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- 2021
- Working Paper
Hidden Software and Veiled Value Creation: Illustrations from Server Software Usage
By: Raviv Murciano-Goroff, Ran Zhuo and Shane Greenstein
How do you measure the value of a commodity that transacts at a price of zero from an economic standpoint? This study examines the potential for and extent of omission and misattribution in standard approaches to economic accounting with regards to open source... View Details
Keywords: Server Software; Open Source Distribution; Applications and Software; Analytics and Data Science; Economics; Value Creation; Measurement and Metrics
Murciano-Goroff, Raviv, Ran Zhuo, and Shane Greenstein. "Hidden Software and Veiled Value Creation: Illustrations from Server Software Usage." NBER Working Paper Series, No. 28738, April 2021.
- November 2009
- Article
Is it Fair to Blame Fair Value Accounting for the Financial Crisis?
By: Robert C. Pozen
When the credit markets seized up in 2008, many heaped blame on "mark to market" accounting rules, which require banks to write down their troubled assets to the prices they'd fetch if sold on the open market - at the time, next to nothing. Recording those assets below... View Details
Keywords: Cost Accounting; Fair Value Accounting; Financial Crisis; Assets; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Crisis Management; Standards; Banking Industry
Pozen, Robert C. "Is it Fair to Blame Fair Value Accounting for the Financial Crisis?" Harvard Business Review 87, no. 11 (November 2009).
- 28 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Racism and Digital Design: How Online Platforms Can Thwart Discrimination
creating." Requests made from profiles with African American-sounding names were about 16 percent less likely to be accepted. According to the study, discrimination was pervasive across price points and in a variety of neighborhoods,... View Details
- 22 Mar 2013
- Research & Ideas
Pulling Campbell’s Out of the Soup
company in January 2001. In the late 1990s, the company increased prices and lost many consumers to less expensive soup brands. Rather than bring prices back down, to maintain earnings Campbell cut costs by... View Details
- January 2022 (Revised February 2022)
- Case
Introducing EVA at ISS: A Better Way to Evaluate CEO Performance and Compensation?
By: Jonas Heese, Charles C.Y. Wang and James Weber
In early 2019, Anthony Campagna, the global director of fundamental research at ISS EVA, a unit of the proxy advisory firm Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), was preparing to release ISS's analyses of public company performance and CEO compensation ahead of Say... View Details
Keywords: Jobs and Positions; Compensation and Benefits; Performance; Performance Productivity; Measurement and Metrics; Analytics and Data Science; Value; Business or Company Management; Performance Evaluation; Business and Shareholder Relations
Heese, Jonas, Charles C.Y. Wang, and James Weber. "Introducing EVA at ISS: A Better Way to Evaluate CEO Performance and Compensation?" Harvard Business School Case 122-061, January 2022. (Revised February 2022.)
- 07 Feb 2012
- First Look
First Look: February 7
fairness within the industry. Coordinating conflicting programs requires a careful balance between equity and efficiency. In our work, we first develop a fairness metric to measure deviation from first-scheduled, first-served in the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 22 Feb 2021
- Book
Reaching Today's Omnichannel Customer Takes a New Sales Strategy
segments and relevant metrics and incentives. Additionally, when market lifecycles are shorter, you must reconstruct sales models more often, and this must be done while the ship is under full sail in an ocean where you don't control the... View Details
Keywords: by Kristen Senz
- 18 Jul 2022
- Research & Ideas
After the 'Crypto Crash,' What's Next for Digital Currencies?
market prices of various cryptocurrencies were moving up and down—massive swings—30 percent swings within a week, sometimes. I advise a bunch of entrepreneurs and the feeling of many at the time was that it was very difficult to be... View Details
- 27 Oct 2002
- Research & Ideas
Want a Happy Customer? Coordinate Sales and Marketing
even more difficult than in the past. Why the concern about coordination between sales and marketing? Every business exists for financial performance—making money. We know generally how to measure it across different companies and industries, and use View Details
Keywords: by Benson Shapiro
- 12 Nov 2021
- News
Alumni Business Leaders on Confronting the Climate Change Challenge
we worked for over a decade on a renewable energy transmission project that will deliver 1,250 MW of clean energy to New York by 2025, enough to power over 1 million homes and decrease CO2 emissions by an estimated average of 3.9M metric... View Details
- 01 Dec 2020
- News
In the Zone
Complementing that effort is the new William Julius Wilson Institute, an external-facing initiative within HCZ led by Canada and Hayling Price (MBA/MPP 2016),that convenes researchers, policy-makers, funders, and practitioners to build on... View Details
- 16 Aug 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
HBS Introduces Marketing Analysis Tools for Managers
pricing and profitability toolkit guides managers in how to construct a demand curve, how to calculate the price elasticity of demand, and how to use these metrics to inform... View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 05 Dec 2007
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Marketing
direct sales? Should I break out individual costs on a price tag? How Can Marketing Better Align With Corporate Strategy? Fixing the Marketing—CEO Disconnect In many companies, the marketing function has wandered far from the firms'... View Details
- August 2010 (Revised May 2012)
- Teaching Note
The UCLA Medical Center: Kidney Transplantation (TN)
By: Michael E. Porter and Jennifer F Baron
Teaching Note for 711410. View Details
- Web
HBS - From The Dean
2023 Annual Report From The Dean Key Metrics Financials PDF Downloads From The Dean When I am asked about the highlights of the past fiscal year, I note it was the first time since the pandemic that we filled Klarman Hall for the MBA RC... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
Beyond the Bitcoin Bubble
hosted an HBS Club of New York panel discussion on cryptocurrencies earlier this year, and she’s here to help us forecast the future of digital dough. “People who got burned when the price of bitcoin crashed are now starting to do more... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 02 Mar 2015
- Research & Ideas
‘Retail Revolution’ Excerpt: The Scale of the Ecommerce Threat
matter if they come from pure-play online retailers or omnichannel retailers, suck volume out of a store and often lead to more intense price competition. For reasons we'll cover later in this book, neither buy-online-pick-up-in-store nor... View Details
- 17 Aug 2010
- First Look
First Look: August 17
Users will learn how to produce and interpret demand curves and calculate the price elasticity of demand. The concepts of revenue, costs, contribution margin, gross margin, and net income will be introduced to inform profitability... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- Profile
Adam Kanner
percent to 50 percent of tickets to live events go unsold. Reasons for this excess capacity vary, from a hefty rise in ticket prices for concerts and sporting events over the past decade, to a wave of digital entertainment options that... View Details
- 03 Dec 2018
- Research & Ideas
How Companies Can Increase Market Rewards for Sustainability Efforts
flavijus For the first time, a link has been drawn between public sentiment about a company’s sustainability practices and how that company is valued in the market. The results are important both for investors searching for under-valued, socially responsible companies,... View Details
Keywords: by Rachel Layne