Capital Costs - Publications - Faculty & Research

20 Oct 2009
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First Look: October 20

One method multinationals use to combat gray markets is to increase internal transfer prices to foreign subsidiaries in order to increase the gray market's cost base. We illustrate that when a gray market competitor is present, the... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

17 Jul 2023
Blog Post

From the Panelists: Toward a Decarbonized Future: Who Pays? Who Profits?

Jacobs stressed that the price tag for the transition is both known and huge. “Despite the massive capital flows into the Transition, the capital markets remain challenged when it comes to long-term oriented... View Details

30 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 30, 2007

worker dismissal costs will curtail hiring below efficient levels and retain unproductive workers, both of which should affect productivity. These theoretical predictions have rarely been tested. We use the adoption of wrongful-discharge... View Details

Keywords: Martha Lagace

03 Oct 2019
News

Skydeck Live: Galactic Returns

investing in space is going to take off even more? What do you think needs to happen, if anything, before that occurs? Laetitia Garriott de Cayeux: That's a really interesting question because on one hand there is an enormous amount of View Details

Keywords: Space Research and Technology; Government

07 Nov 2016
Research & Ideas

Corporate Tax Strategies Mirror Personal Returns of Top Execs

influence over the corporate tax strategy. They then reconstructed insider holdings portfolios and built-in capital gains in order to get a precise estimate of their incentives. There were three measures for determining which executives... View Details

Keywords: by Roberta Holland

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Hanson Ski Products

By: William J. Bruns Jr. and Julie H. Hertenstein

At the end of the budget cycle, the manager must test whether plans are feasible given financing arrangements and constraints. Cash needs are great due to seasonality. Needed loans must be calculated at five separate dates, and financial position projected. This is a... View Details

Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Capital Budgeting; Cash Flow; Financial Strategy; Activity Based Costing and Management; Financing and Loans; Managerial Roles; Credit; Insurance

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Room Media Collection Industry BETA Valuation handbook. Industry cost of capital. Ref. HG 4028 .V3 V34 in the Stamps Reading Room. Provides industry ratios by SIC code. Includes market capitalization, margins, equity valuation, and... View Details

14 Nov 2017
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New Research and Ideas: November 14, 2017

expensive. How can health care organizations change this? One key is to prioritize quality improvement over cost cutting. By harnessing IT to help design better clinical practices, it’s possible to achieve better patient outcomes and... View Details

Keywords: Carmen Nobel

21 Nov 2016
Research & Ideas

It Matters That Your CEO Doesn't Know Much About Sales

investing in projects that earn more than their cost of capital; increasing profits from existing capital investments; reducing assets in activities that earn less than the View Details

Keywords: by Michael Blanding

29 May 2006
Research & Ideas

Why CEOs Are Not Plug-and-Play

and the needs of his or her new employer.Not all managers are equally suited to all business situations. The strategic skills required to control costs in the face of fierce price competition are not the same as those required to improve... View Details

Keywords: by Boris Groysberg, Andrew N. McLean & Nitin Nohria; Employment

19 May 2003
Research & Ideas

Expensing Options Won’t Hurt High Tech

harm entrepreneurial incentives are often the same people who claim that current disclosure is adequate for communicating the economics of stock option grants. The two positions are clearly contradictory. If current disclosure is sufficient, then moving the View Details

Keywords: by Zvi Bodie, Robert S. Kaplan & Robert C. Merton

23 Jul 2001
Research & Ideas

How One Center of Innovation Lost its Spark

firms also invested rapidly to build radial tire production capacity once the OEMs [original equipment manufacturers] switched to the new technology. In the case of investment in radial manufacturing capacity, the tire firms may have actually acted too hastily, given... View Details

Keywords: by Donald Sull; Manufacturing; Transportation; Auto

03 Feb 2018
Op-Ed

How to Heed BlackRock's Call for Corporate Social Responsibility

Larry Fink recently created a shockwave. As cofounder, chairman, and CEO of BlackRock, one of the world’s largest global asset management firms, in an open letter to CEOs he caught the attention of financial markets and beyond by insisting on the importance of... View Details

Keywords: by Julie Battilana

01 Sep 2006
News

Strange Bedfellows

goal. Profits reported to tax authorities and to capital markets were essentially the same. Over time, well-considered exceptions — expensing of investments, for example — were introduced to advance policy goals such as stimulating... View Details

Keywords: Mihir A. Desai; Government

06 Mar 2012
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First Look: March 6

residential real estate and away from more productive investments. Third, the cost of professional investment management is too high, which drains talent from other industries. The financial sector could promote the health and... View Details

Keywords: Sean Silverthorne

26 Nov 2019
News

Fintech, Small Business & the American Dream

of 2009 alone, Mills points out that 1.8 million small business jobs were lost. Heavily dependent on credit, small businesses were unable to access capital markets as banks reeled from the crisis and lending froze. With half of the... View Details

Keywords: fintech; Artificial intelligence; Small business

01 Jun 2025
News

Agenda: Stacy Sonnenberg (MBA 2003)

with post-COVID construction costs soaring, political winds have shifted away from solely taxpayer-funded venues toward public-private partnerships. As the global head of sports finance at Goldman Sachs, Sonnenberg works to develop... View Details

Keywords: Sasha Issenberg

12 Oct 1999
Research & Ideas

Where Main Street Meets Wall Street

years later, both camps benefit enormously from their close ties: the mutual fund is America's investment vehicle of choice, with one in three U.S. households owning a stake in the industry's $5.5 trillion in assets. "By making the View Details

Keywords: by Garry Emmons; Financial Services

25 Oct 2016
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October 25, 2016

on how they communicate with the capital markets and how the markets respond to the disclosure event. Download working paper: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=51752 Carbon Tariffs: Effects in Settings with Technology Choice... View Details