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- 03 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 3, 2007
out less-intensive users of the product. High prices do not cause greater product use than low prices for a given buyer, but there is some evidence that the act of paying increases use. Our estimates imply that positive prices may be View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance
incorporate other organizational objectives and managerial interests. For example, tax optimization can be a powerful tool but can also create performance evaluation and incentive problems. Many financial practices out there excessively... View Details
- 20 Jan 2010
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First Look: Jan. 20
self-report of a licensee. Self-reporting gives rise to demand for auditing by the licensor or third-party attestation by the licensee. We characterize the optimal royalty contract, accounting system choice by the licensee, and audit... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Mar 2016
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March 15, 2016
approaches. And it is well understood that creating a new business and optimizing an already existing one are two fundamentally different management challenges. The real problem for leaders is doing both, simultaneously. How do you meet... View Details
- 06 Nov 2007
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First Look: November 6, 2007
balance sheet instead of raising our cash dividends or buying back shares?; Do we have the optimal capital structure, with the lowest weighted after-tax cost of total capital, including debt and equity?; Do we have an operating plan that... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 30, 2007
successful technological innovation—but whose mindsets often clash. The authors dub these two types stewards and creators. An organization's stewards are usually managers; their goal is the careful allocation of the organization's resources, with an aim of achieving an... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 21 Jan 2014
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First Look: January 21
increase performance while social comparison reduces it, especially for low-ability trainees. These effects appear when treatments are announced and persist through training. The findings are consistent with a model of optimal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 20
One method multinationals use to combat gray markets is to increase internal transfer prices to foreign subsidiaries in order to increase the gray market's cost base. We illustrate that when a gray market competitor is present, the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Nov 2006
- Research & Ideas
How South Africa Challenges Our Thinking on FDI
after all. Many companies find it optimal to pick their niche rather than to try to completely diversify across risks. Q: How do you think the South African economy will evolve over the next five to ten years? A: A major test for South... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55802 forthcoming Journal of Medical Economics Time-Driven Activity-Based Cost Analysis for Outpatient Anticoagulation Therapy: Direct Costs in a Primary Care Setting with View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 27 Jun 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
optimality of capital control taxation. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52787 Summer 2017 RAND Journal of Economics Performance Feedback in Competitive Product Development By: Gross, Daniel P.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2015
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October 20, 2015
illustrative example, we show that production subsidies of higher investment and production cost technologies (such as carbon capture and storage technologies) have no effect on the firm's optimal total capacity when firms own a portfolio... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 Apr 2010
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First Look: April 13
behavior and preferences into service cost and productivity standard metrics. Optimal Value and Growth Tilts in Long-Horizon Portfolios Authors:W. Jakub Jurkek and Luis M. Viceira Publication:Review of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 25 Mar 2014
- Research & Ideas
China’s Economic System has Difficult Road Overcoming its Political System
One need only look as far as the bookshelf to see the optimism attached to China's ascension as a world economic and political power. Titles like The Dragon Awakes; The Rise of China; and When China Rules the World predict an inevitable,... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 15 Nov 2012
- Research & Ideas
Funding the Design of Livable Cities
transit, can maximize the return on investment by optimizing natural resource use. For cash-strapped cities the private sector can fill the gap in providing critical funds and designing structures, including public housing and municipal... View Details
- 03 Dec 2008
- What Do You Think?
Can Housing and Credit be “Nudged” Back to Health?
books, by Richard Thaler and Cass Sunstein, maintains that too much economic theory, formed by "Econs," is based on the behavior of homo economicus (economic man, someone with the knowledge and inclination to optimize solutions... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web
chain management and advanced planning and scheduling software embed more advanced algorithms than their predecessors and offer the possibility of optimizing decisions across an entire supply chain, as opposed to within single firms. 52... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
- 26 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 26, 2019
the optimal path to reinvention? Purchase this case:https://hbsp.harvard.edu/product/419012-PDF-ENG Harvard Business School Case 819-075 Yatooq: Longing for Arabic Coffee As one of the few female entrepreneurs in Saudi Arabia, Lateefa... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Aug 2024
- Research & Ideas
Reading the Financial Crisis Warning Signs: Credit Markets and the 'Red-Zone'
post-crisis menu of regulations by and large has been effective.” Layne: How do the stock markets come into play here? They are setting records. Greenwood: It's not just the credit markets that are doing well, the stock market is also doing well. I would say there's a... View Details
- 26 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
facial-expression tracking is used to study viewers’ real-time emotional responses when watching comedy movie trailers online. These data are used to predict both viewers’ intentions to watch the movie and the movie’s box office success. The authors then propose an... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman