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    Benjamin C. Esty

    Benjamin Esty is the Roy and Elizabeth Simmons Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Over the years, he has taught a variety of courses ranging from advanced corporate finance and project finance to competitive strategy and leadership. He... View Details

    Keywords: banking; asset management; investment banking industry; consumer products; shipping; wine; financial services
    • August 2013
    • Background Note

    A Simple Free Cash Flow Valuation Model

    By: William A. Sahlman
    Explores some of the issues involved in valuing cash flow streams. A simple model is presented that reveals the effect on value of changing assumptions about the appropriate discount rate, the level of profitability, the growth rate of sales, the asset intensity ratio,... View Details
    Keywords: Cash Flow; Valuation
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    • Program

    Competing in the Age of AI—Virtual

    inherent risks Create opportunities to build competitive advantage Reimagine your company's value propositions to create new revenue streams Redesign organizational systems, processes, and roles to be AI driven Build the skills,... View Details
    • 27 Mar 2020
    • Video

    Leading a Financial Institution in the Era of Climate Change

    • Video

    Alumni Clubs address

    • December 1993 (Revised August 1998)
    • Case

    Bitter Competition: The Holland Sweetener Company versus NutraSweet (A)

    The NutraSweet Co. has very successfully marketed aspartame, a low-calorie, high-intensity sweetener, around the world. NutraSweet's position was protected by patents until 1987 in Europe, Canada, and Japan, and until the end of 1992 in the United States. The case... View Details
    Keywords: Patents; Competitive Strategy; Food and Beverage Industry; Canada; Japan; United States; Europe
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    • 08 Nov 2018
    • Video

    Why an MBA: 2+2

    • August 1996 (Revised June 2007)
    • Case

    Nicholson File Company Takeover (A), The

    By: Thomas R. Piper
    The financial vice president must decide the value and form of an acquisition offer to be made to a small hand tool company. View Details
    Keywords: Negotiation Preparation; Valuation; Negotiation Participants; Negotiation Offer; Acquisition; Manufacturing Industry
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    • 02 Feb 2012
    • News

    Will Facebook Live Up to the Hype?

    • 19 Dec 2006
    • First Look

    First Look: December 19, 2006

    demand. Download working paper: http://www.nber.org/papers/w12756 The Value of a 'Free' Customer Authors:Sunil Gupta, Carl F. Mela, and Jose M. Vidal-Sanz Abstract Central to a firm's growth and marketing policy is the revenue and profit... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Research Summary

    Research Overview

    Eddie Riedl's research focuses on two primary topics: fair value accounting, and international accounting settings. 

    Regarding fair value accounting, his research examines both the critical reporting choices that managers make, as well as... View Details

    • March 2002 (Revised June 2005)
    • Case

    AOL Time Warner, Inc.

    By: Stephen P. Bradley and Erin Sullivan
    AOL Time Warner, which has been billed as the "first fully integrated media and communications company of the Internet Century," raises the fundamental question of how value will be created and captured by the merger of AOL and Time Warner. This case describes just how... View Details
    Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Internet and the Web; Value Creation; Organizational Culture; Consolidation; Change Management; Telecommunications Industry; Media and Broadcasting Industry; United States
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    • 08 Nov 2021
    • Video

    Accelerating the Careers of Diverse Rising Stars

    • September 2020
    • Case

    Drinkworks: Home Bar by Keurig

    By: Sunil Gupta, Jonathan Levav and Julia Kelley
    In the summer of 2018, Drinkworks CEO Nathaniel Davis needed to make a number of go-to-market decisions ahead of his company’s upcoming product launch. Formed through a joint venture between Keurig Dr. Pepper and Anheuser-Busch InBev, Drinkworks had developed an... View Details
    Keywords: Marketing; Marketing Strategy; Product Marketing; Product Launch; Product Positioning; Markets; Bids and Bidding; Demand and Consumers; Consumer Behavior; Market Design; Distribution; Distribution Channels; Product; Product Design; Product Development; Business Model; Customers; Customer Value and Value Chain; Decision Making; Decisions; Goods and Commodities; Innovation and Invention; Technological Innovation; Business or Company Management; Growth and Development Strategy; Research; Research and Development; Strategy; Adoption; Competitive Advantage; Segmentation; Information Technology; Information Infrastructure; Value; Value Creation; Food and Beverage Industry; Consumer Products Industry; North and Central America; United States
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    • February 2003
    • Exercise

    Restructuring the U.S. Steel Industry: Spreadsheet Exercise

    By: William E. Fruhan Jr.
    Description of an EXCEL spreadsheet exercise to test the impact of changes in wage rates on the value of debt and equity securities. View Details
    Keywords: Equity; Debt Securities; Valuation; Wages; Restructuring; Steel Industry
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    Fixed NAVs and Costly Puts: US Money Market Mutual Funds (with Peter Tufano)

    US money market mutual fund investors have been granted an implicit put option that allows them to sell or redeem their shares at a fixed price of $1.00, regardless of the market value of the portfolio.   We describe the institutional features that give rise... View Details
    • Mar 12 2019
    • Testimonial

    Doing Well, While Doing Good

    • February 1996
    • Exercise

    Free Cash Flow Valuation Problem Set

    By: William A. Sahlman and Andrew S. Janower
    Free cash flow valuation problems: 1) build a simple pro forma, 2) value a public company's stock, and 3) evaluate a proposed LBO. View Details
    Keywords: Leveraged Buyouts; Cash Flow; Public Ownership; Problems and Challenges; Valuation
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    • March 2011 (Revised August 2012)
    • Case

    Groupon

    By: Sunil Gupta, Ray Weaver and Dharmishta Rood
    On November 4, 2011, Groupon, a marketing services company that promoted local businesses by selling deeply discounted vouchers for their products and services, completed its initial public offering that valued the company at $17 billion. Within a year Groupon's share... View Details
    Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Customers; Entrepreneurship; Growth and Development; Marketing Channels; Competitive Strategy; Value Creation
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    • Aug 31 2022
    • Testimonial

    Searching for New Perspectives on Digital Maturity