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Global Impact of the Collapse | Baker Library | Bloomberg Center | Harvard Business School

default swap contracts. As confidence in the banks eroded, borrowing rates rose and home foreclosures continued to spike. Lawrence McDonald, author and a former vice-president at Lehman Brothers, reflects back on the devastating cost... View Details
  • 31 Mar 2022
  • Op-Ed

Navigating the ‘Bermuda Triangle’ in Professional Services

drive costs down and benefit from specialization because of its high volume of activities. "With growth, the way a firm is managed has to change, and that change is not easy." Among law firms, Wachtell Lipton maintains a premium market... View Details
Keywords: by Ashish Nanda
  • 23 Feb 2009
  • Research & Ideas

Creative Entrepreneurship in a Downturn

how to win? A: My advice here is simple: Think business model. Most managers tend to focus on cost management and operational efficiencies when they strategize during a downturn. While there is nothing wrong with that, I do think such... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 26 Sep 2023
  • Book

Digital Strategy: A Handbook for Managing a Moving Target

live our everyday life (Autio et al., 2021). In fact, the combined effects of these four key technologies have driven an unexpected dramatic compression in the cost of producing, searching, amassing, storing, analyzing, and sharing data.... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Information Technology; Technology
  • Web

Key Concepts - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

Measure Outcomes & Cost for Every Patient Aligning Reimbursement with Value Systems Integration Geography of Care Information Technology Key Concepts Value-based health care is one of the most important topics in health care... View Details
  • November 2019
  • Case

Hapag-Lloyd AG:Complying with IMO 2020

By: Benjamin C. Esty, Mette Fuglsang Hjortshoej and Emer Moloney
A new environmental regulation known as IMO 2020 was creating what one industry analyst called “the biggest shakeup for the oil and shipping industries in decades.” According to the new regulation, all ocean-going ships would have to limit their sulfur emissions by... View Details
Keywords: Valuation; Ship Transportation; Strategic Planning; Game Theory; Pollutants; Supply Chain; Corporate Accountability; Capital Budgeting; Environmental Sustainability; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Governance Compliance; Shipping Industry; Transportation Industry; Germany
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  • Web

Clusters - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

California Wine Cluster, and the Silicon Valley Technology Cluster. Cluster Initiatives Cluster development initiatives are an important new direction in economic policy. Building on past efforts in macroeconomic stabilization, privatization, market opening, and... View Details
  • 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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  • November 1999 (Revised June 2006)
  • Case

DLJdirect: "Putting Our Reputation Online"

By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Gillian Morris
Online broker DLJdirect faced two decisions during the fall of 1999: what customer segments should it target and how much should it spend on marketing? Unlike its competitors, who focused either on day traders or more mainstream investors, DLJdirect differentiated its... View Details
Keywords: Marketing Strategy; Marketing Communications; Competitive Strategy; Decision Choices and Conditions; Investment; Cost Management; Business Plan; Research and Development; Customers; Budgets and Budgeting; Online Advertising; Internet; Financial Services Industry
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  • 2016
  • Working Paper

Controlling Versus Enabling — Online Appendix

By: Andrei Hagiu and Julian Wright
Section 1 of this online appendix contains the proof of the technical Lemma (Lemma 2) used in the Proof of Lemma 1 in the main paper, which states that Ω* (.) is continuous and differentiable at R*. Section 2 provides the linear example with cost differences between... View Details
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    Benjamin C. Esty

    Benjamin Esty is the Roy and Elizabeth Simmons Professor of Business Administration at Harvard Business School. Over the years, he has taught a variety of courses ranging from advanced corporate finance and project finance to competitive strategy and leadership. He... View Details

    Keywords: banking; asset management; investment banking industry; consumer products; shipping; wine; financial services
    • 07 Jun 2023
    • HBS Case

    3 Ways to Gain a Competitive Advantage Now: Lessons from Amazon, Chipotle, and Facebook

    ingredients to set itself apart from Taco Bell. Fast-food customers looking for healthy options are willing to pay more for what they consider a higher-quality product. At the same time, however, “you can imagine that the cost of sourcing... View Details
    Keywords: by Michael Blanding
    • 26 Jan 2009
    • Research & Ideas

    Where is Home for the Global Firm?

