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  • 20 Apr 2021
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Returning to the Office in an Optimal Way

  • 08 May 2017
  • News

In Macron, supporters see a champion of optimism

  • September 24, 2024
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4 Steps That Can Optimize Your Sales Process

By: Frank V. Cespedes, Scott Peterson and Daniel Weinfurter
Sales is a performance art where outcomes matter, so most advice here focuses on closing the sale. But a close is the result of actions and choices that occur earlier in the process: how much time and effort to spend on customer discovery (understanding what and to... View Details
Keywords: Sales; Customer Satisfaction; Growth and Development Strategy; Competitive Advantage
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Cespedes, Frank V., Scott Peterson, and Daniel Weinfurter. "4 Steps That Can Optimize Your Sales Process." Harvard Business Review (website) (September 24, 2024).
  • October 2014
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Optimization and Expansion at OpenTable — slide supplement

By: Benjamin Edelman
Supplements case 915003 View Details
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Edelman, Benjamin. "Optimization and Expansion at OpenTable — slide supplement." Harvard Business School PowerPoint Supplement 915-701, October 2014.
  • February 2007 (Revised April 2007)
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10 Uncommon Values®: Optimizing the Stock-Selection Process (TN)

By: Boris Groysberg and Paul M. Healy
Keywords: Stocks; Values and Beliefs
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Groysberg, Boris, and Paul M. Healy. "10 Uncommon Values®: Optimizing the Stock-Selection Process (TN)." Harvard Business School Teaching Note 407-073, February 2007. (Revised April 2007.)
  • 01 May 2020
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Use Tested Techniques To Help Optimize Your Performance

  • September 2022
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On CUE: The Quest for Optimal Customer Unit Economics

By: Elie Ofek, Barak Libai and Eitan Muller
Startups are often evaluated by how well they perform on unit economics, defined as the ratio of a customer’s lifetime value (LTV) to acquisition costs (CAC). A common target for unit economics, advocated by many VCs and analysts, is 3:1 (i.e., LTV/CAC=3). While there... View Details
Keywords: Unit Economics; Business Startups; Performance Evaluation; Customer Value and Value Chain; Customer Relationship Management; Analysis
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Ofek, Elie, Barak Libai, and Eitan Muller. "On CUE: The Quest for Optimal Customer Unit Economics." Harvard Business School Background Note 523-050, September 2022.
  • Winter 2016
  • Article

Analytics for an Online Retailer: Demand Forecasting and Price Optimization

By: Kris J. Ferreira, Bin Hong Alex Lee and David Simchi-Levi
We present our work with an online retailer, Rue La La, as an example of how a retailer can use its wealth of data to optimize pricing decisions on a daily basis. Rue La La is in the online fashion sample sales industry, where they offer extremely limited-time... View Details
Keywords: Internet and the Web; Price; Forecasting and Prediction; Revenue; Sales; Retail Industry
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Ferreira, Kris J., Bin Hong Alex Lee, and David Simchi-Levi. "Analytics for an Online Retailer: Demand Forecasting and Price Optimization." Manufacturing & Service Operations Management 18, no. 1 (Winter 2016): 69–88.
  • 19 Aug 2009
  • Working Paper Summaries

The Optimal Taxation of Height: A Case Study of Utilitarian Income Redistribution

Keywords: by N. Gregory Mankiw & Matthew Weinzierl
  • 2009
  • Working Paper

Anticommons and Optimal Patent Policy in a Model of Sequential Innovation

By: Gaston Llanes and Stefano Trento
We present a model of sequential innovation in which an innovator uses several research inputs to invent a new good. These inputs, in turn, must be invented before they can be used by the final innovator. As a consequence, the degree of patent protection affects the... View Details
Keywords: Cost; Revenue; Policy; Innovation and Invention; Patents; Research; Motivation and Incentives
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Llanes, Gaston, and Stefano Trento. "Anticommons and Optimal Patent Policy in a Model of Sequential Innovation." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 09-148, June 2009.
  • February 1979
  • Background Note

Note on the Theory of Optimal Capital Structure

By: William E. Fruhan Jr.
Examines the interrelationship between the maximization of the share value of a firm's common stock and the minimization of the firm's weighted average cost of capital. Presents a revised version of a case by J.W. Mullins, Jr. View Details
Keywords: Capital Structure; Cost of Capital; Stock Shares; Core Relationships; Value
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Fruhan, William E., Jr. "Note on the Theory of Optimal Capital Structure." Harvard Business School Background Note 279-069, February 1979.
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De Gustibus non est Taxandum: Heterogeneity in Preferences and Optimal Redistribution

