Cost of Capital - Publications - Faculty & Research

09 Sep 2015
HBS Seminar

Judith A. Chevalier, Yale University

06 Jan 2021
Blog Post

My HBS Student Loan Story: Gorick Ng (MBA 2018)

students I have mentored, I realized that I wanted to pay it forward—to help others from humble beginnings reach their full potential. I had a sponsorship offer from my previous employer, so there was significant opportunity cost View Details

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Hiring at HBS: How Summer Interns Make an Impact at Emerson Collective - Recruiting

recruiting process, and why HBS interns are an important part of their team. Emerson Collective and HBS For the past five years, Emerson Collective has welcomed HBS interns to their Palo Alto and San Francisco offices to join their... View Details

31 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

The Most Powerful Workplace Motivator

when designing compensation plans. Larkin discusses the issue in The Psychological Costs of Pay-for-Performance: Implications for the Strategic Compensation of Employees, a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

28 Apr 2022
Blog Post

Harvard Team Wins Second Place in MIINT Impact Investing Competition

On March 24, five teams of Harvard students came together to pitch innovative impact investment opportunities in early-stage social enterprises. The students were participants in a hands-on impact investing program called Turner MIINT... View Details

01 Jun 1999
News

Allison Hughes

By age three, Allison Hughes loved playing blackjack with her father and routinely cleaned him out of M&Ms and pocket change. One afternoon, after having won an especially large pot, she vowed to become either a banker or a card dealer.... View Details

Keywords: Charlie Hogg

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Becoming an Entrepreneur - Alumni

stability. Funding How much do you need – and what will it cost you? Like the legal structure of your enterprise, your choice (or choices) of funding options has an enduring... View Details

04 Apr 2011
HBS Case

Reinventing the National Geographic Society

behaviors, and values of a legacy organization, changing a business model from paper to digital, capitalizing on huge brand awareness and international presence, and promoting cross-functional and... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Publishing

16 May 2005
Research & Ideas

Nonprofit Networking: The New Way to Grow

management strategy for nonprofits is still relatively uncommon. Oftentimes an organization might be engaged in a partnership at one point or another, or be a member of an umbrella organization ... but it's not really a network approach... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace

19 Aug 2009
Working Paper Summaries

Optimal Taxation in Theory and Practice

Keywords: by N. Gregory Mankiw, Matthew Weinzierl & Danny Yagan

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Events - Creating Emerging Markets

Studies, the findings of the CEM project provided a global framework to discuss the present and future role of business philanthropy in Chile, and the type of education which... View Details

04 May 2011
Research & Ideas

Is Web Surfing Distracting Your Workers?

A number of studies have suggested that US workers waste between one and two hours a day web surfing, costing their companies billions in lost productivity. In response, some employers have banned private... View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

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Sustainability and Integrated Reporting

A sustainable strategy for a company is one that enables it to create value for shareholders over the long term while contributing to a sustainable society. In doing so, it must balance the needs of different types of providers of financial capital (e.g.,... View Details

Keywords: Sustainability; Sustainability Reporting

March–April 2021
Article

Network-biased Technical Change: How Information Management Tools Overcome Some Biases but Exacerbate Others.

By: Gerald C. Kane and Lynn Wu

Organizations have long sought to improve employee performance by managing knowledge more effectively. In this paper, we test whether the adoption of digital tools for expertise search and access within an organization, often referred to as a support to an... View Details

Keywords: Digital Tools; Social Media; Social Networks; Transactive Memory Systems; Augmented Intelligence; Artificial Intelligence; Social and Collaborative Networks; Gender; Equality and Inequality; Technology Adoption; Knowledge Management; Performance Improvement; Power and Influence; Organizational Change and Adaptation

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Building Entrepreneurial Organizations - Health Care

Impact Building Entrepreneurial Organizations Health Minute: How Entrepreneurs are Reducing Costs & Improving Outcomes More “Entrepreneurship” stories Faculty Focus Innovating In Health Care is the focus of... View Details

01 Oct 2012
Research & Ideas

Better by the Bundle?

bundle—known as an Extra Value Meal—for cheaper than the products would cost if purchased individually. “Bundling is pervasive in several markets, and it works in many cases” But those same customers might not value being given only the... View Details

Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman

10 Oct 2011
Research & Ideas

Retailing Revolution: Category Killers on the Brink

declined or held flat, and return on invested capital (ROIC) has suffered dramatically. This decline in ROIC has been exacerbated by the significant growth in store square footage before the recession. Retail store count exploded through... View Details

Keywords: by Rajiv Lal & Jose B. Alvarez; Retail

2022
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Lessons Learned from Support to Business during COVID-19

By: Gabriel Chodorow-Reich, Benjamin Iverson and Adi Sunderam

The authors survey the new federal subsidies and loans provided to businesses in the first year of the pandemic—including the Paycheck Protection Program (PPP), the Economic Injury Disaster Loan (EIDL) program, and aid targeted at specific industries such as airlines... View Details

Keywords: COVID-19 Pandemic; Small Business; Government Legislation; Policy