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  • 17 Jun 2002
  • Research & Ideas

Entrepreneurship in Asia and Foreign Direct Investment

strength or weakness of local entrepreneurship in host countries, Huang argued. The institutional quality of an economy, which affects the efficiency of capital allocation and the security of property rights of productive and innovative... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
  • 27 Apr 2021
  • Research & Ideas

New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement

Published Papers Do the Right Firms Survive Bankruptcy? Journal of Financial Economics Samuel Antill “In United States, Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases, firms are either reorganized, acquired, or liquidated. I show that decisions to liquidate often reduce creditor... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2024
  • News

The Road Less Traveled

Most cars in the United States weigh more than 4,000 pounds, and new models are trending larger, even in countries where people drive less. And the larger the vehicle, the more fuel required to power it, which means more greenhouse-gas emissions that contribute to... View Details
Keywords: Janine White; illustrations by WACSO; Transit and Ground Passenger Transportation; Transportation
  • 24 Jul 2007
  • First Look

First Look: July 24, 2007

production quantities of the two products based on the characteristics of both markets. We find that increasing disposal cost increases the cost of the primary product, but decreases the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Nov 2017
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

trainees how to assemble an aircraft wing—and has cut the time it takes them to do that task by 35%. At GE, factory workers have achieved a similar gain in efficiency by using voice commands in AR experiences to perform complex wiring. AR... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 08 Jul 2014
  • First Look

First Look: July 8

still contrary to merchants' interests), foregoing the efficiencies of specialization in favor of the better incentives of a company's staff. We consider the implications for marketing of online affiliate programs and for online marketing... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
  • 01 Dec 1999
  • News

The Message and the Media: Advertising's Brave New World

increases only modestly. The traditional face of the industry has changed, with "full-service" agency-client relationships giving way to cost cutting, streamlining, and consolidation. Outright alternatives to advertising - including... View Details
Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs
  • 15 Mar 2016
  • First Look

March 15, 2016

Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=50752 Voter Registration Costs and Disenfranchisement: Experimental Evidence from France By: Braconnier, Celine, Jean-Yves Dormagen, and Vincent Pons Abstract—A large-scale... View Details
  • 30 Jan 2007
  • First Look

First Look: January 30, 2007

worker dismissal costs will curtail hiring below efficient levels and retain unproductive workers, both of which should affect productivity. These theoretical predictions have rarely been tested. We use the... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 18 Sep 2018
  • First Look

New Research and Ideas, September 18, 2018

Ratcheting, Competition, and the Diffusion of Technological Change: The Case of Televisions Under an Energy Efficiency Program By: Amano, Tomomichi, and Hiroshi Ohashi Abstract—In differentiated goods markets with societal implications,... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
  • 03 Apr 2009
  • What Do You Think?

How Much Obsolescence Can Business and Society Absorb?

potential. My guess [is that] the societal effects are just as important." Ganesh Ram commented, "We laugh at the Luddites who destroyed factories in the early Nineteenth Century but the cost of obsolescence is more rapidly and... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett; Publishing; Journalism & News
  • 01 Dec 1997
  • News

Merton's Economics Research Wins Nobel Prize

trading has been beneficial. Derivatives serve as a form of sophisticated "adapters," he said, linking economic systems together and helping to bring about a unified world economy. They have also brought about vast reductions in costs by... View Details
  • 01 Sep 2003
  • News

Patrick Moreton

small towns. But Wal-Mart’s success suggests that the benefits of this type of consolidation — efficiencies related to being big — outweigh its costs, at least in the eyes of individual consumers, who apparently see it as a net gain.... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons; Telecommunications; Information
  • 27 Jul 2017
  • News

Seeing a Way Forward

are enormous obstacles, with cataract surgery costing between 18,000 to 30,000 pesos (about $1,000–$1,500 USD) in private institutions. Founded in 2011 by engineers Javier Okhuysen and Carlos Orellana, salauno helped more than 150,000... View Details
Keywords: Jennifer Myers
  • 19 Sep 2011
  • Research & Ideas

Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?

behavioral issues. Say you work at an insurance agency. Your job is to devise protection, and you've discovered, as many insurers do, that catastrophic reinsurance is expensive. Meanwhile, your boss has been hounding you for months to keep View Details
Keywords: by Maggie Starvish; Financial Services
  • 27 Apr 2010
  • First Look

First Look: April 27

Boston mechanism. Both results have important implications for the efficiency and the stability of the mechanisms. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/10-093.pdf Network Effects in Countries' Adoption of IFRS... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 15 Oct 2008
  • First Look

First Look: October 15, 2008

advertising agency's decision to unbundle its services as a tradeoff between the fixed cost to the advertiser of establishing and maintaining a relationship with an advertising agency and pecuniary economies of scale available in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
  • 14 Mar 2007
  • Op-Ed

Government’s Misguided Probe of Private Equity

the efficiency of capital markets, the opaqueness of the groups' operations, and the abuse of inside information. It is hard not to feel that history is repeating itself. For not only is this investigation sure to fatten the profit pools... View Details
Keywords: by Josh Lerner; Financial Services
  • 16 Feb 2004
  • Research & Ideas

European Private Equity—Still a Teenager?

make companies more efficient when public markets are largely flat, they said. According to Nikos Stathopoulos (HBS MBA '95), a partner in Apax Partners, which was founded thirty years ago, "If you look at what drives the sources of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Financial Services
  • 11 Sep 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Riding the Internet Fast Track

genuine concern, as is the efficiency of using established distribution systems designed for inter-store delivery to also package and ship thousands of small orders to individual consumers. More important, the substantial losses these... View Details
Keywords: by Peter Jacobs
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