Publications

26 May 2015
First Look

First Look: May 26

offer different standalone utilities to users who have different preferences over the two platforms. We find that incentives to establish one-way compatibility-the platform with smaller standalone value allows users of the competing... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

19 May 2015
First Look

First Look: May 19

dominance, with income. Given familiar functional form assumptions on utility and the distributions of ability and preferences, a simple statistic for the effect of preference heterogeneity on marginal tax rates is derived. Numerical... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

16 Jun 2003
Research & Ideas

Historical Perspective: Levitt Shaped the Debate

one hand, could write a doctoral dissertation titled, "World War II Manpower Mobilization and Utilization in a Local Labor Market" and, three decades later, pen an opinion piece for The New York Times headlined, "Yes, Throw... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne

03 Mar 2003
What Do You Think?

Are Conditions Right for the Next Accounting Scandal?

designed to restore choice among accounting clients facing the prospect of utilizing the services of firms continually "meeting themselves" in one situation after another? What do you think? View Details

Keywords: by James Heskett; Accounting; Financial Services

15 Feb 2000
Research & Ideas

Growing Pains: Prescriptions for U.S. Health Care

companies to develop ever more sophisticated technologies, products, and systems — typically for the market's high end, where margins are greatest. However, the market's ability to utilize and pay for these advances grows more slowly,... View Details

Keywords: by Staff; Health

19 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

LEED-ing by Example

In the debate over whether to increase or decrease the stringency of environmental regulations, the possibility that government agencies might use purchasing to stimulate market demand for "green" products and services is often overlooked. Nevertheless, several recent... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Utilities; Utilities; Utilities; Utilities

December 1993 (Revised June 2000)
Case

Kochman, Reidt + Haigh, Inc.

By: Richard S. Ruback and Roy Burstin

A small company faces the dilemma of how to finance growth (i.e., internally generated cash flows vs. outside financing sources). An innovative concept positions the company in promoting a niche within the kitchen-cabinet industry and in looking for an optimal way of... View Details

Keywords: Cash Flow; Business Growth and Maturation; Entrepreneurship; Corporate Finance; Growth and Development Strategy; Utilities Industry; Utilities Industry

17 Mar 2015
First Look

First Look: March 17

Abraham Neyman Abstract—Building on the work of Nash, Harsanyi, and Shapley, we define a cooperative solution for strategic games that takes account of both the competitive and the cooperative aspects of such games. We prove existence in the general non-transferable... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

15 Nov 2012
Research & Ideas

Funding the Design of Livable Cities

Editor's note: This article originally appeared on Harvard University's Real Estate Academic Initiative website. If Harvard Business School and the Graduate School of Design seem miles apart both literally and culturally, John Macomber is determined to bridge the... View Details

Keywords: by Lisa Chase; Utilities; Utilities; Utilities; Utilities

May 2016 (Revised April 2019)
Case

Olivia Lum: Wanting to Save the World

By: Geoffrey Jones and Essie Alamsyah

This case considers the entrepreneurial career of Olivia Lum, who founded the Singaporean water company Hyflux in 1989. An orphan born in Malaysia, Lum provides a rare case of an entrepreneurial success in a country whose economic success has primarily rested on... View Details

23 Aug 2011
First Look

First Look: August 23

unobserved program attributes. Our focus is on the network television industry, in which the products are television shows. We estimate a model that allows us to distinguish between the direct effect of advertising on utility and its... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

17 Dec 2001
Research & Ideas

Enterprising Women

While many characteristics that mark a successful entrepreneur are gender blind, being a woman does make a difference, and recognizing and utilizing those differences is an equally important quality to cultivate when building a new... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

24 Sep 2024
Research & Ideas

Why Small Businesses Deserve More Credit

companies have room to grow—and yet will still maintain slack in their total borrowing capacity. “I knew that [small] firms have to be cautious in the way they finance,” Kim says. “I was just surprised by how much. The level of View Details

Keywords: by Rachel Layne; Financial Services; Banking

February 2015 (Revised December 2016)
Case

Poseidon Carlsbad: Desalination and the San Diego County Water Authority

By: John Macomber

Extreme drought conditions in California have significant impacts on the ability of the San Diego County Water Authority to provide adequate water for current users. Water shortfalls also could curtail the economic development of one of the fastest growing regions in... View Details

Keywords: Risk Management; Partners and Partnerships; Resource Allocation; Public Sector; Private Sector; Environmental Sustainability; Policy; Infrastructure; Utilities Industry; Utilities Industry; California

December 1985
Case

Water Meter Industry in 1982

By: Michael E. Porter

Keywords: Utilities Industry; Utilities Industry