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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
total operating costs versus 9 percent in fiscal 2021. The increase of on-campus activity with the fading of COVID-19 resulted in a significant rise in the other expenses line. The largest expense increases... View Details
- 01 Jun 2023
- News
Pet Project
plateau online with rising costs due to iOS 14 privacy limiting tracking, so retail will open the door to a huge new pool of captive customers. Maev can offer different SKUs for retail, even if it’s just a... View Details
- 07 Jan 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Better Way to Forecast the Future
Political science has seen a rise in probability forecasts for geopolitical events, with forecasting competitions and blogs like Nate Silver’s fivethirtyeight.com offering probabilities of election results, outcomes of sporting events,... View Details
- 19 Jun 2018
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New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
through the lens of their mistaken theory, meaning a person may ignore or discard information her mistaken theory leads her to consider unimportant. We propose solution concepts embedding such channeled attention that predict when a mistaken theory will persist in the... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 26 Mar 2013
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First Look: March 26
ones. Findings: Our key counterintuitive finding is that Japanese and American founders of entrepreneurial firms are more similar than is often suggested. We first find that in both Japan and the U.S., achievement motivation is positively related to customer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 May 2011
- Research & Ideas
Japan Disaster Shakes Up Supply-Chain Strategies
narrow, optimized supply chains," Shih says. "They put all of their eggs with one supplier that had the best product at the lowest price." Suppliers Squeezed, Too At the same time the suppliers, also under pressure to continuously cut View Details
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Research - Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability
risk and the cost of equity (the beta anomaly): As firms lever up, the overall cost of capital falls as leverage increases equity beta, but as debt becomes riskier the marginal benefit of increasing equity... View Details
- 11 Jun 2013
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First Look: June 11
in 2007. A sizeable portion of the growth can be explained by rising asset management fees, which in turn were driven by increases in the valuation of tradable assets, particularly equity. Another important factor was growth in fees... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 25 Jun 2018
- Research & Ideas
In America, Immigrants Really Do Get the Job Done
away from starting a company if I fear being forced to leave. For very mobile skilled workers and rising students, this uncertainty can weigh heavily into decisions about whether to come to the United States versus another countries.” The... View Details
- 14 Jun 2016
- First Look
June 14, 2016
data to recover parameters including the depreciation rate and adjustment costs of managerial capital (both found to be larger than for tangible non-managerial capital). Our model also predicts (i) a positive effect of management on firm... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2016
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December 20, 2016
suggest that the cost of a delay of this length is upwards of 7% of the total cost of bringing a new high-risk device to market. Considering potential explanations, I find that approval times are largely... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Mar 2024
- News
Alumni and Faculty Books and Podcasts
Edited by Margie Kelley Alumni Books You Got This! A Straightforward, No-Nonsense Playbook for Crushing 130+ Workplace Challenges By Heidi Abelli (MBA 1993) Palmetto Publishing Stepping into the corporate world can feel like navigating a labyrinth, especially when... View Details
- 23 Jul 2013
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First Look: July 23
http://global.oup.com/academic/product/the-oxford-handbook-of-managerial-economics-9780199782956?cc=us&lang=en&tab=overview 2013 pub Infrastructure for Ore: Benefits and Costs of a Not-So-Original Idea By: Wells, Louis T., Jr... View Details
Keywords: Anna Secino
- 17 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 17
http://www.amazon.com/Can-China-Lead-Reaching-Limits/dp/1422144151 August 2013 Princeton University Press The Empire Trap: The Rise and Fall of U.S. Intervention to Protect American Property Overseas, 1893-2013 By: Maurer, Noel... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 07 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 7
http://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Publication%20Files/Levine-Toffel%20The%20Compass%202014-07-02a_151d5c1a-4fe0-4d2a-90f8-54a82b5bb4a6.pdf October 2014 MIT Sloan Management Review What It Takes to Reshore Manufacturing Successfully By: Shih, Willy C. Abstract—The data on... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Oct 2020
- Book
Want to Be Happier? Make More Free Time
focus away from success equaling economic growth and toward other measures, including the way they value time for individuals. We need to acknowledge the real and significant costs associated with the cultural obsession with financial... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 29 Aug 2022
- Op-Ed
Income Inequality Is Rising. Are We Even Measuring It Correctly?
Income inequality is on the rise in many countries around the world, according to the United Nations. What’s more, disparities in global income were exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic, with some countries facing greater economic losses... View Details
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Strategy & IT - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
resource planning. See below for “How Information Gives You Competitive Advantage.” The rise of the internet unleashed the second wave of IT-driven transformation in the 1980s and 1990s. The internet enabled coordination and integration... View Details
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Case Studies - Social Impact Collaboratory
good at responding to client demand, they have limited ability to promote their own agenda. However, even “incremental” change can be important from such an influential platform. The Rise Fund: TPG Bets Big on Impact (318041) by Vikram... View Details
- 28 Nov 2005
- Research & Ideas
Unilever: Transformation and Tradition
research company. These businesses were the product of past rational calculations, and some remained profitable and successful operations, but by the 1970s times had changed. Unilever found itself burdened, especially in Europe, with a high View Details