Billion Prices Project - Publications - Faculty & Research

16 Sep 2014
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First Look: September 16

Production of Rare Earth Minerals (A) Molycorp, the western hemisphere's only producer of rare earth minerals, was in the middle of a $1 billion capital expenditure project in its effort to become a... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

25 Feb 2020
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Gotta Dance

lyrics, soaring harmonies, and finely tuned choreography. More importantly, it had an average view time of over two minutes, far beyond the usual five-second skip time allowed on YouTube. More recently, a project for e.l.f. Cosmetics on... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna

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Navigating Tariffs | Working Knowledge

Navigating Tariffs Harvard Business School faculty research about how tariffs affect businesses, supply chains, and prices for leaders managing trade uncertainty. What does HBS research say about tariffs? Tariffs have roiled global... View Details

01 Jun 2006
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Silver Lining

Despite the grim headlines, Sanjay Bhatnagar (MBA ’93) knows there’s a silver lining in Enron’s dark corporate cloud. In 1997, while supervising the company’s energy operations in South Asia, Bhatnagar worked with Andrea Miller, a member of Enron’s international... View Details

Keywords: Petroleum and Coal Products Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Utilities

01 Sep 2006
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East to West

(“Shiggi”) Yawata moves Sumida toward a U.S.-inspired “committee system” for its board of directors — the first Japanese company to do so. The case was a collaborative project undertaken by Professor Lynn Paine and Japan Research Office... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna; Business Schools & Computer & Management Training; Educational Services; Management

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Adam Kanner

office price by finding tickets from various sources, using dynamic pricing to adjust the prices without charging the usual fees that other ticket brokers charge. ScoreBig... View Details

15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008

the technology bubble to examine the hypothesis that inexperienced investors play a role in the formation of asset price bubbles. Using age as a proxy for managers' investment experience, we find that around the peak of the technology... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

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William Donaldson | Baker Library

institutional fund manager required higher quality research on firms’ projected stock price performance than was available on Wall Street at the time. Bill and his partners Dan Lufkin and Richard Jenrette... View Details

30 Apr 2001
Research & Ideas

Big Companies, Big Opportunities—Big Questions

regional and local customers. Still, P&G has seen its share of tough times in Latin America. For example, the company had surpassed $1 billion in sales in Mexico in 1993. But after the currency devaluation in 1994, it lost $400... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Jette

01 Jun 2000
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Managing the Map

precisely target individual diseases. Isolating the genome's three billion chemical units is a task of such immense scope that the NIH formed a consortium of academic and government research laboratories to undertake the work... View Details

Keywords: Peter K. Jacobs

31 Oct 2006
HBS Case

Governing Sumida Corporation

examines how CEO Shigeyuki ("Shiggi") Yawata moves Sumida toward a U.S.-inspired "committee system" for its board of directors, the first Japanese company to do so. The case was a collaborative project undertaken by... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Electronics

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South Asia - Global Activities 2020

by the time a lengthy infrastructure project is completed. Hong Kong The lack of traffic on the Hong Kong–Zhuhai–Macao Bridge, a $20 billion feat of engineering, illustrated how a regional economy’s needs... View Details

01 Sep 2018
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Case Study: A Good Fit

apps allow, the team discovered a way to guide people through behavior changes with results that stick. Individuals using Gain Life’s weight loss apps achieve results that double the one-year benchmark for other methods, Eldridge says. The startup has built a nice book... View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

21 Sep 2015
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Funding Progress Back Home

estimates indicate that global diaspora remittances amount to $550 billion a year. Homestrings investors choose from among funds or projects in Africa selected because they meet economic, social, and good... View Details

15 Nov 2012
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Funding the Design of Livable Cities

the movie Slumdog Millionaire. In Mumbai the $3 billion public-private Dharavi Redevelopment Project (DRP) proposes free housing and services for Dharavi's longtime residents to relocate from their ad-hoc... View Details

Keywords: by Lisa Chase; Construction; Real Estate; Energy; Utilities

31 Oct 2016
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Quantitative Easing Didn’t Ease the Housing Crisis for the Neediest

financial crisis, for example, the Federal Reserve orchestrated multiple rounds of QE. In the initial round, QE1, the Fed bought $1.25 trillion in mortgage-backed securities and $300 billion in Treasury bonds. During QE2, the Fed... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

06 Aug 2013
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First Look: August 6

document sources of value creation in mergers by analyzing novel data on the quality and price of goods sold by merging firms. When two competitors in a product market merge, their products converge in quality, and View Details

Keywords: Anna Secino

23 Oct 2019
News

A Bid for the Future

direct-investment manufacturing projects in US history, for a total of more than $62 billion in private-sector capital investment. Several years later, the chance to do similar work in Virginia—a place with... View Details

Keywords: Administration of Housing Programs, Urban Planning, and Community Development; Government

20 Oct 2015
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October 20, 2015

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49883 forthcoming Review of Economic Studies Do Prices Determine Vertical Integration? By: Alfaro, Laura, Paola Conconi, Harald Fadinger, and Andrew F. Newman Abstract—What is the... View Details