Subjective Value Of Money - Publications - Faculty & Research

13 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

Managing the Support Staff Identity Crisis

accountability. Focused tightly on the bottom line, these companies don't know how to quantify the value of legacy functions, which often evolve into jobs that simply support those departments that drive the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

17 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Becoming the Next Real Estate Mogul

Potential real estate moguls at the 2001 Harvard Business School Entrepreneurship Conference received an earful about profiting in a down market, creating value where there is none, and the addiction of... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Construction; Real Estate

05 Dec 2005
Research & Ideas

VCs Survey Post-Bubble Opportunities

Even if you have a great deal of money, the best entrepreneurs won't care—they'll just want a good partner. And that comes by building a reputation over time: "It's all about performance—it's easy for an entrepreneur to make a few... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Hanna; Financial Services

18 Jan 2021
Book

How Thinking Like a Startup Helps Governments Solve More Problems

etc., you would get a list of very interesting and sometimes helpful practices. And if you, as a public leader, aren’t doing the things on that list, you should. And if you, the public, aren’t demanding them, you should. But the reality... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

12 May 2011
Research & Ideas

The Difficult Transition from For-Profit to Nonprofit Boards

this happens is one of the many subjects discussed in the new book Joining a Nonprofit Board: What You Need to Know, by authors Marc J. Epstein of Rice University and F. Warren... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

17 Apr 2007
First Look

First Look: April 17, 2007

the right balance between the private benefits of integrated markets and the public value of civic engagement, evidence on the size of the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Mar 2004
Research & Ideas

Loyalty: Don’t Give Away the Store

in the grocery retail business. Loyalty programs do not affect the behavior of best customers. By using rewards programs, retailers give away things for free that their best customers would have bought anyway. Retailers thereby begin to... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls; Consumer Products; Retail

04 Feb 2014
First Look

First Look: February 4

http://ssrn.com/abstract=2280370 A Formal Theory of Strategy By: Van den Steen, Eric Abstract—What makes a decision strategic? When is strategy most important? This paper studies the structure and value... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthlorne

05 Jul 2017
What Do You Think?

Can Innovation Save Us From Ourselves?

Summing Up Do We Need to Give More Attention to the Dark Side of Innovation? Innovation may be able to help us deal with problems such as famine, pollution, and even global warming. But unless it can prove to be just as effective in combating destructive human traits... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Technology

16 Dec 2015
Research & Ideas

Why ‘Sleep on It’ No Longer Sounds Like Great Advice

On It? The Effects of Overnight Sleep on Subjective Preference-Based Choice, forthcoming in the Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. Sleeping on a decision may not lead to a... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Retail

29 May 2014
Research & Ideas

Research Symposium 2014

another company for an amount of money that exceeds the fair market value. Specifically, the FASB was trying to determine whether goodwill should be amortized. To that end, FASB leaders met with leaders from... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Accounting; Health

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Should You Sell Your Digital Privacy?

It's a startling idea: Instead of relying on regulators to protect our privacy against telemarketers, data miners, and consumer companies, we should capitalize on the value of... View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls & Sean Silverthorne; Advertising

18 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

Identify Emerging Market Opportunities

hard for multinationals to figure out the value of South African companies and affects their assessments of potential partners. Executives would do well to identify a country's... View Details

Keywords: by Tarun Khanna, Krishna G. Palepu & Jayant Sinha

19 Mar 2006
Research & Ideas

Unlocking Your Investment Capital

Many companies can double or even triple their capacity to invest in strategic assets and competencies by properly managing their "risk balance sheet," argues Harvard Business School professor Robert C. Merton. In a provocative article on the View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen; Financial Services

07 Jan 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Culture Changers: Managing High-Impact Entrepreneurs

managers can team with creative talent in six "culture industries": Fashion, publishing, art/architecture/design, film, music, and food. Her subjects include fashion pioneer Chanel, publishers Penguin and Atavist, film icons... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics; Food & Beverage; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing

30 Sep 2015
Research & Ideas

Political Polarization: Why We All Just Can't Get Along

Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management. Minor says it was illuminating to use “regular” subjects as opposed to undergrads, who aren’t necessarily representative View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Banking; Financial Services

20 Oct 2014
Research & Ideas

Users Love Ello, But What’s the Business Model?

supply of VC money and told you to start a viable social network, what would it look like? What would it do differently? SG: I wouldn't build a social network for the masses because I think that space is... View Details

Keywords: Re: John A. Deighton & Sunil Gupta; Publishing; Financial Services

09 Sep 2013
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching Climate Change to Skeptics

A few years ago, Joseph B. Lassiter traveled to San Francisco, Houston, and New York to hold discussions with Harvard alumni on the topic of business and the environment. Each time, he surveyed the audience about the touchy View Details