International Cost Of Capital - Publications - Faculty & Research

10 May 2004
Research & Ideas

Rethink the Value of Joint Ventures

impossible? These internal capital and product markets are growing in importance for these firms creating many opportunities and many obstacles. Our research shows that some firms are adapting quickly to... View Details

Keywords: by Cynthia Churchwell

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Repositioning and Cost-Cutting: The Impact of Competition on Platform Strategies

By: Robert Seamans and Feng Zhu

Organizational structures are increasingly complex. In particular, more firms today operate as multi-sided platforms. In this paper, we study how platform firms use repositioning and cost-cutting in response to competition, elucidate external and internal factors that... View Details

Keywords: Platform Strategy; Repositioning; Cost-cutting; Intra-firm Learning; Multi-Sided Platforms; Cost Management; Product Positioning; Organizational Structure; Competitive Strategy; Knowledge Acquisition; Journalism and News Industry

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01 Sep 2016
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The Taxi Wars of Jakarta

Jakarta has a reputation as an impenetrable place. Viewed from atop one of the many business hotels in the center of the city, the Indonesian capital is a sea View Details

Keywords: Jeffrey Hutton; Illustrations by Josh Cochran

23 Jan 2019
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The Promise of Personalized Medicine

for N=1, individuals, that customizes therapeutics. If you look at drug development thus far in the history of mankind, we’ve focused a lot of our efforts on small molecules, like pills that you would take... View Details

10 Jun 2002
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Disruption: The Art of Framing

the new technology could lower tester costs dramatically and thus had the potential to disrupt Teradyne's core business. But CMOS technology could not initially operate at the performance levels demanded by Teradyne's best customers.... View Details

Keywords: by Clark Gilbert & Joseph L. Bower

16 Dec 2002
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Mentoring—Using the Voice of Experience

professionals in venture capital firms or who were cashed-out entrepreneurs acting as angels for small start ups. Both sets of people had certain expertise that they were trying to transmit to highly... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

20 Aug 2001
Research & Ideas

Making an Ally of Uncle Sam

influence them. More specifically, this approach steers attention away from the political processes whereby administrative policies are formed and implemented . . . . These difficulties are compounded by the typical simplifying device of... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Watkins, Mickey Edwards & Usha Thakrar

01 Dec 2005
News

The Deleterious Effects of Dirty Money

benefit the rich to reduce inequality? How so? Inequality drains capitalism of its robustness, of its opportunity to spread prosperity. It’s not a matter View Details

Keywords: Lewis I. Rice; Finance

08 Sep 2014
News

What You Don’t Know About Sales Can Hurt Your Strategy

01 Jun 2023
News

Turning Point: Sum of the Parts

Gregory K. Tanaka (MBA 1974) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) Gregory K. Tanaka (MBA 1974) (Illustration by Gisela Goppel) In a kind of twisted and sometimes painful way, I learned from a Japanese norm how to achieve great things in life, even if the path I took wasn’t... View Details

Keywords: happiness; purpose; meaning; work-life balance; social pressures

Risks, Opportunities, And Investments In The Era Of Climate Change (ROICC)

The MBA course on "Risks, Opportunities, and Investments in an Era of Climate Change" is ideal for students who aspire to become entrepreneurs by starting their own company or joining a start-up that is driving innovation and solving challenges posed by climate change.... View Details

Dante Roscini

Dante Roscini holds the Professor of Management Practice Chair endowed by the MBA Class of 1952 at Harvard Business School. He joined the faculty in 2008 after a two-decades-long career in finance. He currently teaches the course Business, Government, and the... View Details

28 May 2019
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Planting the Seeds of Positive Growth

fundraising for its future. If the farm can produce 30 tons of tomatoes per hectare at a cost of $124 per ton, Tomato Jos will be ready to expand its smallholder program and... View Details

Keywords: April White; Crop Production; Agriculture

11 Jul 2016
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Neurodiversity: The Benefits of Recruiting Employees with Cognitive Disabilities

partner group. SAP employees also received autism awareness training in what Pisano calls “a lot of internal selling.” Other companies that either have programs or are starting one include Towers Watson,... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland; Technology

02 Jul 2015
Op-Ed

The Future of the Greek Economy

could go on as usual were out of sync with reality. Hopefully, cooler heads will prevail in the days ahead. — Laura Alfaro Laura Alfaro is the Warren Alpert Professor of Business Administration at HBS. She... View Details

Keywords: by Laura Alfaro, Dante Roscini & George Serafeim; Banking

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Cross-Border Valuation

By: Kenneth A. Froot and W. Carl Kester

Provides a review of valuation techniques used to assess cross-border investments. Discusses the discounting of free cash flows with a weighted average cost of capital and the use of adjusted present value. Special concerns such as foreign-exchange risk, country risks,... View Details

Keywords: Valuation; Cross-Cultural and Cross-Border Issues

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11 Feb 2019
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The Business of Saving the Planet

"The fact that the benefits of addressing the problem of climate change almost certainly outweigh the costs ... does not make concerted global action to address the problem easy." —Climate Change in 2018: Implications for Business If there is one positive... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Energy; Green Technology

17 Aug 2011
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Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood

temptation faced by our global audiences who were eager to watch the film as soon as it was released in India," case protagonist Rohit Sharma, head of international sales and distribution at Fox Star,... View Details

Keywords: by Kim Girard; Motion Pictures & Video

07 Mar 2005
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The Rise of Innovation in Asia

survey of 200 mostly Fortune 500 companies found an "irreversible process" of traditional white-collar jobs being sent to Asia, said Arie Lewin, a professor and director View Details