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- 22 Apr 2020
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How Investors Are Sizing Up Climate Change’s Risks—and Opportunities
Until a few years ago, climate change’s potential impact seemed abstract for many investors. Now, as sea levels rise, hurricanes intensify, and droughts threaten food supplies, many investors are confronting its financial realities. But it’s not a simple calculation....
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Marla Malcolm Beck
When most high school seniors were thinking about college applications and prom dates, Marla Malcolm Beck was thinking about business. Smart and athletic, Beck played volleyball and softball and she was accepted to the University of...
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Lara Hodgson
It seemed patently inefficient; the small businesses with a high cost of capital essentially funding the big players with all the cash. While many entrepreneurs might have been sunk by the conundrum,...
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- 08 Dec 2015
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December 8, 2015
five-year period. We find that customers defect at a higher rate from the incumbent following increased service quality (price) competition only when the incumbent offers high (low) quality service relative to existing competitors in a...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 01 May 2006
- Research & Ideas
What Companies Lose from Forced Disclosure
wants. When information is not contractible, typically for cost reasons, a firm's ability to offset the distortions caused by career concerns is limited. Q: What unique insight does the model you propose in these papers offer in terms of...
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- 01 Jun 2017
- News
Supercharged
EVs want to conquer the mass market, they’ll need to, well, crush it. Until recently, the EV market had a high end and a low end—but no real middle. On the one hand, there was Tesla, which entered the market from the top. On the other,...
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- 18 Sep 2018
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New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018
suggest that in many commonly regulated markets in which firms share similar cost structures, firms are likely to experience incentives to ratchet down and delay the introduction of innovative products. The study highlights the importance...
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Dina Gerdeman
- 01 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Immigrant Innovators: Job Stealers or Job Creators?
prominent high-tech firms that say every immigrant creates jobs, claiming figures as high as six new American jobs for every immigrant hired," Kerr says. "On the opposite side you have people who are fiercely opposed to the program,...
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- 22 Dec 2016
- Op-Ed
The Small Business Administration is a Model for How to Drive Economic Growth
critical (but often neglected) part of the economy, all at a low cost to taxpayers. Gallup and other surveys show high support for small businesses. However, programs that support small businesses are not...
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by Karen Mills
- 13 Nov 2018
- News
Building a New Real Estate Investment Model
working to solve that problem by investing in single-family homes in gentrifying communities, renovating them to high standards, and then offering them as rental units to working-class residents at rent-reasonable prices. It is an...
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- 13 Dec 2006
- Research & Ideas
Improving Public Health for the Poor
low cost or a business providing goods or services that end or reduce respiratory ailments. Bringing together public healthcare and market forces "could have huge impact," says Chu. That feeling was underscored by Chu's own...
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- 10 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis
financial crisis, but they may be hard to get rid of. The Washington political system struggles to deal with this gigantic fiscal challenge, and—no surprise—large tax increases and large expenditure reductions are not high on politicians'...
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- 13 Feb 2020
- News
Honoring a Legend
broader impact on the world. “It was super flattering to be selected,” says Nussey, whose companies have created thousands of jobs and billions of dollars in value over his career. He cofounded a software company in high school and...
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Margie Kelley
- 26 Nov 2013
- First Look
First Look: November 26
workforce is not a quick fix to control costs or improve the quality of care. A poorly planned redesign can even result in increased costs and decreased quality. Changes in skill mix and role definitions...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Feb 2012
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First Look: February 7
2011) Abstract In this paper, we assess the economic viability of innovation by producers relative to two increasingly important alternative models: innovations by single-user individuals or firms and open collaborative innovation. We analyze the design View Details
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Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Sep 2016
- News
MaiTai Global and Kiteboarding
switches hubs, which I started funding a bunch of companies there. I set up one of the first internet companies in Asia, in 1994. And as I progressed, I went from chips, to boxes, to networks, to then, applications. And then, I think when...
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- 24 Dec 2013
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First Look: December 24
environments and does not seem to be explained by measurement error. Third, difference in differences estimates with respect to the cost of effort, due to weather shocks and popular sport events, reveal that the observed difference...
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Carmen Nobel
- 05 Nov 2013
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First Look: November 5
levels, and prices and show that competition with privacy has several effects on the marketplace. First, competition drives the provision of services with a low level of disclosure. Second, competition ensures that services with a high...
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Sean Silverthorne
- 06 Mar 2007
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First Look: March 6, 2007
(Brazil, Russia, India, and China). Experts agreed that for Brazil to grow like other BRIC countries, the Brazilian government would have to reduce the cost of doing business in the country ("Brazil cost"). At the same time,...
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Martha Lagace
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Supplemental Financial Information - Annual Report 2019
primarily driven by growth at Executive Education, Publishing, and Online. All three groups delivered solid operating margin leverage on sales growth in fiscal 2019, and Online generated an operating surplus for the first time. Despite increases in compensation and...
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