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- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
growth of a company. Not surprisingly, firms spend billions of dollars on marketing. Given these large investments, marketing managers have the responsibility to optimally allocate these resources and demonstrate that these investments... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Web
Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2014
research with power in practice, including multiyear, cross-unit initiatives like the U.S. Competitiveness Project. Faculty research expenses at HBS cut across several line items in the Statement of Activity and Cash Flows. The cost of faculty research includes a... View Details
- 30 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Turning Employees Into Problem Solvers
it's in a hospital or for the United Way: fatigue. "A campaign's optimal duration for maximum benefits is still unclear. At what point do people shut off?" Next Steps To Improve Safety Practices The team's... View Details
- 18 Sep 2000
- Research & Ideas
Big Deals: Financing Large-Scale Investments
has chosen to examine make them difficult to manage and generate conflicts between actual and optimal investment behavior. Indeed, he points out that managers often forgo large, risky projects—even those that are expected to add... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 12 Aug 2008
- Op-Ed
Google-Yahoo Ad Deal is Bad for Online Advertising
receive far lower payments. Other Google practices, particularly Google's restrictions on export and copying of advertisers' campaigns, further hinder competition in Internet advertising-without any countervailing benefit whatever. Google... View Details
- 04 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 4
applications available on it. Our model is based on the observation that even if users prefer application variety, applications often also exhibit direct network effects. When there are direct network effects, users prefer to consume the same applications to View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
Finding The Right Patient-Provider Match
Kyruus, a Boston-based firm he cofounded that helps health care systems to manage their provider data and make it easier to connect patients with the right care—steps that ultimately benefit both patients and practitioners. Gardner... View Details
Keywords: Susan Young
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
that will deliver corporate performance. Finally, I conclude that the field will ultimately require a framework that puts firms at its center. Benefiting from Location: Knowledge Retrieval Authors:Juan Alcácer and Wilbur Chung... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Everything Must Go: A Strategy for Store Liquidation
working paper, doctoral student Nathan Craig and professor Ananth Raman introduce a dynamic approach for optimizing the profitability of store liquidation that increases net recovery on cost by 2 to 7 percent of assets on hand, an... View Details
- 08 Feb 2018
- Op-Ed
What’s Missing From the Debate About Trump’s Tax Plan
this point of view, including most Republican lawmakers, the important thing is to have people pay their fair share of taxes, based on a sense of equal sacrifice or on how much they benefit from government activities that allow our... View Details
Keywords: by Matthew Weinzierl
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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2017
research expenses at HBS—nearly 19 percent of the operating budget—cut across several line items in the Statement of Activity and Cash Flows. The cost of faculty research includes a portion of faculty salary and benefits expense. It also... View Details
- 09 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 9
performers? Though an affirmative answer may seem straightforward on the surface, this answer becomes more complicated when group members benefit from collaborating on interdependent tasks. Examining Wall Street sell-side equities... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
lower. One benefit of CDVCs may be their effect in bringing traditional VC investment to underserved regions: when we control for the presence of traditional VC investments, each additional CDVC investment results in an additional 0.06... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 1
behavioral ethics as the study of systematic and predictable ways in which individuals make ethical decisions and judge the ethical decisions of others that are at odds with intuition and the benefits of the broader society. By focusing... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- Web
Winning with Digital Platforms Online Course | HBS Online
partnering with platform companies Evaluate the optimal means of gathering data Explore defensive strategies companies can use to ward off platform encroachment Consider the benefits of open versus closed... View Details
- 23 Jul 2013
- First Look
First Look: July 23
Publications 2013 pub Does Social Connection Turn Good Deeds into Good Feelings?: On the Value of Putting the 'Social' in Prosocial Spending By: Aknin, Lara B., Elizabeth W. Dunn, Gillian M. Sandstrom, and Michael I. Norton Abstract—When are the emotional View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 19 Aug 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #8: The Role of Solar and Wind Farming (and Other Tools) in the United States’ Clean Energy Future
families, who are no longer able to rely on traditional “crops” because of years’ long drought conditions. The increased tax base also benefits local communities, especially their school systems. And then there are the new jobs, hundreds... View Details
- 28 Mar 2023
- Blog Post
Novo Nordisk
learned details of how Novo Nordisk manufactures within its 1,200,000 square meter facility high-quality active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) that tackle not only diabetes but also hemophilia, growth disorders, and obesity. At their Kalundborg site, Novo Nordisk... View Details
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
IEEE Security & Privacy Accountable? The Problems and Solutions of Online Ad Optimization By: Edelman, Benjamin G. Abstract—Online advertising might seem to be the most measurable form of marketing ever invented. Comprehensive records... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
benefit-based taxation, in which an individual's benefit from public goods is tied to his or her income-earning ability, can be incorporated into modern optimal tax theory. If Lindahl's methods are applied... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne