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- 01 Mar 2013
- News
Opening the Door
1981. The School's Nancy R. McPherson Professor of Business Administration, Herzlinger is the author of seven best-selling books, including her landmark volume Market-Driven Health Care (1997), which analyzed the revolutionary impact of consumer awareness, View Details
- 05 Mar 2007
- Research & Ideas
Risky Business? Protecting Foreign Investments
funds they and their lenders put into such projects, more than the cost of public borrowing. In many projects corruption, government incompetence, or disorganization led to deals that were terrible from the point of view of the host... View Details
- 24 Jun 2014
- First Look
First Look: June 24
instead of participating in negotiated exchange offers. This paper critically examines this claim and argues that the incentives for holdout litigation are limited because of (1) significant constraints on creditor litigation, (2) substantial economic and reputational... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Nov 2016
- First Look
November 15, 2016
coverage with minimal overlap, determines the role and scope of each brand in the portfolio, and designs a strategic, logical, and efficient brand architecture that knits the brands together into an interdependent system. Done well, it... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Jul 2008
- First Look
First Look: July 1, 2008
Benefits Fund (PBF) enacted by the state legislature. With renewed effort by activists in 2006 to expand AE's role, there was a possibility of the PBF swelling to $50 to $80 million. Naturally, this put AE at conflict with electric utilities wanting to engage in View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 22 Jul 2002
- Research & Ideas
How Business Strategy Tamed the “Invisible Hand”
1930s, where it was noticed that direct labor costs tended to decrease by a constant percentage as the cumulative quantity of aircraft produced doubled. Learning effects figured prominently in wartime production planning efforts. World... View Details
Keywords: by Pankaj Ghemawat
- 28 Aug 2014
- Op-Ed
Government Can Do More to Unfreeze Small Business Credit
were extremely effective and also efficient in their use of taxpayer dollars, but most were not meant to be permanent. “Guarantees have proven to be a very cost-efficient government tool when it comes to small business credit” Currently,... View Details
- 29 Apr 2008
- First Look
First Look: April 29, 2008
developed countries—can be conducted more efficiently and effectively from an Indian research center. Purchase this case: http://www.hbsp.harvard.edu/b01/en/common/item_detail.jhtml?id=708482 Radical Collaboration: IBM Microelectronics... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 20 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 20, 2008
that attempts to maximize profits. This stage takes into account costs as well as firm's objectives and constraints (e.g., minimum market share requirement). Over the last several decades, marketing researchers and practitioners have... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 19 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 19
have become quite influential and controversial in the technology industries they touch. The goal of this paper is to shed light on the role and efficiency tradeoffs of these new patent intermediaries. Finally, we offer a provisional... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Oct 2016
- News
Smart Moves
percent of the traffic in most urban areas is caused by people just driving around trying to find parking,” says Mistele, the company’s president and CEO. All that congestion comes at a high price. Mistele says the Texas Transportation Institute estimates the View Details
- 30 Nov 2016
- Op-Ed
Where Could More Regulation Help Small Businesses? Online Lending.
lending laws, they are not subject to federal oversight. Only a handful of states require brokers to obtain licenses. The problem is that brokers can add extensive costs to the loan and have no obligation to disclose their fees or any... View Details
- 06 Oct 2015
- First Look
October 6, 2015
2015 University of Chicago Press Economic Analysis of the Digital Economy By: Goldfarb, Avi, Shane Greenstein, and Catherine Tucker, eds. Abstract—As the cost of storing, sharing, and analyzing data has decreased, economic activity has... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
How Mercadona Fixes Retail’s ’Last 10 Yards’ Problem
customers. Information also moves out to Mercadona's family of house-brand suppliers, resulting in improvements to a product, to the supply chain, or to employee productivity in the stores. "They don't make big improvements very often. They look for small, daily... View Details
- 01 Nov 2024
- In Practice
Layoffs Surging in a Strong Economy? Advice for Navigating Uncertain Times
From tech to media to management consulting firms, layoffs are back. Downsizing during a healthy economy can help lay the foundation for efficient growth or make space for new roles that harness newer technology, such as artificial... View Details
- 01 May 2007
- First Look
First Look: May 1, 2007
sharers but do not contribute files. Assuming that upload bandwidth is scarcer than download bandwidth and efficient allocation, we compute the expected bandwidth obtained by each peer. We show that (i) while the exact formula is complex,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Dec 2016
- First Look
December 20, 2016
suggest that the cost of a delay of this length is upwards of 7% of the total cost of bringing a new high-risk device to market. Considering potential explanations, I find that approval times are largely... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Jan 2016
- First Look
January 26, 2016
Political corruption governs the efficiency with which tax revenues are translated into infrastructure. The model predicts an inverted-U relationship between taxation and growth, with corruption reducing the optimal taxation level. We... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Apr 2014
- First Look
First Look: April 29
risks. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2332106 Pricing and Efficiency in the Market for IP Addresses By: Edelman, Benjamin, and Michael Schwarz Abstract—We consider market rules for transferring IP addresses, numeric... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Mar 2017
- News
Case Study: Moment in the Sun
a large hotel chain reached out to express interest, Hoskins began to see the promise of B2B sales in the hospitality market. “They got the value right away,” says Hoskins. “It’s automatic: Your customers are healthier and getting better sleep, and there’s View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell