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- 27 Mar 2005
- Research & Ideas
Should I Pay the Bribe?
accusations have a cost to the politicians, both in terms of the monetary cost of the legal defense efforts and in terms of the reduced esteem of the uninformed public at home and abroad. My proposal is to... View Details
Keywords: by Cynthia D. Churchwell
- 23 Feb 2004
- Research & Ideas
How Corporate Responsibility is Changing in Asia
to outsource elsewhere, Ballinger said the number of Nike employees in Indonesia grew from 20,000 in 1988 to 110,000 in 1997. "(Nike) still thought it was a pretty good deal," he said. Even if the minimum wage rose to $5 a day, it would only View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep
work? A: Unfortunately the method is quite difficult to implement—it took us many months to do it properly, and it required mutual fund holdings data that costs tens of thousands of dollars (which the HBS Division of Research was kind... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 01 Dec 2016
- News
Ask the Expert: Energy’s Next Era
toward renewables, it also moves from variable cost to fixed cost—from an Opex world to a Capex one. How should pricing evolve to reflect a Capex world and induce consumption when energy is abundant and prevent it when it isn’t? —Catarina... View Details
- 01 Oct 1998
- News
New Loan Program Signals Breakthrough in MBA Financial Aid
interest. The new arrangement, unique to HBS among business schools with similar cost and financing structures, eliminates access limitations based on citizenship and creditworthiness - hurdles that have discouraged potential candidates... View Details
- 07 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Corporate Tax Strategies Mirror Personal Returns of Top Execs
corporate tax strategies is not as obvious as it may seem. Costs and benefits are vastly different for individuals than they are for large corporations. “If you optimize taxes in your personal life, it is not visible to outsiders, so it’s... View Details
Keywords: by Roberta Holland
- 23 Jul 2024
- Research & Ideas
Forgiving Medical Debt Won't Make Everyone Happier
should focus their efforts on helping people with debt before they go through the stress of the collections process, he says. “We were optimistic that it could nevertheless have a cost-effective impact.” “An economist might not be that surprised that this program that... View Details
- 29 Feb 2024
- Blog Post
IFC India: JSW Steel and Cement and the Quest to Capture Carbon in Hard to Abate Sectors
economics for buyers. Clustering would help reduce transportation and liquefaction costs and make the supply chain frictionless as it would require no or very few investments in pipeline network. Storage: the difficulty of storing carbon... View Details
- 01 Apr 1999
- News
Q & A: Confronting New Technologies: When Doing Right Is Wrong
cognitive problem. The PCs simply did not make sense to DEC, given their customer context and their cost structure/business model. “Disruptive Tech 101” When Clay Christensen speaks of disruptive and sustaining technologies, he uses the... View Details
- 08 May 2019
- News
Fellowships Fuel a Passion to Help Underserved Communities
of these experiences has cost ramifications,” she explains. “My fellowships have taken some of the pressure off. Otherwise, my choices would have been driven more by debt than by the difference I want to make in the world.” Asamoah... View Details
- 25 May 2016
- News
FIELD 3: Taking Down Barriers
list includes hundreds of the Fortune 1,000 (including GE, Microsoft, and Staples) as well as thousands of Main Street businesses. In addition to coleading HourlyNerd, Biederman volunteers as a fundraiser for his class. “I realize that the View Details
- 01 Apr 2001
- News
Adventure in China
commitment there (asking her only to repay its tuition costs plus interest), she worked at McKinsey for two years after graduation. Growing restless, she spent six months backpacking on her own through three continents, an experience that... View Details
Keywords: Personal Services
- 01 Dec 2014
- News
The Far-Reaching Impact of Fellowships
Financial aid provides the foundation for HBS’s need-blind admission policy, ensuring that the cost of attending is not a barrier to entry into the MBA Program. By lessening the burden of debt, this support enables students to study at... View Details
Keywords: fellowships
- 01 Mar 2007
- News
HBS Issues Upbeat 2006 Annual Report
billion, up 13 percent, reflecting strong returns and new gifts. The School’s operating expenses rose 12.4 percent to $345 million, with the growth primarily reflecting increased investments in Executive Education and HBSP, and inflationary pressure on fixed View Details
- 01 Sep 2009
- News
Noted & Quoted
“Some Democrats view Medicare as a successful cost controller, pointing to its low administrative overhead, which they peg at 3 percent. But that figure ignores an inconvenient truth: Medicare’s unfunded liabilities, estimated at about... View Details
- 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
Keywords: Asset Management; Cost; Equity; Financial Strategy; Investment; Investment Portfolio; Management; Product Development; Performance Efficiency; Business Strategy
Perold, Andre F., and Brian J. Tierney. "numeric investors l.p." Harvard Business School Case 298-012, July 1997. (Revised August 1997.)
- 23 May 2016
- Research & Ideas
A Little Understanding Motivates Copyright Abusers to Pay Up
they approached was already trying a kinder-and-gentler tactic by waiving the fee to recoup enforcement costs ($400 per image) and just asking for the actual cost of licensing the image that averages between... View Details
- 24 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 24
engaging in dishonest behavior allows further dishonest behavior in a subsequent task (Experiment 5). Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2563196 Measurement Errors of Expected-Return Proxies and the Implied Cost of Capital... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Sep 2012
- Research & Ideas
US Competitiveness at Risk
unnecessary costs of shipping goods to distant markets, or allows better adaptation of products to local circumstances. So globalization at one level has enhanced the competitiveness of US-based companies and will support their growth in... View Details
Keywords: Re: Michael E. Porter & Jan W. Rivkin
- 26 Nov 2019
- News
Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream
customer bases and a low cost of capital. In 2016, the landscape shifted even further when major platform players such as Amazon, PayPal, and Square entered the space. In spite of these disruptions, Mills says that one can’t discount the... View Details