    Not so long ago, multinational firms were associated with a specific national identity. Caterpillar was a prototypical U.S. company. Honda was a classic Japanese company. The location of headquarters of these and other firms served as proof, and nations took pride in... View Details
    Keywords: by Martha Lagace
    • Teaching Interest

    Finance II (MBA Required Curriculum)

    By: Benjamin C. Esty

    This course builds on the foundation developed in Finance I, focusing on three sets of managerial decisions:

    • How to evaluate complex investments.
    • How to set and execute financial policies within a firm.
    • How to integrate... View Details
    Keywords: Finance
    • 2018
    • Working Paper

    Two Hundred Years of Health and Medical Care: The Importance of Medical Care for Life Expectancy Gains

    By: Maryaline Catillon, David Cutler and Thomas Getzen
    Using two hundred years of national and Massachusetts data on medical care and health, we examine how central medical care is to life expectancy gains. While common theories about medical care cost growth stress growing demand, our analysis highlights the importance of... View Details
    Keywords: Mortality; Life Expectancy; Medical Care; Productivity; Public Health; Healthcare Spending; Spending Per Year Of Life Gained; Personal Medicine; Technophysio Evolution; Health; Economics; Health Care and Treatment; Spending; Data and Data Sets; Health Industry
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    • Fourth Quarter 2017
    • Article

    Optimal Tilts: Combining Persistent Characteristic Portfolios

    By: Malcolm Baker, Ryan Taliaferro and Terry Burnham
    We examine the optimal weighting of four tilts in U.S. equity markets from 1968 through 2014. We define a “tilt” as a characteristic-based portfolio strategy that requires relatively low annual turnover. This is a continuum, with small size (a very persistent... View Details
    Keywords: Risk Anomaly; Beta; Capital Asset Pricing Model; Factor Investing
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    • 2013
    • Working Paper

    Competing Ad Auctions

    By: Itai Ashlagi, Benjamin Edelman and Hoan Soo Lee
    We present a two-stage model of competing ad auctions. Search engines attract users via Cournot-style competition. Meanwhile, each advertiser must pay a participation cost to use each ad platform, and advertiser entry strategies are derived using symmetric Bayes-Nash... View Details
    Keywords: Online Advertising; Auctions; Market Participation; Market Platforms; Mathematical Methods; Competition
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    • August 2003 (Revised March 2004)
    • Case

    Waltz on the Danube

    By: Arthur I Segel, Vincent Dessain and Anais Loizillon
    Describes the intricate parts of an early real estate deal from the standpoint of the developer including feasibility analysis, market choice, acquisition of land, project development, design and construction issues, investment returns, and equity financing issues.... View Details
    Keywords: Joint Ventures; Management; Property; Project Finance; Real Estate Industry; Germany; Hungary
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    • April 2001 (Revised February 2002)
    • Case

    Level (3) Communications in 2001: The 'Pivotal Year'

    Level (3) is one of the most distinctive of the new "fiber backbone" start-ups in the year 2001. Unlike its competitors, Level (3) has built its fiber network--and organization--in such a way that it should be able to utilize future generations of technologically... View Details
    Keywords: Communication Technology; Risk Management; Industry Growth; Competitive Advantage; Telecommunications Industry; United States
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    • December 2000
    • Background Note

    Networked Utility Providers

    By: Thomas R. Eisenmann and Alastair Brown
    Defines and describes ways to categorize networked utilities, software "applets" such as RealNetwork's RealPlayer, Macromedia's Shockwave, and AOL's ICQ that are downloaded via the Internet. Networked utilities extend basic Web browser capability to allow users to... View Details
    Keywords: Business Model; Software; Web Services Industry
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