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  • 01 Oct 1998
  • News

Value Added

percent of its revenues coming from abroad. In establishing its global presence, Gupta explains, McKinsey has adopted a modus operandi to ensure that the all-important values of the organization - "a meritocracy dedicated to the highest... View Details
Keywords: James E. Aisner
  • 24 Jul 2000
  • Research & Ideas

Value Maximization and Stakeholder Theory

choose among alternative policy options), what would it be? Or, even more simply, How do we want the firms in our economy to measure better versus worse?" It's tempting to consider value simply as a matter of maximizing the... View Details
Keywords: by Michael C. Jensen
  • June 2009
  • Supplement

Economic Value of the Advertising Supported Internet Ecosystem, presented by Professor John Quelch, Harvard Business School

By: John A. Quelch
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  • February 2010
  • Supplement

Valuing Visa? Priceless (CW)

By: Peter Tufano
Students must determine whether or not Visa, which had an IPO one month prior, is a good investment. The case provides an overview of multisided platform businesses and the payments industry in general. Visa's business model and economics are reviewed. View Details
Keywords: Credit Cards; Initial Public Offering; Valuation; Multi-Sided Platforms; Microeconomics
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  • February 2011
  • Background Note

GUIDESlines: Benchmark Values for the GUIDES Framework

By: Matthew C. Weinzierl, Jacob Kuipers and Jonathan Schlefer
GUIDESlines provides benchmark values of the key economic indicators identified in the GUIDES framework for both developed countries (the OECD) and fast-growing emerging markets (the BRINCS countries). View Details
Keywords: Economics; Business Cycles; Macroeconomics; Framework; Business and Government Relations
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  • August 2008
  • Article

From Clusters to Cluster-Based Economic Development

By: Christian H.M. Ketels and Olga Memedovic
Over the last decades, changes in the global economy and the emergence of Global Value Chains (GVCs) have raised the interest in understanding the specific conditions and cross-company interactions within and across locations. For companies, the need to choose the... View Details
Keywords: Development Economics; Economy; Value; Business Strategy; Competition; Performance Productivity; Cost; Natural Environment; Policy; Business and Stakeholder Relations; Framework; Industry Clusters
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  • October 2015
  • Article

The Value of Bosses

By: Edward P. Lazear, Kathryn L. Shaw and Christopher Stanton
How and by how much do supervisors enhance worker productivity? Using a company-based data set on the productivity of technology-based services workers, supervisor effects are estimated and found to be large. Replacing a boss who is in the lower 10% of boss quality... View Details
Keywords: Supervisors; Management Skills; Employees; Performance Productivity
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  • 07 Mar 2007
  • Research & Ideas

How Do You Value a “Free” Customer?

begins to answer. Sarah Jane Gilbert: Why do traditional customer lifetime value formulas break down in a networked setting, and how does your model address those shortcomings? Sunil Gupta: Traditional models of CLV View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert; Web Services
  • January 2016
  • Case

Haiti Hope: Innovating the Mango Value Chain

By: Amy C. Edmondson and Jean-François Harvey
This case study examines a market-based approach to economic development through the eyes of NGO TechnoServe's project manager, implementing a US$9.5 million five-year public-private partnership between Coca-Cola, IDB, and USAID. The case ends at the beginning of the... View Details
Keywords: Sustainability; Economic Development; Corporate Social Responsibility; Emerging Country; Teaming; Public-private Partnership; Inter-organizational Relationships; Collaboration; Strategy Implementation; Agricultural Commodity; Plant-Based Agribusiness; Public Sector; Supply Chain Management; Customer Value and Value Chain; Corporate Social Responsibility and Impact; Learning; Partners and Partnerships; Private Sector; Developing Countries and Economies; Social Enterprise; Food and Beverage Industry; Agriculture and Agribusiness Industry; Haiti
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  • 27 Oct 2011
  • News

America's new financial values

  • Research Summary

Incommensurable Values and Rational Decision Making

By: Nien-he Hsieh
Rational decision making is widely thought to require comparing alternatives with respect to a single measure of value. Accordingly, asking managers to consider values in addition to economic efficiency has been criticized on the grounds that doing so violates the... View Details
  • 2006
  • Working Paper

The Value of a 'Free' Customer

By: Sunil Gupta, Carl F. Mela and Jose M. Vidal-Sanz

Central to a firm's growth and marketing policy is the revenus and profit potential of its customer assets. As a result, there has been a recent proliferation of work regarding customer lifetime value. However, extant research in this area is silent regarding how to... View Details

Keywords: Customer Value and Value Chain; Auctions; Network Effects; Business Strategy
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  • 11 Aug 2014
  • HBS Case

The Business of Behavioral Economics

month if they purchased a certain amount of healthy food, recorded by purchase receipts. But the reward is delayed until the end of the month, decreasing the likelihood it will work. Why? Blame the behavioral economic principle of... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding; Food & Beverage; Health

    The Psychosocial Value of Employment

    In settings where employment opportunities are scarce, the inability to work may generate psychosocial harm. This paper presents a causal estimate of the psychosocial value of employment in the Rohingya refugee camps of Bangladesh. We engage 745 individuals in a field... View Details
    • 2024
    • Book

    Deals: The Economic Structure of Business Transactions

    By: Guhan Subramanian and Michael Klausner
    Drawing on real-life cases from a wide range of industries, two acclaimed experts offer a sophisticated but accessible guide to business deals, designed to maximize value for your side.

    Business transactions take widely varying forms—from multibillion-dollar... View Details
    Keywords: Negotiation; Contracts
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    • 23 Oct 2008
    • Working Paper Summaries

    Economic Impacts of Immigration: A Survey

    Keywords: by Sari Pekkala Kerr & William R. Kerr
    • Research Summary

    The Economics of Enterprise IT

    By: Shane M. Greenstein

    Why do some organizations adopt new information systems while others do not? Why do some face high costs while others do not? Professor Greenstein has been pursuing this stream of research throughout his career, analyzing the factors shaping the costs of acquiring... View Details

    • 2024
    • Working Paper

    Economic Budgeting for Endowment-Dependent Universities

    By: John Y. Campbell, Jeremy C. Stein and Alex A. Wu
    To understand their financial position, universities need to understand the long-term implications of their operating revenues and costs in relation to the financial assets they have available. Standard budgeting procedures that focus on one or two years at a time and... View Details
    Keywords: Budgets and Budgeting; Cash Flow; Cost; Revenue; Education Industry
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    • July 1988 (Revised May 1989)
    • Background Note

    On the Economics of a Parking Garage

    By: David E. Bell
    Introduces notions of cash flow, net present value, and internal rate of return by estimating the profitability of a parking garage. View Details
    Keywords: Business Earnings; Corporate Finance; Auto Industry; Service Industry
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    • Forthcoming
    • Article

    Consumer Choice and Corporate Bankruptcy

    By: Samuel Antill and Megan Hunter
    We estimate the indirect costs of corporate bankruptcy associated with lost customers. In incentivized experiments, randomly informing consumers about a firm’s Chapter 11 reorganization lowers their willingness to pay for the firm’s products by 17%-28%. Consumers worry... View Details
    Keywords: Consumer Choice; Bankruptcy; Financial Distress; Structural Estimation; Experimental Economics; Hertz; Insolvency and Bankruptcy; Perception; Consumer Behavior
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