Publications

2001
Working Paper

Bank Capital and Risk Management: Issues for Banks and Regulators

By: Kenneth A. Froot

Banks and financial firms are in the process of evolving away from primary warehousers of risk to diversified originators and distributors of financial services. These changes are important for the way that financial firms think about their needs for economic... View Details

Keywords: Bank Capital And Risk Management; Issues For Banks And Regulators; Risk Management; Governance Compliance; Capital; Banks and Banking; Banking Industry

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January 2024
Article

Cost of Exempting Sole Orphan Drugs from Medicare Negotiation

By: Matthew Vogel, Olivia Zhao, William B. Feldman, Amitabh Chandra, Aaron S. Kesselheim and Benjamin N. Rome

Importance: The Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) requires Medicare to negotiate prices for some high-spending drugs but exempts drugs approved solely for the treatment of a single rare disease.
Objective: To estimate Medicare spending and global... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Insurance; Price; Health Industry

May 1984
Supplement

CIBA-GEIGY (A3): Maintenance of Real Capital

August 1985
Case

Capital Gains Tax Cut of 1978

By: Michael G. Rukstad and Nancy F. Koehn

Keywords: Taxation; United States

14 Dec 2011
News

A Manifesto for Sustainable Capitalism

1996
Chapter

Managing the Hidden Cost of Distrust in Downsizing

By: D. Sull and N. Nohria

Keywords: Trust; Ethics; Restructuring; Cost Management

September 2022
Article

Cost of Cardiac Stereotactic Body Radioablation Therapy versus Catheter Ablation for Treatment of Ventricular Tachycardia

By: Chen Wei, Michelle Boeck, Pierre C. Qian, Todd Vivenzio, Zoe Elizee, Jeremy S. Bredfeldt, Robert S. Kaplan, Usha Tedrow, Raymond Mak and Paul C. Zei

Cardiac SBRT is a novel way of treating refractory ventricular tachycardia (VT) that may be less costly than catheter ablation, owing to its noninvasive, outpatient nature. We applied time-driven activity-based costing to both procedures. The direct and total... View Details

Keywords: Health Care and Treatment; Activity Based Costing and Management; Cost; Health Industry

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15 Dec 2011
News

A Manifesto for Sustainable Capitalism

08 May 2009
Working Paper Summaries

Capitalizing On Innovation: The Case of Japan

Keywords: by Robert Dujarric & Andrei Hagiu

24 Apr 2014
News

Capitalizing on the power of knowledge

Yoshito Hori (MBA 1991), founder and dean of Globis University in Japan, on the power of knowledge and the opportunity to innovate. (Published April 2014) View Details

2021
Working Paper

Investment as the Opportunity Cost of Dividend Signaling

By: Zach Kaplan and Gerardo Pérez Cavazos

We provide evidence that firms with weak investment opportunities (those whose current earnings justify a greater valuation than firms with strong investment opportunities) signal their permanent earnings level through their dividends. In the cross-section, we show... View Details

Keywords: Dividend Signaling; Investment; Opportunities

Article

The Impact of Venture Capital Monitoring

By: S. Bernstein, X. Giroud and R. Townsend

2011
Chapter

Conceptual Foundations of Capital Market Anomalies

By: Mozaffar N. Khan

28 Feb 2019
HBS Conference

Italy and the Origins of Capitalism

May–June 1992
Article

The Myth of Japan's Low-cost Capital

By: W. C. Kester and T. A. Luehrman

Keywords: Capital; Japan

May 2004 (Revised September 2005)
Teaching Note

Lex Service PLC--Cost of Capital (TN)

By: W. Carl Kester

Teaching Note to (9-296-003). View Details

Keywords: Capital

March 2002
Article

The Potential Role of Economic Cost Models in the Regulation of Telecommunications in Developing Countries

What is the efficient cost of providing telecommunications services to a certain area or type of customer? As developing countries build up their capacity to regulate infrastructure monopolies, cost models are likely to prove increasingly important in answering... View Details

Keywords: Information; Cost; Mathematical Methods; Developing Countries and Economies; Telecommunications Industry

October 2024
Case

GLIN Impact Capital

By: Ethan Rouen and Akiko Saito

In 2024, the co-founders of the venture capital fund GLIN Impact Capital face a critical inflection point as they consider launching a second, significantly larger impact investment fund in Japan. Founded in 2021 by the three Harvard Business School alumni, GLIN is one... View Details

Keywords: Venture Capital; Investment Funds; Growth and Development Strategy; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Power and Influence; Japan

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