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Optimal Reserve Management and Sovereign Debt (with Fabio Kanczuk)
By: Laura Alfaro
Most models currently used to determine optimal foreign reserve holdings take the level of international debt as given. Some of the implications of this analysis, however, may not be generalized once one considers the joint decision to hold debt and reserves by a...
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- February 2023
- Teaching Note
Shinola Detroit: Optimizing Product Line Breadth
By: Robert J. Dolan
Teaching Note for HBS Case No. 520-011.
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- 2015
- Chapter
The Optimal Maturity of Government Debt
By: Robin Greenwood, Samuel Gregory Hanson, Joshua S. Rudolph and Lawrence Summers
Greenwood, Robin, Samuel Gregory Hanson, Joshua S. Rudolph, and Lawrence Summers. "The Optimal Maturity of Government Debt." Chap. 1 in The $13 Trillion Question: How America Manages Its Debt, edited by David Wessel, 1–41. Brookings Institution Press, 2015. (Working Paper version Here.)
- October 1981
- Background Note
Note on Network Optimization Models (Abridged)
By: Roy D. Shapiro
Keywords:
Networks
Shapiro, Roy D. "Note on Network Optimization Models (Abridged)." Harvard Business School Background Note 182-079, October 1981.
- 26 Oct 2009
- News
There is enough room for optimism
- Article
Distributionally Robust Optimization and Its Tractable Approximations
By: Joel Goh and Melvyn Sim
In this paper we focus on a linear optimization problem with uncertainties, having expectations in the objective and in the set of constraints. We present a modular framework to obtain an approximate solution to the problem that is distributionally robust and more...
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Goh, Joel, and Melvyn Sim. "Distributionally Robust Optimization and Its Tractable Approximations." Operations Research 58, no. 4 (pt.1) (July–August 2010): 902–917.
- September 2019
- Article
Optimizing Reserves in School Choice: A Dynamic Programming Approach
By: Franklyn Wang, Ravi Jagadeesan and Scott Duke Kominers
We introduce a new model of school choice with reserves in which a social planner is constrained by a limited supply of reserve seats and tries to find an optimal matching according to a social welfare function. We construct the optimal distribution of reserves via a...
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Wang, Franklyn, Ravi Jagadeesan, and Scott Duke Kominers. "Optimizing Reserves in School Choice: A Dynamic Programming Approach." Operations Research Letters 47, no. 5 (September 2019): 438–446.
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Optimal Value and Growth Tilts in Long-Horizon Portfolios
By: Jakub W. Jurek and Luis M. Viceira
We develop an analytical solution to the dynamic portfolio choice problem of an investor with power utility defined over wealth at a finite horizon, who faces a time-varying investment opportunity set, parameterized using a flexible vector autoregression. We apply this...
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Keywords:
Decision Choices and Conditions;
Private Equity;
Investment;
Investment Portfolio;
Asset Pricing;
Value
Jurek, Jakub W., and Luis M. Viceira. "Optimal Value and Growth Tilts in Long-Horizon Portfolios." Review of Finance 15, no. 1 (January 2011): 29–74.
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Optimal Taxation When Children's Abilities Depend on Parents' Resources
By: Alexander Gelber and Matthew Weinzierl
Empirical research suggests that parents' economic resources affect their children's future earnings abilities. Optimal tax policy therefore treats future ability distributions as endogenous to current taxes. We model this endogeneity, calibrate the model to match...
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Gelber, Alexander, and Matthew Weinzierl. "Optimal Taxation When Children's Abilities Depend on Parents' Resources." National Tax Journal 69, no. 1 (March 2016): 11–40. (Winner, Richard A. Musgrave prize for best paper published in the NTJ.
Also HBS Working Paper 13-014 and NBER Working Paper 18332.)
- 05 Aug 2011
- Working Paper Summaries
An Exploration of Optimal Stabilization Policy
- Article
Optimizing Organic Waste to Energy Operations
By: Baris Ata, Deishin Lee and Mustafa H. Tongarlak
A waste-to-energy firm that recycles organic waste with energy recovery performs two environmentally beneficial functions: it diverts waste from landfill and it produces renewable energy. At the same time, the waste-to-energy firm serves and collects revenue from two...
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Keywords:
Business Ventures;
Energy Generation;
Renewable Energy;
Revenue;
Customers;
Strategy;
Corporate Governance;
Wastes and Waste Processing;
Environmental Sustainability;
Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms;
Cost Management;
Urban Scope
Ata, Baris, Deishin Lee, and Mustafa H. Tongarlak. "Optimizing Organic Waste to Energy Operations." Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 14, no. 2 (Spring 2012): 231–244.
- spring 1969
- Article
Optimal Investigation Strategies with Imperfect Information
By: Robert S. Kaplan
Kaplan, Robert S. "Optimal Investigation Strategies with Imperfect Information." Journal of Accounting Research 7 (spring 1969): 32–43.
- 1996
- Working Paper
The Determinants of Optimal Currency Hedging
By: Kenneth Froot and André Perold
- 2006
- Working Paper
Optimal Reserve Management and Sovereign Debt
By: Laura Alfaro and Fabio Kanczuk
Alfaro, Laura, and Fabio Kanczuk. "Optimal Reserve Management and Sovereign Debt." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 07-010, August 2006. (Also NBER Working Paper No. 13216. NBER Working Paper Series, No. 13216, July 2006)
- May 2010
- Article
Optimal Auction Design and Equilibrium Selection in Sponsored Search Auctions
By: Benjamin Edelman and Michael Schwarz
We characterize the optimal (revenue maximizing) auction for sponsored search advertising. We show that a search engine's optimal reserve price is independent of the number of bidders and independent of the rate at which click-through rate declines over positions. We...
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Edelman, Benjamin, and Michael Schwarz. "Optimal Auction Design and Equilibrium Selection in Sponsored Search Auctions." American Economic Review 100, no. 2 (May 2010): 597–602. (First circulated in 2006 as Optimal Auction Design in a Multi-unit Environment: The Case of Sponsored Search Auctions. Reprinted in The Economics of E-Commerce, Michael Baye and John Morgan, editors, 2016.)
- July 2021 (Revised October 2022)
- Background Note
Product Line Extensions: Optimal or Overdone?
By: Robert J. Dolan
Dolan, Robert J. "Product Line Extensions: Optimal or Overdone?" Harvard Business School Background Note 522-014, July 2021. (Revised October 2022.)
- 08 Nov 2010
- News
Is There an Optimal Rich-Poor Gap?
- January 2021
- Supplement
E-Commerce Analytics for CPG Firms (B): Optimizing Assortment for a New Retailer
By: Ayelet Israeli and Fedor (Ted) Lisitsyn
The E-Commerce Analytics group at the traditional CPG firm was in charge of compiling various online sales reports, as well as making data-driven recommendations for sales and marketing tactics. In a series of exercises, students address different data challenges for...
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Keywords:
Data Analysis;
Data Analytics;
CPG;
Consumer Packaged Goods (CPG);
Online Channel;
Retail;
Retail Analytics;
Retailing Industry;
Data;
Data Sharing;
Ecommerce;
Assortment Optimization;
Assortment Planning;
Analytics and Data Science;
Retention;
Retail Industry;
Consumer Products Industry;
United States
- 12 Sep 2018
- Blog Post
Optimizing the Coaching Experience for Midcareer Professionals
Most HBS students are aware of the complementary coaching opportunities available through Career & Professional Development (CPD). Yet many of them, and their alumni colleagues, may not know that coaching remains available to them long after graduation, and can be...
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