Costing - Publications - Faculty & Research

January 1975 (Revised March 1988)
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Article

The Hidden Costs of Initial Coin Offerings

By: Jeffrey J. Bussgang and Ramana Nanda

In recent years, much has been written about how the Blockchain is poised to transform traditional industries such as banking, real estate, and healthcare. More recently, it has gained attention as a way to finance new ventures, through what is known as an Initial Coin... View Details

Keywords: Initial Coin Offerings; Business Ventures; Entrepreneurship; Finance

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May 2016 (Revised November 2022)
Teaching Note

RegionFly: Cutting Costs in the Airline Industry

By: Susanna Gallani and Eva Labro

Teaching Note for HBS No. 116-047. View Details

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Fall 2004
Article

U.S.-Bound IPOs: Issue Costs and Selective Entry

By: Robert Bruner, Susan Chaplinsky and Latha Ramchand

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2006
Working Paper

The Demise of Cost and Profit Centers

By: Robert S. Kaplan

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June 1994
Article

Flexible Budgeting in an Activity-Based Costing Framework

By: Robert S. Kaplan

Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Framework

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07 Sep 2022
News

The Costs of Being a Perfectionist Manager

20 Jul 2020
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Measure Costs Correctly for Better Patient Outcomes

15 Sep 2015
News

Easing the Costs of Saving a Child

When Kerr Taylor (OPM 39, 2010) and his wife, Jill, returned from Russia in 1998 with his adopted baby girl, Christina, another child remained in his thoughts: a blue-eyed little boy named Andrew left behind in the orphanage. “He’s in my mind today,” says Taylor.... View Details

Keywords: Jill Radsken

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Research: The Cost of a Single U.S. Immigration Restriction

By: Dany Bahar, Prithwiraj Choudhury and Britta Glennon

On June 22, 2020, President Trump passed an Executive Order drastically cutting the number of highly skilled international workers eligible for non-immigrant visas to the U.S. To quantify the impact of this policy, the authors examined the immediate change in stock... View Details

Keywords: Work Visas; H1-B; Restriction; Impact; Immigration; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Cost; Economy

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The Cost of Capital for Alternative Investments

By: Jakub W. Jurek and Erik Stafford

Traditional risk factor models indicate that hedge funds capture pre-fee alphas of 6% to 10% per annum over the period from 1996 to 2012. At the same time, the hedge fund return series is not reliably distinguishable from the returns of mechanical S&P 500 put-writing... View Details

Keywords: Hedge Funds; Required Returns; Downside Risk; Index Options; Investment Funds; Cost of Capital; Investment Return; Risk and Uncertainty; Financial Services Industry

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05 Jan 2011
Op-Ed

Funding Unpredictability Around Stem-Cell Research Inflicts Heavy Cost on Scientific Progress

a new research stream, and there is a low probability you will get funded in a new area. You may be fired. In short, your career is in danger of total meltdown. That is the real cost of our randomized model of research support in the... View Details

Keywords: by William Sahlman; Biotechnology; Health; Pharmaceutical

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Real estate: costs per square foot (commercial)

Where can I find the costs per square foot for commercial real estate construction? There resources provide average costs per square foot: Square Foot Costs Check Harvard... View Details