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Total Factor Productivity
By: Diego Comin
Total Factor Productivity (TFP) is the portion of output not explained by the amount of inputs used in production. The following definition describes the measurement and importance of TFP for growth, fluctuations and development as well as likely future directions of... View Details
Keywords: Business Cycles; Economic Growth; Measurement and Metrics; Production; Performance Productivity; Research
Comin, Diego. "Total Factor Productivity." In The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics. 2nd ed. Edited by Steven Derlauf and Larry Blume. Hampshire, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008.
- November 1999 (Revised July 2003)
- Case
Pre-Paid Legal Services, Inc.
By: Paul M. Healy and Jacob Cohen
Pre-Paid Legal Services' business model reveals two key issues--managing the sales force and sales growth and managing claims. Students analyze the economics of the business and consider how to measure firm performance, how to evaluate and reward the sales force, and... View Details
Keywords: Financial Management; Financial Strategy; Salesforce Management; Marketing Strategy; Accrual Accounting; Business Cycles; Forecasting and Prediction; Insurance; Business Growth and Maturation; Insurance Industry
Healy, Paul M., and Jacob Cohen. "Pre-Paid Legal Services, Inc." Harvard Business School Case 100-037, November 1999. (Revised July 2003.)
- 14 Dec 2007
- Op-Ed
When Your Product Becomes a Commodity
Editor's Note: Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge. How often... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
In My Humble Opinion: Role Model
geeky nerds. To counter those stereotypes, Qarnain made a point of gathering more diverse résumés for roles that didn’t explicitly require a white actor, hoping to gradually shift expected norms: “It requires an active decision to break the View Details
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Publications - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
or set of related conditions to be served, as well as defining patient needs across the care cycle and mapping... 01 Jul 2020 Assessing the Training Costs and Work of Diagnostic Radiology Residents Using Key Performance Indicators – An... View Details
- 14 Mar 2011
- Research & Ideas
Water, Electricity, and Transportation: Preparing for the Population Boom
numbers in mind, several of the planet's top city planning and environmental business experts gathered at Harvard Business School earlier this month to discuss how to support the inevitable population... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
- 19 Nov 2001
- Research & Ideas
Wrapping Your Alliances In a World Wide Web
costs, and enabled businesses to form mutually beneficial alliances.Once two or more companies agree to do business with each other on activities beyond simple procurement, they again face a challenge in... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
- 01 Dec 2023
- News
Case Study: Staking a Claim
they decide to buy a vehicle or settle in a condo, Surround offers the next level of insurance and will hopefully keep their business for the long haul. The Question: The average age of a Surround customer is 29, and figuring out how best... View Details
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
neoclassical business cycle model with heterogeneous firms and risky debt. To generate the size of spread increases observed during 2008-9, the model requires only disappointment of overoptimistic beliefs... View Details
- 13 Feb 2020
- Book
Open Your Organization to Honest Conversations
underlying reason why: Leaders often get stuck in echo chambers that merely reinforce their own ideas, says Harvard Business School Professor Michael Beer. Meanwhile, lower-level employees are often fully aware of the problems that plague... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 24 May 2021
- Op-Ed
Can Fabric Waste Become Fashion’s Resource?
COVID-19 has broken fashion’s supply chain. As a result, an already wasteful industry has become more wasteful. Even before the pandemic, the global apparel industry was producing about 92 million tons of textile waste a year. That’s about one garbage truck’s worth of... View Details
- 28 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
The Profit Power of Corporate Culture
real wages have not been increasing, although compensation often falls rather low on the list of things that employees seek out of the employment "deal." Q: What is the culture cycle? A: The culture cycle begins with the... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2004
- Research & Ideas
Solving the Health Care Conundrum
health care is unique, having looked deeply at competition in different industries around the world. This virtual seminar is based on the ideas in the June 2004 Harvard Business Review article, "Redefining Competition in Health... View Details
- 30 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
Donors Are Turned Off by Overhead Costs. Here’s What Charities Can Do
need to be paid, if given the choice of where their money would go, most people donating money wouldn’t choose to contribute to the salary of the organization’s CEO,” says Elizabeth A. Keenan, an assistant professor in the Marketing unit at Harvard View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
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Advisory Board - Entrepreneurship
Why. She has appeared as a guest on CNBC, CNN and Fox Business News and has been a guest speaker for WWD’s Beauty Innovation Forum, Harvard University’s Luxury Branding Speaker Series and Columbia University’s Lang Center for... View Details
- 06 Jul 2023
- News
Home Economics
In a remote village in the Mexican state of Chiapas, 13 women gather in an open-air community space. Each has arrived at their weekly meeting with a small deposit for El Banco—“the bank”—as the women have named the savings club they’ve formed with the assistance of... View Details
Keywords: April White
- 05 Dec 2013
- What Do You Think?
Is Walmart Defying Economic Gravity?
Original Article There is a body of research that seeks to relate economics to human biology. It's usually associated with the notion that the life cycles of businesses parallel stages of biological life:... View Details
- 12 Mar 2021
- News
My Favorite Case
1977) MORE A century after the introduction of the first case to Harvard Business School, the case method remains the cornerstone of the educational experience. But it is also clear, from the scores of stories submitted here, that certain... View Details
- Research Summary
Political Risk, Foreign Intervention and International Arbitration
The Empire Trap: America's Attempts to Protect Property Rights Overseas, 1898-2008, is a history of the U.S. government's attempts to protect the property rights of American investors when they venture outside the boundaries of the United... View Details
- April 1996 (Revised November 1996)
- Case
Cleveland Turnaround (A, The: Responding to the Crisis (1978-1988)
By: James E. Austin and Andrea L Strimling
Traces the Cleveland community's efforts to move the city from economic, social, and political crisis in the late 1970s into revitalization and progress in the 1980s and 1990s. Special attention is given to the role of business leaders and the public-private... View Details
Keywords: Transition; Business Cycles; Business and Community Relations; Financial Crisis; Cleveland
Austin, James E., and Andrea L Strimling. "Cleveland Turnaround (A, The: Responding to the Crisis (1978-1988)." Harvard Business School Case 796-151, April 1996. (Revised November 1996.)