Modeling And Analysis - Publications - Faculty & Research

1979
Other Unpublished Work

Fox Studios: Operating a Small Business - HBS Analysis and Decision Case

By: J. Ronald Fox and Frank S. Leonard

Keywords: Media; Business Ventures; Operations; Decision Making; Entertainment and Recreation Industry; Entertainment and Recreation Industry

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15 Aug 2011
Research & Ideas

A New Model for Business: The Museum

by the bevy of choices and model numbers like "XPS 15x" and "VPCSB190X." But at Apple, they have only two aptly named laptop choices: the MacBook Air, which is lightweight... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

Winter 2014
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Inside the Buy-One Give-One Model

By: Christopher Marquis and Andrew Park

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spring 1970
Article

Sequential Models in Probabilistic Depreciation

By: Robert S. Kaplan and Yuri Ijiri

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1981
Other Unpublished Work

Comet Energy (A) DoD Incentive Contracting - HBS Analysis and Decision Case

By: J. Ronald Fox and Louis B. Smith

Keywords: Contracts; Business and Government Relations; National Security; Decision Making

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January–February 2012
Article

A Simple Model Relating Accruals to Risk, and its Implications for the Accrual Anomaly

By: Mozaffar N. Khan

This paper models systematic risk as a function of mean-reverting accruals. When the true abnormal returns are zero, but the true betas are empirically unobserved, the model predicts the anomalous pattern of empirical results on the accrual anomaly: (i) CAPM abnormal... View Details

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01 Jun 2018
News

Sustaining HBS’s Unique Economic Model

Harvard Business School’s continued excellence requires ongoing investment—in people, programs, and ideas. The HBS economic model is tightly aligned with its mission of educating leaders who make a... View Details

May 2025
Teaching Note

Bridj and the Business of Urban Mobility (B): A New Model in Kansas City

By: Rosabeth Moss Kanter and Jonathan Cohen

This Teaching Note helps instructors teach students the HBS Case, Bridj and the Business of Urban Mobility (B): A New Model in Kansas City. In late 2016, Bridj was expanding its digital platform to help address urban mobility problems faced by cities across the country... View Details

Keywords: App Development; Innovation; Stakeholder Engagement; Collaboration; Ride-sharing; Entrenchment; Digital; Transportation; Urban Development; Disruption; Business Startups; Digital Platforms; Growth and Development Strategy; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Partners and Partnerships; Expansion

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August 2024
Technical Note

Introduction to Data Analysis in Python

By: Michael Parzen and Jo Ellery

This note introduces Python as a tool for data science, including the Pandas library for data analysis. View Details

Keywords: Analytics and Data Science

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March 1983 (Revised November 1988)
Case

Hospital Corp. of America: Financial Analysis

By: Regina E. Herzlinger

Keywords: Health Industry; United States

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January 1984
Article

A Simulation Analysis of Alternative Pricing Strategies for Dynamic Environments

By: Robert J. Dolan

Researchers of the strategic implications of the well-known demand (e.g., adoption and diffusion) and supply (e.g., experience effects) dynamics have typically sought analytical solutions. Their success in this has been achieved partly by limiting the richness of the... View Details

Keywords: Demand and Consumers; Price; Mathematical Methods; Supply and Industry

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1992
Working Paper

A Framework for the Economic Analysis of Deposit Insurance and Other Guarantees

By: Zvi Bodie and R. Merton

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November 2024
Article

A National Analysis of General Pediatric Inpatient Unit Closures and Openings, 2011–2018

By: Carolyn San Soucie, Nancy D. Beaulieu, Jason D. Buxbaum, David Cutler, JoAnna K. Leyenaar, Sarah C. McBride, Olivia Zhao and Alyna T. Chien

OBJECTIVES: This paper provides an examination of: (1) the frequency and net rates of change for general pediatric inpatient (GPI) unit closures and openings nationally and by state; (2) how often closures or openings are caused by GPI unit changes only or caused by... View Details

Keywords: Health Industry

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Tsedal Neeley, Harvard Business School professor, joins 'Squawk Box' to discuss the population's fears of AI eventually taking their job, if organizations should rethink business models and more. View Details

16 Jul 2016
News

Angie’s List Introduces 'Freemium' Model

will now allow non-paying members to access and write reviews. “It’s never easy for a public company to change its business model,” Durchslag told the Indianapolis Business Journal. “Ninety percent of millennials were saying as a matter... View Details

Keywords: News, Library, Internet, and Other Services; News, Library, Internet, and Other Services

July 2015
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A Behavioral Model of the Popularity and Regulation of Demandable Liabilities

By: Julio J. Rotemberg

Overoptimism regarding one's ability to arrive early in a queue is shown to rationalize deposit contracts in which people can withdraw their funds on demand even if consumption takes place later. Capitalized institutions serving overoptimistic depositors emerge in... View Details

Keywords: Consumer Behavior; Banks and Banking

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