Opportunity Costs - Publications - Faculty & Research

01 Dec 2016
News

HBS Alumni On Leading Their Alma Mater

and the networking opportunities it provides. But perhaps it could be supplemented by online learning—and perhaps that would reduce cost over time for students as well as institutions. AC: Some of the... View Details

Keywords: Dan Morrell

03 Apr 2006
Research & Ideas

The Competitive Advantage of Global Finance

the ownership decisions and financial policies employed for Shanghai General Motors provide an opportunity to discuss the results from "The Costs of Shared Ownership" and "A Multinational... View Details

Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne; Financial Services

15 Dec 2015
News

The Year in Ideas 2015

shoplifters an alternative to the criminal justice system and reduce the cost associated with prosecuting a relatively minor crime. Here’s how it works: When a shoplifter is apprehended, no one calls the police. Instead, the offender is... View Details

Keywords: Julia Hanna, Christine Lejeune, Dan Morrell, and April White

24 Sep 2014
Op-Ed

The ABCs of Addressing Climate Change (From a Business Perspective)

human) disaster risk, response, and recovery preparation. B: Basic Resources. There is massive growth in urban populations as hundreds of millions of people move to cities seeking opportunity (UNPD). Already, there is not enough clean... View Details

Keywords: by John Macomber; Energy; Utilities

01 Dec 2017
News

Ask the Expert: Human Intelligence

and they will expect that richness. Outside the benefits of cost reduction, do you see opportunities within the next two to three years for AI to lead in areas of revenue generation? —Jeremy Valeda (PLDA 15,... View Details

Keywords: April White

13 Nov 2018
News

Building a New Real Estate Investment Model

“You want to see positive economic changes in a community, but you don’t want people who have been committed to and living in the community for generations to be displaced,” Davis says. “We can prevent that by creating rental View Details

Keywords: April White; Real Estate

27 Apr 2021
Research & Ideas

New Research: Surviving Bankruptcy, Useful Economics, and Retirement

Published Papers Do the Right Firms Survive Bankruptcy? Journal of Financial Economics Samuel Antill “In United States, Chapter 11 bankruptcy cases, firms are either reorganized, acquired, or liquidated. I show that decisions to liquidate often reduce creditor... View Details

09 Aug 2004
Research & Ideas

A Diagnostic for Disruptive Innovation

the draw anymore. By conducting a series of diagnostics, companies in any industry can quickly identify the most promising opportunities. This article shows how to conduct customer, portfolio, and competitor diagnostics to pinpoint the highest-potential View Details

Keywords: by Scott D. Anthony, Mark W. Johnson & Matt Eyring

13 May 2008
First Look

First Look: May 13, 2008

procedures of Pratt (2007), including the Nash bargaining procedure, satisfy this. Other prominent efficient procedures do not. In two-agent problems, reducing the feasible set between the solution and one agent's maximum point increases the utility View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

21 May 2019
News

Confronting the Future of Climate Change in the Midwest

world on which they ultimately depend,” said HBS professor Forest Reinhardt (MBA 1987), who moderated a panel focused on the impact of climate change as part of two panels at the event titled “Confronting Climate Change: Opportunities and... View Details

Keywords: Agriculture

09 Jun 2015
First Look

First Look: June 9, 2015

https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=49214 Working Papers Lifting the Veil: The Benefits of Cost Transparency By: Mohan, Bhavya, Ryan W. Buell, and Leslie K. John Abstract— A firm's costs are... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

18 Jul 2005
Research & Ideas

Time to Rethink the Corporate Tax System?

concern has to be weighed against the gains in reduced compliance costs (firms would no longer have to file hundreds or thousands of returns) that are currently sizable, reductions in tax sheltering, and reduced View Details

Keywords: by Ann Cullen

01 Dec 2018
News

Ask the Expert: Gimme Shelter

disabilities, and lower-wage workers, the cost to build simply cannot be covered by the rents they can pay—there has to be a subsidy of some kind. In regions like the Bay Area, middle-income rents can’t cover the View Details

Keywords: Jen McFarland Flint

01 Feb 2000
News

Youth Movement: HBS Clubs Make Students a Top Priority

sponsored by the HBS Club of Puget Sound (HBSPS) to link students with job contacts and to foster student-alumni interactions. "It's like having a career counselor located in the city where you want to work," DeBono continues. "The club screens companies and job View Details

Keywords: Amy E. Dean

05 Dec 2017
First Look

First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017

definition that extends the concept beyond the traditional binary retain/not retain view of retention. We discuss a variety of metrics to measure and monitor retention. We present an integrated framework for managing retention that leverages emerging View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

11 Dec 2014
News

Fashion's Retail Revolution

entrepreneur, e-commerce offers low cost of entry, wide reach, rapid scalability, and the opportunity for an MBA to start as CEO. When Senior Lecturer José Alvarez started teaching the MBA Retailing elective... View Details

Keywords: April White; fashion; Leather and Allied Product Manufacturing; Manufacturing; Finance

18 Jun 2024
Blog Post

Alumni Career Journey: Ben Schutzman (MBA 2016) - Driving Positive Impact on Community and Climate

services, non-profits, or a business, so I took advantage of the HBS Leadership Fellows Program. The program offered me the unique opportunity to work in government through the MBTA at a time when they were looking to try something new... View Details

29 Jan 2008
First Look

First Look: January 29, 2008

renegotiations. Our results indicate that institutional managers that participate in loan renegotiations consequently trade in stock of the same company and outperform other managers by approximately 8.8% in annualized terms in the month following loan renegotiation.... View Details