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- 01 Jun 2025
- News
Forward Thinking
The tallest animal to roam the land, giraffes cast long shadows on the dry savannas and woodlands of sub-Saharan Africa where they live. But their lands are vanishing, with estimates suggesting that 90 percent of their habitat has already been lost; giraffe populations... View Details
- 25 Aug 2022
- News
Full Stream Ahead
high-water mark for the valuation of an individual artist’s catalog: more than $500 million, according to the New York Times. Estimates by Music Business Worldwide suggest that investors, including many of the biggest players in private... View Details
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
Pricing Paradise
study that estimates a total economic value for the parks, including the annual amount a participant was willing to pay to prevent the loss of 20 percent of US National Parks and programs. (A series of focus groups determined that most... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 15 Oct 2019
- News
Advancing China’s Impact Investing Ecosystem
responsibility to do something in this sector,” says Chen. “Impact investing is still in the very early stages in China and lacks human capital, government support, and high-quality investees. There is a clear need to build a platform for Chinese investors.” Chen View Details
- 01 Mar 2019
- News
In Character: A Case Discussion Drama
Danijela Surgeon & Unofficial Family Mediator “Why are we not selling? I’m confused.” “This family would fall apart without me here.” From Baker Library | Bloomberg Center: The World Economic Forum estimates that family businesses account... View Details
Keywords: Julia Hanna
- 19 Feb 2008
- News
The Scoop Behind the Silver Screen
estimated in advance by companies who specialize in this sort of analysis. Bonds can be purchased to cover cost overrun risks, too. And it doesn’t hurt to have the reality check of a bonding agent looking over the movie’s projected... View Details
- 29 Sep 2009
- First Look
First Look: September 29
defaults during a market drop. To measure the systemic impact of this ratchet effect, we simulate the U.S. housing market with and without equity extractions and estimate the losses absorbed by mortgage lenders by valuing the embedded... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 18 Sep 2007
- First Look
First Look: September 18, 2007
http://www.hbs.edu/research/pdf/08-013.pdf Evidence on the Effects of Unverifiable Fair-Value Accounting Authors:Karthik Ramanna and Ross L. Watts Abstract SFAS 142 requires firms to use fair-value estimates to determine goodwill... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 17 May 2016
- First Look
May 17, 2016
an outsized influence relative to other homicides. Our estimates suggest that the per-death impact of mass shootings on bills introduced is about 66 times as large as the impact of individual gun homicides in non-mass shooting incidents.... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 30 Sep 2014
- First Look
First Look: September 30
helped them to maintain this culture. The opportunity to acquire another EMR company offered eCW the chance to grow quickly in an industry that is estimated to take in more than $40 billion in overall revenues in 2007. But this... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 03 Apr 2012
- First Look
First Look: April 3
steps towards investigating this possibility by devising a novel 10-day field experiment to estimate the differences in behavior that are created by sorting workers into their preferred institutional regimes versus having them unsorted.... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 01 Oct 2002
- News
What's Cookin'
hectic private lives. In the upper ranks, Mack notes that typical managers in other restaurants work seventy to eighty hours each week, inspiring the grim phrase “burn 'em and turn 'em.” By offering managers a forty-hour week at comparable pay, Sweet Tomatoes (with... View Details
Keywords: Hanna, Julia
- 30 Nov 2017
- News
Happy Meals (Are Here Again)
2017, McDonald’s estimates that it lost 500 million transactions to competitors. “We needed to understand: Was the underperformance structural? That we’re in a bad spot, in the wrong part of the market? Was that driving it? Or was it that... View Details
- 01 Sep 2015
- First Look
First Look -- September 1, 2015
returns are a linear combination of two accounting fundamentals: book to market and ROE. Empirical estimates based on this relation predict the cross section of out-of-sample returns in 26 of 29 international equity markets, with a highly... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 20 Jan 2010
- First Look
First Look: Jan. 20
random coefficients logit leads a researcher to very different conclusions about individuals' tastes depending on how alternatives are presented in the choice set. In turn, these biased parameter estimates affect counterfactual... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 09 Nov 2015
- Research & Ideas
These Employers Pay Higher Salaries than Necessary
demand model, Stanton and Thomas estimate that hand-holding premium accounts for about two-thirds of the price increase for first-time users, while markups represent the other third. Charging any premium, however, counters the common... View Details
- 06 Oct 2011
- What Do You Think?
How Will the ‘Moneyball Generation’ Influence Management?
think the data exists." (In these instances, I came up with estimates and went on with the necessary calculations.) I wasn't surprised. How many of us have sat in on board meetings where the analysis of historical financial data went... View Details
Keywords: by James Heskett
- 21 May 2018
- Blog Post
Harnessing The Power of Collaboration to Create Opportunity in Chicago
bringing together entrepreneurs and neighborhood residents to offer employment opportunities in the labor-intensive food industry. Based on the hiring patterns of Accion’s existing clients in the food space, we estimate that 900 jobs will... View Details
Keywords: Nonprofit / Government
- 16 Jul 2024
- Blog Post
Advancing Health Equity: Social Enterprise Summer Fellow Simona Stancov (MBA 2025)
preventive interventions in Burkina Faso Efforts to better understand and address out-of-pocket costs in Benin Development of a costing tool to estimate resource needs for digitizing campaigns in Africa Why did you choose this internship... View Details
- 30 Jan 2018
- Blog Post
HBS Global Opportunity Fellowship: Making a Difference in Africa
important strides economically, politically, and socially. By the year 2020, McKinsey Global Institute estimates that Africa’s GDP will reach $2.6 trillion and by 2040, over 1.1 billion Africans will be of working age! This economic... View Details