Cost Of Equity - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Apr 2020
Research & Ideas

How Social Entrepreneurs Can Increase Their Investment Impact

companies, that's too simple because it ignores the cost on the firms you’re supporting,” says Roth, author of the new working paper Impact Investing: A Theory of Financing... View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne

29 Apr 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Use Personal Experience to Pick Winning Stocks

would trade on their ideas," says Cohen. "They put their money where their mouth is." One of them, Alice Newcombe (MBA 2013), used her background in private equity to forensically investigate... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Financial Services

04 Dec 2013
Research & Ideas

The Fantastic Horizon: How to Invest in a New City

flexible and strategic, but value is created in proximity and in phasing. Uses need to be near each other for both economic competitiveness and to save the environmental costs of long car transit. Without... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Construction; Real Estate

08 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

A Manager’s Guide to International Strategy

portfolio of locations. Collis drills down into the many factors that can affect location and observes how companies typically assign each a weighted percentage: employee availability, sourcing, quality, and View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

09 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Incentives and Operational Excellence

Minor allowed customers to internalize the consequences of their demand for services," he explained. "Owens & Minor developed cost drivers to understand the drivers View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

11 Sep 2019
Research & Ideas

Germany May Have the Answer for Reducing Drug Prices

the prices of more than 100 medications by 32 percent, on average, in June and early July. The Senate has been debating a bipartisan proposal to limit seniors’ out-of-pocket costs and curb price increases,... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

January 2021 (Revised March 2021)
Supplement

Juno (C): Leveraging Student Power

By: Joshua Schwartzstein, Kathleen L. McGinn and Amy Klopfenstein

In May 2020, Juno co-founders Chris Abkarians and Nikhil Agarwal decided to hold the annual auction for their student loan assistance startup. Five lenders submitted bids, and the co-founders ultimately opted to select Eager Bank as their partner for the 2020-2021... View Details

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Purchase

04 Mar 2016
Research & Ideas

Is E-commerce at Risk in Apple's Security Dispute with the FBI?

on who should bear the costs of cracking an iPhone. Is it Apple’s moral and fiscal responsibility to cooperate with national security at stake? Is the FBI’s request an overreach? And what implications does... View Details

Keywords: Re: Sunil Gupta; Technology

17 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment

labor-intensive industries, contractual arrangements with foreign buyers are technically feasible and might provide the same business benefits as FDI. (As a form of equity financing, FDI is typically... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

29 May 2006
Research & Ideas

Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play

and the needs of his or her new employer.Not all managers are equally suited to all business situations. The strategic skills required to control costs in the face of fierce... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Andrew N. McLean & Nitin Nohria; Employment

12 Jul 2006
Research & Ideas

Competition the Cure for Healthcare

with the wrong kind of competition, on the wrong things. Instead, we have a zero-sum competition to restrict services, assemble bargaining power, shift the cost to others, or grab more View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Health

26 Jul 2010
Research & Ideas

Yes, You Can Raise Prices in a Downturn

once established, the very success of those low-cost competitors makes it difficult for others to duplicate. Our research is for the many companies that don't compete on absolute cost advantages and low... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Retail; Consumer Products

05 Sep 2007
First Look

First Look: September 5, 2007

Working PapersDesigning a Two-Sided Platform: When to Increase Search Costs? Authors:Andrei Hagiu and Bruno Jullien Abstract We propose a model for analyzing an intermediary's incentives to increase the search costs incurred by... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

26 Jul 2004
Research & Ideas

A Better Way to Negotiate: Backward

preferred outcome and think in reverse about how to get there. Here are the basic steps: 1. Draw a "map" of the parties who are currently involved and those who might potentially get onboard, along with their interests and their... View Details

Keywords: by James K. Sebenius

16 Aug 2010
Lessons from the Classroom

HBS Introduces Marketing Analysis Tools for Managers

financial projections for the firm. Profitability analysis begins with calculating the revenue the firm will generate from sales of its products. Then, an analysis of variable and fixed View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert

25 Feb 2020
Research & Ideas

For Migrant Workers, Homesickness Can Reduce Productivity

together" “These psychological costs of moving are really important because, if you think about it, if you get career benefits and, in many cases, a wage increase from moving, what might be holding... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz

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,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

20 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

How an Order Views Your Company

profitable parts of their business. It also enabled them to segment different types of order to improve their efficiency. Taken together, the improvements in efficiency and the greater focus on highly... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston

01 Mar 2017
Research & Ideas

A Good Thing Happens When Doctors Start Talking to Their Patients

Kaplan, who has been working on a multiyear project with HBS Professor Michael E. Porter on improving value in health care, has found that often the most effective medical procedure is one that costs the least: talking. In a recent... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Health

06 Dec 2011
Op-Ed

Greater Fiscal Integration Best Solution for Euro Crisis

increase in borrowing cost, paralleling that of their respective sovereigns, while their collateral is decreasing in value. Since the amount of leverage in the system is still high, View Details

Keywords: by Dante Roscini

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