Timing - Publications - Faculty & Research

19 Jul 2018
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Money won’t make you happier. Time will.

2017
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Investment Timing with Costly Search for Financing

I develop a dynamic model of investment timing in which firms must first choose when to search for external financing. Search is costly and the arrival of investors is uncertain, leading to delay in financing and investment. Depending on parameters, my model can... View Details

Keywords: Real Options; Search And Bargaining; Time-varying Financial Conditions; Investment; Venture Capital; Mathematical Methods

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23 Jul 2013
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Rosabeth Moss Kanter: It’s Time to Innovate

August 1977 (Revised December 1986)
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We're Just Wasting Our Time

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January 1992
Teaching Note

Play Time Toy Company TN

By: Thomas R. Piper

Teaching Note for (9-292-003). View Details

Keywords: Entertainment and Recreation Industry

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May 2023
Technical Note

Dynamic Pricing: Timing is Everything

By: Elie Ofek

This note provides a comprehensive exposition to the topic of dynamic pricing (whereby the fee customers are charged is time-dependent). It covers the motivation for firms to engage in dynamic pricing, provides a typology of the main formats dynamic pricing can take,... View Details

Keywords: Dynamic Pricing; Price

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January 2005 (Revised August 2005)
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Changing Times at the NBA

By: Thomas J. DeLong, Tonika Cheek-Clayton and Daniel Reed

David Stern, commissioner of the National Basketball Association (NBA), faces myriad challenges: globalization of product, young players entering the league, loss of fan base, etc. Stern must put together a plan for the Board of Governors that confronts these... View Details

Keywords: Business Plan; Governing and Advisory Boards; Organizational Change and Adaptation; Problems and Challenges; Sports; Competitive Strategy

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1996
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Developing Products on Internet Time

By: Marco Iansiti and Alan MacCormack

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11 Apr 2007
Research & Ideas

Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing

the 1980s, with time dimension modifications introduced by Anderson for clients of Acorn Systems. We asked Kaplan to describe the problems with traditional costing approaches, the improvements made by TDABC, and how it works with the... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

13 May 2013
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Tied Together by the Times

says. And, as the 11 records that the class holds show, the classmates on the other end answer the call. Yanow believes the class's special bond is the result of his classmates' common experiences—growing up during the Depression, attending HBS between two wars—as well... View Details

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FDA Review Time of New Drug Applications

Study of FDA Review Time of New Drug Applications (NDAs) between 1990-2004. Three main questions are addressed: How the optimal innovation strategy for firms is contingent upon firm status positions in the knowledge domain; how knowledge status both enables and... View Details

10 Oct 1997
Conference Presentation

Developing Products on Internet Time

By: Alan David MacCormack

Keywords: Product Development

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September 20, 2024
Article

It’s Time to Unbundle ESG

By: Aaron K. Chatterji and Michael W. Toffel

ESG is at an inflection point. It has come to represent a broad and inchoate aspiration for what business should be doing beyond maximizing shareholder value. With ESG advocates on the defensive, business leaders need a new roadmap to determine which factors to... View Details

Keywords: ESG; ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) Performance; ESG Ratings; ESG Reporting; ESG Disclosure; Sustainability; Climate; Climate Finance; Climate Risk; Social Accounting; Investment; Governance; Safety; Climate Change; Environmental Sustainability; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Financial Services Industry

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February 2009 (Revised September 2013)
Background Note

Your Social Network over Time

By: Mikolaj Jan Piskorski and Andreea Gorbatai

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18 Nov 2019
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Sabbaticals: Time [Off] Well Spent

16 Feb 2012
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Schumpeter: This time it’s serious

February 2024 (Revised February 2024)
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Time to Play? Exercise Template

By: Sara McKinley Torti

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March 2022 (Revised February 2023)
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Sunōmi Switchel: Time to Switch?

By: Lindsay N. Hyde, Shani Carter McKinney and Alexandra Horvitz

Nicole Blank has bootstrapped her functional beverage company, Sunōmi Switchel, to contracts with leading grocery retailers. She is now faced with a series of choices for if and how to continue to grow the business. View Details