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Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg Goes Back to Harvard Harvard Business School MBA candidates are preparing to hear from one of the school’s most high profile alumnus — Sheryl Sandberg.  She’s the “Class Day” speaker ahead of graduation tomorrow. Unlike Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who never graduated from Harvard, Sandberg graduated from Harvard College in 1991, first in her major, economics, and graduated from Harvard Business School in 1995, getting her MBA “with highest distinction.” Full Story Photo:Moritz Hager | World Economic Forum
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Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg Goes Back to Harvard

Harvard Business School MBA candidates are preparing to hear from one of the school’s most high profile alumnus — Sheryl Sandberg.  She’s the “Class Day” speaker ahead of graduation tomorrow. Unlike Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg, who never graduated from Harvard, Sandberg graduated from Harvard College in 1991, first in her major, economics, and graduated from Harvard Business School in 1995, getting her MBA “with highest distinction.”

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How Do You Put a Price on Facebook?


How Do You Put A Price On FacebookFacebook doesn’t need the money. And investors say the price tag almost doesn’t matter. So how do you put a price on something that many say is priceless?

That’s the task today facing an elite few: Lead underwriter Morgan Stanley, co-underwriters JPMorgan and Goldman Sachs, select Facebook executives, and a pricing committee from the board of directors. In the span of just a few minutes around market close, they’ll finally come to a conclusion on what the world’s largest social network is worth.

Speculators have been gambling on that worth for years. Shares have traded on private markets since early 2008, and changed hands last at $43.50 a share in early April, at a valuation of $109 billion. By that measure, expectations set by Facebook’s underwriters, might appear conservative.

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