Investment Efficiency - Publications - Faculty & Research

04 Feb 2010
What Do You Think?

What’s the Best Way to Make Careful Decisions?

instead concentrate on ways to make our own decision-making processes more transparent to others and to ourselves. Edward Hare put it this way: "Openness and honesty are the sunlight that's needed to make decision making as effective and View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

17 Dec 2007
Research & Ideas

The Rise of Medical Tourism

might be more efficient to move the patients to where the doctors are as long as we are not compromising the health care of the patients." Khanna recently sat down with HBS Working Knowledge to discuss the globalization of health... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health; Medical Devices & Supplies

22 Jul 2019
Book

How to Be a Digital Platform Leader

pursue. In the book, we discuss General Electric’s efforts to build their Predix platform. Predix was clearly going to be a multiyear, maybe multibillion dollar investment and one that was increasingly difficult for GE to afford. But it’s... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

13 Dec 2016
First Look

December 13, 2016

forthcoming Journal of Investment Consulting Cloaked Trading By: Cohen, Lauren, Dong Lou, and Christopher J. Malloy Abstract—Using a novel, proprietary database of micro-level trading activities by asset managers, we show strong evidence... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

Web

2024 Reunion Presentations - Alumni

expanding trade, ever more efficient logistics, and a relatively benign trading environment. Revolutions in transportation and communications empowered the reconfiguration of global supply chains and a dramatic shift in production to... View Details

14 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World

proactive effort to be as effective and clear as possible in their communication to both internal and external stakeholders. Importantly, a vast majority of the initiatives that companies in our sample are implementing do not require large capital View Details

Keywords: by Raffaella Sadun, Andrea Bertoni, Alexia Delfino, Giovanni Fassio, and Mariapaola Testa

Person Page

Media

This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details

22 Jan 2013
First Look

First Look: Jan. 22

and increased employment has attracted increased interest. Yet questions about efficacy and the efficiency with which funds are used is a subject of frequent debate. This paper examines empirical data from the Danish National Advanced... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Jul 2013
First Look

First Look: July 16

author cites a number of companies that have moved toward or into what he calls "the efficiency frontier." These include Sarvajal, in India, which saves money and eliminates waste by selling direct to customers through its... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

02 Jan 2018
News

Reconsidering Retirement

founded in 2013 with classmate Scott Puritz (MBA 1982). The company takes advantage of recent advances in financial products and cloud computing to make available the type of investment services that were once reserved for... View Details

Keywords: April White; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments

Profile

Margarita de la Piedra Carrillo

Why was earning your MBA at HBS important to you? I want to be more efficient in business, more savvy in my decision-making. Long-term, I may be interested in starting my own business. The skills I learn now will be very helpful later.... View Details

Keywords: Investment Banking; Investment Banking

01 Apr 2002
News

Emerging Research on Emerging Markets

Is significant foreign direct investment in China a good thing? Conventional wisdom says yes, but HBS associate professor Yasheng Huang disagrees. "Large-scale absorption of foreign direct investment by... View Details

Keywords: Yasheng Huang; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

16 Jul 2024
Research & Ideas

Weighing Digital Tradeoffs in Private Equity

innovation, PE firms are discovering new sources of value creation, new research shows. Moreover, the PE industry itself has become more competitive as the number of PE firms grows, prompting firms to explore a new way of boosting the success of portfolio companies by... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

Article

Towards a Bill of Rights for Online Advertisers

By: Benjamin Edelman

Online advertising presents remarkable efficiencies—better targeting, improved measurement and greater return on investment. Yet there are challenges, particularly when networks of intermediaries place ads through convoluted relationships, and all the more so when... View Details

Keywords: Online Advertising; Rights; Measurement and Metrics; Investment Return; Negotiation; Networks; Problems and Challenges; Performance Efficiency; Law; Advertising Industry

Citation

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01 Mar 2017
Research & Ideas

A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients

better overall care for their patients.” Related Reading: Why Business Should Invest in Community Health Attention Medical Shoppers: What Health Care Can Learn from Walmart and Amazon Five Imperatives for Improving Health Care View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

08 Nov 2024
Op-Ed

How Private Investors Can Help Solve Africa's Climate Crisis

report from the Global Center on Adaptation suggests that more than $100 billion per year is needed to invest in infrastructure, weather forecasting, and protecting agriculture in Africa to address both poverty and climate stresses. Yet... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Green Technology; Energy

01 Mar 2003
News

Books

around the globe spend nearly $10 trillion on project- related activities. Yet, as a new book by Cathleen Benko (MBA 1989) and HBS professor Warren McFarlan makes clear, project- and technologyrelated investments too often are made in a... View Details

Keywords: Deborah Blagg; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

01 Jun 2008
News

The Prophet of Start-Ups

entrepreneurs in an organized way,” says Arnold Kroll, an investment banker at Lehman Brothers who worked with ARD. Doriot was not a physically imposing fellow, but he exuded a magnetic aura. “It was almost like knowing someone like... View Details

Keywords: Spencer E. Ante; George Doriot; Charles F. Kettering; Lawrence Lowell; F. Warren Hellman; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments

Stanley C. Gault

Taking the helm of the company his father helped to found, Gault was instrumental in reorganizing and revitalizing Rubbermaid from a small household gadget company into a streamlined and efficient multinational corporation. He embarked on... View Details

Keywords: Fabricated Goods