Publications

January 2000 (Revised February 2007)
Case

Asia Renal Care

Presents a business plan for a start-up company focused on building a network of high-quality dialysis centers in the Asia-Pacific region. Includes a detailed financial forecast. An executable spreadsheet is available by contacting HBSP Customer Service at... View Details

Keywords: Business Plan; Forecasting and Prediction; Business Startups; Financial Strategy; Medical Devices and Supplies Industry; Asia

22 Feb 2022
News

The Well-Healed Athlete

them—and that’s what she was looking for. “We wanted to create a new field that’s grounded in quantitative, predictive science, and the only way to get there is to think broadly and boldly,” she says. Scientists at Stanford University are... View Details

Keywords: April White; Health and Personal Care Stores; Retail Trade

01 Sep 2007
News

Alumni Board Goes Global to Pick New President

SHIRAZI: Predicts that HBS graduates will hold top leadership positions in more than two dozen nations over the next thirty years. Saquib Shirazi (MBA ’95), CEO of Atlas Honda in Karachi, Pakistan, takes globetrotting in stride. A member... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services

April 2000
Case

Financing of Project Achieve, The (A)

By: Mihir A. Desai

An entrepreneur is forced to analyze the tradeoffs between different equity providers through a detailed analysis of venture financing terms and cash flow forecasts. The founder of a Web-based IMS for schools must negotiate a term sheet, determine funding needs, value... View Details

Keywords: Business Startups; Forecasting and Prediction; Venture Capital; Cash Flow; Equity; Negotiation Deal; Valuation

March 2022
Case

Auto Mag (Abridged)

By: David E. Bell

A young HBS graduate purchases a publisher of specialty magazines that advertises second hand cars, boats, trucks, etc. The magazines carry photographs and a brief description of each article for sale. The company faces the problem of deciding on how many magazines to... View Details

Keywords: Distribution; Cost Management; Decision Choices and Conditions; Forecasting and Prediction

10 Aug 2021
Blog Post

Meet the Health & Wellness Club

hard look at their health and the habits that contribute to it, whether through at-home workouts, herbal remedies, clean products within our homes, or emotional grounding through meditation and self-care techniques. As it stands right now, the global wellness industry... View Details

Keywords: Health-Related Services; Health Care; Consumer Products / Retail

01 Apr 2000
News

Strike Up the Broad(band)

telephone-television-Internet system." Given the success of the Internet, which the authors liken to "a kind of broadband on training wheels," they predict that as broadband technology evolves during the coming years, its power to... View Details

01 Sep 2010
News

Start-Ups Make Their Pitch

for desired specimens in real time. Chicago: Cinekin (Constance Freedman, MBA ’06, chief strategy officer) uses people’s movie preferences to predict the compatibility of couples. London: Qtara (Steve Berry, MBA ’79, chairman) is... View Details

Keywords: awards; Furniture and Related Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing

30 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 30, 2008

votes to more popular candidates, a phenomenon often called strategic voting. For other parameters, the model predicts "vote-stealing" where the addition of a third candidate robs a viable major candidate of electoral support.... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 Oct 2008
First Look

First Look: October 21, 2008

limited explanatory power. Overall levels of local customers and suppliers are only modestly important, but new entrants seem particularly drawn to areas with many smaller suppliers, as suggested by Chinitz (1961). Abundant workers in relevant occupations also strongly... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

04 Dec 2020
News

Hour by Hour

employers for a mass exodus of employees in a post-pandemic world. The company predicts that 50 percent of organizations’ newly hired workers in 2020 will return to former positions when furloughs end. Syrg’s platform will help employers... View Details

04 Sep 2019
News

A Measured Approach

door-to-door censuses across thousands of villages. Enter IDinsight, a nonprofit that helps international development organizations use data and evidence to realize their goals. IDinsight helped Educate Girls leverage available census, education, and outcome data for... View Details

Keywords: Lisa Scanlon Mogolov

15 Jun 2010
First Look

First Look: June 15

for larger firms (which have access to bond markets), we confirm that this substitution has strong predictive power for lending volume by small and unrated firms. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-107.pdf Unfair... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

08 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 8, 2008

of options in the future and their subsequent revealed preferences over those options. Using a novel panel data set, we analyze the film rental and return patterns of a sample of online DVD rental customers over a period of four months. We View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

01 Jun 2000
News

The Business of Biotech

as an acute, fatal disease," Maderis concludes. Hitting the Target When human lives are at stake, the urgency involved in turning such predictions into reality goes beyond the wish to reap financial rewards from years of investment. Steve... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

24 Oct 2024
Research & Ideas

Charting the US-China Trade War: What Does 'Made in Vietnam' Mean?

Voters? Not Really, Except for One Election 2024: Why Demographics Won't Predict the Next President Feedback or ideas to share? Email the Working Knowledge team at hbswk@hbs.edu. Image credit: HBSWK, with assets from AdobeStock/moofushi... View Details

Keywords: by Ana Elena Azpúrua; Manufacturing; Shipping

13 Dec 2016
First Look

December 13, 2016

that explores the mechanisms’ distinct predictions on the distributions of domestic firms—within-firm productivity improvement shifts the productivity distribution rightward, while selection and market reallocation shifts the revenue and... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

16 Aug 2017
Research & Ideas

Researchers Use Google Street View to See the Future of Cities

response to the question, “Which place looks safer?” Those pairwise comparisons were converted into ranked scores. Artificial intelligence algorithms were used to teach a computer to predict scores from image features like shapes,... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Real Estate

June 2011
Case

Steering Monetary Policy Through Unprecedented Crises

By: David Moss and Cole Bolton

In early April 2008, economic conditions in Europe appeared to be deteriorating on almost all fronts: sales figures were falling, business and consumer confidence were slumping, forecasts for European growth were being revised downward, and inflation was rising. In... View Details

Keywords: Forecasting and Prediction; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Financial Crisis; Inflation and Deflation; Financial Institutions; Interest Rates; Policy