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  • 06 Sep 2022
  • Research & Ideas

Curbing an Unlikely Culprit of Rising Drug Prices: Pharmaceutical Donations

Prescription drug costs continue to climb in the United States, but tightening a loophole in a federal law may help curb rising expenses, according to research published this week in Health Affairs. Efforts... View Details
Keywords: by Ben Rand; Insurance; Health; Pharmaceutical
  • June 2018
  • Article

Cost of Experimentation and the Evolution of Venture Capital

By: Michael Ewens, Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
We study how technological shocks to the cost of starting new businesses have led the venture capital model to adapt in fundamental ways over the prior decade. We both document and provide a framework to understand the changes in the investment strategy of VCs in... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Investing; Abandonment Option; Technological Innovation; Venture Capital; Investment
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  • 2017
  • Working Paper

Cost of Experimentation and the Evolution of Venture Capital

By: Michael Ewens, Ramana Nanda and Matthew Rhodes-Kropf
We study how technological shocks to the cost of starting new businesses have led the venture capital model to adapt in fundamental ways over the prior decade. We both document and provide a framework to understand the changes in the investment strategy of VCs in... View Details
Keywords: Innovation; Investing; Abandonment Option; Technological Innovation; Venture Capital; Entrepreneurship; Investment
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  • 2023
  • Working Paper

Rising Markups and the Role of Consumer Preferences

By: Hendrik Döpper, Alexander MacKay, Nathan H. Miller and Joel Stiebale
We characterize the evolution of markups for consumer products in the United States from 2006 to 2019. We use detailed data on prices and quantities for products in more than 100 distinct product categories to estimate demand systems with flexible... View Details
Keywords: Market Power; Markups; Demand Estimation; Consumer Products; Retailers; Product; Price; Demand and Consumers; Consumer Behavior
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  • 12 May 2023
  • Blog Post

Independent Project: The Rise of Electric Heat Pumps

How do you assess the viability of a heat pump? Through an Independent Project with Professor George Serafeim, Meghavi Talati (MBA 2023) set out to develop a tool to help the average consumer navigate this decision. The Rise of Electric... View Details
  • 2024
  • Working Paper

FinTech & Financial Frictions: The Rise of Revenue-Based Financing

By: Dominic Russel, Claire Shi and Rowan Clarke
We use data from a major South African payment processor to study how digital payments mitigate asymmetric information challenges in small business “revenue-based financing” contracts, which tie repayment schedules to future revenue. Eight months post-financing,... View Details
Keywords: Fintech; Small Business; Financing and Loans; South Africa
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  • 07 Mar 2019
  • News

New Marketplace Survey: Patients Lack Information to Reduce the Cost of Care

  • Web

IFC: Cape Town; Africa Rising - Course Catalog

HBS Course Catalog IFC: Cape Town; Africa Rising Course Number 6057 Senior Lecturer Hakeem I. Belo-Osagie January; J; 3.0 credits Fall On-Campus Course Sessions: September 25, October 9, October 23, November 6, November 20 from... View Details
  • 24 Apr 2017
  • News

As costs grow for restaurants, online ratings tied to closure risk

  • 01 Mar 2024
  • News

Research Brief: The Real Cost of Countering China

States and China. As political tensions rise between the two countries, US government policies have caused a move away from direct trade with China, shifting sourcing to lower-wage nations and friendly neighbors and shoring up American... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers; Miscellaneous Manufacturing; Manufacturing
  • Web

The True Costs of Gig Work | Working Knowledge

Career and Workplace The True Costs of Gig Work Featuring Ryan W. Buell and Paige Tsai . By Rachel Layne on May 9, 2025 . People with multiple jobs, such as gig workers, spend more cautiously than typical full-time employees, says... View Details
  • 04 Aug 2023
  • Blog Post

Aaron Sabin (MS/MBA 2023): Engineering a Climate Change Solution by Cutting the Cost of Carbon Capture

closing window of opportunity to secure a livable and sustainable future for all.” To keep temperature rise to 1.5°C and avoid a cascade of climatological catastrophes—flood, drought, famine, disease, species extinction, and many, many... View Details
  • 12 Jul 2004
  • Research & Ideas

Michael Porter’s Prescription For the High Cost of Health Care

Aetna, another covered by Blue Cross, and another self-insured. Payers could negotiate, but price changes would have to benefit all patients, not just their own. The cost of treating a medical condition has nothing to do with who the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael E. Porter; Health
  • 03 Jan 2022
  • News

‘We Have to Be Agile’: School Closures Rise Again as More Teachers and Students Test Positive for Omicron

  • July–August 2021
  • Article

Lowering the Bar? External Conditions, Opportunity Costs, and High-Tech Startup Outcomes

By: Annamaria Conti and Maria P. Roche
We assess the heterogeneous impact of economic downturns on individuals’ decisions to bring high-technology ideas to the market in the form of new ventures. We thereby examine how worsening labor market conditions influence individuals’ opportunity costs of starting... View Details
Keywords: Necessity Entrepreneurship; Economic Conditions; Recessions; High-tech Startups; Opportunity Costs; Entrepreneurship; Economic Slowdown and Stagnation; Business Startups; Information Technology; Performance; Labor
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  • May 2021
  • Article

Value-Based Healthcare in Urology: A Collaborative Review

By: Chanan Reitblat, Paul A. Bain, Michael E. Porter, David N. Bernstein, Thomas W. Feeley, Markus Graefen, Santosh Iyer, Matthew J. Resnick, C.J. Stimson, Quoc-Dien Trinh and Boris Gershman
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In response to growing concerns over rising costs and major variation in quality, improving value for patients has been proposed as a fundamentally new strategy for how healthcare should be delivered, measured, and... View Details
Keywords: Value-based Healthcare; Integrated Practice Units; Outcome Measurement; Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Health Care and Treatment; Value; Cost Management; Strategy; Outcome or Result; Measurement and Metrics
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  • 07 Sep 2021
  • Research & Ideas

Who Pays For Wildfire and Hurricane Damage? Everyone.

New Mexico homeowners might think their inland location buffers them from the financial toll of climate change, but they’re still paying for climate-related property damage occurring in coastal states. New research finds that homeowners in New Mexico and other states... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Insurance
  • 16 May 2012
  • Research & Ideas

Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed?

management problems in the world. Controlling and reducing costs is difficult in any industry, but even more so in larger and more complex engineering development and production programs. Costs tend to View Details
Keywords: by J. Ronald Fox; Service
  • 07 Nov 2013
  • News

Manufacturing may be on its way back

  • 28 Jan 2016
  • Blog Post

Why Get an MBA?

These days you don’t have to look far to find someone questioning the value of an MBA.  It seems like every week brings another article on rising costs and evolving employers.  Even if you don’t believe the... View Details