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- 26 Sep 2013
- Research & Ideas
Behind India’s Economic and Political Woes
India is that the mechanisms to distribute food to the most vulnerable people are inept and corrupt. The most charitable estimate I've seen is that for every rupee of subsidized food, 65 paisa doesn't reach the intended recipient, and the... View Details
Keywords: by Zeenat Potia
- 12 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 12, 2019
approach to estimate direct costs involved in monitoring and management of anticoagulation therapy for outpatients in an academic primary care clinic setting, post-initiation of therapy. Methods: Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing (TDABC)... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 19 Oct 2011
- Research & Ideas
Designing Cities for a Sustainable Future
On a June day in Manhattan with temperatures heading into the 90s, a straphanger named Mike is taking his customary subway ride to work. People are grumbling about the heat, but hey, it's summer, it's supposed to be hot, and besides, "Whaddya gonna do?" New Yorkers... View Details
- 01 Aug 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 1
empirical models that allow me to separate the components of CEO and employee compensation explained by economic factors from those that are not and use these models to estimate explained and unexplained pay disparity. After validating my... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 08 Sep 2010
- First Look
First Look: September 8, 2010
Publication:American Economic Review (forthcoming) Abstract This paper reports a three-phase experiment on a stylized labor market. In the first two phases, agents face simple games, which we use to estimate subjects' social and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 15 Sep 2008
- Research & Ideas
The Coming Transformation of Social Enterprise
nation's social enterprise organizations. Today, the United States has more than 1.4 million non-profit organizations, and they account for 5 percent of GDP. Annual contributions have grown faster than the economy for years, and experts predict an avalanche of cash... View Details
Keywords: by Roger Thompson
- 23 Jan 2007
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First Look: January 23, 2007
manage a company's resources. But many executives who have tried to implement ABC on a large scale in their organizations have found the approach limiting and frustrating. Why? The employee surveys that companies used to estimate... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 27 Dec 2010
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty on 2010’s Biggest Business Developments
add over $10 trillion to outstanding federal debt. But closer inspection of government data reveals that these figures grossly understate both the current deficit and level of debt. Consider, for example, that the estimated net present... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
Professors Introduce Valuation Software
From these inputs, the model estimates the value of the firm's assets or equity, using a variety of approaches (DCF, abnormal earnings, or abnormal ROE). Finally, the model provides users with the opportunity to create different scenarios... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 19 Mar 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, March 19, 2019
significant relation between the ratio of CEO-to-mean employee compensation and performance. I next create empirical models that allow me to separate the components of CEO and employee compensation explained by economic factors from those that are not and use these... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 02 Feb 2016
- First Look
February 2, 2016
decompose the productivity decrease that arises from taxation, we estimate that 40% is due to the lower net wage and the remaining 60% to tax aversion. This tax aversion affects labor supply more on the extensive margin (working less)... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 25 Jul 2017
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First Look at New Research and Ideas: July 25, 2017
target shareholders in the form of higher deal premiums or more competing bids. Completion rates and deal jumping rates also remained unchanged. We estimate that the incidence-rate ratio of UK deals to non-UK deals after the reform was... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 19 Jul 2016
- First Look
July 19, 2016
Abstract—We estimate the causal effect of sovereign default on the equity returns of Argentine firms. We identify this effect by exploiting changes in the probability of Argentine sovereign default induced by legal rulings in the case of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2018
- Research & Ideas
How to Use Free Shipping as a Competitive Weapon
most profitable. "Not only are merchandise profits higher under contingent free shipping than under free shipping, but our estimates imply that the firm could derive even higher merchandise profits by increasing both its flat... View Details
- 10 Apr 2006
- Research & Ideas
American Auto’s Troubled Road
obligations, and the relentless pressure of globalization and foreign competition. GM, for example, while it still has more than 300,000 employees worldwide, once employed 600,000 Americans alone and estimates it will employ only 86,000... View Details
- 11 Jun 2001
- Research & Ideas
E-Commerce Unplugged
revenues from targeted consumers, and personal access to consumers. We looked at what such opportunities could generate for a real company we know—one that is similar to Soda X and has $10 billion in revenues today. We estimated that a... View Details
Keywords: by Nitin Nohria & Marty Leestma
- 03 Nov 2003
- What Do You Think?
Can Investors Have Too Much Accounting Transparency?
systems is estimated to double. If not offset by improved productivity and lower costs, it will result in a hit to the earnings of all publicly owned organizations. Investors will face challenges as a result of guidelines recently issued... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 06 Apr 2015
- Research & Ideas
After Germanwings, More Attention Needed on Employee Mental Health
States. That depression has taken its toll on employers and even taxpayers. Research by Harvard Business School Assistant Professor Joel Goh estimates that workplace stress is responsible for up to 8 percent of national spending on health... View Details
- 10 Jun 2013
- Research & Ideas
How Numbers Talk to People
its "Zestimates," a proprietary algorithm that generates estimates of home values. But, like Expedia, Zillow's entire culture is based on data and analysis—not surprisingly, since the company was founded by Rich Barton, who also... View Details
- 07 Aug 2000
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing
examine early sales data to estimate future demand for various products. They conduct this analysis for every product at predetermined periods in its sales cycle. And the merchants follow through, immediately reordering items that look as... View Details