoman
            In response to a perceived undervaluation by the capital markets, Nestle is considering divesting a part of its ophthalmology subsidiary, Alcon, and must decide on a listing location. In the process, students are challenged to wrestle with the valuation of a... View Details
            Keywords: Business Conglomerates; International Finance; Corporate Entrepreneurship; Markets; Taxation; Business Subsidiaries; Valuation; Food and Beverage Industry; Health Industry; Europe; United States
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            • April 2023 (Revised July 2023)
            • Case

            Fermenting Accounting Problems at Vermont Kombucha Corp.

            By: Tatiana Sandino and Marshal Herrmann
            Founded in 2005, Vermont Kombucha Corp. (V-Ko) was an early mover in the fledgling U.S. market for kombucha, a drink brewed for its health benefits. Early on, the company captured more than 90% of market share. Under the leadership of its founder and CEO, Joe Williams,... View Details
            Keywords: Going Public; Business Model; Financial Reporting; Ethics; Corporate Governance; Stock Shares; Food and Beverage Industry
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              W. Carl Kester

              Carl Kester is a Baker Foundation Professor and the George Fisher Baker Jr. Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus at Harvard Business School. He is a member of the Finance Unit. He served as Deputy Dean for Academic Affairs (2006-2010), Chairman of the... View Details

              Keywords: asset management; banking; education industry; financial services; investment banking industry; pharmaceuticals; private equity (LBO funds)
              • November 2003 (Revised March 2004)
              • Case

              Drilling South: Petrobras Evaluates Pecom

              By: Mihir A. Desai and Ricardo Reisen de Pinho
              The Brazilian oil company, Petrobras, is evaluating the acquisition of an Argentine oil company, the Perez Companc Group (Pecom). The acquisition would increase Petrobras' oil reserves and expand its interests outside Brazil, a significant step for the largest company... View Details
              Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Forecasting and Prediction; Financial Crisis; Non-Renewable Energy; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues; Corporate Governance; Risk Management; Emerging Markets; State Ownership; Performance Evaluation; Risk and Uncertainty; Valuation; Energy Industry; Argentina; Brazil
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              • June 2018 (Revised April 2021)
              • Case

              Valuing Snap After the IPO Quiet Period (A)

              By: Marco Di Maggio, Benjamin C. Esty and Gregory Saldutte
              Snap, the disappearing message app, went public at $17 per share on March 2, 2017, making its two 20-something founders the youngest self-made billionaires in the country. Over the next three weeks, 14 analysts made investment recommendations on Snap: two with buy... View Details
              Keywords: Sell-side Analysts; Underwriters; Investment Banking; Social Network; Discounted Cash Flow; Cost Of Capital; Conflicts Of Interest; Corporate Governance; Advertising; Quiet Period; ＂DCF Valuation,＂; Business Startups; Digital Marketing; Initial Public Offering; Information Infrastructure; Valuation; Venture Capital; Forecasting and Prediction; Social Media; Advertising Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Web Services Industry; United States; California
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              • August 1994
              • Case

              Intuit, Inc.

              By: William E. Fruhan Jr.
              The merger of two computer software firms with very rapidly growing non-overlapping products makes great strategic sense, but presents difficult valuation and accounting problems. How can a firm pay $225 million to acquire another firm with negligible current earnings,... View Details
              Keywords: Valuation; Mergers and Acquisitions; Applications and Software; Accounting; Financial Strategy; Goodwill Accounting; Corporate Finance; Information Technology Industry; United States
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              • 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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                Venture Capital and Private Equity: A Casebook

                The 5th edition of Lerner's Venture Capital and Private Equity: A Casebook continues to present the important historical cases of private equity while incorporating a number of new relevant and timely cases from previous best-selling issues. It... View Details
                • September 2014
                • Case

                Landmark Facility Solutions

                By: William Fruhan and Wei Wang
                Landmark Facility Solutions presents a situation in which a medium-sized facility management company assesses whether to acquire a larger facility management company that is known for its high-quality services and technical expertise. The acquirer believes the... View Details
                Keywords: Capital Structure; Valuation; Acquisition; Financial Strategy; Corporate Finance
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