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- 18 Jul 2006
- First Look
First Look: July 18, 2006
countries, these firms now account for one-quarter of the total merger and acquisition activity of all firms. The larger private equity firms generate fees for investment banking firms that exceed $350 million per year. Shows how the... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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This lists media reports covering my firm dollarDEX Investments or me (or my colleagues), or columns written by me (or my colleagues). There are all... View Details
- 31 Jul 2012
- First Look
First Look: July 31
PublicationsFinancial Development, Fixed Costs and International Trade Authors:Bo Becker, David Greenberg, and Jinzhu Chen Publication:Review of Corporate Finance Studies (forthcoming) Abstract Exporting firms face significant up-front... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 15 Aug 2024
- Op-Ed
Post-CrowdStrike, Six Questions to Test Your Company's Operational Resilience
crisis is just as crucial as the response.” Over 60 percent of tech outages result in at least $100,000 in total losses, and 15 percent cost upward of $1 million, according to the Uptime Institute, a technology trade group. In severe... View Details
Keywords: by Hise Gibson and Anita Lynch
- 20 Jul 2009
- Research & Ideas
Markets or Communities? The Best Ways to Manage Outside Innovation
participate with you on your critical problems. Of course, the Internet and the massive reduction in communication and computation costs have made accessing external innovators a much easier task than what was possible 10 or 15 years ago.... View Details
- 20 Jul 2020
- Op-Ed
It's Time for a Bipartisan Health Plan for Employers and Employees
HRA-Public Option combination, employers that are now compelled to continually raise out-of-pocket expenses to employees to control health care costs will no longer be caught in the middle between the complaints of employees and the... View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Robots Are Coming to Save Your Job
estimating that Germany could see a shortage of 3 million skilled workers by 2030; China, which accounts for about 20 percent of the world’s manufacturing production, will have a high-skilled labor gap of about 24 million by 2020,... View Details
Keywords: Dan Morrell
- 09 Dec 2008
- First Look
First Look: December 9, 2008
opportunity to see both sides of the issue. When Hrad enters into a contract to create a new accounts payable system for Welsh toy distributor Tegan, the outsourcing firm from the Czech Republic views the project as another step in its... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2004
- News
A Market-Based Prescription
curb cost increases while ensuring quality treatment. Those goals have not been reached, largely because patient and physician resistance to stringent gatekeeping has led to more relaxed controls and freedom to use out-of-network... View Details
- 05 Jul 2011
- First Look
First Look: July 5
and threats to organizations and conclude with a research agenda that more fully accounts for the potential of community forms to be a creator (and a possible destroyer) of value for organizations. Download the paper:... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
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From the CFO - Financial Report 2015
School’s operating margins as the fixed costs associated with its strategic initiatives continue to increase. One of our financial planning goals is for HBS to serve as a living model of a well-run organization—consistent with the skills,... View Details
- 01 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Slow, Steady Battle to Fix Cancer Care
on a holistic treatment plan comprising one of eight "bundles." “If we can drive down costs while improving outcomes, that will be much more favorable to our economy and to our competitiveness as a nation” "We're hoping... View Details
- 27 Jun 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, June 27
drive up the cost of capital and curb investment. This paper evaluates the effects of capital controls on firm-level stock returns and real investment using data from Brazil. On average, there is a statistically significant drop in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 15
As bottlenecks shift, students can explore several alternatives, each with different costs and trade-offs. Students may also reflect on the true cost of providing the extraordinary service, and whether... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 02 Dec 2019
- What Do You Think?
How Does a Company like Boeing Respond to Intense Competitive Pressure?
possibly was another example unfolded. As reader Anna Johnson put it, “When the pressure to meet quarterly performance expectations against best-guess sales targets and a flesh pounding schedule take precedence, it’s not surprising that psychological safety and... View Details
- September 2010
- Supplement
Using Regression Analysis to Estimate Time Equations (CW)
By: Francisco de Asis Martinez-Jerez
This note presents a simple way to estimate time equations using regression analysis in Excel. The note quickly outlines regression analysis, then presents a real-life case example from the natural gas industry that students can use to gain experience developing and... View Details
- 01 Dec 2015
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December 1, 2015
Statistics Survive Another Day: Using Changes in the Composition of Investments to Measure the Cost of Credit Constraints By: Garicano, Luis, and Claudia Steinwender Abstract—We introduce a novel empirical strategy to measure the size of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Dec 2016
- HBS Case
Why Millennials Flock to Fintech for Personal Investing
Viceira, is by keeping costs low. Traditional financial advisors are all about establishing a personal relationship with their clients, understanding their financial situation and walking them through their options. By pursuing a... View Details
- 27 May 2009
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First Look: May 27, 2009
Rotemberg Abstract A model is considered where firms internalize the regret costs that consumers experience when they see an unexpected price change. Regret costs are assumed to be increasing in the size of... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 10 May 2016
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May 10, 2016
May 2016 Journal of Accounting Research Gathering Data for Archival, Field, Survey, and Experimental Accounting Research By: Bloomfield, Robert, Mark W. Nelson, and Eugene F. Soltes Abstract—In the published... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel