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AI Framework New AI business idea with framework Presentation design is pretty personal and cultural. It depends on your preference about design, complexity of messages and organizational culture. Even with completely same message, the bes…
Outback LBO deal by Bain Capital In 2007, Bain Capital partnered with Catterton Partners and other investors to execute a leveraged buyout (LBO) of OSI Restaurant Partners, the parent company of Outback Steakhouse. OSI Restaurant Partners …
How we should evaluate technical capability in M&A from PE perspective? Is there enough room to improve? How was the price? Over-pricing or underestimated? We reviewed three acquistion targets, Seagate-Hard drive manufacturers, McAfee, and…
LBO modeling Leveraged Buyout (LBO) modeling is a key tool used by private equity (PE) firms to evaluate the potential acquisition of a company using a significant amount of debt. The goal is to achieve high returns by using leverage, impr…
sloanreview.mit.edu The challenges that many established and successful companies face in today's rapidly changing business environment, particularly with the increasing pace of digitalization. To succeed in leading organizational transfor…
Main story The Secret Sharer (Illustrated) (English Edition) 作者:Conrad, Joseph Amazon Here is a summary by ChatGPT. "The Secret Sharer" is a short story written by Joseph Conrad, first published in 1910. The story is about a young sea ca…
Today's class was a guest speaker series from Pete Koomen, visiting group partner of Y combinator and founder of Optimizely. Obama 2008 campaign Obama's $60 million dollar experiment - Optimizely There were a bunch of testing plans in Obam…
Spin off basics Nowadays, a lot of companies simplify their business and improve the clarity of business. This kind of simplification through spin-off and split-off opposed to diversification has frequently been examined in the healthcare …
Are you technical enough for "PM", "Developer" or CEO? medium.com It is a frequently discussed question that the sufficient level of technical skillset for a good project manager. Should they dive into coding detail? Or is it OK to draw so…
Summary of "linking" between two components In a nutshell, you put "plus" for positive causality between two variables, and put "minus" for "negative" causality. Common mistakes for causal loops When we set up a variable, the common mistak…
AI would be a true threat to humans? If you are familiar with sci-fi, AI is a definitely threatening technology that potentially destroys human beings as Skynet in Terminator 2 did. But will it really happen? waitbutwhy.com The point is th…
This course is to learn potential AI roles from various perspectives without any technical deep-dive. The goal of this course is to help you become an architect to draw a blue print. Not a builder. The failure of AI comes from typically ar…
When a company buys a target, there are many ways to offer your target. In this blog, I will write down who the stakeholders are and what typical questions they have. Stakeholders and questions about valuation Shareholders of target compan…
Product Manager You Are…. a janitor, essentially. | by Mat Balez | All Things Product Management | Medium The Product Manager - Background Note - Faculty & Research - Harvard Business School Two primary responsibilities A product manager h…
8I am taking a Merger and Acquisition class and the following textbook is the best one to study fundamental of M&A. ISE Principles of Corporate Finance 作者:Brealey, Richard,Myers, Stewart,Allen, Franklin McGraw-Hill Education Ltd Amazon T…
Some people argue that what you learn in an MBA can be covered in a few books. I strongly oppose this opinion, which is the most stupid about MBA. stephmui.notion.site This article introduced exciting insights about the meaning of getting …
Today, professor Lori kindly organized an additional session for our strategic leader communication. We quickly reviewed some frameworks and remarkable past presentations by outstanding leaders. However, today's deep dive was "communicatio…
Summary of ChatGPT Everyone becomes mad about ChatGPT. There are plenty of articles explaining how innovative it is and why it is disruptive. I just summarized my thoughts about ChatGPT technology in NLP context and picked up some insightf…
Robert C. Pozen | MIT Sloan provided us a really insightful summary of leadership. Nurture your external leadership Engage with your customers Prioritize the time with your customers Build not transaction but relationship Listen to them an…
Fundamentals of startup finance Venture capital provides funds to build companies from the earliest stages to freestanding, mature organizations. Limited partners(LPs): institutional net worth investors providing capital to VC funds. They …
To understand companies' sales strategy and status, I will write down comprehensive lists of interview questions. Understand numbers Besides economics, we need to understand "where is a bottle neck" Potential lead Qualified lead to sales D…
The basic structure of communciation Five interactive variables Communicator Message Channel Audience Culture Communicatio style When you should use tell/sell style? You have sufficient information You do not need to hear others' opinions,…
Dragon's Den www.youtube.com Cheeky Chompers sell baby products and two ladies made presenation in front of investors. Their feedbacks were really terrible. However, after this program, their sales recorded over 1M GBP. What is your core W…
For what kind of products we should adopt Field Sales? Field sales is a DIRECT selling motion referring to the selling ofproducts or services by sales reps outside the office.Sales people literally go out into the “field” to meet with pros…
4 steps to get great outcomes PREPARE CREATE VALUE DISTRIBUTE VALUE FOLLOW THROUGH 1. PREPARE Clarify your mandate and define your team Estimate Best Alternative to Negotiated Agreements(BATNA) yours and theirs Know your own interests and …
This course is exploring how bankers and companies think about finance and how to make a decision from various financial information. Most classes have case studies and assignments. It is our core and quite intensive program. Ratio Analysi…
Entrepreneurial Negotiation is basically about negotiation, but it is focusing on startup negotiation. Why is it so specific to startup negotiation? Because startup landscapes is massively different from other negotiations. They don't have…
CAC and LTV CAC(Customer acquisition cost) and LTV(Live time value) are the most important financial metrics to measure your GTM strategy. GTM strategies are no longer funnel structure, it would be 4 different looping process. Lead Qualifi…
15.778 INTRODUCTION TO OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT In this course, we learn fundamental concepts in operation management such as throughput rate, Little's law, inventory management, and machine learning optimization. As I introduced in this blog…
Introduction to operation management This course provides concepts, techniques, and tools to design, analyze and improve core strategic and operational capabilities. It covers broad industries and applications. Provides concepts, technique…