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- July 2023
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Takahashi-Alexander Revisited: Modeling Private Equity Portfolio Outcomes Using Historical Simulations
By: Dawson Beutler, Alex Billias, Sam Holt, Josh Lerner and TzuHwan Seet
In 2001, Dean Takahashi and Seth Alexander of the Yale University Investments Office developed a deterministic model for estimating future cash flows and valuations for the Yale endowment’s private equity portfolio. Their model, which is simple and intuitive, is still...
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Beutler, Dawson, Alex Billias, Sam Holt, Josh Lerner, and TzuHwan Seet. "Takahashi-Alexander Revisited: Modeling Private Equity Portfolio Outcomes Using Historical Simulations." Journal of Portfolio Management 49, no. 7 (July 2023): 144–158.
- September 2001 (Revised April 2002)
- Case
Ocean Carriers
By: Erik Stafford, Angela Chao and Kathleen Luchs
In January 2001, Mary Linn, vice president of finance for Ocean Carriers, a shipping company with offices in New York and Hong Kong, was evaluating a proposed lease of a ship for a three-year period, beginning in early 2003. The customer was eager to finalize the...
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Cash Flow;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Cost of Capital;
Leasing;
Corporate Strategy;
Valuation;
Shipping Industry;
New York (city, NY);
Hong Kong
Stafford, Erik, Angela Chao, and Kathleen Luchs. "Ocean Carriers." Harvard Business School Case 202-027, September 2001. (Revised April 2002.)
- 2009
- Other Unpublished Work
Steering Monetary Policy Through Unprecedented Crises
By: David Moss and Cole Bolton
In early April 2008, economic conditions in Europe appeared to be deteriorating on almost all fronts: sales figures were falling, business and consumer confidence were slumping, forecasts for European growth were being revised downward, and inflation was rising. In...
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- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Curb Appeal
Jessica Tisch (JD/MBA 2008) has a problem. And she couldn’t be happier about it. It’s a chilly February morning in Lower Manhattan, and Tisch, who was appointed commissioner of the Department of Sanitation (DSNY) last April, has only hours to pivot the world’s largest...
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Student Research - Doctoral
Off-Grid Lighting Business Models to Serve the Poor: Field Experiments and Structural Analysis By: Bhavani Shanker Uppari, Serguei Netessine, Ioanna Popescu and Rowan P. Clarke 01 MAY 2024 | Management Science Human-Computer Interactions in Demand View Details
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Bridging Science and Business: My Summer Internship at Eli Lilly - MBA
Blog Blog MBA Voices Filter Results Arrow Down Arrow Up Read posts from Author Alumni Author Career and Professional Development Staff Author HBS Community Author HBS Faculty Author MBA Admissions Author MBA Students Topics Topics 1st Year (RC) 2+2 Program 2nd Year...
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BCC Research | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
engineering food and beverage industry instrumentation and sensors manufacturing nanotechnology plastics safety and security energy resources fuel cell technology battery technology internet of things alternative energy life sciences View Details
- 18 Mar 2013
- HBS Case
HBS Cases: LEGO
turnaround book, but it doesn't work." One continuing problem: the company's growing complexity was choking it. Adding more bricks made products harder to assemble, forecasts harder to determine, and inventory harder to manage....
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Harvard Business School Working Papers Collection | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Economics)The world's largest collection of on-line economics working papers, journal articles, and software.Federal Reserve Board: Working PapersSubjects such as monetary policy, credit, and banking regulations; and empirical research on government debt, bond prices...
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Topics - HBS Working Knowledge
(7) Financial Statements (1) Financial Strategy (9) Financing and Loans (21) Food (11) Forecasting and Prediction (24) Foreign Direct Investment (5) Forms of Communication (4) Framework (7) Game Theory (4) Games, Gaming, and Gambling (7)...
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- March–April 2023
- Article
Market Segmentation Trees
By: Ali Aouad, Adam Elmachtoub, Kris J. Ferreira and Ryan McNellis
Problem definition: We seek to provide an interpretable framework for segmenting users in a population for personalized decision making. Methodology/results: We propose a general methodology, market segmentation trees (MSTs), for learning market...
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Keywords:
Decision Trees;
Computational Advertising;
Market Segmentation;
Analytics and Data Science;
E-commerce;
Consumer Behavior;
Marketplace Matching;
Marketing Channels;
Digital Marketing
Aouad, Ali, Adam Elmachtoub, Kris J. Ferreira, and Ryan McNellis. "Market Segmentation Trees." Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 25, no. 2 (March–April 2023): 648–667.
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Summer Fellowships | Social Enterprise | Harvard Business School
business model and strategy, and prepared a ten-year financial forecast for presentation to the board. Boston City Hall Kiernan Schmitt (MBA 2018) | Boston, MA This summer, as the Digital Engagement Fellow in the City of Boston's...
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Mintel Reports | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
net worth luxury multiethnic multigenerational Latinx Asian Black, Indigenous and People of Color (BIPOC) competitors market size market share forecasts consumers brands Languages English Back to top
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- 31 Mar 2008
- HBS Case
JetBlue’s Valentine’s Day Crisis
JetBlue founder, chairman, and then-CEO David Neeleman would later call "the worst operational week in JetBlue's seven-year history." A Storm Brews It started with a winter ice storm forecasted to change to rain. With that...
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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research
Underwriters; Big Data; Insurance Companies; Global Warming; Business Model Design; Weather And Climate Change; Weather Insurance; Earnings; Business Model; Forecasting and Prediction; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Green...
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- 26 Aug 2019
- Research & Ideas
Lipstick Tips: How Influencers Are Making Over Beauty Marketing
rising from an estimated $2 billion in 2017 to about $8 billion in 2019. One forecast shows that spending is expected to jump to $15 billion by 2022. In fact, beauty giant Estée Lauder revealed last week that the company is now spending...
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- 11 Jun 2013
- Working Paper Summaries
Measurement Errors of Expected Returns Proxies and the Implied Cost of Capital
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by Charles C.Y. Wang
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Frost & Sullivan | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School
Energy Entrepreneurship Toolkit Health Care India Innovating in Healthcare Medical Devices Pharmaceuticals Sustainability Technology Database AttributesCoverage2000 - CurrentCategories Science & Technology Industries International Markets Keywords mobile chemicals...
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- 01 Oct 2001
- Research & Ideas
How To Make Restructuring Work for Your Company
its consumer tissue products business. Management was quite open in declaring this goal. However, experience suggests that investors and analysts generally reward promises of revenue growth much less than they do evidence of cost reductions. In public financial View Details
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by Stuart C. Gilson
- 14 Mar 2023
- In Practice
What Does the Failure of Silicon Valley Bank Say About the State of Finance?
exhaustion after several years of dealing with surprises ranging from shortages and runs on basic goods to the Fed’s limited ability to control or even forecast inflation. Something will also have to be said eventually about the...
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