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- 06 Apr 2016
- Research & Ideas
Should Entrepreneurs Pitch Products or Ideas for Products?
is enough interest to go further? Which is the better strategy for young innovators? What are the pros and cons of each? Can the risks be measured and mitigated? “The pitch or spec dilemma touches any... View Details
- 13 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Diagnosing the Public Health Care Alternative
shifting costs to patients and providers. Regulations are needed to end coverage and price discrimination based on health risks and preexisting conditions. Value-based competition also demands the View Details
- 12 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 12, 2018
in how consumers learn to become expert in hedonic product categories. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54586 A Measure of Risk Appetite for the Macroeconomy By:... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
activities increase the monitoring costs and the credit risk faced by banks and, in turn, raise the cost of debt for the borrower. Working Papers A New Model of Integrity: The Missing Factor of Production (PDF file of Keynote and... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 15 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Are the Most Talented Employees the Highest Paid? Yes—If They’re Bankers
in the paper Are Bankers Worth Their Pay? Evidence from a Talent Measure by Boris Vallée, an assistant professor at Harvard Business School, and Claire Célérier, an assistant professor at the University of Zurich. “What we are saying is... View Details
- 14 Aug 2007
- First Look
First Look: August 14, 2007
learning. Contingent Claims Approach to Measuring and Managing Sovereign Credit Risk Authors:Dale F. Gray, Robert C. Merton, and Zvi Bodie Periodical:Journal of Investment Management (forthcoming) Abstract... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Jan 2020
- Research & Ideas
Businesses Need a 'Catalyst' to Make CSR Practices Stick
modernization of the ecosystem, not just one enterprise. This often requires structuring a special purpose vehicle that can manage shared risks and returns. Buy-in. The company must obtain buy-in of regional managers by adjusting... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 28 Jan 2014
- First Look
First Look: January 28
that suggest that the Act has produced financial reporting benefits. While the direct costs of the Act were substantial and fell disproportionately on smaller companies, costs have fallen over time and in response to changes in its implementation. Research about... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Nov 2011
- First Look
First Look: Nov. 8
industry to measure to what extent waiting-time performance impacts different firms' market shares and price decisions. We report on a large-scale empirical industrial organization study in which the demand equations for fast-food... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jun 2009
- News
Too Big To Fail
moral hazard in the financial system to an entirely new level,” he warns. But Moss has a fix: The federal government should slap tough new regulations on all firms that pose “systemic risk” — the risk that a failure of one institution... View Details
- 16 Jul 2008
- Op-Ed
What Should Employers Do about Health Care?
continued to go up. Most employers do not even measure the costs of poor health among their employees. If they did, however, they would discover that many of the steps they have taken to reduce benefit costs have actually made the costs... View Details
- 26 Jun 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, June 26, 2018
markets. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=54633 A Measure of Risk Appetite for the Macroeconomy By: Pflueger, Carolin E., Emil Siriwardane, and Adi Sunderam Abstract—We... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- Profile
Matt Thurmond
But he made his mark as an eBay Power Seller. "I sold well over 1,500 items," says Matt. "And I learned a lot about business: high margin versus low margin; not holding too much inventory; and the risk of shrinkage — I woke... View Details
- 24 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 24, 2006
paper, we examine the impact of the AIDS epidemic on African nations through 2002 using the male circumcision rate to identify plausibly exogenous variation in HIV prevalence. Medical researchers have found significant evidence that male circumcision can reduce the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Jan 2018
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, January 3, 2018
opinion and policies? What are its risks and rewards? And what is the playbook for leaders considering speaking out? The authors of this article examine those questions and explain the takeaways of their own research. One finding:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 10, 2015
forthcoming Journal of Financial Economics Under New Management: Equity Issues and the Attribution of Past Returns By: Baker, Malcolm, and Yuhai Xuan Abstract—There is a strong link between measures of stock market performance, such as... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Dec 2010
- News
The Transformers
Tom Tierney and Jeff Bradach Photographs by Webb Chappell Related Links Read about one graduate’s work at Harlem Children’s Zone View a recent case on Youth Villages A decade ago, Jeff Bradach (PhDOB 1992) and Tom Tierney (MBA 1980) cofounded a risky Boston-based... View Details
- 11 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing
different levers for measuring and implementing a company's strategy. Companies whose BSC describes a low total cost strategy need ABC for accurately measuring the costs of critical processes. Otherwise they... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 02 Feb 2010
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 2
the benefits of unexpected inflation are tempered by higher interest rates. We obtain that costs from inflation more than offset the benefits from reducing tax distortions. We further discuss sustainability of nominal debt in developing (volatile) countries.... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Sep 2021
- News
Confronting Sustainability in Business; Pro-Bono Consulting for Black-Owned Companies
1982), Masako Egawa (MBA 1986), Yumiko Murakami (MBA 1994), and Masato Nakamura (MBA 2020). “We will have monthly talks with different perspectives: measurement (accounting), corporate, venture, renewables, historical, climate View Details
Keywords: Margie Kelley