Costs And Consequences - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Apr 2014
Research & Ideas

A Playbook for Small-Business Job Creation

put up to $4 billion per year into high-growth companies. And it does so at no cost to taxpayers. "This public-private partnership is a good example of government and the... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Banking; Financial Services

29 Sep 2011
Sharpening Your Skills

Sharpening Your Skills: Leveraging Intellectual Property

File-Sharing and Copyright Researchers Felix Oberholzer-Gee and Koleman Strumpf argue that file-sharing technology has not undermined the incentives of artists and... View Details

Keywords: Re: Multiple Faculty

08 Sep 2010
First Look

First Look: September 8, 2010

PublicationsWillpower in Children and Adults: A Survey of Recent Results and Economic Implications Authors:Marco Piovesan, Alessandro Bucciol, and Dan Houser... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 Mar 2013
First Look

for organizational forms beyond the executive team. Download the paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1982531 Causes and Consequences of Firms' Self-Reported Anticorruption Efforts Authors:Healy, Paul M., View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

08 Dec 2008
Research & Ideas

Thinking Twice About Supply-Chain Layoffs

Profit Driver "Many retailers see labor more as a cost driver than a sales driver," says Ton. The findings from her four-year study of 268 stores owned by a large specialty retailer tell a different story. Based on extensive fieldwork,... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail

20 Dec 2016
First Look

December 20, 2016

regulatory guidelines. Finally, I consider how the regulatory process affects small firms' market entry patterns and find that small firms are less likely to be pioneers in new device markets, a fact consistent with relatively higher... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

04 Aug 2014
Op-Ed

Why Small-Business Lending Is Not Recovering

Structural barriers also appear to be impeding bank lending to small businesses, including consolidation within the banking industry, high search costs, and higher transaction costs associated with small... View Details

Keywords: by Karen Mills; Banking; Financial Services

24 Mar 2002
Research & Ideas

Are Assets Only for America’s Wealthy?

customer services and to streamline distribution channels and innovate financial services, says Tufano, the cost of creating IDAs would decrease dramatically. View Details

Keywords: by Carla Tishler

02 Aug 2006
Research & Ideas

Investor Protection: The Czech Experience

multinational and local firms? A: While it's certainly a disheartening outcome on the surface, there are some silver linings. The costs associated with weak institutions are usually hidden—companies that... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Media & Broadcasting; Entertainment & Recreation

November 1994
Case

Hewlett-Packard: French Manufacturing Operations

By: Robin Cooper, Patricia Bost and Robert S. Kaplan

Keywords: Activity Based Costing and Management; Cost Accounting; France

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26 Jan 2004
Research & Ideas

What Developing-World Companies Teach Us About Innovation

ten times that of developing nations. 3. Managers in these companies must often innovate on a shoestring budget, since the high cost and scarcity of capital preclude massive spending on R&D. As a result,... View Details

Keywords: by Donald N. Sull, Alejandro Ruelas-Gossi & Martin Escobari

16 Feb 2016
First Look

February 16, 2016

small association with violations in the unauthorized channel. Last, we link our results to the literatures on agency theory, transaction cost analysis, and theories of price obfuscation. Publisher's link:... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

30 Jul 2014
Lessons from the Classroom

Teaching The Deal

exercises become increasingly complex, involving multiple parties with varying interests. For example, when a chief financial officer and a marketing person are involved in negotiations, the CFO is naturally focused on keeping View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman; Education

09 Sep 2009
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First Look: September 9

Working PapersOperational Failures and Problem Solving: An Empirical Study of Incident Reporting Authors:Julia Adler-Milstein, Sara J. Singer, and Michael W. Toffel Abstract Operational failures occur in... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

27 Nov 2017
Blog Post

Joining a Start-up: 10 Lessons Along the Way

join a start-up and the lessons she learned. 1. No pressure, no diamonds.In the cash-strapped environment of a start-up there is pressure to deliver direct results; there's no hiding behind the delayed View Details

Keywords: Entrepreneurship; Consumer Products / Retail

16 Dec 2013
HBS Case

D’O: Making a Michelin-Starred Restaurant Affordable

operational innovation to manage the tradeoff between cost and quality. It's an issue you find in every business, whether you're a chef or an executive at Mercedes or BMW or Apple." In November, Oldani... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel & Joanie Tobin; Food & Beverage

03 Dec 2015
Op-Ed

How "New Nuclear" Power Could Save the Planet—If Regulators Would Allow It

test and development facilities in multiple countries. We can re-engineer regulatory processes to radically lower costs and shorten approval times by testing full-scale... View Details

Keywords: by Joseph Lassiter; Energy

19 Mar 2007
Research & Ideas

Handicapping the Best Countries for Business

competitiveness of her exports and the costs of her imported inputs. In a microeconomic sense, the business person also cares about tariffs (which affect trade), industrial policies, tax policies (on... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

13 Dec 2006
Research & Ideas

Improving Public Health for the Poor

low cost or a business providing goods or services that end or reduce respiratory ailments. Bringing together public healthcare and market forces "could have huge impact," says Chu. That feeling... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace; Health

September 2001 (Revised December 2003)
Case

Eskimo Pie Corporation (Abridged)

By: Richard S. Ruback

In early 1991, Reynolds Metals, the makers of aluminum products, decided to sell its holding of Eskimo Pie, a marketer of branded frozen novelties. Reynolds had an offer from Nestle to acquire Eskimo Pie. However, Reynolds decided instead to make an initial public... View Details

Keywords: Food; Initial Public Offering; Cost of Capital; Valuation; Business Divisions; Brands and Branding; Food and Beverage Industry

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