Filter Results:
(485)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (704)
- Faculty Publications (215)
Show Results For
- All HBS Web (704)
- Faculty Publications (215)
Sort by
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
available. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=55802 forthcoming Journal of Medical Economics Time-Driven Activity-Based Cost Analysis for Outpatient Anticoagulation Therapy: Direct Costs in a Primary Care Setting with View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 13
behavior and preferences into service cost and productivity standard metrics. Optimal Value and Growth Tilts in Long-Horizon Portfolios Authors:W. Jakub Jurkek and Luis M. Viceira Publication:Review of Finance (forthcoming) Abstract We... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 26
that each $1 invested in display and search leads to a return of $1.24 for display and $1.75 for search ads, which contrasts sharply with the estimated returns based on standard metrics. We use these results to show how optimal budget... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 10
guidance for leaders considering these questions and can help them estimate their optimal span of control. The issues explored are ones many senior executives-not just CEOs-should revisit throughout their careers. The best leaders stay... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
ad auctions as a dynamic game of incomplete information, so we can study the convergence and robustness properties of various strategies. In particular, we consider best-response bidding strategies for a repeated auction on a single keyword, where in each round, each... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
standard preferences and show that the endogenous structure of the network is conducive to sharing by a significant number of peers, even if sharing is costlier than freeriding. We build on this model of p2p to analyze the optimal... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
firms lever up, the overall cost of capital falls as leverage increases equity beta, but as debt becomes riskier the marginal benefit of increasing equity beta declines. As a simple theoretical framework predicts, we find that leverage is... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 Jan 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, January 22, 2019
reviews, discusses, and expands the “core guidance” definition of strategy as “the smallest set of choices to optimally guide (or force) other choices.” It first discusses what this definition contributes to the existing proposed... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 17 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 17, 2009
to combat gray markets is to increase internal transfer prices to foreign subsidiaries in order to increase the gray market's cost base. We illustrate that when a gray market competitor is present, the optimal price for internal transfers... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Oct 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, October 2, 2018
are robust to alternative model specifications and sample selection procedures. We demonstrate that an optimal pricing policy should take into consideration the potential costs of two types of strategic customer behavior: opportunistic... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
share prices prior to turnover are not. A corollary is that a firm with poor stock market performance cannot, or will not, raise new capital unless the current CEO is replaced. Publisher's link:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Oct 2008
- First Look
First Look: October 15, 2008
had established a reputation as a provider of some of the district's best-prepared new teachers. Yet Solomon wondered if their approach so far was optimal going forward. Carol Johnson, the new superintendent for BPS, was developing a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 19, 2018
optimal action paves the way for incidental learning, while being dogmatic creates a barrier. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54567 Harvard Business School Case 717-035 Turkey and Russia: Dangerous... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman