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  • June 2017
  • Case

AT&T Versus Verizon: A Financial Comparison

By: V.G. Narayanan and Joel L. Heilprin
This case asks students to prepare a report comparing the financial and operating performance of AT&T and Verizon. Taking the perspective of a communications industry analyst, they must also consider the differences between and implications of the companies' business... View Details
Keywords: Financial Statements; Operations; Analysis; Business Model; Accounting; Performance Effectiveness; Telecommunications Industry
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  • 2018
  • Working Paper

Two Hundred Years of Health and Medical Care: The Importance of Medical Care for Life Expectancy Gains

By: Maryaline Catillon, David Cutler and Thomas Getzen
Using two hundred years of national and Massachusetts data on medical care and health, we examine how central medical care is to life expectancy gains. While common theories about medical care cost growth stress growing demand, our analysis highlights the importance of... View Details
Keywords: Mortality; Life Expectancy; Medical Care; Productivity; Public Health; Healthcare Spending; Spending Per Year Of Life Gained; Personal Medicine; Technophysio Evolution; Health; Economics; Health Care and Treatment; Spending; Data and Data Sets; Health Industry
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  • Article

Valuation of Bankrupt Firms

By: S. C. Gilson, E. S. Hotchkiss and R. S. Ruback
This study compares the market value of firms that reorganize in bankruptcy with estimates of value based on management's published cash flow projections. We estimate firm values using models that have been shown in other contexts to generate relatively precise... View Details
Keywords: Valuation; Business Ventures; Insolvency and Bankruptcy
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  • 10 Aug 2015
  • Research & Ideas

Why a Federal Rule on CEO Pay Disclosure May Get You In Trouble With Customers

check. In sheer terms of gaining favor among consumers, a firm with a high CEO-to-worker pay ratio must offer a substantial 50 percent discount to keep up with a firm that maintains a low pay ratio. This is among the key findings in the... View Details
Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

    Two Hundred Years of Health and Medical Care

    Using two hundred years of national and Massachusetts data on medical care and health, we examine how central medical care is to life expectancy gains. While common theories about medical care cost growth stress growing demand, our analysis highlights the importance of... View Details
    • 2011
    • Working Paper

    Do Not Trash the Incentive! Monetary Incentives and Waste Sorting

    By: Alessandro Bucciol, Natalia Montinari and Marco Piovesan
    This paper examines whether monetary incentives are an effective tool for increasing domestic waste sorting. We exploit the exogenous variation in the pricing systems experienced during the 1999-2008 decade by the 95 municipalities in the district of Treviso (Italy).... View Details
    Keywords: Household; Cost Management; Consumer Behavior; Wastes and Waste Processing; Motivation and Incentives; Public Administration Industry; Italy
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    • February 2013
    • Case

    New Earth Mining, Inc.

    By: William E. Fruhan and Wei Wang
    New Earth Mining is one of the largest producers of precious metals in the U.S. While the firm operates mines primarily in the U.S. and Canada, it has also made substantial investments in gold exploration projects in Australia and Chile. New Earth has been very... View Details
    Keywords: South Africa; Capital Budgeting; International Business; Return On Investment; Mining; Risk and Uncertainty; Risk Management; Valuation; Investment; Diversification; Mining Industry; Australia; South Africa; Chile; Canada; United States
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    • September 2022
    • Background Note

    On CUE: The Quest for Optimal Customer Unit Economics

    By: Elie Ofek, Barak Libai and Eitan Muller
    Startups are often evaluated by how well they perform on unit economics, defined as the ratio of a customer’s lifetime value (LTV) to acquisition costs (CAC). A common target for unit economics, advocated by many VCs and analysts, is 3:1 (i.e., LTV/CAC=3). While there... View Details
    Keywords: Unit Economics; Business Startups; Performance Evaluation; Customer Value and Value Chain; Customer Relationship Management; Analysis
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    • 2025
    • Working Paper

    How to Choose Among Technologies with Learning Curves: Making Better Investment Decisions

    By: Christian Kaps and Arielle Anderer
    Learning curves, the fact that technologies improve as a function of cumulative experience or investment, are desirable-think inexpensive solar panels or higher performing semiconductors. But, for firms that need to pick one technology among several candidates, such as... View Details
    Keywords: Learning Curve; Technology; Innovation; Batteries; Energy Storage; Sequential Decision Making; TELCO; Exploration; Exploitation; Problems and Challenges; Cost vs Benefits; Technology Adoption; Battery Industry
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    • 10 Jan 2005
    • Research & Ideas

    Professors Introduce Valuation Software

    In an age when mergers, acquisitions, and spin-offs are increasingly common in business, you need a new skill in your kit bag: the ability to analyze and value potential partners, deals, investments—even your own company. The Business View Details
    Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
    • 12 Feb 2008
    • First Look

    First Look: February 12, 2007

    competitive strategy; (2) accounting analysis for representing the firm's business economics and strategy in its financial statements and for developing adjusted accounting measures of performance; (3) financial View Details
    Keywords: Martha Lagace
    • 13 Sep 2013
    • HBS Seminar

    Nirupama Rao, NYC Wagner School of Public Service

    • 13 Sep 2013
    • HBS Seminar

    Nirupama Rao, NYU Wagner School of Public Service

    • November–December 2015
    • Article

    Active Postmarketing Drug Surveillance for Multiple Adverse Events

    By: Joel Goh, Margrét V. Bjarnadóttir, Mohsen Bayati and Stefanos A. Zenios
    Postmarketing drug surveillance is the process of monitoring the adverse events of pharmaceutical or medical devices after they are approved by the appropriate regulatory authorities. Historically, such surveillance was based on voluntary reports by medical... View Details
    Keywords: Drug Surveillance; Health Care; Stochastic Models; Queueing; Diffusion Approximation; Brownian Motion; Health Care and Treatment; Analytics and Data Science; Analysis
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    • 03 May 2019
    • HBS Seminar

    Stephanie Cheng & Ran Song, Harvard University & Harvard Law School

    • 09 Jun 2015
    • First Look

    First Look: June 9, 2015

    Pay Ratios By: Mohan, Bhavya, Michael I. Norton, and Rohit Deshpandé Abstract— Prior research examining consumer expectations of equity and price fairness has not addressed wage fairness, as measured by a firm's pay ratio. Pending... View Details
    Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
    • Article

    Resilience vs. Vulnerability: Psychological Safety and Reporting of Near Misses with Varying Proximity to Harm in Radiation Oncology

    By: Palak Kundu, Olivia Jung, Amy C. Edmondson, Nzhde Agazaryan, John Hegde, Michael Steinberg and Ann Raldow
    Background
    Psychological safety, a shared belief that interpersonal risk taking is safe, is an important determinant of incident reporting. However, how psychological safety affects near-miss reporting is unclear, as near misses contain contrasting cues that... View Details
    Keywords: Psychological Safety; Near-miss Reporting; Health Care and Treatment; Safety
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    • Web

    Behavioral Finance & Financial Stability

    individual dealers formed through home advantage and the persistence of previous underwriting relationships. Building on these connections, the introduction of the leverage ratio for the European banks had a large impact on exposed bonds’... View Details
    • Web

    Business Finance Course Online | HBS Online

    Unidentified Industries Ratios Over Time Show Hide Details Concepts Examining the Balance Sheet Utilizing Ratios Finding Meaning Case: Unidentified Industries Comparisons Featured Exercises Categorize... View Details
    • Web

    Financial Accounting Online Course | HBS Online

    decisions Value a venture, project, or investment opportunity and perform a sensitivity analysis Who Will Benefit College Students and Recent Graduates Those Considering an MBA Mid-Career Professionals Learn the language of business... View Details