Economic Value Estimation - Publications - Faculty & Research

17 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Becoming the Next Real Estate Mogul

Potential real estate moguls at the 2001 Harvard Business School Entrepreneurship Conference received an earful about profiting in a down market, creating value where there is none, and the addiction of playing in a deal-driven industry.... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Construction; Real Estate

01 Dec 2018
News

Democratizing Funding, Diversifying Funders

staggering $119 billion in annual [2013] gambling losses toward funding entrepreneurship and innovation, what change—and economic value—might be achieved?” Among the equity-crowdfunding platforms now jockeying for listings and the... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg

20 Dec 2010
Research & Ideas

New Dean Sets Five Priorities for HBS

juxtaposed the School's historic roots as an institution dedicated to American management practices with the increasingly global nature of business. Today, there's a clear sense that this will be a global century in which economic... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Education

17 Jan 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research: January 17

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52102 forthcoming Review of Financial Studies Credit-Induced Boom and Bust By: Di Maggio, Marco, and Amir Kermani Abstract—Can a credit expansion induce a boom and bust in house prices and real View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Feb 2001
Research & Ideas

Evolving for Success [Part One]

decades consulting to major businesses and governments all over the world, had something to say about this. I surveyed 785 companies, start-ups as well as the global giants, on many continents of the world, in collaboration with Inc. Magazine and the World View Details

Keywords: by Staff

Profile

Jason A. Kilar

unusually attractive economics for the creators, up to 20 times the levels earned from free, ad-supported distribution. Are the management issues the same for every startup or is it different with Vessel than it was with Hulu? There are... View Details

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Departments | Employment

challenges and to assist them in developing effective solutions. We aspire to help leaders think clearly about the design of economic and political institutions that will enable firms and societies to thrive while maintaining the physical... View Details

01 Dec 2018
News

Hard Choices

human potential. It has made the US an economic powerhouse. It has played a major role in capital being allocated to the most productive uses. Free enterprise has led to the creation of a staggering number of jobs that support families... View Details

Keywords: Seth Klarman (MBA 1982)

01 Sep 2012
News

Alumni Books

Angst, Awareness, Action by Jay P. Desai (AMP 180, 2011) (Pearson) Accountability, the bedrock of governance, is under siege in India. Widespread unaccountability is preventing the country from unlocking its full economic and social... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

18 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

New Hires Lose Psychological Safety After Year One. How to Fix It.

knowing the high-stakes industry suffers from significant levels of turnover and spends an inordinate amount of time and money onboarding new staff. In fact, one industry source estimated nurse turnover at more than 20 percent, which... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

19 Oct 2017
Research & Ideas

How Charitable Organizations Can Thwart Excuses for Not Giving

motivations for prosocial behavior, such as volunteering and charitable giving. These insights are important not only for nonprofits trying to motivate donors to give, but also for almost any company that wants to convince consumers the View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 Dec 2002
News

Straddling Two Worlds

succeeded in business. “I've really had two careers,” he observes, “one as a for-profit financial entrepreneur and one as a crusader for economic development.” As a managing partner in his own investment firm, Tierney has the freedom to... View Details

Keywords: Susan Young

Profile

Andrew Kinard

mind — the academic rigor is unparalleled," says Andrew. "But I found myself in contracts class last year wanting to know why the parties wanted to come to an agreement in the first place. Remedies and interpretation are important, but I also wanted to... View Details

22 Mar 2023
News

Dean Datar Meets with Alumni in Los Angeles

by Alex Popa (MBA 2007). During his remarks, Dean Datar talked about several innovative initiatives that he anticipates will have lasting value for the School and that place the School at the cutting edge of addressing the challenges... View Details

01 Jun 2020
News

Lesson Plans

“I think it's a combination of two things,” he says. “First, people have the time, because they're stuck at home. Second, there’s a lot of economic uncertainty, and people are worried about their job security.” In this interview, Mullane... View Details

Keywords: Jen Mele

01 Dec 2006
News

Enron’s Legacy

class-action suit against the corporation) had adopted the salient structural characteristics and processes of experienced private-equity boards, I believe that many of the red flags signaling Enron’s economic woes and ethical drift would... View Details

Keywords: Malcolm S. Salter; Enron; Finance

01 Dec 1999
News

The Way You See It

observed that "the automobile has provided the means for people to work collectively and live separately, allowing them to choose where they will live, work, and socialize like no other product does. This independence is a core value in... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons. Data collection by Ericka Webb.

18 Dec 2007
First Look

First Look: December 18, 2007

affects emotions. Finally, work in economics on the design of monetary policy makes several assumptions (e.g., a representative agent, a summary measure of emotions akin to utility exists and that individuals only care about income and... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Aug 2008
First Look

First Look: August 26, 2008

evidence. In particular, we find that every major interest group, not just radio broadcasters, publicly opposed expansion of the band in 1927 and that broadcasters themselves were divided at the FRC's hearings. Download the paper:... View Details