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- 06 Dec 2017
- News
Puzzle Master
business relative to other omnichannel retailers, our data scientists and digital marketing experts optimize our content to deliver a superior and customized customer experience, and we often pilot new partnerships and integrations across...
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- 01 Mar 2007
- News
Private Equity under Investigation
dramatically downsized or announced their intention to cease operations after experiencing investment missteps and succession problems. Meanwhile, new organizations have amassed enormous sums of capital in short periods. Even a quick glance at the annual View Details
- 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...
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- 01 Jun 2000
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Social Capital Markets: Creating Value in the Nonprofit World
taxes, there's an inverse relationship; they end up contributing to society," Emerson says. "We are trying to find out what investments are needed to achieve social value." At HBS, Emerson will explore how investors in the social capital View Details
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Anne Kavanagh
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
Books
boardrooms, academia, and the business press to examine their roles in sustaining or promoting worrisome flaws in the process corporations use to fill their top office. — Laura Singleton (MBA '88) HBS Press Books in Brief As the recent failures of prominent B2B View Details
- 01 Dec 2004
- News
Ideas: Books
Case Studies in International Entrepreneurship by Walter Kuemmerle (McGraw-Hill) This collection of 29 cases based on real situations compares opportunities, financing contexts, valuation approaches, and entrepreneurial styles in the...
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- 01 Jun 2022
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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...
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Jen McFarland Flint
- 01 Jun 2018
- News
Up by the Roots
intent on what Gotsch and her colleague, a senior capital markets consultant at Accenture, had to say—or more precisely, what they had come to ask: Where, exactly, do you look for new and innovative financial technology? The response was...
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- 01 Sep 2020
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2020
are a lifelong gamer, a curious Fortnite parent, or a businessperson seeking to understand the marketing opportunities of this multibillion-dollar phenomenon, The Book of Esports charts the rise of this exciting new industry, crafting a...
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- 01 Oct 1998
- News
Merton Named University Professor
Harvard's most distinguished professorial posts. "Bob Merton has done seminal work in enlarging our theoretical and practical understanding of financial markets and how to manage risk," said Harvard President Neil L. Rudenstine in...
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- 01 Dec 1997
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Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize
generalization of Black and Scholes's valuation method made it possible to customize financial claims to suit the preferences of buyer and seller alike and to price those derivative claims directly. Thus Bob's theories are the analytical...
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- 01 Mar 2004
- News
Reforming Company Boards
structuring and M&A transactions, it was obvious that the focus was not on building shareholder value but on reporting predictable, double-digit earnings growth to achieve temporarily high stock market valuations. The truth has been...
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Corporate Services
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Spray Canon
Taylor Callery Taylor Callery When street artist Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Untitled sold for $110.5 million in 2017, famed art dealer and curator Jeffrey Deitch (MBA 1978) told the New York Times that the artist was “now in the same league as Francis Bacon and Pablo...
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- 01 Dec 2022
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A Quiet Force: Remembering Jay Light
integrative valuation and negotiation classes were used with all 900 students in the first year Finance course in the MBA Program. Dwight Crane, the George Fisher Baker Jr. Professor of Business Administration, Emeritus, says: “Jay had...
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- 01 Jun 2022
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Vision: Into the Breach
local schools and colleges in the education sector and the small- to medium-size businesses it serves in the United States. (The firm also raised $205 million in Series D funding, saw an eightfold increase in year-over-year premium revenues, and reached a View Details
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Alexander Gelfand
- 13 Jul 2011
- News
China Boot Camp
Accounting and Management Unit, Srinivasan says that his research received an immediate boost from the trip. “I have a couple of projects on securities markets and financial reporting in China that have come into sharper focus since the...
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- 17 Oct 2019
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Venturing Away from Venture Capital
today’s largest venture capital firms to focus “almost exclusively [on] chasing unicorns,” leaving companies that boast lower valuations and more modest risk/return profiles out in the cold. Indeed, data suggests that more money is...
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Alexander Gelfand
- 01 Jun 2000
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The Right Connections
impact on the size of the start-up's IPO. "Downstream social capital was essential in attracting the interest of a top investment bank and getting a high valuation for the IPO," Higgins says. Such downstream connections can be valuable...
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Judith A. Ross
- 12 May 2016
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Food Rescue Is on a Mission
being discarded everywhere, particularly at the local Prahran market where they regularly shopped, so he researched the issue, then reached out to lend a hand. With their three young kids, the Carsons filled the back of their Volvo...
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Jill Radsken
- 01 Jun 2012
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Think Locally, Act Globally
valuation of US$10.7 billion, Bharti purchased from Zain, a Kuwaiti firm, its mobile operations in 16 African nations. “It would have taken us years to achieve Zain’s scale,” Mittal explains. “Furthermore, our business model fit...
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