By: Benjamin B Lockwood and Matthew Weinzierl
The prominent but unproven intuition that preference heterogeneity reduces redistribution in a standard optimal tax model is shown to hold under the plausible condition that the distribution of preferences for consumption relative to leisure rises, in terms of... View Details
Keywords: Motivation and Incentives; Income; Decision Choices and Conditions; Consumer Behavior; Taxation; Microeconomics; Macroeconomics
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Lockwood, Benjamin B., and Matthew Weinzierl. "De Gustibus non est Taxandum: Heterogeneity in Preferences and Optimal Redistribution." Journal of Public Economics 124 (April 2015): 74–80. (Also NBER Working Paper Series, No. 17784, September 2014 and Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-063, January 2012.)
  • January 2011
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AIC Netbooks: Optimizing Product Assembly, Spreadsheet Supplement (Brief Case)

By: Steven C. Wheelwright and Sunru Yong
Keywords: Production Management; Management; Production
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Wheelwright, Steven C., and Sunru Yong. "AIC Netbooks: Optimizing Product Assembly, Spreadsheet Supplement (Brief Case)." Harvard Business School Spreadsheet Supplement 114-247, January 2011.
  • 1981
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Sparsity and Piecewise Linearity in Large Portfolio Optimization Problems

By: André Perold and Harry M. Markowitz
Keywords: Investment Portfolio; Mathematical Methods
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Perold, André, and Harry M. Markowitz. "Sparsity and Piecewise Linearity in Large Portfolio Optimization Problems." In Sparse Matricies and Their Uses, edited by I. S. Duff. Academic Press, 1981.
  • February 1996
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Optimal Debt Structure and the Number of Creditors

By: David S. Scharfstein and Patrick Bolton
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Scharfstein, David S., and Patrick Bolton. "Optimal Debt Structure and the Number of Creditors." Journal of Political Economy 104, no. 1 (February 1996): 1–25.
  • March 1975
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Optimal Strategies in Repeated Games with Incomplete Information

By: Elon Kohlberg
Keywords: Games, Gaming, and Gambling; Strategy; Information
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Kohlberg, Elon. "Optimal Strategies in Repeated Games with Incomplete Information." International Journal of Game Theory 4, no. 1 (March 1975): 7 – 24.
  • 04 Feb 2012
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Essay: Is There an Optimal Degree of Sustainability?

  • 2020
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Fast Exact Matrix Completion: A Unified Optimization Framework for Matrix Completion

By: Dimitris Bertsimas and Michael Lingzhi Li
We formulate the problem of matrix completion with and without side information as a non-convex optimization problem. We design fastImpute based on non-convex gradient descent and show it converges to a global minimum that is guaranteed to recover closely the... View Details
Keywords: Mathematical Methods
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Bertsimas, Dimitris, and Michael Lingzhi Li. "Fast Exact Matrix Completion: A Unified Optimization Framework for Matrix Completion." Journal of Machine Learning Research 21, no. 1 (2020).
  • 2014
  • Working Paper

De Gustibus non est Taxandum: Heterogeneity in Preferences and Optimal Redistribution

By: Benjamin B Lockwood and Matthew Weinzierl
The prominent but unproven intuition that preference heterogeneity reduces redistribution in a standard optimal tax model is shown to hold under the plausible condition that the distribution of preferences for consumption relative to leisure rises, in terms of... View Details
Keywords: Spending; Policy; Taxation; Theory; United States
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Lockwood, Benjamin B., and Matthew Weinzierl. "De Gustibus non est Taxandum: Heterogeneity in Preferences and Optimal Redistribution." Harvard Business School Working Paper, No. 12-063, January 2012. (Updated September 2014. NBER Working Paper Series, No. 17784. Published in Journal of Public Economics.)
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Optimal Investment, Monitoring, and the Staging of Venture Capital

By: Paul A. Gompers
Keywords: Investment; Venture Capital
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Gompers, Paul A. "Optimal Investment, Monitoring, and the Staging of Venture Capital." Journal of Finance 50, no. 5 (December 1995): 1461–1489.
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