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  • 14 Jul 2010
  • Working Paper Summaries

From Russia with Love: The Impact of Relocated Firms on Incumbent Survival

Keywords: by Oliver Falck, Christina Guenther, Stephan Heblich & William R. Kerr; Manufacturing
  • 24 Jan 2005
  • Research & Ideas

Rethinking Activity-Based Costing

Activity-based costing, ABC, would seem to be an accurate way for managers to assign costs to the customers and products that use a department's services. But real-world use has shown ABC loses power in large-scale operations, and can be... View Details
Keywords: by Robert S. Kaplan & Steven R. Anderson
  • 19 May 2015
  • First Look

First Look: May 19

dominance, with income. Given familiar functional form assumptions on utility and the distributions of ability and preferences, a simple statistic for the effect of preference heterogeneity on marginal tax rates is derived. Numerical... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 17 Jan 2023
  • In Practice

8 Trends to Watch in 2023

As 2023 begins, businesses and employees face an uncertain economy and labor market, as the twin dilemmas of inflation and interest rates weigh on forecasts. Harvard Business School faculty share the top trends that they believe will shape the workplace and markets... View Details
Keywords: by Avery Forman
  • 04 Oct 2010
  • Research & Ideas

Introverts: The Best Leaders for Proactive Employees

five-point scale, the respondents rated themselves on adjectives such as "reserved," "introverted," "talkative," and "bold." The employees rated their teams' general... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel
  • Web

Finance - Faculty & Research

Mortgage Convexity By: Samuel G. Hanson Most home mortgages in the United States are fixed-rate loans with an embedded prepayment option. When long-term rates decline, the effective duration of mortgage-backed securities (MBS) falls due... View Details
  • 15 Aug 2006
  • First Look

First Look: August 15, 2006

joint decision of holding sovereign debt and reserves, we construct a stochastic dynamic equilibrium model calibrated to a sample of emerging markets. We obtain that the optimal policy is not to hold reserves at all. This finding is robust to considering interest View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 08 Jun 2009
  • Research & Ideas

The Return of the Salesman

address: that salespeople promoted innovations; that they acted as brokers of information; and that their activities "embodied the spirit of capitalism in popular culture." Could you elaborate on the importance of these themes? A: In the early 20th century, a lot of... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail
  • 18 Jul 2023
  • News

The First Five Years: Brooke Biederman (MBA 2019)

the production company I wanted to launch, it was important to me from the outset, given the unpredictability of the industry, to be lean and mean. That’s proved essential. A lesser run rate with fewer... View Details
Keywords: Robert Bochnak
  • 10 May 2011
  • First Look

First Look: May 10

but also that NEAD chains produced more transplants for highly sensitized and blood type O recipients. Read the paper: http://kuznets.fas.harvard.edu/~aroth/papers/Nonsimultaneous%20Chains%20AJT%202011.pdf Female Empowerment: Impact of a Commitment Savings View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 07 Apr 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Giving Back: Consumers Care More About How Companies Donate Than How Much

more? Over five studies conducted primarily in 2020 and 2021, Keenan and colleagues surveyed approximately 900 participants about their product preferences. In one study, participants were told that they would be thanked for their time... View Details
Keywords: by Pamela Reynolds
  • Web

Topics - HBS Working Knowledge

Derivatives and Swaps (1) Credit (8) Crime and Corruption (43) Crisis Management (51) Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues (23) Culture (10) Currency Exchange Rate (3) Currency (12) Curriculum and Courses (2) Customer Focus and... View Details
  • October, 2022
  • Article

The Economic Dynamics of Competing Power Generation Sources

By: Gunther Glenk and Stefan Reichelstein
Competing power generation sources have experienced considerable shifts in both their revenue potential and their costs in recent years. Here we introduce the concept of Levelized Profit Margins (LPM) to capture the changing unit economics of both intermittent and... View Details
Keywords: Renewable Energy; Intermittant; Cost Accounting; Profitability Analysis; Learning-by-doing; Cannibalization Effect; Energy; Environmental Management; Investment; Operations; Technological Innovation; Industrial Products Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Industrial Products Industry; Europe; North America; South America; Africa; Asia
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  • 07 Dec 2010
  • First Look

First Look: Dec. 7

the company's marketing department into an integral part of product development, product management, and strategic planning after years of relative neglect is considered. The role of Chief Executive Officer... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 20 May 2014
  • First Look

First Look: May 20

(inflows minus outflows of private capital) are positively correlated with countries' productivity growth; (2) net sovereign debt flows (government borrowing minus reserves) are negatively correlated with growth only if net public debt is... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • Web

HBS - The year in Review

students, and staff displayed the resilience, flexibility, and innovative spirit that have become our hallmark in these challenging times. Students Arrive More than 9,700 applicants sought a place in the MBA Program and nearly 1,000 applicants in the Doctoral Programs;... View Details
  • 29 Feb 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Whence IT Value?

During the past few years inventory turns among U.S. manufacturers have climbed steadily, and it appears as if productivity has improved nicely. One explanation for these happy trends is that the massive investments we've been making in... View Details
Keywords: by Andrew McAfee
  • 22 May 2007
  • First Look

First Look: May 22, 2007

other distortions measured in the literature. The second uncertain policy we consider concerns marginal tax rates. We obtain similar results once we adjust for the impact of tax rates on income. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • Web

HBS - The year in Review

Doctoral Programs; the acceptance rate for both was highly competitive, at 15% and 4%, respectively. Fellowships in fiscal year 2023 were awarded to 947 MBA students, with an average fellowship of $43,992. MBA CLASS OF 2024 Students 1,015... View Details
  • 06 Nov 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, November 6, 2018

Assessment: Evidence from Food Safety Inspections By: Ibanez, Maria, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract—Many production processes are subject to inspection to ensure they meet quality, safety, and environmental standards imposed by companies... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman