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02 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018

Our logistic regression models indicate that (1) realized post-purchase price drops lead to a higher probability of return, and (2) anticipated price drops after purchase lead to a higher probability of using cash on delivery, a payment method with a lower return View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

24 Jul 2013
Op-Ed

Detroit Files for Bankruptcy: HBS Faculty Weigh In

Pundits and politicians point to the burden of pension, health, and union obligations on the cost side. True, but not it's not sufficient just to cut costs. The real game is about revenues. Municipal revenues come from economic activity,... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber, Robert C. Pozen, Eric D. Werker & Benjamin Kennedy; Auto

24 Mar 2022
Research & Ideas

Why Cutting Jobless Aid Isn't the Answer to Worker Shortages

stop to unemployment benefits slashed the incomes of the vast majority of those who were cut off and crimped overall spending in local economies, says Raymond Kluender, an assistant professor in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit at Harvard Business School. “The View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

30 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

Most Popular Articles of 2013

colleagues discuss how Random Coefficient Models (RCMs) can close the gap between theoretical and empirical research in strategy. The Impact of Conformance and Experiential Quality on Healthcare Cost and Clinical Performance This study by... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

06 Aug 2008
Research & Ideas

Are the Olympics a Catalyst for China Reforms?

support productive change in China, can also function as constructive bridges. Seeing China as a short-term cost minimization fix is, in this sense, a lost opportunity. Q: It seems that China had hoped to use the Olympic Games as kind of... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

01 Mar 2025
News

Forward Thinking

There was a time when human activity in outer space was a highly centralized, government-led endeavor, says Professor and Senior Associate Dean Matthew Weinzierl. But that era has passed: Over the past two decades, a calcified space bureaucracy has given way to a... View Details

Keywords: Alexander Gelfand; Illustrations by Franziska Barczyk; Space Research and Technology; Government

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Buildings & Cities - Business & Environment

figure out which assets to harden and defend, which to abandon, and which to prepare to rebuild after events. I’m interested in how we can cost justify and mobilize investments in real property - and address the human vulnerabilities as... View Details

01 Jun 2012
News

Bringing ‘Global’ Back Home

Explains Fields, “Especially since the recession, to be more competitive, we’ve looked beyond things like labor costs when deciding where to locate new business.” He believes that the United States can often claim competitive advantage in... View Details

Keywords: Garry Emmons; Transportation Equipment Manufacturing; Manufacturing

19 Apr 2018
News

One Last Pitch

ventilator that costs 10 percent of a typical machine, while maintaining the same capabilities. Though the NVC has undergone many changes over its 21-year run, Professor Thomas Eisenmann said one aspect has been a constant: “a commitment... View Details

Keywords: Jennifer Myers

11 Jul 2013
News

The Good Writer

phone at his home in Los Angeles, Dick, one of eight writers on the show, has had about seven days to turn in a 60-page script. “My wife will tell you that I’m an insufferable ogre when I’m on deadline,” he says. “But you have to feed the beast. Halting production can... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

04 Jan 2010
Research & Ideas

Best of HBS Working Knowledge 2009

organization, join the club. Despite the mantra that goals are good, the process of setting beneficial goals is harder than it looks. New research by HBS professor Max H. Bazerman and colleagues explores the hidden cost when stretch goals... View Details

Keywords: by Staff

12 Sep 2005
Research & Ideas

The Broadband Explosion: Thinking About a Truly Interactive World

next? A: I continue to work on the idea that computing technologies that reduce the cost of trying new things, thus making work more "iterative," can supercharge innovation processes. The way we do work in the future is going to... View Details

Keywords: by Sara Grant; Technology; Communications; Telecommunications

01 Mar 2015
News

A Boomtown's Echo

in the oil patch during that boom—that’s how I put myself through college. But once the price of oil dropped in 1982 and 1983, then that boom went bust because it was no longer cost effective to extract the oil. It was a very painful... View Details

Keywords: Oil and Gas Extraction; Mining

17 Jul 2017
Blog Post

Podcast: Should You Consider the MS/MBA: Engineering Sciences Program?

particular feature set of a product depends on both the business model, who's going to buy it, who's going to pay for all those things, as well as the technology, what can you really build, how much will it cost to build it. In many... View Details

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Getting Involved - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness

financial, and executive leaders in the health care industry to learn to apply the principles of Value-Based Health Care in their own organizations. Twice a year we offer our Value Measurement in Health Care seminar, which focuses on measuring View Details

30 Jan 2021
News

Finding a Fresh Approach to Dry Cleaning

or to spot- and hand-clean garments before they go into the dry-cleaning process. “Most cleaners don’t do that,” he says. “That kind of detail isn’t cheap. A laundered shirt that might cost 99 cents to clean at a competitor starts around... View Details

Keywords: Personal and Laundry Services; Personal Services

01 Mar 2017
News

Research Brief: Lost in Translation

In an increasingly global business world, English is the lingua franca that tethers companies and their investors together. Executives without a deep fluency in English could be costing their companies more than they realize. According to... View Details

Keywords: Erin Peterson

01 Jun 2007
News

Delta’s Flight from Bankruptcy

September 2005 and was about a month away from its announced plan to emerge from Chapter 11 when Whitehurst visited the campus. Observing that a key to any turnaround is identifying the problem correctly, Whitehurst explained that Delta had the lowest View Details

Keywords: Air Transportation; Transportation

01 Jun 2007
News

Tribute to Fellowships

School’s ability in recent years to grow fellowship aid at a faster pace than the rise in tuition and fees. “Fellowship aid has doubled over the past five years, so the real cost of attending HBS has actually gone down,” said Light. While... View Details

Keywords: Colleges, Universities, and Professional Schools; Educational Services; Social Assistance; Health, Social Assistance

July 1997 (Revised August 1997)
Case

numeric investors l.p.

By: Andre F. Perold and Brian J. Tierney

Numeric Investors manages equity portfolios with the use of a momentum model and a value model. The momentum model is based on earnings surprise and analysts' revisions of their earnings estimates. The firm offers long-short as well as long-only strategies, and its... View Details