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- 15 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 15, 2008
exploring the conditions under which investable tax credits may be the most effective mechanism to deliver a production subsidy and discusses the desirability of employing investable tax credits in other policy domains. Estimates of tax... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Apr 2021
- Blog Post
The MBA Response: A Calling to Leadership & Service
counties to help Hikma Health build a COVID-19 policy map to inform policy makers, data scientists, and the public about regional differences in policies. This made it possible to analyze different policies’ effects on COVID-19 outcomes. The fight to help small... View Details
- 05 Dec 2007
- Sharpening Your Skills
Sharpening Your Skills: Managing Marketing
marketing and other expenses to grow the business, and to develop a more accurate estimate of firm value. Using a model for valuing networked customers, Gupta found that in an auction scenario, buyers and sellers had almost equal value... View Details
- 19 May 2003
- Research & Ideas
Expensing Options Won’t Hurt High Tech
same procedures used to place a value on a privately held company can be used to estimate the value of its options, enabling external investors to provide cash for options about as readily as they provide cash for stock. That's not to... View Details
- 01 Jun 2022
- News
'Rooted' In Innovation
in 2019 that is already creating jobs and expanding economic opportunities in his home country of Cameroon. In May, CassVita was honored with a Harvard President’s Innovation Challenge Award funded by the Bertarelli Foundation. Cassava is grown globally by an View Details
Keywords: Deborah Blagg
- 09 May 2018
- Research & Ideas
A Simple Way for Restaurant Inspectors to Improve Food Safety
places have improved a lot since their last inspection, they just move on without letting that affect their next inspection.” Changes could improve public safety The public health stakes are high for these types of errors in food safety inspections. The researchers... View Details
- 12 Jan 2015
- Research & Ideas
Regulators Ease Up on Companies Generating Political Benefits
serious diagnosis that would be reimbursed at a higher rate. The problem is a huge drain on taxpayers, costing an estimated $44 billion in 2012, a full 10 percent of Medicare's payments. At the same time, hospitals, especially nonprofit... View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding
- 11 Jul 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Ideas and Research, July 11
customers, and (4) becoming a supplier to a multisided platform. These ideas can be used by physical as well as online businesses. Publisher's link: https://www.hbs.edu/faculty/Pages/item.aspx?num=52837 forthcoming The Laryngoscope Time-Driven Activity-Based Costing to... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 24 Dec 2013
- First Look
First Look: December 24
environments and does not seem to be explained by measurement error. Third, difference in differences estimates with respect to the cost of effort, due to weather shocks and popular sport events, reveal that the observed difference... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 23 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 23
Abstract—Do people from different countries and different backgrounds have similar preferences for how much more the rich should earn than the poor? Using survey data from 40 countries (N = 55,238), we compare respondents' estimates of... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 05 Dec 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, December 5, 2017
scientific collaborators. We generated exogenous variation in search costs for pairs of potential collaborators by randomly assigning individuals to 90-minute structured information-sharing sessions as part of a grant funding opportunity. We View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Feb 2008
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First Look: February 20, 2008
highlight a two-stage process for marketing resource allocation. In stage one, a model of demand is estimated. This model empirically assesses the impact of marketing actions on consumer demand of a company's product. In stage two, View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Mar 2025
- News
Editor's Letter
The things we choose to save, and display, say something about us. Along with the usual photos of loved ones (husband, daughter, horse), my desk in Teele Hall includes a ceramic bluebird, a train ticket from Sri Lanka, and a vintage Budweiser can discovered during a... View Details
- Fast Answer
Book publishing industry
generate estimates of rankings. However, these published lists don’t indicate how many copies of a book have sold or the relative sales among books on the lists. Since 2009, BookScan does supply weekly “book... View Details
- Fast Answer
Scaling Minority Businesses (SMB)
population, age, race, income, employment, and education. Social Explorer- Access census data for the United States through the use of interactive maps and reports. American Community Survey (ACS) 5-Year Estimates... View Details
- 28 May 2019
- News
What I Do: Gordon Medenica (MBA 1979)
lottery and gaming for the State of Maryland. A media executive earlier in his career, including 16 years at the New York Times Company, Medenica was drawn by the scale of an industry with estimated annual revenues of over $80 billion, in... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Action Plan: Happy Honey
natural] order is for us, then live in harmony with it.” Accept that bee stings come with the territory. Price estimates that the highest number of stings he’s endured at one time is six. Nevertheless, he sometimes works with the hives in... View Details
Keywords: Amy Rogers Nazarov
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VBHCD Initiative - Institute For Strategy And Competitiveness
care for patients with intellectual and behavioral disabilities The VBHCD team is also examining how to estimate and distribute the costs of ancillary, indirect, and support departments, including Radiology and Billing. VBHCD Project... View Details
- 05 Jan 2022
- News
Untapped Potential
Courtesy Tom Ferguson “Climate change is really water change,” says Tom Ferguson (MBA 2014). From the deadly floods that deluged western Europe in the summer of 2021, to the once-in-a-century drought conditions that have ravaged Brazil for three years, to the View Details
- 01 Dec 2017
- News
The Future of VR is Animated Bunnies
forecasts: According to the research firm SuperData, the sector, driven by early adopters, is on track to make $3.7 billion in revenue this year, and the firm estimates it could swell to more than $28 billion by 2020. But Maureen Fan (MBA... View Details
Keywords: Janelle Nanos