Cost Of Equity - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 May 2002
What Do You Think?

What’s Driving the “New Marketing?”

department and focused on the "interruption" of customer buying behaviors, the need to acquire new customers, immediate transactions, and the treatment of marketing View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

11 Apr 2018
Research & Ideas

Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now

tolerated with others. The sales manager who brings in big bucks but acts in a hostile, domineering way with his team may be seen as the definition of success, yet letting “a brilliant jerk be a jerk” could View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

23 Jul 2018
Research & Ideas

The Open Office Revolution Has Gone Too Far

lower costs, the answer is more people per square foot, and open offices will always have the upper hand on that dimension. Nonetheless, many managers and executives seem to believe that open offices will both lower costs and improve... View Details

Keywords: Re: Ethan S. Bernstein

13 Nov 2000
Research & Ideas

Corporate Venturing: Entrepreneurship on the Inside

Ashton Perry of Lucent Corp.'s Lucent Venture Partners. "It's hard enough to incent an entrepreneurial team in the way the external market will incent them without raising all kinds of questions about... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

19 Jun 2018
Research Event

Has Environmental Sustainability Lost its Relevance?

iPhoto For businesses and other organizations seeking to overcome roadblocks to sustainability over the last few decades, much can be learned from the debates I heard at the recent Harvard Business School conference, Understanding and Overcoming Roadblocks to... View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones; Energy

19 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

LEED-ing by Example

Unit at Harvard Business School. "For example, procurement policies could serve a demonstration role that would stimulate private demand by making people more aware of green buildings. They might also cover the start-up View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities

17 Sep 2001
What Do You Think?

What Is “Business as Usual” After September 11?

personal levels—needed to achieve the "peace of mind" with which we did business on September 10? How will they and other changes affect business and consumer costs and, at a more basic level, the... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

25 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

MNCs in Asia: Investing in the Future

The unparalleled size of Asia's markets has always caught the eye of multinational corporations. More recently, as government policies and cultural attitudes in the region continue to evolve, the strategies... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

13 Oct 2010
Research & Ideas

How Government can Discourage Private Sector Reliance on Short-Term Debt

of principles of trade between countries. A: The title of the paper refers to the idea that, in choosing the optimal maturity structure of its... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Financial Services

07 Jul 2020
Research & Ideas

Market Investors Pay More for Resilient Companies

The steep market drop in the early days of the COVID-19 crisis is being used as a laboratory to study the importance of companies investing in stakeholder relations with their employees, suppliers, and customers, and how those investments could be strategic resources... View Details

Keywords: by Kristen Senz; Financial Services

14 Sep 2010
First Look

First Look: September 14, 2010

perceive the value of CSR strategies more favorably. Our results document how CSR strategies can affect value creation in public equity markets through analyst recommendations. Download the paper:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

02 Apr 2015
Research & Ideas

Digital Initiative Summit: Freeing Patient Data to Enable Innovation

impediments in the future. In mapping those bottlenecks, Hsiang cited difficulty in moving data around because of legal constraints and high costs with low rewards. Petro added the issue View Details

Keywords: Re: Karim R. Lakhani; Health

24 Nov 2014
Research & Ideas

Corrupting Silence: Companies Must Speak Up Against Bribes

the cost of investment in developing countries by at least 20 percent. And yet, companies are mostly silent on the subject. "The thing that struck me is how little information there is on corruption because... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

01 May 2020
In Practice

COVID-19’s Hard Lessons Might Prepare Business for Climate Change

The coronavirus pandemic caught the business world by surprise, but the catastrophe might force companies to face a crisis that has been unfolding in plain sight: climate change. We asked faculty members affiliated with the Business and Environment Initiative at... View Details

Keywords: by Danielle Kost

11 Feb 2002
Research & Ideas

Guts and Bliss: The Entrepreneur’s Journey

It's easy to run a company in an up market. OK, sort of easy. But a down market is something else again, and what a roller-coaster year the past year was, said six entrepreneurs in a panel discussion at the 2002 Dynamic Women in Business... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

05 Nov 2013
First Look

First Look: November 5

provided to customers as a consequence of reduced marginal costs for a task. We find that an increase in physicians' capacity for ordering ultrasounds (U/S) resulted in an 11.5 percentage point increase in... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

10 Jun 2002
Research & Ideas

Reinventing the Industrial Giant

exchange with auto parts suppliers. This system, initially called TradeXchange, was designed to bring suppliers online so that GM can purchase supplies. For a fee, suppliers were to use TradeXchange to "reduce their costs and pass on... View Details

Keywords: by Nitin Nohria, Davis Dyer & Frederick Dalzell; Manufacturing

22 Dec 2016
Op-Ed

The Small Business Administration is a Model for How to Drive Economic Growth

critical (but often neglected) part of the economy, all at a low cost to taxpayers. Gallup and other surveys show high support for small businesses. However, programs that support small businesses are not... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills

04 Apr 2018
Op-Ed

Op-Ed: Why Private Investors Must Fund 'New Nuclear' Power Right Now

category known as “new nuclear,” which offers the potential to dramatically reduce costs and rapidly ramp up installations when compared to today’s nuclear power plants. But the success of new nuclear—and... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Lassiter; Energy; Green Technology

09 Jan 2006
Research & Ideas

Rebuilding Commercial Real Estate

aggregate equity value of these companies from $10 billion to more than $175 billion in just five years, says Slaughter. Today, there are approximately 180 publicly traded REITs in the United States, with... View Details

Keywords: by Roger Thompson; Construction; Real Estate

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