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- 05 Mar 2019
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New Research and Ideas, March 5, 2019
firms lever up, the overall cost of capital falls as leverage increases equity beta, but as debt becomes riskier the marginal benefit of increasing equity beta declines. As a simple theoretical framework... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 14 Dec 2011
- Research & Ideas
The New Measures for Improving Nonprofit Performance
nonprofit—foundations, governments, donors—are usually different from the people benefiting from the work of the nonprofit. There are some exceptions in situations where fees are paid for services. But generally speaking a nonprofit CEO... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna
- 05 Aug 2008
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First Look: August 5, 2008
may not be a pure-strategy equilibria. In the standard case where marginal costs are weakly positive, there is no pure strategy where the lower quality B firm obtains positive market share. We also consider the case where A has negative... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jun 2020
- News
Prognosis
cost of the health care that they’re paying for their subscribers has gone down by 50 percent in the last month or so. It seems irresponsible for the private insurance industry to realize a windfall at a time when providers are... View Details
- 15 May 2012
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First Look: May 15
the social objective function, tagging generates costs that must be weighed against the benefits it generates through conventional channels. Only tags that are sufficiently predictive of ability, such as... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 26 Sep 2006
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First Look: September 26, 2006
Indian pharmaceutical company, Cipla, to bring down the annual per-patient cost of an ARV triple cocktail from $12,000 to under $250; using ARV development as a key component of its prevention and treatment strategy the Brazilian National... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 10 Jan 2005
- Research & Ideas
How to Put Meaning Back into Leading
by: The leader's willingness to uphold organizational values especially when there is some perceived economic cost to doing so. (If values are violated when there is a perceived benefit in doing so, they are... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2016
- News
The Taxi Wars of Jakarta
benefits of his smartphone app, alternating between emphasizing its potential to offer riders better service and drivers a steady business. “On the demand side, many passengers couldn’t get taxis when needed and were constantly concerned... View Details
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
work-life balance and with their work in general. And the firm was better able to recruit and retain employees. Clients also benefited-often in unexpected ways. In this engaging book, Perlow takes you inside BCG to witness the challenges and View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 31 Jan 2012
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First Look: Jan. 31
offering limited-capability models that are created by removing or degrading features in existing models. This production method, called versioning, has been lauded because of its ability to increase both consumer and firm welfare. According to rational utility models,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne & Carmen Nobel
- 15 Oct 2008
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First Look: October 15, 2008
advertising agency's decision to unbundle its services as a tradeoff between the fixed cost to the advertiser of establishing and maintaining a relationship with an advertising agency and pecuniary economies of scale available in... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 26 Sep 2017
- First Look
First Look at New Research and Ideas, September 26, 2017
bring to an earlier and less costly end—relatively weak patent-infringement lawsuits; (2) strengthen the litigation and bargaining positions of patentees with especially robust cases; (3) flag weaknesses in litigation positions to the View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 11 Apr 2018
- Research & Ideas
Sexual Harassment: What Employers Should Do Now
tolerated with others. The sales manager who brings in big bucks but acts in a hostile, domineering way with his team may be seen as the definition of success, yet letting “a brilliant jerk be a jerk” could cost a company many other... View Details
Keywords: by Dina Gerdeman
- 13 Nov 2012
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First Look: November 13
Newman Abstract This paper shows that product prices determine organizational design by studying how trade policy affects vertical integration. Property rights theory asserts that firm boundaries are chosen by stakeholders to mediate organizational goals (e.g.,... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 07 Aug 2007
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First Look: August 7, 2007
that both effects are operative. Instrumental variables analysis indicates that plausibly exogenous changes in payout policy result in shifting institutional ownership patterns. Similarly, exogenous changes in the tax code indicate that as the tax View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 04 Dec 2012
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First Look: December 4
applications available on it. Our model is based on the observation that even if users prefer application variety, applications often also exhibit direct network effects. When there are direct network effects, users prefer to consume the same applications to View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 10 Aug 2010
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First Look: August 10
one was to revive the WAR Fund. Option two was to shelve the WAR Fund and launch a new fund of UCITS regulated funds domiciled in Europe with UCITS qualification. Which strategy would be the best way to invest during this period of crisis, to the View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Sep 2010
- News
RX for Change
to really transform the organization.” That drive for increased efficiency and quality at lower cost resonates with many of the institutions represented at MHCD, which include the Cleveland Clinic, Children’s Hospital Boston, and The... View Details
- 19 May 2009
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First Look: May 19, 2009
provides a mandate for restructuring. But survival is not the end goal. In fact, cost cutting and restructuring are simply the first steps in repositioning and leading a company and industry through the crisis and in defining how business... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 01 Jul 2008
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First Look: July 1, 2008
Benefits Fund (PBF) enacted by the state legislature. With renewed effort by activists in 2006 to expand AE's role, there was a possibility of the PBF swelling to $50 to $80 million. Naturally, this put AE at conflict with electric... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace