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- 06 Sep 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Innovator’s Battle Plan
low-cost camera, but only after spending $2 billion trying to maximize its cameras' performance.10 The result of asymmetric battles often is the seemingly sudden end of a great firm. Cramming happens all the... View Details
- 2013
- Working Paper
International Health Economics
By: Mark Egan and Tomas J. Philipson
Perhaps because health care is a local service sector, health economists have paid little attention to international linkages between domestic health care economies. However, the growth in domestic health care sectors is often attributed to medical innovations whose... View Details
Egan, Mark, and Tomas J. Philipson. "International Health Economics." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 19280, August 2013.
- 01 Apr 2000
- News
Highly Recommended: Leah Modigliani
On the 41st floor of the Morgan Stanley Dean Witter offices in Times Square, Leah Modigliani (MBA '95) stops at the receptionist's desk. Every window showcases a panoramic view of Manhattan skyscrapers and... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
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- “The ‘Carbon Club’: Oil Companies, Climate Change & the Shaping of Public Policy”. Conspiracy theories abound, but the roles of the major oil companies in influencing public policy on climate change remain largely obscure. This... View Details
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By: Boris Vallee
Professor Vallée focuses on financial innovation, investigating it from different angles. This research thread has led him to relate the methods and insights of corporate finance and banking with those of other subfields, including household finance, public finance,... View Details
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HBS - Financials | Supplemental Financial Information
Services 5% Depreciation 3% University Assessments 1% Supplies & Equipment 0% Debt Service Faculty research expenses include a portion of faculty salaries and benefits expense, as well as direct costs for... View Details
- 01 Dec 2022
- News
Singing to the Corn
new application of technology, he set his sights on winning it—and did. “AutoCAD had been around, but it wasn’t being used at Bath Iron Works,” he recalls. “I ran the numbers on the cost savings and—lo and... View Details
- 20 Apr 2021
- Book
A Simple Question That Can Guide Companies to Epic Success
options such as cost leadership, differentiation, or focus. But the book is full of examples of companies that have dual and even triple advantages. The have an advantage in... View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 01 Jan 2017
- News
Improving Health Care Delivery
through big data by offsetting the cost of collection and analysis and by tapping into the tremendous amount of existing medical information available. “I think HBS can be a... View Details
- 29 Aug 2023
- News
Helping Consumers Decarbonize their Purchases
Subscribe on iTunes Subscribe on Spotify More Skydeck episodes Hi, this is Dan Morrell, host of Skydeck. In this episode, we’re going to be highlighting an episode of another HBS podcast: Climate Rising, which focuses on what businesses are doing, can do, and should do... View Details
- 04 Feb 2013
- Research & Ideas
Are the Big Four Audit Firms Too Big to Fail?
socializing or collectivizing the potential costs of exercising their professional judgment. Some risk-taking is needed in any professional activity; it is from such risks that innovation and growth... View Details
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Electricity - Business & Environment
especially vulnerable to the impacts of climate change: hurricanes, wildfires, and sea level rise pose immense risks for the reliable delivery of electricity. As one example, restoring electric power in... View Details
- 22 Aug 2022
- Research & Ideas
Can Amazon Remake Health Care?
not where the One Medical model acts, and that’s not where the telehealth model is. So, telehealth doesn’t become a way to bend the cost curve as much as a way to make health care easier to access. There’s this aspiration in health care... View Details
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Entrepreneurial Management Awards & Honors - Faculty & Research
for "Patent Trolls: Evidence from Targeted Firms” (December 2019) with Lauren Cohen and Umit Gurun. Josh Lerner : Winner of the 2022 Doriot Award for the Best Private Equity Research Paper for “Investing... View Details
- 30 Oct 2019
- Research & Ideas
How to Recover Gracefully After Shutting Down Your Startup
School, says that shutting down a startup is almost always a messy affair. When a venture requires a cash infusion to survive, its founders may turn to bottom-fisher investors who force the company to restructure its capitalization, making the View Details
Keywords: by Danielle Kost
- 01 Oct 1996
- News
Trading Up — Kenneth D. Brody (MBA 1971)
Winslow Partners L.L.C., whose purpose is to make private equity investments in the United States and the Czech Republic. In his spare time, Brody serves on the boards of the American Red Cross, St. John's... View Details
Keywords: Garry Emmons
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Why HBS? - Doctoral
help cover costs for up to five years, which ensures that students have more time to conduct research. During their time in the PhD program, HBS doctoral students will take courses at HBS and in the Graduate School View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
A ‘One Harvard’ Perspective
Richard Ruback was his advisor. “Even before anyone was talking about ‘One Harvard,’ some of us were trying to make it happen,” notes Tunnell, whose 20th Reunion gift supports the HBS-Harvard Integration Fund. Now a managing director at... View Details
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Capital IQ: Introduction, Help, Etc.
events, transactions, and affiliations. Capital IQ Search Examples Screen for private equity or venture capital firms investing in a particular industry, stage of investment, and/or geography Locate... View Details
- 01 Feb 2002
- News
It's academic. (Not!)
been a great friend. It makes me feel so good to know that my advisor is interested in my career and my well-being." Raman and Ton have been studying retail operation, focusing on an operational execution issue - namely, misplaced products at retail stores - that is... View Details