Compass Maritime and
Harvard Business School

Compass Maritime has assisted the Harvard Business School on two new cases, regarding the valuation of ships.

The case study method, pioneered by the Harvard Business School, presents business students with 'real life' business situations where there is no clear black-and-white answer and attempts to elicit from students possible solutions and outcomes as if they had to make the decision in real world situation.

Harvard Business School professors Ben Esty and Al Sheen prepared a case study based on the process of valuing ships - actually, using Tom Roberts of Compass Maritime as case protagonist! [READ MORE]

The second case, Vereinigung Hamburger Schiffsmakler und Schiffsagenten e.V. (VHSS): Valuing Ships, illustrates two valuation methodologies: mark-to-market (comparable transactions where value equals market price) and mark-to-model (discounted cash flow analysis where value equals calculated net present value). [READ MORE]