Cost Of Equity - Publications - Faculty & Research

06 Aug 2024
Op-Ed

What the World Could Learn from America's Immigration Backlash—100 Years Ago

years or, more often, 10 years. Researchers can’t observe the potential immediate adjustment costs faced by native workers, such as temporarily lower wages or higher unemployment. It’s thus impossible to conclude that immigration has no... View Details

Keywords: by Marco Tabellini

10 Jul 2000
Research & Ideas

IT Links for Boundaryless Companies

information technology as being subject to fashion, but the same thing happens, the network effect. This is important when we start talking about B2B hubs." The third characteristic is differentiated products and prices. Most of the... View Details

Keywords: by Kenneth Liss

12 May 2011
Research & Ideas

The Difficult Transition from For-Profit to Nonprofit Boards

for-profit in that the nonprofit cannot easily access the public equity markets but instead has philanthropy as a potential additional source of funds. Chapter Five deals with the role View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

19 Jun 2018
Research Event

Has Environmental Sustainability Lost its Relevance?

limitations of research and data on which to make such choices. We have no measure of the cost of the extinction View Details

Keywords: by Geoffrey G. Jones; Energy

10 Jan 2008
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Operations Management

cross-functional coordination, and profitability management. Current product-tracking technology makes problem diagnosis much easier than the time of the original study. By and large, companies using this methodology see lowered View Details

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

05 Sep 2006
Research & Ideas

HBS Cases: Porsche’s Risky Roll on an SUV

Germany in 2000, the labor costs were about 25-26 Euros per hour. In the Czech Republic it's about four Euros per hour. So it's quite dramatic. But how you assess these costs depends on productivity levels... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Auto; Manufacturing

02 Jun 2014
Research & Ideas

Excerpt: ‘A Social Strategy’

retweets they got on Twitter would translate into sales or lower costs (which they rarely did). Second, with this approach, eBay is not trying to become friends with its customers with the intent of... View Details

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

20 Sep 2007
Research & Ideas

How to be a Customer

Harvard Business School professor John Quelch writes a blog on marketing issues, called Marketing Know: How, for Harvard Business Online. It is reprinted on HBS Working Knowledge.99 percent of marketing focuses on how to sell to... View Details

Keywords: by John Quelch

25 Feb 2015
Lessons from the Classroom

Scholars and Students Unpack the Digital Business Revolution

data. The emphasis in all of this, Iansiti and Lakhani point out, is on doing, whether in teaching, learning, or research. "There is a direct engagement with the world that is bringing HBS closer to the medical school or engineering... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Education; Technology

10 Jun 2015
Research & Ideas

The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting

ESG issues tend to have the best future investment performance. Q: Why is that? A: If we have better information around ESG issues, and it is communicated and used more effectively, then that information will be incorporated into stock prices and affect the View Details

Keywords: Re: George Serafeim

03 Aug 2015
Research & Ideas

Why Fierce Competitors Apple and Amazon Became ’Frenemies’ Over eReaders

Let's get one thing straight from the start: Apple and Amazon are not friends. If they were high school students, they'd be mean girls glaring at each other from opposite sides of the cafeteria, jealously forcing their friends to pick... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Information; Publishing; Technology

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

02 Sep 2002
What Do You Think?

What Can Business Schools Do to Avoid Bad Apples?

immense cost to individuals, and the economy in general, of a loss of trust in our business institutions and those who lead them. We know a few things on which to base a... View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett

07 Apr 2003
Research & Ideas

Three Steps for Crisis Prevention

South Africa over its attempt to reduce the cost of HIV drugs through parallel importation (buying pharmaceuticals in countries with lower prices and then importing them) and compulsory licensing (requiring... View Details

Keywords: by Michael D. Watkins & Max H. Bazerman

24 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Becoming an Ethical Negotiator

as an ethical argument, actually. It's really just a different calculation of personal costs and benefits. Regarding people as individual value-maximizers is a valid point of... View Details