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- 26 May 2009
- Research & Ideas
Improving Market Research in a Recession
based on fewer expenditures. For example, combining data sets may reveal new leading indicators of changes in consumer behavior. Tracking studies may have an edge over one-off projects. CMOs who trim costs by consolidating their budgets... View Details
Keywords: by John Quelch
- 10 Jun 2015
- Research & Ideas
The Transparency Revolution in Corporate Reporting
ESG issues tend to have the best future investment performance. Q: Why is that? A: If we have better information around ESG issues, and it is communicated and used more effectively, then that information will be incorporated into stock prices and affect the View Details
Keywords: Re: George Serafeim
- 10 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
HBS Faculty Views on Debt Crisis
S&P and its rivals, Fitch, and Moody's. Recently, these agencies have faced considerable criticism over their sovereign ratings—in Europe, for example, over their downgrades of Greece and several other economies. They are accused of... View Details
Keywords: by Staff
- 12 Oct 1999
- Research & Ideas
Media Metamorphosis: Advertising in the Technology Age
their media purchases with one or a few agencies or independent media buying firms. This combination of unbundling and consolidation has been accompanied by greater cost consciousness and downward pressure... View Details
- 17 Aug 2011
- Research & Ideas
Protecting against the Pirates of Bollywood
release date. Doing so, however, would negate cost savings achieved by reusing film copies across staggered release dates. Studios could also limit a film's distribution to digital, not analog, screens, the copies tagged with electronic... View Details
- 30 Oct 2006
- First Look
First Look: October 31, 2006
capital are also important for the effect of FDI on economic growth. Download working paper: http://papers.nber.org/papers/W12522 A New Framework for Analyzing and Managing Macrofinancial Risks of an Economy Authors:Dale F. Gray, Robert C. Merton, and Zvi Bodie... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 13 May 2019
- Research & Ideas
The Unexpected Way Whistleblowers Reduce Government Fraud
contracts.” In fixed-price contracts, the supplier provides a product or service to the government at a fixed price. In cost-plus contracts, the supplier bills the government based on reported production costs and profit margin, making it... View Details
- 02 Apr 2019
- First Look
New Research and Ideas, April 2, 2019
gun restrictions. Lifting the Veil: The Benefits of Cost Transparency By: Mohan, Bhavya, Ryan W. Buell, and Leslie K. John Abstract—Firms do not typically disclose information on their costs to produce a... View Details
Keywords: Dina Gerdeman
- 22 May 2012
- First Look
First Look: May 22
better access to finance can be attributed to a) reduced agency costs due to enhanced stakeholder engagement and b) reduced informational asymmetry due to increased transparency. Using a large cross-section... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 17 Oct 2012
- Research & Ideas
America Needs a Manufacturing Renaissance
have even decided to buy their R&D from suppliers in Asia as well. (For instance, most laptop computers are designed and manufactured by a small handful of Taiwanese companies.) In the short term, such outsourcing could dramatically lower the View Details
- 19 Sep 2011
- Research & Ideas
Doomsday Coming for Catastrophic Risk Insurers?
poorly suited," explains Froot. “Why can't they produce enough of this coverage at a lower price?” A local property-casualty insurance agency can easily hold enough capital to cover losses from house fires or burst pipes; such losses... View Details
- 30 Nov 2018
- What Do You Think?
What’s the Best Administrative Approach to Climate Change?
Summing Up: Should a 'Montreal Protocol' for Administering Global Warming Be Pursued? Climate change and how to manage it is a daunting subject. Nevertheless, several readers of this month’s column were willing to venture a model or two for administering a system... View Details
- 31 Jul 2007
- First Look
First Look: July 31, 2007
microfinance banks join forces to face the new challenges of globalization, competition, and politics while common shareholder ACCÍON investments considers its options. From an initial project to share costs in the revamping of their IT... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 05 Aug 2002
- Research & Ideas
Five questions for Regina E. Herzlinger
the sick. The resulting competition for consumers with differentiated products will control costs by increasing quality of care—e.g., integrated teams for congestive heart failure have reduced costs by... View Details
Keywords: by Martha Lagace
- 12 Feb 2013
- First Look
First Look: Feb. 12
the costs and benefits of land placed under different uses. Policy scenarios then determine the amount of land under each land use and the implications for costs, benefits, and carbon emissions. A "low-carbon development... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 18 Oct 2010
- Lessons from the Classroom
Venture Capital’s Disconnect with Clean Tech
suspend the emissions reduction law until the state's unemployment rate falls below 5.5 percent for four consecutive quarters. "The cost curves you see in renewable energy are falling fairly predictably," Lassiter says.... View Details
- 06 Apr 2010
- First Look
First Look: April 6
were making decisions that made them more acceptable to customers given the particular social, cultural, and economic contexts within which they were embedded. Ownership Structure and the Cost of Corporate Borrowing Authors: Chen Lin, Yue... View Details
Keywords: Martha Lagace
- 07 Nov 2017
- First Look
New Research and Ideas: November 7, 2017
when treating the opponent’s campaign plan as given. Our formulation accounts for both the time cost of traveling between districts and the time expended while campaigning within districts. We describe a polynomial-time algorithm that... View Details
Keywords: Carmen Nobel
- 03 Feb 2015
- First Look
First Look: February 3
databases). We also show that it reveals the main "flow of control" within the architecture, as denoted by the classification of components into Core, Peripheral, Shared, and Control elements. We analyze the cost of change for a... View Details
Keywords: Sean Silverthorne
- 02 Feb 2015
- Research & Ideas
Disruptors Sell What Customers Want and Let Competitors Sell What They Don’t
Over the past two decades, entire industries have been disrupted by Internet competitors who "unbundled" their content and delivered it to consumers in new ways. Newspapers lost out to Google and Craigslist, record companies to iTunes and Spotify, and travel View Details
Keywords: by Michael Blanding