Economic Value Estimation - Publications - Faculty & Research

26 Jun 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018

platform owners may target the most successful complementors so as to appropriate value from their innovations, or they may target poor performing complementors to improve the platforms' overall quality. Using data from Amazon.com, we... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

February 2022 (Revised May 2022)
Case

Jaypee Infratech and the Indian Bankruptcy Code

By: Kristin Mugford, William Vrattos and Radhika Kak

In 2016, India passed a new bankruptcy law (IBC) to counter a brewing bank crisis and increased corporate distress. Homebuilder Jaypee Infratech, one of India largest distressed companies (the “dirty dozen”) began restructuring under the IBC in 2017. Two years later,... View Details

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01 Dec 2005
News

Trillion-Dollar Fixer-Upper

recent U.S. real estate history can’t help but notice unsettling parallels between the red-hot commercial market of the late 1980s and today. Then, as now, money gushed into the market, driving office and retail property values to... View Details

Keywords: Roger Thompson; Real Estate

01 Apr 2002
News

Dot Vertigo

economic environment. The I-Net, Nolan explains, merges a firm's intranet seamlessly with the Internet, creating "fluid, permeable, and connected" enterprises that "truly reflect the speed, collaboration, and scalability of the network... View Details

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

03 Oct 2012
What Do You Think?

Can We Bring Back the “Industrial Commons” for Manufacturing?

has fallen behind in the competition for a share of the "commons." Peter Sebregondi commented that "companies aim to have the least possible ownership of the capital or assets involved in the value chain," but points... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Manufacturing

10 Jan 2005
Research & Ideas

Motivation and the Cross-Sector Alliance

business sector is economic value creation, the altruistic dimension prevails in the third sector. In our cases, social leaders approached companies for a variety of reasons that most certainly included... View Details

Keywords: by James Austin, Ezequiel Reficco & SEKN research team

12 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship and Multinationals Drive Globalization

West, which could have helped them bridge this divide? A: The drivers of the stickiness of modern economic growth is one of the most important questions in economic history. The leading explanations focus on... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Beauty & Cosmetics; Manufacturing; Consumer Products; Pharmaceutical

24 May 2023
Blog Post

Innovating, Funding, and Scaling Climate Solutions at Harvard Business School: Day Three of Harvard Climate Action Week

to a capital provider to do what they said they were going to do and deliver the economic value that the projects promise,” said Jacobs. “The only way you can deliver that value, whether it’s to the investor... View Details

26 Apr 2011
News

BioMine Strikes Gold

Contest. BioMine uses existing scaled-up mining industry technologies to capture value from the 40 million tons of "e-waste" that is landfilled or incinerated annually around the world. (Watch Bradoo explain the concept behind BioMine.)... View Details

Keywords: Mining (except Oil and Gas); Mining; Management, Scientific, and Technical Consulting Services; Professional Services

11 Aug 2003
Research & Ideas

Cheap, Fast, and In Control: How Tech Aids Innovation

product and service development is changing; creating the potential for higher R&D performance, innovation, and value creation for customers. The choice is simple: Organizations can either ignore these changes or take action and tap... View Details

Keywords: by Wendy Guild

16 Aug 2017
Research & Ideas

Researchers Use Google Street View to See the Future of Cities

paper was written by Nikhil Naik, a Prize Fellow at Harvard University; Scott Duke Kominers, the Harvard Business School MBA Class of 1960 Associate Professor; Edward L. Glaeser, the Fred and Eleanor Glimp Professor of Economics at... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Real Estate

12 Jan 2004
What Do You Think?

How Should We Think About the Exportation of Jobs?

apart" with increased training times and more rapid changes in international job markets, according to Michael Lindsey. "We're headed for a two-tier economic society..." says Mike Dorkoski. While Brad Leach opines,... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

02 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

George C. Lodge

some HBS students, he gathered local statistics and followed the development of a peasant cooperative movement. Lodge found that economic development was more accurately seen as psychological and political change. It was therefore... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

02 Mar 2015
Research & Ideas

Retail Reaches a Tipping Point—Which Stores Will Survive?

competitors under a framework the authors term TIPS, for technology, inventory, people, and space (size, location, and ambiance). These are the four major assets that retailers must use effectively and efficiently to create a compelling and distinctive View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail

01 Dec 2016
News

HBS Alumni On Leading Their Alma Mater

more as a consumer—a purchased good versus an experience that will transform their life.” RM: If I just think about the economics of the expenses—at least here at Harvard—about 70 percent of the expenses are fixed costs in people and... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

07 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

XTV: Xerox’s Attempted Recovery From “Fumbling the Future”

capital processes to create value for its peripheral technologies. If there were promising technologies within Xerox that were not being utilized in Xerox's businesses, XTV provided a new path for them to enter the market. If that... View Details

Keywords: by Henry Chesbrough

26 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward

management. Instead, Perlman mapped backward from his VC target, reasoning that WebTV's appeal and value to the VCs would be greatly enhanced by partnership with a prominent consumer electronics firm. Perlman started by pitching his... View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius

01 Dec 2003
News

Can Manufacturing Keep Its Edge?

undervaluing its currency. The Chinese government has pegged the yuan at 8.3 to the dollar since 1996, which undervalues it by 15 to 25 percent, according to Morris Goldstein of the Institute for International Economics in Washington,... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Manufacturing

03 Jul 2012
Research & Ideas

HBS Faculty on Supreme Court Health Care Ruling

are covered by employers or Medicaid. The healthy people in these insurance pools subsidize the costs of the sick. But many employers, weary of uncontrolled and unpredictable health care costs, will likely soon switch to a pension-like defined contribution system,... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty; Health

14 Jun 2011
First Look

First Look: June 14

Publication:,em>Harvard Business Review 89, no. 6 (June 2011) Abstract The bottom of the economic pyramid is a risky place for business, but decent profits can be made there if companies link their financial success with their... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

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