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- 11 Mar 2001
- Research & Ideas
Evolving for Success [Part Two]
a project to a small group of people who are amateurs, who do the project part-time and act as a committee. It doesn't demand management time and resources, and you haven't brought in new skills. This holds for hospitals, government... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 09 Jun 2003
- Research & Ideas
Around the World of Entrepreneurial Ventures
elective: International Entrepreneurial Finance. As he explained in a presentation to other HBS professors during the Faculty Research Symposium on May 20, the research project has led him to examine in detail twenty-nine sites that cover twenty countries. Yet many... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 14 Oct 2014
- First Look
First Look: October 14
behave like money. We first present a simple model where households demand money services, which are supplied by three types of claims: deposits, Treasury bills, and asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP). The model provides predictions for... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jul 2000
- Research & Ideas
Cable TV: From Community Antennas to Wired Cities
demands of city officials, cable operators encountered higher than expected construction costs as they entered urban markets. It proved difficult to lay cable under busy city streets while avoiding disruption to existing power, phone,... View Details
- 16 Dec 2014
- First Look
First Look: December 16
Publications December 2014 Management Science When Performance Trumps Gender Bias: Joint Versus Separate Evaluation By: Bohnet, Iris, Alexandra van Geen, and Max Bazerman Abstract—We examine a new intervention to overcome gender biases in... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
Reinventing the Annual Report
especially in Europe and Japan — are also starting to issue corporate social responsibility (CSR) or sustainability reports. Sometimes these are mailed with the annual report, but more often they have to be ordered separately or... View Details
Keywords: Robert G. Eccles
- 03 Mar 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Ingredients of a Deal Disaster
underlying social contract. A second union was quickly organized, and it took a far more adversarial approach, demanding higher wages and insisting on job guarantees. Local suppliers saw the company as untrustworthy and refused to do... View Details
- 01 Feb 2001
- News
Drilling Down
such a demanding yet fascinating field of research, whether the subject of study is a single deal or the entire industry's movements. "There are many interrelationships that involve economic, political, and human factors," comments... View Details
- 05 Jan 2011
- Op-Ed
Funding Unpredictability Around Stem-Cell Research Inflicts Heavy Cost on Scientific Progress
field. A typical grant proposal is 25 single-spaced pages and takes months to prepare. The NIH responds in approximately nine months. Because the demand for money exceeds the supply, only 20 percent of the proposals get NIH funding. A... View Details
- 11 Sep 2018
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, September 11, 2018
Information or Wing It? A Model of Dynamic Pricing with Seller Learning By: Huang, Guofang, Hong Luo, and Jing Xia Abstract—Pricing idiosyncratic products is often challenging because the seller, ex ante, lacks information about the View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 11 Apr 2007
- Research & Ideas
Adding Time to Activity-Based Costing
cost systems with only two parameters. One is the cost rate of supplying resource capacity (such as cost per minute for people and machine-driven processes, or cost per cubic meter per day in a warehouse). The second is an estimate of the View Details
Keywords: by Sarah Jane Gilbert
- 15 Sep 2003
- Research & Ideas
The Lessons of New-Market Disruption
investments in customized test software developed for UNIX systems. Teradyne's top customers were not interested in sacrificing accuracy and scrapping already installed software for the cost benefits of CMOS chips and NT. Instead, they had an extensive list of View Details
- 14 Jun 2004
- Research & Ideas
The Big Money for Big Projects
conditions. One of the key assumptions underlying this proposition is that financing and investment decisions are separable and independent. When this assumption holds, various financing decisions such as the firm's capital structure, its... View Details
- 01 Apr 2002
- News
Pamela Thomas Graham
financial news network, the Web site was being relaunched as a separate entity with its own services and special features. "It was an amazing opportunity to come out of the consulting world and lead a business unit," she says. On the Case... View Details
- 13 Feb 2006
- Research & Ideas
The Hidden Market for Babies
next technology that would unleash this cycle of market creation, market exuberance, and then, eventually, demands for regulation. After giving this question a great deal of thought, I became convinced that the next great cycle of... View Details
- 23 Aug 2004
- Research & Ideas
New Challenges for Long-Term Investors
basis, the riskless asset is not a nominal annuity or Treasury bond, but rather inflation-protected annuities and Treasury bonds (also known as TIPS). The demand for TIPS has grown considerably since they were created in 1997 when current... View Details
Keywords: by Ann Cullen
- 15 Dec 2009
- First Look
First Look: Dec. 15, 2009
creates value for its stakeholders." On the surface, this notion appears to be similar to that of strategy. We present a conceptual framework to separate and relate business model and strategy. Business model, we argue, is a... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 Jun 2020
- Blog Post
Black MBA Students Pen Letters to the HBS Community: Letter 2/5
shot to death in a police car in 1941 because he laughed while standing in line at a movie theatre with his girlfriend. Or how about the hate that led to Timothy Hood’s, murder in the back of a police car? He was a World War II veteran and decided to remove a sign... View Details
- 03 Nov 2015
- First Look
November 3, 2015
these models, the demand curve alone can be used to make welfare statements, a fact relied on by much empirical work. There is ample evidence, though, that people misuse care for a different reason: mistakes or "behavioral... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
billion of investor funding between them, three former HBS classmates—Nadiem Makarim of Go-Jek and Anthony Tan and Hooi Ling Tan of Grab (all MBA 2011)—are doing this through competing on- demand ride services, seizing on the fast-growing... View Details