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- 26 Apr 2011
- First Look
First Look: April 26
stocking decision, our model is generalizable to other types of capacity investment decisions. Download the paper: http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/11-105.pdf Heterogeneity and Optimal Capital Income Taxation Authors:Mikhail Golosov, Maxim... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 21 Oct 2015
- Research & Ideas
How to Predict if a New Business Idea is Any Good
to grips with the question, Shu and co-author Erin Scott, of the National University of Singapore, needed to find a setting in which they could pinpoint the relationship between initial evaluation and future outcomes—that is, one in which experts were evaluating ideas... View Details
- 28 Mar 2023
- Research & Ideas
The FDA’s Speedy Drug Approvals Are Safe: A Win-Win for Patients and Pharma Innovation
spent $83 billion on research and development (R&D) in 2019, according to a 2021 report from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO). The median cost to develop one drug was $900 million, with half of that amount going toward View Details
- 06 Oct 2020
- Sharpening Your Skills
18 Tips Managers Can Use to Lead Through COVID's Rising Waters
underlying principles: Businesses try to learn from noisy signals and quickly adapt their activities to newly emerging information. They actively cooperate with external stakeholders (including, in some instances, their competitors) to View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Merchants to Multinationals: British Trading Companies in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
massive growth in world FDI in mining. As petroleum consumption grew with new uses, the search for oil became worldwide. Oil was the only fuel that could drive the new motor car, while the demand for rubber tyres for cars created an enormous rubber boom in the 1900s.... View Details
Keywords: by Geoffrey Jones
- 18 Dec 2012
- First Look
First Look: December 18
effects on productivity a priori, inhibiting effective capacity management in high load systems. We categorize load into in-process inventory (congestion) and incoming inventory, decomposing the latter into its levels of bottleneck (BN)... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 11 Aug 2003
- Research & Ideas
Why Budgeting Kills Your Company
management to what you originally wanted." At the same time, the fixed-performance contract fosters the fear in managers that if they don't spend what's left over in their budgets at the end of the year, their funding for the next... View Details
Keywords: by Loren Gary
- 02 Apr 2013
- First Look
First Look: April 2
returns can produce large valuation errors. Download working paper: http://ssrn.com/abstract=2182628 The Impact of Pooling on Throughput Time in Discretionary Work Settings: An Empirical Investigation of Emergency Department Length of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 09 Jun 2008
- Lessons from the Classroom
Monetizing IP: The Executive’s Challenge
resulting from its general counsel's aggressive enforcement policy. In some years, revenue from these sources has exceeded net income from product sales. A variety of dynamic firms have catalyzed the establishment of patent pools, where... View Details
- 28 May 2020
- Research & Ideas
Coronavirus Could Create a 'Bankruptcy Pandemic'
are processed through the same United States Bankruptcy Court system, and are overseen by the same pool of federal bankruptcy judges, who currently number about 350 only. The bankruptcy process also requires the active participation of... View Details
- 23 Jun 2008
- Research & Ideas
Innovative Ways to Encourage Personal Savings
that I've done over the course of the last 10 years has been field-based, working in conjunction with HBS student teams, partners in business and the nonprofit sector, and especially through the nonprofit that I founded, Doorways to Dreams View Details
- 13 Nov 2012
- First Look
First Look: November 13
Relationship Management, Fontana is entertaining the possibility of commercializing his innovation. Doing so may provide a welcome new source of income during the greatest economic slowdown in recent history, and it would help in keeping... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 12 Oct 2011
- First Look
First Look: October 12
Author:Sophus A. Reinert Publication:Harvard University Press, 2011 An abstract is unavailable at this time. Publisher's Link: http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog.php?recid=31289 The Return Experience of Hedge Fund Investors Authors:Ilia... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 29 Aug 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, August 29
level of economic inequality within Western societies is at its highest in almost a century; in the U.S., for example, inequality is at its highest peak since before the Great Depression (3–5). Furthermore, the incomes of the top 1% in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Oct 2006
- What Do You Think?
How Do We Respond to the “Dependency Ratio” Dilemma?
growing dependency ratios at the level of the firm tell us, regardless of where we are in the world. But several deplored what has been done about them. According to Francine McKenna, "There's no pension crisis in the executive suite . The average worker is View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 04 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Smart Cities are Complicated and Costly: Here's How to Build Them
Chombosan Much promotion of smart cities assumes that municipalities will take a proactive, top-down, technology-first approach to urban progress. Thus far, these initiatives look for some forward-thinking city official (or immensely deep-pocketed private investor) to... View Details
- 25 Jan 2010
- Research & Ideas
A Macroeconomic View of the Current Economy
influencing the cost and availability of money, goods, and services. Macroeconomic forces can conspire to make business more difficult, but they can also present opportunities to executives who know how to, for example, read a country's national View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Nov 2010
- First Look
First Look: November 16, 2010
populations. While we have considerable evidence that donors are more generous if they know their assistance benefits a preferred group, we know little about the demand for such information. To start closing this gap, we study transfers of View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 04 Mar 2019
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Antidote to Surveillance Capitalism?
Henry Ford, their creation of profits and firm value employs relatively few, very well-paid people, exacerbating income inequality in our economy. They have relatively few expenditures for control over the quality of the information... View Details
- 14 Jul 2020
- Research & Ideas
Restarting Under Uncertainty: Managerial Experiences from Around the World
signals and quickly adapt their activities to newly emerging information. They actively cooperate with external stakeholders (including, in some instances, their competitors) to pool and disseminate information and safeguard the stability... View Details