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- 23 Nov 1999
- Research & Ideas
What’s Your Strategy for Managing Knowledge?
previously developed solutions — as well as value propositions that helped him estimate how much money the client would save by implementing the system. Because Love reused this material, Ernst & Young won the project and closed the... View Details
- 12 Jul 2010
- Research & Ideas
Rocket Science Retailing: A Practical Guide
fail to make changes to their processes and business model that would be needed to use the technology optimally. That is akin to replacing your car with a helicopter but not making any changes to your lifestyle. Adopt a "call options" approach. Why? It is... View Details
- 02 Aug 2010
- Research & Ideas
Modern Indian Art: The Birth of a Market
texts. As a result the market for modern Indian art converged on shared expectations of value among buyers and sellers. Consequently, we found that pre-auction estimates of the value of a given work made by auction houses became narrower,... View Details
Keywords: by Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Oct 2008
- What Do You Think?
Workout vs. Bailout: Should Government Take Advantage of the Buffett Effect?
down" response of the Reconstruction Finance Corporation of the Depression era rather than the "bottom up" strategy (involving the purchase of individual properties) of the Resolution Trust of the 1980s. The former returned 100 percent of its investment to the American... View Details
Keywords: by Jim Heskett
- 01 Oct 2024
- Research & Ideas
How Politics Drives Business Decisions in a Polarized Nation
write. The researchers estimated that during a four-year political cycle, a firm loses 0.52 percent to 0.62 percent more of its market capitalization (between $89 million to $107 million) if it is rated by a misaligned credit-rating... View Details
Keywords: by Jay Fitzgerald
- 01 Nov 2019
- Blog Post
Confronting Climate Change in the Classroom and Beyond
sources. Barclays estimates that markets for alternative meat could be worth $140 billion in 10 years. Here at HBS, business and the environment have a rich history and trajectory that distinguish us as a business school. BEI has 31... View Details
- 25 May 2015
- Blog Post
RapidSOS Wins the HBS New Venture Competition
conversation where you articulate your precise location and type of emergency. Recent investigations by NBC News and USA Today found that 60% of mobile 911 calls can’t be accurately located. A 2013 study cited by the FCC estimates that... View Details
- 01 Mar 2018
- News
Case Study: On the Record
Above: photo by Sarah Frankie Linder Vinyl is back. The once-anachronistic segment of the music industry was on target for its seventh straight year of double-digit growth in 2017, according to a Deloitte Global forecast, selling an View Details
Keywords: April White
- 05 Feb 2008
- First Look
First Look: February 5, 2008
selling the client firm's stock. This overweighting is not explained by superior information. We quantify a potentially large benefit to the 401(k) sponsor firm of having its price propped up by its trustee fund's more severe overweighting. We also View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 29 Sep 2020
- News
A Righteous Path
as we can, but to completely eliminate the problem in our area.” He estimates that for every child Safe Passage is currently assisting, there are three others in the New York area who don’t have legal representation in immigration court.... View Details
- 19 Dec 2006
- First Look
First Look: December 19, 2006
Working PapersAnomalies in Estimates of Cross-Price Elasticities for Marketing Mix Models: Theory and Empirical Test Authors:Andre Bonfrer, Ernest R. Berndt, and Alvin Silk Abstract We investigate the theoretical possibility and... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 16 Sep 2022
- Blog Post
Climate Stories Episode #9: Shelly Xu (MBA 2021) Reducing Waste Through Beautiful Design
report, Axios.com recently reported that garment production continues to grow annually by 2.7%, while 25% of garments remain unsold and less than 1% are recycled into new garments. Estimates are that the fashion industry is responsible... View Details
- 08 Jul 2013
- Research & Ideas
Everything Must Go: A Strategy for Store Liquidation
inventory. Three weeks into the liquidation event, they used the latest sales information to generate a transfer schedule for approximately $20 million of inventory, resulting in an estimated profit increase of over 2.5 percent of the... View Details
- 06 Feb 2006
- What Do You Think?
Should CEOs of Public Companies Offer Earnings Guidance?
retrospective data compensate for projections? What is "real information"? And do conservative estimates of the future lead organizations to underperform? What do you think? Original Article This question is not as innocuous as... View Details
- 01 Oct 1999
- News
The Class of 1974: Timed for a Change
made good business sense. As a result, the class moved away from upward paths in large, traditional organizations. In 1992, 90 percent of those with a net worth of over $5 million had made their money in small business. Professor Kotter View Details
Keywords: Charles B. ("Chuck") Mercer
- 01 Sep 2008
- News
Totting Up the Bill for the Iraq War
Linda J. Bilmes (MBA ’84), are the lost opportunities that the United States could have pursued: expanding services for its own citizens, offering crucially needed leadership on the world stage, and improving domestic security. The authors, who opposed the war from the... View Details
- 27 Apr 2023
- News
Life Preserver
experiment at Harvard Medical School/Massachusetts General Hospital as part of a Sylvatica-funded project. (Photo: Jeffrey Andree, Reinier de Vries and Korkut Uygun.) The need was obvious, Giwa says. In the United States alone, scientists View Details
Keywords: April White
- 24 Aug 2016
- Research & Ideas
Can Obamacare Be Saved?
operating in the commercial employer market. Commercial employers buy health insurance for pools of employees–sometimes thousands of them. The decision-makers are often skilled human resource specialists who can estimate risk, compare... View Details
- 07 Jul 2015
- First Look
First Look: July 7, 2015
assumptions, quantitatively estimating likely revenue and profitability, testing out sensitivity to assumptions using scenarios, and assessing the main risks of entry and of staying out. The analysis provided strong support for entry... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Aug 2012
- Research & Ideas
The Acquirers
understudied subject of business research. After all, the economic activity generated by these deals is huge—North American M&A deals in 2011 were estimated at $450 billion. But another reason, says Harvard Business School's Matthew... View Details