Value Capturing - Publications - Faculty & Research

28 Jan 2002
Research & Ideas

Read All About It! Newspapers Lose Web War

de-coupling mechanism could allow firms to capture the benefits of being motivated by the threat to their core business, without being bound by its rigidity-producing effects. By separating those who were running the business from the... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Entertainment & Recreation; Information; Publishing

16 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Depression or Euphoria? Navigating the Market’s Mood Swings

that later crashed to fractions of their peak value. "I don't know what people were smoking, but it wasn't legal, I suspect," he said, adding that many overvalued companies "were in the job of selling stock rather than delivering View Details

Keywords: by Carrie Levine

23 Oct 2018
First Look

New Research and Ideas, October 23, 2018

formulate strategy in large, evolving technical systems. I argue that the points of value creation and value capture in a technical system are the system’s bottlenecks.... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

09 Sep 2008
First Look

First Look: September 9, 2008

emphasis on valuation and capital structure. Serves as the basis for a bankruptcy reorganization game that has been used for many years in Creating Value Through Corporate Restructuring, a second-year finance course. The game is played in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

01 Dec 2013
News

Alumni News | Book Briefs

cost (sustaining performance involves capturing value in the form of profits); and finally, there are no other rules. Ride the Wave: How 12 Technologies Will Change the World and Make You Rich by Fred Rogers... View Details

Keywords: Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information; Professional Services; Management of Companies and Enterprises; Management

12 Apr 2011
News

Twelve Global Finalists Compete at HBS

infection-control market, a large and rapidly growing $3B global market. PhytoTEK focuses on treating and preventing biofilm-caused staph infections. Over 40M tons of e-waste is generated worldwide every year, most of which is landfilled or incinerated. BioMine seeks... View Details

Keywords: Multiple alumni

01 Dec 2002
News

HBS Alumni Association Board of Directors: President's Report

whose lives have been affected by HBS and its alumni. This moving production was developed for the capital campaign, which will be rolled out across the country and abroad over the coming months. I hope you will have an opportunity to see the presentation, as it does a... View Details

23 Jul 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Balanced Scorecard in Action

a Balanced Scorecard program. The purpose of an OSM is to unlock value by making strategy execution a distinct and recognized competency in an organization. Does The Bsc Work In Testing Strategy? Working Paper: Testing Strategy with... View Details

18 Sep 2013
Research & Ideas

Unspoken Cues: Encouraging Morals Without Mandates

Many institutions promote and even mandate moral behavior and values among their members, but how they do it differs greatly. Some organizations such as religious groups may proscribe very specifically what is acceptable behavior—think... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Education

02 Jan 2018
Op-Ed

'Dear Working Knowledge'--Our Favorite Reader Comments of the Year

Do Bitcoin and Digital Currency Have a Future? Austin Brown comments: Cryptocurrencies also have no inherent value in and of themselves, so the big question here is whether or not they are actually a good mechanism by which to exchange... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

12 Feb 2019
First Look

New Research and Ideas, February 12, 2019

develop a novel framework as a means to integrate and organize a wide range of theoretical insights and empirical findings on brokerage and brokering. The Changing Others’ Relationships (COR) framework captures the following ideas that... View Details

Keywords: Dina Gerdeman

20 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

The U.S. Patent Game: How to Change It

government programs. [Editor's note: In a nutshell, regulatory capture refers to the tendency of regulators to favor, in effect, the interest of the industry they are supposed to be regulating rather than the public interest.] Any program... View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

Web

Smaller Collections - Photography Collections - Historical Collections

gelatin silver print images taken by Margaret Bourke-White captures industrial settings during the early 19th century. Included are pictures of American factories, mines, foundries, and glassworks. Bourke-White was able to depict... View Details

17 Jul 2006
Lessons from the Classroom

Developing a Strategy for Digital Convergence

about capturing value through intellectual property regimes, standards, and technology platforms. Digital convergence takes center stage in the final module. Convergence examples, suddenly, are plentiful.... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Computer; Education

20 Dec 2004
Research & Ideas

How an Order Views Your Company

impact stayed. Kash, John, and I worked very hard to capture our findings in a single document. Alan Weber, at the time the Editor of the Harvard Business Review, did a magnificent job of taking our manuscript and making it accessible to... View Details

Keywords: by Sarah Jane Johnston

06 Aug 2013
First Look

First Look: August 6

document sources of value creation in mergers by analyzing novel data on the quality and price of goods sold by merging firms. When two competitors in a product market merge, their products converge in quality, and prices fall relative to... View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

06 May 2019
Research & Ideas

Consumers Blame Business for Global Health Problems. Can Business Become the Solution?

more for sustainable goods. Almost 60 percent report that a product’s health and wellness benefits motivate purchasing decisions. And over 40 percent say that they factor a company’s social value into purchasing decisions. Millennials are... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost; Health

08 Nov 2024
HBS Case

What Wartime Service Taught These Historic Leaders

started. And during his tenure, Eisenhower leaned on “the Gang,” a group of corporate leaders who had become advisers, to bring their business skills into his administration, saying, “I must learn the value of a dollar.” “Military is all... View Details

Keywords: by Avery Forman; Entertainment & Recreation

21 Nov 2006
First Look

First Look: November 21, 2006

pricing, the timing of investments, and who captures the greatest value at different phases of product generations. The Press as a Watchdog for Accounting Fraud Author:Gregory S. Miller Periodical:Journal of... View Details