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  • 16 Nov 2010
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First Look: November 16, 2010

management and waste to energy, as well as the characteristics of the waste management industry. The intent of the (A) case is to have students perform operational analysis on the organic waste to energy process to evaluate whether a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
  • 21 Oct 2014
  • First Look

First Look: October 21

sustainable change in particular-can be most effectively managed. The book begins by laying out the economic case for change, while subsequent chapters describe how leaders at firms such as Du Pont, IBM, and Cemex have transformed their... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Business & Environment - Faculty & Research

path from dirty to clean technology. We then estimate the model using a combination of regression analysis on the relationship between R&D and patents, and simulated method of moments using microdata on employment, production, R&D, firm... View Details
  • 14 Sep 2020
  • Research & Ideas

You're Right! You Are Working Longer and Attending More Meetings

Work-from-home employees whose days seem longer, with more meetings and emails than ever before, may find a new Harvard Business School study validating. An analysis of the emails and meetings of 3.1 million people in 16 global cities... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
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Financial Accounting Online Course | HBS Online

decisions Value a venture, project, or investment opportunity and perform a sensitivity analysis Who Will Benefit College Students and Recent Graduates Those Considering an MBA Mid-Career Professionals Learn the language of business... View Details
  • 2023
  • Chapter

Inflation and Misallocation in New Keynesian Models

By: Alberto Cavallo, Francesco Lippi and Ken Miyahara
The New Keynesian framework implies that sluggish price adjustment results in a distorted allocation of resources. We use a simple model to quantify these unobservable distortions, using data that depict the price-setting behavior of firms, specifically the frequency... View Details
Keywords: Macroeconomics; Inflation and Deflation; Price; Analytics and Data Science; Cost
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  • November – December 2011
  • Article

Explaining Influence Rents: The Case for an Institutions-Based View of Strategy

By: Gautam Ahuja and Sai Yayavaram
Research in strategy has identified and tried to explain four types of rents: monopolistic rents, efficiency rents, quasi rents, and Schumpeterian rents. Building on previous work on political and institutional strategies, we add a fifth type of rent: influence rents.... View Details
Keywords: Institutions; Influence Rents; Generic Strategies; Strategy; Organizations; Renting or Rental; Economics
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  • June 2010 (Revised August 2021)
  • Case

Vereinigung Hamburger Schiffsmakler und Schiffsagenten e.V. (VHSS): Valuing Ships

By: Benjamin C. Esty and Albert Sheen
After booming for more than five years, the global shipping (maritime) industry experienced a dramatic crash in late 2008 as the global financial system froze and the global economy slid into recession. Ship charter rates (revenue) fell by as much as 90% causing prices... View Details
Keywords: Fair Value Accounting; Financial Crisis; Capital Markets; Financial Liquidity; International Finance; Globalized Markets and Industries; Valuation; Banking Industry; Shipping Industry; Germany
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  • 14 Oct 2008
  • Research & Ideas

Should You Bring Advertising Expertise In-House?

disadvantages of establishing an in-house advertising resource? A: The make or buy decision relating to advertising services is a complex one. The primary considerations involve issues of cost and control. The make or buy decision calls for a comparative View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Advertising
  • 28 Jul 2009
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First Look: July 28

best-known authority, TRUSTe, are more than twice as likely to be untrustworthy as uncertified sites. This difference remains statistically and economically significant when restricted to "complex" commercial sites. In contrast,... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
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Business History - Faculty & Research

hydro-electric schemes which caused further environmental damage co-created by business and governments. As globalization resumed from the 1980s, renewed economic growth and consumerism resulted in mountains of waste in increasingly... View Details
  • Web

Our Team - Impact Investments

Cornell Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. Jonah has also worked for the US House of Representatives providing policy analysis and constituent management. Jonah earned his BA in Political... View Details
  • 14 Jun 2016
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June 14, 2016

which analysis of the numbers, facts, and data fails to provide a clear answer. Gray areas test not only managers’ skills but also their humanity. This book presents a five-question framework—based on the long humanist tradition of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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Faculty - Creating Emerging Markets

Helmy Abouleish Ghassan E. Nuqul Silvia Gold Christoph Schiess Sanjay Bansal Shamlu Dudeja Patrick Chalhoub Aban Pestonjee Ela Bhatt Fadi Ghandour Anu Aga Jaithirth (Jerry) Rao Project Coordinator Tarun Khanna Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor Research Interests : diasporas... View Details
  • 30 Jun 2015
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First Look: June 30, 2015

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=46138 Forthcoming Accounting Review An Analysis of Self-reported Anticorruption Efforts By: Healy, Paul M., and George Serafeim Abstract—We use Transparency International's ratings of... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 26 Mar 2007
  • Research & Ideas

Learning from Failed Political Leadership

information for all companies striving to succeed in today's global economy. The book identifies two much-loved illusions that pervade today's mass media: a) the conviction that all of the world's economic systems, including China and... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
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Online Business Analytics Course | HBS Online

Introduction to Business Analytics ENROLL NOW No application needed for our certificate programs. Start your journey today! Business Analytics $1,850 Next 8-week session starts April 23rd Enroll Now Unlock actionable insights by mastering data View Details
  • 29 Sep 2014
  • Research & Ideas

Why Do Outlet Stores Exist?

having these stores and just having a sales rack in the back?" As a doctoral student in economics at Columbia, Ngwe was fascinated by the incredible range of products that retailers offer to consumers, and wondered just how this... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Apparel & Accessories; Fashion; Retail
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Technology & Innovation - Faculty & Research

driver of wealth creation and economic growth. Partnerships to foster the translational processes from public research organizations, such as universities and hospitals, to private firms are a policy tool that has attracted increased... View Details
  • 15 May 2018
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New Research and Ideas, May 15, 2018

be enormous. Though economists should treat the prospect of a developed space economy with healthy skepticism, it would be irresponsible to treat it as science fiction. In this article, I provide an analytical framework—based on classic View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman