Publications

September–October 2021
Article

Internalization of Advertising Services: Testing a Theory of the Firm

By: Alvin J. Silk, Birger Wernerfelt and Shuyi Yu

In 1956, a group of trade associations representing publishers and independent advertising agencies signed a consent decree aimed at ending a set of trade practices that for half a century effectively precluded advertisers from owning and operating in-house agencies.... View Details

Keywords: Internationalization; Specialization; Theory Of The Firm; Advertising Agencies; Advertising; Organizational Structure; Theory

What is the value of diversification in long-term asset management? Luis M. Viceira, Professor at the Harvard Business School. Paolo Sodini, Professor of Finance at Stockholm School of Economics. View Details

November 20, 2000
Article

Untangling the Value of Web Companies

By: Sunil Gupta and Donald R. Lehmann

Keywords: Value; Internet and the Web; Business Ventures

Article

Costs Without Value When Treating Pediatric Behavioral Patients in the ED

By: Marcella Jewell, Syed S. Shehab, Robert S. Kaplan, Jack Fanton and Joeli Hettler

Pediatric Emergency Department (ED) visits have greatly increased in recent years. An academic pediatric ED that annually treats about 1,000 behavioral health patients conducted a study to assess the true cost of caring for nonacute behavioral health patients. It... View Details

Keywords: Costs; Value; Healthcare; Health Care and Treatment; Cost Management

Purchase

2019
Working Paper

The Value Potential of New Business Models

By: David J. Collis

One attempt to regain the ground that strategy has recently lost, which was described in the first article, has been the introduction of “business models” as the precursor to competitive positioning within an industry. Understanding a business model provides a... View Details

Keywords: Business Model; Value Creation

SSRN

22 Nov 2010
News

The value of being an underdog

Editorial

The Value of Accounting: The Case of Greece

By: George Serafeim

2020
Working Paper

The Cost of Anonymous Lemons

By: Amar Bhidé

Rules that restrict information required in negotiated private transactions have spurred a vast increase in the scope of anonymous financial markets, particularly in the US. The subtle costs of the information restricting rules raise questions about the social value of... View Details

Keywords: Information Asymmetry; Securities; Securitization; Regulation; Liquidity; Information; Financial Markets; Governing Rules, Regulations, and Reforms; Financial Liquidity

March 2002
Article

Information Struggles: The Role of Information in the Reproduction of NGO-Funder Relationships

By: Alnoor Ebrahim

Keywords: Information; Non-Governmental Organizations; Relationships

01 Dec 2020
Blog Post

Hiring a Career Switcher: The Value of the MS/MBA

highlighted a few of the ways they were able to apply their transferable skills and knowledge to add value at their internship employers. An engineer’s skillset Adam: BEV is a... View Details

Keywords: All Industries

Research Summary

The Role of Information Technology in the Provision of Services

By: James I. Cash

James I. Cash, Jr. is exploring the role of information technology in service management. Specifically, he is studying the implications of the ubiquity of information technology at three levels in service-providing organizations. (In the United States today, service... View Details

15 May 2012
News

The Value of a Business Degree

Keywords: Securities, Commodities, and Other Financial Investments; Finance

29 Oct 2014
News

The Value of Keeping the Right Customers

Article

The Effect of Institutional Factors on the Value of Corporate Diversification

By: Venkat Kuppuswamy, George Serafeim and Belen Villalonga

Using a large sample of diversified firms from 38 countries we investigate the influence of several national-level institutional factors or 'institutional voids' on the value of corporate diversification. Specifically, we explore whether the presence of frictions in a... View Details

Keywords: Diversification Discount; Institutions; Labor Market; Competition; Human Capital; Diversification; Value; Capital Markets

SSRN

December 2013
Article

Measuring the Value of Process Improvement Initiatives in a Preoperative Assessment Center using Time-driven Activity-based Costing

By: Katy E. French, Heidi W. Albright, John C. Frenzel, James R. Incalcaterra, Augustin C. Rubio, Jessica F. Jones and Thomas W. Feeley

Background: The value and impact of process improvement initiatives are difficult to quantify. We describe the use of time-driven activity-based costing(TDABC)in a clinical setting to quantify the value of process improvements in terms of cost, time and personnel... View Details

Keywords: Quality Improvement; Value Agenda; Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing; Accounting; Health; Measurement and Metrics; Value; Health Industry; North and Central America

2002
Chapter

The Value and Cost of Modularity

By: Carliss Y. Baldwin and Kim B. Clark

Keywords: Value; Cost

2015
Chapter

The Value of Breadth and the Importance of Differences

By: David J. Collis

Honoring Pankaj Ghemawat's receipt of an Academy of Management award, this chapter examines his contribution to the global strategy field. It notes the continuing importance of country differences to international strategy and how geographic scope contributes to... View Details

Keywords: Global Strategy; Pankaj Ghemawat; Multinationals; Globalization; Management; Strategy