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- 07 Apr 2009
- First Look
First Look: April 7, 2009
and weigh the consequences of each approach. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=309056 Sub-Prime Crisis and Fair Value... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 06 Apr 2016
- What Do You Think?
As Tim Cook, How Would You Tackle Apple's Next Challenge?
Kinney expressed the view that the Government’s recent success in employing hackers to break the phone’s code “relieves Apple of a somewhat alienating position. The time that it took to do it (and one might add the cost of more than $1.3... View Details
- 02 Jul 2018
- Blog Post
Pursuing A Passion in Health Care
and eventually drafting up the business case (where I get to apply my net present value and weighted average cost of capital skills from first-year finance classes!). I’ve... View Details
Keywords: Health Care
- 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
- 02 Sep 2014
- Research & Ideas
Food Stamp Entrepreneurs: How Public Assistance Enables Business Bootstrapping
Gareth Olds grew up toeing the poverty line. For years his parents struggled to support three children in Anchorage, Alaska, where food costs run high. His stepfather held down a steady but low-paying job as a dental assistant, View Details
- 28 Nov 2016
- Research & Ideas
Challenging the Belief that Liability Laws Kill Medical Device Innovation
minimize risk of stress and loss of time dealing with claims and costs to their reputation and future employment. On the other side of the... View Details
- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
The Future of the Venture Capital Cycle
venture process. The presence of such expertise on the part of lawyers, accountants, and real estate brokers, among others, has substantially lowered the transaction costs associated with forming View Details
- 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 costs of... View Details
- 06 Dec 2017
- Blog Post
The 23rd Annual Harvard Business School Tech Conference
highlighted how the trend of decreasing the cost of sequencing a human genome will be even more disruptive than Moore’s law. Right after Deep, Eric Paley spoke about his investment philosophy and how he... View Details
Keywords: Technology
- 24 Mar 2009
- First Look
First Look: March 24, 2009
the opportunity and switching cost of domestic standards are relatively low. We do not find evidence that levels of and expected changes in foreign trade View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
Strategy for Small Fish
manufacturing process. This in turn implies that once committed to a given partner, the cost of switching is very high. Loosely coupled interactions instead imply minimal asset specificity and enable a niche... View Details
Keywords: by Marco Iansiti & Roy Levien
- 17 Feb 2003
- Research & Ideas
Rating Fund Managers by the Company They Keep
work? A: Unfortunately the method is quite difficult to implement—it took us many months to do it properly, and it required mutual fund holdings data that costs tens of thousands of dollars (which the HBS... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 02 Jan 2001
- Research & Ideas
Can Japan Compete? [Part One]
The puzzle, they explain, has to do with the explanation for Japan's extraordinary economic success in the post-World War II period. The country was heralded around the world for creating what looked like "a new and superior form of... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace & Hilah Geer
- 21 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 21, 2015
Publications In press Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes When Doing Good Is Bad in Gift-giving: Mis-predicting Appreciation of Socially-responsible Gifts By: Cavanaugh, A., F. Gino, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Dec 2015
- What Do You Think?
What Will It Take to Achieve Gender Equality in Leadership?
inequality is costing the global economy $12 trillion annually, with North America accounting for 25 percent of that total followed by China’s 20-plus percent. If diversity and gender equality have so much... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 03 Mar 2015
- First Look
First Look: March 3
Working Papers Competition As Strategic Interaction By: Eisenhardt, Kathleen, Rory McDonald, and Cheng Gao Abstract—Strategic interaction has been a topic of scholarly inquiry dating back to the 1960s. Drawing on several seminal... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Politicians Benefited From Using Toxic Loans
structured loans usually carry a few years of guaranteed low interest, which allows local governments to reduce the cost of their debt quickly and obviously. But after the honeymoon period, these loans end... View Details
- 20 Mar 2025
- Blog Post
Scaling Climate Tech Innovation with Lee Scott (MBA 2023)
Ideally, these companies can fund their projects with project finance since that has a lower cost of capital than venture dollars. However, infrastructure investors typically prefer established technologies that are derisked View Details
- 16 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 16, 2008
Working PapersSilent Saboteurs: How Implicit Theories of Voice Inhibit the Upward Flow of Knowledge in Organizations Authors:James R. Detert and Amy C. Edmondson Abstract This article examines, in a series of three studies, how people... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Jan 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research: January 17
forthcoming Handbook of International Trade and Transportation Transportation Cost and the Geography of Foreign Investment By: Alfaro, Laura, and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne