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- 09 Apr 2018
- Blog Post
Is Business School Right for You?
for learning and for using that learning to make a difference in the world, and that’s what makes this all so exciting. As you wait for the cold call to arrive, you wonder how an MBA might fit into your life plans. Would View Details
- 09 Oct 2020
- HBS Seminar
Jeffrey L. Furman, BU, Questrom Sch of Business
- 19 May 2003
- Lessons from the Classroom
Business Plan Winner Targets India Dropouts
Harvard Business School MBA '03 students Raj De Datta, Arvind Krishnamurthy, and Meghna Modi recently won the Social Enterprise track of the annual HBS Business Plan contest with their plan for brokering...
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- 01 Jun 2007
- News
New Program for Science-Based Businesses
scientific discoveries from the lab to the market. The program is designed for executives with strong science backgrounds as well as nontechnical managers with key business responsibilities. HBS faculty will...
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- 17 Mar 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of Business History: A Handbook
business, and how the growing ahistorical nature of much management and economics literature has seriously compromised its legitimacy. In a well-documented process, the spread of quantitative and standardized social science methodologies...
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by Sean Silverthorne
- 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...
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Earnings Management;
Finance;
Cash Flow;
Analytics and Data Science;
Private Ownership;
Valuation
Crane, Dwight B., and Indra Reinbergs. "Note on Valuing Private Businesses." Harvard Business School Background Note 201-060, February 2001. (Revised April 2001.)
- 24 Jan 2022
- News
How B2B Businesses Can Get Omnichannel Sales Right
- Web
Policy - Business & Environment
Confronting Climate Change Policy From obstruction to leadership For much of the last 50 years, powerful segments of the business community have opposed government action on climate change. The fossil fuel industry in particular, seeing...
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- 07 Oct 2014
- News
Business School Professor Argues for 'Decarbonized' Economy
- 19 Sep 2023
- Blog Post
2023 Summer Internships in Business & Environment
What are the career opportunities in business and environment? In Summer 2023, over 100 MBA students found internships at the intersection of business and the environment. This post provides a sample of some...
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- 10 Oct 2019
- Blog Post
Coming Out at Business School
Today is National Coming Out Day, and HBS has been participating in events in celebration of the LGBTQ+ community all week long. Some students came out before business school, and some students wait until they arrive on campus. Many...
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- August 2018 (Revised September 2018)
- Case
LendingClub (A): Data Analytic Thinking (Abridged)
By: Srikant M. Datar and Caitlin N. Bowler
LendingClub was founded in 2006 as an alternative, peer-to-peer lending model to connect individual borrowers to individual investor-lenders through an online platform. Since 2014 the company has worked with institutional investors at scale. While the company assigns...
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Data Science;
Data Analytics;
Investing;
Loans;
Investment;
Financing and Loans;
Analytics and Data Science;
Analysis;
Forecasting and Prediction;
Business Model
Datar, Srikant M., and Caitlin N. Bowler. "LendingClub (A): Data Analytic Thinking (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Case 119-020, August 2018. (Revised September 2018.)
- 11 Feb 2016
- Blog Post
First Came Love, then Came Business School
the aerospace industry. Jocelyne knew for a number of years that she wanted to go to business school – and HBS was the dream. Cory was planning to do his MBA as well, but had no concrete plans until Jocelyne decided to start applying in...
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- 2014
- Working Paper
Making the Business Case for Environmental Sustainability
Can a business case be made for acting sustainably? This is a difficult question to answer precisely, largely because there is no generally accepted definition of the term "sustainability". Is it acting sustainably to protect the human rights of the firm's workforce?...
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Henderson, Rebecca. "Making the Business Case for Environmental Sustainability." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 15-068, February 2015.
- 27 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments
webification of life whereby devices can connect to the "cloud" and provide functions on a mobile, as-needed basis. There is no more need to embed them in the guts of a stationary device. This makes an enormous amount of...
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- 15 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
Why Business IT Innovation is so Difficult
"When you talk to people on the front lines, they know this is complicated and hard," she says. Communication Breakdown Investing in technology change without organizational change won't work either. For the Harvard Business Review...
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by Maggie Starvish
- 09 Jul 2014
- Research & Ideas
How Business Leaders Can Strengthen American Schools
Business has long recognized the connection between an effective school system and a qualified workforce—by some estimates, the private sector invests $4 billion annually in efforts intended to improve public education. So why isn't that...
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Career Support - Business & Environment
property owners to reduce the carbon footprint of their buildings. After studying economics and environmental science at Dartmouth, Giulia Siccardo (MBA 2016) came to HBS to expand her skills with the goal of helping companies reduce...
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- 01 Dec 2019
- News
Developing Leaders Who Bridge Business and Engineering
will provide financial aid for students in the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program, offered jointly by HBS and the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences (SEAS). The gift...
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- 13 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
Cash and the Woman-Owned Business
Building sufficient cash reserves to launch a business and managing subsequent fundraising are challenges for every entrepreneur, but they are particularly daunting tasks for women. Women often come up short of cash at start-up and, when...
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