Economic Value Estimation - Publications - Faculty & Research

02 Mar 2023
News

Carbon's Second Act

return on investment, says Matheson. JM: Because the markets signal backwards into the whole value chain of the storing, the moving and the capturing. It's hard to mobilize capital to do the capturing if it doesn't believe there's an... View Details

25 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Should You Sell Your Digital Privacy?

solution is to create institutions that allow consumers to build and claim the value of their marketplace identities, and that give producers the incentive to respect them. Privacy and identity then become opposing View Details

Keywords: by Manda Salls & Sean Silverthorne; Advertising

15 May 2015
Blog Post

How to Get a Global Perspective at HBS

value the most at HBS is the diversity of my classmates, and the fact that I get to learn from all of them every day. I’ve loved getting to learn about different cultures and experiences in business. I value... View Details

01 Mar 2013
News

Sizing Up Social Impact

Image by C.J. Burton As the aftereffects of the 2008 global economic crisis continue to be felt, nonprofit organizations are competing for fewer and fewer dollars. Donors, also feeling the squeeze of a sluggish economy, just don't have as... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs; Administration of Economic Programs

February 2000 (Revised March 2001)
Case

Alphatec Electronics Pcl

By: Stuart C. Gilson, C. Fritz Foley and Perry Fagan

The newly appointed CEO of an important high-technology company in Thailand must lead the company through a complicated debt restructuring. Due to the collapse of the Thai currency, the company's debt burden, like that of most Thai companies, has skyrocketed because it... View Details

Keywords: Currency Exchange Rate; Valuation; Management Teams; Restructuring; Laws and Statutes; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Developing Countries and Economies; Borrowing and Debt; Technology Industry; Electronics Industry; Thailand; United States

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Educators

Purchase

01 Dec 2022
News

Flying High

navigation of long security lines, are asked to arrive 30 minutes prior to their departure times. The company’s motto is “80 percent of the value of private for 20 percent of the cost.” The fare of a roundtrip flight from Los Angeles to... View Details

Keywords: April White; aviation; airlines; entrepreneurship; leadership; innovation; Air Transportation; Transportation

05 May 2011
Research & Ideas

How ‘Political Voice’ Empowers the Powerless

victims were willing to come forward to report crimes, or because the police were more likely to give them a sympathetic hearing because of the increase in women's political representation. Because there are very few victimization surveys in India that can be used to... View Details

Keywords: by Maggie Starvish

30 Jan 2007
First Look

First Look: January 30, 2007

to evaluate the link between dismissal costs and productivity. Drawing on establishment-level data from the Annual Survey of Manufacturers and the Longitudinal Business Database, our estimates suggest that wrongful-discharge protections... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

02 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

forthcoming Annual Review of Economics History, Micro Data and Endogenous Growth By: Akcigit, Ufuk, and Tom Nicholas Abstract—Economic growth is concerned with long-run changes, and as a result historical data should be especially... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

05 Nov 2009
Research & Ideas

A Market for Human Cadavers in All but Name?

(Editor's Note: In a recent issue, Economic Sociology: The European Electronic Newsletter tackled the controversial issue of "commodification of the body." Harvard Business School professor Michel Anteby contributed the... View Details

Keywords: by Michel Anteby; Health

01 Sep 2014
News

Alumni and Faculty Books for September 2014

Publishing Platform The Education of a Value Investor: My Transformative Quest for Wealth, Wisdom, and Enlightenment by Guy Spier (MBA 1993) Palgrave Macmillan This candid memoir takes readers into some of the darker corners of Wall... View Details

Keywords: faculty research; Alumni Research

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Improving the Local & Regional Business Environment - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

HBS ISC Creating Shared Value CSV Creating Shared Value CSV Explained Emerging Topics CSV in Practice Published CSV Cases CSV Explained CSV Explained The Three Levels of CSV Adding a Social Dimension to... View Details

03 Nov 2014
Research & Ideas

Brand Lessons From the Nobel Prize

the value proposition that they put forth." “Everybody knows what the Nobel Prize is and what it does, but practically nobody knows how it does it,” The study involved historical research and hours of conversations with recent laureates... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

12 Apr 2011
First Look

First Look: April 12

some, but not all of these predictions. A relatively high economic value of adaptation at the establishment has a strong association with delegation to local managers, as do local information advantages and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2011
News

Noted & Quoted

concept of shared value tries to focus on the tremendous opportunity to create economic value through the creation of social benefit.” — University Professor Michael Porter,... View Details

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

11 Aug 2009
First Look

First Look: August 11, 2009

delayed price discovery). This isolates a setting wherein observed strategic trading behavior more likely reflects insiders' private information regarding goodwill, as opposed to other (non-goodwill related) economic performance. Overall,... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Apr 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, April 3, 2018

less busy than the present, they may underweight the value of these purchases. We examine the impact of debiasing this previously unexplored barrier of consumer decisions to "buy time" in a field experiment with a U.S.-based... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 May 2016
HBS Case

Food Safety Economics: The Cost of a Sick Customer

safety testing by third-party labs in the US in 2015 was about $1.5 billion, compared to the estimated $8.5 billion value of food safety tests conducted by companies in-house. Mérieux NutriSciences is one of... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Food & Beverage

01 Jun 2006
News

India Arrives

bringing in components piecemeal and assembling the phones in India. The business was a huge success, creating the early foundations of what would become Bharti Tele-Ventures, India’s leading private-sector telecom with a market value of... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

Portrait Project

Nana Quagraine

I faced remarks about the inferiority of blacks and women in science. These experiences threatened to shatter my values and aspirations. Growing up my parents taught me to treat each person equally, irrespective of their status. But as an... View Details

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